of the commission of leading medical experts, which will supervise the medical relief work of the council.

Doctors and hospitals in the stricken areas are helpless to combat diseases, because of their complete lack of the simplest medical supplies, according to Dr. Plotz, who asserts that the typhus epidemic will recur this winter in even more severe form than last year. The first undertaking of the American Jewish medical unit will be to furnish medical supplies to communities so that epidemics can be fought.

Laughing Spasms Cause Death of Child.

"Laughing spasms" caused the death of the five-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Schniflein of Baltimore.

Thirty minutes after being stricken the infant literally laughed itself to death. Efforts to check the child's laughing failed. Physicians say the disease is very unusual.

Vaccination Is Mexican Hobby, Doctors State.

Mexicans take to vaccination almost like ducks do to water, according to officials of the city health department. The officials also claim that this is responsible for the few cases of smallpox now found among these citizens.

The Mexican population, the health men say, are thoroughly vaccinated. Because they believe in the operation, the officials state, they bring their babies to the city hall when the latter are as young as two months old.

While the Mexicans take to the vaccination it seems that it does not appeal so strongly to Americans, according to the health guardians, who claim that the vaccination campaign, inaugurated sev

eral years ago, has been responsible for reducing the smallpox cases from 300 to 400 a year to 30 or 40 a year.

Last year, the health men say, there were 24 American and eight Mexican smallpox patients in the city hospital. It was admitted that some of these may have been vaccinated. However, the doctors stated, those who were vaccinated had light cases.

Twenty Thousand Children Killed Yearly In Accidents.

According to statistics prepared by the Red Cross Society 20,000 children up to the age of fourteen years lose their lives in accidents every year in the United States. These figures show that 167 out of every 1,000 deaths of children between the ages of five and nine are due to accidents, while between the ages of ten and fourteen the ratio is 177 to the thousand.

Hiccough Epidemic Alarms London.

The epidemic of hiccoughs is spreading through London, and the medical profession is taking a serious view of its progress. There are twelve cases in one hospital. Some of the victims are on the verge of collapse after constant hiccoughing for days. No medical explanation of its cause has been given.

$10,000 For Radium Fund.

The Marie Curie Radium Fund Committee received recently a check for $10,000 from a woman who had been cured of cancer through the application of radium. of radium. The committee is raising $100,000 with which to provide Mme. Curie with one gram of radium, that she may continue her experiments.

Honors for American Women.

Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Secretary of the American Red Cross, and a member of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, has been awarded the French Reconnaissance Gold Medal, in recognition of her work for France during the war. The French Reconnaissance Bronze Medal has been awarded to Mrs. Elizabeth Boncroft, of Delaware, who aided refugees in the French devastated regions, and who organized relief for the French war orphans for the American Red Cross.

President Harding's Personal Physician.

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Announcement is made that Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, of Marion, Ohio, the Harding family physician, will be appointed a Brigadier General in Army Medical Reserve Corps and signed to active duty at the White House as personal physician to President Harding. Through this assignment to active duty Dr. Sawyer will be able to draw the pay and allowances of a brigadier general of the army. The pay amounts to $6,000 a year and the allowances, which are for quarters, light and fuel, will increase his emoluments to $7,512.

Veteran Coughs Up Bullet That Entered

His Eye 58 Years Ago.

W. V. Meadows, 78, a veteran of the Civil War, who was shot in the eye at the battle of Vicksburg, July 1, 1863, on March 22, 1921, coughed out the bullet and is in his usual good health, despite the fact that he had carried the slug, weighing approximately one ounce, in his head for 58 years. Mr. Meadows was a member of Company G, 37th Alabama Infantry.

Swat the Fly.

Austin, Texas, March 26.-The Texas State Board of Health has opened its annual campaign against the fly, according to Dr. M. M. Carrick, State Health Officer. Dr. Carrick offers the following spring jingles as the opening gun: A mild and gentle winter and a warm and early spring

Means the coming of the enemy whose danger we would sing;

It's that disconcerting animule, that everlasting fly

We must swat the plague-goned creature, or lots of us may die.

If you want to rid your household of the death-befriending pest,

Clean up all his breeding places, leave no place for him to rest;

For the filthiest of creatures is the filthy breeding fly,

And we've got to swat the creature, or lots of us will die.

If you've got a dirty stable, buy yourself chloride of lime,

Sprinkle it around the premises, be sure to start in time;

Keep manure in covered boxes, and remove it from the fly,

For we've got to swat the creature, or lots of us may die.

Take a peep around your kitchen, is your garbage covered up?

Open pails are breeding places; furnish meals for him to sup; You can keep the dirty enemy away

if you'll but try,

For we've got to swat that creature, or some of us may die.

After taking these precautions, one last word we have to say, Arm your family with a swatter, swat the creature all the day.

Stalk him up and down the country, this death-delivering fly, For we've got to swat the creature, or lots of us may die!

EXACTLY.

Professor (to his class in surgery)— "The right leg of the patient, as you see, is shorter than the left, in consequence of which he limps. Now what would you do in a case of that kind?" Bright Student.-"I'd limp too."

IT'S FAILURE.

his mount, which was ailing. Two hours afterward the recruit ran into the vet's little office with face white as chalk.

“Oh, doctor, I am bad; the powder's nearly killed me!"

"The powder?" asked the doctor.

have a soporific effect?''

Patient. "No, doctor; it only put me to sleep."

tube and put one end in the horse's mouth, and then blow hard? I didn't tell you to take it!"

"Well, doctor," replied the victim, "I did put the powder in the tube, and then placed one end in its mouth and one in mine."

"Well?"

"The blooming horse blowed first, sir."

SHE KNEW A GOOD THING During a dangerous epidemic in a small Western town every infected house was put under quarantine. After the

disease had been checked the health officers were taking down the quarantine signs, when an old negress protested.

"Why, auntie," said an officer, "don't you want me to take that sign down?"

"Well, sah," was the reply, "dey ain' be'n a bill collectah neah dis house since dat sign went up. You all let it alone."