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HEALTH.

INFANTILE PARALYSIS AGAIN MAKES APPEARANCE.

METHODS OF PREVENTION.

Outbreaks of infantile paralysis in seven or eight midlle west and near eastern states have served to focus attention anew on this crip pling and dangerous disorder that usually comes to light late in the sunimer.

It

THE PHYSICK WELL'

AT BARNET.

WHERE PEPYS DRANK FIVE GLASSES.

DISCOVERED IN 1650.,

Within a few years the old Physick Well at Barnet may be as popular a meeting place as it was in Pepys's time.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1927.

WINE IN A GLASS INVISIBLE.

STATE AIDED-FLYING CLUBS.

12.

£2,000 A YEAR FOR FOUR TOWNS.

DRINK TRULY ONLY WITH THINE EYE!

BRITISH PIONEER WORK.

SOME EXPERT ADVICE.

drink

Do you know how to wine? If you do not-and few people do then the advice of M. Louis Forest will be of interest, for M, Forest is not only one of the best known of French journ alists, but he is also a famous gourmet and president of the celebrated "Club des. Cent" at. Paris.

A new decision of the Air Minis- try to grant subsidies of £2,000 a year for three years to four addi- tional light aeroplane, clubs was The Clerk of the Urban, Dis-announced by Sir Samuel Hoare, trict Counell told a press repre- Secretary of State for Air, official sentative that when the lease of ay opening the Bristol and Wessex As yot medieal selence has field now rented to a farmer ex Aeroplane Club at Filton Aero net. discovered, with certainty pires it is proposed to restore the drome, near Bristol.. the ensative "organism or 4well.

"During the last few months," The field is the property of the he said, we have been consider. This "hundred" club is an ex- specific method of prevention that will be of service on council," he said, "but it will being very carefully the future of tremély exclusive body; the mem- routine basis. The dis-some years before it comes into the light aeroplane clubs, and the bers are limited to 100 in num- case is a general infection with our hands again.

kind of way in which the Air ber, and they are the supreme "Provision has been made for Ministry can assist them in their authorities in Franco on what symptoms of paralysis due to in-

and how to eat and drink. flammation of the spinal cord. the erection of 181 houses on the official organisation.

When the disease begins there Is Wellhouse Estate, most of which usually a rise in temperature, some have now been built.

"The old well, the tonic proper- disturbance of the digestion, gentles of which were discovered in eral malaise, headache, restless 1660, is in a fold near some of ness and irritability followed by the houses. drowsiness with an inclination to be quiet. The inflammation of the nervous system causes pain and apprehension or motion.

"Memories of the day when Samuel Pepys drank the waters will be perpetuated by a new brick structure with fountains, green walks, and flower beds, with two approaches, to be named Pepy's crescent and Weli-road. -

"Up to the present we have been able to give a subsidy from public funds to six light aeroplane clubs. I am glad, to be able to tell you that, we are now, in a position to increase the number of clubs to which we tan give a subsidy, and among the first of the new clubs we have selected for subsidy is the Bristol and Wessex Club. (Cheers).

"For five years," sald M. Forest at the American Club here," I have been endeavouring to de- termine the shape of the ideal glass out of which to drink wine.

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"All the heavy glittering crystal

or goblets tumblers abomination in the sight of the true wine drinker.

"When one raises wine to one's lips one must see the wine, and not the glass. So the glass should be very thin, and almost in- visible.”

For this reason there is stiffnesss of the neck and the spine. Two or three days after the disease begins there comes on paralysis of the power to move the parts but not of the sense of feeling in them. This is due to the fact that only the anferior part of the spine where the motor nerves are concerned is in The wall will have, to be. cleaned pared to pay £50 to the club for revise. a. famous. line from a

volved.

The posterior part is not affected, Hence the other name of thin die ease, acute anterior poliomyelitis! The legs are more frequently par- alyzed than are the arms but the muscles of swallowing, of sight, or of other parts of the Ecdy may fail to respond because of the loss of proper nerve control.

