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I have no doubt that typhus fever was in the shed where this poor
woman slept at Cobham, for I am informed that a girl was there, very
hot, feverish, and covered with spots. No medical aid was obtained,
but a man named M, brother of Jane H, took the girl,
carrying her part of the way, to Gravesend, and sent her up to London
by a train. All traces of the girl appear to be lost. M, the good
Samaritan, in a few days afterwards sickened, was conveyed iu a fly
to Gravesend, and by train to London. He appears not to have gone
to his former home, but to St Thomas's Hospital, where he died from
typhus fever.
Case 2 is Daniel H, the husband of Jane H. He was not
with his wife hop-picking, and on his wife's removal to hospital, he
changed his lodging and lived at 29, Broad Street, St. Giles, where he
sickened, and was removed by the Guardians to Stockwell Hospital on
on 31st October, with typhus fever.
Case 3.—Annie O, ætat. 16, who formed one of the party of
hop-pickers, went from No. 22, Coal Yard, Drury Lane, in a cab to
Guy's Hospital, on 4th November, and was certified by the house
physician to be suffering from typhus fever.
Cases 4 and 5.—Mrs. D and child were removed from No. 28,
Little Earl Street, on the 7th November, by the Guardians, to Stockwell
Fever Hospital, suffering from typhus fever. Mrs. D had acted
in the capacity of friendly lying-in nurse to Jane H.
Case 6.— On 14th November, Mr. D, husband of the above
patient, was removed to Stockwell Hospital, Buffering from typhus
fever.
Case 7.—On 20th November, another of Mrs. D's children was
removed to Stockwell, suffering from typhus.
Case 8.—On 21st November, Maria S, aged 9 years, was ill at
home, at No. 11, Dudley Street, with typhus fever.
Case 9.— Ellen H, aged 25, of 29, Broad Street, was removed
to Stockwell Hospital on 21st November, suffering from typhus fever.
Case 10.—Mingold E, aged 25, a German tailoress, went in
an omnibus to Charing Cross Hospital, and was admitted, suffering
from typhus fever.
Besides these cases, I found, on visiting St. Thomas's Hospital,
that 4 other patients had been admitted from this District, suffering
from typhus fever, of which I had no previous knowledge.
This fever remained in our District nearly three months, viz., from
the middle of August to the 21st November.
There were 22 persons attacked with it: 4 of whom died: 1 at St.
Thomas's, and 3 at Stockwell Hospital.
There can be no doubt that the fever originated either in Lincoln
Court or Orange Court, both of which are in the area being dealt
with by the Metropolitan Board of Works, under the Artizans' Dwellings
Act, 1875.
During the prevalence of the disease, your Board drew the attention
of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the insanitary condition of the