DR. JAMES
MAXWELL
TO RETIRE
Foremost Leprosy Authority In The Far East
OFFERED NEW
POSITION IN
HANKOW
Shanghai is to lose one of its toremost medical men at the end of this year with the retirement of Dr. James L. Maxwell from his position as librarán to the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Re- search. Avenue Road: After an- quncing bis retirement From this
position. Dr. Maxwell was offered
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS - MONDAY DECEMBER 28, 1936.
TRAGIC DEATH OF CORRESPONDENCE
MRS. ANDERSON Fatal Motor Mishap On Xmas Day
·LARGE ATTENDANCE
AT FUNERAL
Mr. Gertrude, Ella Anderson, the wife of Mr. John E. Anderson, of the Anderson Music Company, Ice House Street, was killed as the re- | salt of a motoring accident in the New Territories on Christmas Day, The funeral took place on Satur- day afternoon and was largely at-
tended.
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Re Hungry Babies: An Appeal
(The Editor, “Hong Kong Dally Press.")
Sir, I have. perused with in- «terest (and concern the letter on the above-mentioned subject and, without wishing to discount the excellent work performed by the Women's Auxiliary Committee of the Society for the Protection of Children, infer that the writers ignore the fact that the New Ter- riteries are part and parcel of the Colony of Hong Kong.
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MEASURING THE INVISIBLE
At The Lister Institute
REMARKABLE APPARATUS
(BY ES. GBEW),
As the chemistry of Ulving things has moved forward the bloke- gists need to know the size of the smallest bodies with which "his" ~ solence deals has become urrent In the last ten years his knowledge has been immensely enlarged by Professor Svedberg, of Upasia, with his altra-centrifuge... This is, in effect, a machine which, by revolve In all sincerity Fam led to asking liquids containing bacteris or much smaller particles at enor- what is being done for the parent;
maus speeds, throws down these bodies as sediments at the bottom and children there, where poverty of the liquid. is rainpant. re extremely hard. unwanted children by the score,
One of these has been installed ; or new types may intrude them- and houses (7) of a very in-at the Lister Institute, and an selves. Scarlet fever: In mail, or ferior type-mud or palm leaf account of its powers and purpose diphtheria in the horse, are exam- walls with interiors dark, dirty tons on which the new biophysicstutrease in the size of the larger pes, and in thase there is a great and desolate. A walk through the is being built. For information on protein particle, globulin. villages will convince the visitor this subject we are indebted to of the truth.
Dr. Arthur S. McFarlane, a former pupil of Svedberg.
Mrs. Anderson was travelling in a motor car, driven by her hus- tand, to Kowloon when near a narrow road below the Tsun Wan Police Station, a lorry loaded with iron bars approached from the opposite direction. At the time there was another lorry, loaded with bricks, parked at the side of the road. The lorry with the tron A high-placed." official of Ene bars drew up in order that the Colonial Office (London) is repat- car might pass and it was while ed to have ejaculated "My God" doing so that the car came in
cn viewing the interior of one contact with some of the project-such nouse selected at randum.
the post of director of the In- stitute of Hospital Technology, Hankow, and Informed the "North- China Daily News" that he had accepted this offer provisionally. Dr. Maxwell is to leave on a visit to Manila next January, and will probably take up his new posting tron bars. some time in April
Mrs. Anderson was sitting in the back of a small car while ber husband was driving in front with a friend. They had originally in- tended. going to sce new flat in Waterloo Road, but in order to pass time they decided to Dr. Maxwell came to Shanghaltake a ride to the 10-milestone un
Dr. Maxwell has had a long carcer in the Far East, having first. reme out here in 1900 as a medical missionary. He recalls having ar- cived at Hong Kong on January 1001.
1924 at the invitation of the China Medical Association, as secretary.
Castle Peak Road.
When in the vicinity of Tsun Wan they met a lorry and what INTEREST IN LEPROSY is believed to have been an iron Before coming to China. Dr. girder projecting from the lorry Muxwell had collaborated in writ-amashed the back window and ing a book on the diseases of killed Mrs. Anderson instantane- China, and on his appointment as ously. librarian to the Institute. he was anxious to continue his study of the different diseases in Chins.
In 1928. the International Mission te Lepers appointed him their medical, representative for the Far East, which entailed visits to cen-
tres where the disease was known to flourish and advice ta mission hospitals regarding the organiza- tion of leper work in this country.
