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There have been considerable changes in your Staff.
The vacancy caused by the resignation of Inspector Lewis has been filled
by the appointment of Inspector Bailey.
I am pleased to report that Mr. Bailey has already obtained the Certificate
of the Sanitary Institute ; this was one of the conditions of his appointment
by your Worshipful Committee. The whole of your Inspectorial Staff are
now in possession of this Certificate.
Mr. and Mrs. Hicks, Chief Caretakers of the Gravesend Hospital, have
retired on account of age, and their places have been filled by the promotion of
Mr. and Mrs. Ballard. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have been appointed Assistant
Caretakers.
SMALL-POX.jj
Again I have to record that small-pox has been absent from London.
A few cases have been imported, but fortunately arrested before doing much
damage.
On the 28th August a French sailor, who arrived in steam ship "Gaudiana"
on 18th, was found to have small-pox, and was taken to the Asylums Board
Hospital, and the vessel fumigated.
The vessel left Marseilles on 8th August, and six days previously the
second engineer had gone to Hospital with the same disease.
On 13th September a suspicious case was taken from steam ship " Rewa" in
the Royal Albert Dock to the Port Sanitary Hospital.
Three other patients were sent to the Seamen's Hospital from the same
ship on 14th, 15th and 16th.
These latter cases were clearly chicken-pox, and the first was the only
doubtful one.
On the 29th September the steam ship "Ocampo," on arrival from Buenos
Ayres, reported a patient with small-pox. He was taken to the Port Sanitary
Hospital and vessel fumigated.
On 19th November a case of sickness was reported on steam ship
" Erymanthe."
This proved to be small-pox, and was sent to the Asylums' Board Hospital
as a dense fog on the river rendered it dangerous to remove him to Gravesend.
He was taken ill at Havre on 15th and seen by a medical man, who stated the
disease to be "gastric." He became infected at Marseilles.