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The notification of Chicken Pox was continued throughout the year.
All cases were visited and in 22 instances they were found to be suffering from
Small Pox.
During the "Hopping" season, several patients residing in other Boroughs
were removed from the "Hopping" districts. A number of contacts at
work there living in this Borough returned home, where they were kept under
close observation. When we heard that contacts were going away "hopping"
we strongly advised them not to go until the period of infection was over,
and in the majority of cases they accepted our advice. When the contacts
insisted on going to the hopfields we ascertained the address where they
intended to stay and communicated at once with the authorities concerned.
Very often they were sent home and we continued to keep them under
observation. Several patients had developed Small Pox and upon investigation
it was ascertained that the disease had been contracted whilst fruit
picking at a farm in Cambridgeshire. I communicated with the authorities
forthwith.
I had information of 5 cases occurring on ships at sea, 3 were removed
at Suez, 1 at Liverpool, and 1 at Glasgow. Several contacts on board
returned to Stepney and had to be kept under observation. No secondary
cases developed in this Borough.
Weekly returns were made to the Ministry of Health and daily reports
on all cases to the L.C.C. In addition a daily list of contacts was prepared
and supplied to the Sanitary Inspectors, Vaccination Officers and local
hospitals.
There were 3 deaths attributed to the disease and particulars of them
have been extracted from the Death Returns as follows:—
2nd April. E. J. H., female, aged 06.
la. Heart failure.
(b) Card. Vase. Degen.
II. Small Pox.
Vaccinated in infancy.
12th April. F. S., female, aged 47.
la. Myocarditis.
(b) Cerebral Thrombosis.
II. Small Pox.
Vaccinated in infancy.
31st October. J. M. S., male, aged 58.
la. Myocarditis.
II. Small Pox.
Vaccinated in infancy.