SPECIAL FEATURES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 January 1932, Page 4

SPECIAL FEATURES

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Valuable New Serum. From the Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney comes the report that a new serum treatment for infantile paralySis is being u'sed. It is said that neairiy every case treated shows a retardation of the symptoms. The serum is locally prepared and so far its . nature has not been made public. There have been 59 cases in the Sydney city area since November last, and 82 from the country districts. The common stable fly is believed to be responsible for the spread of the dis- i ease. The early symptoms somewhat resemble those of influenza and fever in young persons should call for medical examination and .general watchfulness. . When paralysis has once set in there is little that can be done. Lethal Weapon. An .interesting discovery which affects the returned soldier and the taxpayer has been made, states the Dominion. Records of observation on over 2000 New Zealand returned soldiers who carne back to their country in A1 condition prove that many returned soldiers are now found to be suffering pulmonary damage by poison gases inhaled in 1916-18, although they.showed no such symptoms during the. time they were on service. In qommenting on this a medical journal says: 'Recent Press comments express the opinion that gas in warfare is a merciful weapon and that casualties caused thereby are for the most part not severely injured. While this may he true, it is clear that it is a lethal weapon, the late effects of which are highly injurious to the taxpayer, who Has to foot the pensions hill until the war generation has passed away." . J • » Home Brewing. . "Since we stopped supplying private persons with yeast and finings for the making of home-brewed beer we have had quite two dozen callers every day asking for these ingredients," said tke manager of a Christchurch brewery to a reporter r.ecently, . "But the making of home-brew is definitely on the decrease." due principally, I thinlc, to the fact that the ingredients are not so easily procurable, and that so ipany people have been experiencing the ill- effects of drinking the beer betpre it was properly fermented. One man who made some beer said that he did not get a drop out of a dozen bottles, as, when he pulled the corks, the contents flew out of the bottles like water out of a pistol. Hare Causes Accident. An unusual accident was Pxperienced hy Mr. D. A. Morgan, of Ashburton, while motoring in Lowcliffe. A hare rau .out in front of the car and .was apparently 'hit by the bump-er-har and thrown into the air, striking the centre of the -'windscreen. About one-third of the g'lass was smashed clean out, and the animal gtruck the driver on the shoulder. Mr. Morgan received atcut on one hand fit-om a piece of flying glass, but was otherwise uninjured. The hare was ldlled. — Timaru Herald. Plumhers Want Rain. The farmers are not the only people who would . like to see two or three days' good rain. The plumber, too. is praying for a steady downpour, as it would be the means of discovering all the little defects in rpofs and gutterings that develop during a long spell of dry weather. "Hot, dry winds cause the iron roofs to buekle and expand," said a plumber to a reporter, "and when rain cpmes along the water finds out these defects. The result is plenty pf wprk fpr us — and we need it after the qiiiet time we have had lately.