The prevention of epidemics : and the construction and management of isolation hospitals / by Roger McNeill, M.D. Edin.

  • McNeill, Roger.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The prevention of epidemics : and the construction and management of isolation hospitals / by Roger McNeill, M.D. Edin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    what I say. Six children were admitted on Saturday night to the Hospital at Stockwell [suffering from smallpox]. They all belonged to one family and lived in a small apartment at the top of the Hay- market. Their father is a tailor working for a first- rate firm in the West End of London ; and about three weeks ago one of his sons (there were nine of them altogether) had smallpox, which was treated at home and was not notified. . . .—The father was a tailor, you say ? Yes, in the employ of a fashionable tailor in the West End of London, and in addition to this, underneath was a laundry employing five women who came every day, where washing was taken in from the neighbouring families. The following is recorded by the Hon. Rollo Russell:1—A school teacher returned home from another place with diphtheria. Within the next six months cases occurred among her family and relations. It entered the house of the family physician, and several deaths occurred. He left the town and his house was vacant for some months. People went to and from the infected houses to the post-office, which was also a grocer's shop, and the grocer visited the houses with the groceries. His family was next attacked and broken up, and its members scattered. A new physician came to occupy the vacant house. Soon after moving his children were attacked. A lying - in woman whom he attended and her boy of seven were both attacked ; then a neighbour who 1 Epidemics, Plagues, and Fevers, p. 138.