FOOD POISONING
TRAIN PASSENGERS AFFECTED (Air Mail) SYDNEY, Sept. 4. Seventeen servicemen had a nightmare journey on the west-bound transcontinental train across the Nullarbor desert plain of South Australia and
Western Australia when they contracted food poisoning. The men suffered acute pains after a meal and had to travel 250 miles to Kalgoorlie (Western Australia) before they received medical attention. When the train reached a small siding, railway officials telegraphed Kalgoorlie asking that doctors and ambulances should meet the train. The sufferers were taken to Kalgoorlie Government Hospital and admitted. Fourteen of the men are airmen who were being transferred to Western
Australian stations. The other three are sailors. . ... Other servicemen and one civilian passenger were mildly affected and able to continue on the tram to Perth. "It was terrible," said one passenger. "Sufferers were doubled up on seats soon after they had a meal, and we thought the journey would never end. The horrors of war couldn't have beaten this by much. We were attended bv nurses who happened to be on the train, but there wasn t much they could do to relieve the pain."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 5
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