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Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 38

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— A German doctor has told us the conclusions of this researches in examining j books procured from public libraries for j trapes of the bacillus of consumption. He i began by washing the pages, and then fn- • jecting the washings into guinea-pigs, with the result that over one-third of the aniiaals 1 died of acquired tuberculosis. The point ; of interest is that books which have be'eu j used for under two years did not, as a rule, j give rise to tuberculosis, in contrast to thc-ge ' used for from three to six year»«