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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933.

LIVES OF BACTERIA

Dr. L. G. Saunders Addresses

Rotary Club

PUBLIC MONEY DEATH INQUIRY

VOTES

Some Items For Finance Committee

Votes totalling $11,807 are due to came before the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council to-mor-

The items are as follow-

rów,

PARASITES AND UNWILLING HOSTSal Expenditure.

An interesting talk on the life and habits of bacteria and parasites was delivered by Dr. L. G. Saunders at the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday when he read a paper entitled "Strange Lives."

In introducing Dr. Saunders, Mr. T. B. Wilson, the President of the Rotary Club said that the lecturer was ä **He is a member of the University of Saskatchewan, Master of Science, and a Doctor of Philosophy of Cam- bridge and is an enthusiastic student of all bacteriological science. He is specially interested in insects and para- sites. During his brief stay in Hong Kong, he has been leading a strange life of art, highbrow-thinking, "and bug

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It was announced during the meeting that the An. nual Dinner and Dance of the Club will be held on January 27.

PERIODICITY IN MALARIA

"EXPLAINED

W

PROCEEDS

Eye Witness Gives Evidence

Lack of sunricent time yesterday in which to Дент all witnesses caused his Worship Mr. Wynne- Jones to anjourn until to-day the final hearing of the inquiry into the death of Li The Chan, a four- teen-year old male Chinese who passed away on December 1, fol- lowing injuries alleged received at the hands of an Indian constable, on November 14.

Microscopes... 56.00 Animals and Fodder.......... 500.00 Owing to the heavy issue of cat lymph during the epidemio of small-pox in the early part of the year, it is now necessary to obtain

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so far as he knew had ever been arrested or bore any malice -to- wards the policeman.

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$ 150.00 Since May 7th, the Kowloon Station has closed later on account of the last train arriving at 9.41 Dr. Saunders in the course of|ceptions they require a second or

p.m. instead of at 7.00 p.m. As a his address said:-Among the in- alternate host to transfer them result an additional sum of $150 umerable peculiar modes of life in from one animal to another; the will be required to complete the the vast world of animal organ- Tsetse Fly does this for the bu-year. This change was uniformsen isms. those which undergo the man forms, the flea transfers the when the current estimates were strangest complexities of develop-rat trypanosomes, and leeches framed. ment are undoubtedly the para-perform the service for aquatic sites. This in itself is strange, animals such as fish. Within this for, having chosen parasitism as secondary host they are not blood their particular niche in the gen-parasites but intestinal, and they eral scheme of existence, they have revert to a much simpler

fromtral form during the course of found there a safe shelter

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Malaria

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Dr. P. F. Court was the next witness called to give evidence and told of his attending the deceased in Kowloon Hospital and claimed that death, was caused through injuries to the spleen.

Asked by Mr. Wynne-Jones if t would be possible for a blow de- Hvered under the deceased's left armpit to have caused the fatality the witness admitted that it might. Questions Rib.

...

Cross-examined by Mr. Lo, Dr Court said that the spleen were enlarged and soft it would only take very little, violence to cause. a rupture. At this point Mr. Lo inquired how a blow delivered beneath the armpit could possibly effect an organ situated just below the eleventh rib which he under- stood to be the last. He was in- formed that a man had twelve ribs and the witness to prove his con- tention regarding the position of the spleen counted its position in his own body. Mr. Lo appeared satisfied.

The final witness for the after- noon was a fifteen year old Chi- nese boy, Lam Chung, who claimed that he worked for a fishmonger

whole affair.

the Court that in the afternoon

in the market where the deceased to a most dull and uneventful man, and human infection Has spermatozoa. One of these pent-

was struck and that he saw the existence. But it is the transfer- occurred through the biting in-trates and fuses with each of the

Ee told the Court another sects at a much later date. The females, and the fertilised exg that on the morning of November ence from one host to that presents the dimculty; a more favourable food medium then work through to the "outer 14, at about 8.30 o'clock, he saw they the Indian hit the dead boy, both parasite cannot expect its host to has stimulated them to develop a wall of the stomach where live for evar although the most stage further than their stay-at-grow large and give the stomach in the body and on the cheek and To WOMEN who are

succcessful parasite is the one home relatives.

& warty appearance. During this said that later on in the morning -riddled with the torture of which is least harmful, not the one

growth the nucleus is dividing re-

he saw the deceased go into a "nerves" racked with the agony of

that kills most quickly.

peatedly, and when many hun- house for food and upon his com headaches and other pains, weakened

"This beginning in insects and dreds of nuclel have been producing out was informed by the de- by the exhaustion and dability which

later migration to man even ad the cell substance segregates ceased that the assault committed I have selected my examples better illustrated by the Malaria around them to produce comes from a system depleted in

minute by the constable upon him had energy and physical resources- from the parasites of man as be-

Parasites. The phenomenon of spindle-shaped bodies, the infec- hurt him badly. The witness told LOW VITALITY is the ever-presenting of more immediate interest sex is here introduced, and it is tive sporozoites menace to every happiness and plea but equally complex cases, could significant that the serual cycle started our discussion of the life- he saw the deceased leave a vacant sure which a healthy life can hold. be chosen from the lower animals: occurs in the mosquito was the cycle: In order to get back into

This is indeed the age of the it is probably safe to say that no original host, and man for all his man they burst from their

rice stajl under which he had been cyst lying and go to get some tea, only "survival of the fittest."

self-importance should, be called on the stomach wall. swim possibility of parasitism excep the secondary

to fall headlong to the ground. host. There the very smallest

are through the mosquito's blood and and simplest many features of strangeness and penetrate the salivary glands.

