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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 42, 20 October 1913, Page 5

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DUBLIN’S POOR, i | By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] i iaies— Sydney Sun Special Cables. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 19. Sir Charles Cameron, health officer at Dublin, in his report, states that child life is allowed to run to waste in the city through defective social organisation. The death rate amongst the very poor is 30.6 per 1000, and is caused through overcrowding and underfeeding. ELECTRICAL ENERGY. London, October 19. Miss Arabella Keneally, the authoress, as the result of many experiments, maintains that human beings, animals, plants, and all electric batteries are giving out electrical energy which is capable of scientific measurement. THE HOME OF MICROBES. London, October 19. Medical officers of the departmental force allege that they have discovered specimens of every known type of microbe ■on the local railway carriages. DOESN’T WANT FAME! ■ - - • .n ■ ./ i : t Lm * Paris, October 19. Madame Garot, who was elected Deputy Mayor of Manonville, is indignant at the honor thrust upon her. Her husband is proceeding against the Council for criminal libel. THE BRAZILIAN NAVY. Ria Janeiro, October IST\ /The Council of Ministers, has decided, to sell the stper-Dreadnoiight |||r ing 'constructed at Els wick for its cost plus £50,000 in order to build a. battleship of an improved type. THE FALLING BIRTHRATE. „ London, October 19. The Xational Council for Promoting Public Morals has formed a commission to inquire into the falling birth rate, under the presidency of Bishop Boyd Carpenter. PRISONERS TREATED LIKE BEASTS. London, October 19. Julian Hawthorne has been released. He describes the penitentiary as a living hell. The convicts are treated like beasts, being starved in the name of economy. AVIATOR FOR THE POLE. London, October 19. Amundsen has asked Garros, toe aviator, to accompany him to the Pole. THE DUBLIN STRIKE. London, October 18. There was a procession of strikers through the principal streets of Dublin. 1300 police were along the route and fifty mounted constables armed with sabres and -staves accompanied the strikers. A large painting of Larkin headed the procession, which evoked enthusiastic cheering. The employers are tired of temporising and are re-opening .their workshops with fresh labor. Eight overseas laden steamers are lying idle. SHAMPOO WITH PETROL. London, October 10. The danger of using petrol for shampooing purposes was demonstrated tragically last night at Bath. Mrs foung was washing her hair with the spirit near the fire, when the petrol became ignited and an explosion resulted. 1 he woman was instantly enveloped in flames, which her husband tried desperately hut unavailingly to extinguish. Tn response to cries for help, some policemen rushed into the house and finally succeeded in smothering the flayies. Mrs Young, however, had ’ been so dreadfully burned that she died before the doctor’s arrival. When the explosion occurred the house itself caught lire, but the outbreak, was quickly suppressed. While the fire brigade was hastening to the scene its motor engine crashed into and completely demolished au electric light standard.