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INDO-CHINA'S RESOURCES.
Visit of French Deputies.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1923.
PATIENTS MISTAKES.
Terrors that Beset the Doctors.
LONDON FOR HEALTH.
Disease Scarce and Deaths Fewer..
While there is no Woubt that} London's health is showing a doctors make mistakes, the mis remarkable improvement
ibis as made by patients are much January as compared with last) more frequent, and often much year. more serious, saya a writer in A Home paper.
The returns for the second week of the month, for instance, A few weeks ago, for example, reveal that the death rate has a doctor gave a patient some decreased from 31.8 to 13.0, while
pellets containing a drug which, that for infants alone has dropped în small doses, is beneficial. Hej from 107 to 65. was horrified a few days later to
The
In a recent article published of conditions in Iono-China as they appeared to a Telegraph repres entative during a recent visit to that country, reference was made to the intensive application of an lecatomic policy aiming at the full exploitation and conservation of the natural resources of the French Colony. What that policy has been able to accomplish 80 find that the man, exasperated by reduction to the notifications of
There is a corresponding far: we are enabled to make public is slow recovery, had swallowed diseases, the most prominent by the visit of two prominent the whole borful at once. Freach officials to Hongkong patient was very ill and was 134 as against 647.
being paeumonia, which was only . The deaths during the week ond.
from broncho-pneumonia were M. Maitre and M. Perreau-aved from death only by
miracle. Pradier, the officials in question,
60, which in less by 263 than for are members of the Parliamentary
the same week ļast January. DIETARY INDISCRETIONS. Commission sent out to Indo- .That is no uncommon
It is suggested that the colder China by the French Chamber of perience. For the human mind summer may have contributed to Deputies to investigate and seems to be so constituted that, this result; and at the Ministry report on the conditions of Indo- if it is informed that a grain of of Health a Daily Chronicle China subaequant to the tabling anything will achievs a particular representative was informed that of the official programme purpose, it argues immediately an investigation into the passible of improvements by the that twenty grains exercise twen- correlation of meteorological conditions and the health of the country is in progress.
ex.
One of the experts attached to the department is conducting the inquiry, which is not sufficiently advanced to warrant any reliable deduction yet.
Minister of the Colonies.ty times this desired effect. M. Sarrant, a former Governor- The patient, placed on a strict General of Indo-Coins, and pre-diet, who deliberately makes decessor in that post of the late additions to it is another terror of M. Long who was responsible for medical practice. I had a case The measure. When M. Long once of a girl who drank the water came to Indo-Chins he had as one from a rose bowl after a serious of his most difficult tasks the im-operation because the nurse in "In the same period of last provement of the currency of the charge refused to supply ber January," said an official, "tha country and the institution of the wishes.
influenza epidemic reached its necessary machinery to give a She recovered, but it was zenith; whereas this month the start to the ambitious schemes " rouch and ago.”,
disease has not been abnorms). projected. Mainly through the Patients with typhoid fever are It is the ensuing complications of efforts of the Minister of the often very troublesome in this influenza that destroy life. Colonies, the French Parliament respect. Une of these, some years
"Causes which
have was eventually won round to the ago. lost his life quite needlessly operated in reducing the death viewpoint of recognising the through rising from bed and importance of Indo-China's making a good meal of bread rate are the cold spell in the sum
mer, which prevented flies resources, and as a consequence and butter!
may
it has despatched a mission com- Scarcely less disturbing are the hatching out to the usual extent, and there was much less ip- prising four of its most capable patients who hand on prescripfantile diarrhoea. members on a tour of jaspection tions or even actual drugs to to the Colony.
their friends. One of these, who
spirit of progress
"More babies, therefore, sur-
Further, there have been fewer fogs, which always produce respiratory attacks; and, in addi-
The personnel of the Mission had been given some thyraid ved unweakened by this disease, was in itself indicative of the extract by a certain eminent and it is permissible to suppose abroad. consultant, persuaded her brother that they are better prepared We have seen how it has made to "try the treatment.”
physically to resist the winter. of very full use
advertise-
It so happened that this man ment to advance the interests of was afflicted with a very different the economic and tourist bureaux; kind of disesse. The thyroid made and a better choice could not him exceedingly ill, indeed, it wzation, the public are becoming have been made than that of M.& long time before he regained his Maitre for the important task of full strength. disseminating facts that should be known concerning Indo-China) commercially as well as socially. Most medical men know bow M. Maitre is a prominent French dangerous it is ever to" trust the publicist, having been identified patient" to carry out instructions. with many well-known works on This applies especially to the nation's health." finance and politica. A former handling of caustic or poisonous member of the French School of lotions.
BEVERE SCALDINGS,
educated in methods for combat- ing seasonal ailments.
"But medical science has not] reached the stage when it can state positively that the weather conditions, in a broad sense, are with the directly connectad
A PHANTOM FORTUNE.
Political Science, he has served in For some reason the lay mind a number of similar Parliamen-is averse from diluting such tary Commissions, being chiefly preparations with the necessary interested, in political, bygienic amount of water, and conse-1 and labour problems. Since 1910, quently it is no uncommon ex- with one brief respite preceding perience to hear of the pouring of bis re-election, he has served in pure carbolic acid into raw! the Chamber of Deputies as a wounds, or the use of excessive member for the Department of applications of some potent lini-into a large fortune became auch Soane and Loire. His political ment.
