SAVIOUR OF THOUSANDS TO RETIRE
Conqueror › of anthrax, the
who has saved thousands of wool- workers from disease or death, Dr Frederick W. Eurich, the brilliant Bradford-specialist, is retiring next
October.
Thirty years ago, he began study anthrax, and in his laboratory be conducted dangerous experiments with the bacilli
In conjunction with another noted worker, Mr. Elmhurst Duckering, Dr. Eurich proved that means could be found of killing anthrax in wool without detriment to the material and without risk to the workers.
As early as 1908, his work had re- duced the number of anthrax fatali- ties, and to-day, after a lifetime's struggle, the dread scourge is virtu- ally conquered. Wool is safe to han- dle.
A Bradford business leader who has known Dr. Eurich intimately said: "He risked his life. And at what I consider to be inadequate re
muneration.
"He was always in danger, but he never flinched nor faltered. He went! on until the scourge was beaten
The Bradford City Coroner (Mr. J. G. Hutchinson) said he used to conduct scores of inquests on fatal anthrax cases. But not for years
now has a single case come to his knowledge.
Italian Casuals Return to Naples From Spain
Members of the Italian Brigade who had been fighting for Italy, recovering from their wounds. The Italian forces.
of the load in the fighting which preceded the successful assault on
LANDING TROOPS FROM AIRCRAFT
Aldershot Experiment During t
the course of the com-
GOWNED IN OLD WHISKY BOTTLES"
"The bride was charmingly gown-
Dr. Eurich is retiring for private ing month an interesting experi reasons, and with his wife will livement in troop carrying by the Ro- with one of his sons, an artist, in val Air Force will be carried outed in empty whisky bottles. the New Forest
in conjunction with the 2nd Divi sion at Aldershot.
TEETH IN TIN
her
SEVEN IN ONE BED
tatement that a wornan and slept on one bed was made at Plymouth.
charge against. John Joseph Not just yet, of course. But can- Woodville-road, North, Prosper
Fox, 36 dockyard labourer, ny Scots have found a use for these Plymouth, of having neglected
the children w further inqui
This will go further than pre-glass receptacles, mournfully dis vious experiments, as in this case carded, and a thriving Clydeside in the scheme will pre-suppose a land-dustry has been built up which may ing in hostile country where the end in the ladies being Air Force will have to provide the material that once
apris
Cox's home "mountain dew necessary protection not only in
tion There the air but on the ground until the
The empty bottles, heated in elec-1steads, but
OF FRUIT troops have, disembarked and are tric furnaces; emerge as spun silken
ready to take cover.
threads no teker than a spide
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Preceding
A new industrial X-ray appara- It is understood that the aero-web-so fme that forty miles of tus, working at 250,000 volts, and planes will actually land and be capable of penetrating thick steel, prepared to use their machine- is now in operation in a London la-guns against a raid on the troop boratory
Just as doctors
are able with? hospital X-ray apparatus, to see side a patient's body, and set broken bones, watch a meat being digested, or trace a swallowed pm or button, it is now possible to look inside me- tal castings, see behind the paint in an old picture, or detect faults in antique furniture.
FINDING HIDDEN FAULTS
carrying machines, which are ob 1 viously extremely vulnerable while they are in the process of landing.
be necessary in war. It will need It is an operation which may well
very careful co-ordination.
Britain Looks For
Old Iron
A search for scrap iron is to be
Cracks or small cavities which made all over Britain. might pass undetected in a steel. The present record steel output. casting are clearly revealed by in- dustrial X-rays. In assembled ar- ticles, like radio valves, faults can
has created such a shortage of raw material that British manufac- tarers are to co-operate with the
The
quickest way
to get the best whisky
at orice be detected without disman: the scrap iron and steel merchant, fly
tling.
In an american canning factory a girl dropped her false teeth into a tin of fruit. With X-rays they were quickly found.
Thanks to this modern method of inspection, pins, nails and other dan erous articles have been found h tims of fish which might otherwise have been sold to the public.
of X-ray inspec nise.
In some cases at otographs are
Very
in an appeal for "old iron" from households, farms and estates and works up and down the country.
The scheme was announced in a statement issued by the British Iron and Steel Federation. It is pointed out that an "mealculable but certainly enormons onnage o scrap is believed to be lying
(Continued thread can be from one
very
MADE INTO BLANKETS.
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walls
operator is is also
of lead and lead-lined
Unbrittle and rot-pro made into blankets
round hot pipes,
make the sur to the African
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