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On the 12th October the s.s. " Dunbar Castle " on arrival at Gravesend
reported having had a case of small-pox on the voyage. The vessel left
Mauritius where the patient embarked on 8th August, and he was taken ill
on 12th and removed to Saldanho Quarantine Station on 25th. Here the vessel
was fumigated and detained in quarantine until 13th September.
On the 27th December the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel
reported that a man who had arrived in s.s. " Sarpedon " was about to be
taken from the Sailors' Home to the Small-pox Hospital at Homerton.
The vessel left Algiers (where he joined from hospital) on 18th and arrived
in London on 27th.
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He at once left the ship in apparently good health and went to the Sailors'
Home, where he developed the disease.
Though to all appearance in good health on arrival in the port he was
obviously infected in Algiers. The vessel was fumigated and notice sent to
the Port Sanitary Authority of Liverpool whither she was bound.
SCARLET FEVER.
On the 6th Auo-ust the s.s. " Hawarden Castle " on her arrival at Gravesend
reported a case of scarlet fever. The vessel left Natal on 7 th July and the
patient was taken ill on 2nd August.
The case was reported at Plymouth but allowed to come into Gravesend,
where he was removed to the Port Sanitary Hospital and the vessel fumigated.
On the 15th the Tyne Shipping Co. notified that a patient with scarlet
fever had come up the river on the s.s. " Tynesider."
The vessel left Newcastle on 14th, and the patient was only found to be
unwell on the way up the Thames. On landing the Company sent for a
medical man who diagnosed it as scarlet fever, but had of course no power to
detain it.
It was removed to a house in Poplar, which was traced after a day's search
and reported to the Medical Officer of Health, the vessel being at once
fumigated.
The Company have undertaken in future to register the names and addresses
of all passengers who leave their vessels ill from any cause.