Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1903 — New Word Coined. [ARTICLE]

New Word Coined.

A new word, and one of the best we have seen, is offered to the public by the English press, “oysterta”; and with its suggestion of hysteria it connotes the fear of typhoid from shellfish. The English oysters come mostly from the mouth of the Thames, and Londoners are in the midst of one of their frequent typhoid scares, and there ds complete collapse of the oyeter trade. One Billingsgate merchant was at the pains to secure a medical certificate for his oysters, setting forth that his beds were inaccessible to sewage.