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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7166, 27 December 1894, Page 4

At the recent British Medical Association Congress at Bristol, Sir T. GraiDger Stewart delivered an address on " Influenza." All the evidence goes to show, he said, that it spreads by contagion, and not by atmospheric transference, since it is found to [ spread in a direction contrary to the prevailing winds, is never known "to travel faster than men can travel, and never occurs amongst persons so placed as to preclude [ communication. Isolation, so far as possible, | is a necessary precautiou, since every sneeze and every cough scatters the germs. Th« inhalation of antiseptics such as eucalyptus aud menthol htis been found to be remedial by destroying the bacilli in the bronchial tubes. The lecturer claimed that m dical knowledge of the malady has been vastly increased during the recent epidemics, and that Bhould another invasion occur, it would meet with a very effectual repulse. Tn giving evidence before the Tariff Commission recently, \V. D. the managiug iirector of the American Tobacco Company, of Victoria, stated that the coußumption of cigarettes in Victoria was now about 50,000,000 a year, in New South Wales the number was 90,000,000, and in New Zealand the number was about 40,000,000. All the tobacco contained in these cigarettes is alleged to be imported from America. Technical Schools are going ahead capitally in England. Here are a few examples out of many. Manchester builds a school costing £130,000 on a site worth an additional £100,000 on the same object. Birmingham about half as much ; a^d five large towns within2o milesof Manchester —Bolton,Bury, Blackburn, Oldham aud Rochdale—have speut i' 95,000 in school buildings ; and the internal appliances aud arrangements are usually upon a similar costly scale, Cardiff having voted no less than £2000 to purchase a single machine- a 100-ton testing machine —for the laboratory.