THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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MEDICAL WAR PROBLEMS
What the war has done for med
cine was described at length r<
cently by Dr- Samuel W. Lamber
Dean of the College of Physiciar
and Surgeons, Columbia Universit;
Dr. Lambert showed how medicin
has coped with the new problem
presented by the congregation o
large numbers of men in arm
camps, and how the medical school
have met the demand for physician
and surgeons.
“The great war has presented t
the world a new form of community
life,” he said, “with a new combina
tion of the various elements whicl
are to be found in every concentra
tion of the populations of westerr
countries.
“This war is unlike any prev'ouj
war in that the old idea of cam*
paigns with armies fighting and
moving over large districts of erri
tory was true in Belgium and F ance
only for the first few weeks tf the
conflict. Such a conception has
been realized more in the cistant
battlefields of Asia and Eastern
J^fcrope. The majority of the troops
■gaged on the West front have set
Wr down to a permanent location
P*d have continued more or less i
pixed in position for three years ■
while they carry on their dally arid
nightly tasks of combat in what is
known as trench warfare.
“Such a community has developed
new medical problems and has ex
aggerated some older ones already
well known to the army medical
departments of all nations. The
modern weapons with their high ex
plosives and rapid fire and the in
humanities of asphyxiating gases and
liquid fire have produced surgical
conditions which are extremely in
frequent as complications of the ac
cidents of civil life. The habit of
continuous warfare also has com
pelled the relief squads to delay
their merciful tasks, and there re
sults a high percentages of neglected
infection and of the severer forms
of blood poisoning and gangrene
which modern aseptic surgery had
eliminated from the experience of
hospital practice.
“At the beginning of the war an
appreciable number of the troops
had not been protected by the mod
ern methods of vaccination against
typhoid. That disease, and more
particularly closely allied condition,
paratyphoid, were very prevalent.
At the present time both diseases
have been controlled to a large ex
tent by a full application of tho
methods which were developed and
applied first in the army of the
United States.
“The war has necessitated the
formulation of methods to control
diseases communicated by water.
This has been done, and dysentery,
one of the oldest foes of armies, has
been made less prevalent than in
former wars. The present-day army
physicians must do more on these
lines, however. He must discover
by quick action any contamination
of wells and other supplies of drink
ing water from the addition of dead
animals, sewage and even of mineral
poisons, such as arsenic, whenver
the Allies advance in the territory
lately occupied by the modern Huns.
“The war has emphasized the im
portance of the group of diseases
which are trasmitted by the bite
of vermin. One of these, known
as ‘spotted typhus,’ is caused by the
body louse, and is normally found
in Southeastern Europe. It has been
controlled by a rigid application of
sanitary rules and by inoculation
Another disease of this group is
' known as ‘French fever/ and ha
j been discovered and introduced int
1 j Western Orient. It is a short, ver;
-; debilisting fever *>f low mortality
j but vhjch incapacitates its victim
s ! for sn^ appreciable period.
! “Tie greatest additions to th'
■ antiseptic treatment of wounds havi
e j comt from the chemical studies o
s Dr. i^ekin, who has applied in vari
f j ous ways the properties of chlorim
V; preparations to the disinfection o
s th( Wounds of this war. The prob
3 le»i which Dr. Dakin solved was t(
dstover strong antiseptics whicl
> vife able to destroy microbes with
r fJjl damaging normal tissues. Dr
- j »Jexis Carrel developed a methoc
i ]4 using the antiseptics of Dr. Dakir
■ to the severely infected wounds
which came to his hospital on the
(French front. His method consists
of putting into the wounded tissues
a system of multiple tubes, and keep
ing the wound constantly washed
i with the antiseptic solution. The
progress of the wound is watched
by a daily bacteriologicl examination
and as soon as it is germ free it is
closed, and healing is quite prompt
if the observations have been done
in a precise manner.
