A Note on an Epidemic of Food Poisoning in Multan City (Punjab)

By GIAN SINGH, m.b., b.s., d.imi., Medical Officer of Health, Multan City, Punjab. On the morning of the 12th May, 1926, ' was informed by a sanitary inspector that on the previous day in one mohalla of the town about twenty-five persons had shown simultaneously symptoms of cholera, i.e., vomiting* purging and collapse. I at once visited the molialla and found that all these persons had taken " lassi " (buttermilk), sold by a milk vendor. This milk vendor had hawked his " lassi " in the mohalla on the 11 til instant. On inquiry I found that some