Stuffers.
One of the most insanitary callings is that followed by the men who fatten pigeons for the Paris markets. The method adopted by these men, known as " staffers," is to blow the grain dirootly from their own mouths into the birds' crops. After a very short spell of such work, the stuffers, almost invariably end by contracting a spacies of pulmonary consumption, brought about by a microbe Known as aspargillus nig&r, against which no remedy has yet been discovered. Many species of birds, notably, it is said, parrots, suffer from infectious diseases, transmissible to the human subject, and within the past year or so several deaths have been attributed to the fact that the deceased had been in the habit of kissing their pets.
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Manawatu Herald, 23 October 1894, Page 3
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125Stuffers. Manawatu Herald, 23 October 1894, Page 3
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