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Show Raw Vegetables and Bacilli. The French minister of public works has just forbidden the culture of all fruits or vegetables destined to be eaten raw in ground which has been watered with water drawn from sewers sew-ers or likely to be contaminated by drains. - This decision is based on the results re-sults of recent experiences, which prove that tuberculosis bacilli, which lose their virulence at the end of three months in river water, conserve it for ten months in sewer water; that bacilli that have been in th ground are still harmful at the end of three months, and that, poured into the ground on which fruit and vegetables vege-tables are cultivated they contaminate the products themselves. |