ICE CREAM MEN
SAVE LIVES OIF BRITISH
DIABETICS
The ice cream industry of Great Britain has come to the aid of the considerable number of diabetics in the country by making sure that tliey get the insulin Avhich keeps them alive.
Insulin, which is made from an extract of glands, was formerly a big import and it must be frozen within half an hour of the killing. British slaughterhouses Avere not equipped for freezing and an acute shortage of insulin seemed
imminent. The ice cream men came to the rescue and promptly transferred their freezing machinery to the slaughterhouses, of which there are 800 in the country. The glands arc frozen here and they are 1 then taken in motor vans, equipped Avith refrigerating apparatus, to the cold storage plants of the ice cream merchants.
The result is that to-day Britain possesses not only a large and groAVing reserve of pancreases, spinal cords and thyroid but of bottled blood, to which the scheme has been extended.
The big manufacturing chemists, employed on Government work, are now drawing their supplies of gland* material fi\jn these stores of the ice cream merchants.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 168, 15 October 1941, Page 2
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190ICE CREAM MEN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 168, 15 October 1941, Page 2
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