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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1327, 3 January 1912, Page 4

Although thero appear to havci been a good many cases of scarlctina in the city of late, there is really no serious outbreak. The peculiar weather Wellington has been visited with of late—lunshrooin weather, some call it—is known to have the eft'oct of increasing the risk from infectious diseases. Similar weather in March last had tho effect of nearly doubling the number of infectious disease cases which camo undor tho observation of the medical staff at tho Hospital. DIABETES. This highly dangerous disease will in its earlier stages bo remedied by prompt treatment with Dr. Sheldon's'Gin Pills. Tako them in time. Price, Is. Cd. anil 2s. 6d.* Mr. Thomas Hurt, "Father" of tho British House of-Commons, has received congratulations from all iiarls of the kingdom on his seventy-fourth birthday. Ho stated in an interview that he disagreed with those who said that Parliament had degenerated of late years. To-day thero was more earnest devotion to the real work ot tho House. A London woman has invented a headguard, for the use of tho police at times of street noting and disorder made of fine mesh aluminium wire net, designed to liaue from the. helmet .to the shoulders