“The war has developed two large
groups of cripples, one including
those who have been maimed by the
loss of arms, legs, and eyesight, and
In otTi*rr physical ways. a yrcai cn
deavor has been begun to re-edu
cate these men and to fit them for
new trades and for a useful and
self-supporting life. The second
group are those who suffer from
functional disturbances of the cen
tral nervous system. These cases
present paralysis and other disturb
ances of locomotion which are purely
hysterical, or they show mental dis
orders which are also functional, but
which simulate true insanity in any
of its manifold varieties. One of
the most characteristic cases is that
known as 'shell shock,’which is di
rectly attributed to sudden and un
expected exposure to the vibration
and noise of the discharge of high
explosives in a person overtired by
physical work and overwrought by
mental fatigue. A great success has
been achieved by systems of nerve
and muscle education, especially in
French institutions devoted to this
work. Many of the sufferers from
these functional disturbances of the
nervous system have been returned
to a useful civil life, and some have
rejoined the fighting ranks.”
BULLY BILL
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Germany leaped into the war se
cure in the knowledge that her
man-power, armament and general
preparedness were superior to that
of all the rest of Europe combined.
Had she lacked that knowledge, says
an exchange, she would have stayed
out of the war with great deter
mination and zeal. Events have
justified her policy; for wherever
she has been met, man for man and
gun for gun, she has met nothing
but defeat in nearly four years of
fighting. Germany is a professional
congenital, traditional, typical bully.
She never has been, is not, and never
will be, capable of tackling anybody
her own size without getting the
w'orst of the argument. She hasn't
.he moral fibre, the breeding or the
spiritual resources to be capable of
overcoming an opponent whose phy
sical strength is equal to her own.
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Those stories you hear on the
street are they given on good au
thority? At least a dozen dangerous
pro-German propaganda stories have
sprung up against the Food Admini
stration in a few months.
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LONDON.—A plan to safeguari
3 the interests of Ulster by giving it
)
j representatives a veto power in thi
j propsed new Irish parliament, ove:
: j measures which conflict with Ulste:
I _
) interests, has been characterized bi
)! able expedient.” This fact has jus
> | Premier Lloyd George as a “work
11 been disclosed by making public i
| letter which the premier wrote t>
.1 Sir Horace Plunkett, chairman o:
i: the Irish convention some time age
.! when the convention became dead
, | locked over the Ulster question anc
[sent delegates to confer with the
* i premier in London.
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‘ The government understands,’
' j wrote Mr. Lloyd George, “that it ha:
5 j been suggested that a safeguard oi
) Ulster interest might be secured bj
’ ; provision of an Ulster committee
[. within the Irish parliament wit!
I power to modify and if necessarj
1 to exclude the application to Ulstei
; of certain measures either of legis
lation or administration which are
not consonant with the interests oi
Ulster. This appears to be a work
;able expedient, whereby special con
; sideration of Ulster conditions can
i be secured and the objections to the
| single legislature for Ireland over
i come.”
1 Despite the premier’s approval of
this plan the Ulster Unionists dele
gates to the Irish convention de
clined to participate in any scheme
of self-government for Ireland.
Outlining broadly the views of the
British government on the Irish
Home Rule question, Premier Lloyd
George wrote to Sir Horace Plun
kett as follows:
“Questions of which there is an
acute difference of opinion in Ire
land and Great Britain must be held
over for determination until after
the war.” The premier considered
the control of the Irish customs and
ovoiao Ana nf tha * wViirH
must await the conclusion of peace,
for he added:
“The government suggests that,
during the period of the war and for
the period of two years thereafter
the control of customs and excise
should be reserved to the United
Kingdom parliament that" as soon as
possible after the Irish parliament
has been established a joint ex
chequer board should be set up to
secure the determination of the true
revenues of Ireland.
He explained to Sir Horace in the
letter, “that it would be practically
impossible to make such a distribu
ance of the fiscal and financial re
lations of Great Britain and Ireland
in the midst of the great war.” as
would result in an attempt to trans
fer of the Irish parliament control \
to the Irish customs.
“The government considers,” wrote '<
the premier, “that during the period
of the war the control of all taxa- •
tion other than customs and excise
should be handed over to the Irish i
parliament, “but he stipulated that
Ireland should contribute an agreed
proportion of the annual expendituie j
of the United Kingdom.
Main features of the customs plan :
approved by Mr. Lloyd George, were
adopted in a majority report of the :
Irish convention. Whether they will
be put into effect depends upon thei
action taken by the Imperial parlia- j
ment on the Irish Home Rule bill.!
