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SATURDAY, AUGUST 27,
1927.
HORATIO BOTTOMLEY
A WARNING NOTE ON TONSILITIS.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
FREE.
'A SURPRISE RELEASE FROM RHEUMATIC INFECTION THAT
PRISON.
CAUSES HEART TROUBLE.
VILLAGERS' WELCOME.
"What people, do not realise is that tonsilitis and St. Vitus's danco are both forms of rheumatic In- fection."
GUARDING CAMP HEALTH, IMPORTANT.
Horatio Bottomley, who was
So said a lending Harley-street convicted at the Central Criminal doctor to The Daily Mirror recent Court on May 29, 1922, of thely, commenting on the report of fraudulent conversion of Nathe Ministry of Health," "Acute tional War Bonds and allotment rheumatism in children and its letters for Victory Bonds and relation to heart disease." bankers' drafts and sentenced to.
In a foreword to this offelal re- seven years' penal servitude, wasport Sir George Newman, the chief released from Maidstone Jail last medical officer, describes rheuma-proper sewage disposal; others month.
He is now at The Dicker, his large country estate near Lewes, in Sussex.
tism as "one of the most insidious, disabling and mortal of all the great diseases."
A GREAT PRECAUTION.
During the summer motorists tour the country, going from place to place, stopping frequently at summer camps. Among the chief |
which they expose dangers to themselves are the drinking of water not properly protected against typhoid fever or dysentery germs. Many camps have im- have places for supplying food. which are not controlled as to the purity of materials sold or as to freedom from bacterial contamina- tion.
"It is perfectly true that almost The release came unexpectedly, every death from heart disease At six o'clock yesterday morning under the age of forty, except in the prison governor's clerk walk the few attributable to congenital ed into Mr. Bottomley's cell and disease, is due directly to rhea- told him that he was to be re-matic infection," continued the leased, and directed that he should
specialist. dress quickly as a car sent by the "I do not suggest that a child's Home Office from London Was tonsils should be removed as a calling for him at seven o'clock matter of course, but there is no to take him direct to his home.
denying that tonsilitis is a rheu-as to The clothes which Bottomley matic infection and liable to cause wore at his trial-morning coat heart trouble unless great care is and vest and cashmere trousers--taken.
were brought to the cell. Before "The younger the patient the the prisoner could wear them the more likely is the heart to be reat had to be altered, but he affected.
insisted that the coat should br
left untouched, so that he might demonstrate the weight-some thing over 3 st--which he has lost during his five years in jail.
Recognised by Employee, Next he was taken to the
"After an attack a child should have complete rest, so that the heart will not be werworked. This is most important."
Mr. N. Chamberlain in Parlia
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John Walker Harrington re- cently described in Tygeia the manner in which some camps pro teet the travelling public. It must be borne in mind that most people are careless in the matter of drinking water. Any water that is exposed cannot be guaranteed its, drlaking qualities. Therefore, all wayside-springs are best sealad with concrete and their discharge conducted by pipes to 9 Fairy. a river or to sewers,
10 Meadows. Spring water is taken from 12 Genuine. lakes, filtered and treated with 13 Residence. chorline so as to make it safe. It 16 Opposite to west. has been found necessary to mark 17 Otherwise. brocks and even the standpipes in 18 Earth. the railroad stations with signs Doorkeepers.
19 One who mimics. to the effect that the water is not 22 Cat-like animal. good for drinking purposes.
23 Sledge. In order to prevent contamina- 25 Ask,
Snakes.
governor's office, where a light ment recently informed Mr. Mac-tion of springs by sewage, camps 26 Rate. breakfast was provided for him, kinder that the housing subsidy are permitted within restricted 27 and then, the motor car, a closed would continue after September. areas, and are provided, as are 28 Local position. one from London, having arrived, Mr. T. Williams asked whether the trails as well, with suitable 20 Fleshy 32 Engle. he was placed in charge of the special consideration would be comfort stations. These must be 30 Hindu goddess of dawn.
