FATAL MEAL
POISON IN MUTTON. Australian and N.Z.- Cable Association.) LONDON, June 26. At an inquest, at Hammersmith, a verdict was returned that a dairyman died from food poisoning, attributed to a meal of imported ■ mutton. ' . Evidence was given that an .analysis ;f the stomach revealed the bacillus lertryck, which exists chiefly in mutton. and sometimes in fish. The pathologist. Dr Bronte, express, ed tlie opinion that the carcase became infected after .slaughter, from air, water, soil, or workmen’s hands. The bacillus would- not grow while the carcase was frozen, but generation was prdbably aggravated by the heat wave. The coroner, Doctor Oswald, said, that seine people would perhaps be prejudiced (against Colonial mutton, but he considered such mutton .safe, because the sheep lived in fine pastures : n countries not over-populated.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1925, Page 5
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