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SPECIAL REPORT TO THE CHAIRMAN AND
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH
COMMITTEE
ON THE OUTREAK OF SCARLET FEVER
IN JUNE, 1909.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit a special report on the outbreak of
Scarlet Fever which occurred in the District in the past
month of June.
Copies, after submission to the Council, will be sent
to the Local Government Board and the Surrey County
Council, in accordance with the Order of the Board.
Since the beginning of the present year and up to
the end of May, only seven cases of Scarlet Fever had
been notified, and were distributed as follows:—
January 3
February 2
March nil
April nil
May 2
Whilst up to the lfith June, four cases came under
notice, and these were not attributed to milk infection,
since two of them had attended a School, outside the area,
where Scarlet Fever had prevailed, and where the incubation
period was quite consistent with the disease having
been contracted by contact. Moreover, the milk supplied
to the four households was quite different from the source
which subsequently came under suspicion, and where, so
far as information can be relied upon, there could have
been no possibility of the milk having been obtained, in
the first place, from the contaminated supply.