[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth] page 13

Heston and Isleworth 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]

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Table: FOOD POISONING OUTBREAKS 1952—(Continued)

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FOOD POISONING OUTBREAKS 1952—(Continued)

Outbreak No.	Date of onset	Date of notification or other information	No. of persons at risk	No. of persons affected	No. of deaths of affected persons	Organisms causing outbreak	Food transmitting infection	Food suspected of transmitting infection	Place of infection	Remarks
13	21-1-52	24-1-52	2	1	—	Not ascertained	—	Pork	Home	—
14	13-1-52	24-1-52	?	1	—	Not ascertained	—	?	Home	—
15	6-2-52	13-2-52	5	1	—	Not ascertained	—	?	Home	Investigation revealed 3 children in household suffering from dysentery (sonne). Probable that attack was dysentery rather than food poisoning.
16	17-3-52	17-3-52	6	1	—	Not ascertained	—	—	Home	Faecal specimens from patient and rest of family showed no pathogens except for child aged 2 years whose specimen showed shigella sonnei.
17	7-4-52	10-4-52	?	1	—	Not ascertained	—	Venison	London Restaurant	—
18	24-4-52	28-4-52	?	1	—	Not ascertained	—	Hors Roeuvres	London Restaurant	Enquiries revealed that person preparing hors d'oeuvres had diarrhoea 2 days previously.
19	3-5-52	5-5-52	3	1	—	Not ascertained	—	—	Home	—
20	7-5-52	9-5-52	6	1	—	Not ascertained	—	Pressed Beef	Home	—
21	29-5-52	31-5-52	p	4	—	Salmonella " Newport "	—	Meat Pie	Home	Sliced meat pie purchased on Epsom Downs—source of pie could not be traced.
22	7-6-52	7-6-52	1	1	—	Not ascertained	—	—	Home	Admitted to hospital with diagnosis of "gastric influenza" but considered to be probably food poisoning.