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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1952.

HIS is titanfum, the metal of the future. Engineers are calling it "the new middleweight champ" because though it looks and wears like stain- less steel it is only about half as heavy,

It does not rust or cor- rode even in sea water. And there is no shortage of its times ores, which are 50 more abundant than those of copper or tin.

THE DISCOVERY PAGE “.... whóng': achievement catches up with endeavour....... Edited by CHAPMAN PINCHER

You may have called it 'gastric flu... but-

:

ARE YOU SURE YOU DIDN'T RAKE THE FIRE OR STROKE THE CAT WHILE PREPARING A MEAL?

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HOUSANDS of housewives are poisoning, their families through carelessness,

Dr William Clunie Harvey, a medical officer of health, warna.

He carried out an inquiry-in 300 middle-class Homes in Southgate, Middle- sex, and found that in ninety of them at least one member of the family had shown symptoms of food poisoning during the previous month.

He believes that many of those digestivo upsets we put down to the weather or attacks of "gastric flu" are really caused by food which has become infected in the kitchen.

"The average housewife

to

. neglects even the most elementary precautions necessary

safeguard family health," he charges in his new book, "Food Hyglene."

"How often does one see the housewife leave her work of preparing a mend to stroke the cat. replenish the fire, or wash a few odds and ends in the sink?

sho washed her thoroughly after lands each operation no harm would be done, but all falls too frequently she to realise the Importance of this simple ritual.""

Dr Clunie Harvey be lieves that much food polsoning is caused by Inulty washing up. He urges housewives to get

rid of their drying cloths and let the dishes dry themselves

after

thorough washing and rinsing in really hot

water.

that be organisms grown by culturing rinses from kitchen cloththey' might then appreciate the Involved." he dangers writes.

"It is unfortunate

shown

housewives cannot all

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VEN froning, the dullest of chores, has now come into the range of glamour ideas.

With the model plc- tured here, the house wife scents her laundry as she irons.

There is + water tank in the Iron. You simply add eight drops of a special perfume- and your linen and Ungerie is given the scent of pine or laven der to order.

Finished

*

ironing ?

then use four draps of perfume, set the troo back on li· end-and you have what 1052 calls

household deudorfstr."

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The scented steam hom the tron (It is claltned by the American thakers) clears the air smoky rooms," over. comes cooking odours.

Moth tests WHILE housewives are busy swatting clothes-moths a scientist has a out at. St. Bartholomew's Hos full-time job rearing 4,000 of pital, London. them every day.

The progresy of 90 babies fed Working in him under every four hours was compared ground laboratory nor Man with that of two other groups at chester Mr: Arthur Roberts fed at three-hourly Intervals.

Why then is titanium scarce that I had to scour Len don's laboratories to find the Ingot pictured here?

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Because scientists are beginning to discover how solve the dificult problems extracting and purifying metal.

to brings up his baby moths on a The average pain in weight was of diet of soft flannel impregnated almost identical.

the

SHOCK RESISTER Titanium seems to be ideal

sweet

So you think you've got

got na a palate?

NEW people can tell the difference between a cake made with fresh eggs and butter and one made with dried egg and margarine.

And few can tell whether bread has been made from really white Hour of prewar quality or from the current National flour which is considerably courser,

These indictments of the public palate are made thorough taste-tests on more than 2,000 people. today, by bakery acientists who have carried out

A team led by Dr John Coppock made the tests on men and women of widely different wage groups in Glasgow.

Precautions were taken so that the tasters got no cluds to quality from the appearance of the Madeira cake, layer cake and miniature two-ounce loaves which they ate.

Flies Don't Care

Any More

been

The scientists found that most people could easily de- tect when high quality flour of prewar standard was used in a cake-which helps to explain why even a house- wife who uses fresh eggs cannot bake as tasty D cake as she did before the

war.

But most people could not detect any difference when the flours were used In loaves.

The difference .between present-day flour and wartime flour, from which only 15 per- cent of its coarse wheat grain "Impurities' were removed, way easily detected however,

Tests carried out with short- brend showed that most people could easily tall when mar- gorine had been used instead of butter.

Throughout the trials women proved to be more sensitive tasters than men.

Dr Coppock was surprised to Antl that smoking-and the Wear- ing of dentures saem to : have only slight effect on a person'a palate.

The more you eat "the more there are

for

with yeast. He uses them to Doctors are so impressed by test new moth-proofing chemi- the results that four-hourly

CIENTISTS who be of the US. Federal Security more rabbit pies Britons cat to eke out the ment cols.

feeding has been adopted

retion the foster rabbits spreadi lieved they were all Agency.

disturbed to. And over Britain's farma. Commer They were Samples of woollen fabrics routine at Bart's maternity de-

set to conquer malaria traces of the Insecticide even in cidl trapping is increasing

the treated with anti-meth agents partment.

by destroying mosquitoes people who had not been know- rabbit population Instead of re- for building faster-than-sound are weighed and placed in small

boules. Then the moth man Saved by speed with D.D.T. are having to ingly exposed to It They believe ducing its numbers. . planes which will have to stand

hungry hand- puls in a few

on vegetables up to friction and shocks 100

reared grubs to do their worst.

