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fortunately, financial and ITS SPREAD. other difficulties prevented this, and in actual practice merchant ships were converted into hospital ships to supply the need. During the war be tween Japan and China, es.

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His nupation friends in Singa. pore will be intratest] to learn that, to-night Mr. Frith makes his The seventeenth Internationa!“ Kobe-Mare" (2,877 total ton- farewell appearance with the Congress of Medicis a waw orenet nage), a passenger bent of the "Straits Times," He is seeking Arthur of Connaught on behalf was chartered and emplored as a Baudmann Company says the in Indon on 6th ulty Prince Japan Mail Steamship Company, further success in pastures new, of King Amongst the delegaten hospital ship and fitted out with and that he may attain it will be wera Dr. Wu Lien-teh, represent the necessary equipment. At the the wish of all who have met him. ing China; and De Takamins, outbreak of the ftusso-Japanese At Penang, Mr. Coyne taken leave representing Japan. On 7th inst. War the same ship was chartered, of the company in order that be Lieut-Colonel Sir David Bruce, and, in addition, her sister ship, he may proceed to London and C.B., F.R.S.. the president of the as. Saikyo-Mara (2,904 tons), obtain impressions of the latest Section of Tropisal Medicine, in was also abartered. With these inusical onmedies to enable him to his opening address drew atton-two ships properly equipped they make selections for the next tion to the fact that wb n the were able to perform, though not Bustern tour of the Baadmaun International (ongress of Medir without hardship and diff- combination..

ine met in London in 1881 thero oalties, their duties throughout was no such action as that of the whole period of the conflict. tropical medicine, and little was Of the three kinds of stratohere A correspondent at Victoria known of the subject. A discus-which were used the bamboo Bungalow containing drawing, No. 1 Gough Hill, No. 103 Peak. (Britian Colombia) telegraphia tosion then t ok place on plague. blind stretcher, composed of mere dining and smoking rooms and the "London and China Express" Professor Kitasato, of Japan, bamboo pieces, necessarily looked five bedrooms. With ground for that the new policy of the the original discoverer of the crude at first sight when com- Tonnie-Court Governmet of British Columbia plague bacillus in Hongkong in pared with the various ingenious ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In- FOR SALE-HARTING and in refusing to issue timber, min 1894. pointed out that proof of ly contrived appliances for tran-land Lot No. 1154. ing, and fishing licences, und pre- the communication of the disease sport made of metallic net or of emptions (giving the right to to man by the rat-flen was strong-light and flexible metal which No. 9 Conduit Road. Fine View purchase land) to Orientals is thened with experience, and that were invented and constructed ovoking many protests from the consequently the disease should foreign experts; but, in practice, Japanese resident in British be eradicated through the des- their crudely-made articles were Columbia. The matter has been truction of plague rats. He found useful and convenient. brought to the attention of the described a method by which Japanese Government, which has quivea-pigs, which are susceptible protested to the British Govern-to plague, performed the part of ment. The British Government indicating the presence of the has notified Sir Richard McBride, disenso anung rate infecting i the Premier of Ritish Columbia, dwellings

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of the protest, and be has replied Major W. Glen Liston, O. I. E.," that the province in deterwenior member of the Indian Captain W, R. M'D.. Parr, 4th mined to enforce its internal Plague Research Commission, Royal Irish Rifles, who has legislation regarling Orientals contrasted the epidemiological resigned his commission and been features of bubonie and pneumo- granted the honorary rank of aic plague. Observations show major, with permission to retain that, apart from primary pasumo. his army rank, has for 11 years nic plague, healthy animals can been employed as a Commissioner live beside animals infected with of Customs in China. bubonic plague, and in intimate contnet with their excrete, yet

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GOOD GLASSES PROPERLY FITTED

