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"TRAGIC FAILURE OF HOPES"
NEED FOR RADIUM
Viscount Knutsford, presiding at
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TUBERCULOSIS
SUCCESS OF CHILD VACCINATION
EFFECT ON CALVES
POPULAR PLAYS
"THIS YEAR OF · GRACE":
[By Noel Coward in the Pavilion] On seeing this redoubtable revue
The possibility of employing, for a Court of Governors of the London the prevention of tuberculosis in ar the second time, I was struck Hospital announced that the sum cattle," the vaccine (known
by the difference in fervour be of £112,000 had that day been BCG) which ia administered to hundredth audience, and the exu- 8: tween the first and the three- reached as the result of the quin- children exposed to risk of con- berant artistry of Miss Maisle Gay. quennial appeal.
With the exception of the last the third annual summary of re-young man, Mr. Cochran a imagul sumption, is a subject discussed in Mr. Noel Coward la indeed a clever quinquennial appeal, when anonymous donor gava £80,000 on Committee of the Royal Agricul- signs of wear and tear the profes-
search work lasued by the Research ficent showman; and
whatever condition that £80,000 was collect- ed by Dec. 81. this sum had
tural Society.
Sir John McFadyean deals with mechanics of the show, Miss Gay sional eye might detect in the mere exceeded that of the previous the subject in his review of pro- remains her incomparable self. The quinquennials, but it was far less than the committee asked for, and John traces the course of research from the current New York version in veterinary science. Sir best of the new Items imported far less than was needed. Every year brought some request from work since the attempt made in are "Lilac Time," a burlesque duet the staff for some costly piece of 1902 by Behring and others to take in which Miss Gay and Mr. Sonnie equipment or, new development. advantage of the fact that when Hale philander as royalty in overt
The hospital had only about four cattle are infected with tuber incognito, and "Love, Life grains of "radium. About 1,000 culoaia either artificially or by Laughter," in which Miss Gay cancer cases were admitted each Inoculation they tend to become again resurrecta, in all, her bilin- year, and the supply of radlum was more or less immune. It was gual bravura, a Parialan Queen of only sufficient to treat 150 of them. proved that valuable. Immunity the Night as the broader of our The hospital bad already effected could be conferred by injections of period "comics" uzed to depict her. some remarkable cures, and it was tubercle badill! into eclves, but it Save for the masked convulsions of a strange and interesting fact that was then discovered that con- "Dance, Little Lady" time has it was the most virulent and quick-tamination of milk supplies was a caught up with Mr. Coward to the est-growing cancer which was most consequent danger.
extent of taking some of the sting amenable to radium.
A new children's department was badly needed, the present being so crowded that it was almost a scandal, They also wanted a new heart department, which would Involve an expenditure of seme
and
As a result a new form of but none of the fun, out of what a vaccination was evolved, of which few months ago seemed deadly the advocates are Calmette and
satire. The Bach-accompanied Guerin, involving the use of BCG posturing of the stained-glass vaccine (Bacillus-Calmette-Geria). saints is still a beautiful surprise, This is being used, with success it
and was the one itom that caused la claimed, upon human infants accompanied me to join the general even the hypercritical Tuscan who liable to infection. "The court will see therefore, I "After certain preliminary ex- of the Russian Ballet seems to re- cheers. For the rest, the parody how tragic is the fallure of our periments which served," It is produce even more faithfully the hopes with regard to this quin-stated, "to Indicate the harmless foibles of the original; charming quennial." Describing the General. East-neas of the ECG vaccine, for cattle Miss Jeast: Matthews grows in end Tradzamen's Association
and anthropold apes, the vaccino cleverness and grace; and "Pogo,"
thousands of pounds.
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"the most loyal friends the hospital was first administered in 1921 to the cheval terrible of the Brothers ever had." Lord Knutsford that exposed it to great risk of inpearance without seeming to in- an infant born la circumstances Griffiths, makes an incorrigible ap mentioned that a sum of £1800
has
for the purchase of radium, which faction with tuberculosis. In the trude. was raised at the festival dinner subsequent thres years the admin- of the association, was to be pre-Istration of the vaccine to 217 new- sented on Christmas Day... Mr. born infants appeared to show Miller-Jones the chairman at the that it was devoid of danger when dinner, had been invited to become given by the mouth. The Fasteur a member of the board.
Institute placed the BCG vaccine at the disposal of physicians and public welfare centres in France. and between 1924 and 1927 52,772 children were vaccinated either in Paris or in the provinces."
The chairman also announced that Mr. Barnettt A. Salmon had been invited to take the place of his late father, Sir Alfred Salmon, an the committer.
