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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TO-DAY'S HEALTH
TALK.
CURING TUBERCULOSIS.
A
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1925.
tives' feet since the "orders" fall- ed to come.
Hundreds of houses in the suburbs are empty, their owners now living in small rooms, 'those who have not left St. Gall.
Cafes along the once crowded BY DR. HUGH 8. CUMMING]
Post-Strasse, Banhof-Strasse and Despite the educational cam-Markt-Platz, in which are sented paigas that have been carried on hundreds of sad-faced men; the
operatives, during the past few years to former
executives and spread widely knowledge concern-factory ing the nature and prevention of owners, all expecting the return
salesmen, even
NEW FLASH BOILER.
HIGH STEAM CAPACITY IN
tuberculosis, the fact remains of the world's demand for St. Gall the
that many people are still quite embroidery as they wait, wait. uninformed of the simple facts wait.
regarding this disease.
That It is not pleasant to walk tuberculosis is often both curable around in a town and hear the and controllable is not generally tribulations of an industry that appreciated. As a result, many up to recently furnished bread
SMALL SPACE.
The enormously increased steam pressures now being used for power generation and the Im proved efficiency to be obtained by further progress in this direction in very naturally leading to the design or steam generators with minimum water content. Thus we have the "Atmos" and the "Benson" tube bollers, and now some information has been made available concerning the "Becker" flash generator that has no water content at all, water
hot pipes, and lashed" immo diately into steam at any desired
sufferers from this disease lose and butter for 15,000 persons in using sprayed into a coil of very
through neglect their chances of the town and 45,000 in the canton again becoming useful citizens or state of which St. Gall is the
nd prove to be only a menace to ancient capital.
society for a substantial portion
of their lives.
Active tuberculosis strikes more often at those between the nges of twenty and fifty, at a time when people are most free from other diseases,
The Wiener Cafe was the scene of the great affluence of the fullen embroitiery salesmen, a short dis- lance from the Embroidery Ex- change at the Multer-Tor. Here they now gather to bemean their misfortunes, jinking beer where they formerly set up champagne for visiting buyers.
pressure.
Many attempts have been made for over 50 years past ta generate steam on these lines, but trouble
one
the
has always been evere wear and tear on the tubes. Whether the present Becker boller will get over this difficulty and become a practical poposition, remains Lo be seen, Says A | Manchester Guardian correspon- dent. The installation consists of a coil of steel tubes erected in a vertical firchrick casing, and fired. underneath with
oil-blast
While tuberculosis is most common in young adult life, it may
A factory owner declared. "It! occur at any age. Tuberculosis may attack any part of the body not just or fair for buyers to and one form of it may occur in leave us in the lurch with all this Am I many organs of the body at the machinery on our hands. same time and in such cases the right or am I wrong? We owe patient may die of general tuber-the banks who hold mortgages en
kame. The water is discharged | [culosis. However, the form in our factories. Oh, no, they will into the coil by means of an auto-
What would even' which the disuse most commonly not forecioso. occurs is tuberculosis of the lungs, banka do with machines that makematic pump, being given a motion 'downwards towards the hottest Tuberculosis is a contagious Something for which there is no
In practically every present market? We are permit-art of the installation, which also includes a superheater and small existing case the victim contracted to be janitora and watchmen horizontal steel cylinder or drum ed tuberculosis by breathing in of our former property, and our
as a reservoir for the steam pro- For swallowing the germs which workmen have scattered every-deed, in which discharge valves
cause that disease. It is prac where."
and other fittings are attached.
discast.
tically never inherited. Children The amazing thing about the of consumptive parents sometimes St. Gall embroidery people is the It is claimed that by means of become tuberculous because they blind faith they have in the ver- this generator an evaporation can contract the disease from theistain return to popularity of their be obtained equal to that of the
product. So with the wolf ätfordinary water-tube boiler, în-one-i parents or surroundings.
