"LIFE'S LITTLE RISKS"
POISON GERMS ON BANK NOTES,
Is it possible for dirty Treasury notes to set up septic poisoning? This was the theory suggested in tho case of a man who scratched himself with his finger-nail, afterwards dy r ing from blood-poisoning. The Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras (London), asked for bis opinion, said there was just as much risk in shaking hands as in using notes. i
"It is simply just one of lifo's littlo risks," he remarked. "Infection, may be conveyed as easily through a perfectly clean note as through one which is soiled. If a person suffering from small-pox handles notes or • coins the disease can Ibo transmitted to those to whom the money afterwards copies. _ "I do not think anyone need he tootned^about tho condition of notes now in circulation. One has to take «ome risk in life and this, after all, is a minor one."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10686, 4 September 1920, Page 5
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