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SCIENCE AGAIN BETRAYED
vile man RSS af science.
in
eace, produce the advance and someone promptly turns it into & nuisance or a disaste
The Nation's Health
The British nation may justly by congratulate itself on the pro- gressive improvement of its health as revealed in the report Issued recently by the Chief Medical Officer Sir Arthur Mc-
Nalty
with the
ft reviews
eport deals TO of one year alone:
last quarter of a century, bare figures show that ing advance has been made 1910. The general death-rate has gone down from 13.2 per 1,000 to 92 Even more re- markable is the reduction in the rate of infant mortality, which has been reduced from 128 to 59. If we go back still farther, to the 1840's, we find a general When photography was newly death-rate of 224 and an infant arrived as a world's wonder slow death-rate of 153. The number plates and poor lenses made por of deaths from tuberculosis last traiture almost impossible ex-year, 657 per million of the cept under the sky of heaven; to Population, was the lowest that has been recorded. F we go that distant period of the Vic-
back to the 1850's we find a rate torian era belongs the rhymed
of 8,476 Though there are advice to the photographer, difficult lems awaiting soln- amateur or professional:
tion, notably the cause and cure But when the wind is in the of cancer, the report is a proof of remarkable progress. There is north,
one canse of death and injury to Lead not the wretched sitter health which remains without any check. Since the war 98,000 Fople have met death on the Thereafter apparatus improved,
roads and 2,700,000 have been but for "studio work" the cam-injured. The figures which have era-men, still had to work out of just been issued for the month their system the head-rest which of October show the scourge to clamped the sitter in position and be unabated. There were 618
people killed in that month. forcibly dissuaded him from 11-| considered movement during a time-exposure; the "stills" of
forth!
those days were either still in Wear and Tear of deed or irretrievably ruined. Now
wide aperture lenses and highly Grey Matter sensitive films make indoor
Mr. Churchill's suggestion that "snapshots" well within the
a wise Chancellor of the Exche range of possibility, with the re-quer might allow "authors to sult that we find Mr. Winston write off every year against in- Churchill complaining that press come tax a substantial sum for photographers have a growing the depreciation of their mental machinery through wear and habit of snatching individual tear and through age and use" portraits at public banquets. will presumably go into one eminent persons seized msus-the pigeon holes at the Treasury
reserved for impracticable su pectingly, and it may be with
gestions, and it must be confes considerable loss of diguity ined that it might be difficult the published result, in the act assess such a rebate or claim for of talking, eating, or drinking, depreciation. Some authors, who
boast of creative impulse Mr. Churchill not unnaturally might demur to the protests the
banquet as a set word machinery, as group, with ties straightened did, in effect, when he
ed that he had been cal and features composed, is one
cially a playwright. thing; a piratical, momentary, might be disinclined to and usually distorted raid on any "depreciation of mind
in order to get something back single person's party manner
from the tax collector. and appearance is an entirely
And what would happen in in- different affar
andr
not to be
dividual cases should the commended by the eminent who
sury (which has its own little may find the result, next week ways) call upon an author to or next morning, exposed in pub "show cause" for claiming that
This "mind machinery, was hic print. Mr. Churchill thinks
preciating Someho that those who organise ban-hard to get
quets should take pains to ex-into a pict
clude the potshot pirate with the
too widely opened lens.
tainly if they do not
quette
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the