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Penicillin

NOW THE DOCTORS JOIN

IN THE CONTROVERSY . OVER THE 'CURE-ALL'

London.

DOCTORS, bacteriolo

gists, and surgeonis.

-by-

reaffirmed recently that Chapman

accidental infection in hospitals-spotlighted on page six on Wednesday lost week has now reached dangerous pro- portions.

They revealed that the situation is so serious in some hospitals that patients or their rela- tives are required to sign documents warning then that they run the risk of accidental infection.

Some of London's leading hospitals have been forced to close wards temporarily because of infective out

breaks while floors, walls, equipment, and bedding

sterilised

and

have been the nursing staff examined

Pincher

to

would take many years of big hospital outbreaks neutralise it.

There was general agree- ment that the misuse of penicillin has operated in

two ways:-

1t indiscriminately on a

DOCTORS have used

trial and error basis, even for minor ailments, so that germs have been given far Loo much opportunity to atapt themselves to the at- tack. As il result drug- resistant strains of germs have become widespread, expecially in hospitals.

Beers to eliminate germ-carriers.. » PENICILLIN

such a safe and cer- All the experts I ques; and tioned agreed that the in- tain treatment that doctors

discriminate use of penicil and surgeons pat too much lin has been

mainly trust in it. They let their responsible by encouraging standards the emergence strains of germs to modern drugs.

'Crazy'

of new and sterility slip, because resistant. they felt so confident they

A professor of bacterio logy said, "it was crazy to' think that germs which have been preying on man

could deal with infection i it occurred. For the same reason they risked over erowding in the wards,

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1960.

BUSES KTAZATOM BAST

BUSES

*"I suppose what with us dumping A-bombs on 'em and their Town team getting knocked out of the Cop

ABOUT the only thing that has not changed

of cleanliness in Monte Carlo in the past year is the sari-clad figure of the Marchioness of Winchester wandering. through hotel and casino lobbies and never bump- ing into the 93-year-old pre Marquis, who is here

somewhere.

Now. they realise that' Reneral return to the perifeilin standards of hospital precontions is essential.

for a million years wouki New drugs

give in without a counter- attack,

"As regards the staphy

Apart from that all is change.

lococcus, the type of germ clock can now be put back. The SKYSCRAPERS

Most doctors' doubt that the

rigorous restriction of penicillin cases might

in the

the number

causing hospital infection really serious especially in maternity and wedace surgical wards, we are prob resistant germis ably back to where we were ahead.

its

the

uf drug- The Hotel de Paris has

floors years added three

wsletter from S

rom San

Strange-this sudden friendship of Onassis

and

recent

the Rainiers..

Nevertheless the French

tervened on behalf of French shareholders in the Casino com- puny, In an obvious first sign of at the changes displeasure

ing about on the Casino board.

Foreign Offee had already in BIG BETTING

THERE

ara

new, almost flamboyant. However, a shopping trip more difficult than any that now absolutely master of company, then he was 100 friendship that has de to London organised by Monaco can provide.

cent right, veloped in

months Onassis stood in the way of Onassis such a between Aristotle

move, and instead Prince Rainier and Frejus was dealt with ex- and

peditiously by cheque, of Princess Grace,

Onassis's HKS800-a-day suites to its

courtship of Onassis is now to all in- height (in one of which of the princely pair is of so tents and purposes a mem course Sir Winston

and. head- ber of the princely family. are stay whirlwind Luty Churchill

spinning a nature that not even Frejus was allowed to APPREHENSION interfere with its dizzy progress.

ing).

50

fic

ani

And the building boom generally has reached such frenzy that the last good views are now blotted out

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London Express Service

KM

the direct descendant of one of per the Borglas.

THE DIPLOMAT .......

representative in the

two mejor My favourite diplomatic Onassis has succeeded in bring- moment, one of whom principality is the Consul

A

Wits

has

Науста

here at tho gamblers

I am sure that Castro does not even know of his existenec, My heart goes out to M de Mesa bo euse he is one of the hardest working diplomats Here,

in 1934 before the days of Bat the experts put their faith

operates on a scale which for Cuba, an old Harrovian, penicillin and sulpha drugs. more in the development of new

year age Onassis tried to has not been soon slace the M. Hanibal de Mesa. But of course many dan- deugs of the penicillin type.

get one Greek on the board and war. But they must be used in such still strength that they kill all germs gerous bacteria are

blocked by the prince, backed by the French. Now he He is a 50-year-old Italian susceptible penicillin they attack outright,

to

the naturalised Venezuelon, Romeo two Greeks in survivors remata.

What the basis of this triumvirate when properly used.”

which administers Any restrictions on the use of.

Davera's fortune is a recent He has only one subject Ho Few of the men I spoke drugs may seem to be an inter

new palship is remains a the company.

one and began when he went is a Cuban remittance man real-- ference with the to would agree with

ductor's right

This disaster to a sister mystery, but ils

At the same time in the past

Els outcome

to Venezuela as a representative dent here for 30 years. bulief of some doctors that to prescribe as he thinks ft.

of the Fiat Company and some reraillance since the Cuban te now by huge hoardings adver- Riviera city, it was thought is regarded with apprehen- six months eight of the very top French executives of the com-

Italian, tramway and railcoach volution has been subject to we would be better off if But the kituution

sion in many quarters, pany have left.

constructors.

