St. Marylebone : report by the Medical Officer of Health on the recent epidemic of typhoid or enteric fever.

  • Whitmore, John.
Date:
[1873]
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Credit: St. Marylebone : report by the Medical Officer of Health on the recent epidemic of typhoid or enteric fever. 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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    ST. MARYLEBONE. REPORT BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH OH THE EECENT EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID OR ENTERIC FEYER. TO THE VESTRY OF ST. MARYLEBONE. Gentlemen, The Sanitary Committee having at their meeting on the 20th ultimo requested that I would lay before the Vestry a report on the late outbreak of Typhoid Fever in this parish, I have much pleasure in complying with their request; the more so as I know that everything which concerns the health and welfare of the inhabitants of the parish are to you matters of deep and sincere interest. The subject having been already fully discussed in the Daily and Medical Journals, it will be unnecessary for me to do more than to state, very briefly, (1), the steps that were taken to trace out, and which ultimately led to a discovery of, the cause of the outbreak; (2), the extent to which the epidemic had spread in this and neighbouring parishes as far as could be ascertained by the enquiries made; and, (3), the sanitary precautions which under the emergency I thought necessary to carry out. On the morning of the 4th of August Dr. Murchison called upon me to inform me that four of his children were then suffering from Enteric Fever, and that the disease had also broken out in several families in the immediate neighbourhood, the names of which he mentioned. The cause of it he suspected to be milk supplied by the Dairy Reform Company from their dairy in Orchard street, and from the circumstances which he detailed relative to the attacks in his own family, together with the fact that all the other families in which the disease existed were, with but one exception,