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On an Outbreak of Sore Throats and of Scarlet Fever caused by Infected Milk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Arthur Newsholme
Arthur Newsholme
Affiliation:
Medical Officer of Health of Brighton.
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The outbreak about to be described raises issues of practical importance which appear to make it worthy of record, in spite of the fact that owing to fear of injury to a particular dairyman it was impracticable to complete the evidence by making inquires at every house supplied with milk by him.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1902 , pp. 150 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1902

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page 156 note 1 Also given as (4) Group A.

page 156 note 2 In the neighbouring town of H. to which the dairyman P. (see p. 158) also supplies a portion of his milk one case of scarlet fever in which his milk was drunk was notified on Dec. 6th.

page 158 note 1 This doctor subsequently sent me the following letter:—“I saw K. ’s child on 1st Nov. suffering if I remember right from a mild influenza. There was certainly no throat affection or anything else suspicious. I gave directions for treatment and told them to let me know if the child did not at once get better, and I heard no more. The reason K. sent for me was, I think, that she was afraid it might be something infectious, as P. is very particular.”

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