FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1930.
FIGHT TO CONTROL MALARIA
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definitely destructive to anopheling larvae, and especially to those of potentially mularious species. Figures supplied by Mr. Belgrave of the Agricultural De IMPORTANT PART PLAYED BY partment proved that almost all
SOIL,
A NEW FACTOR.
The condition of the soil as a contributing factor to the incidence of maluria was a point emphasised by Professor K. B. Williamson in an address delivered before the annual meeting of the British Medical Aa- sociation (Malayan branch) in Singapore.
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Malayan aafts,' on long standing
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Immediately. Completely furnished, even the coarsest species, such as A. A decree nisi was granted by The objection of Mr. Hugh- | garden___and tennis court. Apply vagus and A. kochi, which were non-Judge G. W. King, O.B.E., In the Jones to Mr. H. R. Butters, Assiat-Love, Bingham & Matthews, Charter- malarious under Malayan conditions. British supreme court on April 25 ant to the Secretariat for Chinese ed Bank Building. The presence of the ammonia was in the case in which Gertrude Gladys Affairs prosecuting in a case in an index of other, and probably more Hayward sought the annulment of which a Chinese woman named harmful agents, chemical and bac- her matrimonial bonds with Albert Ho Yee-ku living at 68, Laichikok terial.
Edward Hayward, of Lane, Craw-Road, is charged with ill-treating Practical Suggestions, ford and Company. A co-respondent, a mui tsai, seven years of age, "Rural Malaria in Malaya" was
Research on these lines had not an unnamed non-British woman, was had an amicable settlement in the the subject of the address, and the yet been applied to the control of cited, but was not legally represent Kowloon Magistracy this morning. speaker called attention to the fast malaria in Malaya, but the time for ed and the case proceeded with in
The matter was settled by Mr. that the death rate from fevers, this had now come. The speaker her absence.
Whyte-Smith. who entered the mainly of malarial origin, had de-offered the following practical sug Solicitor Reader' Harris appeared name of Mr. Butters on the charge creased by about 75 per cent. in the gestions, several of which he had for the petitioner, and in stating sheet, instond of the Hon. chief towns of the F.M.S., and by made before to the Malaria Advisory the case for his client referred to S.C.A. about 60 per cent. in those of the Board of the F.M.S., or 'in the pages the private detective work done by Straits Settlements, during the last of the Malayan Medical Journal:— F. J. Rishap, of the China credit (1) Drg-eropping rice follows, information and mercantile bureau, ten years; but that of the residual
The following programme will be populations, mainly rural, had not especially on hill valleys with a who, under Instructions from Mra.
Mr Butters said that on April broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong been appreciably reduced. The aura leguminous crop, which
would Hayward had trailed the defendant 26. he received information by Broadcasting Station ZB.W. on 355 of $120,000 bad been spent su rurai | directly earich the soil with nitrogen, and the co-respondent to the Forts letter as a result of which he in- notres:- anti-malarial work in Singapore and provide fodder for an increased hotel, Woosung, one Saturday after-structed Inspector Murphy to raid Island in 1928, although its area number of huffaloes. If the Malays woon, returning to Shanghai after 68 Laichikok Road. When the was only about 200 square miles. continued to let their land lie idle satisfying himself that there was officer arrived there, he entered Though part of this was, capital ex- and revert to pestilential marsh for sufficient evidence to enable the Indy the floor and saw the little girl, penditure the work went on from six months in the year. It would be to seek divorce from her husband, who pointed to the defendant as year to year; and at this rate if only come more and more difficult for When giving judgment, Judge chastiser. She also showed one-fifth of the 51,000 square miles them to justify their neglect in face King remarked that in divores enses the Police officer a few pieces of in Malaya needed protection, an im-of the country's Increasing need for in the future every endeavour must rope, with which she alleged the possible burden would be placed on home-grown food.
be made to establish the identity of defendant tied her up, while the the country's exchequer.
the co-respondent. because there was punishment was inflicted. no sense ir withholding the name of any party
divorce action that may have misbehaved.-China | Press.
