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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1925.

TELEGRAPH,

INSECT PESTS.

SIR RONALD ROSS INTERVIEWED,

THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE.

EMPIRE GAELS

Gathering In Glasgow

Next June.

It is proposed to hold a great conference of Gaels from all parts. Sir Ronald Ross performed the of the Empire In Glasgow, next opening ceremony of the new June, of which the Duke of Atholl building for the Mosquito Control will be president. In a letter to Institute at Hayling Island at the all the leading Scottish and High- ead of August,

land Associations in the Empire, Five years ago a very serious plans for developing and streng plague of mosquitoes in South thening the movement for the Hampshire led to concerted mea proservation of Gaelic are an- sures for control by the draining nounced by the Duke and Mr.

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of stagnant water and other me- Anguis Robertson, the well-known Four Sandy Macs please

thods, and one result was the prosidont of An Comunn, Gaid- establishment of the Institute, healach (the Highland As- with Dr. J. F. Marshall as its sociation).

Director. The efforts undertakan Besides the Imperial Confor to abate the plague, have been ence of Scottish people from all very successful, and recently parts of the Empire, and the hold- Dr. Marshall described the working of a bazaar in Glasgow of the Institute in paper road simultaneously with the Con bofore the British Association at gress, these plans include con- Southampton. **

sideration of the question of] In an interview with an Obser establishing a Celtic College in cer representative, Sir Ronald Scotland... The establishment of Ross said

a centre of Gaelic culture some- "Our work for the general ex- where in the Gaidhealtachd,", termination of insect pests is de says the Duke's letter, "has be signed chiefly for the protection come one of the great ambitions of cities and towns. We cannot of An Comunn. While it may expoctindeed, there is no need nor be practicable all at once to to drive mosquitoes and the like set up such an institution, a be out of jungles and marshy tracts ginning might be made by away from civilisation. The area establishing an annual summor. of flight of noxious insects has school, which, if carefully foster- been shown by repeated tests to dd, would gradually develop into bo strictly limited, extending to a Celtic College, in which Celtic very few miles at the most. literature, music, and art would "From a purely economic point receive continuous and systematic of view, quite apart from humani- study." Marian grounds, it would be far cheaper for Governments and local public bodies, as well as in- dividuals, to contribute to preven

tive and research work, such as is methods of prevention, such as going on in Hayling Island and the use of mosquito-nets and-as elsewhere. The amount of sick-regarde malaria-of quinine, were ness and death averted would be advocated by him and by others. out of all proportion to the cost. but although this mattor has now. "It would be quito feasible for been placed fully and frequently a rich country to put down a before the public for more than a large sum of money for dealing quarter of a century, the progress with these insect pests rather made in response to scientific ad- than to spend a hundred times device continues to be very slow. much and this is done readily Almost the first actual proof of enough for killing off a few malaria boing affected by "mos- human adversaries. Why, the quite reduction"-now often cal- money spent on a single Dread-led "mosquito control "wLS nought would simply work won given in the French town of Is- ders if applied in this way."

DISEASE. CARRIERS... Insects were first proved to be carriers of disease in the second half ofthe last century. The late Sir Patrick Manson showed that

mailia, on the Suez Canal, in 1903,, fon the advice of Sir Ronald Ross and Sir William MacGregor, Governor of Lagos, who actom panied him to that town, which was entirely rid of the disease within a few months.

a tropical parasite of man, called The Americans had meanwhile fluria, was conveyed by a species already started mosquito control

of Culea mosquito. This was a in Havana, against both yellow

For many years had the Four Cronics of the Exclusive Club led the fashion in drinks, calling for their "Scotchs" and "Scotchs and Sodas." Insomuch that when a Tall Tanned Stranger called for a "Sandy Mac," whiskers wagged, papers rustled, and eyebrows rose among the Four.

Until they marked the way he drank, And observed the deference of George who served it.

Thereafter they whispered with George. Then amongst themselves. Later the senior. Crony --Purple Colonel-called in a clear voice "Four Sandy Macs, please."

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parasite causes the terrible dis- commended by Sir Ronald Ross ease known as elephantiasis in in 1899. In 1904 Americans 'be- many tropical countries. In the gan the construction of the nineties some American obser. Panama Canal and by means vers found that Toxas cattle fever of this new system. of pro- is carried by a tick, and Sir David phylaxis they were able to com- Bruce, late President of the plete it without the immense loss British Association, showed that of life previously experienced by the widespread' Nagana disease the French from yellow fever and of African cattle was due to try-malaria, Colonel Gorgas was panasomes carried by the tsetse the head of the sanitary depart fly, and inoculated by its bite. ment in both Havana and In 1880 Dr. A. Laveran dis-Panama, and his admirable covered that what is, perhaps, the methods are famous throughout mast important of all human the world. diseusos, viz., malarial fever, is British attempts at the control, caused by a little parasite in the of malaria have been making blood of man. This disease had headway only very slowly. always been connected, from the This may be due to the fact that time of the ancient Romans, and such efforts have been local for possibly of the Greeks, with stag-the, greator part. Special men- nant water on the ground, and uption must be made in speaking of to 1895 avory medical scientist, British efforts of the work of Dr. including Dr. Manson, suspected Clark at Hongkong and of Sir that it may be carried in some Malcolm Watson and others in way by mosquitoes. This was the Foderated Malay Status. proved to be the case by Sir

WORK AT LAYLING. Ronald Ross between the years 1895 and 1899, as the rouult of a Dr. Marelall has been assisted long series of investigations cur in his research work during ried out in India. His conclusion the last five years by Sir Richard was varified and extended-in Gregory (Editor of Nature) and Italy chiefly by Dr. A. Bignami, in other residents. They have had Africa by Drs. Daniels, Stephens, as their main object the keeping and Christophere, and clsewhere down of a vory troublesome, by other enthusiastic workers too though not dangerous, species of numerous to mention. Largely mosquito called Ochlerotatue in consoquence of this discovery, detritus, which became quito a Schools of tropical Medicine were pest during the summer months founded in 1899 at Liverpool and there, and in other parts of in London for the purpose of Southern England. They have | teaching the new knowledge and also been greatly helpod by promoting further studies. Colonel S. P. Jamos,"" of the Ministry of Health, and Mr. F. . MOSQUITOES AND FEVER. [W. Edwards, of the British Early in 1901 the American Museum. The results have beon doctors Read, Carroll, Lazear, remarkably good. The Ministry and Agramonte verified the pre- of Health, the Havant Rural Dig vious hypotocsis of Dr. C. Finlay, trict Council, and many local of "Havana, that mosquitoos also residents have subscribed towards carry yellow fever. Malaria is the cost of the somewhat oxton- carriol by various species of the sive measures required. gonus of mosquitoes called an Another contre doing a cognate opheles, whereas yellow fever is work is the Ross Institute and carried by the Stegombia but the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, brooding Habits of all these in Putney Heath. Recently found- sects being different, require ed by Sir William Simpson and vory careful investigation. Dr. Aldo Castellani, with Sir

Sir Ronald Ross carried out his Charles McLeod, Bart., as Chair-} work not for entomological, but inen it will be opened almost for sanitary reasons. From 1899 immediately. Bir Ronald Ross is onwards he paid visita to nine the Director-in-Chief of this In- different countries or colonios stitute, which has been founded with a view to urging the reduc-by public subscription, afded, by tion of malaria-bearing mos grants from some tropical quitoes. in them; and other Governments.

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