OYSTERS AND TYPHOID.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40011, 17 October 1929, Page 2

OYSTERS AND TYPHOID.

Last Night.

A strong denial that oysters as i hey left the beds at the Bluff were responsible for the outbreak of typhoid fever in the north was voiced by a local fish and oyster merchant.

In my opinion, the suggestion is all ‘bunkum’ the dealer said. “The trouble might have been caused by had water, or drinks, or fruit, or had sanitation. I pijobably eat as many oysters as anyone in the world. I eat two or three dozen every day on an average and I have never felt the least bad effect.” The same dealer said that if the oysters had actually been the cause of the outbreak, it was not through infection received here but through lack of care by the dealers or housewives.

“There should be some regulation to limit ithe sale of oysteirs to proper fish merchants. Why, at present, even fruit shops stock them," he said. “Then housewives often keep them a week and expect them to remain good.” Tie strenuously denied that they could receive infection in the Bluff. After being trawled front Poveaux Strait fhev were 'kept on the beds at the oyster wharf in Bluff “in good salt watetr.” ’