BRITAIN’S HEALTH

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 December 1944, Page 5

BRITAIN’S HEALTH

ANAEMIA IN WOMEN

LONDON, December 15. Doctor H. J. Barrie, pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Hospital, in an article in “Industrial Welfare,” writes that more than 500,000 of the 6,500000 women working in industry are suffering under conditions of strain caused by anaemia and iron deficiency. Anaemia is just as common among" housewives. There is no class of women immune. “I know of no field of medicine where one would discover three out of six persons seriously ill but curable, or where the treatment is so cheap. They can be cured by a four weeks’ course of iron tablets costing half-a-crown.” PENICILLIN LONDON, December 15. When penicllin went on the market for general use, it might go into tooth-pastes and lipsticks—anywhere it could get at the microbes, said its discoverer. Sir Alexander Fleming, in a lecture. “Penicilln is sure to be used by multitudes of people, for minor infections of the throat, nose and mouth, which were nearly all caused by microbes sensitive to penicillin.” he said. “The task was to get penicillin tn microbes, and it mmht be donc®vrith simple spray snuff or lozenges.” He received pathetic letters from people who' honed penicillin would cure tuberculosis. but tubercules were not. sensitive to penicillin, nor was rheumatoid arthritis curable by its use. •