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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 17TH, 1922

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An interesting discussion on the use of dangerous gases for the disinfection of ships took place at the annual meeting of the Port Sunitary Authorities in Loa don, Dr. W. Hanna (Liverpool), whe introduced the subject, said that in Bri- tain the fumigating agent had been sul phurous acid gas, but it had certain dîs. advantages. Now that the United States insisted on first and secondlass accom- modation on big liners being fumigated, British prejudices to hydroganic acid gua, a much more dangerous gas but one with out the damaging properties of sui phurous acid gas, had beep put aside, and two large passenger liners had been fumigated with this gas at Liverpool. It would have been fatal for anyone to re main on board, and so far they had en unable to obtain a reliable respirator of the box type. There could be no doubt that, as a fumigant, this gus was superior to any other, but elaborate precautions" must be taken to prevent fatal accidents,

Dr. Davies (Bristol) pointed out that there had been loss of life in Italy through the use of hydroganic acid gas and it seemed to him that in Liverpool- un the second occasion the medical officer was very, near to meeting with an acei- dent. He did not feel that in Bristol ho was in a position to take the charge or

| responsibility of dealing with a ship in this manner. He could not do it, and he would not advise his authority to take the responsibility. A special stuff would have to be organismul.

Dr. J. Wright Mason (Hall) referred) to the possibility in the near future of, being able to use a gas into which the Ministry of Health were at present making investigations. This hydroganic! acid gas was a most difficult and danger- ous mixtage to control.

Mt. ст Pallister (Middlesbrough) thought the hydroganic acid gas might well be used by a process similar to that used in connection with aceytirne gas. From tanks the gas could be conveyed easily to all parts of the vessel. It was agreed that copies of Dr. Hanna's paper should be circulated among port authori ties

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TEARS AS MICROBE KILLER.nding employment for rural workers SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT BY DR.

ALEXANDER FLEMING. "Tears, iule tears, I know not what they mean, wrotes Tennyson.

The poet made a mistake in calling tears idle. Dr. Alexander Fleming, in the laboratory of Sir Almyoth-Wright at St. Mary's Hospital, London, has been experimenting with human tears, and has discovered the existence of a very remarkable substance in them. It has been called lysozyme.

At the Royal Society anaual convera- zique Dr Fleming showed a Daily Chronicle representative what the idle tear with its lysozymie action could do against microbes.

Ile took a tiny drop of tear in a pipetto and gave it as a lethal dose to a good many million bacteria which clouded a liquid in a test tube. Before you could Ksky Jack Robinson, the idle tear has dissolved every midrobe in the tube,

in nearly all the tissues of the body, and in most of the secretions and exere: tions, there exists this substance which kills and dissolves many kinds of bac teria It is manifest even if only one tear is placed in 5,000,000 drops of solution or egg white diluted in 50,000,000 the action is so rapid that ordinary micros cuple methods are not quick enough for investigation So far the lysozyme has not been isolated.

Dr. Fleming tells me he worked at his laboratory six months before he arrived at the conclusion that the substanco existed. It occurs in such varied sub stances as the tissue of some of the lower. animals and certain vagetables such as the turnip.

Other points noted about this highly potent killer of lateria is that it is not affected by alcohol and is not used up readily because its lytic principle or power of dissolving bacteria-increases after it has started work.

TYPAUS GERM FOUND, WOMAN DOCTOR'S SUCCESS.

provided those seeking employment aro not afraid of hard manual labour. Farm hands with no previous experience would cominence at a wage of approximately £1 a week in addition to board and lodging. With increased proficiency these wages would be increased to £2 per week and upwards.

as farm workers for, at least a your in Married men are advised to engage first order to obtain the necessary experience of local conditions, land and stock values, and Australian methods.

A certain amount of capital is necessary if a man wishes to take up land,' Western Australia the State Government Ir

is prepared to make a grant of Crown Load and give substantial assistance on generous ternis to men having £200 or up- wards provided the Government is satis- fied that the applicant is a qualified farmer.

Any men going to Australia in search with the State Immigration Office îm of work of this kind should communicate mediately upon arrival and on so doing will be given sound advice' and useful assistance.

THE CRIME OF KISSING. ITS GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITATIONS.

Kissing is not a piversal custom. It has geographical restrictions, as practically unknown among the black and it is yellow races.

The women of Finland have a curions aversion to kissing, and a Finnish woman on one occasion declared that if her husband took such "an unwarrantable liberty she would box him on the cars that he would feel it for a month."..

At times the kiss has been brought under the ban of the law in enlightened States. In 1891 & Yale student kissed his sweet-heart in a restaurant, and both received a sentence of fifteen days' im- prisonment under a law passed in the time of Charles 11, when Connecticut was a British Colony....

While no law has been passed against it The discovery of the typhus germ by

England, it was considered an offence Dr. N. Kritch, the woman director of the his wife or bis child on a Sunday, three hundred yeas ago for a man to Sokolaichersky Hospital Laboratory, is and the penalty was the stocks, penande pounced by Dr. Walter P, Davenport, in church, or a pintlic flogging. In the of the American Relief Administration.

Dr. Kriteh described her work before an indictable offence and the parents' New Haven Colony in 1060 kissing was a meeting of the bacteriological, section consent had first to be obtanied. In one of the Moscow Medical Society on April case it was alleged that a mun'and a 20th. In collaboration with Dr. Barikan maid sat down on a sent together, "his (director of the Microbiological Institute, arms about her waist and her arm on his Moscow), she has been working on the shoulder, or about bis neck, and continn etiology of typhus fever since the autumping in that sinful posture about half of 1918. She has succeeded in isolating an hour, in which time he kissed her and acoccus (literally a kernel), which is disc she kissed him, or they kissed one an or biscuit-shaped and in appearance much like the pneumococcus.

other, as the witnesses testified.". The germ was found in the brain tissue under ita protection. According to the The Roman Civil Law took the kiss and spleen of 150 cases of typhus one English law, it is a common assault to hour after death. The organism

then grown in medis composed of a sterilised emulsion of pancrestinised spleen. Inoculation of guinea pigs with

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