Medicine and Public Health - Diorama of modern doctor's office (Francis Rigney)

The Case of the Careless Cook

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1955-uu-uu.

On this episode of The Story of Empire County, Health Commissioner, Dr. Walter Bell investigates a case of food poisoning. He receives a call that all the attendees at a Chamber of Commerce dinner are suffering from staphylococcal food poisoning. After interviewing the chef, he determined that the contamination occurred from a boil on the finger of a guest chef who was preparing hollandaise sauce. Bell concludes that he must set up a food handler's school.

[The Story of Empire County aired in 1955.



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