SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Typhoid fever deaths have fallen in London from 371 deaths per million in 1871 to 156 per million at present. The chronoscope will register the velocity of a bullet 16 times in 100 feet. 1 It registers the millionths of seconds. Of 1.000 unvaeeinated children, 360 i round to be pitied with smallpox. ! it. ■ },OOO vaccinated only two we re so marked, ioec, raw eggs and boiled venis. are the easiest things to digest. At the other end tif the scale are pork, cabbage and hard-boiled eggs, which take four hours to digest. in a cubic yard of air in a London suburb 20.000 dose particles have been measured. Near Charing Cross there are usually 500,000; but there is only 1 one microbe iu 38,000,000 of such dust. 1 atoms.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3555, 3 August 1905, Page 4
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132SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3555, 3 August 1905, Page 4
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