MYSTERIOUS DISEASE
THROUGH COAL TAR DERIVATIVE LONDON. May 1. The mysterious disease which affected 35 residents; of Durban and 27 members of the crew of a French motorship in port has been identified, as the result of a brilliant piece of analysis and medical teamwork. It has been proved to have been caused by coal tar derivatives' in. cooking oil used in the preparation of food. The contaminating substances were inadvertently added to the Soya beans from which the oil was made, or to the drums in which it. ivas shipped. Doctors recognised the similarity of the disease to the ginger .’pois’oning outbreak in Cincinnati (U.S.A.). After the failure of the British Home Office to find certain creosols (methyl phenols). the doctors urged Government analysts to persevere, and an approach from a different analytical angle was succesful. The patients are slowly l progressing.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1938, Page 4
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