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THE NEW MACAO GOVERNORTHE It is a curious circumstance that lang before new. Governor of lac o, Senior Fernada dadi nee heard of the subject it was a popular Novacs, nivell the beach bail Zer last belief that mosquito-bites caused an ria, evening. The Porque onsul boarded the among the natives of regions so widely apart. liner and escorted the panty to the Hongkong as the plains of Italy, the swamps of Enst Hoel, where 11.E. and ruile are at present Africa, the jungles of Burmah, and the back staying. We understand that H-E. Sir Henry woods of America. But the more commonly A. Blake, K.C.M.G., has invited the Portuguese accepted article of faith, expressed by the name Governor to dinner at Goverment House tamalaria," was that bad air, evil vapours, night..
noxious exhalations from clamp or marshy soil, ware the cause of this the source above all ALMANACS for the new year are now being others of mortality and ill-health in the Tropics circulated by many of the principal firms in the
and sub-Tropics. Wakin the past few years, however, our knowledge on this subject is Colony, the fist having reached our offices
been revolutionized; and we now know as a from Messrs. Siemsse & Co, who forward us. a wall calendar issued by the Transilantic
aatter. f demonstration, conducted under the Fire Insurance Company, with tablet bearing most stringent renditions al scientific investi- mottos for cach day of the year, together withgation, that a certain genus of mosquito, the a useful blotting pad. The Sun Fire Office Anopheley, is the principal, and probably the calendar, also from Messrs. Siemssen, is most
only, carrier of malaria from one human being artistic as furnishing a revival of the antique to another. design: The Nippon Yasen Kaisha send us a charmingly characteristic calendar show ing the services of the Company under map of the world, with trieing giving the ronto of their steame is in red. On the foreground is depicted the figures of Japanese woman and girl, and on the back ground a picture of one of the Company's steamers sailing on the plucid waters of the Inland Sea, surmounted by the Nippon use Kaisha and the national days, it may be observed that as showing the perfect on of the printer's art in Japan, the blend nf the colours used, and he accurice of the gister" of the design, are simply faultless. The Victoria Dispensary has issued preny almanacs in two ints, containing much valeable inform tion to busincas firms, while de will calendar fiom Messrs. F. D Sassion & C), as agents for the Queen (now merged in Royal). Insurance Company will find a place on the office wall. Messrs. Mel hers have sent the Royal Insur ance Co. calendar and tweus mul diaries.
MALARIA AND MOSQUITOES.
I STRUCTIVE LECTURE,
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Let me remark in passing that while the word "mosquito" is a diminut ve of a Spanish and Portuguese word, mosca," a fly, and "cutex is the ordinary Latin wrd for a mos qu to a goal, "Anopheles" is a transliteration of a Greek adjective signifying "harmful" er injurious. Surely he who named Anopheles had the visien of a seri
A cent of experiment was inadvertently made during their residence at Ostia After the assassination of King Humbert, which occurred just then, fifteen or sixteen police agents were sent to Ostia to arrest suspected Anarchista, and though they spent only part of a night in the district every man of them contracted fever fortnight or so later, e, after the usual incubation period.
of the transitjission of malaria, although much | fe, the whole of the severely milations senson;
and retained perfect health, re detail still needed to be filled in
Just at this crucial moment Ross's research was interiu, ted by an outbreak of plague, and hen he was able to resume it early in 1898 it was not the fever season, and no cases of ma- liria were available. In these circumstances he turned his attention to the life-history of a prasite zimilar to the malaria parasite if man that causes a co responding blood infection inn sparrows and other sinal! birds, le found that culex innsqui on which had given entirely regative results with human malarin, were able to be the hosts of the parasite of sparrow ma- laris, Pro Cosoma.
Dr. Sambon and Dr. Low, with two com panions, an artist and a servant, spent three months in their hut among the marshes, using no quinine or other prophylactic, and not one of the four contracted mùlorial fever.
Briedy, Ross's reiuks were as follows:-e
This positively and negatively, the Colonial fel mosquitoes un aparrows infected with the Protensuma, in insects o fed ne found that Officexperiment was entirely successful.
