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Lewisham 1965

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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Table: Table 30 FOOD POISONING CASES

Table 30 FOOD POISONING CASES

Causative agentGENERAL OUTBREAKSFAMILY OUTBREAKSSPORADIC CASES Notified or ascertainedTOTAL No. of outbreaks and sporadic cases columns (1 + 3+5)TOTAL No. of cases columns (2+4+5)
No. of separate outbreaksNo. of cases notified or ascertainedNo. of separate outbreaksNo. of cases notified or ascertained
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S. Typhimurium----333
Other Salmonellae----777
Cause unknown----171717
TOTAL----272727

Table: DETAILS OF FOOD POISONING DUE TO SALMONELLAE OTHER THANS.TYPHIMURIUM

DETAILS OF FOOD POISONING DUE TO SALMONELLAE OTHER THAN

S.TYPHIMURIUM

Type of salmonella
Group B----555
Bovis Morbificans----111
Group D----111
Salmonella infection, not food borneNIL

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ANTHRAX
During the year a case of Anthrax occurred affecting a resident of the Borough.
The patient concerned had a small business office in the City where he employed
one man and a girl. He is an importer of goat hair, but only he handles the
material. He was in the habit of receiving through the post samples of 1 lb. and
2 lb. of goat hair which had not been treated. If however a quantity of the material
is imported into the country it has to go to Liverpool for disinfection first, but this
procedure apparently does not apply to small samples sent through the post. It
therefore appears likely, that the cause of the infection was the untreated samples.
MEASLES
The usual biennial appearance of this disease in large numbers occurred in 1965
when 3,014 cases were recorded. This figure was not high when compared with
1963 (3,186 cases) and 1961 (5,678 cases).
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