PTOMAINE POISONING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 February 1913, Page 5

PTOMAINE POISONING

(By Telegraph. — Press Association.) CHIUSTCHURCH, Last Night. Inquiries made to-day disclosed the fact that the majority of those who attended the picnic: of Messrs Weeks, Ltd., at Rangiora. on Saturday, and: •suffered from the effects of ptomaine poisoning, were well enough to refill mo work as usual this mnruing. though some were rather shaky after their unpleasant experience. A young lady who was left behind at Rangiora returned to toivii to-day, having recovered from the. effects of poisoning. Jn some, cases the effects did not make themselves manifest for some. time. One young lady, whilst being escorted on Saturday night to her home, a mile or so beyond Papanui, was taken suddenly ill. and her escort was under the necessity of ringing up for a taxicab to convey her to her home. One of the male employees only tool ill to-day, and had to go to his lime, ft is I understood that inquiries will bo made by the Hospital Board's health inspector into the cause of the poisoning. A? far as can bo ascertained no blame. is attachable to the caterer. The salad dressing was made on Saturday morning, and if is assumed that the poisoning was.due to the fact that the salad was put on to a tin plate, and that deleterious chemical action wa« thereby set up