§ Mr. ALBERT SMITHasked whether the President of the Local Government Board is aware of an outbreak of small-pox amongst gipsies at Sutton, Hereford, last January; whether the house surgeon at the Herefordshire General Hospital detected the disease on one of the gipsies, named Job Smith, who was attending the institution as an out-patient, and allowed the man to go back to where he resided; and whether he will draw the attention of medical men to the danger of allowing small-pox patients to be at large?
§ Mr. BURNSTwo cases of small-pox among tent-dwellers at Sutton, near Hereford, have been reported to the Local Government Board. The first was the case of a man who attended the hospital for a gunshot wound. The house surgeon detected a rash which he thought might be smallpox. He telephoned to the medical officer of health, who on the same day discovered the man at Shelwick, near Hereford. At first the medical officer was not satisfied that the case was one of small-pox, but on the second day the case was definitely diagnosed, and was removed to the Isolation Hospital of the Hereford Rural District Council. I think medical men are sufficiently well aware of the danger referred to, and I do not think it necessary to issue any general notice on the subject.