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dangerous to health and detrimental to an important food
supply, and that representations should be made to the
Local Government Board with the view to legislation being
initiated to effectively deal with the matter."
The Council concurred in this opinion.
The Hackney Borough Council called attention to cases of
Enteric Fever traced to the consumption of sewage polluted watercress,
and asked the Local Government Board to make an enquiry
as to the sources of the watercress supplied to the Metropolis in
relation to the possibility of this article causing disease.
The Committee recommended the Council to support the application.
Respecting the supposed causes and predisposing influences of
other cases, they are given below as received from the patients or
their friends.
12/1/03
3/3/03
9/3/03
12/5/03
26/6/03
4/7/03
7/7/03
22/7/03
12/7/03
21/8/03
Male
Female
Male
Female
Female
Male
Male
Female
Male
Male
10 years
38 years
17 years
29 years
5 years
17 years
15 years
20 years
13 years
21 years
Milton Road
Seyssell Street
Leven Road
Cottage Street
Park Street
Malmesbury Road,
Tapley Street
Vernon Road
"VVyke Road
Merchant Street
Ate some ice cream,
26/12/02.
Had been ill with
Influenza.
Had eaten tinned milk
from the tin about a
month ago.
Caught cold after confinement.
W.c. pan and trap
broken.
Had been suffering from
Pneumonia.
Badsmellsfromhistrade.
A slaughterman.
Dead pigeon found in
drinking water cistern.
Had been digging sweets
waste from shoots and
washing it in canal for
eating.
Came home from Newton
Abbott, where he had
been doing some drain
work.