EPIDEMICS, POLLARD, AND FLOUR
TO TH» IDITGI Or THE PRBSS. J Sir, —An item in your news column on chicken mortality raises a big! query. Pollard surely is a product of pure wheat, and is the residue obtained in milling to produce a perfect while flour. Now how did wild tares get into the pollard and kill about 500 chickens, and how much tares got into the flour and was probably the cause of so much sickness amongst children of all ages during the last six months? Is it no one's business to enquire into this matter? —Yours, etc. ANXIOUS. November 13, 1934. [When this letter was shown to Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, Medical Officer of Health, he said that the pollard referred to was not intended for human consumption and that the sickness among children during the last six months was due to a mild epidemic of gastric influenza.]
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21323, 16 November 1934, Page 8
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