G.K.C.'S HEADMASTER
MR. BEWSHER'S RETIREMENT FROM-COLET COURT
"JEALOUSY"
[By Eugene Walters, from the French of Louis Vernetul.) This passionate play (at the For- tune Theatre) has three acts, two characters and but a single theme; and the foreknowledge that the two characters оп whom the first curtain rises aro the only human beings
we shall Be till the Anal curtain falls,
A
Risk of Infection Records in regard to 5,740 children whose cases it was pos- sible to follow up showed that the general death-rate from all causes among them was 8.1 per cent. The might be a damaging ple-occupa "The boy of to-day Is very much general death-rate
tion if the actors who impersonate In France the same as his predecessor of among non-vaccinated, children handled by an expert a theatrical them were kiss good. Though forty years age, with just the one with or without tuberculous conjuggler as Louis Vernelul,, the difference, perhaps and that only tacts is given as 8.5 per cent. theme cannot help calling atten- in some cases that he is more Further investigation appeared to tion to its limitations, and making. nervous and less ready to indulge confirm the efficacy of the vaccine as it were, a virtue of virtuosity. in a rough-and-tumble than he for the prevention of tuberculosis The various expedients by which was when I first came to London," among childrer
Mr. James Bewaher, M.A., whoThis wholesale vaccination of and fanned are highly, if some- the jealousy of Maurice is fostered is about to retire from the head-children with the BCG vaccines," it what arbitrarily ingenious. mastership of Colet Court School, Is added, "has not passed without bunch of keys, an emerald ring, the the "preparatory" for the rare protest on the ground that the widely known St. Paul's School, vaccine cannot be regarded as expressed this opinion in an inter absolutely free from the risk that view with an "Observer" repre- the living bacill, of which it is
composed, may somehow, either Jealousy is an appetite that "Such nervousness among the suddenly or gradually, acquire grows with what it feeds upon; and boys," Mr. Bowsher went on, their lost virulence, and thus, in Maurice was not only a glutton, but regard as an after-effect of the stead of protecting the child, ac a fool. Regardless of the one Im- war. On the whole, however, tually infect it with a serious portant fact that Valerbe loved him they are as strong, healthy and tuberculosis. While it cannot be to distraction, he could not speak as keen on games as ever.. It has said that there is absolutely no six words to her without being always been my contention that risk that the BCG bacilli may be choked by his obsession. A kiss the keener a boy. is on sports the come virulent, it does not seem at with him was an accusation, every better he devotes his time and all likely that accidents of that caress the prelude to the third de energy to the scholastic side of nature can occur if proper care is gree. And though this kept things his training."
constantly taken in the manufac dramatically on the move, it rather Mr. Bowsher has been at Coletture and control of the vaccine." coolad our sympathy for him. Yet Court for forty-four years, and
Sir John proceeds to advocate
sentative.
for forty-one of these he has been the employment of the BCG vaccine headmaster, During that time in the case of calves exposed to many boys-now famous men in Infection. various walks of life-have pass-
ed through his hands, and it was concerning these that he went on to talk.
HON. RUTH DAWNAY
telephone, an evening paper, and an off-stage murder, are all so art- fully exploited that they constitute a sort of galaxy of supers.
in spite of its tricks and artificial- itles, the play is sufficiently good theatre to enable the two American- actors, Mr. Crane Wilbur and Miss Mary Newcombe, not merely to hold our attention by what they do, but to excite considerable admiration for the way they do it. Miss New- The Hon. Ruth Dawnay, only combe's emotional resource is never "They include, speaking from daughter of Viscount and Viscoun- at a loss and always beautifully memory," he told me, "G. Ktoss Downe, of Wykeham Abbey, controlled; and Chesterton, Compton MacKenzie, near Scarborough, who fell into the intelligently supports her.
Mr. Wilbur the Right Rev. William Temple, ziver Derwent with her hores when their askes, therefore, Archbishop Designate of York, hunting recently, said that when play should be. Sir Otto Niemeyer, formerly Fin-she tried to jump the river the bank aesthetic and emotional short- seer. Its 'ancial Secretary to the Treasury, gave way.'
comings need not be stressed, since Lord Wolmer, Assistant Postmas-: The horse, struggling in the they do not hinder, but rather help ter-General, S. P. Vivian, the Re- water sank into the mad. Five men the interest afforded by the actors- gistrar-General, Erie Kennington, who were out with the hunt got triumph over them.-H. H. in The the sculptor, Paul Nash Laurence Binyon.
and ropes and poles and did everything Observer."
possible to get the horse out and
well indeed.
"I remember all of these very when they succeeded after two hours There was also a the animal was dead." brother of G.K.C.'a Cecil Cheater ton, who died during the war. I think. The two brothers I recal lect werd,
as boys, inclined to founded Colet Court in '81 Both literature, and their, essays, or were educated at Manchester rathor compositions, were always Grammar School, under Dr. F. W. excellent. Nos I cannot say that Walker, afterwards High Master any of these men, as boys, gave at St. Paul's....... indication that they would turn "It was a strange thing," Mr. out to be anything other than Just Bewsher went on, but for a short what they are to-day. That is to time I was a scholar in Manches say, they were particularly bright ter while my brother was one of scholars and always to the fore in the masters there. When Dr. their work. It is a striking point Walker came to London to become about Colet Court and St. Paul's High Master, strangely enough, at that both have turned out so many St. Paul's, my brother came with men of letter and artists. In fact, him, and that was how Colet Court I do not think I am wrong in say came into being
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