HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-01-03, Page 7Natural Causes
The Above Clause Given in
Death Certificate Are
Often Wrong
DOCTORS BEWARE
' Beattie certified by careless physis
elate as'' rma natural causes" .often an accidental Sall, a cerebral hereto -
turn out, on closer inspection; to be rhage, cardiae syncope, vertigo due to
from aauaes that are anything brat ala-' ear diseases, or other fortuitous.
Lured The Revue Medicare de la Suisse causes. And it seems' that in Switzer-
I:tonlande contains an article by ,Urs. land failure in inyestigating the cause
V. Neville and Ed, 1osselet,'.on diffi-!of"death may bring disaster upo:l the
culties and errors in the diagn cis'of doctor, as in .the case of t}'' practi-
the cease of death. The authehs aro ; timer who was called to t, uody on a
attached, to the Medico -Legal Institute ,mountain road, and through negli-
of Geneva; to which bodies are sent genre felled to discover a penetrating
for examination in cases of doubt. In wound. Itis conclusion of 'death from
Bonze ewes, it seems, the local Swiss natural causes' lad to his being de -
doctor: makes a diagenesis almost un- ; privet]., of the right to practicemedi-
-cannily accurate, In- others, be •is'elec.
ridiculously wrong. 1)rs. Neville and, "The authors recognize uh.tt it is
1tosselet have examinod the reports human to err, and they sympathize
on "natural -death" cases made ill the ; with the doctor who must try to be
Institute during the last two years,' exact in his diagnosis while surround -
and they .record some remarkable find- ; ed by policemen, relatil cs, friends and
ings. We quote from are abstract in neighbors, who harrass Bien with eon -
'The British Medical Journal (Lone tradictoraeon 'deaths
statements.
h they
hb
pe
don) as. follcaws : that their
"Thus the Geneva police stopped the i ed as natural' may serve to remind
funeral procession of a man stated to their professional brethren of the need
have dyed of tuberculosis hoinopteels,
he had been murdered by a stab in
the back with a knife! A woman eer-
tiled to there died from gastric. ulcer
tad been the victim of-criminaldeatabor-
tin
j; .
tion. Yic her woman was fours
allege, • the result f a fall in the course
el' t dispute With a ,companion. The
anthers of this article remark on the
difficulties and damage that may arise
from failure to aseertain .correctly then:
Cause of death,
"TQ conclude hastily that a drowned
person has committed suicide may pre*
judice the relatives in the 'matter of
insurance, Tlie drowning may have
resulted from an attack of epilepsy,
for as careful an investigation aa pos-
,:ible'of the causes of death."
ACTION PROMISED
Premier Forecasts Effort to
in bed, it was supposed from natural Put End to 'Communism
causes", hut when the nun who sat The disclosures at Sudbury have he-
t:p with the corpse the following night spired i'remier. Ferguson to forecast
was also 'found dead in the morning,' an organized effort on the part of the
:t little iev.estigation showed that botte! Province of Ontario to put down coin -
women bad died of carbon -monoxide munistic propaganda. Premier
r -
ti omen son declared that the pro
tio"Then.
"The necessity for completely strip- whole was f deeply the Sudliur est case the
and i dren in British Coal Fields
ping- and examining dead bodies is II- owoul t Held Imperative
• ' �i razor •would tame every means possible to 1
toy'alLy' Takes Keen Interest st in, Charity
At Copenhagen
We presently Ieturned. to the pallt.d
and wandered in the heeehen coram
dors, every now and then Meeting
c+trollers, of each one. of whom thee
Dean seemed the aequaintenee and ofi`
most of them the Pcies:d. A turn .urn.
orifi; the foliage s thkiutdy brought us
hack to the edge of the mere, where.
