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Infective Diseases. 19
purchased from the dairy in Streatham, which was involved in
a localised outbreak of Enteric Fever in 1925, and which was
reported on in that year's Annual Report.
As no other common food supply could be traced, it was
thought possible that a source of infection was still present at
the dairy. Further bacteriological examinations were made of
all those engaged in the business or residing in the house, and as
a result, the excreta of another member of the dairyman's family
was found to contain typhoid bacilli. This person was the mother
of the carrier case who was removed to hospital in October, 1925.
The organisms of Para-typhoid Fever were not found in any of
the specimens examined.
This woman, like her daughter, was in apparent good health
and she informed me that she had had no illness resembling
Enteric Fever or any other previous illness. Examinations of
her excreta made in October, 1925, when the outbreak first
occurred, failed to discover the presence of the organisms of either
Typhoid or Para-typhoid Fever. She was removed to hospital
and the premises again thoroughly disinfected.
As two " carriers " of Typhoid Fever were now known to
exist in the family of the dairyman, the Council decided that
circumstances had occurred at this dairy which rendered the
consumption of milk supplied from it a danger to public health,
arrangements were made with the dairyman to close the business
and he undertook that neither he nor his family would enter any
business connected with food. The Council agreed to pay him
the sum of £100 compensation.
The dairyman's wife, who was removed to hospital with
Enteric Fever on 28th October, 1925, was discharged on 29th
January, 1926, and went direct from the hospital to a private
address at Brighton. The Council decided to pay the sum of
£2 2s. per week for her lodging there from 29th January to 11th
March, when the dairy business was closed.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
The Public Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, came into force on 1st October,
1926.
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