Dr. Maxwell, of course, is well- known as the foremost authority on leprosy in the Far East, and has carried out intensive research into the nature of the disease since Joining the staff of the Lester In- stitute. He is shortly to bring out a book on the subject of leprosy In China.
will reveal some of thel toúnda-.
Bacteriological laboratories like those at the Lister Institute, make much use of centrifuges to clarify
teria
Not une in ten thousand inhabi-urbid quids or throw down back auspended in them, by tants of Hong Kong realises the whirling round the liquids abject poverty which prevails in
ALL A bay whirls stone at the end of the New Territories
a string
Cradles the peasantry are tou poverty stricken to afford any such adjuncts to babyhood as the work "Cradle" implies. Babies are born, but only the sturdy survive. Clothes for the new arrival are mostly dirty rags and cast off garmenta.
What happens to the babies when the mothers cannot feed them with nature's supply?
In other diseases such as pneu- monia, new proteins have been found in the blood, but it has not | yet been possible to discover their exact relationship to the 'disease,
A single drop of blood serves the purpose in determining these sizes. The 'ultra cèntrifuge throws down the protein types one after another in order of size, and en- ables their various sizes to be cal- ...The ordinary centrifuge will culated. It can give the whole throw down bacteris very rapidly, story in a few hours. At present The liquid, turbid at the begin-It is the most powerful instrument ning of the experiment is clear that has been found for this type. when all the bacteria are thrown of research... down at the bottom of the tube. It is dificult to speak of the kyetage size of bacteria, because there are sizes as wide apart as those of the elephant and the guinea" plg.
MEASURING BACTERIA Nevertheless, if we take the one- month part of an inch as the, biologist's unit, then the size of a medium sized bacterium, that causing pneumonia, for example, is about 1,000 units.
The two ultra centrifuges at the Luster Institute are very little like the laboratory centrifuges com- monly employed. The Lastalation, to which the Rockefeller founda- tion contributed half the consider- able cost, is housed - In Its own building--and the equipment is l'as elaborate as that of an electric
sub-station.. .....
The answer is, "sold giren away" or "otherwise disposed of," Neither of the two other oc- The price of milk and milk-foods cupants of the car were injured.
and the bare necessities of baby Mrs. Anderzon WELS formerly life are beyond the reach of the
TWO MACHINES Mrs. G. E. Marshall of Japan. al-majority-cases of malnutrition
There are two machines," the though she had been a resident (marasmus) are all too numerous.
smaller running at speeds up to of Hong Kong for a long period-
Not only is this too true, but I she was a partner with Mrs. M. W. have seen babies with as many as
It is easy to measure them be-18,000 revolutions a minute, the Brennan in the "Dolly Varden" thirty burns on lips, paims and ab-cause they are visible under the larger with a rotor which can be
microscope. Suppose the centri-driven at a speed 65,000 revalu shop. She married Mr. Anderson domen, inficted by parents in or- on March 27 last.
der to exercise some devil (all-fuge throws down the bacteria ab tions, when a centrifugal (out- Mrs. Anderson is survived by menti, whereas careful nursing the rate of so many centimetres ward) force is set up equal to two daughters, Nadia and Clarice, and feeding were what were need per hour, then knowing the rate: 300,000 times the inward pull of who are residing in Yokohama, ed.
of spinning, and, therefore, the gravity, a
force employed,
The rotor of the larger machine and a son. Mr. Percy Marshall, whe
Then there are the boat people centrifugal. is living in Tientsin, and we un-
who frequent the creeks in dis-rough measure of the size can be 15 driven by high-pressure ofl.
obtained.
turbines. It consists of a piece of derstand that their intended visit tant places. Have they been given
But to Waterloo Road on Friday was to a thought or been catered for in bodies than bacteris, the viruses, &
there are smaller living chrome-nickel steel and revolves in vacuum tight chamber tnto prepare the flat for a pending any measure?
or alter passers. I the Agure which hydrogen, gas-is (allowed to visit from Mrs. Anderson's mar
1000 denotes the average size of fou continuously during the ex- ried daughter.
the bacteria, the viruses pan from periment.
During his residence in China,
THE FUNERAL" Dr. Maxwell has had occasion to The funeral was beld in the make many journeys all over Portestant Cemetery on Saturday China in the interests of medi- | cine: and in 1931. he travelled up
to the border of Tibet to study the distribution of various diseases in that area. He has noticed a great increase in typhold fever during his stay in China, and an increase in leprosy in areas ravaged by famine or other disasters. There has been a decided increase in the floor area of Hankow and Hupeh, and around Swatow.
