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IO
Chief Sanitary
requirements
Water supply to Fobbing and Laindon Hills.
Drainage of West Thurrock and Aveley.
Action taken to
prevent spread
of Infectious
Disease
Removal of 42 cases to the Orsett and Grays
Joint Isolation Hospital, and two to the M.A.B.'s
Hospital at Joyce Green. The Isolation and disinfection
of those treated at home, and disinfection
of all houses where cases of infectious disease have
occurred. All bedding, wearing apparel, &c., is
taken to the Isolation Hospital and disinfected there
in one of Dr. Thresh's portable steam disinfectors.
Notices of all cases of infectious disease are sent to
the School Managers, and in the case of Small-pox
to the Vaccination Officer.
Notification of Diseases—108.
SmaII=Pox—5 Cases. No Deaths.
Small-pox.
On February 20th, I received a communication
that there was a case believed to be Small-pox,
Dora Crabb, aged 6 years, living at a small shop
next the "Dog and Partridge," North Stifford. I
at once visited the case with the Doctor in attendance
and agreed that it was a case of Small-pox, and
made arrangements for removal to the M.A.B.'s
Hospital at Joyce Green. Dora Crabb was the
only nnvaccinated person in the house. The source
of infection could not be definitely ascertained, but
it was probably some person calling at the shop, it
being 011 the high road from London to Orsett and
the Docks.
On March 5th, I received a notification of another
case at North Stifford, Mary Howard, 29 years, she
was moved to the M.A.B.'s Hospital the same day.
I found she had seen Dora Crabb before her case
was recognised as Small-pox.