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Notice was given to the Medical Officer of
Health for the district of Westminster, that the
patient resided in a Lodging House in Bow Street,
Covent Garden, before he came to Teddington.
On the 25th of February, Dr. Manby, Medical
Inspector of the Local Government Board,
attended at the Council's Offices to confer with
your Committee as to the steps to be taken by the
Council to deal with cases of small pox should
such occur in the district, and to prevent the
spread of the disease. Dr. Manby pointed out
the desirability of the Council taking measures to
have their employees re-vaccinated, and that a
note should be kept of those who declined to be
re-vaccinated in case the Inspector of Nuisances
should require any assistance on a case of small
pox arising, and that only those who had been
re-vaccinated should be so employed. The
Inspector also considered it desirable that the
Inspector of Nuisances should be provided with
regular Assistants in fumigating and disinfecting
in infectious cases, and suggested that one or
more of the Council's workmen should be placed
at his disposal. The Inspector also recommended
that the Infectious Diseases Prevention Act (i8go)
should be adopted, and he pointed out the importance
of the Council providing a steam disinfecting
chamber.
On Monday, 28th April, the third case of
small pox was notified in No. 29 Springfield Road.
I visited this house without delay and found Mrs.
Penfold with a daughter, aged 17, and an unvaccinated
baby, aged 5 weeks, lying in the same
bed. The mother had a profuse and distinct
eruption of small pox, and the daughter was highly
feverish. In the latter part of the day the
eruption appeared on the daughter, and she and