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1910. Both patients were reported to be passing the
germs of Enteric Fever in urine and faeces. At the
request of Dr. Theodore Thompson, these persons were
kept under observation, and samples of urine and feces
were periodically obtained and forwarded for examination.
Mr. Henley kindly undertook this somewhat
disagreeable duty, with the consent of the Committee.
It was afterwards proposed that all convalescents
from Typhoid should be kept under similar observation,
but this the Committee declined to sanction, and observations
were confined to specially reported cases. With
reference to these two the germs have now quite disappeared
from the dejecta of S. A., but E. W. continues to
shew a positive result so far as the fæces are concerned,
though the urine is negative. It is somewhat unfortunate
that Mrs. E. W, serves in a fried fish shop, and of
course handles food intended for human consumption.
All Mr. Henley can do is to keep in touch with her and
to impress upon her strongly the absolute necessity of
special care in the disinfection of dejecta and the careful
washing of the hands after having attended to the calls
of nature; and this advice he continues to inculcate.
It may be as well to mention here that careful investigation
failed to trace infection of any Typhoid case to this
shop.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Deaths 34 (decennial average 55).
All these deaths were amongst young children aged
less than five years, a mortality on the estimated population
of young children of 1.9.