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DECEMBER 13,

1929.

"MAN'S SECRET ENEMIES."

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to transfer the discase from nian! to man experimentally have all failed The Chinese belief that one indescretion with a leper will reg sult in the cure of the leper and the infection of the partner is absolutely untrue.

secret

Let na take some of the very com- mod discase conditions and what part bacteria play in rela tion to them. Take ordinary wounds, for example. Some wounds keep clean and" wholesome

I can go on for many hours tel- while other rapidly become pussyling you all the various diseases and dangerous, This is because which are caused by bacteria and;

other the so-called pus-producing germs

enemics of man. have lavaded them. Even the most trifing wound may end in death if we are not careful. This is especially so if the wounded maa is very old and feeble. At first the germs attack the wound and then they may make their way into the interior of the body by means of the blood stream and so produce one of the many types of condition_ which the lay mind calls "blood poisoning."

The Consumption Scourge, Take another common disease like consumption. As you all know quite well, consumption is very common indeed, aut only in Hong Kong but all over the world.

Typhoid fever is always with us and so i small pox and malaria, Diphtheria is also common here and added to these, are the venereal diseases. But I must not take up too much of your time.. Suffice for me to say that even to-day scien- tista all over the world are finding and getting more and more evid ences to convict the micro-or- ganisms.

The Common Gold. Let me end by saying a few

the words about common cold. More suffer from common cold than, from any other single ailment. It is impossible to estimate just how many suffer from it but if the sum total of suffering, inconveniences, requelae and economic foss result ing from cold could be obtained, I am sure this illness would at once cease to be looked upon as a trivi- Ful disorder,

HONGKONG HOTEL It is perhaps, the most damaging of diseases of the nose and the air

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and most widespread disease that man auffers. Every-one of us has sufforred from consumption at one time, or another but most of us. get better. In America nearly 10 per cent of all deaths are due to this disease. In Germany, nearly 12 per cent. In China the figures are even higher. This disease not only attack man but also various animals including cattle, monkeys, birds or even fish. Man may even become infected by drinking miik from sick cows.

Consumption is really a terrible disease and the loss of life and wealth yearly is appalling. It is man's universal scourge, well deserving the name of "Captain of the men of Death" by Bunyan.

Common cold is really a group passages. The popular belief about colds being due to sudden changes of temperature and chilling of the These body is not strictly true. may make a man catch a cold more] easily perhaps, but some sort of organism or even several varieties; of them must attack the body. Some of these germs are usually

present in the already mouth or throat.

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nose,

It is well to emphasise that colds are contracted from people already! suffering from colds in much the same way as small-pox is contract- ed from small-pox patient. Arctic explorer, exposed to all con tions usually supposed to produce colds do not suffer from this ail- ment until they return to civilisa tion to become infected by coming! in contact with their fellow-men.

Kissing.

My paper should end here but this morning, a friend of mine,| when he found out that I was go- ing to broadenst asked me if it few could be possible to say n words about that popular pas time-at least, he said it is a popu- ar pastime--which goes something like this:. The approximation and apposition of two pairs of obicu- lares ores, spasmodic inspiratory efforts (often violent) which ends in a suction click of variable intens- ity. At first it sounded more like something terrible than a pastime

Pneumonia is another very pre- valent and fatal disease. In the U.S.A. about 10 per cent. of all deaths are due to this disease. Many germs can cause pneumonia but the great number of cages are due to the special pneumonia germ. It attacks all ages but it is more dangerous at the extremes of life. Sir William Osler said, "Pneu monia may well be called the friend of the aged. Taken off by it in an acute, short, not often painful illness the old escapes those cold gradations of decay that make the last stage of all so dis tressing." In Hong Kong, pacu- monis exacta a very heavy toll.

Plague, of course, is of special

Anway, you all must have read interest here since it is in Hong at some time or other about the

millions of germs that can Kong that the plague germ was

from one mouth to another during 'discovered. This disease is a his torical discase. The Philistines the act of kissing. I do not know made offerings of golden images of anything at all as regards the ac- tual number of germs that can be so transferred but I should im- agine it must be extremely vari able. A short wee peck that grand- ma receives, differs imaiensely (so) I am told) from the long lingering embrace of lovers, all lost to the world, by themselves in a canoe on a blue lagoon underneath the mel- low moon or some such wierd mix-|| ture of circumstances!,

to me.

mice that marred the land to stay a pestilence (Samuel 11). Even at that time people had suspected its connection with mice and Tata. Plague is really a disease of the rat family and man is attacked se condarily. The rat ea does the THE HONGKONG OPTICAL CO. transmitting and fortunately for us this flea perfere the rat and only Qualified Opticians

bites man when there is no rat to bite. In Justinian's reign' in the

But joking apart. It is rather 6th century plague attacked the difficult to treat this subject scri- proud Roman Empire,and carried away 50 per cent. of the inhabit-ously, and yet it mus be considered a very important avenue of infec ants. In the 14th century plague, tion. The following diseases. and appeared in Europe and slew one still a lot others have been trans- fourth of the population. In Inferred from one person to another dia, half a million people die of through kissing. You may believe this disease every year. Plague is it or not as you like. Even if you always with China. In the 1910-11 are inclined to believe it, you will over 45,000 people died in Man-probably risk it; Pneumonia, in- churia. The great plague of Lon- fluenza, common cold, sore throats, don 1084-05, over 70,000 deaths took scarlet fever, whooping cough, place in a population of half a diphtheria,

tonsilitis, mumps, million. Entire families were small pox, measles both the Ger- swept away but fortunately, not a man and home grown variety and Shakespeare was on the list; others whole lot of others. wise such a genius would have been lost to mankind.

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Leprosy,

Leprosy is another historical dis- case. It appears to have prevalsed In Egypt even as far back as three or four centuries before Christ. Both în India and China. it was known centures B.C. Throughout the mid- dle ages leprosy was very common in Europe and there were then over 20,000 leper asylums on that con- tinent. Even today there are over 5,000 lepers in the Philipines and over 100,000 in India. In China it

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Africa is seems to be on the in-

It has been said by a prominent public health expert that if the pub- He only knew what dangers attend on kissing, the practice will become autoreatically reduced to normal and proper limits-whatever those normal and proper limits may be!

THE BOY SCOUTS'

ASSOCIATION...

ANNUAL MEETING DEC. 18.

The annual meeting of the Boy: Scouts' Association will be held at 5.13 p.m., on Wednesday, December 18. in St. John's Cathedral Hall,

The agenda is as follows

Accounts,

1. To receive and adopt the crease, In Australia, New Zealand Annual Report and Statement of and the neighbouring island the

2. To elect the President, Vice! disease also exists, chiefly among President, Hon. Secretary, Hon. the Chinese. When the standard of Treasurer, and Council for the living improves the disease tends ensuing year. to get less. Curiously enough the fear and, dread of leprosy in with- out llei. But it is not very At the conclusion of the meeting) infectious after all. It requires the members of the Council will be years of intimate contact before the requested to wait, in order to elect “nikener zu be transfordärem ona. The member...?

person to another. Many attempta Committee.

3. To deal with any other busi- ners which may arise.

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