WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12,
1929.
MALARIA FEVER
Relation To Man And Mosquito
MAGNITUDE OF PROBLEM
The following is the second instalment of lecture on "Malaria in Its Relation to Man and Mosquito," by Dr. A. B. Wellington, Director of Medical and Sanitary Services:---
Malaria in the tropics, causes more sickness, more invaliding and more deaths than all other diseases pat together,
It causes a high death rate and low birth rate.
It is the chief reason why such large tracts of fertile land in the tropies remain sparsely populated and undeveloped.
It is probably the chief of the factors which has decided the dif- ference
between in population Java and the Federated Malay States, Java with its 40 million, the. F.M.S. with its 1 million.
Malaria тоге than anything else frustrated the efforts of the
French to cut a canal through Panama.. After 8 years the com- pany went into liquidation with bond
and share indebtedness roughly estimated at 70 million pounds sterling.. Alany hundreds and the of lives had been lost canat was only one-fifth through. Valuable plant estimated at 6 mil- lion pounds was left to rust in the jungle.
The Americans made a success where the French had failed be- cause American sanitary officers headed by Gorgas and backed by President Roosevelt made it pos sible for the engineers to carry out their great tash.
If Men Were Slaves, It men
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QUEEN'S
"RILEY THE COP"
The new Fox films, "Riley the Cop," directed by John Ford, will be seen for the last time at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
Starring J. Farrell MacDonald as Riley," the picture is full of laughable situations. Taking as his motto "4 good policeman is one who doesn't make any arrests," "Riley" consequently is very popular.
Excitement is provided for by David areas as much as 30 grains a day Rollins who, as "Smith," is alleged to may be necessary. Strong mind-have absconded to Europe with 35,000 ed individuals may take 30 grains from a shop where he was employed a day for a lime but the symp. "Riley" is selected to bring the thier to justice, and comical situations are toms are so severe that fex will
worked up with realistic effects.
"Riley" keep it up Eur long.
nieets "Lena"
Louise Fazenda), a beer garden waitress, and were slaves, and fully the picture ends with a double wedding
Sam Ku West under control, quininisation might
Sam Ku West and his Paradise succeed in eradicating malaria. Harmony Trio delighted the audience But while ming is free and ob- with an entire change of prograunie jects to having his tissues pol-ed with Sam Ku West and the Ilar which consisted of 12 items. It open soned by the drug. eradication
mony Boys singing the "Song of even in small areas is impossible, Hawaii." Tom and Gerry, the Ukelele Brothers, sang "Blue Heaven" all that can be hoped for is a
and were loudly applauded. lowering of incidence.
Displaying his skill on the harp Sam Ku West rendered the "Song of the Volga Beatinan."
Breaking the chain of sequence. The chain of sequence can be hioken (e) by placing the kuman outside the range of light of the mosquito between sunset and sun- rise; (b) by screening the human during the same period.
The withdrawal of humang has proved effective in many cases. On certain estates in America it has been found more economical to house the labour force a couple of miles distant from the anopheri line breeding grounds and ar- range for their transport than to deal
with breeding places Dr
screen the houses.
When the Kuala Lumpur water works were being constructed the
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Mortality in India Ross in his "Prevention of Malaria" states that the mean an- nual death rate for the whole of India is 5. per 1,000, and that it kills 1,130,000 persons per year. or more than the mortality of Plague at its height, or of that of cholera and dysentery combined.
The deathe
spot. fevers in from Malaya were in 1921 over 17,000 and the death rate was over 13
per
The 1,000.
economic loss reckoned in money amounts to millions of dollars per year.
But malaria is not confined to the tropics. It is prevalent in many semi-tropical lands and in many temperate countries. [21 Mesopotamia, Greece, Italy, the Balkans, America, etc., etc. Until a quite recent period there was malaria in England. In Dickens' Great Expectations the convict who was released by the hero of the novel was suffering from the divense contracted from the marshes. James the First of Eng- land and Oliver Cromwell are said to have died of malaria, The de- cline of Greece and Rome is at tributed by some to malaria, cer- tain it is that there are ruins of cities in localities where it would BOW be impossible for large bodies of people to exist.
The Eradication of Malaria There are three essential fac- the spread of tors concerned in malaria, viz. : the mosquita, the parasite, and the human, and if either of these factors be elimin- ated or if the chain of sequence of man to mosquito and mosquito
to man be broken it is inpussible for the disease to spread.
In attempts to control malaria the following methods have been tried:-(1) destruction of the parasite. (2) breaking the chain of sequence by placing a barrier or pet between man and mosquito during the feading hours of the insect; (3) elimination of the mos- quito carrier.
Destruction of the parasites. —- The parasite has only been found in the human and in
the mos-
Sam Ku West and his company will! give their final performance to-day.
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coolies were first housed on the
The many poels newly turned earth soon became thickly populated with maculatus larvae and malaria became epi- demic. The coalie lines at the works were abandoned and the labour force was housed two miles away; the resuits were excellent. I may mention that time changed conditions at the works, the ano-
disappeared. and phelines
now ccolies are residing there keeping Free from fever
The Biting Period ་་ As anophelínes normally bite only between sunset and sunrise
CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN malaria in any district would be
TO JAVA erudicated if all bumaus remain- ed behind screens during the feed-
Mr. G. M. Park of the Asiatic But as ing hours of the insect.
Petroleum Co., Bangkok, has gone humans will not go behind screens on home leave.
sunset. therefore complete eradication by this method is im
but possible. Screening helps not a complete solution of the difficulty.
is
Theoretically screena should be
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The wedding has taken place at All Saints Church, Tientsin, of Captain Vivian Dickinson Hamlin Bidwell, son of Mr. Guy D. E. Bid- well, of Wm. Forbes & Co., and Miss Bernice Frances Rhoda Thomas, daughter of Mr. F. Thomas, managing director of the Breslin, Griffit: Carpet Co.
