WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30
FOOD POISONING.
INFECTIONS.
SHATTERED BELIEF
LAST YEAR'S BOJAL- QUTBREAK.
LAST YEAR'S RECORD OF
CASES
CHINESE, AND TYPHOID
SMALLPOX 80COURGE
RESTAURANT: INCIDENT'
Excluding such diseases
of disecen less well defined to which
the term food-poisining has been
applied, says the Medical Officer of
Heth in his anonal report,
This group of discues may be Plague divided into two sub-groups-in one Smallpox of which to disuse is brought Cerebro-spinal abort by she presence in the food of
Chinese
:---
Noo-
Chinese
0.
Total
VÄLUS. OF GOOD//
In the course of his references
1
FROM AUS
HINA MA
EXPERIMENT WITH CATTLE ¿UNSUCCESSFUL.
DOGGED BY MISFORTUNE:
The Medical Officer of Health
The Colonial Veterinary Sur- byphoid fever, cholera and dysentery publishes the following table in to typhoid fever, the Medical Offer geon comments as follows, in his which may by acquired by eating his annual raport showing the of Health emphasises the value of report for 1914, upon an experi- food contaminated with the virus number of notifiable diseased re-preventive measures. These have mental shipment of livestock from of these disces thara is a group corded during the year
been the provision of public water Australia: suppies and the closure of private In June the Australian Invest- ment Agency Company of Sydney, wells
These two measures must always a firm with very large interests in go head in hand for if the public, the Live Stock and Meat Trades of 10supply at any time fails to be mill New South Wales, Queensland and 25 918ight recouse will be had to un the Northern Territory of Aus. desirable sources and insanitary tralla despatched one hundred head of cattle from Port Darwin methods of staring "water:
Owing to por 8.8. "Cantara." Home brief notes on the provision extremely bad weather, etc., the of public water supplies are publish-
Tattle were at sea for some five. od by the courtesy of the Water weeks Instead of about three as Authority. They clearly indicate was expected. Ordinary, tonnage the continued call for more and not being available for the pur- more water to keep pace with the pose, the opportunity was taken rapidly increasing population. Even of getting the cattle taken by the long after the hat year dealt will above mentioned ship which was the Colonial Surgeon's report on the route for Shanghai. The
one or other of several species of Enteric fever baderia, and in the other of which Paratyphoid
888
fever 79
... "
81
152
96. 248
fever 11
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87
0
0.
0
68
27
.90:
Gi
0
2
16
0
1
1
D
1
.0.
.0.
0
1
0
4
El cus of disenar is at poison pro-Cholera... duced in the food during some Diphtheria ... change which the food has under-Scarlet fever geon and which muy have been due Puerperal fever 14 de séme runde Bacterial contamina-Relapsing fever
Hom
Typhus....
It is only to the lutter class of Yellow fever disease that the term plomaine poi-Rables-Man soning en reasonably be applied. Rabies-Dogs but this term is often loosely, wed. by, the Zencend public and even by medical practitioners to include all chusses, of food poisoning,
a
True plomaine poisoning is somewhat rare disease and, fortun ately the plomainos which may be formed daring the decomposition of foods which causes them to acquire the implement taste and smell so well known in flesh foods which have been kept too long before being caleng are not extremely poisonous, whom murely ingested,
10
Sano few years ago during * The case of typhus fever was time of shortage of water at the not imported during the patient's and of the dry season a demand was liness but as the patient had re-made for the opening of old well. cantly arrived from North China The foregoing remarks may serve to it is probable that the virus was indicate the grave danger that may Imported with him in clothing. result from masy such procedure,
for 1894 there were private wells ship was not of a good type for the city these were often in, Shanghai TThe ship was not of houses and where not actually in a good type for this purpose and Total 1,212 185 1,401 houses were in macro lanes and the cattle suffered accordingly in The following numbers
"of alleys where they were exposed to the rough weather encountered. these cases
were imported:great pollution. Some of these were Through the kindness of the Cerebro-spinal fever enteric not clead-unth as late as 1903 but Hongkong and Whampoa Dock fever 31, paratyphoid fever 7 by far the greater number had been Company we were enabled to erect landing storage and slaughter. diphtheria 2, small-pox 48, scar-lot before that year.
accommodation at the Company's let fever 1, relapsing fever 1.
Aberdeen Dock. At the dis- embarkation of the cattle the unfortunate structure of the ship again became painfully apparent. That the difficulties which arose then were successfully overcome is largely due to the energy and Initiative displayed by the mem- bers of the Dock Company's staff who assisted at the landing-from no short step. Owing to the hard- shipbuilding to "cow punching" is ship of the voyage six cattle were ninety-four had deteriorated very a total loss and the remaining
much in weight and quality and would have required severa} The chemical examination show-belief that Chinese did not suffer pasture in order to do justice to weeks conditioning on good absence of mineral poisons and from typhoid fever to any ap the "runs from which they had originally good, acquiring con-vegetable alkaloide... "amination by handling.
preciable extent. The old reports been drawn,
The majority of cases of food poisoning belong to the first. menI- Monat class, e.g.. they are due to contamination of the food with
some micro-organism capable of that all posible care was taken for ening disease.
It is possible that the infectivity of such food may be due to disease of the auimal from which the food hne been derived.
Apart from this, however, there is always the possibility of food
the sake of cleanliness..
The bacteriological examination of the cakes showed only a growth of bucillus subtilis and no harmful bacterie.
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OTHER WAYN..
Although the provision of public water supplies has undoubtedly diging the incidence of typhoid been the principal factor in re fever and allied diseases in the Colony there still remain other ways of acquiring infection.
