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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1921.

NOTICE.

"BATHING APPAREL

MISCH A

ELMAN'S

Superb Art

is reproduced

perfectly

Victor

Let us show you what's New..

Styles, Fabrics, Price's.

Just arrived a fine selection of the latest

designs and colours in Men's Bathing Suits---

Heavy Knitted All Wool, Medium Weight Wool

and Light Weight all cotton.

A fine Selection

to choose from

on

"HIS MASTER'S VOICE"

PAR

For

THE ADAM in

COMMUNITY PLATE

TE think this is one of the most exquis. WE

ite designs in silverware we ever had the pleasure of showing our customers.

Inspired by those great architects and decorators, the ADAM Brothers, the Com munity ADAM is distinguished by a charm- ing purity most satisfying to live with,

We should like you to see it, even if you are not planning to buy new silverware now. In chests containing complete table outfits, or in separate pieces.

W

At your service for 50 years.

SOLE AGENTS

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

Victor Records

MOUTRIE'S

Chater Road.

Sale Agents.

There's not to reason why

There's but to look and buy--

When you see our Stock of the Latest

Models showing at

MACKINTOSH

& CO. LTD.

Men's

Wear Specialists.

16 Des Vœux Road.

Telephone 29.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.

14, PEDDER STREET. HONGKONG. TELEPHONE 215 & 3951.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

EDGAR ALLEN & CO., LT

Makers of "STAG BRAND SPECIAL HIGH SPEED STEEL : suitable for LATHE, PLANING & SLOTTING TOOLS, DRILLS, MILLING CUTTERS, etc, and for all purposes where a first class quality of steel is required.

HIGH SPEED STEEL

STAG

BRAND

&

L&C HARDTMUTH'S

KOH-I-NOOR

MADE IN OZECHO SLOVAKIA

KOH-I-NOOR

THE

PERFECT PENCIL

Is your pencil a

KOH-I-NOOR

{Made in Czecho Slovakăm)

or only an imitation?

This famous pencil is sold by

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.

3 WYNDHAM STREET. •

DINNER SERVICES. TEA SETS

POK IS PERSONS,

RUCS

GARPETS & TABLE COVERS

HOP CHEONG

Telephour No. 634.

Cingle House Furnishers,

JUST

55. Queen's Bout Central,

ARRIVED

A new consignment of

HORLICK'S MALTED MILK

LUNCH TABLETS

COLONIAL DISPENSARY Telephone 1877.

14 Quoon's Road, Central.

RADIUM PERIL.

Workers at Institute Now.

Fully Protected.

la special investigation of the Jeffects of the radium upon the staff. For a year examinations have been made of the blood

every worker myself down to the porters in The Duity Chronicle puldish for the hall, and he found defi- the first time in the lay Press the ite changes, different in degree, full facts of mysterious" deaths in the red and white corpuscles recently reported at the Radium of the blood (ested, due to exposure Institute arongst the workers to radium. there.

were

The investigations were rivileged by the courtesy of the lastitute directorate, They show clearly that the three deaths due primarily to other Causes, What is even more important, an effective system of proection has now been devised for the ample protection of the staff, medical proof of which is shortly to be published.

"Three deaths have occurred amongst the staff of the institute," said Mr. Hayward Pinch, F.R.C.S., the medical superinten- dent, and the full facts are there:-

"On December 19, 1919, Mr.

"The porters, of course, had title change. It was the white cells that were mostly affected. The facts were presented to the Royal Society of Medisine, and since then, with a complete picture of the blood cells to work upon, we have perfected our system.

BACK TO THE NORMAL. "An extremnly thorough pro- tective system has been elaborat- ed, and it has been copied by many other institutes. Dr Mot tram has just completed another year's investigation of our blood fosts, and it has beer, found that the tlord condition of the workers is slowly (February 1911) retura- ing to the normal"

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. pneumonia, Mr. Holding was 47 me had been affected by the rays.

JUST received a large Consignarget of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants whiskips good in quality during Hot Weather; (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugirt for sweatening the foods Intan's and Dyspeptics; (31 MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days; and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses.

PRICES are Very Moderate. Inspection and Enquiries are cordially invited.

農肇理代糖粉奶牛廳素籽

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.

ole Agence for Hongzong and South China. 47 and 48 Connaught Roal Co.tral, Honek ing. Telephone No. 1239.

load-lined boxes, on that the rays lo or affect any vital part of the budy

Passing from the wards I went into the apparatus room, where the workers, behind load screen- ed tables, weighing many hund- redweight were handling with pliers and gloves the same highly valuable little disce.

