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Date of onset No.
29.10.50 2
30.10.50 1
31.10.50 2
1.11.50 15
2.11.50 8
3.11.50 16
4.11.50 6
5.11.50 7
6.11.50 8
7.11.50 9
8.11.50 6
9.11.50 3
10.11.50 4
11.11.50 4
Total 91
Notification date No.
4.11.50 3
5.11.50 9
6.11.50 1
7.11.50 12
8.11.50 3
9.11.50 21
10.11.50 3
11.11.50 13
12.11.50 5
13.11.50 2
14.11.50 7
15.11.50 5
16.11.50 2
23.11.50 1
25.11.50 1
28.11.50 1
2.12.50 1
5.12.50 1
Total 91
So far as was possible with the rations, all meals which could
be were served hot, but with the catering difficulties common
everywhere at the present time, many dishes must of necessity
be served cold.
The Sonne bacillus is almost notorious in being difficult to control,
and so swabs were taken of taps, door handles and W.C.
chain handles to see if the transference of the bacillus from one user
to another through these were possible. Faecal coli were to be
found on all, and so bowls of disinfectant were placed handy with
notices asking the prospective user to rinse hands before touching
a tap which might otherwise become contaminated and after the
user had washed reinfecting him when turning off the tap and
thence to a towel. After the introduction of the disinfectant it
was not possible to isolate any faecal organisms so that dysentery
microbes were never actually found on any taps or handles. This
precautionary measure may well have been of no little use in