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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY · 16, 1956.

SCIENCE Fighting Disease

In The Tropics

By Professor Brian Maegraith

The recent visit of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh to Nigeria was not only a gracious and welcome tribute to the African people. It was a tacit acknowledgment of the enormous advances in medicine which have made it possible for them to visit with complete safety tropical regions which at the turn of the century were So disease-ridden and dangerous that а contemporary diarist wrote, "The conversation at breakfast is always who died last night?”

In less than a life-time

bee{r} whote

situation elunged completely for the Rece

Fundamental advances Descarch

better

H

The drug gudinne was first studied. bye and cliently noseerd

wmk Bas Included Punch- Bacte mental maltire dealing with the prubitus et malaria as dis- Why, for instance does nfection. with The purassate make u

in both surative and preventive medicine have been sitrcessfully. | applied to the untrut of mo! of the meištai huzards of hot climates

THIS

HIS remarkable thevement

lute beer: matte ponible

mulari

man 81" From

such stunties, observations.

made wich are of amper kamee

tropical d only fo

medicine

but to nedarine as whee For mstance. why recently toid Notre extent ley the applications That malori was suppressed it

af advances in 520ical mediIJO, but largely by spreifle affack o

tovni problems of

amenity-wide diseases

malama

The DAN

such

which so much of 11 112 success depends have beti trumbe chiefly in laboratories in whatla fundamental researed

at ftell

વાયવી Akt

human. KIVEN at exclusive milk thet This ohares atroon, in adslit fo implacationN wit! angar to the disease in infants, tors demonstrated how the out- come of a dowșise esen be deter - more mot only by the javadding putuple but also by the state

1 the h

AL

Levenst pluches

ENGINEERING

Under the leadership of Professor Brian Maegraith, Dean of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, England, research workers are studying the changes caused in the blood by the breathing of malarial parnaites. Hero Dr Sherwood-Jones (right) in about to watch parnetten breathing in haman blood. Mr H. which is in the small bottle in his right hand. Keulthorpe (left) adjasting apparatus for Judging the amounts of gases in the blood.

Six Nations Use British Tractors

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work huyo been harmoniously mordey malara have given combmed Mang of thea estale- heard to the beatment of some Hishinents are centred in Fauope of the terrible complirictions of and among these the rest and andingnant for time malaria, & Forin

must distinguishes!

."

the Day exped Sciod of Treg and Alesanne an England

and disente

1 let, le kills, ot aver a million people a

alina

Vory detailed command of work on the and similar

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the

Chan

contract puw

for 107 aircraft-towing tractars ordered for the Royal Air Force, brings the value of such orders now in hund at one British Arm's works to about £250,000

The latest order is for two models, one with a 4-cylinder 41 brake horsepower petrol engine and 6-speed gearbox, giving a maximum speed of 25 miles per hour, and a maximum drawpull of 3,700 pounds; and a heavier machine with

miles of 12 maximum speed

per hour, and a drawbar pull of 7,100 pounds.

They will be used for general airfield duties such as aircraft- lowing and salvage operations.

Lightweight Alternator

A leading British en-

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Advances In Radio And Television

In

Britain

í

: Latest Ideas Seen At London

Exhibition By John Hay

gineering firm has do- Radio, as an entertainment medium, is veloped an entirely new an established feature of all homes in type of lightweight the more advanced countries; it is also a place of the engine fly-growing

important source of wheel in A. diesel instruction and entertainment In the generating set, with a now

under-developed countries. voltago control system called the Rectifex.

The principal

advantage

little

and

cor

те

That Britain's radio industry The third Centure of this Isis keeping abreast of the in- year's exhibition WIN high that the alternator is half BS creasing workd demand was fidelity sound reproduction. long, and weighs

morn amply demonstratexi

the Touched off five years ago by Radio than half, compared with con- National

Show, which the introduction in Britain of and that, opened at Earis Court, London, ventional machines,

microgroove gramophone and because of the static excitation on August 20,

which, cordis, set makers this year have principle employed, there is no although

primarily an exhibi- incorporated in most radiograms rotating exciter to maintain or tion to stimulate Interest in the VHF sound reception facilities

The home market, be an important This means that the advantage 100 il "shop window" for world common to both recorda and VHF ratio of silent background and top-rate quality reprodue- tion have been combined.

to fall out of adjustment, machines are available in kiloWalt and 150 kW sizes. buyers.

