ADULTERATED BREAD.

Evening Star, Issue 4199, 11 August 1876, Page 4

ADULTERATED BREAD.

' ' To the ti'Mor. Sir, Deeming it my duty to pre•vent much, and, perhaps, fatal sickness in Dmiedin, ],:lf,y before you a subject.which I ihope will be immediately and strictly investigated, viz., the adulteration of bread with ; dangerous material. It may seem incredible that such an evil' exists in this town,; but, nevertheless, it is perfectly true as I will prove. One night last week one of my brothers complained of a sickening sensation and severe pain in the stomach. Ho trembled very much," and whatever ho wished to hold be clutched convulsively. His eye 3 were dull and very bloodshot, and ofto;i fixed. His mouth was tightly closed, as in tetanus or lock-jaw. After some' time he vomited, and the unpleasant sensation then left him, and he felt very much better ; but scarely had he been relieved when simultaneously another brother and sister complained of the feeling, and it was followed by similar symptoms. Bread which they had eaten was found to be covered with froth, and apparently in a slato of fomentation. But we did not aktributo the sickness to the bread until the morning, when a gentleman living with us p.aid that he had been sick too, from eating the bread. To make certain, I tried au experiment to show adulteration by plunging 3 heated knife into it. I found on drawing it out adhering to it all over a pure white stuff, which left to cool for a few minutes fell to powder. The paim; folt by those who were ill were &o acute that they seemed the effect of poison. j\ow all theso peculiarities aro very strange, and show the necessity of having bread examined by the authorities. —I am, &.c, Bon Pain. Dunedin, Augnat 11.