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ment Board, should obstinately refuse to take any steps to
supervise by authorized inspectors, and regulate by byelaw,
those trades which supply for consumption at our
tables food stuffs open to contamination by sewage.
The local authorities are not in a position to help themselves
in this matter; they have no means at command by
which they can exclude from their markets shell-fish and
watercress grown under conditions rendering them
dangerous for consumption. Until the Local Government
Board sees its way to move in this question, oysters and
watercress, except when obtained from reliable sources,
should be excluded from the diet list of parishioners.
Typhoid Fever in South Brixton and
Stockwell.
The duration of the outbreak measured from the day
when the first case in the series went to bed with symptoms
of the disease, to the day when the last was taken ill,
extends from the 10th March to the 21st April. As the
fever in ordinary course begins insidiously, and its character
is not readily recognised in the early stages, the act of
notification usually takes place in the second week. Consequently
the first case of the series appears on the records
of the Office as late as the 16th March, and the last on the
30th April.
During the epidemic period 46 persons living in Lambeth
and 12 in adjoining parishes suffered from attack, and in
ten the attack resulted in a fatal termination.
At the time when the earlier cases of the series werf
coming under notice, the Administration Area of the County
of London was exempt from Typhoid fever in epidemic
form, and during the months of March and April, when the