APPENDIX 6.
Reference.
Milk-borne epidemics reported in the United Kingdom since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Place.
Year.
Cases.
Probable source of infection of the
milk.
131
DIPHTHERIA.
Twyford and Ruscombe, Wokingham
1904
98
Cow disease
Public Health, December 1906, p. 145.
R.D.
Leith...
1904
Epidemic
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1909
(?)
14
Belfast
1912
Epidemic
London and Croydon
1913
119
Lambeth Met. B.
Penge (Croydon C.B.)
Camberwell Met, B.
Undetermined
Human or bovine...
Public Health, January 1905, p. 246. Public Health, January 1912, p. 148. Lancet, March 30, 1912, p. 900. 13th report of medical officer, Local Government Board, 1913-14, p. 30, and British Medical Journal, June 6, 1914, p. 1261.
Lewisham Met. B.
Beckenham U.D.
Croydon C.B.
124
Worthing M.B.
1913
52
"2
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Nine Scottish towns
1916 or 1917
217
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Manchester C.B.
1917-1918
11
West Mersea, Lexden and Winstree
1921
30-40
R.D.
Reigate M.B.
1921-1922
15
Cheshire
Hale U.D.
Bowdon U.D. Altrincham U.D. Bucklow R.D.
Human source
1924
100
Undetermined
Medical officer of health's annual
report, 1913, p. 102.
Medical Officer, June 2, 1917, p. 180. Medical Officer, May 4, 1918, p. 146. Medical Officer, September 24, 1921,
p. 139.
British Medical Journal, November 11, 1922, p. 906, and Medical Officer, January 25, 1924, p. 38.
Chief medical officer's annual report,
1924, p. 56.
Blean R.D....
Cardiff C.B.... Reigate M.B.
:
Chief medical officer's annual report,
1928, p.
117.
Lancet, December 8, 1928, p. 1201. Medical Officer, July 12, 1930, p. 13.
1928
26
(?) Human source...
1928 1928-1929
7
22
Human or bovine... Human source
125
SCARLET FEVER.
London, Finchley U.D.
1904
500
(P) Cow disease
Liverpool C.B.
1904
Lancashire, Little Woolton, Liverpool
1904
C.B.
Gloucester R.D.
1904
Leith...
1905
Over 40
Cambridge M.B.
1905
288 88
59
30
65
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78
11
Brighton C.B.
Guildford M.B.
1905
236
1908
1908
1908
1909
400
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Dublin
Cheltenham M.B.
London and Surrey
Westminster Met. B.
Chelsea Met. B.
Wandsworth Met. B.
Kingston-on-Thames Met. B.
Crumpsall, Manchester C.B.
1909
107
Small industrial burgh, Scotland
1910
81
Glasgow
1912
12
Woodbridge R.D.
1913
Lutterworth R.D....
1917
Edinburgh
1921
Broxburn (W. Lothian)
1923
Outbreak
Burslem U.D.
1923
64 + 13 secondary cases Considerable outbreak
30
Human source Undetermined
Human source
Undetermined
(?) Human source...
Undetermined Human source (P) Cow disease
Human source Undetermined Human source
Undetermined
(?) Cow disease
Human source Not reported
Undetermined
British Medical Journal, March 12,
1904, p. 602.
Public Health, August 1904, p. 687. Lancet, April 8, 1905, p. 946.
Lancet, June 4, 1904, p. 1616. Public Health, April 1905, p. 445. British Medical Journal, April 29, 1905, p. 948, and Public Health, September 1905, p. 795.
Public Health, September 1907, and
Lancet, May 26, 1906, p. 1493. Public Health, November 1908, p. 56. Lancet, September 5, 1908, p. 720. Public Health, November 1908, p. British Medical Journal, July 3, 1909, p. 45, and Public Health, December 1909, p. 77.
Public Health, January 1911, p. 143. Public Health, January 1911, p. 138. British Medical Journal, January 4,
1913, p. 45.
Report of medical officer, Local Govern- ment Board, appendix A, no. 3, p. 6. Medical Officer, April 14, 1917, p. 123.
Medical Officer, May 24, 1924, p. 227. British Medical Journal, May 9, 1923,
p. 992.
Chief medical officer's annual report,
1923, p. 48.
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