Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-03
Government Asked For Subsidy Similar
to That Given Scotland.
QUEER CASE OF SPREADING coNTAGION
Dirhtheria Communicated In school
ny Means of Lead Pencils Used
In Common by the In
fant Glasses.

DUBLIN. June 2-(special Cablegram
10 The Bee AT the last meeting
" the council OF the Dublin In
iustria1 Development association W.
j. BrapaEan, the secretary, Informed
he council that he had communica tion
from william Hayden. who has been com
uissioned by Mr. Hegarty of Boston TO
form company for the establishment of
a boot factory on American lines in
Dublin Mr.. Hayden informed him that
he had already secured substantial sup
port from many people, and he had not
he least doubt that II would be success
,ui. The council expressed the opinion
and the hope that the industry, when
started, would be successful.
In q return Just issued by the Depart
ment OF Agriculture and Technical In
struction for Ireland some interesting sta
tistics concerning banking and railways
N ireland are given.
According TO this the deposits and cash
balances in the joint stock banks at the
lose OF December 1906, stood at $227 OOOo0
~ compared with $3.50 900 900 for the corre-
spending period in the year 1904. The
amount of deposits and cash balances.
which are compared by half years, show
an increase in December over the figures
In June.
Increase I'm savings Deposits.
On December 81 last the estimated bal
ancHs in the Postofice Savings bank in
Ireland amounted to S5o,OoO,OOO as compared
with sfsO00,0OO in 1904 The accumulation
Of deposits in the Postoffice Savings bank
show a steady increase in each half year.
In each year since 1884 there has been
an increase, ana the balance in savings
p ereble the amount to the credit Of de-
positorn at the close Of the year 1886, the
nrrt year for which statistics are given
The total OF the balances in the savings
banks is the highest amount of which there
II A record The number of depository has
more. than trebled in the course Of twenty
years, .s.tl.tt4
The statistics OF the agricultural credit
societies IN ireland for the year 1904 show
that these societies then numbered 200, OF
which iso were returned as working as
compared with 142 returned as working In
Isos The membership Of the credit So
eieties in 1905 reached the number Of l,2S7
az compared with 7.si7 In December. 1903.
The weekly railway trafiic returns show
that the total receipts for the hfty-two
weeks Of 1906 amounted to, Hs.75o.oOo. a
decrease Of per cent as compared with
the amount received in the preceding year.
Subsidy for Fisheries.
At a meeting recently held at the Cork
County Council an important resolution
was passed on the motion of Mr.. ONeill
and directed to be sent 10 the chief sec
retary The resolution demanded a spe-
cial fsheries department. and for Irish nst
the same right to distinctive government
brand that had already been accorded tc
Scotland Timothy sheehy seconded th'
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advantages offered TO Scotland and thu
consequent enormous development Of tbs
deep sea fisheries "They would md out,
ne said, that for the space OF twenty
one years after the establishment OF thu
scotch Fishery board. the governmen
subsidized the fsheries OF that countr!
10 the extent OF nearly 100000. with tn
result that while the Scotch fisheries EN-
pioyed at the present time about 1900
people, the Irish fishery industry gave EN-
ployInent to only 5000, Many deserte,
distrlct along the Irish seaboerd would b
alive with an industrious population o
nshern.sn II the same fair play and assist
ance was meted out by the government t
their fsheries,"
LeadpenciIs spread Disease.
very curious question came up at tn
Meriohethshirs education committee a
the County hall. Bala, recently. 1t con
cerned case Of alleged injection throuE
the use Of leadpenclls in the Festinio
district. il appeared that a communics
tioh had been received from the clerk Q
the Festiniog Urban district council OF
closing q copy Of their medical offieer'
report. in which IL was recommended,
order TO check the prevalence OF dipi
theria IN that district that the use q
metal handled pencils should be resorte
to instead OF lead pencils, The repoi
contained the following passages: 'Th
following are the most important fac'
as bearing directly upon the cause OF ii
disease ldiphthertll: tl) Sand trays an
wooden pencils are being used In the IL
fanrs department OF the Fsstiniog school,
ta) these are used exclusively in Il
babies class rooms; I3) the wooden pei
ellis and lead pencils used in the scho
bear undoubted marks Of teeth; q
though the majority cases are not fro
the infunts' school. yet the three fat
cases were children from this department
(b) the three fatal cases were from q
babies class OF the infants school; q
sand trays and wooden pencils were E.
clnsiveiy used In the babies class OF Il
infants school: Cd the last fatal cas-
e boy years OF aSe) was In the scho
on the aeth OF the month, and he died ,
the 18th from heart failure as a compile
tion Of malignant form os diphtheria; {
Tits Ifttis boy IN all probability attend
school on tbs goth. he at the time sune
ing from diphtheriA
II ia worth noting, also, that the me-
cal ofnosr sreooamendod that the who
school should be fumigated and thC
ouehly dislnfected. and the wallis a
desks cleaned. and that the county educ
tion committee "should havs the sa
trays and wooden peacils removed" 7
medical onacer also thought that ths
we're too many maps and diagrams. plat
and papers, 'lsft permanently on the va
allowing disease germs to propagate"
Ara Patroafssd IN Bslfast
same idea of the popularity of the 10
eeiiectian OF mOdarn pictures In Bsif'
mR7 b Eathsred from tha fAct that
eEhiAition Nas visited ~ is.ooo pars1