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Food Poisoning
The fifteen cases of Food Poisoning were distributed throughout the
year as follows-
F irst Quarter 5
Second Quarter 2
Third Quarter 4
Fourth Quarter 4
15
They were single cases spread throughout the Borough and there were
no outbreaks of food poisoning.
The agent was indentified in 9 cases
Salmonella Typhimurium 4
Salmonella Anatum 1
Salmonella Bredeney 2
Salmonella Heidelberg 1
Salmonella Newport 1
In the remaining six cases the agent was not identified.
In addition to the notified cases, two symptomless excreters were discovered.
The organism isolated from both was Salmonella Bredeney.
Both these cases were connected with an outbreak of food poisoning
originating in another London Borough.
Typhoid Fever
Five cases of Typhoid Fever were notified during the year. In one of
these cases, a boy of 4 years, it was not possible to discover the source of
the infection.
Of the remainder, two, a man and wife, had recently been on holiday in
Spain and one had returned from Italy where she had been visiting relatives.
The latter case had been one of a party of four of which no others were
affected.
The remaining case occurred in a child of 15 months. Bacteriological
examination of the family revealed that the grandmother was excreting the
organism, although symptomless. She was an immigrant from the West Indies