Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-11-16

statement of a Norseman. Il. Sandye.
who has settled on the islands and
writes to a Stavanger newspaper: THE
clover and timothy which sowed last
year have a splendid stand. and can be
compared with the best grown on the
Jaederen.s
Denmark.
A New York dispatch says that what
IL said to be the second ship to reach
the coast of AmeEca from Iceland
since the days OF Left Erikson. thou
sand years ago, arrived there recently,
when the steamer Godafoss laid up ut
the docks with cargo of hides and
herring. On board the vessel were also
81 Icelandic farmers, who will settle
In the Canadian Northwest.
As solution OF the housing problem
In Copenhagen, the city council has de-
cided to erect municipal tenements
that will house 1000 families.
III. Konow, an officer In the Danish
navy, has been appointed governor OF
the Danish West Indies.
Sweden.
According to Stockholm CORE
spondent, the scientists Of Sweden
have no greater success than American
scientists I'm solving the problem Of
how to prevent and cure infantile par
alysis. Their answer to the question
Ia. I'VE don't know" This answer liz
the more discouraging In view of the
fact that Sweden, almost alone among
European countries. has been repeat
eddy sconrged by the epidemic and, az
n result, has a number of physicians
| and psychologists who have devoted
| themselves for years almost exclusive
ly to the study Of the disease. Mo-
where else, except In the Rockefeller
institute Of New York, have such ex-
haustive investigations been made, and
the sum Of them ali Is the answer CIV
en- above. The disease first appeared
in Sweden--or, rather, was first accu-
rately diagnosed as such--in 1881.
Scattered cases appeared thereafter
from time to time, but the attention
of Swedish physicians generally was
first directed to the disease by the cpl.
demic of 1906, which brought some
fifteen hundred cases. Then came n
comparative lull, although the sue
ceeding years up TO 1911 brought an
other fifteen hundred cases. Investi.
cations into the nature Of the disease
and the manner Of Its transmission
were just well under way when the
great epidemic Of 1911-12-13 broke out,
with total Of almost ten thousand
cases for the three years, I'M appalling
total for a country with population
Of only about six million. The cpl
demic had a mortality OF 1870 per
cent, and 1000 of the patients who
recovered were famed, great proper.
ton permanently. The disease still Ia
epidemic In Sweden, but the number OF
cases had dropped to $40 In 1914. and
has since steadily decreased, although
word has just come Of the appearance
of about score Of cases In western
province. The disease reaches Its
highest curve In Sweden with children
about two years old, then drops rapid
ly and Is comparatively infrequent
above twenty-five years Of age, al.
though cases of sufferers as old as
forty-one have occurred. The country
districts have higher relative proper.
ton Of adult victims than the cities.
| I'm ba fret ami ,f the IL. 4,
Of former Premier Staaf OF Sweden
exercises were held at his grave under
the auspices Of the Liberal Minded
Association Of Sweden. A laurel
wreath, bearing this inscription was
placed on the grave: "To the Memory
Of Carl Staaf, the Champion and Lead
err Of the Liberal Minded Of Sweden"
A peculiar accident happened In the
harbor of Stockholm recently, when
the steamer Pauline, bound for Fin
land, capslzed, preclpitating the cargo
piled on the deck into the sea, along
with part Of the crew. Then the ship
righted itself and seemed none the
worse for the mIshap.
I'm 1911 man by the name Of Berg.
lund was murdered at Hedberg, In Lud-
vika. but until the present his muir
derer had not been discovered. Now
man by the name Of Granlund has
| confessed that he Is the guilty man.
Leading physicians In the different
Scandinavian countries have organ
| lied a Scandinavian medical associa-
ton for the advancement Of the pro-
| fession. The association will hold lts
first congress In Copenhagen next An
gust Finland Is also represented. The
Russian government has often pre-.
vented Finlanders from cooperating
with the other Scandtnaviaas i'm mu.
tuaI efforts. This time Russia seems
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