SALMONELLA SUSPECTED
Food-Poisoning
Cases
An outbreak of foodpoisoning at a hostel for students of the University of Canterbury accounted for 25 notifications to the Christchurch health office last week. The outbreak occurred on October 27, and, according to the medical officer of health (Dr. L. F. Jepson), the symptoms were consistent with infection of food by a salmonella organism, although this was not proved. The students included several Asians.
The symptoms were mild, Dr. Jepson said, and there were no admissions to hospital. All the patients recovered rapidly. It was not known what food had been infected. Other cases of notifiable disease reported during the week comprised four of infective hepatitis, two of pulmonary tuberculosis, and one of pemphigus neonatorum. The hepatitis sufferers were all women—one at Burnham, one at Little River, and two in Christchurch city. The tuberculosis patients were both men in the city. A 2J-year-old boy was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital on Thursday after eating tablets containing a tranquiUising drug. He was discharged next day.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29972, 6 November 1962, Page 6
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