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London County Council 1900

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No.	Date of onset of illness.	Date of notification.	Sex and age.	Mi!k supply.	Ice-cream.	As to consumption of fish, fried fish, shell fish, &c.	As to use of swimming baths.	Remarks.
83	Sept. 18	Sept. 29	M. 12	Cup brand	Never	Family rarely have fish, if they do they do not buy it from X. The two boys, however, very frequently purchase " fish and taters " from X's shop	To swimming baths but never to X baths	Brother of case 89. Never has ginger-beer or mineral waters.
84	Sept. 18	Sept. 25	M. 3	M	Never	The family frequently consumes X's fried fish. The child eats it often, also the mother, the father is not so fond of it	Never	No ginger-beer or mineral waters. Case 96 is this child's mother.
85	Sept. 19	Sept. 19	F. 8	I	Occasionally	See case 74	...	Children at Rams-gate from Sept. 10-17.
86	Sept. 19	Oct. 8	M. 13	G	Probably	Fried fish and shrimps from X	To X baths	...
87	Sept. 19	Sept. 25	F. 13	Condensed.	Never	Winkles and shrimps occasionally from X. The girl " if ever she had a halfpenny to spend would go to X's for a bit of fish and taters." Probably did so on night of Sept. 1st.	Never	Drinks kaola. Left for Kent on night of Sept. 1.
88	Sept. 19	Oct. 1	M. 16	B	A	Bought fried fish from X until quite recently, i.e., a few days before his illness commenced	To swimming baths, but not to X baths	Drinks lemonade and kaola.
89	Sept. 19	Sept. 29	M. 5	Cup brand	Never	See case 83 (the brother of this boy)	To swimming baths but never to X baths	Brother of case 83.
90	Sept. 20	Sept. 29	M. 4	...	...	This case proved to be one of pleural effusion and not enteric fever	...	...
91	Sept. 20	Oct. 3	F. 4	B	B or C	Fried fish, wet fish and winkles from X	Never	Sister of cases 32 and 126. Daughter of case 92.
92	Sept. 20	Oct. 8	F. 36	B	Never	See above. In addition to fish has had cockles and oysters from X	Never	See case 91.
93	Sept. 20	Oct. 1	M. 11	B	Never	Family often have fried fish and sometimes winkles and shrimps from X	To X baths on Monday mornings	Drinks ginger-beer. See cases No. 125.
94	Sept. 20	Sept. 27	F. 15	Condensed	Yes, but source not known	Family deal at X's. This girl and her sister (case 99), often buy fried fish there. The others (father mother and baby, set. 2), do not, eat fried fish as a rule	To swimming baths but never to X baths	Eats watercress. Drinks mineral waters. A very mild case. See case 99.
95	Sept. 20	Sept. 29	M. 4	B	A's man	Often buys fried fish for supper from X. Other members of family rarely do so, but occasionally buy winkles there	Never	Drinks kaola.
96	Sept. 20	Sept. 28	F. 30	M	Never	See case 84 (the child of 96)	Never	Lemonade occasionally,
97	Sept. 20	• • •	F. 18	Condensed	• ••	Fried fish and other fish from X. Probably had former on Sept. 1st, but not after that until commencement of illness	• ••	Went hopping on Sept. 1st. May have been infected while away.
98	Sept. 21	Oct. 8	F. 30	N	Lives at an ice cream shop	Fried fish, wet fish, and shell fish from X	Never	A very mild case.
99	Sept. 21	Oct. 12	F. 10	Condensed	...	See case 94. Very fond of " fish and taters "	Never	A mild case,but gave marked Widal's reaction.
100	Sept. 21	Sept. 28	F. 12	Head brand	B	Family buy winkles from X, fried fish elsewhere. The child, however, gets "fried fish and taters " from X regularly on Saturdays	Never	Very rarely has lemonade orginger-beer.