GOVERNMENT'S HEALTH Another of Dr. Maxwell's obser- vations is that the Chinese Gov- ernment's measures for dealing with disease through its public health service have been greatly Improved during the past few years. The government, however, takes no measures whatever as far as leprosy is concerned. The gov ernment's activities have proved especially effective in the treat
afternoon.
Many a time bave I nearly sat on an indistinguishable bundle of humanity, rolled up and placed on a corner seat.
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150 units downward. Below 130, In air such heat. would be Under the banner of the blessed they are too small to be seen in generated by friction that the St. John of Jerusalem, an epic the highest powered microscope, roter would become red hot.
but the biologist knows that hydrogen the temperature is kept The Rev. J. D, MacLean, of, the struggle is being waged to cater. Kowloon Union Church. omclated for and cope with the needs of viruses, such as that which causes quite constant. This gas is better foot-and-mouth disease, exist, than a vacuum, because it conveys at the graveside, and among those
our New Territories subjects, but with sizes as small as 25 units. heat away from the rotor surface pressent were the bereaved bus- sad to relate, unless a larger mea- He knows this because they pass to the cooled casing. band, Mr. and Mrs. B. Wylle. Mr.
sure of financial support is torth-through his very fine filters, and The liquid with the particles to. G. 8. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. coming for "relier in the New also because he must use the high-be examined is placed in a steel. Hall, Mr. and Mrs, P. Grant, Mr. Territories, much of the charitable speed laboratory centrifuge for cylinder with end windows of and Mrs, E. M. Pearce, the Rev. work must die of Inanition, a cala- several hours before they are crystalline quartz. Once in each Frank Short, Mrs. E. E. Costele.rity in itself, but more so to those thrown down in the form of a revolution the cell passes a win- Miss E. Hadley, Miss Clarke, Major who will surfer in consequence.
sediment
dow in the steel casing, and is F. Raupell, and Mesara. J. C. Gren-
"Can any good come out of the
For the still lower class of in-lumined by the light, from nam, J. D. Thomson, S. R. Kerr. H. New Territories?"**
visible particles, the high powers mercury
The light then Nobel, E O. Murphy, L. J. Cave. H. "Come and Bee"
of the Syedberg ultra-centrifuge passes on to the eye or a camera Angus and G. Angus,
are needed. These are the par-" Because the rotor is spinning at: J. tioles in the blood and tissues much more than 1,000 revolutionis a second, the images received by called the proteins.
After this service another was held at the Crematorium, Bookun-
pon.
FLORAL TRIBUTES
Yours etc..
A. 8. ST.
Hong Kong. Dec. 28,
Among the many wreaths sent GOVERNMENT were those from her loving and heart-broken husband, Jack. May. Percy and family, her loving sis ters at home. Stanley. Ella. Belen and Joyce. Jean and George Har-
arc.
a
The Proteins are almost everywhere: the eve appear stationary. they are in all animal bodies, al-camera records the changes which ways containing carbon hydrogen, i take place in the fuld in the cell APPOINTMENTS oxygen and nitrogen, and some- as soon as sedimentation begins.
times, also amal quantities of In some cases these photographs, The following appointments are such elements as phosphorus, sul-recording every ten minutes, must- announced:-
phur, and iron. In the white of be taken by ultra-violet light. But ment of cholera and plague. When ris, Jean and Jimmy, Nadia and the new edition of the Ordinances hair fibres, keratin in muscle investigator lays bare the compost- Mr. J. A. Fraser to be editor of the eye is the protein albumen; in in two or three hours this robot Dr. Maxwell first came out here. Jack; Clarice. Pamela and George, and of the Regulations of the Co-fibre, myosin and in the red ton of the fuld mixture down to plague was very prevalent. Ther. J. Brayfield, A W. Black, M. Mony. work of the foreign mission hospi-de Soares, Mas L. M. de Souza,
Dr. C. H. Burton to be a mem-
tals in China has also shown an Mr. and Mrs. William Scott, H. J.ber of the Dental Board.
increase.
