1. Eighteen persons after eating a certain batch of pork-cheese, or vegetables infected from it, suffered from severe illness and three died.

2. The illness was caused by a Gaertner bacillus of the Aertrycke sub-group isolated from one of the fatal cases.

3. This bacillus was contained in the meat used for the pork-cheeses (brawn), infection being antecedent to preparation.

4. Part of the meat was obtained from a pig suffering from local injury or disease of one leg and the bacilli were no doubt etiologically connected with this condition.

5. The outbreak points to the need for a more complete and thorough veterinary inspection of meat before sale, and of the necessity for extended investigation into the diseases of animals used for human food caused by Gaertner bacilli.