Witness then stated that the crowd in the market urged him to re- You are probably thinking at this interest, in the life history of this

Life-Cycle

port the matter to the police, moment of that old scrap of dog parasite. The infective mosquito

which he did" With the result feas ad infinitum;" well, whoever ingly minute parasites into

that the sick lad was taken to the write that was no biologist. Set- blood with its saliva when it feeds plexity of life-cycle which is by hospital. During the hearing of andary parasitism (the parasitism and these at once attack and en- parasitic protozoa, and

no means exceptional among the this witnesses' evidence à number is fairly Common

also to of parasites)

of Indian constables were brought ter red blood" corpuscles. Here among insects, but rare elsewhere. they become amoeboid (showing bring home the rather surprising into Court and the boy told to essential pick out the man who had com- and I know of no recorded case of their derivation

from amoeboid presence of sex in all --to tone and stimulate your tertiary parasitism.

ancestors) oozing rout inside the elements in these exceeding lowly mitted the assault. He did this Digestive Organa, banishing the "You have all heard of the low-cell and feeding on the haemo- organisms.

without any difficulty. shadow of Indigestion and freeingly Amoeba, a naked speck of pro-globin, growing rapidly in size. In

To take a couple of examples Mr. Lo then began a lengthy you from the awful suffering of toplasm but nevertheless a com less than two days. (or three daya arst at the flukes. Man is infest- ed abruptly when, upon his asking from the higher groups let us look cross-examination, which terminat- stomach pains, nausea, flatulence plete cell, living in stagnant water, depending on the species of and attendant disorders!

to purify and enrich your Blood, moving, feeding, growing, repro- parasite), they have become full-ed in various parts of the world, the witness whether or no he was aware that the Indian constable causing

grown and gave split into a num-particularly the Orient, with lung healthy, nourishing

flukes, intestinal had made some afty or sixty ar "stream of life" to course through such lordly thing 44 man on ber of daughter parasites, and the Dukes, liver but

and blood Lukes, natural surprising thing is that they all gong the Chinese liver-fuke is by trameing violations; His Worship in Hong rests in the past few months for your veing!

than that some particularly tough keep time perfectly, no" matter

far the most common, They are exclaimed, “You should ask those amoeba should be swallowed by a how long the disease may

run, flat lancet-shaped worms man when drinking and find that and within an hour on the

about questions from the police before- here was an ideal place to live? pointed day all burst from their half-an-inch long. admirably hand, not hold up the Court by You find that you can Work your This must at some time have, oc blood cells and invade others. At shaped to live in the bile ducts putting them to a poor miserable hardest, with a full measure of vital curred, probably to a monkey this bursting of the cells toxins of the liver. Like many other little shrimp from the fish market,” energy, Nerves toned to pitch of rather than a man, for we find are liberated which cause, the high parasitic worms they

Hr. Wynne-Jones read the boy's perfection.

amoebae living happily in the in-temperature with chills and fever maphrodite so that if one evidence and then adjourned the You can Eat with the ture know-testine of man and monkeys, and and violent shivering which char-worm is present in that part of enquiry until this afternoon. ledge of sound digestion and enjoy feeding On microscopical your leisure with a vigour that will particles, clumps of bacteria and The victim of tertian

food acterise a typical malarial attack the liver it can carry on by self- fertilisation; actually we usually the like. We call this Why not get away from the hauntalism, ilterally, feeding from the tack every other day, almost to produced by thousands, and, pass ordinary periodicity, swarming in to be taken up by a mosquito. In: commen- knows that he will have an at- find them by the dozen or hun-

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testines and so out of the body.. the mosquito takes his meals, and that you can enjoy your life to the they behave themselves.

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Elephantiasis.

Kong residentá perhaps Hong | protozoa which progress by means up their blood cells and remain la *Tahould like to mention one have greatest reason to bless the of a whip-like extension of the a dormant state in the blood. other parasite because it is con memory of Sir Patrick Manson body, a fiagellum, and of these These are the gametes or sexual nected in a way more historical for founding the Medical College: flagellates many are free-living. Individuals, and they are waiting than actual with Hong Kong. The and founding the most excellent often with the ability to feed like to be sucked up by an Anopheles Filaria worm is a long thin round- dairy farm which ministers to our plants, while others are parasitic mosquito in order to continue worm that lives colled up in the comfort and well being at the pre- Infecting men are the dreaded their development. In the mos- lymphatics of man, and in a pro- sent day. Trypanosomes of African Sleeping quito's stomach the blood is alowly portion of cases produces that A vote of thanks to the speaker Bickness, while others occur in digested, and the ordinary matar unfortunate enlargement of limbs was proposed by Rotarian Herk- the blood of horses, dogs, rata, tal parasites in the blood, but the or organs known as Elephantiasis, lots on behalf of the Club. Pro reptiles and fah, in fact any ver- gametes take on a new lease of The female worm does not lay fessor Herklots thanked Dr. Bam- tebrate may have its blood flagellfe: the females, or egg-cella, re- eggs but living larvae known as dets for the advanced work in Bio- lates. The outstanding feature of main rounded and sluggish, but Microflarine which migrate into logy which the latter had done at these forms ls that with few ox the males suddenly become active the blood stream and wait there the University;

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