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all the staff there were free from infection or the likelihood of spreading it. After 98 had been through the preliminary examinations, enthusiasm waned and no more were sent up. The work, therefore, a laborious undertaking, had to be abandoned half completed. This was a great pity, as, apart from the expense of materials, much time was fruitlessly spent on an investigation which, had one been able to complete it, would have been a valuable piece of work.
(3) Owing to a small outbreak of enteric fever at an institution in Hongkong, the question of possible carriers being responsible was taken up. The upshot of this was that three such were discovered and since then no further outbreak has occurred, and the precaution is now taken of examining all those who may be detailed to act as cooks, or who are concerned with the handling and distribution of food, to see whether they are carriers, and none who prove positive are allowed to be employed in cooking or in distributing food to others.
2.-IN CONNECTION WITH TUBERCULOSIS.
This investigation was undertaken with the purpose of ascertaining several points. Firstly, why the disease is so prevalent amongst children in Hongkong; secondly, what differences, if any, occur between the condition as met with at home and in other tropical countries and that obtaining here; thirdly, to formulate measures for checking the ravages of a disease which is preeminently among those classified as "preventable."
Minute examinations and full records have been made of over 200 cases up to the present and a detailed report is being prepared for transmission to the Tropical Disease Research Committee. The details being rather of academic interest do not call for mention here, suffice it to say that whereas at home the primary portal of entry of the bacillus in children is, in the majority of cases, alimentary, out here the respiratory predominates in the proportion of 5 to 1.
Further, as this is a report upon the work done, the question of preventive measures suggested is beyond its scope; these will, therefore, be considered elsewhere. The investigation which is on lines different from those undertaken in other places will be continued, since the opportunities for studying the condition here are exceptionally favourable, and the morbid anatomy findings yield inferences of importance from the epidemiological aspect.
3. THE INITIATION OF MEASURES FOR THE TREATMENT OF RABIES. Steps were taken for this purpose in May last and rabbit inoculations were started in June. A certain amount of virus was prepared, the material being obtained from Saigon by the kindness of the Director of the Pasteur Institute there.
Two patients have been up for treatment, one was an exceptionally severe case and on that account is worthy of record.
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all the staff there were free from infection or the likelihood of spreading it. After 98 had been through the preliminary examina- tions, enthusiasm waned and no more were sent up. The work, therefore, a laborious undertaking, had to be abandoned half completed. This was a great pity, as, apart from the expense of materials, much time was fruitlessly spent on an investigation which, had one been able to complete it, would have been a valuable piece of work.
(3) Owing to a small outbreak of enteric fever at an institution in Hongkong, the question of possible carriers being responsible was taken up. The upshot of this was that three such were discovered and since then no further outbreak has occurred, and the precaution is now taken of examining all those who may be detailed to act as cooks, or who are concerned with the handling and distribution of food, to see whether they are carriers, and none who prove positive are allowed to be employed in cooking or in distributing food to others.
2.-IN CONNECTION WITH TUBERCULOSIS.
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This investgation was undertaken with the purpose ascertaining several points. Firstly, why the disease is so prevalent amongst children in Hongkong; secondly, what differences, if any, occur between the condition as met with at home and in other tropical countries and that obtaining here; thirdly, to formulate measures for checking the ravages of a disease which is preeminently among those classified as "preventable."
Minute examinations and full records have been made of over 200 cases up to the present and a detailed report is being prepared for transmission to the Tropical Disease Research Committee. The details being rather of academic interest do not call for mention here, suffice it to say that whereas at home the primary portal of entry of the bacillis in children is, in the majority of cases, alimentary, out here the respiratory predominates in the porportion of 5 to 1.
Further, as this is a report upon the work done, the question of preventive measures suggested is beyond its scope; these will, therefore, be considered elsewhere. The investigation which is on lines different from those undertaken in other places will be continued, since the opportunities for studying the condition here are exceptionally favourable, and the morbid anatomy findings yield inferences of importance from the epidemiological aspect,
3. THE INITIATION OF MEASURES FOR THE TREATMENT OF RABIES. Stops were taken for this purpose in May last and rabbit inoculations were started in June. A certain amount of virus was prepared, the material being obtained from Saigon by the kindness of the Director of the Pasteur Institute there.
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Two patients have been up for treatment, one was exceptionally severe case and on that account is worthy of record.
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