Man's Delusions about Legacy of £60,000.
An idea that he was coming
an obsession to George Warley, tendencies are defined in the These mistakes are invariably | of Maris-atreet. Darwen, that bis phrase "Republican Socialist." blamed on the doctor, who is told imaginary good fortune speedily
Mr. Perreau-Pradier, the other that he failed to make his mean- turned to ill. member of the Commission, who ing clear.
It was alleged at the local has arrived in Hongkong, is an No doubt he did fail; yet there police court, Baya the. Daily expert-on-questions-connected are people who refuse to listen to Chronicle, when Warley was com with economics and agriculture, directions of any kind.
mitted for trial at the Liverpool and serves in the Chamber as a Severe scaldings by poultices Assizes, that for six months be member for L'Yonnue. A doctor and fomentations are so frequent, had been telling people he was of lawa, he has alas acquired some when these remedies are entrusted coming into £60,000 under his author and has to patients, that nowadays many grandfather's will, and he induced published a most instructive work doctors refuse to prescribe them an assistant schoolmaster to go on "The economic wars in our unless trained turae is with him to London, at his own colonies."
note
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When they got there Wardley
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Some weeks ago, it was alleged,
Lobster's Fate in Web of Wardley produced two cheques.
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noted in the case of the big having undergone 50 serious bang” which took place insurgical operations and lost all Holland on Oct. 28 last to test his limbs as the result of wat the transmission of sound waves. wounds
Professor van Everdingen,
Commerce an interesting insight into the nature of the proposed reforms was given by a reference to the proposal made by the lata Governor General for the
one for £1,000, and the other for establishment of a "National
£500, and he and the school. Even a sea cucumber, a lowly master went to a local bank On Inaudible Bang After 60 Miles. KIFTY OPERATIONS. Congress" in which the popal. stions of Indo-Chins should and almost inanimate creature of the strength of his story, Bod
Jean Froideveaux,Swiss soldier The "Zone of Silence" which in the Freach foreign legion, has be proportionately represented the deep, can defend itself against being known to the officials, he to give coloniale and natives direct armed aggressor.
was allowed to draw £200. The seems to have been a feature of just been decorated with the contact with and interest in the This fact was brought out cheques were returned from all big explosions, was clearly French Legion of Honour after civic affairs of their own country. during a series of film pictures Liverpool back marked "Drawer Connected with this question is produced by the Regent Film not known." the necessity of reform in Company, by arrangement' with fusncial and fiscal matters, the the British Instructional Films urgency for which was emphasised Limited, and shown privately,
BOLSHEVISM FOR BLACKS..... Communist mizsionaries from by the speaker. Another question recently, in London.
While reposing on the bed of to which he drew the particular
Moscow are said to have arrived attention of the Mission was that the sea the cucumber is given a concerned with steamship consly nip by an inquisitive lobster.
broek explosion was audible for in the interior of Africa to spread bolshevist doctrines among na- nections between France and Instantly a volley of threads,
wellaver 500 miles in an eastsouth-
American negroes ́ ́ars Indo-China, and Toakin ex-tough and sticky like those of a
east direction, and in parts of tives. pecially. The decision of spider's web, is discharged by the
What may be regarded so the England more than 400 miles being trained in Moscow to act as bolshevist emissaries in Africa prominent French Company to sea-cucumber, each thread most perfect pocket camera
to distant... withdraw its baste from the waring piguously outwards and date has been invented by an Within 60 miles of Oldebroekccording to current reports.
WOMAN STRUCK IN EYE BT.7 Haiphong run was referred to by completely enveloping the lobster, American photographer, the sound was heard practically
GULF BALLA the President of the Chamber of which, despite its protective This new apparatus is claimed everywhere, but beyond that
While Miss Hilda Tunstall, of Commeron in these words: "It armour and powerful weapons of to be the thinnest camera tu the point in every direction it seems
POCKET-BOOK CAMERA. director of the Datch meteor
Half Inch Thick`and. Weighs 12 Ounces.
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is not necessary to say that this offence, falls an easy victim to world. It has the appearance of to have been quite inaudible for Cockermouth, was golfias O0 situation could not be tolerated, the ensnaring coils.
silence to believed to be due to recently, the was strack in the carried as easily.. because it is a violation of the Even a discreet hermit crab is an ordinary pocket-book, and is another 60 miles. This zone of Embleton Links, Cockermouthe Convention of 1920 by the Camicvolved in the tragedy.
pany with the Metropolitan Government, and also because the
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All the advantages of the fold-the extreme height at which the eye by a ball sliced by a golfer ing pocket instrument are em sound waves pass over it playing from a hidden see. The bodied in its construction and the It is supposed that sound waves ball smashed the glass of her
state of affairs resulting from this bere of the French community on disadvantages are left out It generated by great explosions spectacles into her right eye, of would mark a backward step and Sunday, and had very apprecia-weighs only 12 ounces, and is pass upwards from the source to which it is feared she will loss.
acting, in a complete
make of the half-an-inch thick, a height of between 40 and 50 the sight.
the development of
comm
by the Colony in the
Foffgood roads. They left!
Portho, golog to
desstransfer of @made for the
table marvel of compact miles, where they move fore
it fitted with a large considerable distance at about the Jene (foot 4.5 at 5 inches same level quité insudible below, bea and then return to the sarta qutil they are near snough to be again
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