A most important point in its bearing He parasites nude their way through the inner
na practical measures against the inflaria membrane of the so mili, and because en. cysted in the outer layer of the stomach wall conveying mosquito is, that the mosquito dors There á remarkable evolution took place, with not transmit the parasite of malaria to its off- large increase in size of the encyste parasite, spring. It might have been wherwise. In the renting after a wee. or sn in the production case of the engnate parasite of a wasting disense within each porsie of an enormous number of cattle, which is very widely spread over the of minute rod-like dies, which were event world though it is known as Texas Fever, the a tally set free in the body cavity of the mostick which conveys the parasite from one animal quite by the rupture of the erst containing to ant er transmits it to its young, so that the them. These germinal rods were carried every young tick is infective from the first. But ex- where through te body by what corresponds periment and observation in Italy and el e- to the blood-circulation in the mosquito, but where have rendered it certain, that the tended to accumulate espec ally in the salivary mosq it does not do this, and that the insect or poison glands, the glands that secrete the to become infective, must itself be first indivi acid fluid which the squito injects when it dual y infected, by feeding on a human being bites, and which causes the irritation of the whose blood contains the parasite of Malaria mosquito-bitr, and in the duct which leads front the glands to the probos is or mouth of the insect. Finally, Ross caused mostjaitnes thus infected, after the period necessary for the evolution of the parasite just described had clapsed, to bite healthy sparrows, whose blood ha bad ascertained to be free from Proteosema, and succeeded in by this means infecting them with that parasite This is now spoken of us the Cycle of Boss.
The Malaria Parasite was first recognized as such in 1886 by a young French surgeon, stil living, named Laveran, at that time stationed 1 Algiers in North Africa. Examining under the microscope the blood of a malaria patent he saw crinin organisms within the red blond cells, which on further research roved to be constantly present in all similar CRSCH The blond consists of liquid in which float enormous numbers if lule independent bodies, se minute that a cube of bland fasth of an incl: across romains over tive millions of them. These cells are of two kinds, white and red, the red greatly preponderacing, and it is within these minute red, corpuscles that the malaria rarasite has its-habita', and
What Ross thus proved for sparrow malari, undergoes its develop rent. It feeds on the red colon jag matter of the cell, destroying the viz., that certain Culex mosquitoes may cany cef! itself in the proces. Most of the parasites the disease from one bird in another, was eager as they devel, are transformed te littlely allowed up by Italian scientists, amurg whom Grassi's name racks high, and very soon masses of spires, which by the rugsture of ite containing blond cells are self re in the blond similar facts were worked out in yet faller detail fluid. The spores at ace attach themselves proving a precisely similar relation between the to, and enter, other blood cell, and proceed Anopheles mosquito and human malaria. to undergo a similar evelation from a tiny me state it briefly
Anopheles mosquitoes are not naturally in colourless speck to the pigmented parasite. whose piquent is derived fpm the destroyed fective. But if they ingest human blond con
in cell, and later to the mature sperocyst,taining maleria parasites, then at the end of a which in turn breaks up and sets free a fresh week or so, the period required for the evolu- tion-of-the-gerinimal-rods,-called Sporozoites,. Brood of spores in the biod
they become infective to any h. man being on whom they may feed, injecting the terms with the juice which they always inject, be fore they begin to suck blood. A man so infec ted by the bite of an infected anopheles wil, after an incubation period of a file over a fortnight during which the parasite is multiplying it elt with his blood cells, develop malain. A single in ective bite is probably sufficient to convey the disease.