(2) Keeping pigs in the vicinity of neopage areas where A. maculatus might otherwise be expected; and the deep-trenching of hill slopes, with sterilised night-soil, in order to intercept and pollute underground seepage, the latter being a purely experimental measure.
to a
OH, THOSE LEGS!
Pretty Ankles Cause Street Accidents.
OLD MAN TANTALISED.
The fair
Inspector M. J. Murphy, of the S.C.A., was also present and was the first witness called.
6-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-7.30 p.m.-Lesson in Canton-
by Rev, H. R. Wells, 7.30-9.89 p.m.-Programme of victor Records.
Serenade" (Les Millions d'Arlequin)
(R. Driro), "The Flower of Italy"
Birds" Charles Kellogg, "The Nature Singer." "Du Bist Die Ruh' (My Sweat Repose)" (Schubert, Op. 59, No. 8), "Die Loralai (The
Loreley)" (Franz Liszt),,
Sigrid Onegin. Contralto with Piano. "My Blue Heaven"
(G. Whiting-W. Donaldson), "The Song is Ended"
(Irving Berlin),
Jesse Crawford. Wurlitzor Organ.
(G. de Stefano)...Rossi Band. "Lo, Here the Gentle Lark" Even if the money were forth-
Medical Statement.
(Shakespeare-Sir Henry R. Blahop), "Swiss Echo Song" (Carl Eckert), coming anti-malarial work in most
Inspector Murphy accordingly
Marion Talley, villages could not be controlled from
treated the woman and had the "Alice Blue Gown" (Joseph McCarthy- sanitary headquarters, and the
girl immediately sent to the Kow-Beautiful Lady" (G. M. S. McLellan.
Harry-Tierney), trained personnel was not available.
loon Hospital, where Dr. J. T. Ivan Caryll) Many of the coolies employed on it
Smalley, medical officer-in-charge, son of Our Native Troubadours. would under these circumstances
examined her thoroughly. Не themselves die. Therefore, although Thus the health of the Malay
found recent contusion wounds. the work mentioned, taken in con- would be improved by the animal of
esta on her body, and bruises on junction with that in Penang, pró- his pride and election, namely the
her right thigh. Her left arm bably had no parulle! in the world, buffalo, the desire to provide food
showed an old fracture of the it could not be imitate over the for, which might be an incentive to
elbow, while the fingers of the country at large. Moreover at the him to cultivate his fallows; and
left hand were septic. The left present rate of deforestation some that, of the Tamil and the Chineas
wrist bore marks of having been thousands of square miles of highly by the pig, numbers of which, as
sex in Shanghal is bound by ropes. She also had a malarious country would be opened things were, having to be imported responsible for many street accid-cut on the upper lip, and abra- up within the next fifty years. yearly. I would be equally usefulents.
slons, Sayan veteran traffic officer Cheaper and automatically effec on rubber estates, where it would
The middle finger of the right "Sca Songs". tive means of prevention must be help to feed the coolies, at least the who, during many years in Shang-hand was fractured, and the first sought. Of these a general im- Chinese ones, or could be sold for a hai, has seen accidents come and finger septic. She also bore rope provement in agriculture which profit. Also rotting fish, entirely mostly come. The officer does marks round her right wrist.
