§ MR. ROSSasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether his attention has been called to an outbreak of small-pox in Boxley parish, Hollingbourne Union, Kent, where, apparently from the medical attendant not having taken precautions to isolate the case, five other cases have since occurred (one ending in death), which are traceable to infection caught from the said case?
§ MR. DODSON, in reply, said, that his attention had been called to the case by the Question by a letter which the hon. Gentleman was good enough to send him. He had since caused inquiries to be made; and he found that a labouring man who had been attacked by small-pox, and who died, was attended by a private practitioner, who ordered his removal to a hospital; but no hospital accommodation was available. His wife was afterwards attacked. She was attended by a doctor, who recommended her removal to the hospital of a neighbouring sanitary authority; but they were not willing to admit her. The usual precautions for disinfecting appeared to have been taken by direction of the medical men, to whom, as far as he could see, no blame attached.