u little nook for a ferryboat, with ,a
(mph) of planks as a p'lpr', made a lent
of haven,
As we galled out 'from the woods, a
cool air fanned us eel dos the sate,,
now in shadow, although the sun -still '
gilded the tops of the Needle At the
head et a fresh little breeze we ran
up to the village of Noddebo in half
en hour. Tho Lake of I Brum is about
the same size as Ullswater, and e.c-
tremely deep; our begixnan gravely
assured us that it has no bottom,
Arriving on the other side, we de -
aired a little girl to direct us through
the cornfields to the village, which is
invisible front the lake. She told us
she could read, but when I showed her
a page of a Danish guide -book, she
Shook her head and replied, "Oh! but
I never saw that book before!" All
the little memories of this last after-
noon, ow trifling theyare, how i.n-
,
^•�._ ':.'�"'-•.--••---r--d . clellblel The nun -like woman whe
opened the cold and mouldy church
PRINCESS MAUD AT A.BELIE DEPOT IN LONI3ON {
f>. o at Star road, West 1�cusin� oil, and retched for use her infant son,' who followed
The 11ri1ieVai opened tl:e Church Army :Married 11eu's Reber depot
the wood -cutters at -work. At right: Prebendary Carlile, founder' ot the Church army.
_:....: the Dean exorcised: J.nm ill a loud stale
itvrllg creatures to me such vital hue their living on the larva, one on the Urgesince thehrysalis "
us, incredibly fat, inexhaustibly curi-
ous, but who fled for his mother's
„-,�,. •,.•._-..-..-_..--.• skirts with resounding sabots when
1 frem "hamlet"; the terrible old maid'
'� I plan presences, that 1 disliked to leave egg, and two on c from Co e.nh en, who popped upin
yq ! any o£ hem in the dusty chill of a If a parasite gains access to a new; the ;rillae street, and who sinackad
for i .e :d � e �• !closed room. But we have too many country without its own parasites, iti
°a 1 `Leeks, as we have too many rooms, is in a very advantageous po[itioli, of i any venerable companion with her par
-
� '��neckties, al 1t31 �t necktiespairs of shoes, clock, tables, which it may make full use, and si'm-� axes; the long saunter through the
' � f corn in the eves-clee A1xin colored
� �oo many ever -thing. It is refreshing iJarly the multiplication of r a host a n twilight of the NorLh.;pvvhile
round us
t a y
Relief for Women and Chil- W n the sun i£ only trsin at thely. an unprecedented scale may beyond p s tan every side, undulating, invading,
�vihen the sun shines it pours in tit the ashes a cancy,£ialxo£ethese ldahy darkening with the deckle of evening, •
south windows of the living -room and controlling l70 rolled the triumphant, the utivereal
lies upon the warns red and brown and parasites. The remedy is to encour-, beeehwoods.
. Into ago or introduce the parasites of thei vest clay I was
v'ave3 off f •ern the
lustrated ' oy cases ill vvinc >luo rug' in h10 golden peels
„ ds of the throat were concealed see that the offenders were
et lie vght London. -The Prince of Virtues who s with signal 1 quay at Copenhagen with Streaming
•wounds
The Guth- to justice.. Ile intimated j the adjacent dfnin -cram and kitchen p�trastte, incl this plan has been pu l
has become patron of the Ford 1Viay- J r•ams. Tho !rant 'windows into operation at time madkerchiefs and a melancholy emend
• by sea:rfs around the neek. '
describe the ease of. a health hose, e the present tint collecting
this
ors
young shepherd of twenty-eight, eer-' tain ireforutatiou, and that
'tilled as dying from natural causes. was aV..t,iebie action would be taken.
Yet autopsy showed a veritable The 1 1� uier recalled the Medea
mu the o p y
s
museum. t ee ribs, and fa. c av clavicle; the. lea
(Ilan mounted Police werele Royal Cana.
called upon
skull, three ribs, a
mHtie hemorrhages in the brain, the' to deal with the circulation of com-
Mead from
the kidney. In ees'xc another
ao l y-1 arsistie scho ls.e1ature in the They had speedily pu
`cleafi £ran! nt}tu1 here , ,
i
sioh exteriorly, there .was fracture of; an end `ot he 11aa t ca ncet1lla e tin ec
re had
the skull. with a lar{ e cere11ra1 stealer- been fo 3
Y ___ .-.-_a..._.._
After the Storm
CALM EVENING ON,THE CHANNEL
A, s..n•set picture taken where calm reigned on the English south
coast atter storms that raged for a few weeks.
