POISONING BY FOOD PROBABLY DUE TO CONTAMINATION WITH CERTAIN BACTERIA

Food poisoning, as it is understood today, is the result, directly or indirectly, of the contamination of food with certain bacterial organisms, and clinically it may be classified as an intoxication. However, it is recognized that, in the consumption of food contaminated with the paratyphoid group of bacteria, infections may occur. It is significant that none have been recorded in the data presented in this paper. The foregoing point of view regarding food poisoning is accepted or broadly interpreted throughout this paper, and no attempt will be made to discuss any other phase of food poisoning due to fungi, idiosyncrasies, the comparatively rare disease known as "milk sickness," the dietary deficiency diseases or the obvious danger from the animal parasitic diseases. When the term general food poisoning is used, there is meant poisonings by food probably contaminated with the paratyphoid group or other organisms, and these, on account of the