As far as leprosy is concernca, Dr. Maxwell claims that he now has the disease "at his fingers ends." He was asked by the late Canton Government to become their special adviser on leprosy. but was not able to take up this position owing to the political up- heaval
Fountain, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Pep-
HOSPITAL FIRE
Mersts. A. G. W. Tickle and J., per, Mias M. Clarke and Mies E. A. Fraser to Hadley, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Cave Widows and Orphans' Pensions.
be directers of the Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bolton. Stella and Roland Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ferguson, A. K. Dimond, Mrs. M., W. Brennan, and Mrs. A. E. Jeffreys, F K. Garton. Mr. and Mrs F. F. Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. A. Kemp, Mr. and Mrs. J. Grady, Mr. and Mrs. R. Pestonjee. Mr. Mackintosh, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Slikstone. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Ains He, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Farmer, A. Mrs. Johnston, Major and Roupel, RA, Mr. and Mrs, W Kershaw, Mrs, V. W. Simmons, Helen and Tubby Duncan. M.
colouring matter of the blood the its smallest particles. protein haemoglobin..
In the blood the size of the protein particles with which the
ultra centrifuge has to deal drops THAMES TRIBUTARIES
to as low as 2 or 3 units. We can never hope to see such proteins In the microscope because they are so much smaller molecules than the wave-ength of light,
587 More Miles Under Conservancy
A fire broke out in the Kwong But Svedberg, with his high- Wah Hospital garden on Friday speed centrifuge, first threw down nose
The Thames Conservatora pro- about 3
pose to extend their jurisdiction to am. The flames were sediments of the red protein par- 587 more miles of streams and extinguished by the Fire Brigade. tcles of the blood and was abe tributaries in the Thames Valley The cause of the outbreak is un- to measure the size of the mole-If approved by the Minister o1 known. It is estimated that apcule of haemoglobin proximately $100 damage · Was' caused.
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The first wedding took place at Kirkwood, Miss Jean Braga, Mr. CATHEDRAL SUNDAY ed the site of every kind of par-include ten miles of the Abbey Mill
10 am.
"HEALTH "AND DISEASE
TWO WEDDINGS
With increasing powers he sub-Agriculture and Fisheries, Two weddings or interest to the
sequently measured the molectites scheme will extend the Conser focal medical profession were so-
of all the well-known proteins, and vators river control to a total In the space of ten years, estimat-length of 1,205 miles. lemnised at, St Tercen's Church
The additions to the main river on Saturday. T
ticle from those of the larger pro- when Dr. (Mas) Cissy and Mrs J, Meyer, Mr. and
Yesterday being St. John's Day teins down to the molecules of the stream at Abingdon, seven miles of Wong became the bride of Dr. Mrs. C. M. Hall, the Rev. and Mrs. the patronal festival of St. John's smallest inorganic salts, common the River Evenlodge at Eveniode, eleven miles of the River Ray from Yeung Tsaw-chee, Chairman of Frank Short, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cathedral was observed. There salt athong them
Edgcott to Islip, seven miles of the: the Hong Kong University Medi-Bulter, Mr. and Mrs. B. Wylle, Mr was a large congregation present cal Association, the Rev. Fr. Maes and Mrs. R. White, Mr. and Mrs, at the morning service at which Knowledge of the size of the River Thame at Long Marston, and IL C. R. Bloom. Miss A. S. Rogers, the preacher was the Right Rev. protein particles in the blood has fourteen miles of the River Mis- In the afternoon, the Rev. Fr. A.B. W. Simmons, Mrs. R. E. Leigh Noel Hudson, Bishop of Labuan, an important bearing on health Bourne, a tributary of the Colne, from Suffolk Bridge, Little Missen- Granelli, assisted by the Rev. Fr. Beten. Mr. and JW Lawson and Barawak. At the evening and disease. In the blood of a Maestrini, conducted the marriage Captain and Mrs. G. F. Dent, Mr. service the preacher was the Rev, normal healthy person there are den, to Denham. service of Miss Ruby Moy and Dr. and Mrs. P. Grant, and Darnley H. W. Baines.
Bakida lalumays the same number of types Forty-six miles of the River Ock or protein particle, each always and its tributaries are also to come I. Y. Tang, who is also medical The European Btan, Mestrs. An- adviser to Wah Yan College and decson Music Co., Chinese Staff,
the same size
within the scheme including: a Honorary Visiting Physician to the Anderson Music Co. Trustees of 1 members of the Kowloon Union Bite and number practically stretch of nineteen miles from Chinese Sisters of the Precious the Kowloon Union Church Church, and Beten's Beauty Par-never: vary, but indiacase the Longcot to the River Thames at Blood.
Messrs, Wilkinson and Grist. The lour.
numbers of particles may increase Abingdon,
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