CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16729, 12 January 1920, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

FRUIT PRESERVING. TO THE EDITOR OK "TIIK rnU^S.''

kir,—Ln your isuo to-day a recipe is given in the "Women's Corner 1 ' for preserving fruit without sugar, by merely filling the jar with boiling water alter heating the jar of Irnit in the oven till it is (juito hot. If thu jar of fruit is previously lioatcd quite to boiling point for about an hour, it is safe; uut it is advisable to point out that insufficient heating has led to fioi ious illness, caused by a disease tailed "botulism." Within recent years twenty-two outbreaks of this disease have occurred in California and Oregon, attended with paralysis, and followed by 67.9 per cent, of deaths. Tlio samo diseaso has also occurred in chickens, after oating tanned corn and beans. It in significant that in all the outbreaks of botulism, the preserved fruits and vegetables had been prepared at homo, showing that tho domestic methods of sterilisation had been imperfect.—• Yours, etc., W. H. SYMES, M.Da January 10th. ANSWER TO AN APPEAL. CO TUB EDITOR OF "TH« FRKS3." Sir, —About a fortnight ago you were so good as to publish an appeal from mo for assistance to bo given Mrs Venning and family, who had lost their j" V ,roi, e h burned out of their dwelling at Christmas time. Will vou kindly now publish tlio result of "the appeal, with this expression of grateful thanks to the contributors and to yourself from Mrs Venning and her little children 'i Amounts sent to the undersigned: — Mrs (.. K. Knight and the Misses Knigln, £3; 11. (J. Martin. £2; Mrs X. M. Hobday, £1 Is; J. C. Adams, Friend, .Mrs Gillanders, Rev. J. H. Rogers, Mrs A. L. Smith, Universal Pish supply Co., E. Washbourn, F. AV. Woodward, £1 each: Mrs Meredith, 10s; M.H. (Stratford), 8s; Mrs Head, Misses E. and V. Butcher. Os each: Anon., C. Bennington, Inasmuch, Sympathiser, 2s 0d each. Total, £16 Is fid. Collected by Mrs Parks: Mr Parks, senr., Henry Righton. 10s each; total, £1 10s. Collec ted by Mr Watt, at the stores. Warrington street, £25 Ps Od. including collections made on Mrs \ onning's behalf bv Salvation Army officers, and a collection at the Howling Club, the grand total being £42 10s.— Vours, etc., i HENRY RIGHTOX, JJ». ! I'J Flockton street, St. Albans, January 10th. I