lepers
at the
Penikose
Island
colony
are
believed
to
have
been
totally
cured
of
the dread disease.
“Dr. Bernard
F. Carey,
deputy
State
health
commissioner
stated,
that
in the
opinion
of- State
officials,
the
two
men
had
not only been
entirely
cured
of the
disease,
but
were entirely immune
from
further infection.
Commencing
July 20,
a board
offive nationally famous
physi-
.cians
wil! make
intricate
tests
and
ex-
aminations
of the
two
men and,
if the
board’s
decisions
substantiate
the belief
of the State
doctors,
the
men will be
pa-
roled from the island,
allowed
to
roturn
to their families,
with the understanding
that
they
report
every
six
months
for
minute
examination.
:
:
““The examining board will inciude Dr.
Victor Heiser, of t
‘e Internationa!
Health
Board of New York, the
man who in 1916
brouzht
chemulga
oil to this country
for
treatment
of lepers,
Dr.
Safford,
of the
Boston Health department,
Dr. Algernon
Goolidge,
of the
Massachusetts
(“eneral
Hospital, Dr.
F.
H.
Parker,
superinten-
dent of
the
Penikese
Island colony
and
Dr. Townsend
Thorndike,
a
Boston
skin
specialist’”’.
& e
- The
Penikese
lisland
otficials
had
al-
ready
made sufficient tests,
resulting
neg-
atively,
to convince
themselves.
that
a
miracic
had been
accomplished,
and that
two
human
beings
afflicted with
one of
tha
worst diseascs
knswn
0 méedical
sci-
ence,
had
been
cured. The
announcement
of this faet,
which
is of international
im-
portance,
has
ereated
unusual
interest
in
Boston
medical
cireles,
:
““On February
17, 1916®’ continues
the
Boston
Post,
‘‘Dr. Victor
G. Heiser,
di-
rector
for the
East
International
Health
Commission,
announced
to the worid that
he had brought
chemulga oil to
the
Uni-
ted States.
The il is a
violent
irritant,
"~ administered
at first through
the mouth,
if the patient’s
stomach
is able to
stand
it.
Although
the
initial
treaiment
is
simply five drops
th.e dose
is gradually in-
creased
in capsule
form and
administra-
tions
are also made
under
the skin hypo-
dermically.
:
“The two
patients
whose
response
to
the
treatment
has
been
so
marked
are
described%y
Dr. Carey
as
being
ordin-
ary patients,
who
have
been
gradually
worged
to the point where they can stand
forty
drops
of chemulga
oil.
Recently
~lesions
have disappeared
entirely, and
no
nodules
remain
on the
patients.
Satis-
fied that remarkable
work was being done
State
officials made
minute
examinations
and
tests
all of which
were negative’’.
While the
insular
Health
Department
has
not yet been
able to secure
a
supply
of Chemulga oil, in
order to experiment
with it at the leper colony on Cabras
Is-
land,
they
are eagerly
waiting to
hear
from
Fedesal authorities
as
to just
how
and
where
a supply
may.
be obtained
1o
carry
on this work
which
may mean
a
new era for the leper colony of Porto
Ri-
co
The
Porto Rico
office has
bheen
in
33
GRUIX
A VIS
cqgnmunication
with a government
office
in Hawaii, which
is said
to
have
a
sup-
®
i
ply of chemulga
oil on hand,
and it is be-
i
lieved that it will not be
very long before
i
there
are
tests
made
here.—Porte
Rico
!
Progress,
23, July.
i
TO ESTABLISH BUS LINE.
t
The
Royal Blue
Line has
been
incor-
porated
for
the
purpose
of
operating
!
motor
buses
in the isiand
and
has
taken
{
over the line
running between
San
Juan
'
and "Fajardo.
It is planned
to
purchase
|
new and
larger buses
than
are
at
pres-
!
ent
in operation here
and
so establish
a
|
service
between
San
Juan
and
Po
ce.
.
Other
lines
will be
started
as
there
is
‘
demand
for them.
'Walter J.
Cox,
wheo
|
is une of the chief
promoters
of the
pro-
.
Ject,
has
been interésted
in motor
trans-
l
portation
in the island for the past
seven-
|
teen
years.—lbid.
REOPEN
MANGANESE
MINE AT
-JUANA DIAZ
l
Approximately
one
thousand
tons
of
|
manganese
ore is being
taken from
the
!
mine
near
Juana
Diaz
ard prepared
to
|
be
shipped
to the United
States.
This
i
makes
the
mining operation
there
the
| “most important
in the island.
!
.