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"Could Drink no More." "The well is a wallet chamber below ground, access being ob- tained by a flight, of brick stairs.

out, and, subject to further analysis, it is hoped that the water will be drinkable."

In Pepys Diary of July 11, 1664, is this entry:

"I shall not attempt to go into details of the conditions, but the basis of the subsidy is to be pay ment by, results, And with that princípic as the basis, we are pro-.

every pilot who has got his A or B certificate. We are prepared in addition to pay £1 10s: for every flying hour up to a maximum of twenty hours flown by an A or B certificated pilot. In addition to that we are prepared to make“a grant of £10 in respect of each member holding an A or B certi fenté in, force on the previous January 1.

Betimes up this morning....at 9 o'clock set out to Baract... Thence I and Will to see the Welle half a mile off, and there I drank three glasses, and went and walk- ed and came back and drank two So far as is known, the most more.. The woman would Have

"We are prepared to make these effective method of preventing in-had me drink three more, but I

grants up to a maximum of £2,000 fantile paralysis would. be complete could not.

That is the maximum isolation from all contact with any And on August 11, 1667, is an a year.

that any light aeroplane club can patient in the acute stage or in any other reference:

Up by 4 o'clock and rendy....receive. We are prepared.to.con- other stage of the disease, as well

s from those convalescing or those to take coach before 5....and set tinue these grants for a period of suspected of being carriers.

on our journey and got to the three years upon th definite under- Until the cold weather sets in.wolls at Barnet by seven o'clock standing that at the end of the when the incidence of the disease and there found many people a three years the club will be able to stand upon its own foundations begins to lessen, children should drinking. no travel about any more than is In the same year Alderman Job without the need of a subsidy absolutely necessary.

Owen, a London fishmonger, gave from the Government.

of the There are special serums for the 1 yearly for the upkeep of the prevention of the disease, including well, and the governors

School, the particularly the blood serum of a Barnet Grammar patient convalescing from the distrustees of the charity, are cop: order, but there is no-known spa-tributing from the fund to the cific preventive treatment' that can cost of the new approaches, be applied practically on a large "scale.

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The Onio department of public welfare has issued a statement ad- vising that the patient be placed completely at rest as soon as pos- sible. Massage of the paralyzed muzles early, in the disease has been shown to be harmful.,

Self-Reliance Best.

"I hope that at the end of that time, there will be no need for Government subsidy. It is much better for your club-and for every. bédy concerned to be able to de- pend upon yourselves, and.not to AIRMAN'S 6,000 FEET be tied down by the conditions

CRASH.

FAILURE TO COME OUT OF SPIN.

that are inevitable in the case of any organisation that is receiving Government money,,

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M. Forest would doubtless 17 Permits.

18 Make.

24 Most bail.

famous poem and make it read: 21 Griet. "Drink, truly only with thine 22 Columnar. eyes."""

wine," "Good

he declared, "should be first drunk with the

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imperfectly.

23 Rendered vold,

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128 Kind of seal.

29 All (musical)."

37 Flattened or depressed at the

poles.

39 Relate

41 Fleshy.

42 Joined by stitches.

ancient 43 Prepares for publication.

44 Darts.

Like a Bird-With a big Glags.

34 Brigade of Kafr soldiers. "When its colour has fully im- 35 Place to lie. pressed itself on the mind the 36 Ten millions. glass-held by the bottom of the 38 Brood of eagles. stem should be slowly rotated 900 Heated to excess. as to bring out the bouquet, which 44 Friends.

47 Lose blood. is the next thing to enjoy..

48 A tax, Finally one drinks slowly and61 Divine communication.

ns' a 52 Inner coat of shell of pollen

grain. delicately with little sips, bird drinks."

63 Mercy. said, 54 Smell.

half 55 Molecule.

big 66 Arm covering.

One's glass, M. Forest should never be more than full; and he believes in glasses for good wine.

"The art of wine drinking." a tradition in he added, "is France. It is an epicurean art based, above all, on moderation, There are nu drunkards in our great wine-growing regions.

