CHEMISTS ON COLDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1037, 30 July 1930, Page 10

CHEMISTS ON COLDS

NO EPIDEMIC HERE “Cauds are no bore nuberous thad usual id July.” Although City chemists without exception assert the truth of this statement made by the manager of pleading pharmacy this morning, there are few in Auckland from the most austere yet watery-eyed departmental head to the humblest red-nosed office boy who does not think otherwise. Critics who complained of a lack of enthusiasm among the crowded sideline at Eden Park last Saturday may not have been aware that many who lost their voices during the match with Auckland have not yet regained them. Snow in the Waitakeres—the coldest snap since the oldest inhabitant began boast of his age—ice in the goldfl.Jj bowl. Yet, in spite of all this, Aucklanders have maintained their usual health for July, and there has been no epidemic of colds, according to chemists. They admit, however, that if all the cough lozenges sold during the past fortnight represented penny donations to the Government, the Budget problem would be solved. The passion for reducing experlditure has extended even to medicines, according to one manager this morning. Where in the past families would buy cough mixtures at the first sign of winter and store them against the sequel to a rainy day, now sixpenny packages of lozenges are bought hurriedly when the need arises. Chemists themselves have experienced no increase in the sale of patent medicines, but it is understood that departmental stores have found their stocks being rapidly depleted, especially in such cures as contain a goodly proportion of brandy. The popular rum-and-raspberry is again “among those present” at nearly every place where men foregather. Wet and foggy weather is the worst period for colds, and the frosty mornings of late have helped to clear the atmosphere. Few in the record crowds which viewed the British foot bailers in action were unprepared and little increase in sickness has been noted, but it is on record that one man who was seen seated on the concrete terraces contracted pneumonia and was buried a week later, on the day of the Third Test.