FOOD POISONING
52 CASES AT TIMARU CONVENT SUFFERERS <Special to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Food poisoning was responsible for the illness of 52 members of the staff and pupils of a Timaru convent last week. The assistant medical officer of health for the Canterbury district, Colonel F. W. W. Dawson, was notified of this fact in the weekly report of infectious and other notifiable diseases received at the office of the Health Department yesterday. Colonel Dawson said that something they had eaten had caused the poisoning, but he had nbt yet heard what the food was. The patients were all confined to bed, but none was seriously ill.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 18
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108FOOD POISONING Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 18
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