"Pierre Ronsard, the old Renais ance poet, who was as great a connoisseur of wine as of rich rhymes, had a chapel built before the entrance to his wine cellar.

"I am very glad to be able to

"His guests passed through the make the announcement to-day that Bristol is one of the selected chapel and offered a prayer be- clubs to be added to the list as fore descending into the cellar After about six weeks, gentle

Climbing to a height of 6,000 feet the capital of the West of Eng-where the hoary bottles lay.

Norwich will be another, "Above the door was a quota- massage and passive movements to pass an altitude test, Charles land. may be used, but even these are Harold Swan crashed to death in as the capital of the East of Eng-tion from Epicurus, exhorting all capable of doing harm as well as a light acroplane at Marsh Farm, land. The third new club will be who entered to observe modera- good, and should be administered Great Stanmore.

At the inquest it was stated Nottingham, in the Midlands, andtion in order to intensify their the fourth club will be the Scot- only under the direction of a corn-

enjoyment. petent specialist, or experienced that Swan, an artist's draughts-tish Flying Club, in Scotland. It

"It is in this spirit that we physician. Rough handling of the man, Rged, 24, of Fallow Court- may be possible after we go into spine may serve to extend the avenue, Finchley, was a member of the finances in, greater detail to should drink." paralysis or to make it impossible the London Acro Club. Captain include one or two other clubs as for the Inflamed tissues to recover Sparks, chief instructor, said Swan

well," FIS satisfactory they might had been a member of the club for

He wished the Bristol Club otherwise.

the past year and he had been out in an aeroplane alone several times. success, and hoped that Bristol "He carried a barograph with would not only deserve the The Port of London Authority him, and according to the reading Government subsidy, but would have ordered 10,000,000 cubic feet he went to 6,000 feet," said Capprove itself to be one of the great of timber from British Columbia tain Sparks.

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elvil flying centres of the country. He congratulated the officials whe had started it without the prospect

1,500 members of them. Of these 750 were flying.members, and 157 had already taken their A and B certificates. satisfactory result.)

That was

very

Many well-known aviators, both the face of keen competition "On, the previous day Swan from the United States. The cou-watched another man who was mak-

men and women, took part in de given for the entertainment of the tract, which is for Douglas fir, has ing saltitude flight put his of any Government aid, and demonstration flights, which were

clared the club open.

large crowd which gathered for been placed with the British machine into a spin.. Columbian-Sawniilla, and the tim "He said, "That seems a splendid

The light aeroplane club move the opening of the club... ber will be.. used in connexion way of losing one's height after

There was bright sunshine" in test: I pointed out ment. (he said) was one of the with the construction of the new an allitude docks at Tilbury: "The order," that it was a silly thing to do, most interesting in the world of

flying anywhere. Two years ago the afternoon, but fog in the morn says a. Britkh Columbia official, and that it was wrong.

I of the utmost significance as In- "The barograph, however, shows it was started as a British move-ing accounted for, a minor dicating the increasing favour with that he put his machine into a ment peculiar to this country, and accident. Mrs. Carberry, who which Columbian timber, is being spin and spun the whole way down." eince that time a number of clubs was flying a Moth from London, regarded. Douglas fir is slowly The corner said his verdiet was had sprung up and they have been came down near Streatley, and Captain H S. Broad, but surely supplanting American that Swan died from injuries very successful in training pilots damaged the under-carriage of the timber by reason of its greater caused by the acroplane, of which and popularising flying generally machine. dufability." It is understood that he was the pilot, falling to the To-day, although the six clubs had who was escorting her in another the first shipment will arrive ground out of control. It was a only been in existence for a short machine, descended, and took her

time, there were no fewer than on as, a passenger...

shortly.

VAPO-HALINE

GIVES INSTANT COLD IN THE FLUENZA ETC.

RELIEF TO HEAD, IN-

"A FEW DROPS ON HANKER- CHIEF OR IN HOT WATER TO BE INHALED FREQUENTLY.

Prepared by-

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY. 1, guopo’n Road, t

fol. 6. 1877.

case of misadventure.

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