TEA DRINKING, SILK STOCKINGS HIT BY IRISH PHYSICIAN.
BELFAST, March 6. Tea drinking is ruining people and silk stockings arc to blame for some present-day illnesses. Dr Dennis O Hagen, surgeon of Louth County Infirmary, told a committee called together to discuss the treatment of tuberculosis. “What is required." he said, “is a health campaign to get people to feed themselves properly. I advise people to drink less tea and get back to the days of ‘stirabout’ and butter milk. There would be less tuberculosis if people took this advice.” “Stirabout” is a porridge of oat - j meal or eornmeal, boiled in water and j stirred.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17831, 27 April 1926, Page 12
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106TEA DRINKING, SILK STOCKINGS HIT BY IRISH PHYSICIAN. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17831, 27 April 1926, Page 12
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