Insecticide poisoning?

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32965, 11 July 1972, Page 13

Insecticide poisoning?

i (N.Z PA -Reuter—Copyright) ; NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE '! (England), July 10. All the children detained in i hospital after collapsing with i abdominals pains at a sports gala in a mining village near ■ Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Sati urday were relased yester- ■ day. Some 170 children and adults were rushed to hosi pital after feeling unwell at the event and 15 were detained overnight. Food : poisoning was suspected, but I health experts were puzzled f|as the children did not have “a common meal. “ Police said however, that ‘.the day before the sports gala ![the field had been sprayed I [with insecticide. The type of [spray used was not known, [nor the reason for using it.