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Peiping Hospital Peiping, May 18, 'A. young American lying dangerously' ill in the Rockefeller hospital here to-day set a new record in medical history by completing seven weeks of life in an iron lung.
He Is Frederick son of a wealthy Chicago business man, who arrived in the Empress of Britain on her recent world cruise, He Geneva, May 20.
Japan's leniency toward illegal drug trattckers is severely condemned in a report forwarded _yesterday to the League Advisory Committee on Trafe in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs by its Sub-Committee.
The report contains data supplied Fepresentatives of the Unite States and Canada, proving that large quantities of drugs had been Imported in their countries from Japan.
The name and address of the principal Japanese drug exporter had been "communicated to the Tokyo Government. The concern in question had sent letters (o persons residing in the United States and Canad: offering" unlimited quantities of morphine, heroin or cocaine "of best Quality," manufactured with the permission of the Japanese Home Minis-fry. The letters also contained an indication of the best means of smuggling these drugs In. The concern slated. that the smuggling methods it was proposing had proved cient in China and India, The sub-committee's report also! registers the Japanese Government's Geclaration to the effect that it was: tunable to discover how these drugs, made. with the Home Ministry's permission for legal consumption, had assed into tegal trade.
The document further emphasizes that excessive mildness has been. shown by Japanese courts in possing sentences on Japanese drug dealers. The report suggests that a fresh appeal be made to Japan with a view to inducing Tokyo to introduce more drastic legislation and mete fut sterner punishment to illegal drug traffickers.
Another report, submitted to the Committee by Mr.'L. A. Lyall, chalrwas stricken with infantile paralysis, believed to have been contracted in Shanghai, and on April 1 practically all hope of saving his life was given However he was put into the s0- called iron lung, the only one in Asia at that time, and to-day he is still live, and while there is life there hope.
Mr. Snite, who Is 25 years of ai arrived with his mother, father a sister. iron, mechanical, lung he cannot breathe, being paralysed. With the advent of warmer and more humid weather hhis chances of recovery are said to be better.
During his illness an air conditioning plant has been used to maintain an even temperature and a certain degree of humidity. The only apparatus available for this purpose in North China was in Tientsin, in the Sin Hua Bank's safety deposit vault.
When the situation was explained the bank the manager immediately had the plant shipped to Peiping to aesist in saving the young American's Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Snite senter, the Rockefeller hospital now has {wo iron Jungs.
But for the mechanical lung the patient would have been dead weeks ago. He happened to fall il in the only city in Asia possessing such an instrument. "After he had been put in it his father enquired what would happen if there were two patients in need of the lung.
Appreciating the terrible possi {les of such a situation he immediately said he would present another one one to the hospital and this has now arrived-—Reuter.
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