The rest notable advance was made br
Under the auspies of the Blangkong Odd Volumes Society. J. C. Thomson, & TA, M.A., delighted-a-large-gathering of Jadies and gentlemen at the City Hall last evening when be ga e mest interesting and instructive illustrated icture on malaia and its relation 45.the naosquito... H.E. the Govers or presided, and among those pres-nt were noticed Lady Blake and Aliss Blake, Sir John Kean, Private Golgi of lavin in North Italy. Studying the Secretary, and Capain Aboiler, A.D.C. to mild spring fevers, he noticed that all the His Excellency; 11. 1. Májor-Geparal ir parasites in any particular casc are at ap William J. Gascoigne, KCMG, Laly Gas-proximately, the same stage of development, If one was found in the earliest stage, then all coigne, and Major the Roa. 1. W. Trefusis, would be so. If one was found spomlating A.D.C. to His Excellency; Sir W. M. Good then all would be in a state of maturity. He man, Chief Justice, and Lady Goodman; Com further observed that the attick of fever is medore lunch and Mis Powell, and Mr. II. | always coincidert with the rap ure of a crop of E. Pollock, K., hon, secretary of the Odde parasites, beag evidently due to the setting free in the blood of some xin or prison when Volumes Society.
the parasite containing cells break up. He found that there are marked diff rences between the parasites that cause the Tertian and Quartan forms of malarial fever, ant that of he recurrence of the fever, every third day avery other day and respectively in these two forms of Intermittent Fever, is that the Terlian parasite matures in 48 hours, while the life cycle of the Quartan parasite is 72 hours.
After a few i troductory reinaiks by Sir Henry Blake, Dr. Thomson proceeded as follows -
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THIBETIAN TROUBLES OVER:From
.. Your Exce kary: very wellingly con- Chinese sources we learn that the Wai-wu-pu. recently received information from Viceroy-sented to the proposal that at the opening Tscit Chen fisuen of Szechuen, that Yu Kang meeting of this session of the Odd Volumes the Imperial resident at Thibet, sent him a telegram that the dificulty between the British Society-I should lestire in the subject of the
A little later, other Italian observers differen- engineers and the Thibetians, arising through relationship that exists between maleria and
the mosquito, affording the as it does an ived a third species of the parasite as the land transactions has been settled.
cause of the more malignant fevers of tropical ITEMS-Japan papers state that the Noku-un opportunity of disseminating jaformation on á Corn, a steamer of 207 tons, caught fire and subject than which there is one mure imimates. This was the form originally seen by Laveran in Africa, and is the most comman portant to the public health of this Colony, in Hongkong though the benign forms are sank on the 3rd inst off Oxushirishima. of 30 souls on board, the captain and 11 others
(with the possible single exception of Bob nie also met with here. In this type the crops vi were saved-Three Russian soldiers have been
parasites ripen dess regularly than in the killed and to others, including three officers, Plague), which may lead to co-operation in
measures for the destruction of the cause of simple Inte mittent, Fevers, and the result is imore or less seriously injured, in an accident
that rupture of sporncysta is taking place on the Chinese Eastern Railway.
this disease so far-reaching in its effects on
al the time, patson such as I spoke of ́FOREIGN ADMIRALS AT HANOI:-The health and life, And, let me sy forthwith, is being pomed into the blood continuously, that while what I may say to-night will chiefly and we get a continued fever, or a fever which Russian criuser Admiral Nakima, which recently let here, has arrived at Hanoi, having incriminale the genus"Anopheles, the crusade only occasionally remits to a slight extent, on board Grand Duke Cyrille of Russia. The preach is, for reasons which I shall briefly instead of the burst of ague with the succeed. ing complete intermission, which characterizes flag of Admiral Bayle, has also arrived. Ad indicate later, a war of extermination against the more benign types of fever,
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I use the word "extermination" deliberately, even while I know it to be on the wide scale an impossibility. Mosquitoes are world-wide in their distribution. They equally affect great centres of population and the wildest wastes on the face of the earth; they are equally the
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Meanwhile, at the other side of the globe a young American pathologist, named Mac- Callan, was s udying at Baltimore another cognate parasite, named Halteridium, which he inund in the blood of crows, and which find xists in pigeons in Hongkong, and he discov. red in 1897 the actual destination of the free-swimming whip'ike processes which mentioned as being given off by the dageliating fans of the pa asite. While watching certain some of them gave off flagelia as I have parasites under the microscope he noticed that described, others, however, somewhat mor granular in appearance, remaining quite
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f.ee Nigellum passive. approach one of the quiescent parasites, enter it, and become fused with its substance. And then a remarkable change occurred. The hitherto entirely passive tillle animal became exceedingly active in its move. ments; and gradually became, elongated and in its appearance. MacCallum wormlike recognised that what he had seen was a true sexul process in a very i wly form of animal
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ile. Koch observed this fertilized form.
