Deseret Evening News | 1907-08-09 | Page 6 | Public Health Scares

PUBLIC HEALTH SCARES A French l doctor having discovered as ns tho thit result of at nn an analysis that tour four of oC live five lY tramway tickets taken nt at ran do dorp In Paris might ml ht transmit disease In tho the homo home secretary Is to 10 be bo asked ed if It ho II is prepared to having n a similar I ex ox of at tickets made mado In I London The question can hardly cn bo taken very Ver seriously I If such risk ns as a tram or omnibus passenger runs In a ticket from the tho conductor were th the only ani danger of ot catching something to which ho hit Is s exposed during hu ride ho he would have very ouy little to tear fear Tho Th atmosphere of tho thue Inside of a crowded tram train la is possibly accountable for a good many of the tho mysterious colds that a man cannot Imagine ho ho he caught but H it Is difficult to sup pose posa that tho ticket Is more danger dangerous out ous than any other article that li ii handled In the tho course of a day clay TO nearly everything that passes fros ono one hand to another a certain risk ol Infection attaches and almost week nowadays the tho particular danger of something now Is pointed out One o week wo are warned against our letters the next against the peri of blotting paper today against tram traun I tickets The Tho man who takes hoed heed of all these warnings must lead an en that will turn his hair gray long before Its proper time Dally Graphic