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Rheumatic Diseases ACCORDING to the Empire Cause Tremendous Rheumatism Council, Loss in Industry . . 3,000,000 weeks of work are lost every year in industry by the insured population alone as a result of rheumatic diseases, and the most crippling form of these is rheumatoid arthritis. In the effort to cape with this, a full-scale survey of 1,000 cases is being carried out in the hope of pointing the way to a cure. An interesting point is that the Council is always available to industry for advice on the best measures that can be taken to lessen the liability of workers to these afflictions. Incidentally, the continuance and expansion of the Council's work depend entirely on the goodwill of supporters in industry and elsewhere. Therefore, contributions to it are in the nature of *24
"business philanthropy." Any further information required is available from the Council at 5, New Court, Lincoln's Inn, London, W.C.2.
A Police Van Which A MOTORVAN'S unusual Served as a "Mouse" r-s.role in aiding the law was Trap described recently during a
gaming prosecution at Leeds. It was stated that when the police raided a " headsand-tails " gaming school operating in a yard at an old steel works, they cordoned off the yard but left one way out—an "escape hole" in a wall. Fehind this hole was placed a police van, and when the gamblers took a chance and tumbled out in a bid to escape, they went straight into the vehicle.
Why Our Technical THE Post Office has "blown Journals are Difficult the gaff" regarding the to Obtain Government's use of paper, as shown by leaflets and booklets -issued through this department. Prior to the introduction of the Health Services, it distributed 14,000,000 family guides, 12,000,000 on Health Insurance, nearly 5,000,000 forms for registration, 15,000,000 for registering with doctors, 2,000,000 on pensions and 4,500,000 other ntw or revised forms in connection with National Insurance. During the past year fuel-economy leaflets accounted for another 14,000,000, basic-petrol ration books 2800,000, applications for post-war credits 4,000,000, for tobacco tokens the same number, Road-Fund forms
900,000, National Saving Greeting Cards 1,000,000, and many others, including posters. All these issues are apart from paper supplied in the normal way as stamps, postal orders, etc.
Weight and Cost IN many machines consider Saving in an Air able savings can sometimes
Compressor be effected in both weight and cost. As an example, an aircompressor weighing 151 lb. in cast iron was replaced by welded sheet steel weighing 23 lb., at a saving of 54 per cent of the normal cost. In addition, the need for patterns and heavy jigs was obviated, freight charges were reduced because of the smaller size of the base, and painting and finishing were less costly.