THE KING’S ILLNESS

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 3 January 1929, Page 5

THE KING’S ILLNESS

BETTER NEWS. WORST OF THE ILLNESS OVER. (Per Press Association—Copyright). Australian Press Association United Service. Received this day, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 2. Sir W. Joynson-Hicks has left London fo>r a holiday at Mentone. His departure is significant, because he has been in closest touch with the Palace throughout His Majesty’s ill-

He states: “I had a consultation with the doctors before I decided it was safe to go. I feel that the worst of the illness is over and that there is every reason to hope that a slow and gradual improvement will take place.”

Lord Dawson did not visit the Palace in the afternoon and no statement as to His Majesty’s condition was issued.

Experts interviewed (regarding the calcium treatment say that there is increasing evidence that in certain weak states of health there are reduced calcium contents in th’e blood and the deficiency can be made good by administering soluble salt through the mouth, but that is a slow method of getting calcium into the blood stream. It is usually injected in a vein by means of a hypodermic syringe. Thus the blood calcium is raised to normal. Usually severe injections are made at intervals of a day or two.

Doubtlessly the calcium was administered to the King intravenously, which is quite a simple operation and must not be regarded as a last resort move. There is no reference in any medical text book to the matter. The King’s doctors probably solved the method on their own. It may be described as the operation of the moment.

HIS MAJESTY HAS GOOD DAY. A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT. Australian Press Association. United Service. Received this day, 11 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 2. A bulletin issued at 8.15 p.m. states that the King passed a good day. There is a slight improvement in His Majesty’s condition.

GRADUAL PROGRESS CONTINUES.

BRIGHTER ATMOSPHERE AT PALACE. Australian Press Association. Received this day, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 2. To-day’s news of the King, in conjunction with the Home Secretary’s statement, is regarded as much more satisfactory and appears to indicate that the King is continuing the gradual hoped for progress, but there was also a small check resulting from restlessness last night which had not any adverse affect. Indeed there is a noticeably better atmosphere in the Palace circles, but nevertheless it is again emphasised that optimism must still be restrained. A certain degree of anxiety still continues. Drs. Howitt and Woods were not at the Palace to-night. For the second Successive day the rays were not applied. The Prince of Wales, Duke and Duchess of York, Princess Mary and Earl Lascelles dined with the Queen.

Both the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Glouester hunted.