THE RISKS OF TELEPHONE SPEAKING.
(Science Si/tings.) . . . Beware of the unwashed telephone. It is a constant menace to the public : health. A -bacteriologist tells us that more cases of influenza have been coughed, spluttered and sneezed into the telephone, "to be con^ tracted by the next user of the instrument, than have proceeded from all other sources combined. ; Our informant .'visited several: hotels, : and •' also a -number of '^public tele^ phone : exchanges. -He rcarried with him some wire and clean cotton. . He mounted: the i cottori v ;pn^ iac'.piece ' 6l ■: wire^^ and rubbed itvarottfid the tte "ti|ephpne~)rebeiye.r;i 'i':'^^^Mev&'&of placeli M a'smaJl rb'ottje^^^ftnd.'.-c^efnUy's^e.a/ The first cottonv:bM"esM^e^; : reyeale4^^ multitude^ pf;^BiDfjae^zsv^ciyiivand it 'wa a so ; wjtir-i^!s^p;ii^dftt»fi* #}i;ei;itheiteli;. phones. It is -- ius quite plain that the wide prevalence of the disease is partly due to the use of infected telephones. It is known that the germs are contained in the secretions, and nothing is more natural than that they should reach the receivers.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6496, 27 May 1899, Page 2
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THE RISKS OF TELEPHONE SPEAKING.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 6496, 27 May 1899, Page 2
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