that the ladies are al created wealth, while it Increased effective against mosquitoes in not any
When the woman was taken to health, held out most promise. This Krian, as well as food and manure, fault, but rather that they unwit-
the Police Station and charged was made evident historically both euld be derived at a trifling cost tingly cause many traffic mishapa,
she is alleged to have admitted in Europe and elsewhere. and it from fish panda. Rubber cultivation In his opinion, based on long frankly that, she had, beaten her possessed the advantage that the paid heavily for its one-sidedness. experience. trim feminine ankles mui tsal. people's standard of living was (3) Heavily manuring coco-nut and short skirts rehult in accidents ralaed, their housing improved, and groves, as well as directly polluting as well as caroless and reckless their ability to resist disease in the ditches in them, in which A vehicle drivers, rikisha coolies, and creased. But the alleged causes of umbrosus breeds. This could best others. the accompanying decrease ube done in connection with an asso- malaria were not equal to explaining (ciated animal industry such as the officer. "is far better than it was it. To do so we must consider the raising of poultry, or Ash, the pun few years back when short and skirts firal became fashionable. changes occurring in the soil; and it gent. Mubstituted ammonia was of interest to recall that sotilera other bacterial products of decaying But there are still many hundreds In the prairies of America attributed fah probably being peculiarly effec-of the sterner sex who have no their acquired freedom from malarlative larvicides.
aversion to following with their
·
The situation," said the traffic
After evidence was taken, the ease was adjourned.
ALLEGED FRAUDS.
Goods Obtained on Credit.
OVER $10,000 INVOLVED.
Victor Male Chorus (Male Chorus with Orchestra), "Louise-Berceuse" (Charpentier), "Jongleur De Notre Dame-Legende De La Saugo (The Juggler of Notre Dame-Legend of the Sagebrush)" (Massenet),
Marcel Journet, Bass with Orchestra. Kiss Your Harki, Madame" (R. Erwin-P. Rotier). "Twilight" (Edouard Bianco),
Marek Weber and Hist Orchestru. "Impressions of London"
(Westminster),
"St. Margaret's Chimes Westminster and 'Oh God Our Help In Ages Past'
.Stanley Roper, *Hungarian Dance No. 6" (Brahmi),
Hejre Kati-Csardas" (Habay),
Feri Sarkozi, Cymbalom Solo with Gultor. Yesterday afternoon Mr. A. W. "Just A-Wearyin' for You" G. II. Grantham heard evidence intove You Truly"
(F. Stanton-Carrie Jacobs-Bond), the case in which a Chinese named Chan Kai-sang is charged with un- lawfully, fraudulently, and deceil-A fully conspiring to obtain goods to the value of $10,598.16.
:
(Carrie Jacobs-Hond),
Dasolina Giannini. Hunting Seene" (P. Bucalosst), "Patrol Comique" (T. Hindley-
M. L. Lake),
Victor Concert Band, Direction, Rosariu Bourdon. "Caprice in E Flat Major" "vovalise" (S. Rachmaninoff-
(Wieninskwi-Kreisler),
Michel Press),
to the soll becoming "mellowed" (4) Stirring the soil in stagnant eyes a trim pair of silk-clad ankles when it came under cultivation. ditches. For the reason above stat-topped off by a short skirt.
High Nitrogen Content. ed a muck-rake might in certain "And what happens? The ankles Elsewhere it was equally import- situations be as effective as an oil-cross the street and so does the unt and its quality was a maining can.
onlooker. He has eyes not for the determinant of malaria. Good hus- Among the most urgent questions traffic but for the ankles. And ac- bandry maintained a high level of remaining in Malaya were: can the cidents result. This by no means nitrogen and of organic matter in common anophelines, for example, applies only to foreigners, but to
The prosecution was conducted by the soil, factors deterrent to A, mueniatas be enticed away from Chinese males as well.
Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by mosquito-breeding of the kinds can to cattle and pigs? Also:-18 One day I was standing on a busy Mr. E. S. G. Brooks, whilst Mr. it certain that this and other so-etrect corner watching traffic. AG. S. Hugh-Jones was for the de- Causing malaria.
Quoting figures supplied by the called malarious species always rather pretty girl wearing a scanty fence.. Agricultural Department and by the carry malaria? For example, do skirt and silk stockings crossed the According to Mr. Sheldon. Rubber Research Institute, as well they do ao equally when bred from street. Just behind her Was aaccused was a member of a firm as those obtained by himself, the the relatively impure aeration pits foreign man, old enough to be on known as the Chan Sang Tong, and speaker showed that the nitrogen in rubber estates and pure springs the alert when crossing a street. he was alleged,, to have obtained content of ricefields on flat coastal and scepayes?
