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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

"

Nine Scottish towns

1916 or 1917

217

""

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

""

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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