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Show NEW FOOD TEST IMPORTANT ONE Atlanta, Cja., Jan. 2. Discovery of a test whereby It is possible to as certain if a person had eaten contaminated con-taminated food, was yesterday an nounced by Dr Charles W. Stiles, United Uni-ted States public health service, In an address before the zoology section sec-tion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Stiles said he considered the discover of more importance than that which revealed the hcok-worm as "the germ of laziness " "Thus far." Dr. Stiles said, "the direct agency of the fly in the contamination con-tamination of food can be demonstra ted in any community. Anywhere that the fly exists this test can be applied to warn the people against the insect's menace. While the test itself has no medical value. It affords a simple but convincing demonstration demonstra-tion which cannot be ignored." Fake Radium Cures. Warning against "fake radium cancer can-cer cures" was voiced by Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, chief chemist of the department de-partment of agriculture, in his address ad-dress to the chemistry section of the association. He said that because of the wonderful cures effected Dy application ap-plication to cancer of the radium, "Gamma" rays, there had sprqng up a host of imposters and quacks who are foisting alleged cures on the I public under the misrepresentation I that they contained radium. "Since there now are leas than two grams of radium in the United States, and it is valued at $120,000 a gram, these claims scarcely are plausible." , Real Cancer Curei. Results accomplished in curing cancer can-cer through the use of radium were described by Dr. Charles L. Parsons, chief of the department of minerolo-gy minerolo-gy in the government bureau of mines. He exhibited a number of photographs showing the results of radium treatment treat-ment for cancer. Lack of co-operation between mine owners and miners and deficit state and national regulations of the mln ing industry were blamed for the hign death rate among mine employee by Dr Joseph A. Holmes, director of the United States bureau of mines, in aa address before the mechanical sclenw and engineering section. "The death rate among miners,' said Dr Holmes, "is a national disgrace. dis-grace. It is twice to three times that of European mining countries. We have not made the progress we should have made. During 1913 we have (L taken a decided step backward. The Jl death rate in our coal mines during 1913 probably Is 15 per cent greater ij than that of 1912. Let us hope thle M going backward is temporary. If it continues the country" will soon sec legislation more drastic than we have yet believed possible." t oo |