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ENTERIC FEVER
During the year, one imported case of Typhoid Fever was notified
to the Department. The patient arrived at London Airport but he had felt
ill before leaving Pakistan. On arriving in London he stayed at various
addresses, but was taken ill again whilst visiting friends in Chelsea.
He was treated on routine lines in hospital and finally discharged.
SUSPECTED CASES OF FOOD POISONING
On Tuesday evening, 28th July, four guests and the host at a dinner
party in Chelsea were taken violently ill within minutes of eating a
salmon mousse prepared by the hostess. She herself had felt and looked
very ill after eating some of the mousse at the conclusion of its preparation
some eight hours earlier. In the interval it had been kept
refrigerated in a fireproof casserole.
The guests abruptly developed violent and continued vomiting, a
strange loss of limb control, and, in two cases, what were described as
writhing and epileptiform convulsions, culminating in unconsciousness
lasting in one instance 45 minutes and in the other 90 minutes. All
recovered within a couple of days, but some had residual symptoms of loss
of concentration, lethargy, sickness and depression which lasted a week to
ten days longer.