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Typhoid Fever
Two notifications of typhoid fever were received during the year.
The first concerned a man employed by the London County Council meals
service as a driver. The organism was isolated as a result of examination
following an outbreak of diarrhoea. The man's illness was short but he continued
to excrete typhoid bacilli in spite of treatment over a period of some months. It
was considered that he was a carrier and his diarrhoea was not in fact attributable
to typhoid. In view of the persistence of his carrier state he was advised to have
surgical treatment, which he did, and after a somewhat stormy post-operative
period returned to work cured of his carrier state. No secondary cases occurred
from this man.
The second notification was in an Italian woman who lived in a flat in the
Borough.
The family had been to Italy for a holiday to stay with relatives on a farm
where the water supply and sewage disposal were stated to be. in close proximity.
The woman had been taken ill on the way back to this Country. The husband was
a waiter and various friends and relatives had visited her and looked after her
prior to removal to hospital. These were all traced and investigated with negative
results. There were no secondary cases from this patient.