CONTAGION THROUGH BOOKS.
Tho question of the danger of contagion through the circulation of books among diseased persons has engaged the attention of the authorities of the municipal library in Sydney. Mr C. H. Bertie, the city librarian, said that in America recently the officials of the leading libraries had been circularised and asked whether they had ever known a case of contagion arising through a library book, all the replies being in the negative. Another official stated that the consensus of opinion among library authorities was that there was something in the paper which prevented contagion from being conveyed by books. Ho believed that some of "the healthiest and longest-lived people in the world were keepers of second-hand books. It seems to be the aim of many good people in our day to discover danger in everything. Death, they say, lurks in every corner in the shape of that awful bogey, the microbe. That this minute gentleman bears a bad character and can be classed as an habitual criminal Aye know, but he is not as black as alarmists would paint him. Anyone who looks for Manger in every direction in which it is said to exist will find his time fully occupied.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11944, 3 April 1914, Page 4
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