FISH-FERTILISED VEGETABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1942, Page 6

FISH-FERTILISED VEGETABLES

Of “ELIMINATED DENTAL DECAY” SYDNEY, January 3. Dr. Walker James Wearn, denial surgeon, of Custlereagh Street, Sydney, told Mr. Sheridan, S.M., in the Parramatta Police Court yesterday that he had eliminated dental decay in his five young children by feeding them with vegetables grown in land which lie had fertilised with fish offal. • Dr. Wearn pleaded not guilty to a :charge of having failed to keep land at North Rocks, near Parramatta, .clear of rubbish, offensive or un- , wholesome matter. 1 He said that his children did not ‘catch colds, coughs, or influenza. He 'had been using fish as a fertiliser both on his North Rocks property and on the garden of his home at Carlingford for over four years. “There are no more blowflies than ! anywhere else in the district. The fish (are not exposed,” he added. He said that when the health inspector from 'the Baulkham Hills Shire Council ! visited the property one furrow had ! been accidentally exposed by a tractor.

At a previous hearing it had been alleged that the smell from Dr. Wearn’s land had been highly objectionable. Giving evidence yesterday, Mrs. Ruby Irene Kennedy said that •the smell affected the family’s eating and sleeping. “It made the children sick.”