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ECHOES OF 1858
85.—The Suspended Attorney General Defends A Libel Action,
TYPHOID FEVER
Disease That Science Has Nearly Beaten
If the case rates and death rates for typhoid fever that exist-- ed in 1890 prevailed to-day the city of Chicago would have this year 60,000 cases of typhoid fever and approximately 6,000 deaths.
stead, Chicago has had in re- cent years less than 200, cases and seldom as many as 10 deaths.
Thas it is shown what a tre- mendous benèft modern preven- tive medicine has come to be for mankind.
In an earlier day the family doctor claimed that be could "mell" typhoid fever. His guess was likely to be accurate, ince. one out of five seriously sick peo- ple was likely to have typhoid. There was a time when any doc- tor could definitely calculate on
phoid fever, and they were usual- 3 financial returns from ty-
ly sumclent to send his children to college.
The Crown v. Tarrant being the Monday should be appointed for first on the Calendar of Cases for the hearing of the case, that they trial at the Criminal Sessions, was could proceed until the want of called on yesterday. Mr. Green the the required evidence should bring Acting Attorney General was for them to a stand, when he hoped the
the Crown, and
Attorney the acting Attorney General would General, Mr. Anstey for the defen make the required admissions, or dant. Mr. Anstey addressing the otherwise there was no course left Court, stated that there was auch but an adjournment. The acting a murrain among the oficials Attorney General naked Mr. Anstey whose evidence he required, that the nature of the evidence requir he wished to give notice that, uned from the Governor. Mr. Anstey less these gentlemen were forth- replied, first the production of the coming when called, he should be papers named in the subpoena, and compelled to move for an adjourn the full particulars of a circular ment. The learned counsel alleg letter addressed by His Excellency ed that the Governor was sick, as to the heads of all the departments also Mr. Dixon the Government instructing them to pay the same printer. Furthermore a medical obedierice to Dr. Bridges as if he certificate signed by Dr. Chaldicott were the Governor. Second, tire had just been placed in his hands, production of Mr. May's memo- stating that. Mr. Joze d'Almada, randa regarding the connection another important witness, was also between Mahchow. Wong and Mr.
Typhoid fever is sh acute infec sick. The Chief Justice remarked Caldwell, or otherwise the nature tion caused by a germ known as that he would rather postpone the of that memorandum and what the typhoid bacillus. The germ case altogether than adjourn the had occurred at the Executive can be found in the blood of a court in the middle of it-that Council which had rendered the person seriously sick with the dis- there was no desire (on the part refusal of Mr. D'Almada to divulge ease, and in 80 per cent. of the of the Government) to shirk the them before the 'Caldwell commit-cases is found in the excretions. enquiry, and that when the wit- tee necessary. Fourth, the full his- nesses should be sufficiently re- tory of the missing papers relative covered to attend, he would ap- to the Mahchow Wong case-how point a day specially for the case. far they implicated Mr. Caldwell To this Mr. Anstey objected-Dr. whether His Excellency had sanc- Chaldicott being present was asked tioned their destruction-when he when the Governor could. attend, had last been them, whether nearer and replied that it was impossible! May than March-and finally why to say, for that so soon as Colonel His Excellency had concealed from Caine should arrive, it was absd- the Caldwell committee the des lutely necessary that His Excellency truction of those papers and not should take a voyage. Mr. Anstey have spared that body the trouble
Formerly typhoid fever öccürred. said that Mr. Davis, who really was of wringing out the fact from un-
from the use of ice made from sick, and at Macao, would be back willing official witnesses. The Act-water in polluted streams, To-day on Monday—that it never would do ing Attorney General said he would nearly all fee is made artificially to allow the case to lle over for endeavour to obtain replies from from clean water and there is no an indefinite period--that the, His Excellency but that the Gover- | danger of typhoid. "Milk used to witnesses who were now available nor declined to produce the letter be a common source "of typhoid might be seized with the murrain of 28th January as it would betray germs; and milk products were which those not absent were official secrets.
also known on occasions to carry afflicted with-he proposed that
(To Be Continued)
the germs.
BURNED TO DEATH
BY ACID
Terrible Accident At Singapore Brewery
suspend the pall from a rope while carrying it as the acid had the ability to burn rope.
Fell Into Pool Of Acid
The gerin is spread by means of the excretions, by solled food and clothing, particularly by contamf- nated water and milk, and to a large extent by people who carry the disease; that is to say, they themselves have been sick have recovered but they still carry in their bodies germs which may infect other people.
...
and
Formerly it was thought fler were more responsible for spread- ing typhoid fever than any other cause, but to-day it is not believ- ed that transmission by flies is an Important item. However, the fly does feed Althily and may trans- mit any condition associated with the filth on which it feeds,"
Typhoid fever" follows a long and serious-course once a person becomes infected,
...
After a person gets the germs in his body from three to. 21. days elapse, known as the incubation period during which the germs develop and liberate their pol- sons.
The average length of time is ten and a half days.
usual symptoms of infection, such The condition begins with the
as headache, pains in the body. generally, a feeling of exhaustion and, loss of appetite. Sometimes
there are chills.
Quite frequently there is nose- bleed, and almost invariably there is either constipation or diarrhea.
Singapore-A terrible accident in the A.B.C. Brewery, which is still in construction in Alexandra Road, I formed the subject of inquiry by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. F. G. Bourne, on August 21.-
But the deceased paid no atten- The victim W*8 2 Malabari tion to those instructions, and as labourer, named Sumaran Kanan, soon as the European had turned who was burned to death by sul-nis back to attend to some other phuric acid which splashed on to construction works he attached a him as he was transporting it in a rope to the handle of the pall and pail, the rope suspending which suspended it from a carrying pole. was also burned.