soon after fe d⋅ng a cules on a sparrow infect- wornlike in shape, in a mosquito's stomach ed with Proteosoms. Finally, Grassi traced
he whole process, step by step, in the case of So definite are the differences among the human malaria, bringing together, and apply. three main types of the parasite that it is posing to the human parasite what had i can work sible by microscopic examination of a deep fed out, bit by bit, as I have shown, by many workers, of various nationalities in widely blood from the finger of a fever patient to diagnose not merely the fact of Malaria, but its separated parts of the world. At no single Briefly epitomized, the mosquito mal.ria theory variety and the probable future course of the point is the evidence incomplete.
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of the Tropical Traveller; they are found on the hill-tops of the world, and they swarm' throughout its river deltas; and the species, of mosquito has been found at an altitude of 11,000 feet among the Himalayas and on the sea-level in Scandinavia.
And the fecundity of the insect is amazing, Ficalbi says that one mother mosquito may in the fifth generation be the progenitor of twenty milliards: Howard shows that one rain-water barrel may contain nearly 20,000 larvae, and that they may produce twe've generations in one summer. This at a low estimate would produce in a single summer a number of mos- quitoes expressed by 25 figures, an unthinkable number.
For some time after this, the method oft ans. mis ion of malaria fr. m one human being to another remained a mystery. It was found inoculated in a heality person, not only repro- deces the disease, but produces invariably malaria of a type exactly corresponting with that inoculated. But how nature effects this samė «bject remai:ed unknown,
I mentioned that most of the parasites in the blood of a person suffering from malaria form sporocysts, and by means of spores the xistence of the parasite within the infected person is maintained; but this is not true of all ile paasites, certain of then on reaching maturity not going on to sporulation. These exceptional parasites, which in the malignant type of malaria are crescentic in form, when observed under the microscope under THE FRONG MR. WRIGHT will be played for the last time to-night and the opportunity
suitable conditions, were found to throw off fit le rapidly moMag whip like processes, which should not be missed for seemg this sparkling
in Hongkong mosquitoes are found every-
become detached and flout free in the blood comedy. Tomorrow (Wednesday) night a complete change of programme will be made where throughout the island, from the flag-fluid in 1891, Dr. Patrick Alanson suggested by the presentation of Shakespear's great staff to the Praya. They breed in myriads in that as these cells only develop their flagella tragedy Romeo and Julici. Miss Waldorf will every tavine toughout the length and breadth
same time afer the blond luas been drawn from the body, and never possess them at the time be seen as Juliet and another chance will be and height of it. How then propose "exter-
mination"? afforded longhong audiences of seeing her in
of leaving the human body, this would probably Over against the facts I have just mentioned, prove to be part of an extra-corporeal cycle of her most artistic mood. The season will be
we have the forunute circnstance that mos
the parasite and that these cells would be limited to tro nights.
quitoes as a role fly only a very short distance found to have something to do with the trans-- HONGKONG AND TRUTH:-Fron from the r native haunts, from the place where mission of the disease fruin one person to PHOTOGRAPHIC Hongkong 1 hear that N.C.O's and men of the they were bred. They take shelter from the another. He further suggested that as the Hongkong Company, R.E., who have, owing to gentlest breeze, and are hence rarely carited parasite lives only within tre blord corpuscles, the war, served in that command beyond the any distance by the wind. The distance of and apfears is none of the discharges, it must DEPARTMENT.
ordinary period of their engagenient, are to fight has been variously estimated by different be carried by some blood-sucking insect; which receive extra pay ranging from ad to 54 per observers, and while some make it a few huntrum iis habits and the errespondence of its DEVELOPING and PRINTING
dred yards, and others think they may at times distribution with that of Malaria he believed UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. day until they are lieved; but no. similar
would prove, to be the mosquito. The pos- concession is made to the 5th Fo.tress Comfy half a mile or in re, all agree that it is very GOOD, WORK.
pany, R.E, on the save statin, who have been limited. For safety let the longest estimate sibility of something of this nature being-the truth had before been suspected, but it was PROMPT RETURN. demained in the same way for an exceptional be accepted.
