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SMALL POX.
The explanation of this case appearing on the list
of notifiable infectious diseases is as follows:—
A young- woman, a waitress in a London underground
restaurant, came—on account of a breakdown
in health—to spend a few days with friends in this
district. She soon became so ill that a doctor was
called in who, as her condition rapidly worsened', had
her removed to the Sutton Hospital. The physician
on duty realised her serious condition, and found her
high temperature was accompanied with pleurisy.
An eruption was noticed on the eve of her second day
in hospital resembling, in the opinion of two members
of the medical staff, that of Small-pox. I saw the
patient with them the next morning, and we agreed
that, although her serious state was not due to Smallpox,
yet as the eruption so closely resembled this
disease, the safest course would be to remove her for
observation to a Small-pox hospital, and she was