NURSES BECOME ILL
SUSPICION OF FOOD POISONING
Most nurses at the Christchurch Public Hospital were seriously affected by a form of food-poisoning on Saturday and several had to go off duty for a period. It was first thought that the trouble might have been caused by eating rhubarb, which was served at one of the meals on Saturday. Later theories were that milk or sausages might have been responsible. All affected suffered from pains in the stomach, diarrhoea and vomiting. Several nurses had to go off duty and the rest carried on, even though suffering from the poisoning. Last evening nearly all had returned to normal health.
Questioned last evening about the cause of the trouble the ehairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board (Mr L. B. Evans) said he had not heard of it. It could not have been serious, he added, otherwise the hospital authorities would have advised him. A similar view was expressed by the chairman of the hospital committee (Sir Hugh Acland). The medical superintendent of the hospital (Dr. A. D. Nelson), said he knew about the trouble but what he knew was not for publication.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25301, 29 September 1947, Page 3
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