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A WM. BEAUDINE
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With Evelyn Brent, Irene Elch Louise Farbods, Lllyan Tashman. Marceline Day, Fritzi Biegoway
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1932.
POULTRY ON SHOW.
FINE DISPLAY FOR EMPIRE PRODUCTS FAIR
PROF. GERRARD'S LECTURE
HOW MENINGITIS IS SPREAD
THE PRUSSIAN CABINET.
EXPECTED TO RESIGN AS RESULT OF ELECTION
Berlin, Apr. 26.
There is promise of a very fine display of poultry at the Empire Products Fair, to bo. held at the
Prof. W. I. Gerrard, of the Hong- The term of office of the pre- Peninsula Hotel on May 23 and 24. kong University, delivered a paper sent Prussian Cabinet expires on As at present planned, there will before the members of the Hong- the 20th. of next month and in kong Chinese Medical Association view of the result of the elections be available approximately thirty last night on the subject of it is anticipated that it will resign coops, each mensuring two fest, by Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. Dr. T. rather than face a motion of non- two feat, by two feet six inches Y. Li, President of the Association confidence. high. Already applications have was in the chair.
Even then, however, it must been received for some fifteen Prof. Gerrard said.-Cerebro- carry on until the new Cabinet Is conpa. These have been reserved, spinal Meningitis or Spotted Fever formed. In consequence of the and in them Buch breeds as S. C. is an alarming disease but yet difculty of getting a new Minia- White Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks Meningococcal Meningitis when try afoot it is quite probable thint of Horr Otto Braun, the Premier (barred), Orpingtons, Minorcas compared with other forms
Reds will be meningitis is by far the most hope- and Herr Severing, Minister of the and Rhode Island
ful as regards response to treat-Interior, will continuo shown.
ment-poor consolation perhaps Prussia for some time yet, as the to some,
heads of the provisional Govern- ment.
Apart from the birds, there will be offered for sale new-laid eggs, hatching eggs, feeding troughs, waler fountains and an assort ment of specialised poultry food. Mrs. R. M. Dyer (608, The Fenk) and Mr. J. A. S. Alves (c/o Mesara, Hughes and Hough) were elected a sub-committeo at the last meeting of the Fair Committee to organise and take charge of the poultry sec- tion. They will be very willing to aasiat Intending exhibitors with advice and any other information.
Nazis
to rule
It is not likely to be known until June, when the Diet, meets. whether the
are able to count on sufficient assistance to get into power-Router's Special Service.
We all know the disease is due to the Meningococcus which prefera to appear in eplemic form at ce tain periods of the year. The pro valence is greatest during the first six months and this has been at.. tributed to cald, to wet, to East winde and increased humidity. We are aware that these factors act
One good thing is that the men- only by cnusing overcrowding and
in-ingococcus dies very quickly when deficient ventilation and so crease the number of carriers of removed from the mucous mem- the Meningococcus, From our war brane of the carrier. experiences we know that over- Knowledge Still Sought. The following provisional condi- crowding in barracks and confin- tions have been drawn up for in-ed spaces resulted in severe formation and guidance of lutend-epidemics. Ing exhibitors:
Conditions Drawn Up.
1. There will be no entrance fee. and no competition.
2. All birds intended for exhibit will be examined before they will be allowed to be shown. Birds with the slightest sign of sickness will be rejected.
Medico's Duty.
We congratulate ourselves on the advance in the knowledge of in- fectious discaso which the germ theory has brought about, and wit we are utterly and completely "As medical men it is our duty ignorant of the two things about to calm public anxiety by giving infectious disease which are most the assurance that Cerebro-Spinal worth knowing on that topic. Meningitia is seklom spread direct- First no man has conceived how ly from a patient. The infection the parasites of disease first at- of doctors and nurses is rare, and tached themselves on the body--a specific the disease rarely spreads from specifie parasite to
a ward. animal. We have not the lenst 3. birda must reach the Penin-one patient to others in
how diseases first begin. sula Ilotel not later than 11 a.m. Multiple cases in familles affected idea
is are rare. The infection har- Secondly no one knows why dis- on Monday, the 23rd May, accom- panied by a note stating clearly boured and carried by healthy cases vary in virulence from time whether the birds are for exhibit chronic carriers. and or for sale.
for'.
The Carrier Danger.
carriers both acute many
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to time, why, for instance, should the meningococcus in some cases prove mild in its manifestations 4. Birds for exhibit may not be "A person after having had the and in others have a devastating removed until after the Fair, Bay, disease may become a carrier, but effect. We know it is said that on the 24th May at 6 p.m. Those
and human resistance varies but that is for sale can be removed immediate-chronic have never had the discase. only to restate the problem in terms
know nothing. ly after the birds have been paid A rise in the carrier rate is a of which we
Chits will not be accepted.
danger algnal, because when this these high topics of Medicine and us little 5. Sanitary coope which will be rate reaches twenty per cent. actual know as much thoroughly disinfected before use cases of the disease begin to ap. Hippocrates.
"A Truly Gloomy Picture." will be supplied. Every precaution pear and an epidemic commences. will be taken that Immediately The increase in the carrier
Prof. Gerrard then went on to after the close of the opening day's will be found to be associated with Fair and before the re-opening on over-crowding and bad ventilation. speak of the pathology of the disease and to discuss methods of Empire Day, all coops and birds
There are conditions which pre-diagnosis and treatment. Speak- will be slightly sprayed with disia- dispose to an attack such as naao-ing of prophylactic vaccine, fectant. The birds will be properly pharyngeal catarrh, fatigue and Prof. Gerrard at the conclusion fed, watered and cared for during the period of the Fair.
rate
lowered resistance after some other of his paper said there had been illness. The infection is conveyed no great facility for giving this trial on an extensive 6. The Fair Committee will exer- directly from mouth to mouth in method a cise all reasonable care and atten- droplets as in coughing or sneezing, scale in Hongkong. "The epidemic tion of all birds exhibited at the The infecting power and virulence at present dying down," he added, men- "has not been a severe one but my Fair, but they will not assume any of the particular strain of
There is no own experiences as regards mor responsibility for loss, etc., etc. ingococcus varies.
As a protective measure, however, evidence that the infection is con- tality rate have been sad. So far the Fair Committee will endeavour veyed or spread by fomites, that the death rate in the eases I have to obtain an insurance policy cover-is to say, by various articles touch-seen has been no less than 85 per ing theft and fire.
ed by the patient.
cent, a truly gloomy pleture."
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Minna Gombell Jobyna Howland William Collar,St.
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