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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3277, 27 June 1917, Page 2

SCOURGE OF TUBERCULOSIS

Tuberculosis is the irrcatest disease peril of modern warfare, says Dr. Herman M. Biggs. State Commissioner of Health in Now York, who has just returned from an exhaustive study of the problem in France. Dr. Biggs was sent by the Rockefeller Institute at the invitation of the French Government.

In a speech at a dinner of the Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, he said: "Soldiers are not living in the open air in tents, where it would be favourable to those with weak lungs, but are in the trenches, living in dugouts or huddled together in villages not far from the firing line." He estimated that between 30 and 40 per cent, of the French prisoners who have returned from Germany suffer from tuberculosis. There are 150,000 cases of the disease in the French army, and from 400.000 to 500,000 cases in France to-day, he asserts. "AVhat is true of France, I understand." said Dr. Biggs, "is also true of Austria-Hungary and Russia."

Mr E. Newman, M.P., when recently -speaking at, a function at Upper futaeuui, blamed the Board of Education for the delay in erecting ihe now school. Mr AY. 11. Swangcr, secretary of tho Board, has replied to Mr-, Newman's criticism, and he points out that the Board were wrongly censured, as the fault rests with the Education Department. Although tho Board made application for tho grant on December 22, 1916, it was not till June 14 that notification was received that the grant had boon made. Tho. Board did its best to hurry the matter forward, but since ihe outbreak of the war it has boon a difficult, matter to obtain -.-rants for buildings. The works foreman will now put the work in hand as soon as possible.

SLING CAMP. A sergeant-major at Sling Camp writes to his wife that he is ono of the very few who have escaped colds durin*-: the winter. "Fluen7.ol" did it. Cuts and bruises may be healed in about one-third the time required by the usual treatment by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It is an antiseptic and causes such injuries to heal without maturation. This liniment also relieves soreness of the muscles and rheumatic pains. Sold overywhorn. For Influenza, take Woods' Great Pepperrnont Ouro, Is 6d and 2s 6d.