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1,702 cases of Small-pox wore notified in the County of
London in 1901, 14 cases being notified in the first six months
of the year, 272 in the third quarter, and 1,416 in the last
quarter. The epidemic commenced in August in the Borough
of St. Pancras and has since extended all over London and into
some of the suburban districts. The disease was most prevalent
last year in St. Pancras, 256 cases, Holborn, 216 cases, Stepney,
161 cases, and Bermondsey, 107 cases.
With the exception of one patient who was considered by
her medical attendant when notified to be too ill to be removed,
all the cases were promptly removed to hospital, the usual steps
being taken to check the spread of the disease, and three families
from infected houses were accommodated in the Council's
shelter in Town mead Road, during the disinfection of their
rooms. All known contacts residing in the Borough, were,
when willing, at once vaccinated, and the only secondary
cases resulting from those reported in 1901, were those
in which vaccination was neglected. In case 10 in the above
list, the patient who was a relative of the three boys removed
from Seagrave Mews, had visited them on the day before their
removal, but was not vaccinated, while all the inmates of the
house, ten in number, and living under overcrowded conditions,
who were at once revaccinated, escaped the disease. Two
other members of the family of the patient removed from
Bayonne Poad (case 13) who refused to be vaccinated also
subsequently suffered from the disease.
Vaccination.
The following tables, furnished by Mr. Davies, the Vaccination
Officer, give the Vaccination returns for 1900, and for the
first six months of 1901, those for the last six months not being
vet comnlete:—
TABLE XXIX.
Supplemental Return for 1900, for the Bcrough of Fulham.
No. of Births
Registered
from 1st Jan.,
1900, to Dec.
31st, 1900.
Successfully
Vaccinated.
Insusceptible
of Vaccination.
Had Small
Pox.
Dead.
Postponed by
Medical
Certificate.
Removed.
Outstanding.
Certificates
Granted under
Clause 2 of the
Vaccination
Act of 1898.
4,552
3,445
13
-
470
65
440
18
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