"Did he have eyes for the traffic goods, to the amount stated in the land, where, there was little and
and its dangers? No, only for charge, from various other firms. (C. O'Flynn-F. H. Klickmann), the slender ankles. A fast-moving In some cases no payment was made
Jeisa Crawford," Wurlitzer sometimes no malaria, ranged from
Organ. rikisha bowled him over neatly for the goods obtained, and in others
9.30 p.m.-Special Dance Pro- and the irnte pedestrian blamed the small nums were paid as deposit.gramme. coolfe. Similar accidents occur The goods were mostly ordered by Extra: Waltz (0.30 p.m.), every day, but are seldom reported.”
accused or'a man named Ip Shu-yan, (a) "Kiss Me Again", described as a partner of the Chan
(b) "Underneath
Moon." Sang Tong firm.
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New Investigators,
In order to place the agricultural 3 to 6 parts per thousand. The and biochemical control of malaria higher figure was the average for on an assured basis, knowledge of peaty districts, and corresponded the chemical and bacteriological with practically no malarla. On the causes at work was needed. To ob other hand, in blit rice valleys.tain this knowledge, two classes of where malaria was much worse, an Investigators, at present unfortun: average of only 1.5 parts was pre-ately not recognised by malarial sent; and though much higher science, were necessary, namely the figures occurred especially on peaty hydrobiological chemist and the land, the average figure for a large microbiologist.
the
Asked as to a remedy for the situation, the officer grinned, and said: "Absent Ankles Avert Ac" "The prosecution alleged con- cidents."Shanghai Times.
'LET'S MARRY.”
spiracy to defraud between the ac- eused and the man Ip, claiming that. they had ordered the goods without any intention of paying for them. The goods were mostly obtained dur-
March
The alleged fraudulent nature of Mrs. H. Garner, the 72-year-old the Chan Sang Tong firm was dis- Lride of Market Weighton who uncovered when on March 7 when the
number of rubber estates worked .Sir Walter Fletcher had last year out at less than one per thousand. stated that there were probably Rubber...as crop was notoriouály more sufferers from malaria in the How Aged Bridegrooming February and the first week of
Proposed.
asaociated with malaria, often world than there were thirty years severo, and 1.0 part per thousand ago. The reason for this was that might probably be considered as rural malaria, which was probably about the upper limit of the toler 80 or 90 per cent. of all there was, ance of soll nitrogen (always asso-defied control all over the world. ciated with organic matter) of A. The knowledge now dawning of the March 26 married her sweetheart managing partner of the Chung of 50 years ago, told a newspaper Sang Knitting Factory, which had maculatus. Most A. maculatus soils part played by the soil offered an undoubtedly contained much less additional hope of sure, if slow, pro-reporter that she and her 78-year-aupplied goods, to the value of old husband went to school to $604, visited the Chan Sang Tong gress. In the meantime, current nitrogen than this..
The accused was not there, ...Two generations of Malayan measures of oiling and draining gether at Gipsy Bridge, near Bos- firm.
were but the visitor discovered on the ton, Lincolnshire. They workers had been studying the effect and the search for an efficient drug, of the composition of their breeding should not be abandoned. But the water upon the occurrence of dizer- constitution of the soit in relation to ent species of anophelines, the opin- cropping, draining, and animal hus- fon of the speaker that individuals bandry was fundamental and could as well as species that carry most. no longer be ignored. malaria are bred from pure water The lecturer concluded with an being restated. Sir Malcolm Watson appeal that the inquiry he had been first enumerated the belief that rot pursuing should go forward until was antagonistic to maleria; and was brought to a practical issue. Dr. Hacker laid the foundation of Straits Times.⠀⠀⠀⠀
our present knowledge, aided as he was by the unprecedented series of analyses by Mr. Blair, and the co operation of Dr. Quaife at Kent Estate knowledge which was still far from complete. But It now transpired that the composition of
BANDITS BUSY.
