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THE DYSENTERY Here

EPIDEMIC

Root Of Trouble

Now Traced

REPORT IN PREPARATION

There

and Everywhere

THE PREVENTION OF MALARIA

MODERN THERAPEUTIC

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POSSIBILITIES

SURVEY OF PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

OXONIAN JAPANESE PRINCE All communications intended for It is reliably learned that the

Prince Chichibu of Japan, who publication should be addressed to source of the dysentery infection is to represent his brother, the the Editor, and be accompanied by which has taken toll of the Co Emperor, at the Cormation, will the Writer Name and Address loay's infant life during the last be paying his first visit to Eng- land since he went down from not necessarily for insertion, but 10 days, has been located.

The report of the Medical Of Oxford in 1927. sz a guarantee of good faith.

ficer of Health was being draft-

HE Public Health Department of Shanghai has lately often He was only at Oxford a very

reported on the measures taken in their campaign against ed yesterday in preparation for short time. His college was, fan official statement on the sub- Magdalen, where he had rooms in malaria in Shanghai and environs, and on the difficulties met in.

There is a mass of figures Cloisters. |ject

He was "bearled" by the extermination of the Anopheles and its larvae, due to the and other data.

proving Viscount Matsudaira, whe had innumerable creeks and waterways outside the Settlement boundaries. The work of the Health Department, which is being that the allegations of backward-been up at Balliol.

Naturally, he wished his im-carried on with so much energy and circumspection in their Hong Kong, Friday Nov, 20, 1936 ness in this Department's' investi-

gation have been without founda-perial charge to go to his old endeavour to destroy the Malaria carrier and to create more healthy conditions in Shanghai for the future, is certainly fully Enquiries since the infec-1 college. Regretfully, however, Better Times For

tion started and comparison of it was decided that the political appreciated now, but its real value will only be recognised in each individual case led the au-views of the late Sir Herbert War-years to come. Shipping

thorities on a trail which, it is ren would be safer for the Prince.

It is most regrettable, however, [defined, there is no doubt as to the and possible future Emperor, than

that owing to several reasons the great step forward made in this Striking evidence of improve practically certain, uncovers

those of Balliol's Socialist Master. Public Health Department is not field in the course of the last few ment in the state of British root of the scourge.

- "Secondary" Cases

Mr. A. D. Lindsay..

Jin a position to undertake a years. merchant shipping is given by

Two more cases were admitted

Fifteen months ago Prince the last quarterly return

are Chichibu told a friend who had therapeutic campaign in a vessels laid up.

The Chamber to hospital yesterday, but of Shipping statistics show that stated not to be in danger. There been at Oxford with him that he manner. As it is not possible to on October 1 the number of are also three cases of ordinary was extremely anxious to revisit exterminate all Anopheles idle craft of British ownership dysentery, which is quite distinct England.

of

tion.

the for

the

hle

Therapeutic Aids Out of the many problems which and occupy the malariologist of to-day, (their larvae, the chronic malaria let us consider the one of interest patients in Shanghai represent anịto all: How well are we, so to say. everlasting source of infection, thereapeutically armed against fatalities. Altogether PRINCESS CHANGES FATHERS

and are responsible for the spread Malaria? Quinine is still He is also anxious to meet the of the disease. Not everybody sidered to be the only remedy by

+

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com-

to the

in the home ports was 161, with from the virulent land responsib? ja net tonnage of $73.107. At

the

same time last year the there are 41 cases reported of vi-

were 217 ships and rulent dysentery, but there have Duke of Gloucester, with whom jimows that the mosquito receives many, and it actually can stop & figures

Comparison with been no deaths from this cause he made friends when the latter the infection out of the blood of Malaria attack; a complete cure 486,023 tons.

of seven visited Tokyo to confer the Garter those persons suffering from with its help, however, is extreme- the worst period of the depressince the succession

He will have Malaria, and after certain changes y rare. The infection remains in sion must not be neglected. In European infant deaths last week on the Emperor.

There was nothing to indicate to refurbish his English, which 1932, 839 ships were laid up with

digestive organs of the mosquito, intervals, and bringing about up- a total tonnage of 2,168,532 from this, stated Dr. G. W. Pope has got a trife rusty in the last dergone by this blood in the the human body, breaking out at

it becomes a source of infection to desirable consequences. Since that time reduction has yesterday. that his previous state few years.

