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 Heston and Isleworth]
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Outbreak No. | Date of onset | Date of notification or other information | No. of persons at risk | No. of persons affected | No. of deaths of affected persons | Organisms causing outbreak | Food transmitting infection | Food suspected of transmitting infection | Place of infection | Remarks |
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13 | 21-1-52 | 24-1-52 | 2 | 1 | — | Not ascertained | — | Pork | Home | — |
14 | 13-1-52 | 24-1-52 | 1 | — | Not ascertained | — | Home | — | ||
15 | 6-2-52 | 13-2-52 | 5 | 1 | — | Not ascertained | — | Home | Investigation revealed 3 children in household suffering from dysentery (sonne). Probable that attack was dysentery rather than food poisoning. | |
16 | 17-3-52 | 17-3-52 | 6 | 1 | — | Not ascertained | — | — | Home | Faecal specimens from patient and rest of family showed no pathogens except for child aged 2 years whose specimen showed shigella sonnei. |
17 | 7-4-52 | 10-4-52 | 1 | — | Not ascertained | — | Venison | London Restaurant | — | |
18 | 24-4-52 | 28-4-52 | 1 | — | Not ascertained | — | Hors Roeuvres | London Restaurant | Enquiries revealed that person preparing hors d'oeuvres had diarrhoea 2 days previously. | |
19 | 3-5-52 | 5-5-52 | 3 | 1 | — | Not ascertained | — | — | Home | — |
20 | 7-5-52 | 9-5-52 | 6 | 1 | — | Not ascertained | — | Pressed Beef | Home | — |
21 | 29-5-52 | 31-5-52 | p | 4 | — | Salmonella " Newport " | — | Meat Pie | Home | Sliced meat pie purchased on Epsom Downs—source of pie could not be traced. |
22 | 7-6-52 | 7-6-52 | 1 | 1 | — | Not ascertained | — | — | Home | Admitted to hospital with diagnosis of "gastric influenza" but considered to be probably food poisoning. |