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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1925.

SQUITO CONTROL.

UNIQUE INSTITUTION

OPENS.

FURTHER RESEARCH.

Founded for the purpose of providing the public generally with the best information on the most effective methods of fighting the mosquito plague, there was opened by Sir Ronald Ross on Hayling Island (off the coast of Hants) the new laboratories of the British Mosquito Control, the only institution of its kind in the world.

The control is equipped with a specimen museum (containing 25 different species). rooms for farve-breeding, A microscopic laboratory, photographic studies, and so on. In future the work of investigation will be pursued or even wider lines than in the past with a view to stamping out the mosquito plague.

The control owes its existence to Mr. J. A. Marshall, who has devoted all his time for the past five years to finding out new facts regarding the mosquito. One of his discoveries that among mosquitoes the female is deadlier than the male, and he has also found the reason why a mosquito bites. It is done, not out of vin- dictiveness, but in obedience to the instinet for reproduction. Unless a female mosquito draws blood from someone her eggs are

sterile.

of millions of descendants.

The

ceremony

continent was known to Euro- peana through the conturies until quite recent times is accounted for by the omnipre- sence of the mosquito, the trans- mitter of the fatal infections for which medical science was 'so

THE NEW WAY.

CRIME AS MEDICAL

PROBLEM.

"SEGREGATING THE UNDIT.

long withon remedy. Such disease is fought to-day withi

The recent meeting in London drugs, but these cannot prevent of the great International Prison its sapping of the inner citadel of Congress, with its cheering reports the human constitution. There is of steadily emptying prisons almost no true protection but the exter- all over the world, encourages us minating of the insect pests in to mise a further question, writes the areas where man desires to Dr, Woods Hutchinson. M.A.. live and prosper; and it is the M.D., a leading American expert, glory of Sir Ronald Ross and in that “Daily Mail." How far those who have followed in his ure we now prepared to treat crime foot-stepa toat this has been us medical problem? In other shown to be possible and practic-words is crime preventable? Is the able. When Sir Ronald begar his vriminal curable ? work of research in India thirty years ago there did not exist a single book dealing with the mosquitoes that country. To-day the study of the mosquito is n voluminens branch of science. Much, if not most of the truth about the mosquito's power of

of

devastalion, and

the similar

My own rat vivid realisation of crime as a medical problem antes from a visit to the State Home for Feeble-Minded Children at Vine

and, New Jersey

On tracing the pedigree of in- mates it was found that nearly one third of the 700 children were a closely related us second cousins. linquents and paupers it was found Intrucing & new family of dé that in the same towns and regions, the same name but were all pro- was another large family who had

rous and law-abiding citizens.

THE MAKING OF CRIMINALS.

On looking up the pedigree of these families it was discovered that both,were descended from one common ancestor out seven gen emtions back. A young man of good family ran a little wild, and for some time lived with an attrac tive bus fechle-minded and de- linquent girl, by whom he had a child. Then he went away to the War of 1776. and on his return re formed and married respectable girl of excellent family and had several children.

From his child by the foehle minded girt sprang a family reach ing some 160 members in seven gen erations, nearly all of whom were feeble-minded. petty thieves. drunkards, prostitutes, papers.

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power in other insect pests. is known. It is in the taking of measures to abate and destroy that power that the practical efforts of civilised man have lagged behind his achievements in scientific research. That the thing can be done effectively on a great scale, by the destruction of breeding-places or by the killing of farva, has been signally proved again and again with regard to the mosquito; no expenditure of money on any public purpose is assured of a more certain or a After biting a person and draw-more immensely profitable return ing blood the mosquito flies off to in the saving of life and health, the nearest water pool of marshy The seeking of new facts, the patch and lays her eggs.. So pro-working out of new methods, the lifie are they that a mosquito pursuit of research on the subject may become great-grandmother of insect-borne infection in gen- eral, is the task of Mr. Marshall at Hayling and his assistants at Hayling Island was performed by that Island; and their countrymen world-famous investigator and may take pride in the thought benefactor

Sir that British scientific enterprise of mankind, Ronald Ross, who knows well is still in the van of that march what valuable work has already of discovery, with all its promise been done at Mayling Island in

of benefit to mankind, for which that field of research which he the signal was given by Sir was the first to tread with cer- Ronald Ross #

quarter of a tain steps thirty years ago.

century ago. Among the most interesting things shown this year at the British Empire Exhibition in Sir Ronald's notebook of that time; in the Ceylon building it is dis- played lying open at the pages re-Kowloon, the Rev. Father Spit cording the observations which niiciating, of Josephine Bartlett, and the lines have fallen nuto us led to his historic discovery that danghter of Mr. and Mrs. H. in pleasant places," the spreading of malaria is due to Barlett, of Redcliffe Gardens, Lon-born to honour, the other to die. the agency

of the anopheles don, 8.W., and Robert Paterson, honour. mosquito. This was the first of the Asiatic Petroleum Com- sten in a wonderful work of pro-pany's stuff at Nanking, son of Enected with the famous Jukes Then came the revelations con- gress, the effects of which in the Paterson

Bq., who

14 senior family, a tribe of Ishmael, saving of human life have already partner of the firm of Ker, Bolton and Co., London. The church was prettily decorated. The bride was. givon away by Captain W. E. larke, while Mrs. Clarke depitised for the bride's ther

as Matron of Honour.

been immense.