Up on the top floor in a room of dead silence, where even the air was kept segregated from the other air in the building, sat a man with a stop watch, in his Jeft hand peering through an elec- trically litube. He was measur ing the strength of the radiuni applicators.

On his right was the radium dise thickly screened, and by the side a table of logarithms. When! I look d down the tube there was an illuminated needle travelling across a measured table register- ing the amount of radium sålt at his side.

STANDARD STRENGTHS.

It is the same silent mathem-1 atician who standardises the radium apparatus. He showed quantity of the white powder, it me a small tube containing a tiny self encased within two glass receptacles from which the

So potent is this Harmless- looking tube that the ras which it emits would penetrate through a brick wall many feet thick, and by their means a photograph could be taken through a block of granite..

Probably there are about five grammes of pure radium now in the institute strong rooms, and it is very crediable thing that the use of these many thousands · of pounds' worth of the precious: element is available to

The pooreat as well as to the very rich. For no poor patient is ever kept waiting.

C. F. Hogley died. He was seen In a tour over the institute a by several eminent specialists." Daily Chronicle "representative and his death

was due to found these protective measures pernicious anaemia, which being carefully carried out. occurred very rapidly, and which Visiting first the X-ray depart-radium dises are measured. was not directly due to the | ment heavy lead-lined aprons and radium work.

gloves were in use. *The second death was that of Down in the strong room, fas Miss B. McDarby who died oftened by heavy leaden dvor, in heart disease-infective endocar- which much of the apparatus is dities. January 11, 1920. The kept, no one is allowed to remin radium

unquestionably for any length of time. had

The affected her, but it was not from head sister in the nursing depart- this alone that she died.

ment laughed when I spoke to her Thirdly was the case of Mr.Jahout the dangers of her work. F. J. Holding, who died on Her cheeks were rosy, enough. February 5, 1921, of acure but one of her fingers she showed

years of age, an important fact through this was getting better. From the operating rooms the for consideration,

| nurses, who only allowed we do move about in certain parts of "In the form of a printed the building, were carrying their report two of these deaths were little discs of radium embedded published at the time, so there in varnish in very heavy little Each case was primarily due to carriers, suspended at the end of was no secrecy upon the facts, lead-lined boxes used as radium: a definite disease apart from the radium effects, but the institute committee considered it highly probable that the work of these persons amongst the radium had caused a weakening of their power of resistanod to the diseases |from which they suffered.

"Two years ago Dr. J. C. Mottram was 'requested to make

NO SECRECY,

a long strap.

PRECIOUS DISCS, All of these little discs, some of them worth £2.000 to £3,000, are carefully obacked up from one department to another; filed and wheeled in a leaden trolley to the strong room every night. The discs are always carried in the

NOTICES IN SHIPYARDS. Engineering and, shipbuilding employers are no longer obliged to give their workers seven days' notice of the termination of their] employment, or, alternatively, A weeks' pay in lieu of notice. An: order issued under the Ministries:

TOOL HOLDER BITS

To avoid the troublesome practice of welding small pieces of High Class Speed Steel on to Mild Steel, and to uvercome the waste which must occur in wicking treated furs the emery wheel, we supply short pieces of trented High Speed Steel in standard lengths, ground ready for une, suitable for tool holders.

The advantage of being able to hay correctly hardened STEEL KAO Y FOR IMMEDIATE UNE

in obvious, and appeals at more to owners of small shops, where the facilities

for the proper forging and hardening of steel ure lacking.

SPECIAL HIGH SPEED STREL

BARS. 19 aches

are

www.

IN STOCK

AIR HARDENING HIGH SPEED STEEL BARS, 1 inches square

11

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JAMES STEER.

9, ICE HOUSE STREET. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER,

CHRONOMETERS, CLOCKS, WATCHES AND NAUTICAL

INSTRUMENTS REPAIRED UNDER MY

TEL. 2877

PERSONAL SUPERVISION.

TEL. 2877.

SUN HELMETS

THE MAKE BEST

AT LOWEST COST

ALL

STYLES REPRESENTED.

CHOICE OF

SHADES AND

QUALITY PRO-

VIDED.

of Munitions and Shipping THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

(Cessation) Act places them at liberty to revert to the wat praction in the matter,

·HONGKONG EMPORIUM.”