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Hews and notes.
jKne .weather' is -forecast: for today. -
X-RayPlanto for Hospitals.
?' Consideration was given at th« last meet
ing ;of the Lotteries Commission; ?to 7the
urgent necessity for providing X-ray plants
and .other equipment for certain hospitals.
The . ^Commission fdecided to provide
£3,000: 'towards such 'heeds, and in allot
tingJthis 8um-wj]l give preference to hos
pitala that raise portion of the total amount
required. -|- '?-?.?;;-?' ; . ;, ' ?
^reijoh »oojrt; Visit. , ;'v
?TKe^ secretary of the Premier's Depart
ineht^(Mr.;:Ii.;E. Shapcott)Vsaid yesterday,
that ? theSFrench sloop %'AmiralvCharner,
-YhichV was: on a cruise :?? in ?.?-' Australian
? ?waters.'ivwould arrive, atvFremantle on Oc
tober llifijom Darwin,, and -would , remain
in .harbour until October .20,: when : she
would leave fbrvAlbany. The-'sloop would
stay at ? Albany from October 21 to Oc
tober 25 and then sail for the Eastern
States.- ' ;.;'.
A Crop of Birthdays. . V
i E.;H; Bromley; who will be 23 yeans of
age next Sunday, will be the fifth member
of the, Australian Test team to celebrate
his birthday since July 31. W. A. Brown.
,, the baby of the team, turned 22 on. July
31, and a fortnight later L. Darling passed
his 25th milestone. The captain of the
team, W. M. Woodfull, fittingly won the
Ashes' on^the 37th anniversary of his birth
- day. on August 22, and the vice-captain,
D. Cr. Bradinan, celebrated his 26th birth
day last; Monday. W. A. Oldfield will be
.37 on September 9.
A Gallipoll Memorial.
,i?The ship's bell, of the cruiser Euryalue
has been' presented, with the approval of
the Admiralty, to the 1st Battalion, the
Lancashire Fusiliers, as* a permanent me
morial of the association of the Royal Navy
with the battalion at their historic land
ing at Helles in 1915. The presentation
took place on July 11, at Goojerat Bar
racks, Colchester, and was made by Ad
; miral Sir Rudolf Burmester/who was in
command 'of the Euryalus at the landing,
on behalf , of the Lords Commissioners.. of
the Admiralty; { ?&. ^
?*\-: i&w V;?' ? '- ' ?:: .''
Fair Exchange.
* 'British listeners will have to do with
out some of their -favourite broadcast
singers, for some time.,' .remarked the
'Radio Times' in recording the departure
'from. Tilbury' of the party' of ^pera-sin'gers
who are' to take -the. principal roles in' Sir
Benjamin Fuller's grand opera company, in
Australia;7, ''Well, we shall; Have to con
sble; ourselves for their loss,' the paper
. adds^'reflectine that this summer we have
had the'; loan of such eminent Australians
as?Wi Mi- Woodfull, Don Bradman; Clar
ence \Grimmett and /Jack Crawford; in ex
change.' '!.i.. . . ? ?'????'??_? ? ? ? ?
Open Market. ._' .. _ ?' \
?Th'e .secretary of the Metropolitan Mar-
keiiTrnfit (Mr.- F;:F.' Anderson) said yes
terday that, according to a recent para
graph; in ''The West Australian,' the
closing of the municipal open, market in
Wellington-street east was recommended
by the Tiealth' committee of the Perth City
'Council. - The City Treasurer had reported
that- there was not enough patronage be
cause of the competition of the Metropoli
tan Market, 'at West Perth. As a fact,
Mr. Anderson said, the Trust's retail mar
: ket had been closed for the last 18 months,
but, if prospective etallhdldere and the
puMc desired it, that market, could be re
opened. ;',
Treatment of Lepers. : j :
.'Referring yesterday to th& statement
made; on Monday by the Rev.F- A. Cray
ehaw, v general secretary for /Australia of
the Missions to Lepera, that chaulmoogra
oil'had been used successfully in the treat
ment of lepers in the 25 countries in which'
the missions worked, the Government Bac
teriologist (Dr. W. McGillivray) eaid that
treatment of lepers with the salts of this
oil was practically universal. . This treat
ment was provided for the native leper*
in the North- West of this Stated andalso
- for the patients at the lazarette at Wooro
loo. ' The salts were extracted h-oni the
oil and given hyperdermically by injec
tion! The plant from whiqh chaulmoogra
oil was obtained was a native of Burma
and :the oil had. been used since ancient
/'times in.India for the treatment of leprosy.
? In the days before the salts were extracted
and 'injected into the patient the oil was
-taken by mouth. Leprosy was common
in; the ? Middle Aces in Europe and rulers
; and ; clergy established leper asylums and
enacted Taws for the isolation of lepers.
/'Leprosy was mentioned in ancient Chinese,
? /Indian and Egyptian writings, and authori
' tieestated that it was possibly -? introduced
into Greece in 400 B.C.
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