ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Schoolboy (Kent Terrace, Wellington). 1. The question as to whether contagious diseases can be circulated through books, has, I believe, been decided in the affirmative, but I cannot at present remember the authority. With reference to typhoid fever, judging by the opinions of medical men, the contagion would not be carried by a book which has been used by a patient, 2. Your writing is good, but betrajß symptoms of stiffness. Adopt a new capital H—tho 0110 you use is rather ug y# Don't write ‘ Books are loaned out. ‘ Loaned ’ is an ugly Americanism. Why not say ‘ lent ?’
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1061, 30 June 1892, Page 12
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