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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1928.

THE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS.

MADAME AND HER CIGARETTE.

PARIS IS THE CITY OF SMOKE

Paris, Aug. 10., Tho, cigarette is conquering France just as it is triumphing in England.

Statistics published to-day show that France in 1860 only smoked "one cigarette per week per head of the population."

A dozen years later the Bgure was "one cigarette per day."

"SACRED EMBLEM OF THE MEDICINE BOTTLE.

One of the most serious obstacles

Varying opinions on the cure and to the reliable reception of distant treatment of tuberculosis were ex- broadcast transmissions is "fad-pressed by medical authorities at ing, with the result that signals the congress of the Royal Institute

constant of Public Health. not received of a strength. They may vary

Dr. W. G. Maguire, Medical Com- strength at a given place frommissioner, National Health In- moment to moment, and in conscsurance (Ireland), in a paper on

At the outbreak of the war, quence reception is rendered ex-

"The Prevention of Tuberculosis." ceedingly difficult.

Bald that the majority of cases of France was using up 8,800,000,000 It was this "fading" which disense were contracted in child-cigarettes a year; about 100 for

every person of whatever age. hindered tho British Broadcasting hood.

That figure had more than Corporation so much last winter in

"It cannot be asserted," he said, doubled by the time the Treaty of their attempts to relay American that we are in a position to pro- Versailles was signed, and it has transmissions. The British Broad claim permanent immunity against casting Corporation bellevee, how disease, but there are reasons to now risen to 300 per head of the ever, that the difficulties due to believe that, by early immunisation,population, or about 12,000,000,000 |

cigarettes per annum. "fading" may be overcome in the protection can be secured at least following manner:

during the period of childhood Instead of transmission when ausceptibility to infection is station only sending out a pro-most pronounced." gramme several stations will trans- mft the same programme. Those different transmissions of the same programme will be separately re- ceived, but the output from the re- ceivers will be combined,

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Combined Output.

He urged the introduction of some simple method of vaccination.

The "Medical Priest."

A newspaper statistician say 18. Was Inevitable-that the which Franco now cigarettes smokes annually would, if placed end on end, go 16 times round the world.

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Tints and Scents Not the Mode.

The directorate of the French' Dr. Andrew Trimble, Chief tobacco monopoly nscribes the in- Tuberculosis Officer, Belfast, speak-crease as very largely due to the

"BELLEROPHON* 20th Sept. Gonos, Havre, Lʻpool & Glasgdw ing on the same subject, anid woman smoker.

It Is added that the woman

"EURYLOOHU" 20th Oct. Ganon, Havre, L'pool & Gisagow smoker is forsaking the expensive It is thought that if four or five medicing in nine-tenths of cases

and dainty cigarette which a gal- PACIFIC SERVICE transmitters are used the combined was a waste of money."

via Kobe & Tokobama "Discuse," he said, "was former-lant inonopoly has been providing output from the four or five re-

TYNDAREUS" 15th Sept. Vietoris, Vanponvar & Seattle a demoniac entity for her. She now prefers the 20 ceivers will be fairly uniform inly regarded as

"PROTESILAUS" 6th Oct. Vistoria, Vánocaver & Sentile strength, and will therefore be suit- which took possession of the for. Bd., like the mere man, able for relaying. The B.B.C. are healthy body, and, although this though every packet tells Madamo NEW YORK SERVICE. arranging with the National Broad-idea of demoniac possession is now of a more expensive cigarette to bo casting Company of Americn to co- obsolete, belief in disease as an had.

Just now the monopoly has on its operate in experiments of this na-entity still remains. ture in the near future.

"The method of dispossessing the hands big stocks of dainty scented illness through the agency of the cigarettes in rose, blue and green tribal priest and by the administra-paper, such as "lango,"

and so on. medicines, trot,' of disgusting tion

has been weirdly compounded, abandoned, but the almost ancred emblem of a bottle of medicine ad- ministered by the medical priest still remains, and the modern patient still demands the exorcism of his disease by the administration RESTRICTIONS AGAIN TO BE of medicine, not less superstitious-

Wave lengths of between 16 and 50 metres will be used, and the Késton experimental station will co-operate.

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AVIATOR'S MOTHER,

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New York, Sept. 8. Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, mother of the aviator, is going to Turkey aboard the liner Conte Grande, to teach chemistry in a

The water authority is advertis- I have little hesitation in sny ing that nine-tenths of the medicine rider main districts will be con-administered to-day is an absolute women's college. She is accom- trolled by bringing the rider maine waste of money, and when applied panied by Miss Alice Morrow, sis- in the treatment of tuberculosis is into operation na from to-morrow.

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STERLING FALLING.

GOLD MAY MOVE BACK TO THE UNITED STATES.

New York, Sept. 8. Bankers are watching with close interest the decline in sterling on the exchange market. Today the quotation touched the year's low level, $4.85 to the pound.

This indicates the possibility of renewed importalions of gold from Britain.-Reuter's American Ser-

vice.

DENGUE FEVER.

EPIDEMIC SPREADS TO CAIRO.

Cairo, Sept. 3. Dengue fever has appeared here, Health officials are greatly alarmed, fearing that the present epidemic in Greece is perhaps about to sweep Egypt as well.

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Dr. Crofton, of Dublin, said there are 80,000 new cases of tuberculosis each year, and asked how we could LONDON-BUCHAREST. claim, in view of thla, to be check- ing tuberculosis.

Milk Distribution,

LONG JOURNEY COVERED IN TWELVE HOURS,

London, Sept. 8. An attack on the present system

to The flight, from London of milk distribution by bottles was made in a joint paper by Professor Bucharest, a distance of 1,000 Frederick Hobday, Veterinary Sur-miles, has been accomplished in geon to the King, and Dr. E. G. one day by Flight-Lieutenant Gibbs Smith, Medical Officer of Scholefield in a Vickers visibility Ilaalth for Teddington.

"The disadvantages," It was stated, "have barely occurred to the general public, and yet they are many and formidable and far out- weigh the advantages. It surely demands but little reflection to see that the bottle in commonest use is thoroughly unhygienic.

"Again, the narrowness of the neck makes it difficult to clean the groove round the bottom. The Inside edge occasioned by the con. vexity of the base is a more serious objection, and still worse is the shape of the neck and the method of capping,

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rim disc-capped bottle is liable to a hundred and one con- taminations by the time it is open- ed for use."

machine with a 530 h.p. Napier Llon engine. Including two stops or refuelling, the journey was com pleted in twelve hours-British Wireless.

STRAITS DEFENCE.

BIG GUNS FOR SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE.

London; Sept. 8. The Daily News states that three 18-inch guns, constructed as an experiment during the war, are being shipped to Singapore on u cargo steamer for defence of the Singapore Base.

The guns are 60 feet long, weigh nearly 150 tons cach, and fire a 3,333 iba. projectile. Reuter.

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