A large and unusually severe outbreak reported by McWeeney[65] occurred in November, 1908, among the inmates of an industrial school for girls at Limerick, Ireland. There were 73 cases with 9 deaths out of the total number of 197 pupils. The brunt of the attack fell on the first or Senior class comprising 67 girls between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. Out of 55 girls belonging to this class who partook of beef stew for dinner 53 sickened, and 8 of these died. One of the two who were not affected ate the gravy and potatoes but not the beef. Some of the implicated beef was also eaten as cold meat by girls in some of the other classes, and also caused illness. Part of the meat had been eaten previously without producing any ill effects. "The escape of those who partook of portions of the same carcass on October 27 and 29 [five days earlier] may be accounted for either by unequal distribution of the virus, or by thorough cooking which destroyed it. Some of the infective material must, however, have escaped the roasting of the 29th, and, multiplying rapidly, have rendered the whole piece intensely toxic and infective during the five days that elapsed before the fatal Tuesday when it was finally consumed." The animal from which the fore quarter of the beef was taken had been privately slaughtered by a local butcher. No reliable information could be obtained about the condition of the calf at, or slightly prior to, slaughter. The meat, however, was sold at so low a price that it was evidently not regarded as of prime quality. In this outbreak the agglutination reactions of the blood of the patients and the characteristics of the bacilli isolated showed the infection to be due to a typical strain of _Bacillus enteritidis_. An epidemic of food poisoning occurred in July, 1915, at and near Westerly, Rhode Island.[66] The outbreak was characterized by the usual symptoms of acute gastro-enteritis, and followed the eating of pie which was obtained at a restaurant in Westerly. All the circumstances of the outbreak showed that a particular batch of pies was responsible. About sixty persons were made seriously ill and four died. There was no unusual taste or odor to the pies to excite suspicion. The symptoms followed the eating of various kinds of pie: custard, squash, lemon, chocolate, apple, etc., that had been made with the same pie-crust mixture. _Bacillus paratyphosus_ B was isolated from samples of pie that were examined. No definite clue was obtained as to the exact source of infection of the pie mixture. It is possible that the pie became infected in the restaurant through the agency of a paratyphoid-carrier, but since there had been no change in the personnel of the restaurant for several months, this explanation is largely conjectural. Possibly some ingredient of animal origin was primarily infected.