Russia collapsed not because of
the Germans on her borders, out
largely because of the failure to
organize and feed her own citizens;
and if we are to emerge victu'ous
from this war, we cannot risk the
collapse of another of our asso
ciates in the war from this same
cause. There is no waste of food
across the water. There is the most
drastic reduction in consumption.
There is actual privation t. long
women and children. There is star
vation in Belgium.
Atlanta’s forty-five hotels and
restaurants, comprising the Assoei
tion, have adopted the “No Wheat”
program.
A hundred of the wealthiest fam
ilies in New York have voluntarily
gone on “war rations” for the re
mainder of the war.
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Report Shows That Very Substantia
I j Gains Were Made During the
Past Few Months.
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BEDFORD. England.—F. G. Kell
away, parliamentary secretary to th
minister of munitions, in the cours
of a speech dealing with the outpu
of munitions for the British arm;
said the increase for the first tw<
months of the year compared witl
the first two months of 1917 were
Light guns, 30 per cent mediun
guns, 57 per cent; heavy guns, 31
per cent; machine guns, 96 per cent
shells, 83 per cent; tanks, 39 pe
cent; airplanes, 223 per cent; aeri
engines, 245 per cent.
The average weekly production >
airplanes, he said, equalled the aver
age production for two months ii
1915, while one week’s productioi
of machine-guns equalled that o
five months in 1915.
WARD HKD
NEXT TO MET
Mr. R. B- Ward, resident engin
eer in charge of Residency No. 1
and who has been acting division
engineer from the time of the depar
ture of Mr. Bailey and until the
arrival of Mr. Browne, has been pro
moted to the position of assistant
engineer, the promotion taking effect
the first of this month. Mr. Ward’s
duties will consist largely of tak
| ing care of the engineering end of
! the office work, as it is Mr. Browne’s
! intention to keep at the front most
! of the time, among the real railroad
| builders.
Mr. Howard G. Haslem, who has
j for some time past acted as transit
man under Resident Engineer George
B. Richardson on Residency 3, has
been promoted resident engineer to
succeed his former chief, who left
for the States to "enter the army, on
the steamer Tanana. Mr. Haslem’s
promotion went into effect on the
26th of May.
SIX BONDS OFFERED;
OWNERS FAIL TO PAY
Four bonds of $100 denomination
and two of $50 denomination are
offered for sale and can be acquired
by any patriotic citizen on applica
tion to Mr. C. H. Hall, at the dis
bursing office in the general office
building of the Alaskan Engineering
commission.
All of the bonds are of the Third
Liberty Loan and are now offered
for sale because the jrig’.nal pur
chasers on the instalment plan have
failed to meet the second payment,
which fell due on the 28th of last
month.
Intending purchasers will he re
quired to pay the amount due on the
bonds and continue payment of the
instalments as they fall due until
the entire purchase price has been
covered, or may pay the whole
amount and receive the bonds as soon
as they arrive in Nenana.
On the instalment plan a payment
of $25 will be required m a $i00
bond, and half that amount on a
$50 bond.
SI WASH REACHES NENANA
WITH SEVERAL VISITORS
The launch Siwash, which is be
ing operated this season by Fred
Robinson, the auto man, came down
from Fairbanks yesterday on her
first voyage of the season. The
boat left Fairbanks at 11:15 and
reached Nenana at 4:15.
Among the passengers brought
down were Dr. A. J. Sutherland,
owner of the Siwash, Dr. H. J. Mc
Callum, Joe Fisher, Carl Schmidt
and Red Rogers.
The Siwash returned to the upper
town this morning, taking Dr. Suth
erland and Dr. McCallum pn the re
turn trip.
Miss Anna Liverson, employed as
a nurse at the Governmetnt hospital
since last summer, was an outgoing ;
passenger on the steamer Seattle
No. 3. She is returning to Seattle:
and may enlist as a Red Cross nurse
for service in France.
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GOVERNMENT
Salvage from
the battlefields
The Allied armies find it very profitable
to salvage scrap from the battlefields. Great
Britain is saving millions every year from
this thrifty parctice.
If we could extend this practice to the
United States—if we saved only the waste
and needless spending of every day and put
the saving into War Savings Stamps, it
would help to win the war.
Your every saving helps the Government.
Put the small savings into U. S. Thrift
Stamps at 25 cents each; when you have
16 of them, exchange them with a few extra
pennies for a $5 War Savings Stamp.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
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