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Because football players and first-years made up the majority of the reported cases during the first outbreak, investigators pinpointed the Freshman Union and the Varsity Club as the most likely dining areas where students could have contracted the infection, according to then-UHS Director Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker.
Winthrop resident Paul S. Williams ’81 also told The Crimson then that he and his two roommates all contracted the illness, but only one of the three visited UHS.
Charles J. Krause Jr., UHS sanitary inspector, said that while he had received a copy of O’Leary’s letter, he did not agree that the temporary employees constituted a health hazard.
And Wacker said that the temporary employees were not banned because they were considered health hazards. Rather, he said, it would be impossible to test the temporary employees—who are assigned on a day-to-day basis—because UHS did not receive test results until three...
While they identified some of the possible carriers, UHS officials never found out how Salmonella spread from the Union to Winthrop House. They suspected, however, a student carried the infection, Krause said.