GERMS IN WARFARE
DISPERSAL BY AIRCRAFT NOT PRACTICABLE. The suggestion that germs might be dropped from the skies to spread epidemics among the people was quite out of the question, said Wing-Com-mander E. J. Hodsoil, inspector-general of air raid precautions in Britain, when addressing a national gathering of sanitary inspectors at the GiuldhalL Wing-Commander Hodsoll said: “I understand that ‘bugs’ do not take very kindly to being compressed and thrown about. It would be necessary to introduce the ‘bug’ into the system, and short of supplying each of them with a small knife to make a hole when he arrived, it could not be done.” There might be a big danger, however, of the spread of epidemics, and certain steps were being taken for supplies of anti-toxins. This side of the work of sanitary inspectors might assume great significance.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1938, Page 9
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139GERMS IN WARFARE Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1938, Page 9
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