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Typhoid Fever
Three cases of .typhoid fever were notified during the year. Of these, one
definitely originated abroad and the other two were probably contracted outside
the United Kingdom. No other associated cases were discovered either
in the Borough or in known contacts elsewhere in the Country.
The first case was a male aged 27 years who developed the disease on
29th June having spent a holiday in Majorca from 1st - 15th June with an organised
holiday party.
The second case was diagnosed in a local hospital in a New Zealand
teacher who had been living in Europe and was resident in another London
Borough. She was taken ill on 10th June having come to England on 16th May
and spent some time in the West Country before coming to London just before
the onset of her illness. It is possible therefore that she may have contracted
the disease in this Country but investigations along these lines yielded negative
results. There was some anxiety concerning this incident as a close
contact of this case was a cookery teacher in a large school in the Borough
She was immediately suspended from duty and no infection occurred either in
this contact or the school.
The third case was in a female aged 27 years who was taken ill some
25 days after returning from a holiday in Spain and was admitted to hospital
as a possible case of typhoid fever. Tests in hospital proved negative until
some three weeks after her admission to hospital, when the organism was
finally isolated. There was a possibility that the disease was contracted in
this Country but investigations were again negative.