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to the fever hospital the same day. These patients were members
of a family consisting of two adults and two children, and belonging
to the coster class. They occupied a tenement of three rooms.
Group i.—Florence G., of 234, D. Road, age 35, fell ill with
enteric fever about 28th September, and was removed to the fever
hospital on the 10th October. George G., age 40 years, husband
of above, is said to have fallen ill about 1st October from the same
disease, and was removed to hospital on the 6th October. These
two patients seem to have contracted the disease about the same
time, or within a day or two. Enquiry as to the source of their
illness reveals the fact that another lodger in the same house, a
Mrs. B., had been suffering from diarrhoea for several weeks before
the illness of Mr. and Mrs. G. These latter patients belong to a
family consisting of father, mother and seven children. They
occupied a tenement of three rooms. The father was a tram driver.
Group 5.—Martha W., of 230, D. Road, age 12 years, fell ill on
or about 29th September with enteric fever, and was removed to
the fever hospital on the 10th October. On the 14 th October
Rosie W., sister of above, fell ill with enteric fever, and was
removed to hospital on the 25th October. On the 17th, Thomas W.,
father of the above patients, age 45 years, fell ill with enteric fever,
and was removed to hospital on the 29th October. Louisa W., age
17 years, daughter of Thomas W., fell ill with enteric fever on the
23rd October, and was removed to hospital on the same date as her
father, the 29th October. This family consists of eight members,
six adults and two children, and they occupied a tenement of five
rooms. Mr. W. was a dock labourer by occupation.
In all of these groups of cases the more usual sources of
infection were excluded.
In three cases of enteric fever the patients had been away from
home at different places out of London, and in all probability had
become infected during their absence. One had been to Maldon in
Essex, another at Southend, and the third at Folkestone.