HC Deb 22 July 1937 vol 326 cc2416-7W
Mr. Groves

asked the Minister of Health what steps have been taken to ensure that there is no further risk of well-pollution at or near the farm from which the milk came which caused the outbreak of typhoid fever in Hampshire last August?

Sir K. Wood

I am informed that arrangements have been made whereby the sewage which was found to be infected can no longer enter the stream which is believed to have caused the pollution of the well.

Mr. Groves

asked the Minister of Health whether he will state the number of individuals in Christchurch who were found to have been supplied with milk from the farm that distributed the milk which was said to have caused the typhoid outbreak in Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole in August, 1936?

Sir K. Wood

The milk from the infected farm was mixed at a depot with milk from other farms, and it was estimated that about 10,000 households in the three towns of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole were supplied with milk direct from this depot in addition to persons who bought milk at branch depots, but I have no information as to the number of individuals in Christchurch who were supplied with this milk.