Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
This page requires JavaScript
Below are set out briefly particulars as to the ages and sex of the patients, dates of invasion and certification, the sanitary-conditions of the dwellings and the probable source of infection. Cases certified but subsequently not regarded as having been enteric fever have been excluded:
No. of case. | Patients initials. | Sex. | Age. | Address. | Probable date of invasion. | Date of Certification. | Sanitary condition of dwelling. | Remarks.—Probable source of infection |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1911 | 1911 | |||||||
1 | M.A.K. | F. | 3 | 25, Mill Row | Jan. 14 | Jan. 24 | .. | This patient had been an inmate of a hospital at Hampstead from 8th Dec., 1910. Was not infected in Shoreditch. |
2 | E.J. | F. | 7 | 75, Provost Street | May 6 | June 15 | Satisfactory | |
3 | A.J. | F. | 17 | 30, Taplow Street 21, Granville Buildings | Aug. 5 | Aug. 29 | Unsatisfactory | |
4 | B.H.B. | F. | 39 | Aug. 30 | Sept. 6 | Satisfactory | Fried fish eater, but no shell fish. | |
5 | N.McG. | F. | 17 | 17, Boston Street | Aug. 25 | Sept. 9 | Satisfactory | Fond of shell fish. Last had shell fish on 7th August. |
6 | A.F. | M. | 14 | 42, Herbert Street | Aug. 21 | Sept. 14 | Satisfactory | Was at a holiday camp in the New Forest until 13th August. Probably infected at the camp. |
7 | L.B. | F. | 13 | 43, New North Road | Sept. 6 | Sept. 15 | Satisfactory | Cockles and ice cream at Bamsgate between 20th August and 3rd Sept. |
8 | E.J. | F. | 9 | 50, Moye Street | .. | Sept. 23 | Fair | Fried fish two or three times a week. |
9 | J.H. | M. | 9 | 43, Buckland Street | Sept. 13 | Sept. 23 | Fair | Cockles and ice cream at Bamsgate between 20th August and 3rd Sept. |
10 | A.C. | M. | 19 | 21, Goldsmith Bow | Sept. 14 | Oct. 2 | Unsatisfactory | A fried fish eater. Oysters about 2nd September. |
11 | C.C. | F. | 23 | 21, Goldsmith Bow | Sept. 25 | Oct. 6 | Unsatisfactory | Probably infected by case 10. Both were in the same family. |
12 | K.C. | F. | 37 | 49, Holms Street.. | Sept. 16 | Oct. 16 | Satisfactory | This patient only came to reside in Shoreditch on 3rd October, 1911. Fond of mussels, fried fish. |
13 | E.A.M. | F. | 23 | Shoreditch Infirmary | Oct. 1 | Oct. 17 | Satisfactory | Nurse in the infirmary. |
14 | F.K. | F. | 30 | 91, Rushton Street | Oct. 4 | Oct. 25 | Satisfactory | This patient was not infectedin Shoreditch. |
15 | O.A.B. | F. | 14 | 69, Crondall Street | Oct. 12 | Oct. 23 | Satisfactory | Fried fish eater. |
1(5 | L.L.W. | F. | 7 | 77, Felton Street.. | Oct. 18 | Oct. 25 | Satisfactory | |
17 | F.B.B. | F. | 11 | 69, Crondall Street | Nov. 1 | Nov. 6 | Satisfactory | Probably case 15. Members of same family and slept in same bed. |
18 | E.H. | M. | 10 | 44, Crondall Street | Oct. 15 | Nov. 14 | Satisfactory | |
19 | J.W.J. | M. | 33 | 50, Brownlow Eoad | Oct. 20 | Nov. 14 | Satisfactory | Said to have eaten mussels about 14th October, 1911, which made him ill. |
20 | E.M. | M. | 19 | 4, George Square | Dec. 2 | Dec. 28 | Satisfactory | Fried fish eater. |