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tubercle bacilli. In each case the compartment from which
the tuberculous dust was obtained was from first-class smoking
compartments.
Infectious disease has occurred in three instances at premises
in which milk is sold. The sale of milk was prohibited in each
case until after the necessary fumigation and disinfection had
been carried out and a certificate to that effect had been
given.
Smallpox.—No case of Smallpox was notified in this district
during the year 1900, but on 11th of June last, I made a
special report to the Westminster Vestry re Smallpox in
London during the months of April and May, 1900, which is
of sufficient importance to relate here. The report was as
follows:—
Gentlemen,
In consequence of certain statements which have been
reported in the local press, I deem it desirable to submit
the following special report on an outbreak of Smallpox
that occurred in London during the months of April and
May last and its possible connection with an inmate of
this parish, who died at "M." Terrace, Westminster, on
9th May.
Investigations which I caused to be made revealed the
following facts, viz.:—No case of Smallpox was notified
in London between 17th of March and the 10th April.
The case notified on the 17 th March was the last of a
series of directly connected cases occurring in January,
February and March of this year. The steamship
"Caledonia" from Bombay, at which port Smallpox has
been for some time and is still prevalent, put two persons
—one a passenger—ashore at Marseilles, suffering from
Smallpox. The ship arrived in London on 29th March
last and a large number of passengers and others
disembarked.
In Marylebone, on April 10th, a clerk who was employed
on the ship referred to, was certified as suffering from
Smallpox, and three other persons who had been in contact
with the patient were likewise certified as suffering
from the same disease on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of April
respectively.