FOOD POISONING IN THE UNITED STATES, OCTOBER, 1913, TO OCTOBER, 1915 ================================================================= Assigned cause | Group | | |and Family|Individual| | Outbreaks| Cases | Total -----------------------------------+----------+----------+------- Meat | 40 | 35 | 75 Canned fish | 29 | 35 | 64 Canned vegetables | 27 | 34 | 61 Ice cream | 31 | 22 | 53 Fish, oysters | 17 | 31 | 48 Cheese | 31 | 9 | 40 Sausage and canned meat | 18 | 18 | 36 Milk | 14 | 13 | 27 Mushrooms | 12 | 7 | 19 Fruit | 8 | 11 | 19 Vegetables | 11 | 7 | 18 Fowl | 12 | 4 | 16 Salad | 9 | 5 | 14 Contact of food or drink with metal| 12 | 1 | 13 Miscellaneous | 29 | 55 | 84 -----------------------------------+----------+----------+------- | 300 | 287 | 587 No cause assigned | 357 | 88 | 445 -----------------------------------+----------+----------+------- | 657 | 375 | 1,032 ----------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE II SEASONAL DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD POISONING CASES, 1914-15 (GROUP, FAMILY, AND INDIVIDUAL) ========================================== January | 90 ||May | 63 ||September| 76 February| 66 ||June |108 ||October | 96 March | 75 ||July | 99 ||November | 96 April | 79 ||August| 96 ||December | 88 ------------------------------------------ There is no very striking seasonal incidence apparent in the figures here gathered (Table II). The warmer months seem to have a slight preponderance of cases, but general conclusions from such data are hardly warranted. VARIOUS KINDS OF FOOD POISONING