FEVER SPREAD BY MILK.
The Glasgow Herald reports that 40 cases of scarlet fever recently occured at Keswick. Dr Robertson, medical officer for the Cockennouth Rural Sanitary Authority, stated that the disease had been traced to a milk daity at High Hill, from whence all the persons got their milk. A member stated there had been a case of fever next to the dairy, and the theory of the doctors in that neighbourhood was that in the disinfecting of the bedding and carpets, and the shaking them outside while some milk vessels were standing near, some germs of fever had been shaken into the milk vessels, and milk containing these germs was supplied to these various customers
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2617, 10 August 1881, Page 3
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117FEVER SPREAD BY MILK. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2617, 10 August 1881, Page 3
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