Ladies Need Parrots
LONDON, July 23. “Nobody could contemplate without dismay a Briton's indefinite deprivation of the luxury of parrots,” said Sir George Buchanan (Senior Medical otfacer, Ministry of Health), amid laughter at a Medical Association meeting, when referring to psittacosis. ‘ ‘ You may laugh, but if you read the communications I have received from ladies, also high officials who do not seem to be able to live without parrots, you • would realiso that I am merely stating the truth. “Apart from their aesthetic qualities, parrots appear to create intense domestic satisfaction, and to supply material ‘or anecdotes.” ‘
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6621, 6 August 1931, Page 5
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