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ST Lrotx 2Avs Y & _ W A @ \ ¢ 75TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTED. V.I. U. 8 A., THURSDAY 22np APRIL 1920, by science have met with w.nderful sue- cess after all, despite the fact that epi- demics still rage and men still die of dis- ease. Small pox, the deadly scourge of countless certuries, has been rendered practically inoffensive. Yellow Fever and Malaria, whichr?u former times ren- aered many large and fertile sections of the world almost uninhabitable for White Men, have been conquered. The deadly scourge of Diptheria has been robbed of its terrors by that most efficient of cures and preventatives— Anti--texin while Typhus and Typhoid Fevers claim very few victims in these later days, Al- though all this is true, yet there remains much yet to be done, for Rheumatism still tortures and cripples almost un- checked, and Pheumonia and Tuberculo- sis claim almost as many victims as here- tofore. Any invention or discovery that may mitioate the ravages of these Cap- tains of the men of death cannot fail to be of vast interest to mankind. In a re- cent issue of the New York ‘Herald,’ Dr. Harris A. Houghton tells of an ex- periment being made in Framingham, Mass., for the ellmination of Consump- tion from that city, the experiment, if successful, is certain, of course, to be imitated elsewhere. The move was start- ed by one of the large industrial life insurance companies with an initial gift of SIOO,OOO. The National Asso- ciation for the study and preven- tion of Tuberculosis accepted the trust and Dr. D. B. Armstrong was selected as director of the experiments. Fram- ingham, with 16,000 inhabitants, was selected for the place. The plan followed was to examine the largest possible number of people for tubercular cases and to treat the cases found. Not less than 4,473 persons were examined, sev- enty-seven per cent were ill to some de- gree and all but fourteen per cent, of these were classified as wholly or parti- ally preventable. Os the total number affected by disease,96 cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis were found, or 2-16 percent, of the total examined. The most up to-date treatment was given, and the practical result at the close of the second year is thus summed up: During the preceeding decade the tuberculosis death rate was 996 per 100,000. For 1917 it was 99 per 100,000. For 1918 it was 14 per 100,000— a most remarkable decrease. And the in- dications are that there will be a still greater decrease, because centres of in- fection will be gradually eliminated, the town physicians will'acquire greater skill in dealing with the ~iease, and the peo: b 11 57, CROIX AVIS : is printed and published daily (Sundays | and Holidays excepted) by G. Johumsen | at the Avis Office. fj TERMS---50 cents monthly 1n advance, i 2 cents per single copy. ; e e ] Entered as second-class matter May 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- sted, St. Crove K. L ofthe U. S. A., un der the Act of March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will be glad- ly recetved when the same deals with mat- ters of general interest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s mame, as a quar- antee of good faith. The editor cannot be responsible for the views of his correspon- dents nor does he necessarily endorse them. INTERPLANETARY COMMUNICA- l TION. A mysterious interference with the operation of the Marconi wireless instru- ments has caused renewed interest in the question of talking with our near neigh- bors on Mars or Venus. Reports state that certain mysterious signals have | occurred simultaneously in London and | New York with equal intensity, indicat- | ing a distant origin. : Scientific authorities are quoted as | seriously considering the suggestion that | the Martians are trying to engage the i inhabitants of earth in a confidential | chat, or that perhays the supposedly alive spirits of the dead are attempting to send messages back. : The offer by the Frencli Academy of Sciences of a prize of 100,000 francs | ($20,000) for the exchange of asign be- | tween the earth and a heavenly body, | transfers the possibility of interplane- tary communication from the field of | ridicule to that ¢f interesting scientific speculation. Any one thinking to com- | pete for this prize, however, should con- | sider the estimate of Dr. Charles P. | Steinmetz that the plan might succeed | if the United States were to consolidate | into one plant all the electric power in [ the country with towers a thousand or | more feet high. The cost of such an | attempt would doubtless be no less than | a billion dollars.—The Watchman Maga- | zine. ' i THE WHITE DEATH. | In the Acadian Recorder we read that the assaults made upon human maladies ' > No Ul ple trained at the clinics, will be on the alert to discover the earliest trace and exhibit more intelligence in looking af- ter themselves. The Framingham exper- iment has been the only one thus carried out on a great scale, and if by the end =f the three years these encouraging results will continue, such experiments will be- come worldwide. After all, health is to a great extent a purchasable commodity and if the great naticrns of tke world would spend upon the public health thirtenth part of what they expend on warlike armament, the results would be amazing in the extreme.— Barbados Globe. DENTISTS CONDEMN GOLD TEETH. Gold teeth andfilllngs were condemned in resolutions adopted by the American Academy of Dental Sclence holding a Convention on Feb. 4. They were termed “‘out of date and not conducive to gen- eral good health.”” The dentists also went on record as being against removal of nerves from decayed teeth preparatory to filling.—lbid. BATES OF EXCHANGE. There was a decided fal in the rates of exchange during last week, the round sterling rising in value by about 9 cents in the dollar, and thus infusing confi- dence in early reestablishment of the value of the British Pound. Today the buying bank rate, which once stood as high as 41 per cent, is now 22.—Ibid. And Noises In The Head. 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