Two Spanish Priests Carried Away.
the soil was the main determinantem 702
of the chemical, and also probably
(2) Shanghai, Yesterday.
Mischa Elamn, Violin Solo. "Quartet in D (Haydn);
Love to Hear You Singing"
Elamn String Quartet.
(L. Glanville-11, Wood), "Hawalian Sandman"
1. One Step:
the Russian
(a) "You Were Meant For Me",
(b) "Mean to Me",
Trio: "I Zingari",-De Groot,
2. Fox Trot:
(a) "Wedding
of the Painted
Do (b) "I Kins Your Hand Madame", Octet "La Cinguntine" Squire.
3. Fox Trot:
(a) "Broadway Melody",
(b) "You're the Cream in My
Coffee", Park Lane Hotel Orchestra,
"Salut D'Amour."
4. Waltz
(n) "Pagan Love Song"," (b) "Evangeline",
Violin Solo, "Aloha Ge" Krainter.
5. Fox Trot:
(a)
*(b) doing in the Rain",
In the Bath Tub";
boy and girl sweethearts, but each premises an interesting documert Grenadier Guards, Band, "Softly
married someone else.
which was a list of a large portion Fifty years afterwards they met of the goods which had been obtain- again and fell in love once more.ed on credit. The goods were sup "My husband has not altered posed to have been shipped by a a bit since we were boy and girl boat, named, Ah Luk, but the inter- together," she said. "He may be eating part of the document was the bit older looking, but he has fact that the prices of the goods, the same quiet way and the same as stated in the document were about two-thirds of the price, which smile."
Mrs. Garner laughed when she accused would have had to pay for was asked if it was an old- the goods This suggested that no- fashioned proposal,
cured, Wany operating what was
B
do not bellove in those idena known in London as "long firm of getting down on your knees to fraud." The Police were Informed sho replied. "I am in and subsequently accused was ar- propose, favour of the modern method of rested, saying, "Let's get married That After some evidence had leeu is what we did. It is not the way taken, the case was adjourned until you propose, your ringa, or things Wednesday afternoon.
of the bacterial composition of It learned that bandits like that that ust SIL: Just breeding waters. The soil exerted | captured Talhu in south-west Ar- whether you
ather
Ito greatest effects in shallow hwel on April 27, and took pri on well together.. stagnant waters, especially if the soner bottom was stirred up, being rein- tively dogs affective in clear, running waler. It had not been
realised that under, shalow stagnent conditiong many, If not most, soils
retending Breakaway Tims, Permitti. (a)Anything Your Heart De
happy and get
t
12 Fox Trot
Spanish pri Herrera, who has
been or wosban on April 28 and taken. rescued by troops, and has arrived
Spanish priests," Anklig
((b)
Extra
Avito, and are at present:
(b)
Bandits are also reported to have. captured the neighbouring – town
riends.
18 Midnight Close: Downst
....
Awakca My Heart"
6. Fox Trot (10.35 p.m.):
·lar "Got A Feelin For. You",
(b) Waiting at the End of the
Road
Trio My Flame of Love",
De Groot Fox Trot:
A
(a) "Low Down Rhythm", (b), "Honey"""
"Gavolte 'frons, “bifgnon",
Squire Octet
(1) "Song of Songs for Me", (b) "Until the” End"... Park Lane Hotel Orchestra,
For You Alone."
9 Fox Trotazion
A(n) "Too, Wonderful-for Words”,
City Blues".
Violin s
Kreisler
"Frasquita Serenade",
15%
Fox Trots
(a) "Miss You"
(b) "I'm Just a Vagaband Lover
Violin Solo, Estrellata"
Albert Sammons.
11. Walte
(11.40 p.) (a) "PI See You Again",
by "Song of the Nils", Idyl, The Glow Worm,
Victor Orchestra..
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