Thursday,
Woman Doctor On The Common
SHE SAYS "I CATCH IT MY SELF"
MIDDLE-AGED woman doctor with a reputa- tion for "getting things done" is to lead a new attack on the common cold-mystery malady which has baffled the world's best medical brains for years and costs Britain £25,000,000 a year in the loss of working hours.
Dr. Florence Barrie Lambert, energetic, "never-any-die" member of the London County Council, is asking that two whole-time pathologists be appointed by the Council to make further research into the causes and prevention of influenza, the common cold, and measles.
She will propose that a fur-they came to the Anni Verdlet that ther £4,000 be set aside by the "practically no headway had been Council to carry on the scheme.
made."
throughout the country, and at all the large hospitals but without success.
Dr. Lambert-Ministry of Health They have tried cold cures at the medical officer from 1919 to 1021, War Offlec, at police headquarters Grat chairman of the specially created Pubile Health Committee, which took over
the hospitals and Institutions of the old Board of Guardians-con- fessed that she knows no more about the common cold than the next man. She suffers from them herself.
"SUCCESS WILL COME"
They have tried rays, vaccines, chemical tablets, but the prosale fact remains that up to now quite the ¡most effective remedy in bed and hot
whisky and lemon.
Still, doctors and scientists belleve| "But there is a cure if we can only that there must be a cure. And Dr. find it," she said. "We must not ve Lambert says "It's only a question discouraged by past failures. We of time."
must go on investigating and spend-
ing money because the common cold
Is one of the greatest mennees to health.
"We shall And a cure sooner or later. It is no more hopeless thun was the finding of cures for typhold, diphtheria, and other discuses เน once called incurable.
many come."
up
know we have travelled
blind alleys, but success will Every year it is estimated that at Jenst
80,000,000 people stay from their work with a cold.
When Sir Kingsley Wood was Min- ister of Health he called it "Public Enemy No. 1."
away
The investigations-In countries all over the world-continue.
Ing.
G.P.O. EXPERIMENT
Freedom Of
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London
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ELECTRICITY FROM POWDER Ninety-year-old Sir Ambroso Fleming's secret discovery was revealed recently,
Ho placed before the Physi- cal Society for further re- search details of a revolution- ary discovery in methods of generating electricity.
His method of electrifica- tion consists of allowing pow- dered silica to fall through a tuba on a perforated zinc plate, thus creating positive electricity,
By this method electricity at very high potentials or many thousands of volts could be obtained.
Professor Allan Ferguson, the president of the society, said afterwards: "Sir Am- broso's discovery has no com- mercial application. It is of puroly academic interest."
General's Son Found Shot
to
IEUTENANT Jack Duncan Thomas Robert Sladen, con
of a brigadier-general and the third generation of his family serve in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, was found dead in his sleeping quarters at Victoria Barracks, Portsmouth, recently.
recently regarding
A question was asked in Parliament;
There was a wound in his head, the freedom of and a double-barrelled shotgun lay British shipping on the Yangtse at his side. River
Lieut. Sladen's father died Commander Marsden asked the years ago. His grandfather served Prime Minister whether, having re-with the regiment. A younger tard to the impending seasonal rise brother, Mr. David Sinden, is also in
ten
War
June 8, 1939.
World Of To-Morrow
Theme centre of the $100,000,000 New York World's Fair is the 700-foot trylon, and 200-foot perisphere. Perisphere is called the largest globe ever built by man.
Children Grants To Arrest Birth Rate Fall
GENERAL system of children's allowances should be adopted in this country, declared Mr. Laurence Cadbury in a paper read to the British Medical Associa- tion's National Nutrition Conference in London recently. He told of an investigation made in connection with He was heir 1.500 acres of land the children's allowances scheme set up by Messrs. Cad-
few bury Brothers, Ltd., at Bournville last year.
in the level of the Yangtse, he in-the Ariny and is stationed at Tid- tends to send British merchant vessels worth. The up the river above Shanghai under
MOTHER ILL Medical Research Couneff keep try-convoy of vessels of His Majesty's Licul
was 26, had Sladen, who Navy?
recently returned from Rhayader, Mr. Butler: The whole question of Radnorshire, after visiting his sick The General Post Office-badly hit the freedom of navigation on the mother. by coldsgave it up three years ago. Yangtse is under discussion with the After an intensive campaign in which competent Japanese authorities, and about 900 people in five large towns I am not at present in a position to submitted themselves for Inoculation make a statement.
in the Rhayader district.
Lleut. Sladen returned months ago from India,
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The scheme provides for the payment to each employee who has three or more children under the age of 18 years of un al- lowance of 55. per week in respect of cach child in excess of two as long as the children in excess of two are attending an approved course of education.
HOW MONEY WAS SPENT other industrialised nations, is faced In all, some 284 families with 410 with a declining birth-rate, and that dependent children quality under unless this trend is at least arrested, the scheme, which applies to all If not this trend is at least prrested, stuffs and for which there Is no if not reversed. It must lead to a de salary limit.
clining population. To find out how the money was A "
this declining population in actually being spent Mr. Cadbury country was bound to be accompanied drew up a questionnaire and wrote by such gruve social, economie and personal letter explaining its ob political consequences that it was a ject_to_each_employee to whom It
most disquieting development to con- was sent.
template.
It was made clear that no one was "For this reason," said Mr. Cad- under any obligation to fill in the bury, "we felt that the community questionnaire, but the great majority owed a special debt to these whe to whom Mr. Cadbury wrote sent in undertake the upbringing of its fu- replies.
ture citizens. Those who received the question- "Action by private firms or ludi- nairs were classified into a low-wage|viduals, as past experience prove,,) graup and a high-wage group, the has often paved the way for Govern- former being in receipt of wakesment undertakings in the field of from 56s, to 66, a Week and the sudial reform. Our scheme, there- latter from 81s, to 9Gs..
57 PER CENT, ON FOOD The questionnaire asked each re- ciplent to give some indication of how the allowance was being allocated under
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Amusements (e.g cinema); Oulings and holidays; General family
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Another house or better accommo- dation:
Equipment for the house or gar- den; and
Savings.
fore, is definitely based on the anti- cipation that some State system of children's allowances will in course of time be Introduced."
A.R.P. Saved His Three Cottages
IR raid
AIR precautions have
given at least one cause for rejoicing.
man
He is Mr. Arthur Smy, 72-year-old "Derby" of the village of Wingfield, near Ipswich.
A retired shepherd, Mr. Smy re- fused an order of Hartismere Rural District Council to pull down three which he bought A space was given in which to thatched cottages enter general comments.
with
his life savings, While the favourite single item on He went to prisun for a month which the allowance was expended rather than pay a £10 Ane for re- appeared, both in the high and low fusing to quit one of the cottages.
to be that under the Now, the Council think the dwell- Supant hoots." If the three Ings may be needed for children food items were odded together 57 evacuated from London in an emer- per cent, of the money
was spent by gency, so there will be no demoli- To'y wage carners (40 per cent. by tlon.
high wage earners) on food.
Mr. Smy's month in prison separ
In discussing the reason that inated-him-from his wife for the first duced his firm to inaugurate the time in their 52 years married life. scheme, Mr. Cadbury said that the Mr. and Mr Smy were overjoyed first considerations were the nutri- when they were told the Counell's tion, of the children in the families decision.
I shall not have to worry "Now that participated.
They were also acutely aware of any more about having Arthur taken the fact that this country, like most from me," Mrs. Smy sold.
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