Intermittent delays. penicillin and

sister existing with penicillin tising the construction of by some, might have je to

of that especiaily French.

the In a recent interview Onesls

The money he made from A week or so beforo drugs had never been dis- is proof that

the indis- yet more skyscraper blocks the mobilisation

claimed that six months ago he commissions

he he invested in monthly remittance is duo which constitutest Prince Rainier is, contem- nequired sufficient extra shures Venezuelan oil. Is pass to begins trailing M. de Mesa and covered,

criminate use of powerful, of fats and all adding splendid force of ambu- The back-log of lives and modern drugs

ensed by a close expressing his concern at a pos- the Monegasque Red Cross, plating some tycoon-like venture to give him absolute instead of fortune was can bring that they provide "mag- lances

then his subjects have sonic merely effective control of the friendship with a Venezución, sible delay, Most remarkable change of which Princess Grace is reason for apprehension, as all company: suffering saved by penicil serious consequences to the nificent panoramic views."

dictator now in exile, Perez Often the Consul advances lin throughout the work is whole community.

such previous ventures have This would have meant that Jimenez

him the money out of his own of all, however, is in the president.

ended badly for the principality, he had increased his thut it

A small man with an ugly, pocket.

They make a touching sight, In any caso, it is the French holding from 42 per cent to at menacing mouth, Bevera gam-

bles with * blonde Italian the handsome well-dressed Con- who have the last word here least $1 per cent.

It is impossible to conceal woman partner on a win or lose sul followed at a respectful dis- and the best-laid plans of prin such a shift of shares in so small scale of nearly HK$10,000,000 à lance of about a foot by this ces, both temporal and met-

oged fellow citizen explaining The other spectacular gambler to him the possibic chant, are built on very loose market. Certainly none of the day.

other six big shareholders has gravel il possible French opposi parted with any of theirs to is a beoutiful Roman eociety he may have in, meeting his tion is not taken into considera-

Onassis

woman, the Duchem Serra di monthly bills. tion.

Orinssis's claim is regarded Cassina,

now so enormous

-(London Express Service).

As a young German, this

FOR

some time now the countrics of the Wes- torn world have been pe cupied in fighting Com- been munism. They have

doing this with such vohomence that they have almost forgotten about the extremists on the Right. This is particularly truo tho caso of the Federal Re-

public of Germany.

in

Here, reason15 were found to

declare Le Communist Party unconstitutional. However, the

is how I see

things now...

By HARDY KRUGER

neo-Fascist German Reich Party ed un from father to son,

from mother to daughter.

continued to operate unmolest- The schools of present-day been happening in my country

ed.

cannot ba doing to stop the spread of led the government to examine this infectious disease.

of Germany The anti-Semitic excenses the past few weeks have now enough

the activities of this party.

DIFFICULT

THE GERM

★Hardy Kruger, the Gor-

man film actor, was 11 when war broke out.

Ho was in the Hitler Youth. At 15 he was in the army. At 16 he was in an Américan prisonor-of- war camp.

F

and What makes me so ashamed, as a German, about what has is that these offences have been committed, not by the old who might perhaps be considered beyond the possibility of re-

from the entranon education, but by the young. synagogue. They are to remain This shows n full re in Our na visual warnings. education."

Our representatives in Bonn,

Dals

I know how one can be The eyes of the young, even however, must do more. They most stupid, could be must remove Insecure, frighten-

of the

uncom

ed teachers, teachers who pre history, known to have been Nazis, o

the un

in

and

the

that a breath of fresh air will

find its way into our classrooms.

of

There are 10,000 Right-wing contaminated by this germ extremisia and old Nazis in the intolerance and hatred. German Reich Party, 1 do not

I was educated as a Nazi and opened with objective

promising lessons know how many other Incor- anti-Semite and from my own with special emphasis

Repubile know how easily Weimar living experience rigible Nazis' are at

effects and horrors e among us. It is difficult for us the mind of an impressionable causes,

Who could to register them.

child can be perverted by these the Nazi regime. However, one la repeatedly doctriner.

shrug off the murder of 0,000,000 told by officials of the govern- It happened to me. For human beings?

TOLERANCE

ment that their percentage ltunately I was lucky enough, al But those who were not They must succeed in institut- amall, and that they, therefore, the age of 15 to come into con- represent no danger to our inct with Intelligent and decent present at that time must be ing a student exchange between One can still love one's Germany and Israel. They must people who were able to re-du- told. and be aware of its actively support the private

Joung democracy.

It will probably not be possi- cate me, who were able to con- country

mteinkes.

ble to re-educate the Nazis of vince me of the iniquity of what the old generation.

I had previously been taught. It may be necessary for

Lo zaiso country

'initiative of all Intelligent

a Germans who, with the help of

an army and the Press, cinema, radio and

We must, however, succeed in Not everyone Germany was Gud cannons, tanks, rockets television, have for many years one thing. A new generation as lucky as that.

must bo brought up that is

correctly and objectively in-

formed about what was done

by their country,

ASHAMED

for the dolente been trying to carry the incan- and airplanes of their way of life. But should ing of tolerance and democracy one not first of all make cer- to the people. tain that this way of life, has Much remaina to be dona Today we must ensure that become worth defending?

-before the swastikas can be re- Anti-Semitism Ja no longer a

The Rabbl of Cologne has moved from the synagogue irá subject that is taught by German the re-education which I schools toddy, Ая In other ceived through Juck arul good made a wise decision. He does Cologne. countries anti-Semitism is pass fortune is not left to chance. not want the swastikuɛ removed

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FOOTNOTE, The heaviest She has an expression of thing about the heavy frans la At the moment, however, with the utmost sceptician here. Ir. however by his words the French are preoccupled nassis meant that with the such enchanting wickedness the heavy humour it has pro- with problems a shade prince's backing assured he is that she might well be

eart

1

duced.

-{London Express Zervien.

"No, no, Drivor Buffer, that is not where one 'Shoves the coal in!”