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TROPICAL FEVERS OF SHORT
DURATION."
DISCUSSED BY MILITARY DOCTORS IN CONFERENCE.
THE CAUSE AND CUE OF DENGUE FEVER,
EXPERTS ON TYPHOID AND MALARIA.
At the recent International Mili- tary Medical Congress in London there was a discussion on tropical fevers of short duration. Lieut. Colonel W. P. MacArthur introdue ed the subject with a paper in which he said that diseased might be in- definite because they were typical examples of well-known infections, or because they were separate clini cal entities which still awaited full description. ...
The first class included mild or abortive cases of typhoid, paratyp- hoid, and undulant fever. Ma- laria, fequently showed a low con- tinued fever, the paroxysms being absent and the parqaites so scanty in the blood as to be easily overlook- ed,
Phlebotomus Fever.
Dengue and phlebotomus fever were recognized as distinct clinical entities, but owing to the lack of definite symptoms were frequently confused with similar syndromes, Especially, was this the case with induenza, which was very common in the tropics, but rarely acuum panied by nasal catarrh. The blood pictures of dengue and sandy fever were often not suficiently dis Unet from that of influenîn to separate, with certainty, these distasis.
Recently spirochaetosis as a cause of short fever had attracted atten- tion. The 'leptospira de h group. showed many variants, which, al though indistinguishable morpholo- gically, yet seemed able to cause clinical symptoms which varied from a day or two of pyrexia up to a severe Loxaemic jaundice.
Weil's disease had probably at times been recorded as dengue. The more severe forms of dengue disease, in its turn, could generally be distinguished from spirochaetosis by their respective blood pictures. Weil's disease, in its turn, could generally be distinguished from yel low fever by the relative quantities of albumin.
Dutch Opinion.
Colonel MacArthur added that the attempts which were being made to classify and describe indefinite confusion increased, by the habit of short fevers were handicapped, and labelling cases, in which the diag
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THE C.E.R. DISPUTE.
| SERIOUS ECONOMIC BLOW
TO BUSINESS.
EFFICIENCY OF RAILWAY -
BADLY IMPAIRED,
["D.P." Special Service.]
PRING.The Chinese Eastern Railway and the businessmen of North Manchuria, Chinese and for- an economic
nosis was really unknown, with 'n' definite name for the sake of hos pital records. If a case, in spite of all investigation, remained a
pyrexia of unknown origin," it cigu, bave suffered must be honestly left as such in blow from which they cannot re. all sick returns.
M. Gerards (Dutch East Indies) cover within a year or two, as a said that febrille diseases of the result of the Sino-Russian dispute, tropics, formerly differentiated by according to reliable foreign reports clinical manifestations alone, could | from Harbin,
now be grouped in a scientific, man- In the brst six weeks of the con. ner. Duration and geographical distribution as a means of identi.troversy, North Manchuria suffered cation had given place to deter a terrific set-back, the reports show, tion of the causative organism, 10 that a rational system of classifica and the railway was demoralized tion and a better nomenclature were to an alarming extent.. Every sub- now possible.
sequent week merely added to the economic disaster.
He proceeded to give a precis of of the more important diseases of the group, including yellow 'fever, Weil's disease and other spirochac toses, and dengue and its group of diseases.
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Key Positions Vacatid. North Manchuria's existence is dependent upon the Chinese East. Short communications made by MM. Sacquepee and
were em Railway. The line has a mono- Cristao (France) on tropical fevers poly of transportation in the region, in the Mediterranean littoral, by where water-ways and roads have' Colonel Cazanove, on these condi; not been developed even to the tions in the French colonies, and by M. Blanchard, who spoke of the same extent as in China Proper, African epidemic icterogenic So any decline in the railway means spirochaetosis, a disease described
a setback for the entire community. by him and other French observers, resembling yellow fever and Weil's
Even the Chinese leaders who disease, capable of transmission by organised seizure of the railway, Aedes argenteus, and spread by and discharge of the Russian man. Benk.
Dengue Fever.
ager, have been sur ised by the Dr. A Cawadias (Greece) spoke speed with which the line has de- af. the epidemic of dengue fever clined. Fan Chi Kwang, Acting occurring lately in South-Eastern manager of the railway, has ad- Europe. When in Greece some time ago be found certain amali mitted in interviews that he has epidemics there had now developed found it impossible to replace the haadreds of Soviet Russian work. men who insisted upon resigning, because these men were positions on the line, and no train- Chinese are available to take their places.
in key
very serious epidemic in the Eastern Mediterranean. The epid emiology of this condition needed to be studied, and this, was the task of a commission now in Greece.ed Dengue fever was due to a virus circulating in the blood; the ex clusive carrier was Acdes argenteus. several months to restore the rail- Mr. Fan agrees that it wil take He thought there were many cases of so-called three-day fever which way to its former efficiency, be- were really dengue. This was easily found in China. Trains are cause trained railwaymen are not benign condition, and did not kill, still run on time, and outwardly the although, if the patient was suffer- it might hasten a fatal termina declining at an alarming rate. ing from some concurrent malady railway appears as efficient as ever, but ite capacity for carry,freight is tion.
IMMIGRANTS · INTO MANCHURIA.
UNDER OFFICIAL PROTEC- TION.
Heretofore, migrants into Manchuria, have been practically limited to from Shantung and Chibli way.
This
the Chinese im-
A Boom Delayed,
The uncertainty regarding the outcome of the Sino-Hussian con- troversy, continuing as it did for many weeks, was also disastrous to business iL" North Manchuria. Companies doing businesss there did not venture to buy new stocks to long as a possible war threaten- ed the region. The business of Harbin, six weeks after the rail way had been taken over, was more than 30 per cent. off normal at this time of year.
Businessmen in North Manchuria year those from Honan are particularly depressed because Province have been noticed to he they can see no satisfactory solu Howing into Manchuria in quite tion of the present controversy. large numbers. The majority of They feel that if the status quo 18 them are going to Heilungkiang. restored, there will be more frie Up to the end of June the arrivals tion than ever in operation of the at Teitainar alone reached 20,550. railway, and conicquently
lesa
The Board of Administration, efficiency. They do not believe the Heilungkiang, have distributed al-Chinese can operate the line effi- rendy 15,930 to different Prefectures ciently without outside assistance like Noho, Tailai, Pohsi, Lung-for some years to come. kiang Kohan, Paichuan, Hulan, The setback to North Manchuria Stibus, Hailua, and Suiyuan, to comes at a time when the country take up reclamation work.
appeared to be on the verge of à The immigrants from Shantung great boom. Mions of immigrants and Chihli have received little, if from Shantung and Hopei provinces any, protection from the Chinese had poured into the country in the authorities. They will come and past three years, and thousands of And work, scttling down perman-acres of virgin and were being It will replace your negligentntly or going home with their cultivated. Chinese and foreign maid by taking incoming telephone thrifty savings.
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As regards the newcomers from where azticipated an era of pros- Fome, transmit messages to possible Foran, we hear that the authorities perity. callers, and otherwise guard your
But the feeling is now general are making the Profectural people "phone.
furnish them with travelling costs that North Manchuria's boom has Política and rendering encouragement in been seriously delayed. other ways
have displaced economics in opera- tion on the Chinese Eastern Rail- way.
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SHANGHAI AFFRAY.
POLICE ATTACKED BY BLACKMAILERS."
Shanghai. French Town was the acene of a shooting affray at the corner of Rue Ratard and Rue Amiral Courbet däring which Bet- tlement detectives working in con- junction with the police of the. French Concession were fired on by armed desparadocs sac arrested two men after wounding oue, of them.
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