Food poisoning / by Edwin Oakes Jordan.

  • Edwin O. Jordan
Date:
[1917]
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Credit: Food poisoning / by Edwin Oakes Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    They serve to show at least the universality and com¬ plexity of the problem. The 375 group and family outbreaks together involved 5,238 persons. While it is not probable that all the instances reported as due to food poisoning can properly be so considered, there is no doubt that the number recorded in the tables falls far short of the actual occurrences. In the past few years the writer has investigated several large food-poisoning outbreaks which have never been reported in the press nor received public notice in any way. There is reason to think that the majority of cases escape notice. Probably several thousand outbreaks of food poisoning in families and larger groups, affecting at least 15,000-20,000 persons, occur in the United States in the course of a year. The assignment of causes indicated in Table I is of limited value. The tendency to incriminate canned food is here manifest. Proper investigation of the origin of an outbreak is so rarely carried out that the articles TABLE B* Comparison of Mortality of Males and Females, by Age Groups. Death-Rates per i,ooo Population (Registration States as Constituted in 1900) Ages Males Percentage Increase or Decrease F emales Percentage Increase or Decrease 1900 1911 1900 1911 Under 5 . 54-2 39-8 — 26.27 45-8 33-3 — 27.29 S- 9. 4-7 3-4 — 27.66 4.6 3-1 —32.61 10-14. 2-9 2.4 -17.24 3-i 2.1 —32.26 15-19. 4.9 3-7 — 24.49 4.8 3-3 -31-25 20-24. 7.0 5-3 — 24.29 6-7 4-7 -29.85 25-34. 8-3 6-7 — 19.28 8.2 6.0 — 26.83 35-44. 10.8 10.4 — 3-70 9.8 8-3 — 15-31 45-54. 15-8 16.1 + 1-90 14'. 2 12.9 - 9-15 55-64. 28.9 30.9 + 6.92 25.8 26.8 + 0.78 65-74. 59-6 61.6 + 3-36 53-8 55-i + 2.42 75 and over 146.1 147-4 + .89 139-5 1392 + 0.22 All ages.... 17.6 158 — 10.23 16.5 14.0 -I5-I5 * Dublin, Amer. Jour. Public Health, III (1913). 1262.
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