it also st
or's fund frit relief of distress in the ; look out across the valley to the east-. success. To vete further . sof `'I arvel! farvel!" Steeple by
coal fields, makes the fallowing appeal j ern range of hills. Iry one of them! "An Australian ladybird, for in- I steeple tower lay tower, the,a> issrt city
on behalf of the women .and children +stands an old-fashioned rocker vwliere 1 stance, has proved a perfect rextled'� !sank into the sea, and five stead cine
as his first public act after his bur- I I' like to sit and read and watch and for the cushion scale of oranges an i north for Norway. --From "Two Vie
_
rices return from South Africa: imeditate,listening for the auspicious lemons in California, Portugal, South; ire to Denrnarlc, 187 , 18. 1,'' by1'xi
"On axil return I have been pain- anxin of the studio door. Africa, Egypt and elsewhere. A char 1 round Gc=ase,
Pally impressed by the suffering which I But it is in the evening that the; cid wasp from South Africa sixnilarty?
exists in.the distressed mining areas,' living -room is at it best. Then, with ! controls the black scale insect in Cali- j
end I desire to make a direct personal
the lamp and the fire lighted, Chris- 1 fornix, an the Itaiian silk indastry,
appeal on their behalf. We must all , topper in one big chair—Tommy on i has been saved from ruin by import -
join in one combine! ci£prt toHelp his knees 1 in another which 1 share' jug a parasite of the scale in:,ect i
the women and children of these withGrizct, the daily paper disposed which
destroys the mulberry trees. ;
areas. The Lord :Mayors fund, sup -
of, ol', Beeks ... the winner wind with-. Plants which grow too profusely have
ported by the L+lydliayoa and Lords out, the ?vol} -flowers smelling veryin the sante way been brought vvithin�
Lieutenant of the i*outttry, and assist-
sweet—then the utter quintessence of. hounds by importing insects which}
ed by the Central Goal Fields Distress.
home seems distilled for our beautiit-ifeed on the. seeds. The problems in
Fund's organization, offers us the oft kation.-- Zephine Humphrey. in "Win -'volved are very complex, and Dr. W.
partunit1, ;of" doing this. , tettvisc.r, 1 R. Thompson, who works at the labor
,, _ __.e,_____— atory :maintained at I:Iyeres for the
have accepted the position of patron, _9 1 purpose by the United States'Govern-;
f this fund, and I ass- everyone to Ct�a ��lent contributes a thoughtful surthel
•1 Triage-, police say, Caught a public
� house 9'or sailors 'in Antwerp with
�e�a�an Robbery
f
i 70;000 francs, part oi'. the proceeds o
Recalled • Again the robbery, and •apparently intended
Jealous, Woman Seeking Re-
venge Gives Clue. That
Clear Up $500,000
Mystery
to retire to a life of ease. 13efore he
could be taken into custedy he disap-
peared. 1'eliee here said Antwerp
authorities --let -him get away .on a
technicality. •
• The inreetigatio7a was like an inter-
natioy-al• ileteehi to romance, • •Berlin
o i s u n,.
contribute to it genei,ottsly according -..-. the -ramifications of fntelr '.a-,
to his means. Let us we recapture zed
spirit of the war, -when we recog
•...- !tips which are involved to the
mired
trailae Economic Facts of last number of parasitology.
every effort made by the Government
as a nets call to individual self-sacri-
flee.
"The Government has • its duties,
but each one of'' us has "also the inch
-, police and. peatal' autheeities co -elle]
t l LOT'S ated with Unit`od'States postalinuf1i i -
'"`'�1� P hies and Capt Harold A. C•unninghan1
• Tcr tr_, 1' -evee 1 ng tuwoman, l an aban of the Leviathan in the work. l)e-
1 d'� • c.se
' cl
Parasites of Parasittes "The general principes, i..ce
Disclosed by Study are applicable to many problems of hu -
'man hygiene, and the details haee• of
The assemblage of men into cram- course, a very intimate bearing on the
vitlual duty of showing in practical -auntie_-, has produced most of the control of the insects which carry dist;
waysout' determination to alleviate 'Problems with which modern hygiene ease and of human parasitic worms.
suffering and rekindle hope • among -has been concerned, we are assured Sonie years ago an ingenuous sugges- WITHOUT THOSE CURLS
bya writer in The Lancet (London). tiers was made by Dr. T. S. l lgaoci and it is t e same HOS Pickier& but
these distressed fellow -countrymen caf Hosts and parasites have generally 'Maj. T. Cherry that bilharziasis in the curls vwii be missed bymost of
ours." come to some sort of balance, with Egypt might lie controlled by encour-i 1
'live and let live' as ite motto. 01 aging the .native population q n the vile ( herr! millions of admirers ail over the
this we should know more, he says, if, lages to keep ducks. The Sugg t' f...�..
