Though stocks of hot water bottles held, by Wellington retailers other than chemists are frozen till further notice, and pharmaceutical chemists may sell them only on the order of a registered medical practitioner, there has been a very strong inquiry—“ almost a stampede”—as one retailer put it. Unable to obtain them except under the condition imposed, some customers have expressed annoyance, others asserted that it was a hardship, and a few accepted the situation philosophically. The opinion of one chemist was that it would be difficult to devise a better system, though he agreed that for border-line cases, such as sufferers from rheumatics, who were not necessarily under medical treatments it was a little difficult.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24914, 13 May 1942, Page 6
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