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Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6307, 3 November 1915, Page 3

Two hundred travelling toxico'iogical laboratories have been formed by the French Army authorities and will shortly leave for the front Their main utility will be to ensure the health of the soldiers fighting in the trenches or resting in the contonments. The chemists attached to each laboratory will 'analyse the water the soldiers drink and the foodstuffs brought to them, so as to ensure their perfect purity. They will also control disinfectish : of the front-line'trenehes whenever that is possible. A secondary'phase of their activities, from Which, however, much is expected, will be the analysis of new German methods of attacking by gas bonibs, liquid fire, or gas clouds. Each laboratory has attached to it either a skilled. doctor or an expert analytical chemist with trained laboratory assistant^