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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
{7.) C. C., notified on the 16th October. Had mussels from a
local dealer on several occasions in September.
(8.) A. T., notified on the 10th December. Had mussels from
a local dealer on the 19th November, and the first
symptoms of the disease appeared on the 1st December.
The local dealer was supplied by a wholesale dealer at
Billingsgate, and the Medical Officer of Health for the
City was informed of the case.
(g.) W. P., notified on the 15th April. Had winkles about the
third week in March, and the first symptoms appeared
about the 3rd April.
(10.) G. W., notified on the 7th August. Had winkles from a
local dealer about the 14th July, and the first symptoms
of the disease appeared about the 30th July. This case
proved fatal.
In one of the cases contracted outside the Borough, the
patient was employed emptying cesspools, and probably contracted
the disease at this occupation.
The cases contracted in France and Belgium both proved
fatal.
In every case the drains of the house were tested, and in only
two was there any defect found. In other seven premises there
were slight defects necessitating the service of a notice.
Cases of Mistaken Diagnosis.
In iii cases (58 of Scarlet Fever, 44 of Diphtheria, and nine
of Enteric Fever), information was received from the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals that the patients were not suffering
from the disease notified or any other notifiable disease, compared
with 93 in 1906, 97 in 1905, and 94 in 1904.
Of the 1,682 cases removed to hospital, in 111 or 6.5 per
cent, the diagnosis was incorrect, compared with 6*7 per cent, in
1906, 5.2 per cent, in 1905, and 10 per cent, in 1904.