-had UT OF EVERY 100 soldiers recast their plans. Mos- it gained entry

which

treated with There are three reasona severe for aluminium alloys.

prsty OUT

are wounded in Korea and quitoes

becoming DD.T. to ward off insect attack. this surprising discovery Its resistance

water The damage is measured by to sea

reweighing the fabric to seo sent to Allled hospitals only two almost immune to the The possible health hazards makes it specially attractive for whether the moths find it ap- die, an official U.S. report "wonder" insecticide.

involved in the widespread "use Natural causet which thin building ships.

of D.D.T. need to be recon- out the rabbit" population Scientists are examining two petising or Indigestible. Roberts claims.

removal Rapid

from the The speed with which insects sidered," they warn.

overy winter operate far more new titanium alloys which in claims striking success

new math-proofer developed

effectively if warrens are overa proportion

battlefield by hoverplane has have developed resistance to 'to their weight

from A

called Marlius dye

brought about much of the re- D.D.T-a resistance which they

crowded. seem to be the strongest build-yellow. He estimates that duction in the "Died from-pass-on to their offspring-has. ing materials ever made,

every year moth grubs cat more wounds" casualty lists.

dismayed the scientists.

The fact that they have also than 1,000 tons of wool-which

become restatont to other peared to Insecticides

which they reported

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́A ̃CABE of a hen with four

So if the rabbits": housing all of which a problem is solved for them by function, has been

trapping in the autuma thord veterinary of them survive until the fol was Tully

lowing spring...

to

the have never been exposed has surgeon. Each heart Toom decay among

chikiren 'of Nowburgh, astonished the scientists even formed and blood seemned US., has been almost halved more. Some inseels have even through them all in succession, The fowl was full grown and

Traps kill off a bigger pro- since the health authorities be- become resistant to prissic acid.

was not dis-portion of stoats, foxes, and TOTHERS who fod their gon to put traces of the gos. Houseflies were first to develop its abnormality

new-born babies, at

the fluorine in the town drinking Immunity to D.D.T., which killed covered until it was killed for other animals which help to

the pot.

keep rabbits town. And those water eight years ago.

them in thousanda' a few years

animals cannot recover

their numbers so quickly.

MOTH

hours.

DTO-

standard interval of every three bours would have given them

In nearby Kingston, which go. just as good a start in life if they had fed them every four has not yet adopted this

tective measure, there has been a no improvement in the condi- This has been proved by carefully controlled test carrica tion of the children's teeth.

More than 7,500,000 Ameri- water "Food Hygiene," by W. C. Har- cans are now drinking Day and H. IN) (Lawu, 35%). treated with Buorine.

ONE QUART OF SCOTCH

So

NOW THAT'S THE LIMIT

Heart-beats

Trappers purposely move on to fresh fields after they

D.D.T. still bowls them over, but many of them now recover after their bodies have "daloxi- Acd" the poison. Then they are able to fly away unharmed, though tests have shown that they still contain enough D.D. to kill a prewar ny.

The whale's pulse-rate was 20 After

trials in successful

These Andlugs emerge from a and British Gulaga, as an elephant's,

per minute about half as fast

four-year study of rabbit bew. D.D.T. looked like being

How do you take an elephant's haviour carried out by a team answer. to the m

malaria-carrying pulse? By inducing it to stand led by Professor Alumnir, Wors mosquito. But now it has lost on damp pads connected with its punch for both the mos- an electric heart-beat recorder.

They captured, rabbits

been living whale.. har THE PULSE BATE of a measured by a heart specialist.

A harpoon containing "ah have eliminated about one-third electric lead connected with a of the rubbile to give them a heart-beat recorder was word, to chance to recover their num- catch the whale.

bets by the following season.

Sardinia

quitoes and their larvae..

the

Scientists are now trying to Insecta have discover how the capacity become immunt. They know it

drink OME people. can

cope were given a with alcohol so effec- test by U.3. doctors.

By taking blood tests the tively that they can drink doctors were able to calculat a double whisky every hour the inhximum amount of alcohol for 24 hours and show no trace of alcohol in their up in one day. bodies at the end of it.

which the drinkers could burn

the

The top limit even for most seasoned drinker scoms Others are born with systems to be about one quart of only half as efficient in burn- Scotch. For most people it is ing up alcohol' and so neu-probably less than one pint. tralising Intoxicating effects. The alcohbiles

In the

than

test

the

This has been proved by ex- could not deal with substantial-

whisky periments in which moderato ly more

rinkers and chronic alcoholics moderato drinkers,

JOHNNY HAZARD

Wave Band

den,

alive

In loose snares at all hours of the day and night. They mark- A MACHINE which ed and released them. measures and records, the

Later, of all the waves"en-

commercial troppers

is not due to any increase in the strength of their "armour" for heights. D.D.T. does not kill files even weathers has been invented by Belds to see how many of the countered by a ship in ali were allowed to operate in the when it is infected into them.

men of Britain's National marked rabbits they caught.

Institute of Oceanography.

Its main purpose is to provide new facts about the way wind causes waves,

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BUT PEOPLE-- FRESH FEARS about the direct effects of D.D.T. on human health have been raised by the discovery that it can accumulate, in the body...

Minute samples of tissues taken from human volunteers "aquarium. have been. analysed by dxperts..record for.an.cel was. 55 years.. porta

AERMAN chemists are trying to make paraffin olla and AN EEL has lived to be 88 waxes into fals, which might years ald in a Swedish be used for food, Professor Previous longevity Karl Thonias, of 'Gottingen, re-

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