LOCH MAREE POISONINGS.
RARE DISEASE IN SCOTLAND. LONDON, Aug. 26. Medical investigation has established the fact that the Loch Maree poisonings were due to botulism. A provisional report says the bacillus botulinus itself is com paralively harmless- It likes proteids, but dislikes oxygen, therefore tinned foods accidentally inoculated form an ideal medium in which the germ breeds and may die, but in the meantime it will have generated toxins which affect the nerves of the consumer, cause nausea, weakness, double vision and dilated pupils. Ihe Medical Research Council, specially investigating the subject at Bristol, reports reassuringly and comments on the rarity of such cases. Following the Loch Maree poisonings, Lloyd’s underwriters are issuing policies protecting hotelkeepers and proprietors of restaurants against actions for deaths from food supplied by them.—A. and N.Z. cable. [A cablegram received a few days ago stated that seven persons had died in Ross-shire from poisoning in which the sufferers were unable to speak hut communicated their wishes and explained then symptoms by writing. |
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2474, 31 August 1922, Page 4
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167LOCH MAREE POISONINGS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2474, 31 August 1922, Page 4
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