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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 17, 1918
Page
6
At the Northam Local Board of Health meeting Dr Rockett presented a monthly report noting eight diphtheria cases and one erysipelas in town, plus cases from Toodyay and districts. Typhoid case from Clackline. concerns raised over housing disrepair and sanitation. manure works odor noted with planned improvements.
A surgeon notes most appendicitis cases arise from internal factors rather than lodged stones. He cites Fowler who saw only three true foreign bodies in 2000 operations, with most cases caused by digestion disorders, rapid eating, poor chewing, and weak stomach and intestinal juice production.
For bronchial coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Dose listed as le 6d and 2s 9d. Product advertised as a medicinal remedy in old catalog.
Poem depicts soldiers returning from battle as death looms for others. The speaker contrasts grieving home fronts with a mobilized, hopeful force pressing toward duty beauty and life. Old comrades and foes meet in mutual recognition, confirming there is no death for those who endure.
The report states that bombing an Englishman in a raid from an aeroplane is the most expensive form of killing, with every death costing Germany just 5900 cents, a figure cited by officials at the Horse Guards.
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