NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1735, 10 February 1921, Page 6

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

THE RED TAPE WAY. To secure a grant of five shillings for special diet for a tuberculosis prisoner, it was necessary to sign 54 documents three times each —IG2 signatures in all —reported the clerk at a meeting of the Bradford War Pensions Committee. The documents will cost more in stationery than the amount of the grant, commented a membex-. DEATH OF X-RAY MARTYR. M. Infroit, chief of the X-rays service at the Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, has just died in his 47th year, after undergoing no fewer than 22 opei-ations. He had suffered terrible burns, and in order to continue his valuable work persuaded the doctoi’s to "patch him up.” Two years ago, after the fingers and then the hand had been removed, his right arm was amputated. This year his left hand had to be taken off. He was at his post to the last. HIGH OR LOW GEAR. A man who runs his heart at will on either high or low gear has been giving John Hopkins Medical School specialists, Boston (Mass.), some startling exhibitions of his powers. Dr. John T. King, jun., instructor of clinical medicine, conducted the experiments, with Dr. Donald RHooker keeping the official score on each occasion. On one occasion the subject’s heart registered Isß beats a minute. At a word from the experts he increased the speed to 131, holding it at that rate for 17 minutes before dropping to 117. He told both doctors when he was increasing speed and when slowing up.