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E. L. was admitted from Child's Place, having taken the disease, as she believed,
from a boy under treatment in a house opposite her own, through contact with the
boy's father whom she constantly met, as well as other inmates of the same house.
Subsequently a case was removed from the house where the boy was ill.
Another case happened in this street, and the sick child's father, a carpenter,
was engaged at the time amongst ladies arranging the stalls for a bazaar at the
Kensington Veatry Hall. (18)
"W. J. B. was admitted 6th May from a house in Earl's Court Road from which
W. Y. had been admitted on the 24th April. From another house in Earl's Court
Road a man was admitted on May 11th, who had contracted the disease by visiting
W. J. B. when ill. W. J. B.'s father was subsequently admitted. (5 & 6)
Infected families and persons frequently migrate, and cases of this
kind are known in connection with houses in Ifield Road, Adrian
Terrace, Finborough Road, and other streets in the vicinity.
A railway inspector living at Not ting Hill had a child suffering from small-pox.
lie left him in charge of somebody, and migrated with the rest of his family to
Walham Green, in the vicinity of the hospital ; here his wife died of small-pox
in a fortnight's time. Then he removed to Hammersmith, and here his un-vaccinated
son took the disease, and once more the family removed to another
locality. (1)
A. E. S. of Millwood Street, Notting Hill, was taken ill April 26th, and at once
migrated to South Street, St. Mark's, Fulham Road, where her mother lived, being
removed to hospital on the 28th. (2)
A woman was removed with her suckling baby on the 19th March from a
house in Ifield Road, and the rest of the family at once migrated to Adrian
Terrace.
Numerous patients have walked down to the hospital with eruptions
on them. Two such cases were admitted from Redcliffe Gardens
and Finborough Road, in March (1). It can readily be conceived what
harm they may have done. Some such cases have already been
noticed. The following further cases will suffice:—
May 20th, N. W., was admitted from Victoria Grove, on the 8th day
of eruption. He had contracted the disease from a person in his employ who
came to call on him after an absence due to illness. N. W. was removed only
when be had become dangerously violent from delirium, and after preaching to
crowds of people in the street. He had escaped from his house, and went to the
house of a friend in Devonshire Terrace, where he remained only a few minutes.
A woman from this house was in due course removed to the hospital. The man
died. One of his children was substquently admitted. (11)
A man walked from Adrian Terrace to the hospital, having first gone to the
the house of a doctor near Markham Square, Chelsea, by whom he was advised to