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houses on November 9th, and 8 more on November
10th, one would have expected nearer 10 times this
amount, seeing that the supply was a very large one.
"2. The theory of milk infection did not explain away
the very marked and special fall of the outbreak upon
Hendon Lane, since we should expect to find the
infection carried all along the track of supply of
the particular carts that served Hendon Lane. What
really happened was that, at the commencement of
the outbreak, of 22 houses supplied in Hendon Lane
five were infected, whereas of 56 houses supplied in
other streets from the same carts only six were
infected.
"3. Children were not mainly affected. Among the
cases of which I was informed there were nearly
twice as many people over 20 as there were children
under 10.
"4. I had been able to satisfy myself that in Hampstead,
St. Pancras and Stoke Newington there were at the
time many somewhat similar throat cases."
In the beginning of October of last year, Dr. R. C. Pierce,
the Medical Officer of Health of Guildford and Woking, reported
upon a similar outbreak at Woking. The symptoms
shown by the sufferers in that outbreak were analagous to
those I have described in the recent Finchley epidemic; but
whereas there was but one fatal case in Finchley, there were
several deaths (seven) in the Woking outbreak. Ninety-eight
households were infected ,the sufferers being mainly adults;
and of these households 77 per cent. were supplied by two