A 250 kW size is now being Their powerweight developed. ratio, it is claimed, makes them

it particularly

suitable mobile applications,

An important feature of the

(field kod design is that the yoke system) Is

couple in made 10 directly the engine crankshafi,

outside rotates about armature, which is stationary. The

The industry has reached INES milestone

the important for

course of a relatively short his- An Interesting development in tory--but I has been a history records music has been intro- by Electric and Musical It Industries Ltd, of

Under

& MOROUements.

by constant progress duced

year for three Middlesex.

first, the renowned "His Master's Voice" television service lab

and technical

endering to the flange end of major developments;

of the due to start in Britain on Sebel, this company lo

and commercial tember 22.

king to fruition magnetic tape. It 22, bringing

thus

repertoire

its

Hayes, world-

marketing

of murde

is now

110

the

two main advantages of plans first made soveral years normal practice of gramophone this are: (a) the rotating yoke ago. The latest sets can receive record companies to make their has # considerable flywheel an

on 13 separate frequencies, original recordings of artlets effect, takes the place of the covering futuro alternative ser- performances on tape. The tape

vices as conventional flywheel, and re-

well 2181 cxisting and

be telly

and edited, duces weight, cost and overall prop

proposed transmissions by the

on to any type of the Jength of

set; (b) the British Brondensting

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The "His Master's Although stallonary armature is of simple tion.

British sets Volen"

CUPO tape

commercial construction and has much operate

system, duplicates of the mastETA, and lower Iron loss than an arma- | manufacturers cater for all ex-

port markels ani (41

for the

American models Continental standards.

ture of normal desigo.

Supplementary

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High

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supply quality equipment they bring to advantages

the homo an exceptionally high starlard ventila-

of reproduction free straightforward

from

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background

and large ting system with

market hom been distortion, Ind of consistent and outlet areas can be used; a

created by

from beginning to end the opening up of a quality roinding

mass is uvull-te large

Very

(VHF) of the Frequency

tope. able to dissipate heat, and the

sound

broadcasting service by In addition, this firm showed whole machine has a neat and the B.B.C. Transmissions by this Its Arst stereosonie (twin panel) In the last five years the firm, compact appearance,

system started in London

type tapes, which give qualities of advantage Duvid Brown Industrial Tractor

England. Just of depth and roundness to music South Easten

and Division of Feltham, Middle-system of excitation and

May, and are rapidly being ex-

a genuite impression of is sex.

had

that it is completely tended through the country, cul- being present at an actunt England,

supplied trol,

stotle. Components used

per- aircraft towing tractors to the

ting out the inescapable inter- formance. A special instrument ituyal Air Force, the floyal Navy magnelle

ference amplifiers, rectifiers,

slue to the crowded to reproduce the tapes consists condensers, transformers, chokes other conditions on the medium of two cabinets, usually located Royal Canadian Navy anch the

and resistances. Firm Is: Brush waveband. This now outlet in about eight feet (2.438 metres) use in aircraft carriers), And to the alr forces of Electrical Engineering Company Britain will give manufacturers apart in the Pakistan,

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build VHF export models.

Tan braak fundert tea and the end last

Liverpool School century by the merchants of the

stitutions devoted {ver p] great gra

R in research

medical awal problems of hot canales is - started in one room

(Dor has hospital 1ts Best lectures Clader jossable here, bat enough Profesor) was Sie Herald Ross. The mund to give some idea of

the greatest pioneers at the importance of such work in the discovery of the transTIANNOU

the struggle against disease.

of mularin by mosquitoes

FINDAY The School has exten-

sive prejuses of ts own do the early days, work

the Hargh field was carrard out expeditions, but today extensive research in the trognes goes on

Through the support of Govern

upat berfie

in

gatusations 1, 1

way.

fundamental research conducted in the School cats be tansluted

at feld work in stations

far apart

11M

the

121

heat

Kumba, t Camerons, where Blariasis beg stadied, and Kuwait, The Persian Gult, where a is studying the effects of en comfort and efficiency.

Present-day research covers many aspects of communicable disease, meluding various forms communica-

of bilharziasis and Muriasis, bolh Hongkong of which cause untold damage Protection to health in wide regions of the Bor 2502 | tropies Chnical problems in- clude the treatment of diseases such as teprosy, amoebic dy- Please send us you? unwanted toys.sentery and liver abscess, kala

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Please

addreas tions:-Secretary,

Society for

the of Children. PO.

Hongkong.

Hong Kong

Birds

Herklots, G. A. C. 1953. Hong Kong Birda, Pp. vil+233, 11 pla., 8 in colour, numerous black- and-white drawings in text. Hong Kong: South China

Port, Morning Ltd., HK$35.00.

