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| PUBLIC DISINFECTION.
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At yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Bonal, presided over by Mr. N. 1. Swith, the following question, of which-notice had been Riven, was put by Dr. W. V. M. Koch
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Better than
good Advice
A striking local testimony to the splendid results achieved with
Cow & Gate
Milk
*ls it fensible to plure the ervices of the Disinfecting Staff of the Department at the disposa of householders when required?" The Chairman, replying, said that is eases of notifiablo disouse disinfection was at once curfied. out. Even if a medical practitioner mentioned aense of infection which did not happen to be notifiable, such as, for instance, measles-of the something of that kind, Department had never refured
knew, to for
he disinfest and always had done sh. 1 Dr. Koch's question meant the whenever a householder happened to think it was necessary ho could enll upon the Disinfecting Stoff: disinfeet bis premises, the answer to the question-was-in-the-negative Tha-Department was continually. receiving requests from members of the public, whose families suffer. fed from symptoms which might be extraordinarily alike, to fumigete thair quarters. The illness migh have been due to the enting of ish or drinking too much kui. Ile wished to make without It quito alear that the advice of a medical practi tioner it was almost impossible to undertako disinfection at the whiin of any member of the public.free
Payment of Course, Dr. Koch mentioned that there wore suspicious cases in which it Judding. undertaken, might be
There will be payment, of course We are not going to do it as pastime."
15
1 should trougly object to any and Dr. question of paymbat,"
Medical Pearse, W... W.
the Officer of Health. reasonable request
ent in uggesting that a certain definit disense has occurred, even though eventually it is not definitely stablished, I should be quite glad
Food.
A Hongkong "Cow & Gate
aged 7 months gaina 191 ozs. in
14 days.
Baby
JULY 16, 1924.
The photograph reproduced below is that of a well-known Hongkong lady's baby. This sturdy and beautiful child, fed entirely on Cow & Gate Milk Food, gained 184-oza, in the short space of 14 days—a splendid tribute to the value of Cow & Gate Milk Food. Besides being particularly adapted for feed- ing Babies in a climate such as ours, it has un- equalled body- building qualities.
Cow & Gate Milk Food.
tedient advice and at RECENT CAKE SCARE. butter, had shown that there was a
considerablo dogrou of avidity. It gavo a reaction which suggested flint.
Babies
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VISCOUNT KURODA.
tendnnue. Ho repeated that if, any medical practitioner, was not
jed pyrotexican. This wan a certnia quite certain that an infectious
Tokyo, July 15 The death in livease had occurred in a particular CASES OF SUPPOSED FOOD there might be present a poison coll POISONING.
poison which occurred in ico cream announced of Viscount Kiyotsuna house, but entertained suspicions that one hed, then he was quite At a meeting of the Sanitary Board butter and chceno in very rare case. Kuroda Ho was for many years a prepared to direct that disinfection yesterday, a discussion took place The poison was unstable, and rapidly
circlen- Neuter.
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measures should be enrried out.
in regard to a number of cases of disappeared under heat and mois political leader in the House of The Schools.
alleged fund poisoning. The matterture, but when it was present it was Pors, and well known in French ars Dr. Koch alun wiked:
(Viscount Kuroda was born in Are stops taken to disinfect was brought up by Dr. W. V. M. in very, very small quantities. Acting Government Secols before the Koch, who, in accordance with notice, jupon this presumption--although the
chemist was of the opinion pyrotoxi. 1830. He took prominent and notivo asked the following question: 1f commencement of terni?.
can was present, on aeduant of the part in the Meiji Rostoration.) not, canast this be done?"
"As many cases of acute gastro- |
cream or custard having given a The Chairman replied that the
enteritis occurred a few weeks ago certain reaction which accounted for in the City, resembling plomaine
unable to answer to the first part of the quer
This
the poisoning, and was poisoning in symptoms, have any to consider the advisability oltion was in the negativa.
bot 1
not question was discussed quite thor- Alimlection,
reports been sent in to the Medical confirm his muspicions, the chomist, with himself and various other in- langhly one four or live years agui
Officer of Health, and leave any interested people, went down to the prepared to spend the time
beladen the Elueation Depart Department Or aficers of this
vestigations been made 1"
bakery. There they saw the process the stares of this Department,anent and the Sanitary Department,
of similar ciken, ont what fhend it was deebled that all that I
Dr. Penrae, the Medical Ofteer of of manufacture Un carrying publie en disinfection simply was required was nothing auch
Health, in reply, said a certain num they inspected the bakery and found more then what they called because Mr. A. or Mr. 13. or Mr.
Plenty of soup ber of cases reported to be suffering nothing there which could, account bind been for any ham coating from the cakes. C. says he considers disinfection spring cloning
and water and a little disinfestant from food poisoning, should he carried out.
