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WORLD'S GREATEST TB DRIVE

By HERBERT GATTO

N intensive

AN

two-year

campaign against tuber- culosis, planned on a bigger scale than ever attempted before in the world, will be Inuached in Scotland in March of next year,

Focal point of the attack will be Glasgow, where the disease is more prevalent than in any industrial centre In the United Kingdom.

This will bo immediately followed by a series of smaller but still spectacular X-ray our-l veys in Edinburgh, the capital, in Aberdeen, in Dundee, and in the industrial belt of Scotland.

Target for the two-year period for Scotland is et leost Onc million people throughout tie: country-in rural as well as urban districts-io pus uvugh the mass X-ray centres.

For five weeke, 30 complete X-ray units will concentrate on all areas of the city of Glasgow, By the end of the five weeks it is hoped that at least 250,000 of Glasgow's cklizens will have submitted themselves to This

chest-photography,

can

The ther

IMMENSE SCALE

The immense scale of drive

be julted by comparison that in the tea years from 1945 to the end 1994 the total number of Scots who submitted themselves for masa X-ray examination wers between 600,000 and 700,000,

of

Eye-catching slogan of the new drive will be the urgent madient advice, "Earlier dis- covery means quicker recovery,

To break

prejudices down against mass examluation and to encourage people to visit "the X-ray centres, a nation-wide newspaper advertising campaign. will be directed to getting prople to consult their doctors if they have symptoms or think they have tuberculosis,

has

toil

Scotland's TA ineldener slightly improved In the war years, but, with the from discuse still higher than in most other countries of Europe, Scotland's Secretary of State.

Mr James Stuart. hns called upon the medlen ufficers ot health throughout the country to organise a full-scale blitz."

The position is unsatisfactory in the number of new cases re- ported. Today the average in Scotland is about 18 new victims dolly.

DEATH RATE

ties

the

In Europe, Scotland figures badly when the death rate per hundred thousand of population Is compared with that of countries. Scotland comes int In the 1st with a rate of 22 compared with the lower: 7.1 in the Netherlands, country moyi free from scourge. England and Wales (combined) occupy Feventh position with a rate of 17.9.

Although Glasgow 15 the worst black spot of Scotland,

Kenneth Dr

Cowan, chief medical officer of the Scottish Department of Health, says that no scientific investigation yet tracked down the root cause of the high incidence in the city to the bad housing condi- lions in some parts of it par- ticularly in slum areas.

Victims of tuberculosis can be found everywhere, even in the mos! remote and Isolated arens

"Malik, Malenkov, Serov, Krushchev, Bulganin-if them Russians was to declare war today there'd be half of 'em over here already."

JEAN MACgregor hIND TELLS ONE OF

THE "WORLD'S STRANGEST

i

STORIES

THE GENERAL'S LADY

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HE arrival of the passenger boat from Buenos Aires has al- ways been the signal Asuncion, for everyone in the capital of Paraguny, to sather on the quay to stare al the new arrivals,

1854

One morning there was more than usual excitement. people aolaml- ly hurried to the riverside at in Paraguay (then 23 now) hurrying was A rare phenomenon. But th: packet-t was being es- corted by the Paraguayan warship Ïacury, and the astonishing news had spread that General Francisco Solunu LojIZ, eldest son or hair-apparent of Para- guay's Dictator, Carlos An tonio Lopez, had returned from Europe, bringing with him a foreign woman who had eyes as blue as the sky and hair the colour of the Hun.

She brought Paris to the steaming jungles

of Paraguay

She went to war in a

carriage She vied, in cruelty, with who was the monster

her husband

power

And there she was, in a crinoline gown of pale violet lute, unquestioned silk, cut so low as to shock wielded by his father, and the modest Guarani (Para- of his own plans to increase gunyan Indian women in that power when he himself their white skirts and black ruled, it seemed to her that shawls. She opened an ab- here was a way of solving her short-term surd tiny parasol, swayed not only

of any country. Congested living, down the gangplank and financial difficulties but also

stepped on to the red Para- her long-term future. guayan soil Ella Alice

conditions. on the other hand, can help the distuse to spread.