Twenty to thirty years ago there wat in this colony a widespread
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Some of the cakes were made with of the Colonial Burgeon had been After a few days' rest slaughter THE CHINA YEAR
It is probably true was forgotten.
commenced and carried
dressed carcases was 540 lbs;
Thorough cooking sterilises food, custard which was found to be If however food after cooking be abnormally acid and to give a faint the Chinese have a ingher degree through with no great difficulty. kept, eg. to be caton next day, it reaction which suggested the pre-of immunity to this disease thun. The average weight of the may through having been handled once of the poison known as hay Tropeane of these days
equire the power of setting up an, tyrolexicon.. acute diarrhoen and the train of symptoms acompanying food poi mming."
Butter imported in a frozen state had been used in the preparation of
this custard.
This combined with the habit of teu drinking, which means that drink ing wat is boiled, now accounts great extent for the It is of interest that two persons difference in incidence of the dis. "
probably to a were taken ill after eating betterede between Chinese and non- toast at this resturant on the same Chinees renidents... day on which the other sufferers ate the cakes, but these two had eaten
The usual domestic ice chash is not reliable us a means of prevent ing the multiplication of bacteria in food placed herein, after it has been ebulaminated, by dirty handling.
This a good rule especially in hat, no okes. weather to keep no flesh food over till next day or so that it is not raken uit many hours after it has been cooked.
I was not peasible to obtain any simple of butter from the same lot which had been in preparing the cakes it had all been used.
However samples of every in
!
At the same time infection of non- Chinese was generally, ascribed to He eating of vegetables, especially in valuds, grown by Chinese and therefore by the use of mature. from him sources and also by the cat ing of oysters,
gredient in use at the bakery were tog cul and pathological methods of Since the introduction of bacterio
BOOK 1925.
The carcases were sold to various butchers. Difficulty was experienced by these butchers i marketting this for two reasons.
(a) Owing to hardship the meat Large And More Compe
Than Evan was too coarse for the better class trade,
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Owing to the misfortune in the hape of bad weather, etc., which dogged the experiment from the very start no sound conclusions as
This probable that muity of the ees of acute diarrhoea which occur
this hot weather in the colony are later examined chemically with the diagnosis the belief in the general to the suitability of the cattle for de to the consumption of food result that no poisonous substances manuity of Chinese to typhoid the local market could be arrived which has acquired the power to be detected. cause disease. Chrongly dirty handle The rapid onset of the illnewes
fever how been destroyed but in at ing.......
and the negative results of line of the experience of earlier In my opinion it would be un-vents up to the end of March During the year 1924 there occurr bacteriological examination us rc years it should not have been held wise to attempt any further ex925. The Cliapter on "Defence en however na outbreak of food gards harmful organians indicated Those earlier experiences and periments with beef cattle under romo later ones also show that it present conditions. It is impera pärming which appeared to balong that, this was not an outbreak of By the end class of diseases Food Possing of the more
giver à foul water supply ide tive that the shipment should be nourd: menzioni above,
kind, that is red by infection in will suffer from typhoid direct otherwise the cattle lose to
Fpl water will infect by many much in condition. other channels. thun deliberate
It was not found possible to de- willy living bacteria. mory[rate its presence will certain. It was concluded that the poison “Gy but enquiry pointed to the pre- was in the Buller and was probably drinking
"I'm gonna name dis chile
serer the food of a balance lyrotoxicon or a plomaine, produced. The gher the presumed im Algebra,” announced the family krewn as fyrefuxion, a poisonous in the butter by some remote many of Chinese to typhoid the laundress who was telling the bly allied to Die so called Romaines bacterial action before importation, gher presumably may be the lady of the house about a recent The butter was imported in large amb of known carriers of arrival "I likes dat name.
or naimal alku-fojca.............
After rafing low-cakes at a quintiles packed in paper hed restaurant, many people were seized woxden, enses and frozen. with illness of which abdominal Some 600 lbs, ware sold daily by pain, vomiting and diarrhoea were the importers and it was delivered in the chief symptoms,
the unopened original cases: It was The degree of illness seems to placed in cold storage en importa have varied in different persons,
tion and only taken therefrom on
Rumour had it that over thirty receipt of a customer's order people had been attacked.
The bitter was still frozen when
Only two medical mer reported in was delivered at the bakery.. res and even they showed a There was nothing in the appeur- khange reluctance either to say how once or smell of the butter to excite many patients they had or to give suspicion...
their names and addresses, or to In spite of the large consumption give the name of the restaurant of th's clues of batter in the colony- where the cakes vers eaten.
at the time no complaint of illness.
On being personally interviewed, from any other restaurant or tea however, these medical meu gave all. shop was received the help thay could give.
It was pobable that the con
The manager of the restaurants inmination was confined to que gave all possible facilities for etv case of butter contaming.» 60 164.. quiries.
said think no blame could be a
Fortunately one of the medical men teither to the impostare of the who reported cases had promptly ue to the management söd obtained a few cakes from the same the bakery
baking se those on which sta
vision had fallen.
These he sent to the medical de-
periment where they were aut
to chemical and beat
The course of a few
rmination:
half dozen
For man
been
typhoid monger them
There, is no means of estimating the probable ratio of carriera per 1.000 of the population
When however it is recognised la curriers may be employed in handling food, drinks and ice the existence of a source of infection even when the public water supply is above suspicion is evident,
The eating of vegetables, and uncooked oysters are of cou methods of laying oneself open infoction:
PLABUS OF VLIES;" "But given carriers, anfongat, the ommunity the pru
infection other than thet drinks and we handle
Seen it on de back of Miss Blue- belle's book on de table.
"But Algebra is a mathematical termi,
Hoo "Relates to numbers." "Basse: all right. De chile am man fifteenth"
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