PAGE TWO THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY DECEMBER 6, 1980 INTERESTING WEST INDIAN NEWS BARBADOS The Rapid Spread of Pellagra Serious Problem for Responsible Authorities I K!
ToDAY, JAMAICA Heavy Damage By Co. Building West End rire la Sugar Refinery The Early tours in Llarendon.
UM The Royal Bank of Canada 07 The Gleaner of the 22nd ulte The Gleaner understand that sys large quantity or machinery for the The west end of Kingston wa!
sugar refinery which in the stried out of its slumber, betweer cour oferection at Moneymusk half past twelve and one o clock thi Estate, in Vere, by the United Frui.
morning by a fire which broke ou Company, arrived in the island on in the West End Aerated Water Priday last from the United States Company premises at the corner of America on board the Cad Water Lane and Darling Strees ma and which almost completely guttec The machinery was landed at the whole building, doing damage to Salt River and transferred shortly the extent of about thousand afterwards to Moneymusk Estate, pounds as near as could be ascertain and the work of assembling the new ed.
parts was commenced almost imm The fire was discovered in the diately, fuctory itself and it quickly pread The building of the factory is until practically the whole of the ing ahead with macked rapidisy, and car portion of the premises were is expected that it will be in ope mass of flames, the spirits and ration by the 14th of next month.
native wines which were on the press to be in ume for the coming me flaring up rapidly. Barrels of sugar crop.
spirit burst and the bruning fluid flowed all over the sidewalks and PACTORY CAPACITY the road.
As stated in the Cleaner, the re Linery will have capacity of 76 to The Fire Brigade were soon 80 tons per day, which will be tar the soene of the outbreak and after more than sufficient to manufacture nearly two hours strenuous work the whole of the refined sugar managed to subdue the flames. By present used in the island. The pre that time the bottling part of the sent consumption is about 2, 000 factory had been completely destroy tons per annum, all of which has ed together with all the contents.
to be imported; but, as the Compa Shortly after the brigade arrived ny refinery will be able to put it the fire spread to the front store oat at a lower price than the import part of the premises but this was ed article can be sold for, it is a soon put out before great deal of pected that the consumption for de damage had been done except by (Continued on Page 1)
water. The roof here was partly turnt. The brigade had to tear dowr outbreak are premises owned by the side walls of building in Messrs. Fred Myers and Son Darling Street in order to more et which are used rum warehour effectively cope with the outbreak and in which is stored large quan and the zinc sheets the room tity of rum ready for shipmen which fell in, had to be hauled inte abroad. To the wast of the factory th street in order to get at the hear of the fire which was burning fierce which were all occupied, and imme there is row of tenement houses 17 amongst the barrels of wine and dately the fire broke out the secu spirits. The Brigade, however, ur ur. panta started to move their belong der the direction of Mr. Graham ings. Fortunately, the fire did not do managed to prevent the spread of any damage to these. The range of the flamed to adjoining premises buildings at the corner of Water which was indeed fortunate.
Lane and Darling Street were als Immediately to the north of the saved.
IODO Dr. Leo Pink Surgeon the lure of easy profits induces many to run the risk of financial disaster to morrow, the vision of The comparatively rapid spread tural labourers and small holders of pellagra, which is noted in the and it is a sound economy for planı wealth may be rudely shattered.
official report of the Parochial Med ation owners to every means is What will the future hold for ical officer of Christ Church, will their power to improve the living provide food for serious thought to conditions and to raise the powers you? a comfortable balance in the those who are responsible for the of resistance among their labourer: Bank or vain regrets for hasty action.
administration of the Poor Law To this end greater attention shoule says the Barbados Advocate editor be given to the growing and distri ally. Fortunately, it is not whollybution of local food crops. Former You will like banking a matter of poverty, though the ly labourer on a plantation enjoy at the Royal.
Der Homic crisis is pressing hardly or and certain facilities, in the way of the working classes and the inabil obtaining regular supplies of pulse ity to procure a sufficient and sub and vegetables, which are no longer antial diet opens the door to this universally accorded. The increas and other diseases which attack in the use of imported foods of debilitated constitution. Medical opir inferior quality is a further mena.
ion now inclines to the view that pel to the health of this class and lagra is caused not so much byar cannot too strongly insist upon th insufficiency of food ag by lack necessity for the foreing importer of balacen in diet, though there are and retailers to observe the prov also grounds for believing that it sions of the Food and Drugs Act.
