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RATS ATTRACTED BY should
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Evidence Before Wild
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Milestones along the modern road Giving evidence before the Wild of medical discovery are furnished Life Commission at Sungei Patani
Mr. N. W. Mallet, by the annual appearance of reports recently, of the Medical Research Council. of Tupah Estate, Bedong, who has
The sixteenth of these reports, which has just been issued, contains a note of special interest. fully controlled experiments are now in active progress to settle de finitely the strong belief held by some that Vitamin A is particularly potent in protecting
been in Malaya for 23 years and in Bedong ten years, stated tha! Care- he had noticed a distinct decrease during the last few years in green pigeon and deer, chiefly due to agricultural development and un- restricted shooting and hunting.
He had had some trouble the body
against such infective diseases as the common cold, and also in hasten- ing the recovery after Infection has
been established.
The importance of such a fact, if conclusively proved, in its applica- tion to such dangerous periods as post-influenzal debility, needs no emphasising.
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pig and sambhur on Tupah Estate. He thought that fencing good safeguard against the inroads of deer but under the present con- ditions the cost of fencing would not be justified,
be taken to preserve Malaya's familiar birds. He was in favour of making Penang Island Into a bird sanctuary, but thought that sporting game birds should be excluded from total protection
He did not think that the re- moval, in 1929, of protection from elephant and sambhur deer in the F.M.S. was justified, and he wa decidedly against the use of arti ficial lights to enable persons to hunt at night. Save In the case of sitting up for carnivora, ho thought that no shooting at night should be allowed at all, except under permit.
Sale of Trophies. He would certainly prohibit the commercialisation of game, and thought that the sale of meat or trophies of game animals or game birds should be prohibited except under permit,
He considered that the destruc tion of monitor lizards for trade Mr. Mallet's answer to the sug-purposes should be stopped, and advocated the licensing of shops gestion that species should be ex-
or places where wild birds were terminated to obtain immunity
Bold. from raids on cultivation was:-. "Certainly not."
A series of experiments has con cluded after nine years, and it seems certain now that parental
He was in favour of special re alcoholism does not cause a loss of serves for the preservation of wild fertility nor impaired vitality of life and supported the idea of re- the offspring.
gulations to prohibit the killing of immature animals, to govern the shooting and talding of birds; the provision of close seasons and the checking of poaching and wasteful
It had previously been held on Inadequate evidence that alcohol in the circulation damaged the germ cells, and tended therefore to pro-
duce deterioration of the race.
The present series of experiments falled entirely. to confirm this serious statement. These findings, however, have no relation whatever to the effects of alcoholic parentage on the upbringing of children in an organisedį human society, a very different question,, as the report points out.
kling...
Close Season for Game Birds. He considered.that there should
He would consider the ex. termination of the wild life of Malaya deplorable, but considered that reasonable regulations should be able to prevent it.
Mr. Mallet was in favour of a game fund, to which all fees, ob. tained from licences lazued in con- nection with wild life, should be credited, and considered that the game department should organise a branch for elephant control,
He thought the river fish of
in need of protec
be close seasons for game birds Malaya were in Kedah. He said that green tion and that lawa should be pass pigeon were not protected at all, fed dealing with this phase of wild they were caught by nets and life preservation. bird-lime and sold in the towns. Mr. Mallet hoped that the wild and villages.
life of the peninsula would bo saved for future generations and thought that the best way to achieve that purpose was by unl form regulations throughout
He thought that the open sea, Mabetes and Diet.
