OYSTERS AND TYPHOID
MERCHANTS BLAME OTHER AGENTS SALE RESTRICTIONS URGED Press Association INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. A strong denial that oysters, as they left the beds at Bluff, were responsible for the outbreak of typhoid fever in the North, was voiced by an Invercargill fish and oyster merchant today. He said the trouble might have been caused by bad water, drinks or fruit, or by other agents. He also said that he ate on an averase two or three dozen every day, a nd had never felt the least illeffects. I* oysters had actually been the ause of the outbreak, he thought, it , as not through infection received jere, but through lack of care by ealers or housewives. “There j'uould be some regulation to limit sale of oysters to proper fish merchants,” he added. “At present f Ven fruit shops stock them. Then ouaewives often keep them a week a °d expect them to remain good.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 1
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154OYSTERS AND TYPHOID Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 1
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