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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The following are the particulars of these cases :—
(1.) A. G., aged 35, notified on the nth January. Had oysters
on 25th December at Burnham-on-Crouch.
(2.) J. W., aged 32, notified on the 11th November. Had
oysters which were sent from Southend on the 12th
October. Inquiry at Southend showed that the oysters
had been gathered from a presumably infected ground.
Other two persons in the house also had oysters and
suffered from sickness and Diarrhœa.
(3.) VV. H., aged 51, notified on the 15th December. Had
oysters on the 18th and 25th November in hotels in
London. This case proved fatal.
(4.) M. R., aged 32, notified on the 8th October. Had mussels
on the 22nd September, which had been purchased at
Billingsgate by her husband.
(5.) E. R., aged 11, notified on the 15th October. Had mussels
about 14 days previous to appearance of first
symptoms.
(6.) G. B., aged 27, notified on the 3rd November. Was a
regular consumer of mussels. This case proved fatal.
(7.) E. C., aged 36, notified on the 18th November. Had
mussels on the 5th, purchased from local dealer.
(8.) F. W., aged 26, notified on the 23rd November. Had
mussels on the 26th October, purchased from a local
dealer. The first symptoms in this case appeared about
the 10th November, or 15 days after he had the shell-fish.
(9.) A. N., aged 26, notified on the 19th March. Had winkles
on several occasions in February.
(10.) A. S., aged 33, notified on the gth November. Had
winkles on two occasions in October.