Manson who definitely publicly propounded -time, though there are some of them who have
the theory. langkong, 8th July, 1902.
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The breeding habits of the mosquito are well ascertained and easily assailable, and what I claim is, that we may create in Hongkong and its immediate neighbourhood conditions that will make it impossible for the inset to breed within the City of Victoria; so that, while an occ.sinnal mosquito might continue to find its way from the outlying districts, the mosquito may in this city become for all practical put poses as extinct as the dodo anil, so faras infection with malaria within the city itself concerned, this City of Victoria, may become as free from malara as is this city of Rome, which, buit as it is in the midst of a region fuil of the most pernicious forms of malaria, is yet itself quite free from the disease.
ajor Ronald Ross of the Indian Medical Service set to work 10 test Manson's theore His method was to allow mosquitoes, which had been bred from the larval stage in his laboratory to secure that they should be free from any infection otherwise, to bite persons suffering from
And this leads me to mention of another important practical consideration. So far as is. known, no other animal shares with man the tendency to be the intermediate host of the any animals, parasites of hamian Malaria. cattle, sheep, dogs, bats, monkeys, birds, fings, elr,, suffer from blood parasites akin to the e of Malaria, but the parasites are of quite distinct species. Kach specially investigated the possibility of transmiting malaria to the lower animals in Java, where he was able to experiment will animals closely allied to the human species, the orang-outang and bylobates, but he failed entirely to produce the disease in these higher apes, as other investigators have falled with other animals. This, of course,
does not absolutely prove that no lower animal can he hospitable to the parasites of human -Maluria, as-there-may-be-one-rot-yet.experi._. nenied with, but the probabilities are so great as to amount to practical certainty.
(To he Continued.
[We regr?t being unable to give our readers he-fu - text-of Dr. Thomson's-Iccurcin tonight's issue as contrary to expectation the last instalment of the copy did not reach .`us from one of our contemporaries tiļl z jem.
to-day--Ed, K, TJ
1.E. the Governor invited discussion, and proceeded to refer to the steps that had been taken in the New Territory for the extermina tiun of mosquitoes. He was inclined in the belief that malala was propagated by causes other than mosquitnes, which would always be will.us.
Cal, Brown also addressed the meeting, after which Dr. Atkinson observed that in the medical profession it was recognised a connection existed between the mosquito and malaria.
H.E. moved a vote of thanks to Dr. Thomson for his excellent paper which he characterised as the most interesting and instructive that " had ever been given in Hongkong.
CLAIM AGAINST THE P.W.D.
RESPECTING A COLLAPSE.
PLAINTIFFS WIN.
At the Supreme Court this morning, before the l'uigne Judge, His Hinour A; G. Wise, Mr. Colman Hughes and others claimed from
the on. W. Chatham, D) P.W., and Mr. A. H. Hollingsworth, assistant water authority, $1,000 damages in respect of damage caused by the collapse of a wall,
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, up- peared for the defence, and Mr. Looke', of Messrs. Deacon and Hastings, for the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs alleged that during March and April, a trench was opened in connection with the water mains in Robin- son Road, immediately behind their house, which was supported by a retaining wall. Owing to its position the trench was liable to become filled with water if a storm occurred, and the defendants allowed it to remain open far longer than was necessary. Water whs allowed to remain there for several days, with the result that having no outlet provided for it, it gradually percolated through the adjoining snil in the direction of the retaining wall, which collapsed on the 11th Jure.
