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DISEASES WHICH DEFY RESEARCH.
SLEEPY SICKNESS AND INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
"Almost no progress seems to] have been made" in the unhappy state of affairs in regard to "loopy afckness" and infantile paralysis recorded in the report of the Medical Research Council,
In a section dealing with the difculties which have to be faced regarding diseases caused by filter-passing viruses, it is stated,] "in some diseases in this group, for instance, encephalitis lethar- gien ('sleepy sickness') and poliomyelitis (the cause of infan- tile paralysis, of which the public) are becoming increasingly aware through the many poignant trage- dies they cause, almost no pro-j Kresa acems to have been made in spite of the most arduous efforts of many able men.
of
"Exhaustive observational. study
an epidemic of encephalitis! has failed to discover any clues by! which the movements of the disease among the population can be followed of controlled.
"The only certain hope for the future lies in the steady support of scientific work in this field,' any ingenuity which given some new experimental method or any gainį in accurate knowledge made at any one point is likely to aid pro- gress along the whole line.
"In this matter we are standing almost where our grandfathers) stood in relation to the visible bacteria before the science of bac- teriology as we know it had been founded."
CATHEDRAL'S 12-INCH
CRACKS.
Lincoln Cathedral has been gured from imminent collapse. But the ten year's task of restor ing the edifice, which has been called "The Queen of English Cathedrals," is only half cont pleted..
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20,
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"Half as much work again is before us, and we have already spent more than £62,000. While the north-west lower was being grouted the south-west tower was swaying six inches and its move- ment disintegrated the walls of the consistory court.
of the hill above the town recently through. Experts told me with Dr. T. C. Fry, the Dean, ly that they did not know how the who although more than 81 years structure, kept up. Whereas in St. Paul's the cracks of age daily inspects the work have ant measured, much more and is not averse to climbing 80 than two inches, at Lincoln they and 90 feet of scaffolding. measured as much as 12 inches.
"It is
a terrific lask," he re- For those entrusted with the plied to the newspaperman's work it has been touch and go query, "but I think the danger While thousands of gallons of point is passed. By incessant liquid cement were being poured grouting we have saved the towers into one Lottering lower another from collapse. As we go on how-| has been swaying, and everwiden- over, we find more work demand ing gaps have been appearing ing immediate attention. throughout the great building,
A journalist visited the scaffold ing-excused building on the brow
"This is now being attended to, and by Easter Thope that the whole of the western end of the "The centre tower and great nave will be restored. Then We transepts were supported by shall have to look for more money arches which were cracked right) to proceed,"
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Commenting Wednesday, 20th April 1937,
AFTERNOON & EVENING DRESSES & GOWNS, HATS, SPORTS SWEATERS, SCARVES, ETC.
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