Mexborough and Swinton Times June 18, 1892

Smallpox at Mexborough and Denaby

The Mexborough Local Board having been refused permission to take the second sufferer from small-pox to the Denaby Isolation House, have made speedy arrangements for the conversion of a building at Bull Green into a temporary hospital.

Furniture was got on Saturday, and on Tuesday the patient was removed there. In the meantime care is being exercised to prevent the spread of the disease. A trained nurse has been engaged direct from the Nurses’ Institution at Gainsborough.

Yesterday the disease reached its climax, and so far the patient is going on as well as can be expected.

Another case has broken out at Denaby Main, the wife of a Denaby resident being the person attacked. She was conveyed to the Isolation Hospital there on Wednesday.  This makes the tenth case admitted at Denaby. Two have been discharged, and eight are now in the hospital.

The question of the outbreak of small-pox at Mexborough came before the Rural Sanitary Authority at Doncaster on Saturday, Mr. C. Scarab, chairman of the Mexborough Local Board and guardian, having drawn attention to the matter.

The Medical Officer (Dr. Twigs) and the sanitary inspector (Mr. Humphries) are doing their best with a view to the prevention of the spread of the disease.