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1922.

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The fortnightly meeting of tha | Sanitary Bard was held yesterday afternoon, Mr. G. R. Sayer presi ing. Those present were the Hon Mr. T. L. Perkins, Dr. W. W.

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The Chairman said that in the view of the Medical Officer of) Health the only feasible way of

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as soon as those areas had establish ed a claim to be regarded as urban or even subarban, the Government should adopt anti-malaria measures at the public expense. As regards individual pioneers, who selected outlying and distact sites for their

houses, he did not think it was re- snable to advise the Government

THE LAUSANNE CONFERENCE.

London, Nov. 21. At yesteruny a proceedings at Latsune Conference the pro- ceedings ware merely formal.

The first business act was the constitution of three Com-

missions to deal respectively:

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© With the Military and Territorial Questions. (2) With the Finaceial and Economic Problems. (3) With the Minorities and Capitulations, These commissions will be respectively presided over by a British, French and Italian delegate.

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An unconfirmed report says that the Allies have dachled keep the work of the Conference a wcret and create an Inter- Allied Press Bureau to scrutinize all news before it is releasid.

The Westminster Gatetțe approves of this kieu' in the light of happenings ut previous Conferences.

THE ERSKINE CHILDERS CASE.

London, Nov. 21,

As

and

The Master of the Rolls at Dublin has ordered that no sentence of the Military Court, which tried Mr. Erskine Childers and eight athers on a charge of illegally being in possession of contenced them to death, shall be carried out for the present.

The Master of the Rolla, in his order, says that action on the Military Court's decision mest be stayed, pending his decision with the regard to the application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus in case of Mr. Childers and the eight other persons convicted.

NEW GERMAN CABINET.

Berlin, Non 21.

Herr Cunc has formed a Cabinet Including four members of the Wirth Cabinet, of which Doctor Hermes retains the Ministry of Finance. Docter Sthamer, German Ambassador in London, will be Foreign Secretary.

se is would often mean levelin

The Punama Canal

the district de miles. It woul The Chairman remarked that the be draining a nullah and ¦ mest famona case of working to rid

"Bonds That Chafe."

THE CAUSE OF SPRUE.

A Digestive Disorder.

Interesting comedy of very

In "The Etiology of Sprue," by slight texture. A, fascinating com Trevor Heaton, in the Indian edienna and a good all round cast. Journal of Medical Research, the Effective production."- These are author comes to the conclusion Jord of the tributes paid by that aproe is a deficits entity, and Tenities to the General Fila Com- not a mare association of symp- pany's biographical feature "Bonde toma, its predisposing and com- thai Chafe, which is showing at plicating factors depending on a the Star Theatre.

condition. fangle pathological

There is no evidence to suggest a specific bacterial or-protozoa). infection, for though these organ- sms may be present sprue symp toms cau exist without them.

The filcas with which the Swedish ligraph bas established so high a reputation for artistic production bave been so much en the scabre side that a light comedy from that studio has an especial interest. Bends that Chafe proves that in Tora Teya Sweden possesses an actress of unusual

Personal ebarm und

great gifts 35 a light enmedienas, while the rest of the company includes some unusually clever delineators of charseter. We shall look forward

Thesa symptoms of sprue ate due mainly to mycotic fermenta- tion and digestive incompetence. The peculiarities of the incidence and geographical distribution of this disease point to a physiolo- gical rather than an infective cause.

The immediate relief from all

to seeing this brilliant combination infective symptoms in response to pon-specific treatment is can. in a comedy which would appeal to a British andiene as thoroughly trasted with the very slow and worthy of their takats. The stars uncertain recovery of the diges is certainly of the very slightest tive function. This is also taken texture and is little but a very mild to indicate that the digestive satire at the divorce laws, which failure is the essential disability. on might imagine to be as pliable and the infection secondary. The physiological disability of sprue in Sweden as in some states in America. The comedy is a little | thin, though perfectly decorons.

This picture - proceded by one of the

most charming) nature

is brou. ht about by the effects of climate.

Story of A Narrow Escape.

studies we have seen, the fatity ATLANTIC LINER'S PERIL. hie of a pair of sturks and their [Jeung, whose estis on the chin- niegta farmhouse.' The Happy cie në three birds is portrayed with tconsiderable humour and with a

New York, Oct. 6. bichnical perfection which com. The Red Star liner Gothrand asped with the beauty of the 17,660 tonelarrived here last night" subjects aud the picturesque with a thriling story of the ourroundings, make this a pictura perilous buffetings she received

using a number of outlying pool a whole district of malaria was of unusua! interest.

undrained.

Dr. Koch thought it

prevention of malaria

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the

very

made in the Panama Canal zone, and there it was done to protect

informed that it would be quite impossible to give even a suggestion of the cost without a preliminary survey, and that the cost even of the preliminary survey could not be given.

MENT.

Norfolk County Council

Defrauded of £50,000.

