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Table 1 Outbreak data.

From: A plague on five of your houses - statistical re-assessment of three pneumonic plague outbreaks that occurred in Suffolk, England, between 1906 and 1918

Case Number

Name

Age

Date of symptom onset

Date of death

Location

Symptomatic period (days)

Serial interval (days)

Number of secondary cases

Shotley, 1906/07

1

Mrs C

53

9th Dec.

12th Dec.

Charity Farm Cottages

3

Index case

1

2

Mrs R

24

17th Dec.

19th Dec.

Charity Farm Cottages

2

8

2

3

Miss E. C

19

20th Dec.

Recovered

Charity Farm Cottages

Recovered

3

0

4

Mrs G

46

24th Dec.

26th Dec.

Brickhill Terrace Cottages

2

7

3

5

Mr H. G

?

27th Dec.

Recovered

Brickhill Terrace Cottages

Recovered

3

0

6

Mr G

56

28th Dec.

2nd Jan.

Brickhill Terrace Cottages

5

4

1

7

Mr R. G

7

30th Dec.

4th Jan.

Brickhill Terrace Cottages

5

6

0

8

Mrs W

66

3rd Jan.

6th Jan.

Brickhill Terrace Cottages

3

6

0

Freston, 1910

9

Miss A. G

9

12th Sept.

16th Sept.

Latimer Cottages

4

Index case

1

10

Mrs C

40

21st Sept.

23rd Sept.

Latimer Cottages

2

9

2

11

Mr C

57

26th Sept.

29th Sept.

Latimer Cottages

3

5

Isolated

12

Mrs P

43

26th Sept.

29th Sept.

Turkey Farm Cottages

3

5

Isolated

Erwarton, 1918

13

Mrs B

52

8th June

13th June

Warren Lane Cottages

5

Index case

1

14

Mrs G

42

16th June

19th June

Warren Lane Cottages

3

8

0

  1. Columns 2 - 6 copyright The Trustee, The Wellcome Trust, reproduced with permission; originally published in [9].