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DRESS, DIET, AND WEEK-END HABIT

A NATIONAL IMPROVEMENT.-

Of the numerons departments "inta which the Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute was divided, the section de votel to sanitary science and preventive medicine aroused the greatest interest and attraéted a larga gathering of delegates to the Central Hall, West- minster...

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MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S

VIEWS,

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, visited Nottingham to open the Harleford Lock the construction of which completes the Nottingham Car. poration's Trent navigation sabeme, and will enable cargoes of 120 tons to be car ried from Hull to Nottingham, a distance of 100 miles.

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LEAGUE OF HEALTH.

THE MENTALLY DEFECTIVE.

PART PLAYED BY HEREDITY.

At the general meeting of the People's League of Health, held at the Mansion House, the Chairman stated that the abject of the league was to raise the standard of health of the British fation, It was a voluatáry, non-political, non- sectarian body engaged in a great eda- cational work, and no appeal was being made for an endowment fund of £100,000. To that fund his Majesty bad given £100, while the Prince of Wales was also a contributor."

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LIVING LINKS WITH PREHISTORIC DAYS.

HORRORS THAT HAUNT TROPIC SEAS.

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By P. A. MITCHELL HEDGES. the explorer, who, with Mr. T. 3. Joyce, of the Ethnological Depart- ment of the British Museum," and Lady (Richmond), Brown, has been ercacting the ruined Maya city of Eubeantan and is sending special despatches to "The Daily Mail."

ISLAND OF WATER CAY,

Mr. Chamberlain expressed the belief

The Caribbean, June 2nd. that the explanation of the astounding

Millions of years ago during the Meso- boom.in American trade was that pros

"MENTAL DISORDERS:

tole period the sea swarmned with gigantic Sir George Newman (Chief "Medical perity was being contributed to and shar

Dr. A. F. Tredgold, who spoke on the creatures terrifying in shape and ap- Offer, Ministry of Health) occupied theed by all plasses. chair, and in the course of his presiden-

Reports of those who had examined subject of, ill-health and disorder of peace. On land grotesque and lonth- tial address-to which he gave the title the conditions of trade there showed that mind, said he estimated the proportion some reptiles and insects abounded. In “Everyman in Preventive Medicine --the Americans had realised that the way of legally certifiable cases at not less that ho period there was no need for enlarged upon the widening scope ofte get prosperity was to have everybody than I per cent, of the total population four-chambered hearts, fur, and feathers. medicine and the increasing claims it feel that they were really partners in in- of the country, and the non-certifiable Eggs hatched out, automatically in the heat and the youug needed no,covering. made on collateral and ancillary sciences. dustry and that their main interests were class' was very much greater. Although

There is no doubt that because of the there was differences between the symp- Wider still was the sphere of preven-identical.

toms presented by disorder of the mind hot, steamy conditions existing to tive medicine. Diacase was not a dragon He thought there was something morg outside the body which we had to slay than mere monetary reward which would and disorder of the body they were essen-day in the tropics we find huge and gro it was a disharmony in the body which help the workers to feel that they were tially-the-same-in their causation, and sque life in the warm seas and extra- ordinary life forms on land, many being we had to avoid and correct.

really partners in industry..

mental disorder was just as capable of

the direct descendants of the creatures Everyone who had been engaged in successful treatment. Disorder of mind, Happily in recent times, both in Eng manufacture must know that all the like disorder of body, in the main was land and America, there had been antime there was going on, so to speak. the result of two sets of causes, namely,

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underground conversatious in the shops among the workmen themselves about, predisposing and exciting. The chief perhaps, some trilling matters, grier- predisposing cause of mental ill-health ances, little interferences, or injustices

which existed millions of years ago.

