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Show and an actual menace to the health of the community. Urging rapid withdrawals from circulation cir-culation of soiled bills, the health officers of-ficers 0,'iote from a New York medical publication : "It has been ascertained that money can be infected by handling; it ha also been shown that the germs of diphtheria and tuberculosis may live on Infected paper. There Is little dnubt that disease is spread In ways that we kn-iw not even In these times of advanced research. If paper money does spread disease, thoueh hut to an extremely small extent, thli Is reason Hiilnelent. to insist upon quick renewal of dirty bills." DANGER IN PAPER MONEY. New York. May 23. Officers of the board health here have apaln called attention to the perils that Inrk In ! germ-laden papi-r money. Soiled bills, they nay. are found to contain an average of !2,ooij bacteria one1 and although some of these -germs have lost their virulence, the money must remain an object of suspicion |