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Table: Appendix I.The Holborn Outbreak.

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Appendix I.

The Holborn Outbreak.

No.	Date of onset of illness.	Date of notification.	Sex and age.	Milk supply.	As to consumption of fish, fried fish, shell fish, etc.	Celery	Watercress.
1	Nov. 21	Dec. 2	M. 10	Condensed	Fond of fried fish, generally obtained from C.'s, but he and his sister ate fried fish obtained from X.—he about a week, she about a fortnight before they sickened. Fond of winkles.	Yes	No
2	Nov. 28 or a few days earlier	Dec. 2	F. 4½	Condensed	Sister of above (q.v.). No shell fish.	Yes	No
3	Nov. 24	Dec. 2	F. 5	A	Fried fish from Y. No shell fish. Mother at one time bought fried fish from X., and the child, who sometimes purchased on her own account, may have bought from X.	No	No
4	Nov. 24	Dec. 2	M. 16	No raw milk	Fried fish from X. about a week before attack. No shell fish.	Yes	No
5	Nov. 26	Dec. 6	M. 15	Condensed	Fried fish from X. No shell fish.	No.	No.
6	Nov. 23	Dec. 7	F. 33	?	Had eaten whelks about a fortnight before attack. Fond of fried fish. May have obtained it from X., more likely to have done so from Y.	?	?
7	Nov. 26	Dec. 8	F. 16	No raw milk.	Fried fish from Y.	No.	No.
8	Nov. 25	Dec. 8	F. 4	A	Fried fish from Y. as a rule. It is possible she may have bought from X., but not likely. Fond of winkles.	No.	No.
8	Dec. 2	Dec. 10	M. 11	?	Fried fish from both X. and Y.	Yes.	?
10	Dec. 7	Dec. 11	F. 50	Condensed	Never fried fish. Mother of case 5, probably secondary to that case. No shell fish.		Yes.
11	Nov. 28	Dec. 11	F. 19	B	Fried fish from X. No shell fish.
12	Dec. 7	Dec 14.	F. 21	?	No fried fish at home, but may have eaten X.'s fried fish at her cousin's house, where she often spent the evening. No shell fish.	No	No
13	Doubtful. Ailing from Nov. 9.	Dec. 14	M. 12	?	Fried fish from X.	Yes	Yes
14	Dec. 5	Dec. 14	M. 14	A	Fried fish from X. one week or rather more before he began to be ill. No shell fish.	No	No
15	Nov. 23 or earlier	Dec. 4	M. 22	Only in tea	Fried fish from X. Occasionally eats winkles.	Yes	No
16	Nov. 25 about	Dec. 4	F. 28	Only in tea	Sister of above, but had not seen him for some weeks, and had, at time when illness was presumably contracted, been living in North London. Fond of fried fish. Never shell fish.	Yes	No
17	Nov. 29	Dec. 8	M. 7	?	Fried fish from X. Eats winkles occasionally on Sundays.	Yes	Yes