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34 students ate lunch consisting of steak and kidney pie manderins and custard
and a number were ill during the night, mainly with diarrhoea. One of these, however,
had vomited and had abdominal pain.
The total number who became ill was 17, one of whom a staff nurse was admitted
to an isolation hospital with salmonella bredeney infection One other student had
severe symptoms and was admitted to the sick bay. .
Laboratory investigation was carried out at the Hospital including examination
of 4 samples of ham, also swabs from the chopping boards and the refrigerator but with
negative result. Examination of faecal specimens from the remainder of the students
were also negative.
The origin of infection in this outbreak was not discovered
These three outbreaks were all reported to the Ministry of Health as required in
their Memo," 188/Med./1958.