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Four cases of Typhoid Fever were stated to be due to the eating
of shell-fish :—
27/8/03 Male 14 years Manilla Street .. Had eaten mussels two
weeks ago.
14/10,03 Male 18 years White Post Lane .. Had eaten cockles and
whelks from off stall.
9/11/03 Male 12 years St. Leonard's Road.. Had eaten half an oyster
two weeks ago.
19/11/03 Male 32 years Usher Road Had eaten oysters three
weeks ago in a public
house.
The Council of the Borough of Brighton pointed out that, on
investigation, not less than 36 per cent, of the cases of Enteric
Fever occurring in that town during the past nine years had been
traced to sewage-contaminated shell-fish. They addressed a letter
to the Local Government Board urging legislation giving Sanitary
Authorities control over oyster layings situated in their districts,
and empowering them to prevent the sale within their districts
of oysters or other molluscs derived from sewage-contaminated
sources. The Corporation of London had also approached the
Local Government Board in the matter, urging that the Corporation,
as the Port Sanitary Authority, should have the inspection
of oyster beds and layings within the Estuary of the Thames.
At a Conference of Representatives of the Corporation of
London and Conservators of the Thames and Medway, the follow'ng
resolution was adopted, viz. : —
" That in the opinion of this Conference the present
system of discharging sewage into the Thames Estuary is
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