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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Harrow 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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During 1971, 33 persons proceeded to addresses in the Borough and
were notified as having come from areas where smallpox was endemic.
They were kept under surveillance as were the 240 travellers coming from
areas where cholera was endemic. The vast majority of the latter came
from Spain during the short period of September to November. This
placed a considerable additional burden upon the Public Health Inspectorate
and I am grateful to them for their willing co-operation in visiting
every one of these families within a few days of their arrival in this country.
Dysentery and Food Poisoning
The details of the 13 cases of food poisoning which occurred during
the year are set out in the tables below:
FOOD POISONING Incidents and Cases
| Causative Agent | General Outbreaks | Family Outbreaks | Sporadic Cases notified or ascertained | Total No. of outbreaks and sporadic cases cols. (1 + 3 + 5) | Total No. of cases columns (2+4+5) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of separate outbreaks | No. of cases notified or ascertained | No. of separate outbreaks | No. of cases notified or ascertained | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1. S. typhimurium | — | — | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| 2. Other Salonellae (a) | — | — | — | — | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 3. CI. welchii | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4. Staph aureus | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5. Other causes | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6. Cause unknown | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7. TOTAL | — | — | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 13 |
| (a) Details of Food Poisoning due to Salmonellae other than S. Typhiumurium | |||||||
| Indiana | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Enteritidis | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Agona | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Not Typed | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 |