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The second case of this group occurred on the 26th September, when
Mary F, ætat. 22, of No. 7, Orange Court, Drury Lane, was reported
to be in the same Hospital from typhus fever. This young woman
left her home on the 16th September, and went to Brenchley, in Kent,
for hop-picking, and complaining of illness whilst there, returned to
London on the 20th, and slept in other lodgings, at No. 4, Wild Court,
where she remained until the 22nd, when she was admitted into the
Hospital. Orange Court is very close to and parallel with Lincoln
Court: they run from Drury Lane to Great Wild Street; the back
yards to the houses in Lincoln Court abut on the public way, five feet
wide, in front of the houses in Orange Court.
The third case, on 1st October, I made inquiries in Orange Court,
and found at No. 7, the very house in which Mary Flived before
she went. into the country, a girl named D, agtat. 13, lying ill,
under the care of the Medical Officer of the Guardians, with feverish
symptoms, yet no typical signs of typhus; but being in the same
house, grave suspicions arose as to the real nature of the fever. She
was removed to King's College Hospital, and the case proved to be
typhus.
The fourth case of the group, on the same day, 1st October, a girl
named E, ætat. 17, living away from her parents, was found
sleeping on the stairs at No. 5, Orange Court, destitute and ill. She
was removed to Hospital, suffering from fever.
The fifth case occurred thirteen days after the preceding one, and at
No. 6, Orange Court. Julia S was removed from this house to
Stockwell Fever Hospital, and the resident medical superintendent
informed me that she was suffering from typhus fever.
Here were three houses, Nos. 5, 6, and 7, Orange Court, undoubtedly
infected with typhus fever.
On the same day, the 14th October, the sixth case occurred. Cornelius
S (adult), being admitted into King's College Hospital,
from No. 7, Orange Court, also suffering from typhus fever.
A week after this date, the seventh case, John L, of No. 7,
Orange Court, was removed by the Guardians to Stockwell Hospital,
and the resident medical superintendent also certified this to be
typhus fever.
The second group of cases appears to have been imported into the
District by hop-pickers, who had returned from Kent.
Case No. 1.—Jane H, ætat. 22, was removed from No. 28,
Little Earl Street, Seven Dials, by the Guardians on 20th October,
suffering from typhus fever, to the Stockwell Fever Hospital, where
she died a few days after admission. This poor woman's history
demands some attention. She resided in Little Earl Street, and in
the middle of September left with a party to go hop-picking in Kent.
Her party, with numerous others, occupied a shed, and slept on loose
straw. In the first week of October she returned to London, and was
delivered of a child at the London Bridge Station; after which she
went on to her old lodgings in Little Earl Street.