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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12066, 9 September 1902, Page 6

Longman's Magazine publishes a curious and interesting article on bacteria and icsby G.C. Frankland. There is a notion abroad that if you turn water into ice you make an end of the bacilli the former may have contained. You may be shocked to learn you don't. Bacilli, have been known to " emerge triumphant'' (says the writer) from a freezing ordeal of 103 days ! Bacteriologist have found bacteria bv millions in the ice on the top of Mount Blanc. They have beeji detected in hailstones. .Snow, emblem ot purity, swarms with them. You think you are drinking something pure—something ideally "neat"—when vou drink ice-water;' and all the while von are swallowing bacteria at the rate of" twenty-five thousand in. every twenty drops. -All ice is not equally vitiated. Much depends upon the mitral purity of the water, upon the presence or absence of germ-carrying winds, and upon the depth of the water. Freezing does reduce the number of bacteria in water, doe only to a limited extent. By experiment. Dr.* Pruddeu all but extirpated them. nia. plan was to subject, the bacteria not to uninterrupted freezing but to a succession oi -shocks" between! hot and colcl. Dl V'» there are bacilli—those of anthrax, for m-stance-whe defy shocks. ™« *" 1 bacillus was thawed and frozen alternately for three months, and was none the worse. The writer of the article might hare added something by wav of moral to the story. IS the bacilli 'are as dangerous as they aiaomnipresent and uueseapeable how in the name of wonder are you and 1 alive at th» moment? ~, . r „»-.. Just opened: A splendid tweed and worsted suitings and trouserings. -Smith and Caughey, Limited.