Quito tho most wonderful feature of the war has been the absence of epidemics among the troops, such us typhus and dysentery. Judged by tho experience of former conflicts, they would by this time have numbered thousand's of victims. No more eolossnl token could be furnished of the effectiveness of sanitary precautions. Coleridge, his grandson has been tcllintf us, wrote "The Ancient Mariner" to get a £5-note. to onable a holiday to bo extended. Johnson wrote "Rasaelas" in the evenings of a week to pay a dead mother's debts. Poe offered his "Gold Bug," parent -if all buried treasure storios, to win a £20 prize. We owe much to the drive of necessity.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 7
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113Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 7
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