[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, The Parish of ].

  • St. Marylebone (London, England). Parish.
Date:
[1896]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, The Parish of ]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SMALLPOX, 1895. 11 Brought forward 764 Dareuth Asylum 1 Hoxton House Asylum 4 Camberwell House Asylum 2 Peckham House Asylum 1 Aged Pilgrims Asylum 1 Central London Sick Asylum 1 St. Pplagia'a Creche 1 Royal Hospital for Incurables 1 Royal Chest Hospital 1 Italian Hospital ... 1 Steamship Iona 1 The Priory, Putney 1 H. M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubbs ... 1 Salvation Army Shelter, Hackney 1 Hampstead Home Hospital 1 Dock Cottages, Poplar 1 Otherwise 8 792 SMALLPOX, 1895. Smallpox had been dormant for several years, until 1893; thus, taking the five years from 1890 to the end of 1894: in the first of the five years only three cases were notified; in 1891, only a single case occurred; in 1892, but seven cases; in 1893, a local outbreak brought the number up to 170. This outbreak was entirely owing to a case of great severity having been kept and nursed at home, added to which, the scene of the occurrence was in a community in which there had been but little vaccination. In the past year, 1895, a similar but smaller outbreak occurred, the total number of cases being 103. The circumstances connected with this outbreak are detailed at page 4 of the writer's Report, for the month of January, 1895, the cause being that a poor woman in a tenement house suffered from some feverish disorder, which ran so unusual a course as to baffle the skill of a medical man of experience to give it a name. It looked, indeed, like a hybrid of measles and scarlet fever. It was not until the ninth day, when much mischief had been done, that the eruption was sufficiently distinctive for the case to be notified as smallpox. A few hours after the diagnosis the patient died. The case was only