LICKING OF STAMPS
A DOCTOR'S WARNING
POST OFFICE DISAGREES
(Received October 9, 11.10 a.m.)
LONDON, October 8.
The danger of infection from postage stamps is stressed by Dr. A. W. Paterson in an article in the "British Medical Journal." He urges that stamps should never be licked under any circumstances and says that invariably they are pushed across post office counters with the gummed side downwards and that the likelihood of infection from a filthy counter is very great. The Post Office, in refuting the statement, claims that it sells 75,000,000,000 stamps a year and that there • has neyer been a single case of illness due to licking them. The counters are kept scrupulously clean.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 87, 9 October 1937, Page 9
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115LICKING OF STAMPS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 87, 9 October 1937, Page 9
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