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Four cases of Typhoid Fever were stated by the patients or their
friends to be due to the eating of shell-fish:—
March 6th Female 10 years Pier Street .. Patient had eaten some mussels
about a month previously.
Admitted into the
Brook Hospital on 6th March,
but was certified on the 30th
March as not suffering from
Typhoid Fever nor any other
notifiable disease. A positive
Widal re-action was obtained
prior to the removal of the
patient. There is every reason
to believe that this case was
probably one of an abortive
form of Typhoid Fever, although
the patient in the hospital
shewed no clinical signs of
Enteric Fever, nor other diseases,
and two Widal re-actions
carried out at the hospital gave
negative results, yet on the
10th, 16th, 21st, 29th and 29th
March brothers and sisters (five
in all) of the patient were removed
to the same hospital
suffering from Typhoid Fever.
The patient removed on the
10th had also eaten mussels
about a month previously.