RT Journal
A1 QUIGLEY DT
T1 FOod-poisoning by chicken sandwiches
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD September 11
VO LIII
IS 11
SP 866
OP 866
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550110035002d
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550110035002d
AB A few weeks ago eighty-three people gathered at a new barn seven miles north of North Platte at a dance. At 1 o'clock in the morning they were served with a lunch consisting of chicken sandwiches, cake and coffee. The chicken had been prepared the day before by being cooked, cooled and run through a sausage chopper. The weather was very hot and humid. The chopped chicken was kept over twenty-four hours before the sandwiches were made and eaten. The next day, about twenty hours after the supper, fifty-two people who had eaten the lunch were reported sick. Later several more reported, making the whole number about sixty. All who had eaten the chicken were sick, but those who ate cake and coffee and did not eat chicken were not affected. All these patients suffered practically the same symptoms, differing only in degree. They were taken with severe