may be protozoal in origin and may There can be little doubt that a cor he communicated by sand flies. The siderable amount of the foodstuffs lack of cer sin vitalizing properties sold and consumed among the labour 3001 in diet, however, appear to be the ing population is unfit for human nin cause and Sir John Phillip, consumption and the revealing die Panama Branch Herman, Manager (Santa Ana Plasa)
certainly inelines to the opinion that closures of the recent prosecutions Colon Branch Groach, Manager something is lacking in the ordinary for the sale of inferior teas and (Corner 11th and Bolivar St. diet of the agricultural labourer COCOM should stir the police to ever Nor to our minds can there be any greater activity. further need is real doubt as to the accuracy of supply of good clean milk and it this opinton. Recent research on the is to be regretted that the milk cor OPO OBO 1000 value of the various vitamines has sumption among the labouring clasz emphasized the necessity for fresh es is 30 low When once the rather than stale or preserved foods menace is realised and the causes and for an admixture of fruit and are known, it will not be a task of vegetables.
insuperable difficulty to take step: Dentist Unfortunately, the stable diet of to cut the advance of this disease our working classes is lacking in Sir John Phillips has sounded a ne Variety, consisting mainly of rice, cessary note of warning and it I 23 Central Avenue Panama City.
maize and salted fish. The increase for the central government, the in the dence of the disease how parochial authorities and the plant: Phone 1862. Box 1062 Ancon, ever, calls for careful observation on tion owners to cooperate in so im the part of our parochial medical of proving the health conditions and Professional Services in all Branches of Dental Works ficers and should be an incentive to in raising the standard of living some of our younger practioners te among the labouring population carry out some research work. The that pellagra and other diseases Office Hours to 12, to Sundays by Appointment actual treatment of the disease is which are unnecessarily prevalen full of difficulties, inasmuch as the may be checked. The preservation o ODOL 100D COC ODO cases are rarely seen in the early the health and strength of the mar stages, and the march of the disease with the hoe is more essential for in rapid. The most hopeful line of the maintenance of cultivation that ottack is by teaching our working easy facilities for finance, and it repulation the value of a balanced is not sufficient simply to keep him diet and by taking ateps to see that in a contented frame of mind they can easily obtain it. For at the Srong, healthy working men and present time, either owing to ignor women are the greatest asset any ance of their value or from an in community can have and no stone ability to obtain them, our labouring should be left unturned to maintain population does not make full use The greatest asset of this island. Discussing the Imperial Canning of the nutritious vegetables and Industry, in its issue of the 29th groens which can be easily growr ult. the Daily Chronicle, of De in this isand. Poverty, of course, is merara, says, interalia. one of the efficient causes and the spread of the disease is a fair index An interesting situation has of a canning industry for British of the lower standards of living arisen in Barbados in connexior Guiana are exceptionally great which now prevail, but even pooter with the sugar crisis. As announced Every year hundreds of tons of man communities than our own, pellagra in last issue the Minority Report of gues are virtually wasted because is praetically unknown because the the Joint Committee of the Legisla Writing editorially the voice of we have no canning industry. Then diet is more naturally balanced. tive Council and the House of A: too, there are the possibilities of the 1st ulto says: Although the disease is not yet rombly, appointed to recommen canning gurvas, pears, oranges, and Like the recurring ecimal we epidemie, it behoves us for the good measured for the amelioration of even fried plantains. Professor return to the subject of an Industrial of the whole community to take im the sugar industry, was adopted by Dash, on his return from Canada School or Reformatory or any other mediate steps to check its spread the House of Assembly in Commit few months ago, announced that he name one can think of.
The wealth of this community de 120 by the casting vote of the Chair had ordered canning machinery in pends to a large extent upon Several years have the man of Committees. rder to give a start to such ar passed intc health and well being of the agricu)
eternity since firs appeared in (Continued on page 7)
industry in the Colony, but up to the these columns the suggestion tha present we have heard nothing of Government should take some steps the progress of his experiments ir to train the boys and girls of ou this direction. The Daily Chronicle, island in the way that they should however, has from time to time go and model them into useful tax given publicity to the efforts made paying citizens instead of allowing by private individuals towards the them to grow into sources of danger establishment of canning industry to the community and becoming Messrs. Hawker, Coldrags on the revenue of the Colony ling and De Caires have all made Some time ago experimental we suggested shipments of canned that Reunion Estate should be sok fruits and vegetables, and so far as and the money obtained be utilised we can lear, it is only the absener in establishing an Industrial Schoo of capital that has prevented them We suggested to the Administratior from embarking on a large scale that the Imperial Government That is where the necessity for ce should be asked to hand the three Lot operative effort comes in. Although large barracks situated on the east there is no agricultural bank in ern end of the Morne to the local (Continued on Pam Continued on Page 7)
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