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(some of which proved to be typhoid, and were consequently removed),
and to the owners of the infected premises who carried
out all suggested necessary work, e.g., stripping off of paper
from walls, etc.
Joseph Priestley.
October 15 th, 1900.
Supplemental Report of Medical Officer.
Presented to, and adopted by, the late Vestry, Nov. 22nd, 1900.
I have to report that no fresh case has occurred during the last
four weeks in the infected area, and the outbreak has been, therefore,
effectually stamped out by the methods adopted, and explained
at length in the Special Report presented to the Vestry
on October 25th, 1900 (Minutes, page 1401 el seq.). The total
number of cases has been 41, occurring in 24 houses, viz., 16
males and 25 females, there being 20 persons over and 21 persons
under 12 years of age. Seven deaths have occurred, viz., 3 males,
aged 1, 3, and 21 ; and 4 females, aged 6, 19, 34, and 55 years respectively.
For the benefit of the new members of the Council, it may be
re-iterated that the preventive measures taken were as follows : —
1. Discovering of all cases by house-to-house inspection;
2. Notification of all cases;
3. Isolation of all cases in Hospital;
4. Thorough disinfection of all premises (including the
special disinfection of the four mangles which were suspected
of having caused the outbreak);
5. Quarantining of suspected persons over the incubation
period of the disease.
The outbreak has emphasised the great difficulty of diagnosing
typhoid fever in the early stages! of the disease, and the consequent
great importance of bacteriological examinations being
made in connection therewith, such examinations being provided,
free of cost, to Medical Practitioners in the Borough of Lambeth.