Abstract
1. The outbreak was one of bacterial food poisoning due to the consumption of infected milk.2. The casual organism was B. enteritidis of Gaertner (Dublin).3. A case of gastro-enteritis occured in an employee in the institution some days previously. This man's serum possessed agglutinins for for Gaertner'sbacillus, but the organism was not isolated from a specimen of his faeces taken 44 days after this attack.4. This employee is supposed to have been the source of the organism which infected the milk. Two hypotheses are put forward to explain the mechanism of infection.5. Servants who took the infected milk in their tea escaped infection. The milk was added to the tea in bulk and the experiments described satisfactoryily account for their escape.
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