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The wedding took place at St. George's Church, Penang, of Mr. R. F. Mallard, Assistant Super- On a recent Saturday night five intendent of Police, Singapore, armed men entered a house in formerly stationed at Penang, and IN OTHER PLACES Mohawk Road, Shanghai, while a Miss C. Blagg, daughter of Mr. and birthday party was in progress and Mrs. Samuel Blagg, of Sutton, Che- after intimidating 30 persons, stole shire. The Rev. Keppel Garnier $10. Sinza detectives were in- officiated and the bride, who was formed of the affair and next day given away by Mr. H. Parry, was arrested six persons, some of whom attended by Mrs. Parry, her sister, are alleged to have taken part.
as matron of honour. The Misses Diana Parry and Anne Grant were After 40 years in the foreign flowergirls and Master Peter Mans Mr. Roger S. Greene, vice-pre-service of the German Government, and Gordon Dick were pageboys. sident for the Far East of the seven of which have been spent in Mr. R. M. Fry, Assistant Super- Rockefeller Foundation, bas Shanghai, Consul-General, Mr. intendent of Police, Panang, was turned to Peking after having been Fritz Thiel, has retired from active bestman. A reception was held several months in the United States. duty and is returning to Germany at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. where he will live in retirement Parry. The honeymoon is being at Munich,
spent at Fraser's Hill.
dowa during the day time and put up at sun-down Experience has
During a recent week-end the shown that the human cannot be Shanghai Municipal police arrested Lrusted to close the screens in C2 persons, of whom the Finger- time-the mosquito geta there print Department identified 23 as
first. The best results from fixed screens--with openings as possible.
are go
as few
having been in custody before.
Fever patients being foci fordon recently, of Mr. G. E. Goolden,
The wedding took place in Lon-] the infection of the mosquito late of the Shanghai Municipal should be kept behind screens
Electricity Department to Miss until they cease to be infections.
Peggy Lovell, formerly well-known The more comfortable conci- tions behind the screens are the
in Shanghai.
more likelihood is there of screens being used. Often the difference between the inside and outside of has fixed
It is stated that Mr. R. Crichton up a studio in Chelsea,
a een is the difference between and is taking up portrait painting. comfort and discomfort.
Mr. Crichton painted striking land- scapes for the Amateur Art Club
Effective Meshes
The larger the mesh the less exhibitions when he was in Malay.
and three
SVOTEN, Police,
will the screen obstruct air cur
Eight men quito. There may be a free- rents.
A mesh of 18 strands to living stage but no one has ever the inch will keep
arrested by the French out all mos- scen it. we assume it does not quitues a mest of 12 atrands to Shanghai, on a charge of being exist.
the inch will keep out the vast pirates who usually operate on the majority. In Java and Sumatra Tahu Lake, have been handed over to the Chinese authorities to be and America 12 strand meshes are common and they are effective. dealt with. The majority of bed curtains
Poison the Parasites Leaving out of consideration the killing of a few malaria in- fected mosquitoes, the only means
we have of destroying the para- used in Malaya are between 10 At St. George's Church, Penang, sites is the poisoning of them in and 12 when stretched and they the wedding took place of Mr. and the human body by administration have been proved to be effective Cornwell Glencoe, of Johore of quinine. Quinine is a poison in keeping out mosquitoes.
Miss Ethel Stanley, sister of Mr. which has more effect on the para-
Governinent The effective screening of coolie F. Stanley, of the
site than it has on the cells of lines is a possibility but strict Monopolies, Penang. A reception the human. If one takes enough discipline is necessary to ensure was held at Runnymede Hotel.
By screening it is possible
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Watson have theoretically to keep a crowd free left Bangkok. Mr. Watson, who has from malaria, but by such screen-been a legal adviser there for the ing as is practical it is only pos- past 25 years, le going on leave, sible to keep individuals healthy.
after which he retires upon persion They are paying a visit to
of the drug one can sterilize the success. tissues of malaria but in poison- ing the para..ites one partially poisons the body. The more para- sites there are in the human the more quirine is required to kill them. Quinine taken prophylac tically will become scattered through the body before it is
(To be Continued.)
thrown out by the kidneyž JAPAN AND RUSSIA
It
stands to reason that, provided there is a sufficient concentration,. any parasite injected by a mos- quito will be killed before it has time to get into a corpuscle and multiply. It also stands to reason that the fewer parasites there are injected, the less quinine is re- quired to kill them.
Quinine taken it small doses (grs. 5-10) may keep off fever in mildly malarious places but in highly infected regions the results of prophylactic quialnisation have beh disappointing. In epidemic
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Tokyo, June 3.
tralia on their way to England.
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Whilst conducting a search ơn board a steamer lying alongside the Ta Ta Warf in Nantao on a recent Sunday morning, saye the Chinese press, members of the Bureau of Public Safety passed what appeared It is believed that prior to his to be a bag of rice in the col departure for Moscow, the Japanese house. One of the policemen Ambassador, Mr. T. Tanaka, was struck this with his baton and wat instructed by the Prime Minister to surprised to find that something take up a more conciliatory attitude hard was concealed Inside. Ac towards the Soviet. Japan will cordingly, the rice was emptied out probably act in a friendly spirit re-and several pistols and a large garding settlement of the fisheries quantity of ammunition were found. dispute and the conclusion of a com- The ship's cook was arrested and mercial treaty Nichi-Nichi. taken to headquarters.
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