RISK OF INFECTION FROM LICKING OF POSTAGE STAMPS
(Received 9 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 8. The danger of infection from portage stamps is stressed by Dr. A.Q. patterson in an article in tne British Medical Journal. He Urges that people should never llck stamps in any circumstances. He says that they are invariahly pushed across Post Office counters with the gnmmp.d side downwards aiid that the likelihood of infection from a filthy . connter is very great. The Post Office, in refuting the statement, claims that it sells 7D,000,000 stamps a year and "that there has never been a single case of illness due to the licking of stamps. It also says that the counters are kept scrupulously clean.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 14, 9 October 1937, Page 5
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