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Bow's immunity from the dreaded disease of small-pox, which
formed a feature in last year's report, has happily been continued.
SMALL POX
During the twelve months not a single death was
registered from that disease, and only one notification of
it was received, the particulars of which are given below. For six
years, from 1886 to 1892, there was not a single death from smallpox,
but in 1893 there was one death and 21 notifications, and in
1894 there were four deaths and 35 notifications. Last year there
were no deaths and only 5 notifications. This exceptional record has
been improved upon in 1896, when there was only one notification,
which occurred in February, and in that month I reported thereon to
the Sanitary Committee as follows:—
"A case of small-pox was notified on February 15th from 10,
Wrights Road—male, aged 36 years. He was removed to hospital
on the 16th inst., and the premises were disinfected by your officers
on the same day. Since then the rooms occupied have been stripped
of their paper, limewhited, and re-papered. The Medical Officer
visited the premises, and learned from the patient's wife that the
patient had been vaccinated in infancy, but not since, and that he
had been for some weeks engaged in drainage work at the " German
Flag " public-house, St. George's-in-the-East. In the patient's family
are wife and four children, ranging from 3 years to 12 years—all
vaccinated in infancy and in good health."
In August the following letter was received from the Local
Government Board and for the purpose of placing it on record I
nsert it here
"Local Government Board,
"Whitehall, S.W.
" 2nd August, 1895
" Sir,
" I am directed by the Local Government Board to bring under
the attention of the Vestries and District Boards in the Metropolis