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The home contact, aged 3, unvaccinated, had been removed
on September 13th to a house in a neighbouring street, the other
occupants of this house being: "A" Vaccinated in infancy; "B"
Working at another laundry in the Borough, unvaccinated; and
"C," working at Poplar, vaccinated 1914 & 1922.
These contacts, with the exception of Contact "C," were vaccinated
on September 14th by the Public Vaccinator. With the
exception of Contact "A" they are not direct contacts.
The Ministry of Health and the Postal authorities have been
notified of the case, and the Medical Officers of Health of the
Boroughs concerned have been notified of the contacts.
Five Hackney contacts employed at the laundry are under
daily visitation at their homes in addition to the occupants ol
the Huts. One person living in the Huts, at No. 1 Poplar
Avenue, is also a contact to the patient at the laundry, and as
a matter of emergency I have arranged that two of the contacts
at the laundry shall be put off their duties at the laundry as neither
of these men have been vaccinated during the last 20 years, and
both are close contacts.
The laundry is visited daily and enquiry made as to illness,
so that investigation can be made of the illness of any employee
not known to have been associated with the patient at the laundry.
Those known to be so are visited daily at home.
The Public Vaccinator, who vaccinated the home contacts at
the Huts and at the house in the neighbouring street on September
14th, attended on September 15th and offered vaccination to the
occupants of the other Huts, and vaccination was carried out as
regards the occupants of Huts 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
It has been arranged for the Public Vaccinator to call at the
School and the Shoe Factory this afternoon for the purpose of
carrying out vaocination. There are only 3 contacts at this
factory, one recently vaccinated and the others willing to be done.