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Shannon News, 20 January 1922, Page 3

The danger of using plasticine which has become insanitary was pointed out recently by the health inspector, at New Plymouth, tie mentioned a case a; Ohaxune, where on one occasion theie had been a serious outbreak of diphtheria among the small children 'in the school. The school was not using plasticine. : He chanced, .however, to ascertain that it was being used by children in a home where there had been an outbreak of the disease. The patients had been isolated, hut the germs had found a lodgment in the plasticine. The children had played with it, had become carriers of the, disease, and thus spread it among the children in the school. The plasticine was destroyed, and afterwards the school was entirely tree from diphtheria. A story of Major-General SeeJy, formerly Beeauuj ox Stale lor War, \\ cia iu.il by l.u. u i'lcucii ai a meeting in Loiiuoii. Be said General Beeiy iiici sex»ou un.xcr bum, men became his cuicx Ua Gccieuny ior War, aim again ,-wiveu miner lum in France. On Uj,c latier occasion he had to'give hmß'uhai was Known as “a good damning.” “He and only been in the held a week,” i -manned Lord French, “wuen my Cinei oi Staff came to me •in horror and /aid the Duke of Westminster and Co .unel Seely had been cap.ured. It was not true, hut it ought to have been, duey had aciually penetrated the enemy's outposts before Mons. That is bow Colonel Seely used to get bis information. It was very first-hand Indeed.”