Show POSSIBLE SPREAD OF YELLOW FEVER Experts Foresee Danger From Airplanes A new v a aviation peril said to be sensational In its possibilities came up for tor discussion at the annual conference conference conference con con- ference of the British Medical asso asso- elation Sir Malcolm Watson called attention to the likelihood almost the certainty of ot aircraft carrying yell yellow v fever from West to East Af Af- rica If It that happened happen d he claimed there was nothing to prevent It from spreading to Asia from completely paralyzing Itself Other physicians at the conference undertook to show how airplanes might be the means of propagating plague cholera smallpox smallpox small small- pox and typhus And Sir Geor George e Buchanan stated that as ns there wasa was was- a possibility of aircraft introducing new types of Influenza nn and cerebrospinal spInal meningitis Into England Englan the subject was engaging the attention of both the air all ministry and the ministry of ot health For himself he regarded It ns as an Important matter requiring measures in the tile yellow fever zones to prevent the spread of the disease Almost simultaneously with these dell though without any sort of ot connection with them came camean camean camean an article In the London Times setting set ting forth facts fads regarding the transmission trans mission of ot cholera over the world after Its appearance nt at Calcutta In 1817 an and asserting that by 1831 It had become certain that no country was secure against the Inroads of the disease Appearing successively at lit Bombay and Madras It reached Ceylon In 1810 and spread thence and from India over eastern Asia and the tho i Islands of the Indian ocean By 1823 Syria was reached and Europe threat threat- ened It disappeared from Turkey but began to push north and west again agnIn after ravaging Persia an and the lands south of the Caucasus In Russia Russa Russia Rus Rus- sia sa more than titan human beings died as ns the result In Cairo and Alexandria Alexandria Alex Alex- andria were swept away awny In 21 2 days An And the alarm In Great Britain Brit Brit- Britain ain aln Increased enormously ly In June 1831 when Londoners received the news vs that the cholera had reached renche Riga where or sail of English Eng Eng- fish lish vessels loaded chi chiefly cOy with hemp and flax were waiting to come to England It was then after an on order order or or- der er had been Issued for tor the tha quarantining quarantining of ot all ships from the Baltic that time the plague established itself In England for the first time Yet all nil through that period beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning with 1817 there were none of our modern airplanes In existence and no possibility of the cholera beIng being being be be- ing carried by my them Are they In any way specially fitted for the conveyance con con- conveyance vc ance of contagious diseases for stimulating to special lal precautions and for tor thus titus alarming the world Must it not be assumed that there Is a like risk In the to to fro and fro trips of ot our ocean steamers and sailing vessels that have ha been so long connecting connecting con con- the continents the latter for tor many centuries past Introduced disease whether Imported by airplane airplane air air- plane or steamer Is dangerous In any case The call Is to prevent such Importation Importation Im Im- so far as that can cnn be done but especially to continue the fight against disease In all ull the c countries which are affected or serve as ns Its breeding ground so that there will willbe willbe be as little as ns possible of It to export And this Is the task at which the scientists and the physicians are arc working In tl their campaign against th that t enemy of or man the poison polson mi ml- |