PTOMAINE POISIONINC.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13645, 10 February 1913, Page 6

PTOMAINE POISIONINC.

UNPLEASANT PIONIO EXPERIENCE.

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Christchuroh, Feb. 9. There was an .unforeseen and unpleasant ending bo the picnio of the employees of Weeks'. Limited to Rangiora ,pn Saturday. •As a. result of pai^aking eittLer ol pressed beef, or tinned tongues about twenty-six outs of one1 hundred of those attending the picnic •*» sutfermg from tlie effects of ptomaine poisoning. Some doubt exists as to whether the poisoning wa« due to the m©ate mentioned, or to some of the ingredients of thd salad dressing. Some of those who ate the pressed beef, and tinned tongues were not affected. One person was so ill that lie had to be left at Rangiora. One railway carnage was 6et apart for tlie other sufferers all of whom were sick on the journey from Rangiora to town. It is stated,that ten cases are considered to be somewhat serious, though th« majority are reported this afternoon to bo progrcßSdng favourably.