Two suicides bave attended the comparatively recent discovers of fraud- totalling aparis £50,000 on the Norfolk ounty Council by a clerk emploved in the Highways Department

in the recent burricane in the Atlantic from mountainous WATGE, which even the captain of the

Forforty-twoboorathe Gotland drifted, while terrific as swept her from stem to ster. She was blows eighty miles out of her course. Fuddenly, through the blinding spray, the captaiD BAW the Atlantic Transport Company's liner Menominee 16,919 togel bearing down on him less than a mile away. A collision, with both ships rolling helplessly, seemed inevitable. Three barrels of oil were emptied on the boiling sess from the Gothland, whose engines stopped before the starboard

duty of the Beard to impress the a large number of workers, who CLERKS' HUGE EMBEZZLE-Aquitania described as dangerous. Government with the necessity of were "ansalted" whites. It did not doing everything possible for the seem to be worth while to carry He quite out such a scheme in the New understood that the Sanitary De. Territory. He bad asted the

to be

Medical Oficer of Health to draw partment would have much enlarged before the rural up a report on the subject and was areas could be dealt with. One, or red two, Medical Oncers of Health would scarcely suffice to undertake the work required.

The Chairman: Let to spend large sums of money stand: do you suggest that

George Harvey, whose salary their account. These people had

Dr. Koch: I quite acknowledge) was £300 陪 year, was * the advice of the Medical Officer of should undertake to eliminate the

for 27 years. He left that Health at their depsal and bistogdeline megaitu from all the the diculties that exist; the point treased empieces of the council

is whether we should b.t make an New. Tertiore?

employment Fix advice on the subject was expressed

mooths Dr. Kuch: It has been done in attempt now other than in the town.

ако He had been living at the very plainly at the last weeLug.

or less It seems valueless unless you make rate of £3.000 a y aprofessedly the surrounding on big gains-hut it has been a.tempt in

found that for seven years he had ingeniously +mb zz ed money.

similarly, building entraéturs, en the F. MS with

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ply ng large gangs of men in rural success-allnost, mure areas, hau the sant advice available: think, and there is an reason why | country. and he could only hope that in their wo should not undertake the work own interest they would take it.

He was not prepared to regulations in the matter.

suggest

within reason, considering danger of malaria.

the

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Mr. Perkins: If you carry that out logically the question is how far you should go. Why stop at the New Territories! Why not ex- tend it to all China and make a job

The Chairman: Precisely what Dr. Ozorio: I give notice of the would be the object In the in

terest of people residing in the Newcf it? following question the nest meeting:13 the Government Territories!

It

prophylactic in the

taking any special measures again malaria Morrison Hill scheme?"

Dealing With Nullahs. The Disctor of Puble Works, asked by r. Koch if he had any.

Dr. Koch: I think so. The Chanman: That I think i hardly worth white:

the Dr. Koch: That is always Bigament against eve. kind of im- "How provement-the question:

far are you guing to take it?" there are so

Mr. Perkins: Working from the centre and clearing as you gu is the way.

very, very lew, excluding actives of cours

Dr. Koch: It is the natives that

The Chairmat: Yes, but seeing

Dr. Koch asked whether the thing to add, said that whenever is the reservoir of malaria-that is

efforts to clear the hilaide of the 11 4.5 was applied for in the out the trouble.

baunts of mosquits, put in hand lying districts Ir bunding and was

the first con. that there are a million coming lat year, had been continued this put up for auction sideration wlin's what nullahs and everywhere from districts over which, Year.

imac. we have no possible control, is DO: i water courses there were

diately surrounding it, and those the caly reasonable thing to do to the Anopheles in immediately surrounding were dealt conccatrate of with as son as it was possible to Hongkong!

so economically. He was only Dr. Koch: Don't you thick it is ret rring to nullahs in the nearly wasting time? All this malaria vicinity of the property, as it would is spread from the surrounding dis- be an impossible ack and would tricts and the anopheles can carry distance,-I be cost thousands of dollars to drain disease for sume

all the mullats in districts surround. lieve two or three miles.

The Medical Offer of Health: ing sius en wich any individual,

who fancied a spur or a precipitous The latest experiments made in the that certain point mewhere, might choose to. Thutch Indies show

thousand build a house. Moreover, it would anopheles can fly nine be a great engineering work, be- metres.

Mr. Perkins said that the request of the "Board was complied with very fly and the work had ex- tended int this year.

Mr

Dr. Koch In spite of all extra pre auti n malaria has increased.

Perkins th ught that the thermal sta unt of building every- here might have something to du with it

The discussion then ended.

The Chiran menti ned the ap. pointment of Mr. J. A. Fraser as Sertary of the Bard_yeTM Mr. C. M. W. Rynold's (resigned).

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screw could be reversed.

In the nick of time, the Menominee drifted across the hows of the G thland, less than 2001. apparating the two liners. As they drew apart a gigantic sea carried away the wireless ap- para**, the flagstaff. the log line, smashed the windows of the Overtaken by nancial en Gotbland's bridge, and swept barrassment, he shot himselfina | réveral toata from the drok. Norwich zarage on August 31,very one breathed relief when and then everything was dis-it was seen that a collision had covered.

been averted.

Another council employee, a clerk in the sudit deper ment, threw him-elf in front of a train when he heard that the defalca- tions were known.

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