CANTON HOTEL STRIKE.
NEW VACCIN ATION.
GOVERNMENT DECLINES
TO YIELD.
The Progress of "Displytes."
In recent years the rate of pro News from Canton is to the gress in bacteriology, apart from effect that the hotel and restaurant,
the
special fold of tropical medicine, has slowed down, com- The hotel proprietors have periments the server's medicalf
strike still continues.
been met.
婚
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
THE YOKOHAMA CONVENT.
Terrible Incidents Described.
B.S it!
She
BOARDERS BURNT TO DEATH.
One of the lady teachers at the tioned the Civil Governor to respondent. Further, we have Convent, Yokohama. has given abolish the tax, but the latter has come to remember, as has been the Jupus Chronicle an account of declined to do so, pointing out repeatedly urged here, that the Great Earthquake
nutrition is a more fundamental affected that institution. that half of the 20 per cent, tax is ] borne by the customers them question even than infection a said:
fact never forgotten by Pasteur selves.
"We of the Convent were early himself. The great unsolved pro- risers. The strikers do not show anyblems of disease lie evidently while we were at prayers, we About 5.30 that morning. sign of submission, and they will within the sphere of cutrition noticed a slight earthquake, one continue to keep their premises the shut until their demands have for instance, teaches that cancer been led to regard as a sort of existing evidence, of those little ones which we had is not a problem of infection but of seismic safety valve, but which disonlered nutrition resulting in was in fact a warning of the great disordered cell-life. But this is catastrophe to come. It caused not to say that bacteriology has us no more than the usual muld THEATRE ROYAL, shot its bolt, nor that we should concern and subsequent relief, cease to cultivate the field and we settled down as usual to wherein Pasteur was the pioneer-four daily routine. At 1.58 the PADDY THE NEXT BEST the contrary, in two most boarders of the foreign girl
hopeful ways we may reap a school, who were only seven in THING."
richer harvest than ever from his number owing to the holidays.| The large audience at the work.
were in their recreation room, în Theatre "Royal last night One
the method of charge of a sister, waiting for the thoroughly enjoyed the Forbes chemotherapy, which we owe to tiffia bell; most of the nuns were Russell Comedy Company's pre-Pasteur's greatest follower, the in chapel; the Japanese orphans, sentation of "Paddy the Next German-Jew Ehrlich, who died some hundred all told. were Best Thing" the charming play early in the war, but whose work mostly in the playground; the based on Gertrude Page's novel. has been very fruitful and very tay sisters and Japanese staff The story of the play is well greatly extended since we lost were going about their several known, and those who have seen him. The chemical construction duties in various parts of the it will remember that it is, in the lof specific compounds exactly institution. The Mother Superior, main, a one-part play, that part fitted to be fixed only by, and bowever, was absent, at our villa being the wild, outspoken butthus Lu kill only. specificat Akubara, near Tomioka. поде the less lovable Irish parasites which have infected "The shock took us all without girl. Paddy. Naturally, this us, is difficult in the extreme,
warning. As you know, the role was entrusted to Miss and involves the highest chemical
buildings, with one exception of convent was a collection of large brick, built at different levels, aud all connected by stairways, land- ings and covered passages. I was
Nique Lewis, and can equipment. We have yet to raise be said that in her interpret ourselves in this country to the ation
of it she added yet standard required and reached another triumph to those already in Germany for this work.
registered during the present "The other is the method of in my quarters sewing. I put
In this
SEASON. It was an altogether which our own Jenner. the
was forerunner of Pasteur himself. door with the intention of escap faultless study, and she
down my work and Dew to the loudly applauded by the audience was the western pioneer-bis for her spirited acting. Mr. vaccination being the same ing down a flight of steps into the Beresford Lovett. 15 Paddy's principal as the eastern method Sarden. But instead of running
was of preventive inoculation against the violence of father (the old Generall
down the steps as I intended
the motions. again most successful, giving a small pox by deliberate
intro-threw me down them and i was very finished portrayal of the duction of the virus from a shot violently into the next build- part, whilst Mr. Frederick, Burt- mild case of the disease, well as Paddy's "enemy" was also field, following the superb work life and caused my injuries. for |ing, which fact at once saved my very fine. All the other parts of Pasteur himself in hydropbia. had I been in the garden the were in capable hands, and the glanders, and anthrax, our whole of the building I had left performance was a distinct credit workers have been pre-eminent. would have cellap-ed upon me. to the whole Company.
as in the work of Sir Almroth while in the building I To-night the great attraction Wright, which Save us the "Secrets" is to be staged. preventive inoculation against pitched into I was merely buried typhoid fever during the war.
in rubbish and pinned down by the band. saving hundreds of thousands of lire.
BLANKETS AND TENTS.
HONGKONG GIFTS FOR JAPAN.