sou for green pigeon should not The Registrar-General recently announced that since the introduce declared until a month after
the beginning of their fighting,
tion of insulin in 1923 the death which date should be decided on Malaya administered by one chief,
rate of diabetic men under the age of 85 has been reduced by 87 per cent, and of diabetic women by 21 per cent. They rate for men between the ages of 25 and 45 has fallen by as much as 45 per cent
This achievement is masked in the total death rate by the concur- rent increase of mortality over the
by some teatral authority,
Mr. Mallet completed his evi
He also thought that a similar, dence by adding that he would like method should be adopted regard to see a number of honorary de ing salpe, the open season to be puty game wordens appointed declared a fortnight after the anthroughout Malaya. rival of the first real fights. | Music Attracts Rats. This would mean opening the sea- Ahmad bin Mohammad Tahir": son in Kedah about the first week penghulu of Bujang for over 30 in September. Mod
years, Bald. he thought the intro- duction of rules and regulations for the preservation of wild life in Hedah would be desirable. Moreover licences would have the
Age of 61, due undoubtedly in the Mr Mallet thought that favour
opinion of the Registrar-General to fte roosting places of green pigeon diabetic causes, since the diabetic should be considered as sanc death rate in these ister years of tuaries for those birds, and he life was materially reduced during
favoured that steps effect of restraining those unskill- the war food restriction period.
jed persons, who went out shooting In the report of the Medical
reaping and carelessly shot at anything Research Connell it is"
farma of from their friends downwards “o prolonged: The trapping of green plesom lives for was commun and should be pro- and bibifed. Animais doing damage should be destroyed but otherwise Khay should be allowed to live a
the general 86 of 108: below the level ya what particular
that
seded,
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all the trams I go on, and the
numbers of the conductors.
"Let me tell you the names and dates of all the American Presi dents from Washington to Hoover,
the World in with all their peculiarities... Round
Search of Facts.
ALMANAC KING.
Fact-Hunger.
book!"
Ho licked his lips. "Would you like," he suggested, "to hear all the stars and stripes of the American flag?
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When Datas was a boy he spent his time remembering the num- bere of shops and houses and his Ho on old almanacs. worked as a stoker, but finally remembered so much that he went on the music-hall stage.
Mr. Datas is fifty-six. His pennies head is crowded with facts. He hungers and thirsts for facts, and Mr. Datas is a man who never is continually struggling to stats River Fish Scarce.
He went round the world as its At least, hard- his ravenous memory by learning Ibrahim bin Wan Hanal, peng-forgets anything.
almanace by heart, the winners Greatest Memory Man, continual- hulu Pinang Tunggal, said the up ly ever,
He says he has the longest of all the horse races in the lastly stuffing his insatiable memory country Malaya had to rely
of with facts as dry aa biscuits. the rivers for their fish. Now-a- memory in the world, and he has fifty years, and the incomes
Now he lives in Brixton and re- days river-fish extremely come forward in terrible scorn of public officials.
When he is feeling lonely he members the numbers of all the Traps of every kind and the two members of Parliament,
and other omnibuses of small mesh were very common the author and the two actresses remembers the numbers of all the London
failed them on hansom cabs he has ever ridden, people's birthdays. and he would like to see only the whose memories
in, or the pound notes he has facts. casting-net and the line used. simple personal dates.
"Sloth," said Mr. Datas, "sloth, spent. This would mean that the river
Anybody can "Facts is facts," says Mr. side Malays got a fair supply and that's what it is.
ÁO wickedly slothful. thought. that the fish would not be almost remember anything he liked if he Datas, and is nourished by the exterminated by persons who sold weren't
I can their catch. He would like to see Now, look at me sambhur protected.
scarce.
Many other penghuine similar evidence.
i recite you 20,000 dates! I never gave forget a face, a name, or a nam
ber. I remember the numbers of
MINES
TYRANSHIP
STEANSHIP
LINES
Facts, facts,
•
Nobody knows what he does with them.
"Let me recite you," he will and say coaxingly, "the names "When I was going to Austra- numbers of all the regiments in Ha," he went on, "I read 20 pages the British Army, with battle of Whitaker's Almanack every day honours! It takes two and a half for six weeks. The facts in that hours!"
"A WONDERFUL CANADIAN GROWTH"
1881
uld have thought that the little vine soot I saw planted fity yours ago would cover the world in that time.
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