Dr. Pearse mentioned Hat very faded was all that was considered, brought to his notice, which was Everything was perfectly elena.
message eatae down to necessary: That could hardly be thought to be due to the eating of a special kind of enke made with hin practually ordering bua to glorified into the category of thin
The cakes had In the minds of the infection. As to the second part custard and creat general public fumigation and of the question, disinfection would been examined by the Government disinfection were synonomous, certainly be carried out pil it was
Analyst and the examination was The public knew nothing at all thought necessary, but it was net Bacteriologist and the Government
Of course, if any about lumigation and disinfection; msidered so.
infectious diseases negative. That was to say that there in fact so little did it know that it Botiliable was exploited and wasted a lot of occurred at a school, the Depart was present in the cakes no interia money every year on what was thent took action at once, and inore which would occasion what was com known as spurious disinfection rustic setion than in the case of a monly called food poisoning. As far
often a
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It was impossible to prove thuir New York... 7.St Louis
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Ir. Boston 2 Chicago...
National League. was proeant in the butter. Some of Philadelphin... Detroit....
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who suffered
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the people sickness to a greater or less degrea lid not take any of these particular Pittsburg ..... custard cakes; some had only taken einst and butter, but nevertheless
loss degroo froia symptoms
of importure or bakers to tell if the but- To the general public anything private house, because there was as he could gather from some medical they had suffered to a greater or officer of Health aid, for the
It would that produced some sort of chemini greater tendency for the disease to men who described their cases
That was sprend It had already been ruled him, and from interviewing people use or nauser plus diarrhoea. ter snel was disinfection. not his view.' Tf ho bad reason that what work was necessary, who had suffered, he was of the The Medical Officer of Health said good and anell good; it would only think there was any disease occur-could be done by the coolio sta ofi
in the nature of a non-bacterial supplied to this particular bakery use, to a chemical examination that ring in a house and some sort of the achant who were not avorwork-opinion that this outbreak was more that he found on enquiry the butter bo by submitting the butter, bofoto for the manufacture of the caken they could discover it was bad. disinfection was advisable, he wased during the holidays.
was very largely used in Hongkong. His opinion was not coneinsive,, but Dr. Kool expressed the opinion poining thin bacterial poisoning. prepared to instruct that it should
A Peculiar Polen."
As a matter of fact the firm which it was strongly suggested to him that be done, but he would not, untegant it was very necessary that the
The rapid onset of the disease and imported the batter sold about it was merely an accident which he received the direct onders of the Government Schools abouki be
200 pounds a day. It was not thecould not have been avoided, and no Government so to do, waste the cleans and disinfected by that stures and time of that Department Departament. It should be done at the rapid recovery pointed to some
It must be thing like ploomine poisoning, as best butter obtainablo, but it was blame whatever could be attached in carrying uut some sort of spurious least one & term. disinfection at the whim of any remembered that in the schools distinct from bacterial poisoning a good cooking butter and in all to the bakery, either to the manage- there were a large number of The chemist advised bite that there probability, when any of them went ment or the cooks employed in mate member of the public.
E. Koch remarked that he was Dr. Kuch pointed out that the physical enzea, such as phthisis were present in the cakes no miuer into a restaurant in the Colony, this ing the cakes. stores were provided by public and other disenses, and whilst · al or alkaloid poisoning, thus doing was the kind of butter that they got money and existed for the benelit plenty of air and sunshine tendet away with the suspicion prevalent in He had heard that some hundreds of pleased to hear the sound opinio d the health of the people of this to kill the infection, he thought the Galony that the baker who had į encon of food poisoning had occurred expressed by the Medical Officer of that they should go further and made these caken had accidentally, throughout the Colony, but only one Health. He himsoll had had severa? instance, the onko Colony.
or through the fault of numeone emmedical man had reported to him chaer In ono have the schools disinfected.
ployed in the bakery, mixed with the about it, so that there were only a wero ordered from quito a different cakes something which was poison small number of cases upon which restaurant from the one referred to, ous. The chemist also nilvised him, he could base his enquiries. Suppos. There was another ouse in which tho that an examination of some of the ing that the poison did exist in the poisoning resulted from_esting lobs cakes, particularly those made of baiter, it was impossible, the Modionl tor kopt for some hours
The Chairman: Clenosing what we call it.
Replying to Mr. Wong Kwong. tin. wh ked if the Medira! Officer of Health could investigate
Dr. Rach: Disinfecting is what the ensus reported, Dr. Pearso
aid ho
the had not
Lime
Thote being no further discus to
at the place his services disposal of the public to givetion, the subject dropped. 7.
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