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February 17th, 1 case was removed from the Infirmary to the Hospital.
18 th, 1 „ „ „ „ „
March 1st, 1 „ „ „ „ „
4th, 1 „ „ „ „ „
7th, 1 „ „ „ „ „
14th, 1 „ „ „ „ „
17th, 1 „ „ „ „ „
19th, 2 cases „ „ „ „
23rd, 1 case „ „ „ „
April 9th, 1 „ „ „ „ „
At the Infirmary, there were actually on duty 40 nurses and two matrons. Of
this number, 29 nurses and the two matrons had been re-vaccinated prior to the out
break. None of these contracted the disease. Four were re-vaccinated on the first
day of the outbreak; none contracted the disease. Seven nurses caught Small-pox ;
of these, four were re-vaccinated after the disease had been contracted. This was
evident, as the Small-pox eruption appeared within a week after they were vaccinated.
The eruption of Small-pox generally appears on the 14th day, but occasionally
it appears on the 9th, but never in less than that time. The other three
nurses refused to be vaccinated. It was stated at the time that one of the nurses
that developed Small-pox had been successfully re-vaccinated two years previously.
That statement was false.
Ratcliff Workhouse.
On March 16th George Hammond, aged 28, was taken ill. He was removed to
the hospital on March 17th, and was discharged on May 17th. He was vaccinated
in infancy only. He left Dover, where he was last employed, a fortnight before
he was taken ill, tramped to London, and on the night of March 16th he slept on
the Thames Embankment.
On April 18th Charles Donarth, aged 30—a tramp—was taken ill. He applied
for admission on April 19th, and was removed to the hospital on the same day. He
was discharged on May 8th. He was vaccinated in infancy only.
St. George's Infirmary.
On January 29th Michael Lynch, aged 70, was taken ill. He was removed to
the hospital on January 31st, and was discharged on February 17th. He had been
vaccinated when he was 30 years of age only. He was admitted to the Infirmary on
January 13th, on the same day as John Warner, who came from 106, St. George's
Street.
On January 30th Edward Harrison, aged 74, was taken ill, and the rash
appeared on February 1st. The patient was removed to the hospital on February
2nd, and was discharged on March 1st. He had been vaccinated in infancy only. He
had been an in-patient at the Infirmary since September, 1900.