1935-05-27 — Page 3

MEDICAL RESEARCH

INFLUENZA AND INFECTION

EXPERIMENTS WITH MICE

The annual report of the Me- dical Research Council for 1933- 34 was published recently, It covers the whole field of medical study and carries a step forward the researches now proceeding in- to the mechanism of the nervous system, the netion of vitamins. And the nature of Influenza. Studies are foreshadowed of the relationship between inheritance and disease, of the chemistry of bacterial life, and of accidents on roads.

'A committee has been set up, In consultation with the Board of Control, to advise and assist on the best way of promoting research into mental disorders. The com- mittee may inquire into the mental condition of the offspring of con- sanguinous marriages and into mental defects noted in twins. Its work ought to implement the atudy of the relationship between Inheritance and disense which the, Human Genetics Committee of the Council la undertaking.

THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 27, 1935.

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The richest pageant of all the celebrations of the Royal Silver Jubileo will be the nosembly to be held in Windsor Castle on June 17 when 36 members of the Knights of the Garter will come together for the first time in 22 years. A service to be held in St. George's chapel will be the most colourful event of all the many to be witnessed in London for the next few months. The knights, many of tham monarchs of foreign lands, will wear thair pictursique robes of order, dark blue mantle, embroidered with the garter, and black velvet hats and white ostrich plumes. The procession will be headed by the King and Queen in the march from the castle to the chapel. The

with King's stall will be canopied with purple velvet fringed gold and abova

hang will

hin banger as coverign of the order. The Queen, the only woman in the order, will sit on kie right and will waar full robes of the order and the insignia set in diamonds presented to her by the Marys in the kingdom. Among those who are knights of the Garter are shown in the above layout, Top, left to right, King Victor Emmanuel of Italy: King Gustav of Sweden; King George, Queen Mary, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and King Haakon of Norway, Lower row. Left to right, Earl of Athlons, brother of Queen Mary; ex-King Alfonso of Spain; King Christian of Danmark; H.R.H. the Prince of Wales; Rt. Hon. Sir Austen Chamberlain, the only commoner in the order, and the Duke of Connaught, probably the oldest member.

'All 36 members are expected to attend the brilliant ceremony of the most famous of chivalric orders,

The natural history of epidemica continues to engage attention, and Professor Topley's experiments BELGIAN BANK OPENS with colonies of mleo are being continued. His achievement has made it possible to study epidemics In human communitles from a new angle, and work is proceeding. Incidentally, the use of diphtherin toxin has been further investi- ned.

STUDY OF INFLUENZA

LEADING FINANCIERS AT MANAGER'S RECEPTION The opening in Hongkong of a branch of the Banque Belge pour l'Etranger was marked by a gather ing of leading bankers and brokers at No. 4A, Des Voeux Rond on Satur- day, when the mannger, M. Maurice Pirenne, held reception at the

Derk's premises,

The study of influenza has been helped by the fact that mice as

The Banque Beige pour l'Etranger well aa ferrets can now be infected is an offshoot of the Societe General with the disease. "The availa- de Belgique, the oldest bank in bility of a second susceptible Belgium, and has a capital of Belg species," it is stated, "and espect- Fes, 2010,000, and a reserve of Belg. ally one so convenient for the pur in the Orient in connection with the Fes. 130,000,000. It is known chiefly pose as the mouse, extends the financing of the Peiping-Hankow and possibilities of experiment and the Lunghai railways, will be of great practical help in; The first branch in the Far East the work. It has already heen was that opened in Shanghai in 1996, shown that the disease can be followed by braches at Tientsin in transmitted not only from ferret to 1906 and 1ankuw in 1921,

mouse, but also from mouse to mouse, and from mouse' back to forret; the direct infection of mou-sexlive in that, on the biological! 80 from man has not yet been attempted."

alde, some resemblance may per- haps be traced between the cell multiplication due to the sex hormone and the early stages of malignant growth. That is not to say that substances normally capable of causing actually derived from the hormone

trut in the body.

the apparent- relation between the two activites offera elue of obvious Im- portance which may lend in some, new direction."

cancer

are

It is parenthetically stated that the method of transmission is of crucial importance, and there, is no evidence of natural spread of the dlaenae from the infected mice to others living in contact with them. "Further," proceeds the report, "it has been found that the infection can be neutralized for the mouse by the serum of a ferret recovered from the disease and

