ARMOURY OF DISEASE.
PERILS 01* PAPER MONEY. LONDON, March 23. Ihe Paria corerspondent. of "Tho I Times" states that the considered verdict of •eminent bacteriologists is that paper mone}' is a potential armoury ot disease; more deadly > than batteries of machine-guns. '/ ' . :: The : bacteriologists iave carefully analysed a number of French notes. On a half-franc note 90,000,000 bacilli were discovered, and a franc note harboured 236,000,000. Among the active colonics revealed were those of colon bacilli, pneumococci, endococci, and staphylococci.' It is expected that ( further examinations will disclose the 1 presence of tuberculosis, bacilli. [Referring to the above cablegram the acting-secretary of the Commonwealth 1 Treasury, Mr C. J. Corutty, said that no danger of infection from bank notes was expected, in Australia. During; the war period tho number of bank notes was largely increased, and a staff of-girls was constantly employed sorting and withdrawing from circulation dirty and tattered notes: None of these girls had been artected.]
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17115, 9 April 1921, Page 9
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