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Louisa Wing-field, aged 28 (sister of the above), fell ill on
November 11th and was removed on November 15th. She was
vaccinated in infancy only.
Alfred Tucker was taken ill some time after his wife was
removed, and was nursed by Louisa Wingfield. He was
attended by a medical man, but his illness was not diagnosed
correctly.
When Louisa Wingfield was notified, I visited her and
found that Alfred Tucker, aged 21, was at work. I waited
until he came home. In my opinion he had Small Pox, and was
on the date of my visit still in an infectious condition. He
was removed to the hospital on November 18th.
5, Regent's Place.—Elizabeth Bowen, aged 6, suffered from
Chicken Pox on September 27th. A doctor was called to see
her. He treated her till the rash disappeared. Soon afterwards
a second rash appeared, and the parents mistaking it for
a recurrence of the Chicken Pox, did not trouble to call in a
doctor till October 13th, when she was found to be suffering
from Small Pox. The medical man on his arrival found in
addition, that Annie, aged 12, had died from Hæmorrhagic
Small Pox, and that Norah, aged 7; Mary, aged 14; Ellen, aged
9; Cornelius, aged 17; and Thomas, aged 2, were also suffering
from the same disease. None of them had been vaccinated,
and curiously enough the parents had never registered their
births.
On the following day Mary Casey, aged 45, a relative, was
removed to the hospital. She had been vaccinated in infancy
only.
Though the house is a small one, two other families occupied
rooms in it. One family consisted of the parents and two
children aged 4 and 2. Both these children had been
vaccinated in infancy.
Though no other cases developed in the house, others were
traced to it, namely: John Lerner, aged 10, of 12, Parnham
Street, and T. Tallautye, aged 7, of 24, Copenhagen Place.
Both these children attended the same school and were in