FALSE TEETH BARRED.
PHILADELPHIA POLICE
PHILADELPHIA, March 30
Because they might swallow them when excited, men who have false teeth will in future be debarred from becoming policemen or firemen in this city. The Public Safety Board came to this decision “in the interests of the wellbeing o fthe two departments concerned.’- ’
An instance was citcil of a policeman, who swallowed his false teeth, when in grips with a criminal. The policeman had to be treated in hospital. The criminal escaped. In another case a fireman’s denture slipped while he was battering down a door in a burning building. The teeth struck in hTs throat and he was carried from the building halfsuffocated.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 110, 9 April 1926, Page 10
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