The parasites of malaria, like many other parasitic organisms, have two cycles of develop fuent: Une is asexual, by spore formation,
'the defendants contend that the work was providing for the propagation of the parasite within the human host. The other cycle is carried out in a proper manner under the superin- sexual, fertiliration taking place in the stomach tendence of Mr. Hollingsworth. They attribe.. of the mosquite, when infected blood has beented the collapse to internal weakness and faulty. ingested, and development taking place in the construction of the wall aggravated by heavy walls of the stomach. The germs produced rainfall, wind and offer natural causes. collect in great numbers in the salivary glands of the insect, and are injected with the poisan when it bites a human being. And, finally, | healthy persons thus bitten by infected ano. pheles themselves contract the disease a fort night or three weeks later,
The witnesses called upon were the Hon, W. Chatham and Messrs. Turner, Leigh, and Hallingsworth
Mr. Leigh said he had passed the berch on different occasions and had seen gater stand- ing in it te opined that water.could t have got into the back of the wall if the treneli had not been open, and that the precautions taken to prevent the water from finding its way into the trench were insufficient.
Let me invite your attention to this Diagram Diagram, demonstrated kindly placed at any disposal by Dr. Hunter fein among those he uses for class purposes in the College of Medicine for Chinese; The Hon. W, Chatham attributed the collapse_ hut I beg of you do not read his nomenclature, to a big tree that, when swaying in the wind, wuld also impart some of the motion to its it was "made in Germany," There are a dozen
roots growing against the wall. The season diff: ent ways of describing what is here illus
movious to the time referred to was exception. trated all of them admirable, but tending to terrific confusion when they happen to meet.ily dry and the earths must have cracked and As Kipling has it:
allowed the rain to percolate through the sail, 3 here are nine and sixty ways of construct-with regard to the trench, he said there was a
...ing tribal lays;
good outlet for water so that it would not percolate in that quarter, but simply puss through.
And every single one of them is right." A public experiment was arranged in 1900 under the auspices of the Colonial Office, and under the direction of Dr. Manser, by whom it was suggested, to thoroughly lest the mosquito malaria theory, positively and negatively. It was no new experiment, for proof was already abounding, but it was a public popular demo- stration.
In giving judgment, His Lordship said he had no doubt that the collapse of the wall wis caused by the percolation from the trench. He dismissed the idea of the tree and other excuses of the defendants, and found that there was negligence on the part of the defendants. He gave judgment for the plaintiffs, with costs. SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
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Mosquitoes were infected in Italy with the parasites of Benign Tertian Malaria; sent to Lendon with all speed; and allowed to feed on "Dr. Thuiburn, Manson, a son of Dr. Manson, and on Mr. R. Warren, of the London Tropical Shool. In cach case fever developed exactly eighteen days after they were bitten by the infected mosquitoes, and the parasite of Design Tertian Malaria was found in their bead by competent independent observers." nalari,, and rientafer. On the other hand, Dr. Sambanane of the varying interva's to search in the bodies of the recturers at the London Tropical Sch ol, and insects thus fed with infected blood for evidence Dr Low, one of the most brilliant of its of the presence or development of the parasite students, volunteered to spend the feverstason For twn long years he failed to find any tace of 1900 in the most deadly spot to be found
The N. P. ́S Co.'s sterer Glenopte sail d of it. Yet he persisted and it is this persist in the Roman Campagna, with no protection ence in the pursuit of the theory that had laid agant Malaria, other than the avoidancefrom Yokohama for Victoria, B.C., and Tacoma huld on hini, in face of such utter failure, that of musquito-biles between sunset and sunrise, on yesterday the 15th inst. But, Sir, this is premature. I have claimed cans utes onenost almirable feature of Ross's the hours during which Anopheles usually The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s sleamer Tarfar left Yokohama pm, on Saturday, the the death sentence before I have made my casework. At length in August 1897, he tried a feeds. This they secured by means of a care against the mosquito. Let me tell you, stage hitherto unused species of mosquito, belongingfully construeled but, whose windows
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steage found that, day or two after they had been they retired an hour before sunset each Athenian arrived at Nagasaki at 8 amon fed with malarial blood, organisms similar to evening. They moved freely about the those of malaria were to be found encysled country in the dayume. They lived thus Tuesday, the 16th inst, and leaves again at between the layers of the stomach walls in the in the district of Osia, ner the mouth of the pm, same day for Shanghai where she is the infected insects. He had solved the problem Tiber, from 19th July To fgth October, 1900, -10 arrier at to a m., on Thursday, the 18th inst
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