Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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small pox apparently from him and died. A
husband and wife who had been in attendance
on him and living in the house, after his conveyancc
to Hospital removed to No. 1, Canterbury Road,
and gave small pox to six children living in the
house of whom four were unvaccinated.
A child of three years old died of small pox
at Meeting House lane, it had been vaccinated in
early infancy and had had an attack of small
pox when it was a year old.
A youth died of small pox who had been three
times unsuccessfully vaccinated.
At Draycott place a child died that had been
three times unsuccessfully vaccinated. All the
other children had been successfully vaccinated
and of these none took the disease.
A young man of 18 had small pox, who had
had a previous attack when three years old.
At Nunhead a family of four unvaccinated
children all took small pox and all died of it.
At Kimpton Road four members of a household
had small pox; first, three children who had