KOWLOON WEDDING..

The wedding took place yester day, at the Rosary Church,

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TROPICAL WORK. Yet this, as Sir Ronald Ross in- sisted in his recent speech, ia but a beginning. Tropical areas now made safe and habitable, as in Panama, Hongkong, the Malay The bride was very nicely dr sed States, Ismailia, and elsewhere, in old family Ince over are but a small part of the vast time, with veil of gold net expanse of the earth's surface plete with the conventional orange that is cursed by insect-borne in-blossoms, arranged with venetian fection. Nor is Europe itself by wird head-dress. The frock was any means free from the danger set off with a bouquet of tea roses in less deadly forms, and even in and maiden-hair fern. England serious and at times fatal illness due to this cause is Daphne Bird, daughter of Hon. far from rare, and has been on the Mr. H. W. Bird, and Miss Marion Lane. They wore dainty dressur increase in recent years. work at Hayling Island, indeed, af lavender ergandie, reffered with roses and forget me-nots, and had its origin five years ago in a

carried wands with Honolulu determined effort to rid South Hampshire of a type of mosquito which breeds in the neighbour.

The

The bridesmaida

creeper.

were Miss

The Matron of Honour, Mrs. Clarke, were a dresa of Irish cochet lace.

hood of the sex, and which has caused, and still canses, misery

Mr. Peter Bartlett, P..N.. brother to innumerable holiday-makers of the bride, was best man. along our coasts. The work of

The service was folly choral, and Mr., J. F. Marshall, who founded closed with the Nuptial Mass. and equipped the Control In-Afterwards the party adjourned to stitute, and of those private citi- the Presbytery, which had also zane and public bodies which been gaily decorated, and where co-operated with him, has been the reception was held and go crowned with striking local suc wishes expressed. cess, and he has now initiated a The happy couple are spending much more extensive task in the their honeymoon at Taipo, whither undertaking of general research the bride travelled in a going-away into the possibilities of mosquita dress of apricot georgette with control, to be carried on in the large crinoline hot, enlarged and fully-equipped establishment of which he is the

a fuir sample of the comparative efficiency and economy of treating crime as a disen,

The picture of dementia precox is the picture of a typical prison population. Te begins suddenly st from 12 to 15 years of age, rapidly rises and incresses up to 25 to 30 years, which is the apex of our criminal prison population; and it cupidly declines into either decreni- tude or death after 30

The secret of the crime problem liest in the mind of the criminal. When grave mental defect pro- ducing anti-social conduct is dis covered, the rational remedy is segregation. with the sexes separ atod, or sterilisation.

The latter remedy has now been carried out in some 3,000 cases in tha United States without a single bad reaalt, and 18 of 49 States have laws authorising it, under competent boards of judges, medi- cal experts, heads of prisons, and commissioners of charities.

Two-thirds of the sterilisations so far have been at the request of the prisoner, on the advice of his fellows who have been treated, or at the desire of his family.

mentia precox can be detected by Both feeble-mindedness and de-

schools before ten or, at the cut- skilled, psychologists in the public

side, twelve years of age. And at this age they can be readily dealt) with either by special education ce by segregation in happy farm colonies and industrial villages, planned for children who never grow up.

FORD CHARITY.

TRUSTEES TO MANAGE A NEWSPAPER.

The Chicago Daily News," one of the richest newspaper properties in the United States, has been left to benevolent institutions under the will of Mr. Freemont Lawson, its proprietor.

The paper, which became ex- tremely profitable natter Mr. of xxl family Spring a second publication under the trusteeship of From his marriage with the girl | Lawson's direction, is to contine group of about 120 in the same the Illinois Merchants Trist Com- Time, all of whem, with the excep-pany, which has promptly ton of few hard drickers, were unneed its intention to carry on respectable, Prosperons, law. Mr. Jawson's policy. abiding citizens of good standing. in the community.

Wenk wit, cruzed by wild blood --and we see the sins of the fathure visited upon the children unto the Blood, steadied by sand stock-- fifth and sixth generations. Wid

One family

POISONED BLOOD.