But one of the main aims of

find

the new campaign in Scotland will be to search out and the source of the malady,

UNDETECTED CASES

So

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What it is felt has failed in Scotland in past efforts to com- 'bat the disease is the finding of Chat all undetected cases, infection can be stopped from spreading ot

the very source. Says Scotland's Secretary of State: The nearer we can get to the 100 percent success in finding the tindetected cases, the 'nearer we shall get to the aboli- tion of tuberculosis in country."

It is on this ambitious basis that the new plan to fight TB is being developed,

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Thus Cebo Uruguay Victims had muskels piled on to them until they confessed anything. Lopez's lleutenants suggested to them. Many victims died under weight of the müskets,

From beneath Ella's fastidious exterior emerged a strain of pure sadism. She had the Cepo Uruguay applied to women whom she suspected of with- holding their jewellery or whom she happened" to dislike,

her

But in time Lopez's fine army hold been reduced by battle losses, floggings, torture and cliscase to a rabble of shadows, and in 1000 it became nesersary to evacuato Asuncion, At the head of the barefoot

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Madame Lynch, red-gold curls unruffled, few valuable gifts himself, he her

his gowned, as always, in the latest backing to the rapacious de- was quite willing to lend

Parts fashion. With her in the rode her children by mands she made upon wealthy carriago

numbered cultivated Lopez, who by now Paraguayans

four, her acquaintance in the hope of

well with their next In the dense forests of the far standing Dictator.

north of Paraguay the Brazilians unil even It was an appalling shock to surrounded them, her to learn, after six years in Lopez and Ella know it was the Asuncion, that Lopez was plan- d

ind Lopez was desperate, oble to peale he ning to marry the daughter of

of hardly

wheeled his horno Don Pedro, Emperor of Brazil embraced

his of

scheme to and galloped away. Pancho, --part

old enough at dominate the whole Continent, their Bratborn, However, Ella

posacmed from 18 to be a fighter, followed him, Young Lopez, of course, found the white-skinned beauty with nerves and a cool head, so she but an enemy lancer ran down

cald

the boy, Lopez was knifed by a nothing tinued the red-gold hair quite irresist

smile Brazilian corporal while fording tible; he fell violently in love and

Sure enough, Pedro of Brazil the Aquidaban River. with

her and, because c swore that never, never, would

and: her intelligence spirit

he give his daughter to "that Shc had always been matched her beauty, he re-

ugh nigger of Paraguay" and mar nined enslaved by her (thous. her instead to the Counte headstrong, and in her early ma

That ended the fighting, and teens had married a French not by her exclusively)

d'Eu. violent death 17 years later,

the Brazilian- This public attront seemed to

commander rode doctor merely to escape When Ella travelled

to South

just destroy the last vestiges xf

into the Parðgunyan comp. from family supervision and Amerten with him there is no restraint and civilisation in was ontounded to encounter, a to get to the sparkling Paris doubt that the expected Lopez the half-breed Lopez. He began lady gowned in unrumpled white of the Second French Em- eventually to marry hot due to prepare his country for war

muslin,

lin, grasping a lace parasol. he never did was probably due

avenge his humiliation; They brought Ella to where pire..

to the hostility of his parents, the Emperor of Brazit should lay in jungle filth the bodies of She soon jettisoned the who mistrusted this flamboyant kaise

ids boot and soo

their Lopez and

BOX, His and mother

sister unfortunate doctor and after foreign importation.

were there, The lovely Ella often trefied soldiery!

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boats from terror ho had spread when he leon III's marshals she could her surroundings. Sho equip Drop and when his father lived remained with his soldiers one-storey died in 1802 Francisco Solano now he was dead. So it was consider herself at the ago ped her rambling of 19 to be one of Paris's villa with Louis XV furniture Løpez was sole mister of the Ella herself who asked for a and every afternoon at five she largest and most efficient stand- spade and, with her own hands, most successful courtesans. served ion in Sevres china ing army in the whole of South

Young Francisco Solano cupa.

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