The Princess, however, speaks those who are next stung by the various internal organs. been steady though slow, Muchment that the epidemic was on the

The new perfect English. She was born insect. It therefore stands .to Quinine has also been consider- of it unfortunately was due not wane. was incorrect.

extered to act prophylactically if taken to the greater activity of ship-/cases were "secondary" cases, of in England-at Walton-on-Thames} reason that, as an entire Iping bat to the breaking up of/which there were bound to be awhen her father, Mr. Matsmination of the Anopheles is well regularly, ́ during a sojourn in

zones. daira-later Ambassador in Lon-nigh impossible at present, there Malaria-infested idle tonnage for which owners He added that he could not di-don, was First Secretary

is no chance of rooting out malaria known, however, to-day that, a could see no future. During

vulge the contents of his report Embassy.

either.

"catsal" Malaria prophylaxis with the six months before 'October

at this stage, but an early release

She is no longer Mr. Matsu-

Panama Canal Zone quinine is impossible, as quinine 1 there has been a marked

daira's daughter. On the night!. is expected change for the better.. The de-

before the wedding she bad to be The above problem has been merely prevents the fever from cline in the amount of tonnage

adopted by the Marquis Matsu-carefully considered in each anti-breaking out, and does not actually

number.

at the

It is

laid up has been accompanied MAN'S THEFT BY Mr. Matsudaira's cousin malaria campaign. the greatest of affect the Malaria agent. Such

by an increase in the amount lin commission. The previous

quarter this increase was

no

less than 244,000 gross tons. We cannot yet declare satisfac- tion with the progress made. During the past ten years Bri-j.

FINDING

GOLD CIGARETTE

CASE INVOLVED

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to

Intrumnisation

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by adoption-in order to be able these having been that fought in prophylaxis therefore is purely to marry the Prince, which she the district of the Panama Canal "symptomatic." It is for this Only after all those sick with the reason that Malaria specialists re-

leaving could not do as a commoner.

those The Prince has been very little disease had been removed out of commend in Tokyo recently. He has spent that zone were the desired results Malaris-infested place to undergo thorough anti-malaria: treat- to destroy any the last two years soldiering in with a view to which the battleja

against the Anopheles was being ment, in order

latent infection, and to prevent the tish shipping has shrunk by Lau Fuk, an apprentice mechanic, the North of Japan.

waged, achieved.

in the possibly serious consequences of research Scientific more than two million tons, and was this morning sentenced to one

malaria field has in the meantime the disease though the United States fared month's hard labour by Mr. K

THAMES SAILING MISHAP

made important progress, and al- still worse almost every other Keen at the Central Magistracy

The opinion has been voiced by even to-day the details country has added largely to its when he pleaded guilty to the theft

Mr. John Kennedy and Mr.though

action of the causal some that a latent Malaria infec- imerchant fleet. In 1914 we by finding of a gold cigarette case

owned 41.6 per

cent. of the valued at £35, the property of Mrs. James Grice, both of Hampstead, about the

Terrace.were rescued by a Thames police agent in the human body are still tion stimulates the powers of re- world's tonnage. Our share now Ruth Fuller of Garden

sailing dinghy unknown to us and although the sistance of the body, and is there- Davies said boat after their is only 26.8 per cent. Yet with Detective-sergeant

(Continued on Page 93 a population 10 per cent. larger that about 8.30 on November 17, capsized near Bishop's Park, Ful-working of the anti-malaria re-fore a sort of blessing in disguise.

of ham, recently. our dependence on sea-borne Lieut. Comdr. D. H. Fuller supplies is much greater to-day. HMS. Medway and his wife were It is therefore much to be de-crossing on the Star ferry. On sired that this recent improve-the way the lady took out a ment should be progressive. cigarette and replaced the cigarette The prospects are good Com-case in her hand bag. In Con- pared with foreign fleets the naught Road she discovered that British mercantile marine is she had lost the case and reported more modern and more efficient this to the Police the same even- and accordingly in a position to ing. The next day a detective was obtain the utmost advantage on patrol in Queen's Road East and from any larger movement of saw the defendant go' into a gold-j world trade That lead in smith shop and hand over efficiency we are likely to in-cigarette case. He was crease. The amount of tonnageland when questioned admitted that under construction in our yards he had picked it up in Connaught is a good deal more than the Road Central near the Star ferry. Sergeant Davies added that had aggregate of the four leading foreign countries. Such activity it not been for the action of the case would have shows the enterprise of the Bri-detective the

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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

a long time, and also their con- fidence in the future. That ap- pears to be well grounded. Re- duction of surplus tonnage has beer so drastic that very few serviceable ships are now laid up. Demand for shipping has risen sharply. The first cause is the necessity for a large The movement of cereals from the western hemisphere to Europe

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