One thing is certain-have the worst nightmare possible, conjure up in the imagination all that is hideous, think of all which is repulsive and loathsone so

neath the seven sens which are beyond the and yet there are creatures living be

greatest stretch of the imagination.

light beers, and mineral beverages. In which all the men knew about, but which was an inherited weakness of the nerve that you shiver at your very thoughts,

increase in sobriety alongside an enor. mous development in the drinking of tea, coffee, iced and aerated waters,

the last fifty years there had been re-manager.

so often were completely unknown to the cells of the brain which were concerned with the functions of mind. He had markable improvement in the dictory of

"RED" PROPAGANDA.

found that approximately four-fifths of the people, which had become more at- Referring to the seized Communist all enses of 'mental defect were due to

Outside the reef within 500 yards of tractive, varied, appetising, and autri-

documents and Soviet propaganda in tious. The daily eating of meat had be Great Britain, Mr. Chamberlain said:

an inborn. predisposition to defective where I am writing that immense crea- come the rule rather than the exception, We shall be wise if we do not give mental development which no improve- ture the Whale Shark, Rhinodon typicus, and many prepared meat foods were any encouragement, even by accident, to meat of the environment, and no educa- which grows to 60ft. and more in length. It was a direct descendant of the immense life manufactured and obtained

tion, could entirely overcome. a ready propaganda of that kind market. The development of the sweet and chocolate-trade, of jams, spices. salads, and biscuts had been ever greater. Large quantities of fresh fruit and fish were now consumed by all classes. There were not a few features of the supply, purchase, and consumption of food which do more than anything else to give us trouble was obvious. They must take prace If we are to do what I believe would there was no doubt whatever about its truth. The remedy for this aspect of the were open to criticism-such as the dis- prosperity comparable with that of the ables, milk, and milk products, and a better. feeling among workers and em, the healthy and sound in mind and body, some tons.. was. greyish in appearance, advantages of insufficient green veget- United States, if we are to get that tical. steps to encourage the breeding of surfeit of meat-but, taking a broad ployers, it is desirable that employers who were so constituted that they could and to discourage the breeding of those view, there had been an enormous im should set themselves individually in provement in the wholesale food supply their own works to see if they cannot only produce delicate and diseased off firm conviction, It was bis and in the dietary of the people. famous trainer of racehorses had said workers-a-chance of coming to the manif a fire of the attention now bestowed

form such organisation as may give the spring.

based upon many years' experience, that feeding wins more races than actual agement-and-perhapa-by-their-sugges training.' (Laughter.)

tions doing away, with some of these apon, the breeding of our cattle and our of the lagoons along the coast. It is a small matters which so often destroy the vegetables were bestowed upon the breed- direct descendant of the Sirenin and is ing of our race, there would be an enor: claimed by paleontologists to be link good feeling that ought to exist.

mous improvement in the health and between the Sirenia and Elephant. physique of the nation.

It will pay us to do what we can to very accessary that the public should which existed millions of years ago in remove such grievances as mag-exist and realise the enormous importance which the ocean, cruises backwards and for- try to give a chance to our workpeople was played by inheritance in the causa wards; although harmless, his size ter to voice their desires and to make them tion of mental disorder and defect. It rifies the antive, fishermen.. known to the management

might not be a popular doctrine, but

TOMEN'S DRESS.

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SHAPELESS MONSTER

miles from here, an enormous amorphous Recently on Ambergris Cay, a few

creature was washed ashore. It weighed

and to suggest what it was would be im Feasible. But there are strange and gigantic life forms in these warm seas of

Manatee (Sea Cow) occurs here in most which actence to-day is ignorant.

That strange acquatic mammal the

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Not so long since from this island two. of the Carmen pat act in their little boat, laden with fresh fish for the main- land. Two miles away is another long, low island, and between here and that

In regard to dress, it could not be. doubted that the present dress of women.

