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BRITON REPORTS
GONORRHEA CURE
Results Positive in 70 Per
Cent of Cases, He An
nounces.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
Discovery of a gonorrhea antitoxin
which, experiments to date indicate,
brings about a complete cure in ap
proximately 70 per cent of cases, was
announced by Dr. Thomas Anwyl
Davies, director of London's celebrated
White Chapel Clinic, before the annual
conference of regional health officers
at the Public Health Service Audi
torium today.
The announcement was hailed by
physicians attending the conference
as that of one of the major medical
developments of recent times, per
haps ranking in importance with the
discovery of diphtheria and meningitis
antitoxins.
Up to date, the British physician,
who is considered one of the world's
foremost authorities on venereal dis
eases, said the cures have been com
plete and lasting when the antitoxin
has worked at all. In about 30 per
cent of the cases treated, however,
there was no effect whatsoever.
Some Strains Ar Immune.
This anomalous result, Dr. Alwyn
Davies said, probably can be explained
by the fact that there are different
strains of the gonnococcus, the micro
scopic organism causing the disease,
which are immune to the lethal action
of the strains used in producing the
antitoxin. This will probably be over
come when the material is perfected.
The antitoxin is produced by inject
ing a horse with the gonnococci from
a human patient. A protective action
is set up in the blood ol the animal,
from which the resulting remedy is
obtained.
From 5 to 20 cubic centimeters of
the antitoxin are injected into the
gonorrhea victim over a period of a
week or more. Meanwhile the patient
is able to continue at work. No hos
pitalization period is necessary.
He has been actively at work on the
antitoxin for the past three years, the
London physician said, but it really
may be considered as a culmination
of observation over 20 years of active
practice. It promises to place in the
hands of the medical profession com
plete control over a malady which
has been one of the scourges of hu
manity for centuries. The disease.
Dr. Alwyn-Davies said, is three or
four times as prevalent in Great
The antitoxin, the clue to the pro
duction of which came from the
success of meningococci antoxin, is
effective at any stage in the process
of the malady, but naturally cannot
help the permanent ravages in the
system which it may have caused.
These are apt to be especially severe
in the female.
Many years may be required for the
Ultimate perfection of the anti
toxin, Dr. Alwyn Davies said, point
ing out that after 20 years the dosage
of diphtheria antitoxin is still in
Question. The meningitis anti
toxin, he said, now is effective in
100 per cent of all cases, and there
is reason to believe that this specific
against an organism of the same fam
ily will be equally efficient eventually.
Advantage Even Seen.
The difference is that with menin
gitis unless the specific is given early
the patient is apt to be dead, while
with gonorrhea it can be applied at
any time during the active course of
the disease.
The control of gonorrhea must take
its place with cancer, tuberculosis and
acute rheumatism among the medical
problems of this or any age, the con
ference was told by Dr. Ambrose King,
assistant medical officer of the White
chapel Clinic in London.
If progress is to be made in control
cf the disease, he said, the right type
of men must be attracted to the prob
lem and the medical profession must
admit its knowledge of the disease is
elementary.
Several hundred Federal. State and
foreign public health officials are
taking part in the four-day confer
ence.
The experts are members of the
Conference of State and Provincial
Health Officers of North America.
General sessions today will be fol
lowed by committee meetings to
morrow.
On Wednesday and Thursday the
delegates will be guests of Dr. Thomas
Parran, jr., head of the Federal serv
ice. at the thirty-fifth State and
Territorial Health Conference with the
nurgeon general.
FUNERAL IS CONDUCTED
FOR MISS COURTENAY
Appeal for Cremation With Body
of Friend Is Not Carried
Out.
Funeral services were held yesterday
at Gawler's funeral home for Miss
Adrienne Courtenay who committed
suicide last week with her friend,
Miss Dorothy A. Lawrence, in their
room at 1851 Lamont street.
The request that their bodies be
cremated and the ashes comingled,
marie in a suicide note, was not
carried out. Private services for Miss
Lawrence were held Saturday after
noon in the Cedar Hill Cemetery
Crematorium. The cremations were
conducted separately at the request
cf her family.
