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Parish of Wandsworth.
distributing of the milk to the girls were and had been
for sometime in good health.
I communicated with the Company supplying the
milk, and asked them to let me have a list of the farms
from which the milk supply to the Patriotic School had
been obtained from the 6th to the 16th of November.
I received from the managing director a list of 12 farms
from which milk had been received by them, and I at
once communicated with the Medical Officers of Health
for the different districts. From all. with one exception
I have received replies, and only in one district had
there been any case of Scarlet fever for some months,
except in one instance, and the Medical Officer of
Health replied as follows;—
January 13 th, 1899.
Dear Sir,
In answer to your letter I beg to inform you there bas
been an outbreak of Scarlatina in this town. The first cases were
reported to me the 26th of September and there are still cases in
the town. I have not had any reported from the farm you
mention but there may have been cases among the employees. I
will make enquiries and report to you as soon as possible.
January 15th, 1899.
Dear Sir,
Yesterday I visited the premises you mentioned and
made careful enquiries.
There has been no case of Scarlatina on or near these premises,
nor as far as I could ascertain among any of the employees.
I obtained the names of all the workmen, and if there had been a
case of Scarlatina in any of their households I should have been
informed of it under the Notification Act.
After a careful consideration of the whole circumstances
of the outbreak I have come to the conclusion
that it was due to contamination of milk by the specific
germ of the disease and this for two reasons—