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Second Case.—The Resident Medical Officer at the
French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue, aged 28 years, who
had been vaccinated in, childhood at the Mauritius, caught
the infection from a non-parishioner attending the hospital
as an out-patient. I was informed the premonitory symptoms
in this case resembled an attack of influenza.
Third Case.—A male, cet. 19 years, a West-End tailor's
porter, residing at No. 50, Neal Street. The only information
to be obtained about this patient was that he had been
vaccinated in infancy.
Fourth Case.—A female, cet. 25 years, a non-parishioner,
residing at Harley House, Marylebone Road, sought medical
advice at the French Hospital, where it was discovered she
was suffering from small-pox. The hospital authorities
detained and isolated her previous to removal to the
hospital ship.
Fifth Case.—A male, cet. 49 years, foreign restaurant
waiter, a non-parishioner belonging to St. Pancras, was
admitted at the beginning of March into the French
Hospital with gastric disturbance; at the end of the
month, upon the small-pox rash appearing, he was removed
to the Asylums Board Hospital.
Sixth Case.—A female, cet. 15 years, residing at No. 12,
New Compton Street, contracted her illness whilst nursing
a child who was suffering from small-pox in a neighbouring
parish.
Seventh Case.—A female, œt. 17 years, residing at No. 8,
Alfred Place, caught the disease from visiting her sick aunt,
who belonged to St. Pancras.
It is needless to state that measures were taken in every
case to arrest the spread of the disease; the patients were