Imagine licking forty to fifty gross of labels a day. Yet this is what women commonly do Avho are employed to stick the labels on reels of sewing-cotton in certain Lancashire factories. The committee of inquiry which has been at work on the subject declares that the women persist in licking the gummed labels in preference to using the sponges they are provided with. Analysis proved the existence of seven kinds of noxious germs on a handful of these labels, and it is said that the practice leads to cancer of the tongue. Neither labels nor stamps should ever be licked.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue II, 9 January 1904, Page 6
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101Untitled New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue II, 9 January 1904, Page 6
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