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REPORT OF THE RESFARCH WORK COMPLETED IN PROGRESS AND IN

CONTEMPLATION AT THE BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AND PUPLIC

MORTUARY, HONGKONG,OCTORER

1907 TO FEBRUARY 1908.

STAFF.

This consists of the Acting Pacteriolo~ist, C.".Hearley.

GENERAL REMARKS,

There are two factors working towards making this raport

smaller than usual. Firstly the Pacteriologist is or leave and

the routine work of the Mortuary and Institute is about as

much as one man can do. Secondly, the alteration in the date for

sending the report causes it to cover four months instead of

six,

A LARGE FLUKE OF MAN PROBABLY NOT HITHERTO DESCRIBED, FASCI

-OLOPSIS BUSKI AS A PAPASITF OF MAN IN HONGKONG, ITS USUAL,

HOST PROBABLY THE PIO.

Some time ago Doctor Kwar King Hung brought me a large

fluke in hopes that I should be able to identify it and advise

the

him as to treatment of the case in which it had occurred, The

A

case was that of a young ziri ared shout eight years who lived

in a small village on the island of Hongkong, the histoww was

that the child had had several attachs of vomiting which had

resulted in the expulsion of one or more flat worms.ī tell me,

Ivan that the worm that he fasciolopsis huak! but that I thought

it was an undescribed znecies. He wished me to do what Triker

with it and volunteered to try and get some more.