There is no question that to-day there was lighter and looser than formerly,

MENTAL BREAKDOWN,

are creatures in the sea who will o11 De and on the whole more conducive to The task of presenting medical facts was

casions attack and destroy large and There was no doubt that even with this moving objects, and of these, marine health and free movement. The trailing becoming more and more difficult. Now-a. skirt, like the wig, had vanished. days doctors were afraid to write either predisposition many cases of mental monsters the world knows nothing, but (Laughter.) The sale of soap had in- under their own name or anonymously. breakdown might be prevented could throughout the tropics and spread over creased and the toothbrush and denti. He was not triticing the Medical Council. certain physical and mental exciting a wide extent the many reports of lives frices were more widely used. Parti. Their memorandum was quite reasonable, causes be removed or avoided.. The loss and boats overturned are too cir cularly noticeable was the disappearanceNevertheless, doctors were not disposed great majority of individuale knew for cumstantial and authentic to be regarded- of the unpleasant habit of promiscuous to run any risks. The problem might be less about the care and control of their as merely stories. spitting. All this meant a cleaner and solved by setting up a censorship de mental functions than they did about the healthier life in almost every home in partment to which signed articles might care and control of a motor-car. The the land."(Hear, hear.) Another cus-

be submitted. Hear, hear.)

result of this was that the mind, like the In the course of discussion it was sug-motor-engine, was often racked to pieces tom which was exerting a favourable effect on health concerned amusements, gested that the right type of propaganda through sheer ignorance. But there was Feople were becoming more appreciative was not given in the public Press in this difference: the engine could be re- lonely, uninhabited patch of green rising every year of life in the fresh air and regard to health questions, and one dele placed the mind could not. It was very from the ocean they disappeared. Their sunlight. The week-end habit, the, enjoy gate remarked that some newspapers essential that parents should realise the

boat was found beneath the shallow ment of the songide and sea bathing, preferred to give space to news of a immense importance of inculcating habits water, and the sea must for ever hold

bizarre nature with big head-linés. cheap excursions, extended travel, un

of discipline and control in their child- the secret of the awful fate, that overtook annual holiday, and what was called "the Lord Riddell, in replying, 'said if any ren. There was little doubt that in this them of the terrible creature that over- made A useful respect the nation had deteriorated, and turned their crafty leaving no trace of emancipation of women" were having authoritative person an enormous effect on personal and speech the Press was only too glad to that diminished sense of parents! | either man behind, ́

That they were destroyed is certain, public health. Lastly, remarkable pro report it. He should deplore the Press responsibility and defective upbringing. gress was being made in the education of advocating remedies for complaints, be- were responsible for no little of the both men, like all the islanders, were the people in health. In the task of cause even doctors did not agree as to mental and social ill-health which existed almost amphibious and could with ease propaganda and public education the what the best remedies were (Laughter.) to-day. Experience had shown that swim the two" miles that lay between the newspaper Prese was playing an invalu. What was wanted was more information many cases of mental disorder could be islands. able part, even its advertisement pages about preventive medicine in the sense cured if only appropriate treatment were

FLUNG POLE AT OCTOPUS. often containing much sund doctrine and of what was being done by local autho-given in the early stages, but unfortu common-sense precept. No doubt there rities for the purpose of making life nately the provision for institutional

treatment was woefully inadequate. Itailing slowly along about a mile and a Recently one of the Caymen, while were exceptions, and the most portentous happier and healthier.

Major A. G. R. Foulerton (Medical was not sufficiently recognised that health half from the island, was startled by see- rubbish was still to be seen in certain quack advertisements which traded on the Officer of Health for East Sussex) re- and disease must in the laat resort being an enormous brownish mass rise to But there ferred to the part played by preventive dependent upon individual knowledge and the surface. Petrified with fear, be credulity of stupid people. had been a great awakening, an amazing medicine in the European War in application. There never was a time when watched the huge octopus; then, as it currency of health ideaa, an ever-widen- paper on basteriology and Dr. H. P. 15 was more necessary to bring that home moved across the surface towards him, ing, understanding of national and inter- Newsholme (Medical Officer of Health to the nation, and there was only one the spell was broken. He leapt to his conclusions for Croydon) read a paper on 4 Preven way to do it. That way consisted in feet, smashing and beating the water national well-being. His

preaching the gospel of health through with his paddle, and, in a mad frenzy, were that other forces than sanitary tire Medicine and the Healthy Mind."

out the length and breadth of the land. flung a heavy pole he was carrying in science in its narrow sente bad played » SCHOOL HYGIENE.

It must be burat into every individual the boat at the creature. Its tentacles a large part in the present condition of the public health (Cheers.).

