The Heavy Price We Pay for Civilization: Sleepy Sickness, Tuberculosis and Infantile Paralysis:
Famous Public School Closed From Ocr Owx London, Nov, 18. There is a steady recurrence of diseases, due one fears to eivili tion; cancer, tuberculosis, infantile paralysis and sleepy sickness, to quote but a few, and we have no jeure for any of them. old documents were produced in the course of the enquiry, and th rights were established. The Countess of Yarborough thus brought no fewer than 160 quar-torings into the Earl's family, and became a peeress three times over.
Uppingham, the famous public school in Rutlandshire, was closed on Saturday owing to an outbreak of infantile paralysis in the district. The 500 scholars have been sent' home as from the disease, and another is under the school. The Rev. R. H. Owen, the headmaster, stated in an interview that: the presence of the disease in the school was a mystery. There was, however, no ground for alarm. There was nothing in the nature in the school, he add. ved that. by the return all risk of]
The eases at the school were noti-[fied to the Ministry of Health, ard [De. MeNalty, an' expert in disease, was sent down to consult with the school medical officer. There were no eases in Uppingham itself. There have been some fon the eastern side of Leicester shire and on the west of Rutland.
tile paralysis. (poliomyelitis)
form of spinal paralysis often confined to one limb. More than '50 cases, included five deaths, were notified among the scholars in Broadstairs during October, Some leading medicel_men are denouncing the action of the Up-bingham Authorities; others are supporting it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.