Miss Courtenay's ashes were claimed
by her mother, Mrs. Edith K. Courte
nay, Glenside. Pa. Yesterday's serv
ices were conducted by Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash
lngton.
1305 F STREET, nw-;
Youth Confesses
In Zion Fire,
Official Says
Boy Declared to Have
Fancied V oliva
Wronged Parents.
THOMAS GRIFFITH.
By the Associated Press.
ZION, 111., April 5.—Alven Ruesch,
chief of both the Zion Fire and Police
Departments, said early today that
Thomas Griffith, 19, had confessed
seting fire to the 35-vear-old Shiloh
Temple and Radio Station WCBD,
which resulted in an estimated loss
oi $600,000.
Ruesch quoted the boy as saying he
burned the building to get revenge
for wrongs he fancied were done his
foster parents by Overseer Wilbur
| Glenn Voliva of the Christian Apos
tolic Church, which operated the
temple.
Voliva had claimed the fire, which
razed the three-story wooden struc
ture last Friday, was of incendiary
origin.
Ruesch said Griffith made his con
fession voluntarily because he feared
| four innocent men were being held
as arson suspects. The youth, how
ever, was mistaken. Ruesch said, be
' cause no suspect had been arrested.
Ruesch said the youth told him he
poured kerosene on lumber stored be
neath the floor of the tabernacle and
lighted it. Later he returned to the
scene. Ruesch asserted, to watch fire
men battle the flames.
The chief declared he was convinced
Griffith was telling the truth, but was
1 searching for additional evidence to
J corroborate the confession.
Auto Toll Grows in U. S.
America's auto accident death toll
has grown from 2,100 in 1911 to ap
proximately 36,000 in 1936.
BRITAIN LEADS
TEXTILE PARLEY
Proposal Made to Smother
Continental 40-Hour Week
Demands.
BY BLAIR BOLLES.
Great Britain led the World Textile
Conference today on the question of a
universal 40-hour week for all textile
workers, who outnumber the employes
of any other industry on earth.
Following urgent pleas from repre
sentatives of continenal European
workers for immediate adoption of
the 40-hour week, Anthony J. Murr
head, British government delegate,
proposed to smother the movement
under a demand for discussion of
technical questions and for “fuller
presentation of the facts.”
The Englishman had no sooner
taken his seat than Victor Vandeputte,
outspoken secretary of the Textile
Workers’ Federation of France, de
manded immediate adoption of a reso
lution favoring the 40-hour week.
Clothers Unclothed, Is Claim.
“If any delegate has anything to say,
let him say it now so we can devote
our time to technical discussion.”
Murrhead told the delegates of 24
countries. "No one will wish unduly to
pursue a course of forever demanding
additional information. On the other
hand, no one should feel impelled into
agreeing to a line of action on data
which to him seem insufficient or in
conclusive.”
The American worker delegate. Emil
Rieve, president of the American Fed
eration of Hosiery Workers, who said
of the textile industry that “the irony
lies in the fact that those who clothe
the world are themselves unclothed,"
voiced disagreement wdth Murrhead.
Joined with Vandeputte and Rieve
in the 40-hour week movement were
Alphonse Segier of Belgium and Anton
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Two Shifts Called Easy.
Segier, who opened the drive for
the 40-hour week, said: "The textile
industry is one in which the two
shift system can be most easily ap
plied. Indeed, according to the ex
isting international conventions and
legislation of the many countries, it Is
possible for women and young per
sons to be employed at any time be
tween 5 a.m. and 10 p.m.
"Many textile workers, moreover,
have to travel 2, 4, 6 or even more
miles to get to their work. Conse
quently, if a two-shift system is being
worked, many women and young per
sons have to leave their homes at 4
in the morning in order to be at work
at 5 o’clock, which is the earliest
hour at which their employment is
permitted. This is surely a strong
argument for giving priority to the
textile industry when applying the 40
hour week."
The 40-hour-weck is desirable on
social, economic, moral and political
grounds, as well as from the stand
point of population, Roscher said.
Ancient Resort Found.
A Summer resort which was popu
lar 31 centuries ago has just been
found on the East Mediterranean
coast, between Gaza and Port Said.
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