Lead poisoning in childhood has been reported mainly from Japan, France, the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. Attention is drawn in this paper to the incidence of lead intoxication in childhood in Ceylon, seen and diagnosed within the past three years. Whereas in past reports the principal mode of lead intoxication in childhood has been from ingestion, in the present series inhalati...

In 1996, a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)-a disease that causes lack of coordination, muscle twitching or jerking, dementia, and, eventually, death-suddenly appeared in Great Britain. It is believed that the victims contracted the disease from eating the beef of cattle stricken with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. As of December 1997, at least 25 peo...

Between 1945 and 1955, Austria, like Germany, was divided into four zones under the control of Soviet Union, United States America, Britain, France. This article discusses marriages between British “occupiers” Austrian “occupied” examining policies for contact from enactment non-fraternisation order until lifting marriage ban. It shows how were concluded despite bureaucratic legal obstacles exp...

One of the most important economic topics in every country is considering tax issues as a way of increasing the government's income through attracting public confidence by observing the principles of proceeding in the tax system of the country which might likely cause a national production boom, increase economic growth rate, reduce unemployment and the fair distribution of wealth. In this rega...