Tuberculosis is not intensely their door, they are waiting, fortieth the space cecupied, and contagious like measles and near-patiently waiting.
that an experimental plant of al
Jadies'
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let fever; it is not contracted by What crushed the St. Gall capacity of 450-1,500lb. of steam merely coming in contact with embroidery market was the lost per hour has given extremely pro- consumptive norgeven by living in demand for white embroideries for mising results, particularly be- the same house with one provided trimming
underwear.enuse of the extraordinary flexi- steam being produced that the consumptive is careful They were also doubly hardhithbility, and clean. Tuberculosis is less when ladies' embroidered blouses instantaneously to almost any contagious than typhoid fever but reased to be fashionable. Britain amount by merely altering the It is very in- tuberculosis furnishes its danger still takes "plumetis"-embroider-supply of water, of infection for a much longer fed effects worked on long lengths teresting to note also the state- period, for years instead of days, of women's fabric in the piece- ment that there is no trouble with permanent boiler scale, and that even when No one is so healthy or so strong but St. Gall "is
hard water is used the fact that that he may not at some time graveyard. develop tuberculosis. Constant Although not in the tourist belt this is almost instantaneously con- attention to the duties of preven of Switzerland, St. Gall is averted inte steam results in the tion is necessary wherever chil-picturesque little town. It is the scale being deposited in the form dren live under the same roof with highest of the larger towns or of a very fine dust, entirely dif
slow a consumptive.
level, which guarantees a ceol ferent from the case of An occasional exposure to Switzerland, 2,208 feet above senevaporation in ordinary types of tuberculosis is not without danger sunimer, but brings heavy fogs boller, with the gradual deposit of
hard homogeneous material. and therefore it is necessary that in the winter. cars, bouts, whiting rooms, restau- rants and all public places be protected from infection by care- less patients suffering from tuber- culosis.
The danger of a persen suffer- ing from consumption infecting fothers in the same house may bej reduced to a minimum provided he will inke the proper precautions but this means constant care on this part. Children'
having; adenoids or enlarged tonsils should have them removed as the ehstruction to breathing caused by these adenoids and enlarged tonsils, favours the development of tuberculosis and other diseases as well.
If tuberculosis attacks the in- testinal canal, the bones, or the glands of a child, that child shall receive careful treatment at once by a physician or surgeon in order that a cure may be accomplished before it is too late.
ST. GALL'S FALL.
LAPSE OF EMBROIDERY DEMAND,
Few know the scars made by a change in styles or a transfer of buying power; how woman's caprice in distant climes can almost overnight transform a thriving, teeming, bustling, happy community into an industrial
morgue.
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And so, here is St. Gall, a living "dead"-city that still is hoping, praying, waiting for the fickle jade, Dame Fashion, to bring back, to please bring back, an un- forgotten golden period when St. Gall embroidery was the rage of the world as a vital, necessary adjunct of women's personal wear. What a tragic place St. Gall has become!
Factory buildings filled with long rows of silent, polished "Sauer" embroidery, machines, i Like the batteries of linotypes in the composing room through which this tale must pass, they are kept tuned up to the hope of a revival.
Grass has grown between the cobblestones of the factory yards; no rush of thick-noted shoes to crush it down; no morning, noon and closing clattering of opera-
BIG REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE.
ACROSS
ROCKY RIVER
The great Hilliard Road bridge. for a number of other elties are one of the most notable examples expected to take similar stops soon.. While most eltics have mudo the of reinforced concrete construe necessary revisions, in somo in- tion, is nearing completion at stances action has been delayed Cleveland,
through misinformation as to the Seven hundred and thirty tons product or because of the labor- of rail steel reinforcing bars were lous task of reconstructing or used in the giant project. The dinances.
bridge, built for Cuyahoga county Extensiva testa proving tho un, by the Walsh Construction: Com-surpassed dependability of rail pany, Davenport, la., crosses the steel reinforcing bars. proceded
well deep ravine of the locky, river, Louisville's action, as providing a splendid outlet for similar stops taken by other Cleveland's west side traffic,
eitien. Architects, enginvare and
in connection with rail stept re-economista point to the decision as inforcing bars, decision of a big forward stride, declaring it widespread interest to the con prevente a monopoly by any one struction industry has just becal typo, of material and gives build- handed down, The corpore a wider range of selection mission of Louisvilje
to roroinforcing opent.", Uso of standard Friso the city ordinances to make section: railroad' ralis, beated and steel reinforcing bars stan-rolled into various sizce and
* dard in all construction works shapes for reinforcing, is also de
so doing it adopted the specinco dared to to to important conner- tions, of the American Society for vation of raw materials and strict Testing Materiala. Louisville'sly in line with President Coolidgu's action was awalled with interest,|plea for economy,
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Arhus have to be carried away.
and grates cleoned.
ELECTRIC HEAT.
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witch the
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