PATENT MEDICINES.
SOME STARTLING^STATEMENTS. Received August 12, 11.15 p.m. SYDNEY, August 12. !/Ir Beaie, in his report on patent medicines, makes some startling statements regarding some of the soothing syrups and foods used for infants. He sa;- ; : "Certainly our graveyards are paved with the bodies of poisoned infants." The first and chief legislative remedy that he recommends is to place infants under some protection by statute such as pigs, lambs, and calves now enjoy, that is to make the sale of improper foods a punishable offence.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8510, 13 August 1907, Page 5
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86PATENT MEDICINES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8510, 13 August 1907, Page 5
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