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Just another 5 minutos wish I didn't always wake so tired. Those wretched directors are meeting this moming too!

All their

happiness

depended on him.

THINKS

Very efficient but not your job,

Oh, Mr. Martin! I had to send that report into the directors' meeting without you seeing it. Sorry couldn't)

wait.

But I checked

it carefully

depends on my

young man

MEANWHILE IN THE DIRECTORS MEETINGS

But, my dear sir, Martin, books half asleep all day. If the younger man can do the job better, Martin must take · the consequences. I'll talk to Martin

THAT NIGHT

THINKS:

Their happiness job..! The director are right, I am half asleep. I'll simply have to see a doctor about this wretched

tiredness

THE DOCTOR SAYS:

It's this waking tired that's holding you back! Even during sleep, heartbeats and other automatic actions go on using up energy. Unless energy's replaced. during sleep, of course. you wake tired-Night Starved! I advise

Horlicks..

s

Darling! Remember lin getting a rise this month. I hate to see you saving and doing all the housework yourself. Let's get a daily help in

3 MONTHS LATER

and so every night.

Does your husband

wake tired?

The doce, see to it that he get Horlicks

regularly, a cupful every night. He'll get the He'll right kind of sleep, and wako cefreshed.

be able to concentrare better, he won't be handi- capped any longer at his work by that deadening tiredness,

HORLICKS

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29,

Doctors Beating Disease-with Exceptions

Most thorough of all inquiries into the state of Britain's health is the one made each year by the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health, Sir Arthur MacNaity,

1937.

His report for 1936 is out. In it he answers some of the questions you might have wondered about yourself.. Such as these:

There is a new vaccine which doctors hope to perfect as a means of immunising people from influenza. It was discovered accidentally when a ferret, which had been infected, bit a research worker and gave him influenza.

The ferret had protective bodies in his blood; and the Medical Re-

SPECIAL EMPIRE search Council is now trying to pro-

CABLES

duce something that will similarly protect human beings.

There have been "dramatic re- sults" from the use of prontosil, in

AUSTRALIA AND U.S. cases of puerperal sepsis, erysipelas,

TRADE PACT

Sydney.

meningitis, scarlet fever, angina and tonsillitis

more

But there is a warning against careless use of these drugs.

"It Omcial circles at Canberra insist

is possible that even that under the proposed Anglo-effective anti-bacteric agents than American Trade advantages in the the prontosil derivatives hitherto British market without receiving used may be discovered."

London equally important concessions.

School of Hygiene and Medicine Commonwealth Ministry Tropical

workers The above all welcomes the prospect of made substantial progress direct

stimulates negotiations with America. anti-gen (agent which The previous refusal of this on the protective properties in the blood)

of the United States led to the for immunisation against typhold. part trade diversion policy here against WHAT DISEASES ARE

America,

Queensland Drought. One of the worst droughts in living memory is reported from North Queensland in the cattle-raising arca between the Gult and Cape York. Hundreds of cattle are dying dally. Many owners from a quarter to a half of lost their herds.

Next Year's Tests --- Important cricket matches are already being closely watched to find new blood for Inclusion in the Test team to tour England In 1938, which will be selected during January. The critics unanimously regret the M.C.C. deci- sion against five-day Tests.

South Africa

READY FOR OTTAWA MODIFICATION

the

Capetown. The Union is favourably disposed the conclusion of a trade towards treaty' between Britain and United States. Although realising that it would entail sacrifices under the Ottawa Agreements, South Africa is prepared to share in them as contribution

towards International stability and peace.

It is felt that an Anglo-American ngreement, with perhaps bilateral trade treaties among Individunt Dominions. would, by encouraging freer international trade be a step towards stabilisation of currencies, in which the Union is particularly in- -terested.

Officials ore now examing how South African exports would be af- fected if Empire preferences were modified.

National

DOING MOST DAMAGE!

on

have

an

total

Out of each 1,000 of the deaths (495,704) In 1936 311 were from diseases of the heart, 134 from cancer, 102 from bronchitis, pneu- monia and other respiratory diseases, 82 from diseuses of the nervous system, 57 from tuberculosis,

Last year 14,693 men and 7,001 wonten suffered death by violence, There were 5,070 suleides, 180 homicides, 4.001 people died from injuries through falls.

ARE THE DOCTORS

BEATING DISEASE?

fre

Some diseases

dying out; others are increasing. Note figures 100 years apart.

There were 5,504 deaths from dropsy in 1037; none in 1933, Small- pox claimed 5,911 victims In 1897; none in 1935.

The death-rate from all forms of tuberculosis has been cuming down steadily since the beginning of this century (from 1.739 in each million of the population in 1001 to 857 per million last year). So has the death- rate from typhold and paratyphoid, which was 113 per million In 1001 and 6.3 in 1930.

per

•Against these improved floures are much worse figures for cancer (1901 death-rate of 849 per million had gone up to 1,010

inillion last year), and rather worse figures for diabetes (up from 88 to 108). But the introduction of State ser- vices has brought down the stan-

I'ark Stamps.-Early next year 800,000 publicity stamps will be on sale throughout South dardised death rates from all causes Africa as part of the campaign to very notably, in 1910 it was 13.2

of the Union's per thousand, in 1936 9.2 per thou enrry the message

game sanctuary, Kruger Na-sand. tional Park, to every corner of the HOW ARE

world,

The stamps will be divided into sets of eight, each bearing the likeness of diforent animal the park.

India

WEDDING IN SHIP'S CHART ROOM

The

Calcutta.

of

of the German

CHILDREN FARING?

infants

Something like 42,000 were saved last year by the dropping of the Infant mortality rate from 128 per thousand in 1910 to 69 per thou- sand in 1936. But last year showed a check in the improvement: the 1936 figures were 2 per thousand above those of 1935. Figures for children of school age were 35 per cent, bet- ter than in 1910.

chart room steamer Rauenfels, lying at Calcutta, was the setting for the welding of Herr Gerhurd Ruelle, a Calcutta Total maternity mortality rate Inst business man, and Fraulein Eva year was 3,80 per 1,000 live births. Richn. A reception on deck was at-It was 3.87 in 1911, and has been tended. by Count von Podewils Dur-going up a little and down a little, nitz, the Consul-General, and the but never dropping decisively since whole German colony.

then. Last year 2,301 mothers died Flying Boats to Far East-It Is In childbirth: there were 805,202 live hoped that a regular flying boat ser-

births registered, vice will start between Karachi and Singapore in January. The arrival

The Ministry received 1,845 con- at Singapore of the Cordella-the Adential reports on mothers' deaths first flown to the Far East-was wit- during the last year, and analysed nessed by a large crowd this morn-| them. They concluded that though Ing. Sir Shenton Thomas, the in 315 cases there was no avoidable Governor, later went for a flight in | factor, there were 800 cases where some failure was held to have exist- cd.

her.

South Africa SCIENTISTS' VISIT TO

TRISTAN

Cape Town.

The Norwegian scientific expedi-

South Africa

LABOUR'S ATTITUDE TO DICTATORS

Pretoria.

when

tion to Tristan da Cunha, under Dr. The danger of a Fascist dictator- Erling Christopherson, has arrived ship in South Africa was one of the. here. A stay of 100 days on the main points discussed at a meeting island is contemplated.

of the Labour party here The Rev. Harold Wilde, who is launching Its election campaign, returning to Tristan after a visit to Mr. W. B. Madeley, M.P. for England is accompanying the party. Benoni, Transvaal, said that the first

aim of

of the Labour party would be Canada

to stamp out any threats of a dicta- torship in the Union, whether Com- munist or capitalist.--Reuter.

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