[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackburn County Borough.

  • Blackburn (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackburn County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Her bowels had not been opened for two days. Her tempera- ture was normal and pulse no per minute; fair volume and tension; and there was considerable prostration. I obtained a sample of her urine, which I forwarded to the Public Health Laboratory, at Manchester, for examination. lo.—W.M., Male, i6 Years; Oxford Street. Was quite well when he went to his work on the morning of March loth. He had his dinner at 12-40 p.m., which con- sisted of bread and butter and tea, together with one-and-a-half cakes purchased from the shop. At 2 o’clock he complained of a feeling of sickness and of pains in the abdomen, which was followed by three or four attacks of vomiting. He said that the vomited matter was of a greenish colour. He then came home and went to bed, and was in great pain. His mother said that he was doubled up with pain all night. A medical man was called in, and at 5-30 p.m. he passed a stomach tube. There was a considerable amount of diarrhoea in this case. At the time of my visit the boy appeared to be quite well, but had vivid recollections of the extreme agony through which he had just passed. After examining the above cases, I went to the shop from which the cakes had been purchased, since it appeared that these cakes were the only article of diet common to all the affected employees at their mid-day meal on Thursday, March loth. The shop in Cobden Street was occupied by Mrs. E., whom I informed of the nature of my visit, and who was most willing to give me all the information which I desired and she could give. I found that the cakes had been made by Mrs. E., on the morning of March loth, and that she had sold eleven to lorls from the Imperial Mill. All the cakes were warm when 'iv- '^old them. T examined closely the way in which Mrs. E. h.'id made these cakes, including an inspection of the utensils z