§ MR. W. LOWTHERasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether it is true that the resident surgeon, one of the nurses, and the cook, at a lately erected small-pox and fever hospital at Sheffield, were attacked by small-pox; and, whether he has any information that these officials were vaccinated before entering on their duties?
§ MR. DODSONIt is true that the resident surgeon and the cook at this hospital have recently been attacked with small-pox; but none of the nurses have been attacked. The medical officer had been vaccinated and re-vaccinated; the cook had been vaccinated in infancy, but, having afterwards suffered from small-pox, was not re-vaccinated on entering the hospital. Besides the medi- 1811 cal officer and cook, one of the ward servants was attacked. She had been vaccinated when a child and re-vaccinated after coming to the hospital, but with only partial success. In all these three instances the attack was in a modified form, and, in the cases of the medical officer and the ward servant, scarcely any rash appeared. The infection seems to have been derived from a very severe case of confluent hemorrhagic small-pox, where the patient had never been vaccinated, and this is the only case which has terminated fatally in the hospital.