PLAGUE OF BOOK LICE
IN A NEW YORK FLAT EVACUATION ORDERED NEW YORK, Aug. 20. (Received Aug. 22, at 5.5 p.m.) Menaced by a plague of so-called book lice, the Health Department has ordered the evacuation of a large moderi 350,000-dollar block of flats, housing 58 families. Lice bites are seriously affecting children. The lice get into food, clothes, furniture, and insecticides constituting a dangerous threat to health. The owners, who have been subjected to many law suits, plead it is an act of God, and the situation is complicated by the. fact that no other flats are willing to accept the tenants because the furniture carries lice. The situation, which, when it first became known, caused amusement, is now considered a grave matter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23277, 23 August 1937, Page 9
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