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The following are brief particulars of the several
cases:—
No. 1, March 19th.—F. B., æt. 16 years, had resided a
few days previous to his present illness at 17, Kingsgate
Street, Holborn; prior to that at 86, Cromer Street, St.
Pancras. No other case of illness was known at either of
these houses. No trace could be found that the disease
was contracted in this District.
No. 2, June 20th.—E. W., aet. 20 years, was picked up ill
in the street and taken to the French Hospital, Shaftesbury
Avenue. This patient was a vagrant Italian who refused
to state where he lived.
No. 3, July 3rd.—A. H. M., set. 35 years, vaccinated in
infancy and recently re-vaccinated, was removed from the
Inns of Court Hotel, 268, High Holborn, to the Hospital
Ship, where he died shortly after admission. The patient
was a solicitor residing at Hereford ; as he had only been
a couple of days in London previous to illness the disease
could not have been contracted here. The Medical Officers
of Health of the Urban and Rural Sanitary Authorities at
Hereford knew of no case of small-pox in their respective
districts. The wife informed me the only possible clue was
that her husband had complained of having come into contact
with some very dirty tramps whilst he was out rifle
shooting in a field near Hereford.
No. 4, July 8th.—H. K., set. 22 years, vaccinated, had
slept two nights previous to illness at a common lodginghouse,
20, Queen Street, Dials; before that he had
resided for 14 days at a Salvation Army Shelter, Blackfriars
Road.
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