TY - JOUR
AU - Wright, H. P.
AB - Two outbreaks of food poisoning were traced to the con- in districts in which a high proportion of the population sumption of meat minced in an imperfectly cleaned mincer. followed unskilled and relatively poorly-paid occupations, or Forty-nine children were affected, whereas meat from the lived below the " poverty line." Measles and whooping same source, but unminced, was innocuous. Chemical cough thus appeared to be diseases specifically resulting from changes could have been produced in a pabulum of meat overcrowding, while diphtheria and tuberculosis were diseases remaining in the mincer from the previous day by the activity to whose causes poverty contributed in a greater variety of of ordinarily non-pathogenic organisms (Topley & Wilson, ways. The prevalence of diphtheria, alone of the four 1936) and in these circumstances the toxins would be mixed diseases, was dependent upon the number of children of school-age and under who were living in the family. with part of the next day's mince. Bacillary dysentery was caused by Bad. Sonnei. Five The morbidity statistics are less complete and, in con- outbreaks occurred, affecting 10 nurses and 89 children. sequence of the occurrence of sub-clinical cases, inevitably On two occasions the epidemics affected over 49 
TI - THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL CONDITIONS UPON DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, TUBERCULOSIS AND WHOOPING COUGH IN EARLY CHILDHOOD IN LONDON
JF - British Medical Bulletin
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a070167
DA - 1943-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-influence-of-social-conditions-upon-diphtheria-measles-DsyTzBhkiR
SP - 43
EP - 43
VL - 1
IS - 4
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