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Here is the parting of the two "fron men" of Europe of the station in Berlin, as Premier Mussolini of Italy says good-bye from the window of his special train, after his visit, to Reichfüchrer Hitler of Germany. 11 Duce, wearing the Imperial Eagle on his cap, wai III with a cold when he arrived back in Rome.

HEALTH MEASURES OF

THE PORT OF LONDON

GRAVE RESPONSIBILITIES..

(By Joseph Martin)

The health authorities of the Port of London have a grave responsibility. About two hundred vessels bearing millions of tons of cargo which may contain dangerous germs arrive from foreign countries every weck; thousands of passengers who may have been in contact with infectious diseases are landed annually; numbers of live cattle, horses, dogs and other domestic animals are brought in, any one of which, if adequate precautions were not taken, might re-introduce such dis- eases as plague, leprosy, rabies etc., which have been banished from England for many years.

The annual Report of the Medicul Oficer of Health, issued recently by the Port nf. London Health Commit- tee, shows how all these problems and many more were efficiently dealt with during the past year, and the health of the Metropolis safe- guarded with the minimum of Inter- ference to commerce and the least possible delay, and inconveniences to passengers.

Scientide methods of treating in- fectious diseases give present-day civilisation a better chance to com- widespread epidemics success- bat fully, should they ever recur in the *w*

form same

as in the past. One authority has stated that it was not the advance of medicine that con- quered the great plagues which fre- quently devastated mediaeval

Between 1881

Europe they censed mysteriously, more than a century before science oven sus- pected their eause, in Great Britain, Western Germany, Spain; Italy and the Netherlands, and never appeared again. The Serms are not extinct, however, and the temperate climate which favours their growth remains diseasca unchanged. Many other such as cholera and smallpox are possible sources of danger and it is only the constant watchfulness of throughout the sanitary authorities world that prevents isolated out- serious

tion, for doing away with overcrowd- ing, and for raising the living stan- dards of the poor.

To-day, besides exornining goods and passengers for traces of infer- tion, the medical officers of the Port of London Health Committee inspect all imported food and analyse samples to make sure that it is fit for human consumption. A constantly bigher level of quality is demanded and from time to time notice is served to all food importers of the standards that will be required. Passcugers no longer have to fer Irritating delays when they arrive. Even if it is suspected that they have been in contact with infection they a medical arc permitted, after examination, to continue their jour- ney to their final destination under

measures

system of surveillance; they are. placed under observation for four- teen days after landing by the local medical officer of health of the dis- trict in which they happen to be residing. During the past year, 18, 531 inspections of vessels were made

ions and 0,070 Inspections of shore pre- mises. 118 ships were fumigated for rat destruction and 3,208 tons of foodstuffs were condemned.

The that British principle against the importation of infectious clisenses should be based on the health conditions on board the ship rather than those existing in the part of departure was accepted by the European Powers in 1802. In 1907 the Office International d'Hyglene breaks from becoming n

Publique was founded with bead- threat to the health of the wester quarters in Paris, and until the pre- nations. The incessant warfare sent day it has continued to collect against the spread of these diseases, and distribute information with re- waged generation after generation by gard to epidemics and to issue re- ports on malters of international those responsible for the health ot

public health interest. the Port of London, is well aum- marised in a section of the Report.

'ENGLAND'S GREAT PLAGUES

Late For Work-

Hurried And Died

London, Oct. 4.

It is difficult to point armor in regard to the following story. Seventy years old Fred Hemsley, of Dunholm, Mount Pleasant, New-

The great plagues were casentially diseases not of village communities but of commercial nullons, and with the rise of European sea-torne trado they raged at their worst in the #rent emporia of London, Lisbon and Amsterdam. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth we find that the civic authorities of London were haven, a porter employed by the Kradually feeling their way towards the scientific preventive methods of to-day, for in 1500 the Lord Mayor was authorised to prevent the lodg ing in the City of Merchants.or mariners from suspected ships, and to prohibit the discharge of goods until they had had time for airing, From 1005 great rellance was placed the theory of quarantine-first put into practice in the 14th century by tho Venetians-which meant eaten his breakfast too quickly. He originally that a ship coming from went into a shed for a rest. A few an infected port must wait for forty minutes later he was discovered days at the port of its destination dead, before making any contacts with the shore.

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By means of quarantine, England trled to defend her shores from pes- tilence for about a hundred and seventy years, but in 1831 It became evident, as a result of an epidemic in that year, that it was not effectual means of defence against the Inva- sion of such diseases cholera and i typhus, and it was recognised at the

Baltic Sawmills for the past 40 years. had prided himself on never being late for work. Saturday morning he overslept. Ils clock had slopped. In fear of spolling his record's Hemsley rushed his breakfast and hurried to work about a mile from his home. He was, however, half an hour late. He started work and a few minutes later, complained of feeling unwell. He thought he had

Bugles For Essex Regiment

London, Oct. 4. Thirty allver bugles subscribed by the county to the 2nd Bellallon Essex. Regiment in recognition of the recent return from twenty years')

some time that they always broke | service abroad, were presented this, out first in slum quarters where week by General Sir Harry Knox, people were living in unhygienie.

Adjutant General of the Army. He ditions. The Pert Authorities, tools and that the people of this country on a number of extra duties for the were apt to forget sometimes what safeguarding of public health and a ❘ they owed to our county regiments great impetus was given to schernes | which contained some of the inest for the provialon of adequate sanita- | soldiers in the world; ..

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