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always end fatally and generally within a very
short time after the commencement of the disease.
This form of small pox is now very rare. It
appears to have been much more common before
vaccination was introduced.
On May 5th, I received notice that John
Mundy, age 35, of 4 Cranmer Place, was suffering
from small pox. He was a bricklayer's labourer,
and worked at Weston Green, where he had probably
contracted the disease. As he had a severe
attack, and the accommodation and situation of
his house was thoroughly unsuitable for a sick
person, I sent him to Cheam, after communicating
with the Hospital Authorities. There were two
lodgers in his house who worked at Teddington
Lock, employed by the Thames Conservancy.
The lodgers were re-vaccinated, and also all the
men who were employed at the Lock, and who
came into contact with them.
On Friday, 23rd May, I received information
that there was an outbreak of small pox at 3
Gomer Gardens. The house was inhabited by
Thomas Stocker, his wife and eight children. I
found three children, aged 11,5, and 3, with a fully
developed eruption of small pox. Evidently they
had had the rash for about four days, but no
medical man had been called in. Measures were
at once adopted to remove them to the small pox
hospital the same evening. Those children had
never been vaccinated. Only three out of the
eight had been vaccinated in infancy, the reason
being that the father had a "bad arm" when he
was re-vaccinatcd in the Army. This outbreak
gave a great deal of anxiety, as the father and
three of the elder children were working at various
places. The father and one of his sons were
employed on a barge, the eldest daughter worked