The report states that subsequently rendered hyper-im- mune by repeated administration investigation is now in progress of virus. Thus, mice inoculated dealing with

nevidents. with mixtures of the virus and the From a statistical examination of serum do not contract the disease,

the road accident records while controls receiving virus

four groups of omnibus ind' alone regularly do so. Cultural Private drivers, totalling 2,604 and filtration experiments have persons, it had been shown that confirmed that the mouse disease in each group certain individuals la. due to an ultra-microscpoic were more liable to accidents than organism."

motor

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of

others. That held true for all Accidents, including those for which the driver was not held to blame,

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Close touch had been maintain- ed with the American workers on "hog influenza." A parallel series of experiments with swine virus. REDUCING ACCIDENTS gives results closely almitar to From a more intensive examine those obtained with the virus ufation of a group of 179 of these human originas regards infection mator drivers it was found that of the ferret and mouse, as regards those who sustained a immunity, and as regards filira- number of one kind of road 我心。 tion-so that the two viruses were cident tended to sustain an undue certinly intimately related. Com number of other kinds of road menting on the progress of the accident; that those who sustain- investigations as a whole, the ed an undue number of accidents report states

in one period tended to do so "It is to be emphasized, how subsequent periods; and that the ever, that the work does not give elimination (on Paper) of those any Immediate prospect of who sustained an undue number practical applications to the con- of accidents in an initial period of trol of human influenza. What exposure reduced the accident rate ever olse may ultimately result shown by the remainder of the from this work, a much clearer group in the subsequent period. understanding of the disease may. "As regards practical. applica- at least be confidently expected;tion," it is stated, "there are two in particular, it is likely to ways of preventing the accident. facilitate the distinction between prone from engaging in specially; true eqidemic influenza and the dangerous occupations. First, by many other conditions to which appropriate testa that will deter- the name is at present loosely mine beforehand who are

applied."

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likely to sustain accidents; second- "CANCER AND SEX TORMONES

ly, by removing those who in an initial period of exposure sustain The apparent relation between an undue number of accidents." the substances normally capable" Means would appear to be al- of causing CRacer und sex ready available for giving trial hormones is discussed in the re- to this method of accident port. The advance in understand-vention on a large scale. The ing of the physiological actions of records af insurance companies 80x hormones had been ac presumably contained all the companied by П growth in material necessary for preparing knowledges of thefr chemical tables which would give the aver

age accident rate of different; "Work by Dr. J. W. Cook and classes of drivers, while a Professor E. C. Dodds ot the parison of the records of drivers Cancer Hospital and Middlesex in two successive periods would Hospital, London," it is stated, provide the opportunity for "has another Important field. paper trial of the effect of re- Certain compounds which are moving the small minority whose potent agents in the production contribution to the total number

nature.

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of experimental tumours are close of accidents is out of all propor-

ly allied in chemical constitution tion.

to the group of physiological "The novelty of the method," Aubstances

fuat

mentioned. atates the report, "as compared Synthetic compounds of this type, with judicial disqualification in

it is stated, have indeed been pre-Isolated cases, as at presont, Hes pared which possess the power in the fact that it makes use of

On = Pacific island two miles long and one mile wide, the world's greatest eugenics experiment-in taking place. Out of two races, a third race is being born.

One hundred and forty-six years ago a mutineer look-out man on the commandeered British ship. Bounty, set up a shout of "Land ho." Fletcher Christian, lieutenant in the navy of George III., led his .men ashore on to the semi-tropical paradiso that was named Pitcairn Island. There were nine English-

men and twelve Tahitian women.

From this group there have been 1,000 descendants, most of whom have migrated to other isländs, The remaining 200 live an idyllic simpla lifa close to nature on Pitcairn Island. They have become closely inbred throughout the years and everyone on the island is related and at least a cousin. The inbreeding has done no observable harm. A new white race is being evolved from the fusion of the white race and the Polynesian. The offspring are healthy and happy folk, bright and intelligent. They speak a mixture of English and Tahitian.

Head of the island's semi-communistic government is Parkin Christian (Inset above) greatgrand. son of the founder.

The pictures were taken by the Templeton Crocker-American Museum Pacific expedition on the two inasted schooner, Zaca. They show (top), three large row boats at the landing place in Bounty Bay. They are the common property of the community and are well filled when they go out to great the seldom-anchored visiting mail ships. (Lower right), women and children of the island sitting on benches near the town hall.

both of inducing tumour growth Information provided by minor The Baltimore and Ohio Rallway Company recently arranged this engine barads of the different typar

and of sex excitement.

aceldonts, and that it is dissociated-

This Anding is the more sug

from any question of blame."

locomotives through the years. Left, the “Tom Thumb”, from 1829, right, the 1935 high-speed locomotive,

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