32 OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER FROM INFECTED MILK. 
sheep shall not be exposed to unusual risk. From every 
point of view, therefore, there is reason for insisting on the 
establishment of precautionary measures, which shall be as 
severe as circumstances may render necessary. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER FROM INFECTED MILK. 
We have been favoured with the'following authentic par¬ 
ticulars respecting the outbreak of typhoid fever at Huncoat, 
near Burnley:—A small farmer at Huncoat, near Burnley, 
Lancashire, named Jonathan Clegg, has three children 
suffering from typhoid fever. It appears that the children 
ill of fever have had no regular nurse, but have been attended 
first by one member of the family and then another. The 
father, for instance, would nurse his sick children, and then, 
without taking any precaution, would go and attend to his 
cattle, and it is supposed that during the process of milking 
the cows and manipulating the milk and butter, germs of the 
fever have been introduced into the milk. Clegg sells part 
of his milk, and amongst his customers there are twelve 
cases of typhoid fever ; the connection between typhoid fever 
at the farm and these cases being made the more clear from 
the fact that there are no cases of fever except where Clegg's 
milk is used. No information of the fever cases at the farm was 
given to the sanitary authority. The connection of the fever 
with the farm milk was only discovered in tracing the outbreak. 
Dr. Dean, the medical officer of health for the rural sanitary 
authority of Burnley, took prompt measures to sever all com¬ 
munication between the fever patients and the milk. All the 
cases except that of a young woman, a domestic servant, are 
amongst children, and the type of the fever is mild ; no deaths 
have yet occured. It may, however, be remarked that most 
of the cases are only just commencing. Clegg has fourteen 
head of cattle, and with the exception of one man servant, all 
the w r ork of the farm, including selling the milk and butter, 
is done by himself and family .—The Sanitary Record. 
