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"Total new Tubercular cases put on my Register 103
Tubercular transfers into Hendon 50
Total Non-Tubercular new cases, including' contacts 171
Total Tubercular cases, of all years, under supervision
at or from the dispensary during year 561
Tubercular cases, removed or lost sight of 72
Tubercular cases cured 28
Tubercular cases died 62
Tubercular cases on my register on 31/1/35 399
Undiagnosed on 31/12/35 1."
Typhoid Fever.
14 cases of Typhoid infection were notified. An investigation
as to the probable source of infection was made in each case with
negative results, excepting in one case in which the ascertained
facts strongly suggested that this disease had been contracted
abroad.
Food Poisoning.
4 cases were notified but these were of a mild character and
made uninterrupted recovery, but apart from those cases notifiable
in the area, an intimation was received from the Public Health
Department, St. Pancras, that a suspected case of botulism had
occurred in Mill Hill. The patient was removed to a nursing
heme in St. Pancras before the condition was diagnosed. The
suspected source of infection was a nut meat brawn purchased from
a shop in the Tottenham Court Road.
This department was asked if the house could be entered and
a sample of the nut meat brawn obtained. The house was unoccupied
and it was, therefore, necessary to apply for a coroner's
order for right of entry, this was obtained by the St. Pancras
Borough Council, the house was entered and a sample of the food
forwarded to the Ministry of Health for examination.
A sister of the patient, normally a resident in Kensington, had
also partaken of the food in q/uestion and was admitted to the
same nursing home, both women ultimately died and the verdict
at the inquest was that they had died from the effects of eating
nut meat brawn which had caused the type of food poisoning