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in a laundry, and another son was employed at
a Pawnbrokers. All the inmates of the house
were at once vaccinated and re-vaccinated, and
also the contacts working in the barge, the inmates
of the pawnbroker's shop, and the persons employed
at the laundry. It was found that the
washing of thirty-four families was stored at the
laundry, and would have been sent home the next
day to the various owners. I stopped this distribution,
and had all the linen disinfected with
Formalin Spray. The inmates of Stocker's house
were kept under medical supervision for a fortnight.
It is very probable that the Stocker children got
infected from Chalkley's house, 3 Gomer Gardens
being in close proximity to 30 Springfield Road.
On June 8th, I was informed that Emily
Shepherd, aged 26, of 36 Crundall Villas, York
Road, was suffering from small pox. She was
employed during the day in a tea shop at Hampton
Court. She came home on the 5th feeling very
ill, and on Sunday, 8th June, a fully developed
eruption of small pox was seen. There were in
addition four grown up persons and five children
in the house. She was at once removed to the
Small Pox Hospital, and all the inmates and contacts
were re-vaccinated, and the premises disinfected.
The day after her removal, I received a letter
from the Medical Superintendent of the Croydon
and Wimbledon Small Pox Hospital, asking me
not to send any more cases to the hospital, as the
Hospital Committee would not admit any case
from an outside district. Fortunately the next
case was the last we had in the district, and was
of a very mild type, so much so that it was not
considered desirable to send the patient from
home.