DANGEROUS PLATES AND DISHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 12 June 1919, Page 3

DANGEROUS PLATES AND DISHES.

Did you ever think of the j danger of using enamel-ware plates, dishes, and drinking vessels ? My Wellington colleague tells me that one of the Empire City doctors on assuming medical charge of one of the military camps consisting of two or three hundred men discovered that there had been' 19 cases of appendicitis, each involving an operation. The doctor's suspicions were aroused, and he found, on examination, that the enamel-ware in use was. badly chipped. While he was still investigating another case of appendicitis d'eyeleped, and enamel-grit was actually fqund in the patient's appendix. That settled it. The ware was dis' carded —and there have been no more cases of appendicitis. The doctor declares that both appendicitis and aggravated disease of the digestive organs have become I far more common, since enamel ware has come into general use. When you read this overhaul your enamelled pie-dishes, saucepans, plates, mugs, and jugs, and 'if you find- them chipped:—as

they are bouad to be, sooner or later —throw them- on the scrapheap. It's cheaper than. running the risk of an operation* for appendicitis.