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hospital: otherwise there was 110 extension of the disease in the immediate
district which could be traced to the outbreak. Seven of the cases it may be
added were removed to hospital at one time.
R. C., an ironmoulder, aged 42, was attacked about June 10. and was treated
at home. The case, a mild one, was concealed, and I did not hear of the outbreak
until a woman in the same house had died of the disease, which she caught from
the man. When the house was visited, a sister of the deceased was found to be ill;
she was removed to hospital and died there. Both of the women were married;
one of them left five, and the other two, children.
H. M., aged 27, a female servant left in charge of a house in Ovington Gardens,
South Kensington, was attacked on or about June 2nd ; the case was concealed,
until it became necessary to apply for the removal of the body to the mortuary.
The father of the deceased had been opposed to vaccination, and most of his family,
including the deceased, were unprotected; nevertheless, several members of it
went to see the patient, the result being that two brothers and one sister contracted
the disease, and were removed to hospital. One of the brothers died ; the other,
(he had been vaccinated), had a mild attack 5 the sister was removed from Chelsea.
In another house exactly opposite, a female servant was subsequently attacked, and
possibly she may have been infected by the first of the above mentioned cases, but
011 the infection day she went to the S.E. district, and may have received
infection there. This patient was removed to hospital on the 12th day of her
illness. Next door there was another case, of a servant man, but this clearly was
imported from the north of England.
W. S., a girl, aged 3, had an attack of supposed chicken-pox: in due course
her mother was removed to hospital with small-pox.
A. D., a servant, aged 15, feeling unwell, went to call upon her mother in
Chelsea, whence she had come about nine days previously; she then went to see
a doctor, who found the eruption of small-pox well out on her. She was at once
removed to hospital.
W. F., a gardener's boy, aged 16, went to a dispensary for treatment; he was
found to have small-pox, and after some hours delay was removed direct to hospital.
His brother and mother were subsequently removed to hospital. Previously there
had been another case in the small cul cle sac, in which this family had their abode.
M. G., a servant, aged 16, being ill, was sent to St. Leonards, where she was
found to have small-pox.
Up to this time, (July 12th), five persons had "walked in" to
the Western Hospital, two of them from Kensington. Three Kensington
cases were admitted at the South-Western Hospital within
the four weeks, one of them walked in, and the other two were
transferred from St. Mary's Hospital, whither they had walked.
The next month (July 13th—August 9th) witnessed a remarkable
falling off in the number of eases, only 5 having occurred in the