DUST AND DISEASE.
It would seem that the risk of accident is not the most pressing danger that the motorist has to contend with, and this' notwithstanding that many lives have been lost ah the result of motor-car mishaps> Sir James Cricn-ton-Brownes one of the world's leading health authorities, presiding recently at the annfcal conference of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association „at Llandudno, dealt with dust as a danger to public "health, with special reference t* road dust, the evila of which> fee said, 1 while not the original invention of the motor-car had been multiplied by it td a portentous degree. A new peril thus arising was that of tetanus, the death-rate from which showed a decided increase. Motorists should carefully dress cuts or abrasions which laid them open to infection. Evert apart from the risk of tetanus, road dust deserved the severest reprobation. The remedy for it must be sought by improved roads. Tar macadam was likely to be the basis of the best roads for. some time to come. He described as a mere bogey the idea that dust from tar macacUvn was a cause for cancer.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 October 1913, Page 4
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189DUST AND DISEASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 October 1913, Page 4
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