TYPHOID INFECTION.
OYSTERS SOUND ON LEAVING BEDS. CARELESS HANDLING BLAMED. (By TelegTaph.—Press Association.) IXVERCARGILL, Wednesday. A strong denial that oysters, as they left the beds at Bluff, were responsible for the outbreaks of typhoid fever in the North, was voiced by an Invercargill fish and oyster merchant to-day. 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 average two or three dozen every day, and had never felt the least ill-effects. If oysters had actually been the cause of the outbreak, he thought, it was not through infection received here, but through lack of care by dealers or housewives. "There should be some regulation to limit the sale of oysters to proper fish merchants," he added. "At present even fruit shops stock them. Then housewives often keep them a week and expect them to remain good."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 246, 17 October 1929, Page 14
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