Report on an outbreak of scarlet fever in Glasgow connected with an epidemic teat eruption on milch cows at Jaapston / by Jas. B. Russell and Arch. K. Chalmers ; with a report by E. Klein on certain material sent him.

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Report on an outbreak of scarlet fever in Glasgow connected with an epidemic teat eruption on milch cows at Jaapston / by Jas. B. Russell and Arch. K. Chalmers ; with a report by E. Klein on certain material sent him. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    impossible to deal with them in the order of their occurrence. Reference was made at an early part of the report to an opinion hurriedly formed, from the facts within our knowledge on the morning of 8th August, that the cases in Glasgow and that at the farm had one .common origin in infected milk. It therefore remained for us to ascertain how far this would be confirmed or corrected by further enquiry. The children carrying milk from the dairy to the houses of consumers were 23 in number, and 7 were connected with households (5 in number) in which scarlet fever appeared. Four of the carriers were themselves attacked, and 3 were implicated only through illness in other members of their households. Arranging the 5 families of carriers according to the date of sickening, we found as follows :— Family S, Sickened 3rd August, 2 carriers, 1 ill. C, „ 5th „ 1 „ Well. „ R, „ 5th „ 1 „ Well. „ B, ,, 6th „ 2 „ Both ill. „ D, „ 7th „ 1 1 ill. As has been shown, by the 5th of August the epidemic was well on its way, so that interest in the above table chiefly centres in the family S, and the area of milk distribution supplied by the members of it who were carriers. Between 1st and 3rd August. 10 families, residing in Crookston Street, Bedford Street, Cathcart Street, Ardgowan Street, Paterson Street, and Clarence Street, were invaded, while milk was delivered in only one of these streets (Clarence Street) by the carriers of family S. Further, Crookston Street and Cathcart Street supplied 32 and 38 cases respectively of the total number—figures both much in excess of those contributed by any other street, and in neither of these streets was the delivery of milk conducted by any of the families of carriers attacked. The shop assistants, 3 in number, did not suffer in themselves or their families, and recalling what on a former page was said regarding the dairy premises, there remains not the slightest moiety of evidence which would suggest contamination of the milk after its delivery in town. While in transit between this and the farm from which it came, the milk was in charge of a farm servant, and we found no reason