screened to prevent the entrance
35 God of love. governor's clerk, who accompanied given to any cases where houses of flies. They rest uncally on sep- 38 Colonist. him in the car to the boundaries were commenced and for some
41 Exclamation. of Maidstone in order that there reason were not completed. Mr.e tanks of concrete in which a should be no leakage of the in-Chamberlain sad he had no power strong solution of caustic soda re- 44 A bum
duces all sewage to.a quid. This 45 Single combat. Formation of his release. On the to vary the order.
may then be pumped out into 47 Duty. outskirts of the town the clerk
wheeled tanks and released in 18 Number.. bade Bottomley, farewell; first
sewage disposal plants.
49 Fabulous monster.. pledging him to drive straight them for five shillings a week.
Bathing pools are likewise pro- 50 Irish. to The Dicker.
The news so spread through vided with filtered water which 51 Light "cavalry soldier. Before Mr. Bottomley left the the village of his home coming, and is chlorinated. The pools are 52 Morose. prison he was provided with a signs of welcome quickly appear- emptied regularly and the walls 53 Viscous muds. printed document commonly called in flags hung out from cottage and bottom scrubbed with heavy ed the "ticket-of-leave," which windows and trees.
fibre brushes dipped in chemical get out that "His Majesty is School children who are on solutions. When clothes are laun
and graciously pleased to grant him summer holiday also rushed up to erd they must be boiled his royal licence to be at large the Bottomley home carrying little hung in the sunlight to dry. from the date of his liberation | Dags.
of peral servitude.".
trance to Dicker House.
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Adherents of a political party,
Military Chaplains,
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An excuse.
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Comfort.
Every bit of food and drinks under this oraer during the re- Next a large Union Jack appear dispensed in any camp should ronining portion of his said termed on the balcony over the en-have passed a proper food inspec
8 tion. Milk should either be certi Although the requirement usu- In the afternoon the village fied or pasteurized nn ler suitable ally imposed on conviets on ticket-was agez with excitement, of-leave that they shall reportagers, including many children, controls. Foods not sealed in periodically to the police has been going up to Dicker House, and packages may be sol; but food handlers who handle food in open waived, it is set out that should talking excitelly
packages should have passed his licence be revoked in eon-expected early release.
physical test as to their freedom sequence of a conviction for any
Plans Upset.
from infectious disease offence he will be liable to under- The suddenness. of the release go a term of penal servitude equal caused disappointment to his vill- to the portion of his term of sevenage friends, who had intended to years which mains anespired-organise a great welcome to hint, one year and 200 days.
Pritcher, his former There were few people on the poultry, manager, and Mr. Pearce, road between Maidstone and The another villager, soon yot busy, in Dicker, and it was not until near an attempt to arrange for a brass ing his home that Mr. Bottomley band to come from Hailsham and was recognised, and then one play the villagers to Bottomley's his employees, turning out of his house."
Guvnor has come."
- Mr.
stud farm, saw him and started Throughout the day Mr. Bottom- back, crying. The Guvnor-theley kept strictly to his house and
garden.
Bottom- Village Bellagged.
People who had seen
to prison Meanwhile the prison governley before he went hal telephoned to Mrs. Bottomley thought that he looked very much that she might expect her husband the same though he was perhaps and she and her daughter. Mrs. Hittle thinner in the face. Jefferson Cohn, who has been con Within six hours of str. Bottom-
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waved and miled from the bal At one time the journal was to cony above. Mr. Bottomley em-have been called The Other Side, braced his wife, and there was and the policy would have been of trace of tears in her eyes as she to present "the other side” told him how glad she was to wel-affairs on
every subject. It is come him home again.
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In his own little village at the title will be Bottomley's Upper Dicker, Sussex. Bottomley is Weekly.
An extensive lecture tour still regarded as the father of the country community. To them being arranged for him all over Bottomley, the convict, is unknown the country and it is expected that everywhere he is pictured as the in the beginning he will deal benevolent country squire. He mainly with his own version of practically made Dicker, where he life in prison and suggestions for built six roomed cottages and let' prison reform.
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