Visiting Small-Pox Patients.

November 1899

York Herald – Monday 27 November 1899

Visiting Small-Pox Patients.

Louisa Earnshaw and Martha Hewett, two Mexborough women, were on Saturday charged at Doncaster with exposing infected clothing that had been exposed to small-pox.

A relative of the defendants living at Old Denaby (since dead) while ill with small-pox was visited by the defendants, notwithstanding they were warned not to do so. Their clothing was not disinfected.

In a second case Earnshaw visited a child that was suffering. Earnshaw’s baby subsequent took the decease and died. During the illness of the child Earnshaw sent some things to pawn, and among them two coats, one belonging to the suffering child.

Nothing was said to the pawnbroker of the child being ill.

Each of the defendants was ordered to pay the costs

Earnshaw £3 12s 6d., and Hewett £1 8s