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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MUSSELS TO TAKE A CURE

FROM SICK BED TO HYDRO

Municipal hydros" for mussols. completo with sen-water baths and cold showers, aro.to be erected found the coasts of England in an attempt to restore the mussel-fish- ing Industry to prosperity,

SATURDAY, JUNE

SCIENTIST WITH COLLEGE SEQUEL TO A

TREACLE POT

| STILLING VIBRATION IN

BIRKBECK COLLEGE .

DR. NETTLETON'S

RESEARCHES

QUESTIONNAIRE

Sir John Bradford's

Explanation

1933.

The Issue of the questiondaire, from the address of the University

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of London (which was summarised In the Telegraph Inst week, boon followed by a disclaimer and A college "ghost" London's explanation by Sir John Rose Brad traffic vibration; the bella of St. ford (Chairman of the College Com Sepulchre, Holborn; and midnight mitteo) and Mr. Allen Mawer, the visits from suspicious police con- Provost,

tables-thean

are some

of the

Not only will the mussels, after being caught, be allowed two days to disport in their sedate fashion la the fine porcelain-faced swimming baths offered them by the local council, their health will be safe.

difficulties which have been: Hut- They point out that they first guarded by precautions as fastidi cessfully overcome by Dr. II. R. heard of the lasue of the question- ous as those protecting humans Nettleton, of Birkbeck College, naire, which was signed by tw the College staff, All their bathing water will be London, in a recent determina-members of

of the fundamental through the Press and fdom letters "sterile," although it is pumped tion of one

received from private persons, and from the sea; their showers will units of electricity.

add:

who "take. the waters.”

be administered at an exhilarating Dr. Nettleton, described to a re pressure - from hose-pipes, and on warm days cooling douches will be presentative of the Press the extra- ordinary precautions which must given whenever the mussels are beginning to feel a "touch of sun" be taken in carrying out delicate between dips.

college's

rosearch work in the building off Chancery-lane.

"Objection has been taken, and rightly been taken, to some of the questions, seeing that they ask the to give their persons addressed views on some matters of grave moral questions on matters of this kind."

The letter continues:

This is the remarkable solution found by the Ministry of Agricul- In search of quiet Dr. Nettleton ture and Fisheries, after fifteen has worked through 250 nights in years of research, for bringing back his laboratory. Between midnight "We desire, on behalf of Univer- into use the condemned and closed and six in the morning he finds sity College, to say that the quea mussel-beds of Britain and reator-that there is no traffic vibration:tionnaire was issued entirely with- ing a living to hundreds of work- but something which he and his out the consent or the cognisance of less mussel-fishermen.

assistants call the college ghoat the Collégo, or even of the Depart- ocensionally makes dull, heavy ment from which it appeared to noises and-which is strange for emanate, and to say at the same a ghost-shakes the building. time how much we regret that any members of the staff should, in the pursuit of a purely private search, thus have used the name of the Collège.”

It has been developed with such success by the Conway Shell-Fish Research Station that the tiny industry at Conway has benefited by £60,000 in ten years, without There have, they say, even raising prices to the consumer or been voices heard on the landing costing the Government anything outside, but when the door has to run the "hydro,” which la self-been opened there has been no one supporting.

visible.

ALL IN TWO DAYS.

POLICE SUSPICIOUS.

While no defence is made of the document, it is explained, "in fairness to its authors," that equal emphasis was laid on the questions asked in relation to "such topics as new education rationalism, non- and the League of Nations," and smoking, penal reform, Free Trade,

Now Morecambe, with one of the His other night trouble has been largest mussel industries in the the anxiety of policemen on seeing country, Lytham, near Blackpool, a light in the small hours. On and Boston, another great source one occasion a cordon was put of English mussels, are in various round the building before it was that questions "upon certain topics atages of planning and installing discovered that it was "only a to which exception has rightly been "Muasel Cleanaing Tanks,' and other councils ure certain

takon were clearly only incidental Follow.

But Dr. Nettleton's favourite to the inquiry, and did not con- time for working is on Sunday. stitute its main purpose." between the morning and evening services at St. Sepulchre's Church. Although the church is more than

to

scientist at work."

quarter of a mile distant, the peating of Its hells is sufficient to

The questionnaire, it is added, was not addressed to students of the College.

The method evolved at Conway, | is brilliantly simple. The bathe of sterile sea-water and the cold show ers are so arranged as to enable the mussel to clean himself from all infectious bacteria and other pollu tions attendant on the defilement of set his recording spot of light coived with approval by the Phy- sea-water in recent years. Then, dancing, and sometimes it hassleal Society, and his hope is that after two days, he is sent alive, hap-been known to move six inches. one day the college's dream of a py, and medically certified, to the

new building on the Bloomsbury great mussel-enting areas of Eng- Most of these troubles, he ex- University site will be realised. land.

plained, he has overcome by su Then he will have a' modern, It is believed that oned these pending the whole of his apparatus vibrationless laboratory in which guaranteed mussels are available in from the ceiling. Even then it

to work. quantity, the old vogue of the would swing if he had not dis- mussol in all ranks of society will covered that by letting a pointer [return, bringing greater prosperity at the bottom of the apparatus than ever before to the "doomed" float in viscid treacle or lubricat- shell-fish industry and hope to more ing oll he could stop the random than three-quarters of the mussel-

movement. fishing areas themselves, which have already been closed owing to pollution.

Yot he has never been dis- couraged. His work has been re-3

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