THE DEADLY DUMMY.
FRENCH MANUFACTURE FORBIDDEN. Paris, March 25. In response to an urgent appeal by Professor Pinard, the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill making it illegal to manufacture, or import, any object giving a baby the illusion that it is suckling, on the ground that nqiny babies died through swallowing dummy teats. The industry has been given three months to transform its teatmaking plants. DANGER OF TUBERCULOSIS. IMPROVISED SUBSTITUTES PROBABLE. (Received 27, 11.25 a.m.) London, March 26. The French legislation against dummies has aroused a vigorous discussion on the merits of comforters. Olga Nethersole, actress, founder of the People’s League of Health, states that many mothers put the dummies in their own mouths before giving them to the children, thereby often causing tuberculosis. The New Health Society objects to dummies, but the National Baby Week Council stales that it is futile to introduce legislation. If dummies are forbidden mothers will immediately improvise an alternative.—(A. and N.Z.) . i
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 86, 27 March 1926, Page 5
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