in Canada Ottawa, Out., Feb. 5.
The Health Authorities of Ontario are being driven to their wits end by tha various maladies hat are sweeping over the province. Sleeping sickness, which formerly has only appeared in isolated cases, has recently broken cut in various centres and is spreading over the province to an alarming extent. The most recent returns show that at least 17 municipalities are affected, and deaths numbering 18 occurred in different districts during the month of January. In some cases those who have been stricken with the disease, and who have remained unconscious for days, have finally rallied to the doctor's efforts, while others for whose restoration equal efforts were put forth continued in a state of coma and finally passed away.
SMattpox axp Fiv.
The smallpox epidemic, which has been sweeping over the province, is now gradually dying down, though still. travellers are subject to rigid reste ions when passing through the pt vince. The Province of Quebec has token necessary precautions by passing an ordinance enforcing vaccination on all travellers entering Quebec from Ontario. A copy of this regulation is placed at every ticket office of the various railways warning the public that those who attempt to enter Quebec without carrying a certificate of vaccination will be detained at the border and shipped baqk on the next train. Pennsylvania, New York, and the New England States have taken similar precautions. This has caused a little feeling among travellers who feel irritated, and sometimes "touchy," at least in one stot, over the ordinance.
Influenza, the name of which strikes terror to many hearts, has again broken out both in Canada and the United States. Its appearance has been both sudden and appalling. Five thousand cases of "flu" are reported in the city of New York alone, with over one thousand new cases reported daily. In many cases it followed by pneumonia -which often proves fatal.
"Returned Men' DissatisFiep-
That there is a growing feeling of dissatisfaction among the disbanded troops who have returned from overseas is quite evident, by the various letters that are appearing in the correspondence columns of the daily papers, conversations overheard at various public gatherings, and inflammetory posters which occasionally appear in Prominent places. "We asked for justice and got jeers," and similar scathing utterances appeared a few days ago in flaming red letters outside the city hell in one of Ontario's larger cities, While the nien may have some cause for complaint, it must. be borne in mind that the Canadian Government have many post-war problems occupying the attention of her blest statesmen wt the present time, and the Perfect adjustment of all difficulties, to the satisfaction of all concerned, is Froblem not easily solved.
Many of the "returned men" claim that a bonus of $2,000 should be given to each of those who heeded the call of the Motherland and risked their lives in the cause of freedom, irrespective of the length of time served or the rank attained. Others, however, while desiring financial—_ recognition, maintain that the bonus should be governed by the length of time served at the front, and that ''conscripts" should not receive the same honour og those who volunteered to go. This latter' view, which is held by a large number of the men, seems to be the saner view of the two, but what the final solution will be remains still to be seen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.