LICKING OF STAMPS
A DOCTOR'S WARNING POST OFFICE DISAGREES LONDON, Oct. 8. The danger of infection from postage stamps is stressed by Dr. A. W. Paterson, in an article in the British ' Medical Journal. He urges that stamps should never ' be licked under any circumstances and says that invariably they are pushed across post office counters with the gummed side downwards and that the likelihood of infection from a filthy counter is very great. The Post Office, in refuting the statement, claims that it sells 75,000,000,000 stamps a year and that there has never been a single case of illness due to licking them. The counters are kept scrupulously clean.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 241, 11 October 1937, Page 8
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