TEST TUBES STOLEN.
CONTAINED HIGHLY INFECTIOUS GERMS. THIEF’S SHORT POSSESSION. SY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. Received 12.10 p.m. to-day. LONDON, March 10. The startling announcement from Scotland: Yard that eight test , tubes stolen from a doctor’s car at Bloom sbuty contained germs of anthrax, typhhidJ and; other diseases and were highly infectious ia,nd ! dangerous, excited speculation on the danger of a fearful epidemic. This was relieved later in the day, when the test, tubes were found ,in Lincoln’s Inn fields, the thief having hurriedly discarded them on discovering their nature..
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 9
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89TEST TUBES STOLEN. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 9
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