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MALARIA RESEARCH,

INCREASING INCIDENCE OF DISEASE.

PREVENTATIVE MEASURES.

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LOST MEMORY.

SWEDE'S LIFE AS A BRITISH OFFICER.

SEQUEL, TO MINE EXPLOSION,

A Swede 'who lost his memory Ing the control and prevention of ¦ has now revealed his identity. He malaria, passed by the Malaria Sec-la a former mining engineer, Mr. tion of the Congress, was confirm C. G. N. Duner, a son of the late ed by the meeting of the Far East- Professor N. C. Duner, of Upsala. ern Association of Tropical Medi-

He participated in the war on cine.

the British side, and was reported The Malaria Section of the ith killed on the western front. He Congress of the Far Eastern Aszo-states that at the end of 1916 he elation of Tropical Medicine was in Flanders in a dug-out with aware of many Instances of a great 14 or 15 other officers, playing Increase in the incidence of malaria bridge, when someone suddenly caused by the facilities given to cried: "Get out. An explosion." mosquito reproduction by engineer They all got up, and Duner got hold ing works either during construc- of a tunic and threw it over him- tion or afterwards due to the dif- self. Then a German mine burst, ferent conditions brought about. and everybody was killed except This Congress is of the opinion Duner, who was hurled into the air that plans for railways, canals, amid a shower of earth and render harbours and all similar engineered unconscious. Ing works likely to affect the con- ditions producing malaria should be submitted to the proper Public Health Authorities and their Sant- tury Engineers before being sauc- tioned by Governmenta.

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Need For Research.

As It has been represented that differences of opinion regarding the beat method of controlling malarfu sometimes cause doubt in the public mind and so may ham- per the progress of anti-malaria work, this Congress takes the pre- sent opportunity to emphasise the fact that there is no single method of malaria control applicable to ill conditions and all countries.

Nevertheless they consider that for towns, mines, plantations, large public works and similar aggrega- tions of people, the control of the breeding places of the malaria- carrying species of mosquito is a method which should be employed whatever other anti-malarial mea- sures are put into force. Whenever possible this control should bo effected by permanent works which eliminate entirely the sources mosquito breeding.

of

He spent some time in hospital in England, but on his recovery could not remember his own identity. In the tunic which he wore there were, however, various papers with the name of "Colonel, M.," and Duner was supposed to be that colonel.

Duner does not recall how his life shaped itself as Colonel M., for whom there were no inquiries, but by degrees his memory returned, and when he came

across some Swedish papers, and was able to read them, he concluded that he must be a Swedish officer and not. British.

Then in a Swedish State hand- book he found a name that appear- ed familiar to him, wrote to the owner of the name, and found it was his own brother. His return to Stockholm followed.

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General Sir J. F. Noel Birch, Colonel-Commandant R.A., hus been appointed

a Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire Order (Military, Division),

AMERICAN WOMEN.

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Paris, Dec. 24. American women have found a loyal defender in a scion of one of France's greatest and oldest of noble familles, Count Stanislaus de la Rochefoucauld, whose other claim to-renown

that he is the husband of one of France's most attractive actresses, Alice Coces.

Count Stanislaus declares that in

a quarter of a century American women marrying into old French: modifed the phy- families have slognomy of Parls and changed bis pleasures from indoor to outdoor sports. They have sent Paris society from overcrowded guilded ballrooms into the cabarets, and centres of night life.

"American women really shun the society of present day Paris," Count Santalaus wrote in a criticism of society which turns out glorification of American women.

to be a

"They have caused the demi-mon- daines to practically disappear. The grandiose receptions of our fathers' days have given way to mad dashes around Paris at night, from one cabaret to another. Con- versation has given way to the rhythm of music.

"American women were made for that life. They are pala of speed. Her lack of intellectual gifts is made up by her snobbism, by her opinion of herself. She is her own best preas.agent.

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body is remarkable by the breadth of shoulders, the great flat expanse of chest, the length and fine lines of her limbs. We are far from the women of Louis XV. The Ameri- for a woman to possess round lines can has made it actually Indecent and fleshly limbs. D

"In her toilette she is extremely simple and possesses excellent taste She leaves the amulets and glase necklace to her Oriental sisters. When an American woman starta

For wide rural areas, specially those with scanty, poverty-stricken etc., of the people. The systematic to load herself with jewellery, it's a populations, the first step in the killing of infected adult mosquitoes, aure sign that she is getting old. control of malaria is adequate re-

acreening the use of anti-malarial | European women must copy them search so that the conditions pre-drugs and a host of special methods or lose out in life."-United Press. sent may be ascertained and the best methods of control under the particular circumstances ascertain. ed as a result of such research.

Prevention.

Methods of prevention may here and include be of great variety drainage, flooding, jungle-clearing, the promotion of agriculture, im- provement of housing and the gen- eral economic condition, education,

have each also to be considered in their proper application.

The Congress destres to stress

In a collision at the mouth of the the need not only of thoroughly

between trained malaria Research Officers Mersey

the Liverpool but of expert Malarial Engineers in steamer "Zealand" (1,718 tons) and whichever type of malaria proven-Walter Stapleton, a fireman, of the "Ravens Point" (1,787 tona), tion is at stake.

Zealand, was drowned, and Gordon The meeting also decided that Rennie, Thomas Carnell, and Wil- the Congress should be held trien- liam Arnold, all of the Zealand, nially, instead of biennially.

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