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Rat Investigations.
Owing to an increased mortality among the rats of Freetown a routine exam- ination for Plague in rats found dead has been carried out, beginning on the 3rd September to date, the results are negative. This work was undertaken as the Government Laboratory was unable to do it on account of shortage of staff.
Yellow Fever.
On the 29th September a European died in the nursing home at Freetown with symptoms strongly suggestive of Yellow Fever. Unfortunately there was no chance afforded of seeing the man before death, but at the request of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, a post-mortem was carried out with the assistance of Dr. Adler. The result of this examination was, that it was possible to say that death was not due to Yellow Fever, but in all probability was an acute septicemia, arising from an infected tonsil.
In addition to the above work various minor investigations were carried out
Filarial Infection.
Dr. Adler tried the action of Carbon Tetrachloride intravenously on Filarial Infection. As this drug had not been hitherto used intravenously it necessitated a considerable number of preliminary experiments on animals so as to arrive at a safe dose for human beings. The drug proved ineffectual, and the result has already been published in the Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology.
Dr. Adler has done a large number of post-mortems on native inmates of the Government Institution at Kissy. He has done all the cases he has been able to get, and, when trains were not suitable, he had not hesitated to walk the four miles and back, a rather trying experience in this climate.
In collaboration with Dr. Cummings (a Government Medical Officer), he has collected a series of malignant growths from natives. This is important work in view of the repeated claims by numerous medical men that malignant disease is unknown in West African natives of purè descent.
Dr. Adler has also done a considerable amount of work on animal parasitology, and several of his results are now being prepared' for publication.
I have, &c.,
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No:" 18.
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M. Pierre-R. Mertens, Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Bruxelles, attended a special course of instruction in advanced Entomology, especially in relation to Tsetse Flies and Mosquitoes. Autumn term, 1924.
Mr. W. G. Beaton, M.R.C.V.S., is attending a course in Veterinary Parasitology, dating from 22nd September, 1924.
Research.
Details of the investigations undertaken during this period will be found under Publications.
(1) The study of Plasmodium agama.
(2) An examination of rat-fleas in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
(3) A description of certain cestodes in the School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool.
(4) An investigation of the infection rate among Sierra Leone natives of the common intestinal parasites.
(5) A critical examination of methods of counting hookworm eggs in fæces. (6) The description of a new variety of tsetse fly from the Belgian Congo. (7) Observations of the crescent and the red cell in a case of malaria from the Federated Malay States.
(8) An investigation into the prevalence of human schistosomiasis in certain districts of the Protectorate of Sierra Leone.
(9) Observations on the classification of certain schistosome cercariæ.
(10) A record of the tumbu fly, Cordylobia anthropophaga in the eyelid.
(11) Experiments on the eggs of Oxyuris equi.
(12) Identification of parasites from animals which died at Sierra Leone.
(13) An observation on craw-craw in Sierra Leone.
(14) A record of the mosquitoes of Accra.
(15) An investigation into the value of urinary examinations in the diagnosis
of malaria.
(16) Descriptions of new mosquitoes from South America.
(17) Some African ceratopogonine--species of the genus Lasiohelea.
(18) An examination of Saurositus agama, a filarioid parasite of the lizard. Agama colonorum.
J. MIDDLEMASS HUNT,
Honorary Dean.
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THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAI.
OFFICE..
(Received 2nd December, 1924.)
H24, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, 1st December, 1924.
I ENCLOSE herewith, for the information of the members of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund Advisory Committee a report on the work of the School for the period 1st May, 1924, to 31st October, 1924.
SIR,
I am, &c.,
J. L. MCCARTHY,
Secretary.
Enclosure in No. 18.
H24, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, 1st November, 1924.
I BEG to submit the following report for the period 1st May, 1924, to 31st October, 1924.
Tuition.
The number of students attending the course of instruction for the Diploma of Tropical Medicine course during the Autumn term is fourteen, and eight Veter- inary students are attending the special course of instruction in Veterinary Parasitology and Entomology.
Dr. George Maclean, E.A.M.S., attended a special course of instruction in advanced Entomology from 3rd June to 11th July, 1924.
(19) A record of a case of sleeping sickness (T. gambiense) treated with Bayer 205."
Museum.
The Committee beg to thank the following donors of specimens to the Museum.
Adler, Dr. S.
Austen, Major E. E., D.S.O.
Barraud, Mr. P. J.
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Blacklock, Professor and Mrs.
Blacklock, Professor and Mrs.
Christophers, Colonel S. R...
and Barraud, P. J. Curry, Dr. C. D.
Davey, Dr. J. B.
Imperial Bureau of Entom- ology, per Dr. Guy A. K. Marshall, C.M.G. Ingram, Dr. A.
Innes, Dr. Frank Jones, Dr. J. Shirley
Lloyd, Dr. Ll.
Macfie, Dr. J. W. Scott
Cestodes from lizards.
Six para-type examples of Glossina swyn-
nertoni.
A representative collection of Indian mosquitoes (Anophelines and Culicines). A series of specimens illustrating the bionomics of Cordylobia anthropophaga. Miscellaneous collection of insects, chiefly
diptera.
A model of the armature of a Culicine
mosquito.
A collection of mosquitoes from the
Panama Canal Zone. Examples of the new tsetse fly, Glossina
swynnertoni.
An extensive series of the tsetse fly
Glossina swynnertoni, Australia.
Twenty-seven species of Tabanidæ, and five
species of Glossina.
An example of Mucidus scatophagoides. A small collection of mosquitoes from
Australia.
Living pupa of Glossina submorsitans and G. tachinoides. A series of the larvæ of tsetse flies.
A collection of Tabanidæ and mosquitoes.
Linguatulids from Accra.
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