Food Poisoning

Table I

Food Poisoning in the United States, October, 1913, to October, 1915

Assigned cause	Group and Family Outbreaks	Individual 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
No cause assigned	300	287	587
	357	88	445
	657	375	1,032