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THE connection between the consumption of edible shell-fish (molluscs) and certain diseases, in particular typhoid or enteric fever, has in recent years attracted the attention of epidemiologists, and several valuable contributions/on the subject have been published in this country. In 1894 Dr. Bulstrode reported to the Local Government Board on “Oyster Culture o in Relation to Disease,” in which he concluded that there remains “much to be done before the public-can consume oysters, bought promiscuously, with a reasonable degree of safety.” The danger of oysters was again brought home to the public by the outbreaks of enteric fever following banquets at Winchester and at Southampton in 1902, on which Dr. Bulstrode also reported.
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H., R. Shell-Fish and their Relation to Disease 1 . Nature 86, 571–572 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086571a0
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