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the baby were also notified as suffering from
small pox.
Our request to the Authorities of the Croydon
and Wimbledon Small Pox Hospital to admit the
three patients was kindly granted, and all three
were taken in the evening to the hospital.
It may be remarked here that in this, as in
all the other cases, the Vaccination Officer was at
once informed of the occurrence of an outbreak,
and he visited the scene of the outbreak without
delay. He also called at the dwellings in the
infected road and persuaded the inhabitants to
submit to re-vaccination at once. The Public
Vaccinator was also promptly requested to revaccinate
the inmates of the infected houses, the
inhabitants of neighbouring houses, and the contacts.
If such contacts lived out of the district,
notice was sent to the Authorities where they
resided.
On 30th April, William Penfold, aged 9 years,
and on 4th May, Susan Penfold, aged 6 years,
both living in the same house, were notified as
suffering from small pox. Both of these children
had been vaccinated in infancy, and the disease
was of a very mild type. As they were already in
an infected house, I advised the Committee not to
send them to the Hospital, especially as my attention
was called by the Medical Officer of the
Small Pox Hospital to the fact that the demands
on the hospital at Cheam were increasing, and
that it was very improbable that they would be in
a position to take in another case from our district.
On the 1st of May, I received information
that Mrs. Chalkley, aged 40, residing in the same
road, but opposite the Penfold's, was suffering
from small pox, and also her two children, aged 12
and 3 respectively. The mother had rather a