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Road, St. Charles's Square, and St. Clement's Road in the NorthWest
District. Four houses were invaded in Southam Street in
the North-East District; five houses in Clarendon Road, Lancaster
Road, and Rackham Street in the North-West District,
and Wornington Road, in the North-East District; six houses
in Wheatstone Road in the North-East District; seven houses
in Peel Street (including Campden Houses, five) in the Central
District; eight houses in Portobello Road in the North-East
District, and nine houses in Portland Road in the North-West
District.
In each of 123 houses there was one case only; in each of
42 houses there were two cases; in 4 houses there were three
cases in each; in 5 houses there were four cases in each, and
in 1 house there were six cases. The second and subsequent
cases in a house were usually the result of defective isolation of
the primary case.
The sufferers comprised 100 males and 145 females; 106
of them were under five years of age, 89 between five and
twelve years (the usual public elementary school age), 33 between
twelve and twenty-one, and 17 upwards of twenty-one years.
Their position in life may be summarized as follows:—29 were
adults, viz., colonel in Her Majesty's Service, barmaid, shopman,
two coachmen; wives of tailor, crossing-sweeper, bath-chair
repairer, clerk, butcher's manager, greengrocer, coachman, and
cabmen (2) respectively; labourer, errand boy, laundry woman, and
12 domestic servants. Two hundred and sixteen were children,
viz.: of artizans, 68; of labourers, &c., 40; of cabmen, carmen
and coachmen, 29; of tradesmen, 21; of persons in service, 17;
of shop assistants, 7; of agents, 4; of builder's clerks, of firemen,
of persons employed on railways, and of costermongers, 3 each;
of gentlefolk, of cashiers and of policemen, 2 each, and other
single cases (including 9 of persons whose occupation was unknown),
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One hundred and twelve of the cases had been in attendance
at schools, 92 in North Kensington and 20 in South Kensington.