1•?; ii,tcreis the supreme, season of re- we understood the parasitology of arose from the observation that that; � e it it
Th linked trees are wild animals better. We read: snail, which h isthe intermeditethosti
:
dorled by her lower, recently told police tectives i•bde the l.eviatiiatl ori ;Ilex.
a story that they believed would lead voyagedand carried on a continual
to solution of the ,$aQ0;000 il5aii r^ell secret investigation of which the pub -
.berg abeard the United States liner lie heard nothing.
Leviathan- last Jane.
;, It revealed an amazing plat whereby Trade With the Tropics
b 4' h lyl:' hued the 7—
. The , eke to the mysery, which oc- { pendence ellArea .t Leal 1 ,
c'upiecl the tttentiotl of tree police. iia luee tq •lsei i 'aimed 'bt : sutiuv who per --
New dais: Echlin, .4ateVet'p alas Vi- sist rn file' ideas of einmucti<icil.gsot,%,
. alma., as well . as .Scotland Yard en•tl' eaphlr,;tatight in .tile sub0o1, Ora _�,oIl
r oration ago ]'hest the /exported saw
ilii :petted States iii?d. gasmen :rad? gg ,
niatell'tle fetal ilait3fttcfl p'i nufa0bUect•;
c1:st1° lltis3,a1 "iusOectuu t s..rt+Ices, o u, 1 o ck k • 1 tint letly •,,imports U6 '
i`tmnir}Sed. Say a tyt),man il- ° `I1tt4 r41, 1d .d' ya T tl } „^
Iielg•ien,. •pti•i]ltai'lfsr Tart materiel t, of • v1hulh . '
She said that for thi:ee vcaee' 'idle alloiyt.,ct.t crxlartdit: ehilih& a£ the roin he tro4r�.
Pies. 11 ;ecce j4 bulle,tli
itleitt of Ai i•fcnituro shows that the;.
total -vape of the pr iitciilal { tropteai'
.inulol .s eoftee, maga itud r4i1 .te,hh-i
ire about .$1,000 060,600, ;•and that marts,
siftces, nuts, oilseeds, hemp anis sisal, 1
tea and the gums and woods from tate ,
tt'onies, are ' impel l ed in abotli fbe'
same value. Tho increase in minutely ,
tiuritig the laat twouty years luta been
most striking in rubber, which le slow!
sa.boitt nine timet; what it was in 1009, 'ha
a gang got% fAb lard the Levieth:tri as
Members o her
ci'ew y i 1( I
avail sacl�,s u'3nile Slleetvas at ;setts New. Xmas 'ie;es O:itea's de
,ockuc.ts-canli'i]-'
Joyous Preparations .
conciliation. e na 'e "When
with the gran skies, the vegetable crops are giotvn. of e bilharzia,
IMc P"t'e pends and lakes to Which .ducks bevel
brown lulls with the tus,c.t fields, andbl with para free puce", Whereas I>„ng A
-reconciled. vv: er wide at ea in more or z
r they' sire abated -
King ntanullalx and Itis Consort
when the 'snow falls, asmerged
today, even' culture, special troubles i -i
the white houses are merged and lost. sites ,generally• arise. This is par -sant elsewhere. It would be rest-ikava fret with powerful opposition
1 1 It to happen ;when tllr. int' to learn vv'Ilculicr this selieilie wasland are facing considerable danger le
ld i vel their efforts to introduce progressive
measures throughout their kingdom.
It is not the people of the cities, but
the fanatical tribesmen, who are in
revolt, led by their priests, who resent
such Western pleasures as the unveil-
ing of women's faces in public es
sults to their reliefs. Moreover, the'
native priests have seized this cern-
siere to raise the question of Amen-, •
ullah's right to the throne, and a cer-
tain proportion of the regular army,
disaffected because they have received
no pay for months, have -joined the
insurgents. So far the loyal forces at
Ii alaul appear to be holding their own.
though the exact whereabouts of the
sling and, Queen • is, not definitely
lepown.' Fighting has reached the sub-
nrbs of the capital, but the foreign
Iopulatien does not appear to be in
a pa11ik...
