Show POSSIBLE SPREAD OF YELLOW FEVER experts foresee danger from airplanes A new aviation peril aid to be sensational in its possibilities came up for discussion at the annual ci ference of the british medical association sir malcolm atson billed attention to the likelihood klinot the certainty of aa yellow fever from west to I 1 ast af rica if that happened he claimed there was nothing to prevent it from spreading to i from completely paralyzing itself other physicians at the conference undertook to show how airplanes might be the me ins of propagating plague cholera small pox and and S deore buchanan stated that as there was a possibility of aircraft introducing new types of influenza and cerebra spinal meningitis into I 1 angland the subject was engaging the attention f both hie air ministry nal the ministry of herlth tor himself he regarded it as an important matter requiring measures in the yellow fever zones to prevent the spread of the disease almost simultaneously with these deliver ances though without adv sort of connection with them came an article in the I 1 ondon times set ting forth facts regarding lie trans mission of cholera over the world after its appearance ai calcutti al cutti in 1817 and asserting thai bv it had become certain that no country was secure against the inroads of the disease appearing successively at bombay and madras it reached ceylon in 1819 and spread theme and from india over eastern asia and thu islands of the indian ocean by 1823 syria was reached and curole threatened it disappeared from turkey but began to push north and west again after ravaging persia and the lands south of the caucasus in rus sla more than human beings died as the result in cairo and alex andria were swept away in 24 lays and the alarm in great brit nin increased enormously in june 1831 when I 1 on donera received the news that the ceolen hid reached kiga where or sail of ans elsh vessels loaded chiefly with hemp and lax were waiting to come to 1 angland it was then after an or der had been issued for the guiran lining all ships from the baltic eliat the plague established itself in I 1 angland for the arst time et all through that period begin ning with 1817 there were none of our modern airplanes in existence and no possibility of the cholera being cairned by them are they in any way specially fitted for the con chance of contagious diseases disi ases for stimulating to special precautions and for thus alarming the world must it not be assumed tint there Is a like risk in the to and fro trips of our ocean steamers and sailing vessels that hive been so long con centing the continents the latter for many centuries past introduced disease whether imported by air plane or Is dangerous in any case all Is to prevent such im port atlon far as tint can be done but especially to continue the fight against disease in till he countries which are affect ed or sene as its breeding ground so that there will be as little as possible of it to export and this Is the task at which the scientists and the physicians are working in their campaign against that enem of man the poison ml chobe |