During the semi-tropical sum- Rear-Admiral Richard H. Peirse mer weather, everyone always has without contracting the disease, O.B., M.V.O., Commander-in-chief provided fons are abecut. The on the East Indies station, who before him the bugbear of butonic type plague, therefore, is shortly coming to Singapore, stomach troubles in general and Stewart on 7th ult. in the House "Before anyone knew what was is not directly infectious to either reached his present rank on Feb- diarrhea in particular. They are of Commons that the two river going on he Mr. Churchill) has man or animale, but communi-ruary 9, 1909. and hoisted his the result of a combination of the gunboats promised to the China agreed to the Admiralty'e being cable by fleas, perhaps, only; inflag in the Swiftsure on December

yet been laid committed to oil fuel. I believe other words, no fleas, no plague. 20, 1012. is flog ligutentant depressing influence of heat on Station had not be bad laid down his four huge in posunionic plague the Chinese a Lieutenant John H. Smith- the nervous system, and the pres should be ready early next year.

down, but it was intended they Dreadnoughts, which are to bo Commission had made it clear Wright, Captain Raymond A. aleus of disesse germs which propelled by oil, before his col- that rat infection played no purt. Nagent is in command of the thrive in the warmer temperature. leagues in the Cabinet kuew any The disease was spread from min Swiffeure, with Commander Henry thing about it, and it is perfectly, to man,

K. Kitson as Commander, and It, therefore, behoves everyone Professor C. I. Martin and Mr. Lieut. Malcolm H. S. Macdonald, to pay particular heed to eating A. Bacot, of the Lister Institute.

пя Torpedo, and Lieutenant light bat exceedingly nutritious of Preventive Medicine, gave a Wilbraham T. Ford, as Navigat-food which is absolutely pure and series of lantern slides illustrating ing Lieutenants, respectively. free from germs. These quanties the passage of the blood through

are found in Saantògen.. A physi- Land Registration in the F.M.S.the mouth, gullet, and stomach of

An Admiralty order has been cian, writing in The Medical There comes to Land from the fleas infected by sucking a plague med dinecting the ex-Chilian Press and Cironlar, states; "There is no economy in going Government Printing Depart-stricken animal.

battleship Triumph, at present Sanatogen is a prefectly ideal to an optician of doubtful ability ment, Kuala Lumpur, a copy of a Wu Lien-teh (G... Tuck), serving in the Third Fleet at food, as it is readily absorbative to purchase glasses upon which treatise by Mr. Justice Innes, M.DB.C. (Cantab), director and Devonport, to be despatched to and also possesses nutritive qual- your eye-sight depends. aoting Chief Judicial Commis chief medical officer of the North the Far East for service on the ties of the highest value." sioner, on Land Registration in Manchurian Plague Prevention China Station. The Triumph, the F.M.8.

In bis preface the Service, described the relation of which will be kept in commission most serious forms of diarrhas Sanatogen'a value, even in the author explains that he has en- the tarbagan, or marmot (Arctomy in reserve at Hongkong, will be which accompany typhoid fever, deavoured to meet the need for a Bobac), as ascertained by the com-the only British battleship in the has been attested by the most collection of reports of nearly mission sent to investigate plague Far East. Orders have been eminent physicans writing in every judgment of importance in Mancharis in 1911. It was given for the reliefs. selected for the leading medical journals relating to the land and mining proved that plague is, endemic in the light cruiser Philomel, the of the world. A physican states laws in the States delivered from the Khirgis steppes, and that sloops Rosario, Merlin, and Torch, in The Medical Times: "In the 1907 to 1903. Mr. Innes in- from time to time plague travels and ships serving on the China diarrhoea of typhoid fever I allow dustry has produced a work which eastward, causing sporadic out Station to embark in the Triumph the patient nothing but water Note: will prove of the utmost use to breaks in Eastern Siberia. The at Devonport on August 28 for and Sanatogen for three or four the legal profession and to officers Chinese International Commission passage to their ships. The days, and have found the practice engaged in land and registry proved that the tarbagan bad. Triumph's last foreign service answer wonderfully well. work. The treatise fills a require little to do with the spread was in the Mediterranean, where mont that has long been felt and of plague, that the disease she was employed with her sister will tend to abolish the haphazard in Mongolia was of the ship Swifteure, now serving as and inconvenient methods of re- pneumonic type, spreading from ference which have hitherto pre- man to man, and that some 50,000 flagship on the East Indies Sta-General Practitioner, who says:|

vailed. The book is on sale at the Government Printing office, Kuala Lumpur, at seven dollars a copy--" Straits Times."

