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Show COMMON DRINKING CUP MUST GO i New York, March 24. After October Octo-ber 1, it will be unlawful to have a "common drinking cup" in any park, public building, factoiy, theater, school, railroad station, or ferry house In this city. A regulation adopted by the board of health as an additional section to the sanitary code rates the common drinking cup as a public nuisance nuis-ance and prescribes penalties to prevent pre-vent its use. Commissioner Lederle, in commenting comment-ing on tho now ordinance, points out that the public drinking cup iB now regarded as the most dangerous carrier of diphtheria, scarlet fever, tonsilltis, influenza, tuberculosis and other Infectious In-fectious diseases. Tho healths board's "action follows an Investigation Jn which bacteriological examinations were made of the moisture adherent to the edge of? publla drinking cups from various places in the city The results fully demonstrated the ganger of transmission of disease in this manner. |