In his presidential address to Section that efficiency, happiness, and progress immediately closed round this and ́it C, which is dealing with school hygiene, were dependent upon health, and that slithered beneath the surface. Lord Eustace Percy, President of the ill-health and discase must inevitably Board of Education, declared that it mean economic in efficiency, misery, and could fairly be said that we were now racial decay. (Cheers.) Lord Riddell, speaking upon "The within sight of a complete system of Miss Olga Nethersole, speaking of the Prea and Preventive Medicine," said medical inspection and treatment in our future work of the league, mentioned that everyone recognised that the Press was & schools. One of the greatest differences it was intended to establish national valuable propagands agent, but most between the comparatively rich and the boarding schools for delicate children, people failed to understand that the comparatively poor was that the former and a sum of £20,000 was being raised main purpose of newspapers was to give had an independent opinion, based on for the purpose. the news of the day and not to publish their own experience of prejudices, as magazine articles. They also failed to to the health and education of their realise that the general public were not children, while the latter tended to rely. interested in technical subjects, even upon the judgment and instruction of when of vital importance. Perhaps it the doctor and the teacher.The aim in w28 unfortunate that health authorities the schools should be to make the parent WHOLE VILLAGE TURNS OUT TO gelatinous substance and when touched confined the eclves to publishing statis- increasingly an independent person, re ties, and did so little to describe their garding himself as primarily responsible work in an interesting way. It local for the health and upbringing of his authorities took suitable steps, and child."

PRESS AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.

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GOLD IN A HEDGE.

LOOK FOR MORE.

Over £10 in gold and silver has been found in a hedgerow by schoolbeys at Dry Drayton, a village six miles from Cainbridge.

He paddled desperately for the land and, aided by strengthening breeze, reached the inland in safety, Flinging the pole had averted a tragedy, other- wise another heat and man would have mysteriously disappeared

But death in many forma can come from the sea. Innumerable fish, Medusae, and corals secrete a virulent poison. To be struck by the dagger of certain species of the Ray family is death. Many ish have aburp bony projections which are highly poisonous. Certain corals-and-Medusae are covered in-a-

violent inflammation of the arms and legs reaults.

I have recently discovered another ocean pest; it is a microscopic creaturo which abounds in certain waters. While bathing one is innocent of its presence, but a few hours afterwards the body is.

keized suitable occasions much might be Mr. G. W. Humphreys, chief engineer done in the newspapers and periodicals and county surveyor of the L.C.C., in to arouse public interest. The Preae had his presidential address to the engineors been largely instrumental in teaching the and surveyors, who met at the Institu The boys were playing with ball subjected to the most intense irritation, public the advantages of fresh air, not tion of Civil Engineers, said that in whigh rolled into the hedge. In retriev- the trunk, arms, and legs of the sufferer only for the healthy, but also for the many types of construction efforts to ing it one of the boys found a half- become covered in small red spots, very tubercular. In health propaganda too solve the housing problem had been tried, sovereign. A search revealed 13 in much attention was devoted to what but for speed and economy the homely sovereigns and half-sovereigns, and over might be called highbrow material, brick construction of our ancestors stood 8 in silver.. Simple people must be addressed in plain unrivalled; a simple form of poured con- The news spread quickly, and within and simple fashion. The Press was

a few hours the whole village had joined ready and willing to do its part in there was its nearest competitor.

The conference of representatives of in the treasure hunt, but nothing fut campaign, but the experts must provide sanitary authorities was held in the ther was discovered. the material and provide it at the right morning at the Mention House where The police think the money may be the times. (Hear, heir.)

discussion followed a short presidential proceeds of a robbery which took place at address by the Lord Mayor.

Dry Drayton thirty years ago.

(Continued on next column.)

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much like measles, or when one is un- fortunate edough to sit down on chalk hills and other places where Red Bug ia common. The inflammation and Irrita tion produce a high fever, which lasta

the car

In the ses here there are firas, lice and bugs, spiders, beetles and centipedes. They are mostly amour-plated and bits like the dickens.