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The will mices no specific rien- Gon of the newspaper, which goes to the residue of the estate, a part of which goes to the Chicago Con- gregationst Churchi Missionary Ex- Theologien Seminary, the Chicago tension Society, the Chiengo Young Men's Christian Association, and to pbrother of the publisher.

2955,000 CASH BEQUESTS.

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· Mr. Lawson also gave the mix- cash bequests, which sionary society £280,000 from his totalled £955,000, and other residuary legaters to receive £20,000 each. Soon after the death of Dr. Liberal cash bequests for other Dugdale, who traced the family charitable purposes and to cm- tree of over 700 delinquents and ployees and business associates are prostitutes, the records were lost included in the will, among them and the family could not be fallow being £40,000 to Mr. Melville ad further.. But after nearly 30 Stone, the former lend of the Asso. vers the records were discovered ciated Press and Mr. Lawson' in cellar in the reformatory, the partner in the early vs of the history of the tribe was again takenChicago Daily News. up and followed down to date, and. three notorious murderers were found to have been of the Tukes blood, with a swarm of miner offenders! The records were lost. the pedigree forgotten, hut the poison of the vagabond, criminal blood, lived on..

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RUDOLPH.

TAKING "A MARITAL HOLIDAY."

A little later. in the great State! of Indians, careful field studies Mr. Rudolph Valentino, “Sheik' revealed that nearly 85 per cent. of the kinemas, and his actress wife, of the crimes committed in a ten Natacha Rumbova, in private life year period by native offenders Misa Winifred Hudnut the adopt- were the work of fre defective and ed daughter of the Parisian, per criminal families! Sterilisation or faner, have come to the parting of segregation of five vagabond, the ways. worthless couples thirty years be- After three years' musied life fore would have cut down the crime they hare separated, but each roll by 35 per cent

insists that it is only a marital Feeble-mindedness probably ac- holiday." counts for 30 per cent. of crimer They admitted that differences of and 90 per cent. of pauperism and temperament led to clashes, and of violence require strength, brains. Follywood and that she is going Bat planned crimes that he will remain at work in prostitution

and courage. Fifteen years ago abroad to visit her parents, but the great Kraepelin discovered and Ms. Valentino denied that she described a new form of insanity would obtain a divorces while in

Buch a revolu- Paris. dementia precox, tionary discovery was it that within Mr: Valentino whose real nime ten years 45 per cent. of the insane is Guglielmi, is the son of an Italian in our asylums were classed a doctor, and was to have become a

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director. "Mosquito control Paris, October 6.--General Hau dementis precoz This was prob- farmer. here," said Sir Ronald Ross. Shu-tseng ("Little" Hau) inter-ably excessive. Now a similar to His first wife was Midr Jenn "would facilitate mosquito con- viewed by "Le Temps, declared volution is taking place in our view Acker, a film notress, from whom trol in the most pestiferous re- that he was glad to have conferred of crime, and from 20 to 75 per he obtained a divane in Californin gions of the earth, and the day with French specialists of every cent. of our criminals are classed in 1992. might come he was sure it would kind; and to have experienced the as precur, which is also probably Afterwards he went to Mexico with Miss Winifred Hudant, the come when all those fertile pro-Chinese sympathy of all classes excessive.

2 65-75 PER CUNT. UNBALANCED. tracts of the world now dominated of the French nation. General Hau

daucliter of an American millionaire and ravaged by King Malaria is convinced that Chinese civiliza-

perfumer, and they were married But careful -und competant and Queen Mosquito would-be tion and French culture can "re- laid open to civilization.join and complete mutually a nuke Jacoby, of Detroit, now regard States. Mr. Valentino was arrested

psychiatrists attached to courts coding to Mexican law.

On his darn to flies United iber of points, but it is necessary from 10 to 15 per cent as inmine on a charge of bigamy The Nothing in human history is that the two peoples shall become from 30 to 10 per cent, as feeble large was dismissed and in 1928.

helter acquainted. When he in more remarkable than the con- Gluna General Hen will minded, and from 30 to 40 per he and Miss Hadout were re trast between the comparatively

morried, rapid and easy victory of man continu a policy of Franco-Chinese et more ae of psychopathic

TINY BUT DEADLY.

over the great beasts and reptiles and his total helplessness through. out the ages in the face of attack the tiniest of Hving, things,

tthe disinus ben

prochement-Beuter.

FEELING LIVERISH AND TRRITABLET.

ats the liver:

constitution,” or, in plain English

cranks" and "misfita," making from 65 to 75 per cent mentally defective or unbalanced.

Peking,, Otober 6-L1-Chen- One great court at Chicago, prenan reports that sided over by Indge Olsen has Ching-táng, Pro atlashed to it, as psychopating his petitaotled the

bor's bokej to which are referred ice and the General all esses showing any suspicion of the Court, urging that menital defect.

The laboratory detecta

years and commit

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