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'Evidence from Liverpool was heard by the Street Offences Com- mittee, altting at Old Palaceyard, Westminster, recently.'
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
1928.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
culous
CARE IN TREATING TUBERCULOSIS.
BEWARE OF QUACKS..
Mr. Stuart Deacon, the Of all of the persons suffering! Stipendiary magistrate for Liver-from chronic illness, tho tuber-i pool, said that in twenty years the number of worien arrested for these offences had fallen from 1,772 to 310 a year. ***
The chairman (Mr. H. P. Macmillan, K.C.): Have you any theory, to explain that?
aro most constantly solicited by one or another form of quackery.
The desire of members of the family or of neighbours to believe that the patient has not tuber- culosis but only bronchitis or n Mr. Deacon: No, except from bad cold or something of that general observation. It seems to nature is likely to cause them to me to be common to the country.suggest all sorts of temporary It may be due to improved morais remedies that are usually worth- Improved streets; perhaps Invariably there are persona partly due to the diminution in the who have heard of patients who
or
hours of licensed houses..
The Chairman: It may be that changes in social conditions have rendered this kind of offence less
common?
Mr. Deacon: I would like to think so, but personally I am not prepared to say It Is so."
less,
have recovered in a day or two
by some remarkable method, not- withstanding the fact that scien- the evidence does not provide a single case of immediate recovery of a patient with tuberculoata.
In neighbourhood clubs and churches appear representatives of all sorts of peculiar dietary leagues and faith healing founda-
Mr. Dezcon qucted a report that of forty-four wonten taken in by the Church of England Temperance tons that are willing to have their Society, thirty-seven proved antis-measures tested for a price... factory, and that many women be- If there is one condition above camo reformed characters. "Some all others in which the patient of these women welcome imprison cannot afford to temporize with ment," added Mr. Deacon. "It is quackery and trifling methods of n period of rest and recuperation healing it is tuberculosis. Such a of health, and I have heard-it patient has one certain method of Hounds a sad thing to say-that it benefit; namely, proper rest, pro- is regarded as rest-cure, which
per diet, proper amounts of sun- in other classes might be taken at light and outdoor air, proper Harrogate."
exercise, and properly administer- ed remedies carefully controlled by repented examinations and by constant Investigation of the con-
Mr. Jowitt suggested that on the evidence of a policeman against that of a woman of bad character it was almost inevitable she woulddition." be convicted.
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Mr. Deacon: I confess to some extent there is a loading of the dice
there.
Mr. Lionell Everett, Chief Con- stable of Liverpool, also gave evidence. Mr. Macmillan asked him if there was a tendency for the professional prostituto to be super- seded by the amateur.
Many of the forms of treatment that come out of a bottle contain druga that are dangerous to the tuberculous, because they speed up the metabolism or place undue stress upon the patient's organs. Other methods are dangerous be cause they seem to arouse excep- tional virulence in bacteria that are apparently being handled to a certain extent by the patient's own Immunity.
Mr. Everett. I do not go so far s to say that. I think the flighty girl is out to get all.she can in the
Secret methods of treatment are way of thorough enjoyment, at the
Inevitably dangerous, because it is expense of any young fellow or man important for both the patient and she comes acrosa, but I am not pre-
hie physician to know pared to say she is anxious to pro-actually goes into the patient's The American Medical
stituto herself.
The Chairman You think there body."
what
ia xer Behaviour without neces- Association maintains a bureau of Harily an increase of immorality? investigation which will reply to -I think there is a great deal.
any inquirer regarding the merits. Mr. Everett thought the old type of supposed cures for tuberculosis, of prostitute was disappearing in whether medical, electrical, mental favour of a more "respectable" or physical.
The National Tuberculosis type, who lived in a flat. A great many migrated to other towns for some months of the year.
The Committee adjourned tilla date to be fixed.
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A case of smallpox was discover- ed in the hospital at Cardiff Prison recently. The man was at once removed to the locul isolation hos- pital, and all persons in the prison may be isolated.
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A SEVEN-YEAR SENTENCE.
MANILA CASHIER SENT TO
PRISON. ..
J. F. Owaley, formerly cashier- accountant of the Dollar Steam- ship Line, in Manila, who pleaded guilty recently on two charges of estafa has been sentenced by Judge Emilio Mapa, of the Court of First Instance of Manila, to a total of seven year, one month and two days imprisonment. The accused entered Bilibid last Satur- day.
The accused, at the same time was ordered to indemnify the Dollar line in the total sum of Pesos 18,921.15 will subsidiary Imprisonment in case of insol vency. The money which Owaley misappropriated, belonged to tha Company.
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