WEDDING PARTY TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)

WEDDING PARTY TRAGEDY.

TYPHOID CARRIER AS COOK. DEATH OF BRIDE AND AUNT.

An outbreak of typhoid fever involved 17 members of a recent wedding party in the Bronx section of New York City. The bride was buried in her wedding dress; one of her aunts also died, and 15 other guests became ill, some of them being in a critical condition. When on April 18. Miss Charlotte VVilmot was married to Mr. William Jackson, at tho home of her' parents,, a woman, 71 years of age, and an old friend of the family, assisted in preparing chicken salad for tho wedding party. Tho Department of Health, by' thoroughly examining everyone who helped to prepare the food, has discovered that the elderly woman was the typhoid carrier. She does not recall having had the disease, • nor do tho records of New York City show that she had typhoid, and since she was not a professional cook or server of food she had not discovered her rare affliction. Dr. Charles F. Bolduan. of the Health Department, explained; "Now that her carrier condition has been established she will be registered as a carrier by the Board of Health and required to comply with the law covering the other 240 carriers under the surveillance of the Department of Health. This moans that she must take special precautions and not cook or serve food."