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A man from St. Pancras took the disease by visiting a friend at Walham Green
who died in the hospital. Two other cases, at Onslow Gardens and Redcliffe
Square, were traced to similar visitation. (13)
At the district schools, Marloes Koad, several cases occurred, and
there was reason for believing that the children had caught the disease
when visiting their friends in infected localites, or by friends visiting
them at the schools. (9)
Many cases occurre d of people contracting small-pox from having
lived in the same bouse with a sick person confined to one room :
the atn osphere of the house having become infected. The danger, of
course, is greatly increased when the sick pei-son is allowed to r^ am
about the house.
Washing infected clothing w as in several cases the immediate cause
of an attack.
Persons have fallen victims to the disease from having gone unsuspectingly
into an infected house when having come from other
parts of the Metropolis or the country.
Cases were admitted of persons who had resided in the locality only
from four to eight days, and who had been employes in small shops at
the East End.
The following cases illustrate the spread of disease owing to the
nature of a first case not having been recognized :—
A lady fell ill, and being the sister of an officer of the hospital it might have
been thought she took the disease through him. The history of the case, however,
was as follows:—The lady's parents came from India in May. Before they landed
some friends of a fellow passenger came on board, one being a child having an
eruption on him. This child played with her brother, on whom an eruption,
supposed to be chicken-pox, appeared in about a fortnight. Twelve days later the
sister fell ill. The case was at first supposed to be measles or chicken-pox, but
turned out to be confluent small-pox. (15)
A servant, who was taken ill at Coleherne Eoad, was sent to Camden Town
prior to her removal to the hospital, in the belief that the case was one of chickenpox.
(26)
Some of the following cases, near the hospital, are interesting
if only as illustrations of deception practised to conceal the occurrence
of previous illnesses.
A woman was admitted in May from a houee in Farm Lane, Fulham,—a street
across the fields in front of the hospital. On the previous day, her husband had
been admitted ; he. walked down to the hospital and pretended he did not know
how he caught the disease, but inferred that he might have done so from living