Sympathy will be general with King • ,
Atnannllah and his Queen, for their
sincerity has' been made • manifest in
a hundred ways. They are desirous •
of benefitting'their people, and they
have adoptees such Western ways and
customs as seen] to them most likely
to bring about such benefits. It was e
inevitable that they should meet with
opposition by those who are most in •
-
terested tet keeping the masses ig-
norant; but if • the Ring wins, it vvlll
be a great day for the Orient, n it
will signalize the triumph of a move-•
meat whiclh is .destined te-sread far-
ther and farther ae time goes on.
While in manv•things Past and West
'May ' perhaps neteir ]Meet, there 'are
a1so many grounds upon which they
Can hate "consume place to their..•iilii•
tuai advantage. Ring Amennllah
early reco •nixed this, axed he will lame
the moral support of all progressive
ththkers in his efforts to give his
people the of• Western eivil-
itatxon,---Mo71treal. Star,
In our old house we have shut off tica ar y aI
all the rooms we do not actually need plant itself has been moved fret its ever tried out, I.,) lIw'elle ',doll .la
(all but five, in fact), and into our natural home; coffee
and example,
and; us
beencouragingve thatalctcrixemay`bacterium euree;
living -rens we . have moved a great Tubber and ba
are a ptY,p where
African sleeping sickness will that
deal inose furl]iture tllanru2rerit statx-i novv grown all over the world vwhere' it may be so. But it is certain that
dards of good taste approve. The re -,`climatic. conditions P
gratifying. Last Along with this transportation of msttely belie controlled
fly lives by
moves
suit is surprisingly - g 3
nding
troubles that!, and has its being; by discovering its
summer the living -room ,wi cligliend hosts tis, an and oflthe tro bles ofoutand
and Perusal ;. now te glpvvs,with (, phavescom p , 1 by ascertaining
Before the fireplas:e, the centre ,have come from u getting sI arisennan I increasing thein; and ther flauitlos,
tines.
table, flanked by ref books,
Bolds a i extraor todany enter ting chapter of j ite, favorite food and the conditions of
double nen.; e .riles -of bocal s, anti some biology. The i
mag•;atines...:. Oe the tivintioye5i11s s biology. T31cnparasites Hall cent rallci� !aim; t} exn��Ilch it likes, and by lestroy.ns:
s
are howls. of llulli4' in various: stages eiwltinn bounds by a 'second serics� ____..• .-- .
of development, also some blossoming S keptand these ar t7 i1 sortie- ,
. - ers salvaged freen •the gale' of pas•asites. , moth
"I'v- I,ntlulc:team is the leapingof light.
wall -flowers, , Hing. not tebe tit 'measured by the horse
n. Against one of the walls stands times' by a third. In aatance, sonic- iieasti tancliy the
se
de n power of tate t
V.
tine
eases filled with a from
!, srlec-• � thiga nut1il est to cern in .Southern i'°111,"$°11.o
tine of hocks'brought from the library thing of I 1.iouo injtYry will the*. • w _ _
across the trails epe tion then vvas t'.uropr; and a semace its i:ltrnduction l more
t of tela ration.fnr 'in: tTnitecl States iuetiily President C•Qolidga wants the only act p
net whole=hcartcdl>< in 'Tn10, eighteen parasites (. Tercel Pace and -Wee ships to csnfoi`ce it.
to which iYwpart. ;looks; aheesuch insects) 'have. been lei nd tet n
g c v:*ns oh my I t _ - ---~'
hiid heeli the swerstheart of Walter
Binges., aline Long, •i ece ]try a Aokee
oil' the I.eviethan, lc deeerted !ler,
she seid atter she `tall the atoty, iii „iti
vcns.Ye 4: ,,,,.
Police. dirt' not reveal the details of
filet story, but in the strength of it
illi+-^ ltceus+ rl slinger of being the
leader Of a gaeg•whicii looted the
crabs te't. tuail while she was at sea
a cs tiilerateee1 of stolen, bontl;s and see.
r:,li it''ce in Europe.
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I"1on 4iesn,i t> IS ctrlctot service which'oarrirs freightand "Bee
tt
a repulallem for reg'ur;lt ;nervier ifnot speed.
esty-'s 1113-11,
Coed leen are -nen stili, liable to
n1istakos, and are sonietimes warmly
engaged itt errors, which they l tree
It for truths, ,shining in then' -ulnee vita
the clearest lights -John Locke,.