Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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No. of sample. | Date of collection or receipt of samples. | Where obtained. | Original source. | If relaid in Leigh Creek. | Cooked or Uncooked. | Result of Dr. Klein's examination. |
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1902. | ||||||
1 | 6th Dec. | Nicholson's Gateway, Billingsgate | Maplin Sands | Yes | Cooked | Showed evidence of sewage pollution. |
2 | 13th „ | Ditto | Ditto | Yes | Cooked | Ditto. |
3 | „ „ | Ditto | Brain's Pit | Yes | Cooked | Ditto. |
4 | „ „ | Ditto | Shoeburyness Sands. | Yes | Cooked | Ditto. |
5 | 14th „ | Leigh Creek Cockle Laying | Off the Maplins, 9 miles East of Shoeburyness. | Yes | Uncooked | Ditto. |
6 | „ „ | Cooked cockles, same as No. 5 after preparation for market. | Ditto | Yes | Cooked | Ditto. |
7 | 20th „ | Nicholson's Gateway | Maplin Sands | Yes | Cooked | Ditto. |
1903. | ||||||
8 | 1st Jan. | Sent by Fishmongers' Company, 1st Jan., 1903. | Lower part of the Blythe, opposite the Chapman Lighthouse; collected on 31st Dec., '02 | No | Uncooked | Ditto. |
9 | 3rd „ | Sent by Fishmongers' Company, 3rd Jan., 1903. | Maplin Sands, abreast of the Mouse Lightship; collected on 1st Jan., 1903. | No | Uncooked | Ditto. |
10 | „ „ | Leigh Creek, collected by Dr. H. Williams, Medical Officer of Health, Port of London. | (?) had been lying in Creek | Yes | Uncooked | Ditto. The bacillus of typhoid fever found to be present. |
11 | „ „ | Leigh Creek | Sample of water in which No. 10 cockles were lying. | Practically dilute sewage. | ||
12 | „ „ | Ditto | Sample of mud on which No. 10 cockles were lying. | Sewage polluted. | ||
22 | 16th „ | Sent by Fishmongers' Company, 17th Jan., 1903. | Taken direct from Maplin Sands and boiled for 3½ minutes. | No bacillus coli communis. No spores of bacillus enteritidis sporogenes. | ||
23 | „ „ | Ditto | Taken direct from Maplin Sands and boiled for one minute. | One cockle only contained something like bacillus coli communis(?)* Half the cockles contained no spores of bacillus enteritidis sporogenes. |
* This is being further examined by subcultures.