As the disease goes on, the per- The two of them then took the son becomes sicker and sicker, de- carrying pole on their shoulders veloping occasionally not only a and started off with their burden high fever with stepladder rise, for the tank. Witness argued with the other man all the time, but but also occasionally severe chills. There is a tendency for involve- ment of the blood vessels and the formation of clots. Rose spots ape pear on the skin at the end of the arst week or at the beginning of the second week.
Dr. Benjamin Chew, an assistant medical ofcer, gave evidence that the man was admitted into the General Hospital on the morning of July 21, He was suffering from the latter insisted on doing it his extreme shock and had extensive own way.
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Or was it his mistrans from out of the past?
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burns in his back, arms, buttocks, The deceased was leading the thighs, and face, some of the way, and as they were descending affected areas being burned to the a low flight of steps in the build third "degree. The man was un- ing the liquid splashed on to the able to make a coherent statement, rope and buried that: the rope but later declared that he had been burst and the pall fell down, the burned by sulphuric acid. His acid running down the steps. At condition was critical and he died the same time the deceased slipped on August 4. He had stood little backwards and fell right into the chance of recovery all along as the pool of liquid which burned his buras involved over half of the body. He jumped up almost im- surface of his body.
mediately and ran to a nearby-by An eye witness of the accident.; water pipe to bath his body, but a Javanese coolle named Baraban was in a very bad state and the bin Martadips, deposed that he ambulance was called to take him was a colleague of the deceased to hospital. while they were engaged in the!
During the worst year of the de- The witness declared that it was pression abroad, Japan has become construction works at the ABC. the first occasion on which the relatively prosperous. She alone Brewery. On the morning of July Tabourers in the brewery had been among the nations shows an in- 21 Mr. Habekost, the European in asked to transport acid of that crease in industrial output and ex- charge of the work, ordered Suma- nature. Since the accident strict ports the latter by 50 per cent. in ran to carry a pall of sulphuric orders had been issued to all men, vent Her peasants have been acid to a large tank which was in forbidding them to use rope to bitterly pinched many actually the brewery building.
suspend the pails and to all the starving, if one is to believe the The pall was three-quarters fill-pails over the half-capacity mark. Japanese papers. But her business ed with the dangerous acid and and
The Coroner adjourned the hear- men seem happy. Many have re- was not covered. Mr. Habekosting at this stage, saying that he ceived bonuses. The South Man-A warned Sumaran to be very careful wished to have Mr. Habekost called churia Railway has paid eight per business since June. And sterling with the acid and told him not to to give evidence.
And even America, counted on to cent, dividend and shown a capital countries are putting up anti-cheap ile quiescent, to write notes be- Increase. Raflways and Inland currency protection.
times but risk no dollar nor life in water ships have had a 10 per cent. A France and the U.S.
support of her policy, has declared traffe increase and hotels are not Until now expansionist Japan for, and forthwith begun, building. empty as they were last summer. has considered France her friend, as in the Rooseveltian style, a res- All this in spite of the Chinese I has expected France to break pectable navy Does this mean boycott and on the depreciated the ban against recognition and that America comes down out of yen. The temper of the Japanese loans to Manchukuo. The Gover the clouds of Geneva idealism to A large bomb was attached to people cannot be trusted if they nor of the Bank of France is now follow the pathway of realism on one of the pillars of the railway are robbed of that prosperity, travelling in that country. But which Japan turned the spotlight. bridge over the Ebro at Baragossa.Manchukuo" can not compensate Japanese Jingces have seen at to in Reptember, 19317 jan Madrid Alarming acts of viol- The explosion, which occurred just for loss of foreign trade. For in begin an and-French campaign Thinking Japanese wonder. The ence in many parts of Spaini show a train had passel, did consider spite of surface prosperity the two over some French admirsi's mono- extréme military say China must no sign of slackening.
able harm and traffic was delayed ends of the two billion yen Japan tony-breaking annexation of nine be conquered at once and made to ese "national budget do not meet coral rocks between Formosa and pay the bills. A more conservative Recently a French engineer was
for some time
by nearly half the circumference of French Indo-China. This has in-military bloc la forming with the ambushed and shot on coming out Approximate statistics of crimes the financid circle: Japan's ruling spired the sudden discovery that backing of the Osaks exporters. of his office at Seville. At Ban of a social or political character Junta announces that taxes must no Japanese goods enter French who want no more war Those Sebastian a taxicab driver who re committed during the first six be raised. Several Cabinet minis Indo-China, that in preserving Japanese who reason instead of fused to be accessory to a robbery, months of the year include 102 tere dare to indignantly reject their their possessions for their own rant see only one way out. That was "executed" in cold blood. A deaths and 140 woundings, while proposals, manufacturers the French are the is in Immediately effecting an Communist in a village of the Pro- the number of bomb explosions The depreciated dollar la now most thorough of all! They have economic bloc with China. I have vince of Caceres being unable to exceeds 150. Over 500 bombs and competing with the depreciated just drastically reduced the quota interviewed dozens of persona con-- persuade a woman with whom he considerable quantities of explo- yen, Americans firms in Shanghal of Japanese Imports, Into France,cerned in China and Japan on this. was friendly to join the "good, sives and small arms were con- have registered a big increase in France has suddenly slumped in What I have learned will be my cause, stabbed her in eight places, scated, by the police.
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