"Hooligans"

persone were attacked and died.

Hospital Ships.

tion.

at a distance away at least equal

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"Sanatogen undergoes rapid and Photographing Warships. Ir: Vau Loghem, Amsterdam, The following general regula. complete absorption in the heal District of Kowloos, and Supplies and Dr. R. Row made contribution as to the photographing of thy stomach, and a precisely sim- us tions to the subject.

EGOS, H.M. ships have been framed for lar result is seen in diseased VEGETABLES, Mr. James Cantlie, F.R.CS: the guidance of officers who may (London), spoke concerning have to deal with applications for Diarrhoea lowers both the The Farm is under EUROPEAN At Old-street Police Court on plague, and drew attention to the permission to take such photo physical and nervous strength; August 4, William Bell, 10, was peculiarity of outbreaks of plague graphs-As a rule no objection and sa Sanatogen is supreme in ebarged with assulting Edward 48 regarda Benson. Professor will be raised to bona fide photo-restoring the nervous and phys Rogers.

Agramonte, of Cuba; stated that graphers, whether amateur or 10al systems to their highest The prosecutor deposed that he it was possible the ground squir- professional, taking photographs vigour, it soon revitalises the suf was in Old Ford Road early on rel in California infected the rate, of any of B.M. ahipe alicat, ferer, who feels better than he Grand Hotel, Queen's Road. Sunday morning when he saw a end the rat-fless conveyed the provided the apparatus is kept crowd of some 30 young men disease to man. round a young woman who was

to the length of the ship and a Latest additions to the worse for drink. One of their Under the presidency of Sur-telephoto lens is not used. No number struck her bandbag from geon-General Arthur William photograph may be taken on her hand and stepping on it pre- May (Director-General, Medical board H.M. ships without the tended to look for it when she Department, Royal Navy), a num- express permission of the com- The Crystal Stopper, said she had lost it. As the girl ber of distinguisbed naval and manding ofhcer. No photograph buret into tears and said all her military doctore, drawn from is permitted to be taken of any Ducks & Drakes, holiday money was in the bag the many countries, mef at the Royal of H.M. ships whilst lying in any

By Marie C. Leighton, witness told the man to move his Army Medical College, Millbank, dook or alongside any wharf or Averno. By Bertram Mitford, Carnacki, By W. H. Hodgson. foot and he would find the bag, to discuss the question of hospital jetty. No photograph may be Margaret Dent, adding that it was a shame to rob ships in peace and war.

taken in any of H.M. dockyards a young girl, especially at holiday Inspector-General Isao Nishi or other naval establishments time. The witness was then at (Japan) said that the ideal hos- without special permission. Per tacked by the man and some of pital ship was, of course, an en-mission to photograph particular his companions. He ran away tirely now ship, constructed ships may be withheld, either but was overtaken by the prisoner, specially for the purpose, under absolutely or conditionally at the who knocked him and kicked him the supervision of an expert ship discretion of the Admirally should him on the mouth. The. witness builder, with the advice of a the interests of the public safety called the police and gaye pri-medical man having experience require it. Photographers not Goner into custody.

of naval requirements. Ships of conforming strictly to these con- A polics-constable said that the the kind should be built and ditions incur the risk of being QUEEN'S prisoner, was one of a notorious equipped in euch zumbers as proceeded against under the

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