During the War
¢ eonsiderablc
amount
'
of
manganese
was
taken
from this
de-
|
posit
but following
the
Armistice
the
!
mining operation
was stopped for a time,
|
i . but recently they kave been
renewed
on
{
what probably
will prove
to be
a
perma-
.
nent basis.,
o
i
A
considerable
improvement
will
be
!
made
about
the
mine
so
as
to
make
it
i
easier
to
remove
the
ore
and
also
to
|
transport it down
the mountain.
At the
|
l
present
time
all
of thc
ore
is
brought
|
i
down by mule
back.
Mechanical
equip-
|
%
ment
is being installed
to do away
with |
i
the necessity
of using mules.
|
i
At
presen:
the. production
is
limited
|
,
to
from 35 tons
to 50
tons per day
while
‘
the improvements
now
being made
the
|
output
will be considerably
increaszd,
it
l
!
is
believed
The
quality of
the
ore
is
|
said
tobe equal
if nct superior
to
that
|
i
found in any one cf the deposits
of man-
!
l
ganese
under the American flag. —lbid.
i
|
e
|
THE MARCH OF THE
PRIESTS.
|
High Mass & Vestments
At The
|
|
Anglican
Chureh,
;
g
Since
the Reformation
no
more distine-
|
|
tive celebration of High Mass
has
taken
|
i
plaece in connection
with
the
(hurch
of
|
England
than
that
yeiterday
at
St.
Al-
|
-
ban's,
-Holborn,
as
a
prelude
to
the
Anglo-Catholic Congress.
.!
Prior
to
the
celebration
a
great
pro-
|
| cession
of white-surpliced clergy,
some of
‘
¥
whom
were
bareheaded,
marched
four
|
" abreast
from St
Alban’s
Schools.
down
Gray’s Inn-road
to the church
in Brooke-
street.
Crowds
watched
the
silent
cou-
course,
and
many
men
removed
their
hats
as it passed.
:
Striking
Vestments.
In the procession
to the aitar
there
fol-
lowed
many
bishops
in
striking
vest-
ments
and
mitres.
An interesting
feat-
ure
was the young black acolyte
accom-
panying
the
Bishop
of
Accra,
and
a
striking
personality
was
presentied
by
his beatitude
the
Patriarch
of Cyprus,
in
black flowing robes
bringing up the
rear.
Amongst
the English
bishops
weve
the
Bishops
of Salisburv
and
Grantham,
and
‘rom
more distant
dioceses
the
Bishops
of Zululand, North-West
Australia,
Kim-
berley,
Antigua and
Kalgoorlie.
There
were
also present
the
Bishops
of
Penn-
sylvanic and
Atlanta.—The Daily News,
June
30th.
SUGAR NOTES.,
The
French
government
has
been
en-
deavoring
to
purchase
the
wholg
beet
sugar
crop
of France
and various
prices
have
been
offered varying
from
250
to
375
francs
per
100
kilograms
but
the
sugar
mekers
opposed
this
very strongly
and
at last the thing has
been
given
up
as
a bad
job.
Then
at
one
time the
gov-
ernment
sought
to stabilize
the price
of
sugar
at
376
franes
rer
hundred
kilo-
grams
and
guaranteed
so
furnish
the
factories
with coal
beiow
cost,
but
this
too
went on the
scrap
heap.
The French
industry is fighting
hard
te regain ground
and
it is believed
that if the industry
is
given
a fair chance
it
will
return
tc
its
own
ere lom.--Loutsiana
Flanter
Poland exported
505,000 pounds
of beet
seed
in 1919-20
showing
that rhe
ancient
land
is getting
on
its
feet
again.
An
agreement
has
been
reached
by the
min-
ister of agriculture and
the
sugar
makers
union whereby
sugar
beets
will
cost
60
marks
per
hundred
weight,
20 per
cent
higher than
potatoes.
The! government
will also offera premiura
of
20,000,000
marks
to beet
raisers
on
ar
area
of
25,
000
acres.-
lbid.
THE PALM SUGAR INDUSTRY
IN
.
BENGAL.
Throughout
the tropics several
varvieties
of
palm
trees
are utilized in ihe produc
tion
of
sugar,
just
as is the
juice of ghe
gugar
maple
trees utilized in
the United
States
and
in
Canada,
"'ln Dengal
:he
leading
varieties
are
phoenix .and
the
borassus
palms,
which
are eualcivaged
and
cared
for
for
sugar
produeiion:
The
industry
is
a
very old one and has
heen
diminishing ir impertance
for more
than
twenty
years.
It
is
stated,
now:
ver
that 17
per
cent
of
the
sugar
made
in
the British East Indies
is made
from
the
date Palm
and
some
64,230
tons of paim
sugar
.
are
being
exported
anmually
against
366,000
tons of
eane
suggr, —lhid,