FOOD POISONING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18325, 15 February 1923, Page 6

FOOD POISONING.

ANOTHER CASE REPORTED. ICE-CREAM HELD TO BLAME. BACTERIOLOGICAL- I EXAMINATION. The Auckland patients suffering : from the effects of food-poisoning ™»™" their progress toward recovery. Another case, however, was reported yesterday the patient being one of the three children who were reported as ill, but later considered to be not suffering from foodpoisoning. Apparently this child, a boy, has had a relapse, and it was ioji yesterday " that he was" a victim' of foodnoisonine. He is stated to have eaten poisoning. .« . .t «.. .bop ice-cream on Saturday, Doug it «* «- where the Baker Street patients procured the ice-cream which caused their - The bacteriological examination of the ice-cream supposed to have caused the Baker Street illnesses has been completed The Government bacteriologist found he cream to contain the organism **£.** main cause of food-poisoning. Thus i, » established,that this particular cream was the cause of the outbreak. The plant used in the making of this ice-cream, after being thoroughly sterilised by the authorities, has been returned to the shop, the proprietors of which have been warned as to the need for a strict attention to cleanliness and a full measure of precaution against contamination by flies and is the only method permitted for the preserving of mi k Under this method the temperature of the milk is raised to 150 degrees Fahr. for 20 minutes! The suggestion that the use of preservatives in mflk. may have been the cause of the trouble in regard to the icecream eaten by those who became .ill in Baker Street is,, therefore, removed.

BACTERIAL PdISONING.

CASES AT NEW BRIGHTON. [BY. TELBOBAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHEISTCHUBCH. Wednesday. Though yesterday it seemed that the investigations of bacteriologists into the cases of food poisoning at the home of Mr. G. E. Goodwin, New Brighton, were likely to yield negative results, there is now a further development. Dr. Telford, Medical Officer of. Health for Canterbury, stated today that investigations had now advanced to the stage which made it very possible that there vail be evidence of bacterial poisoning. The supposed cause of poisoning - was some stewed peaches which Dr. Pearsen, bacteriologist at Christchurch Hospital, stated had been found by him to be free from bacteria of the food-poisoning group. _________«„__ "' ' '.