[Report 1957] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter.

  • Exeter (England). City Council
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. Single Cases. No. of cases. T otal No. of cases Notified Otherwise ascertained Agent Identified I Nil. It Agent not Identified Nil. I Classified according to agents : (a) chemical poisons (b) Salmonella typhi-murium (c) Staphylococci (d) Cl. botulinum (e) Cl. welchii .... (f) others Nil. Nil. Nil. Nil. 5. Salmonella infections, not food-borne. Outb reaks No. of cases Single Total No. Salmonella {type) Notified Otherwise [out- breaks] — — —• The table above includes the modification required by the^j Ministry of Health in the form in which the food poisoning figures ■ i are set out. A separate section has been added for Salmonella i! infection which is not considered to be food borne ; this is a useful ’; change as we realise more and more that diarrhoea found to be ; due to an organism of the Salmonella group is not necessarily ai case of food poisoning. Only seven cases were notified during the year. ' In the first small occurrence in which 2 children in one family I were involved, no pathogenic organisms were isolated from the i stools of either. No particular foodstuff could be blamed. The other outbreak was due to staphylococcus aureus poison- ing and involved a man and his wife and a friend. The wife and i a friend went with her children to the seaside and ate there some ham sandwiches which they had taken with them. Within ai few hours both became ill with vomiting and later, diarrhoea. The children, who did not have the ham sandwiches, remained, well. The husband, who had some of the same ham for lunch * at home, also became ill. The ham had all been consumed so it : was not possible to examine it, but staphylococcus aureus of a: