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During the year a report was submitted to the Local Government Board by their medical officer,
on the cultivation and storage of oysters and certain other molluscs in relation to the occurrence of
disease in man. To this report is appended a report by Dr. H. Timbrell Bulstrode on an inquiry into
the conditions under which oysters and certain other edible molluscs are cultivated and stored along
the coast of England and Wales; also a report by Dr. Klein, which related to an inquiry into the
identification of the microbes on or within oysters derived from a number of different localities, and to
the ability of oysters to admit to their interior the microbe of enteric fever and Koch's vibrio, and the
ability of these organisms to subsist in sea-water. Dr. Bulstrode's inquiry showed that in some places
where oysters were cultivated they were exposed to sewage pollution, especially in the fattening beds and
ponds and pits resorted to for storage purposes.
The results of Dr. Klein's investigations can be best appreciated by reference to the following
paragraph in the report of the medical officer of the Local Government Board—
The results of Dr. Klein's investigations which bear more immediately on the culture of oysters
1 See footnote (1), page 7.