TY - JOUR AU1 - Capps, Joseph A. AU2 - Davis, David J. AB - THE RELATIONSHIP OF SEPTIC SORE THROAT TO INFECTED MILK * J 0 S E P H A. CAP P SAND D A V I D J. D A V I S CHICAGO, ILL. The epidemic of streptococcus sore throat which visited Chicago during the winters of 1911 and 1912 was definitely traced to one dairy.' This dairy had its largest collecting and pasteurizing plant in the town of Batavia, and the milk was delivered to this plant from about eighty-five dairy farms in the adjacent country. On a number of these farms were found not only cases of mastitis in the cows, but cases of sore throat among the milkers, which were of the same type as the epidemic cases in Chicago using milk from this dairy. In the published report of the Chicago epidemic, reference was made to the coincident outbreak in Batavia, but the investigation of the latter had not been completed. This final report reveals certain unusual conditions prevailing in Batavia, that seemed to have greatly increased the spread of the disease in that town. The small epidemic in Oak Park herein described, occurred during the same winter as those in Chicago and -Batavia, but had TI - The Relationship of Septic Sore Throat to Infected Milk JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases DO - 10.1093/infdis/15.1.130 DA - 1914-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-relationship-of-septic-sore-throat-to-infected-milk-TwcfCqT8H2 SP - 130 EP - 134 VL - 15 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -