TASTE AND SMELL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23693, 28 December 1938, Page 8

TASTE AND SMELL

£436 FOR LOSS CAR COLLISION (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, Dec._2. All her life Mrs Elizabeth Platt, aged 54, of Chester road, Stretford, Manchester, has been fond of flowers. Now she cannot smell them. She has lost her sense of smell as a result of a motor accident. She has lost her sense of taste, too —eating has become a mechanical process. And the tip of her nose is always cold. “ It’s easy enough to make fun of people who cannot taste or smell, especially by saying, ‘ Well, they avoid a lot of nasty smells,’ ” said Mr Justice Tucker at Manchester Assizes, when Mrs Platt brought a claim for damages. “ Think what it would be like to go through life without being able to taste or smell at all, and not to know the difference between eating chalk and cheese,” he added.

The jury awarded Mrs Platt £436 damages against Frank Arnold Dutton, of London road, Hazel Grove, near Stockport, the driver of a car which was in collision with another in which Mrs Platt was riding.