"... most welcome handbook for ornitholo gists resident or station- AD ed in Hong Kong, the hitherto recorded specles aro included; plumages are clearly and concisely described, and a short account is given af fold characters, voice, habits, matus, etc. The illustrations, except for three plated of photographs, are all by Cdr. A. M. Hugh M and include four attrac tive plates of the hands of 42 species and many uneful drawings in the text. The writer of this review would have benefited greatly from this book when station- ed in Hong Kong some years ago. Even now, on referring to it, some 40 unfamilar species which notes were

ch

made at the time have almost all proved easily identlaabio, -D, W. 8,

(Extract from "The Ibie" attain! argan of the British Ornithologlatai Union, British Museum).

C. M. POST

HONG KONG

The mast notabic achtove- ments of the School in the past, however, have been in the field of malaria and it is here that much of the nctive research still goes on. The chemotherapy of malaria owes much to the Liverpool School. For example. it was in s Troptent Diseases Centre during and immediately subsequent to World War II that

antimalarial the potent

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Monday, July 10 By Air Thailand, Burra, India, Pakistan, Middle East, Afrios, Great Britain & Europe, & p.m.

By Surface Philippines, p.m. Macao, p.m.

Tuesday, July 17 By Alr Thailand. Cambodia, 10 am, Peking. Shanghal, Kunming: Han- kow, 10 a.m.

Indo-Chine, France, 11 ngn. z.

N, Domen.

land, Noon.

Phuipin).

Australia,

Dị

New

Malaya, Indonesia, 2 p.m.

Quam, Hawaii, 1.8.A., 2 p.m.

Formona, a p.m.

Thailand, Burma, India, Pakistan. Middle East, Africa, Great Britain. Europe, p.m.

8.A., Canada, 0 p.m.

Philippines, N, Borneo, & p.m.

Japan. p.m.

By Burface

China, Poople's Republic, 10:00 pm.. Fornos 11 s.m.

Mono, pen..

Indo-China, Thalland, 20 p.m.

Australia, New Zealand. 4 pm. Japan, U:8.A... Central de Bouth

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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

SEARCHING FOR THE OTHER GUNMAN, MANDRAKE USES

VENTRILOQUISM /

FERDINAND

NANCY

DON'T

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HELP WANTED

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JESS 19 GOING OVER "TO THAT GIRL' IN THE WHEEL CHAIRun

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STAND UP--GIVE ME YOUR GUN. PLANS ARE CHANGED.

the

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con

are:

By Lee Folk and Phil Davis

IT'S MUGS' VOICE -- BUT HIS

LIPS AREN'T

MOVING.

WHAT IS

THIS P

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By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

YES

PARDON NE, SIR. ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SOMEONE? PERHAPS I-

CAN HELP.

By Frank Robbins

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FROZEN PEAS TODAY

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The 1955 exhibition WRE marked by the very large num- ber of completely new models. Export markets have been particularly studied; A wildin

to withatenet and humidity

available

alternating

for

༣

range of sets fully tropicalis

extremes of will shortly

operation on current voltages cycles) in the ranges generally of 80 to 120 volts and 190 to 230 volts, and for niteryin- ting current/direct current working. Battery saba for

(40-100

operation on day battarlea through

vibrator from

vehicle battery are offered. All export modela feature tood bandspread coverage through the 13, 18, 10, 25, 31, 41 metro bands and medium wavebands. Amplifiers tropical kit for high-fidelity row production are available.

The General

pany

and long

Electric

Com-

Lid, of Kingsway, Lon don, WC2, offers a 9-waveband 6-valve supertet in addition to 119 well known

high-grade general purpose communications receiver used by civilians well as Services throughout the world, and other models,

03

A. C. Conser Ltd, of Highbury Grove, London, NS, to do full Justice to its steadily increasing overscus business, hinct an ex port stand for the first time, separate from its home exhibit. Most prominent feature was the "Companion", a set designed to keep in step with the spread of broadcasting in under-developed countries. Working from single dry battery, it la robust, low in price, simple to operate, and reliable.

Antarctic Expedition Generators

sup-

Auto Diesels Ltd, of Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, has piled the generating equipment which provides

for

power

electric light, heat, radio com- munication and scienUfic rerearch during the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctiq.

TION, 1955-1956.

six-kliowatt generators," apecially light in weight and

fitted

with cold starting aids, housed in a “generator room" In the but built by the advance party on the store near Vabeel Bay

over

the

This hut is the base of the Expedition and is named "Shackleton" in memory of the British explorer whose planned route the Expedition will follow. Auto Diesels Ltd has had considerable experience the

past few years of supplying

plants for It is, in fact, supply- ing equipment shortly for an other, Antarelle bare which is to be established in connection with the International. Geophy scal year, 1987-88. This : will De a year devoted by nations all over the world to scientific and zoologidel, resserai