WASHED-THROUGH" GERMS.
was
PRAYED FOR DEATH. Try as I might I could not get The most recent advance in my hand away. I knew that thel this field is the work of Professor building was on fire and I prayed George Dreyer, of Oxford. under that something would fall and the auspices of the Medical kill me before
the flames Research Council. This was reached me. But I was to have briefly discussed after his remark-a miraculou- e-cape. When the able lecture at St. Mary's Hospital-second great shock was on some, He treats certain bacteria with instinct urged me to make an formalin and acetone. which effort to release my hand, and by the Haruna Maru, the Hong-remove their fatty jacket. and between my own exertions and Kong Japan Disaster Relief Com-thus enable interaction to occur the earthquake I was at last able mitter despatched 10.000 blankets between their contained toxins to draw it free and dig myself out. to the devastated areas for the and the defensive mechanisms of "use of Japanese, as well as 1000 the body.
further blankets which were con- signed to Kobe for the use of Chinese refugees there.
"We learn that in addition to hundred tents sent off on Sunday
The term
"On reaching the upen I was joined by the sister who was with defatted." which he the foreign boarders. When she| and his fellow-workers used inaw that
the place musti the laboratory, is evidently too collapse These practical gifts from vernacular. He now ask us to charges Let's get
she -aid to her Hongkong will no doubt be much call these product "diaplytes "way, girls and threw open a door nut this appreciated.
for washed-through") and we which lead into the Japanese may here note with interest that)
quarters. Only one however, these diaplyte vaccines are being followed her to safety, the le used for clinical purposes. with survivor of the foreign boarders. BALANCE OF NATURE. very high hopes, in some thirty the others seeking other means
Beetle Helps to Keep Down Malaria.
A beetle has been found on thei Gold Coast which has the useful habit of eating the "grubs" of
places under the general direc-of escape and being cut off in the| tion of the Medical Research fallen building. We ran round to Council. Attempts are also being the side of the building where made to "vaccinate " calves-our their voices could he heard. terminology begins to be too screaming and sobbing and herrst- absurd hereabouts with these
ng for help... They seemed
diaplytes, prepared from tubercle to have been uninjured by accilli, in the hope of immunis the fall of the building,
ing them. These bacteriological efforts against a disease like except
one
mosquitoes.
giri who kept This beetle it is a tiger beetle tuberculosis may be, I fear, worse on my chest! Take it off! Oh.
crying. I've got a great stone] with the imposing name
than a waste of time if they divert please take it off! We com- Cicindela octnguttata goes to the edges of the ponds where the us from a return to natural condi- forted them and enjoined them to grubs are swimming, and fishes which tuberculosis cannot exist coming soon. But what could we tions for man and beast. under pray and told them that help was them out of the water. Thus it But it would be very splendid to do? Our task, even without the helps very materially to reduce have effective diaplytes, as the number of mosquitoes in any get may against. for instance,
fire, was one that would have
area where it works.
We
taken a gang of workmen a whole
One of the great problems, puerperal fever, which still des day, and we were entirely with-1 modern tropical medicine is the toys so many mothers in the land killing of these grubs, and so the of Lister and Nightingale.
extermination of disease-bearing; flies. Consequently it is probable that efforts will now be made to breed the tiger beetle in large, numbers.
A PUZZLE A DAY.
An automobile dealer sold 100
out tools and equipment. So, as the flames threatened to surround Is it became a matter of savingi ourselves or perishing with them and we were sorrowfully obliged to abandon them to their fate.
The Japanese orphans,-pro- At present another method of cars in eight days. Each day's portionately. fared teb..better. the same sort is in use in most sale was three automobiles though twenty of these poor little malaria countries. This consists greater than the sale of the day ones were lost. In all 36 mem- in putting "shoals" of a tiny fish previous. How many cars did he bere of our community perished, called “millions" into the ponds sell on the first, and on each including sight European sisters where mosquitoes breed. The succeeding day?
and two Japanese nuns. The "millions" feed on the grub.
Catholic brothers came to our Science is beginning to take a The difference in numbers of assistance and through their very deep interest in these the two companies was 6.. As courage and the devotion of the Balances of Nature," as they the larger had 72, the smaller Japanese staff many lives, were are calles, for it is probable that, contained 66, for.
saved." making a judicious use of them. One-sixth of the smaller, weTS we can improve both our health away on leave. and our crops.
Yesterday's answer:
Therefore the remainder.com-
The ravages of the green-fly,posed five-sixths, namely; 11 in for example, are controlled by the the hospital; 7 on special duty; 37 “ladybird." In a bad lady-bird on duty, totalling 55. One-sixth,| year such as the presnt-up till must, therefore, be 11. (Five- July-green-fly becomes a serious sixths) plus I (the one-sixth) | poste
total 66,
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