Mementoes from Zero Club) and Shanghai Scottish With the days becoming warmer. and people in Shanghai journeying farther afield during weekends places up-country, where they may Be tempted to bathe either wholly or partially In cool creek waters, it would Beas well to bear in mind that in such Places there Uhrives. schistosomiasis, Which saps human growth, That thera this prevailing danger' within the environs of Shanghai. and has even been found" In a creek near the Hiungjao Golf Club, and close to the! Columbia Country' Club, was mentioned by Dr, R. C, Robertson, of the! Division of Pathoiogleal Science ct the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research, in an_ address, given to members of the Rotary Club at the Metropole Hotel, on Thursday.
Dr, Robertson illustrated his subject with' two films, the first showing the countryside of Soochow and Kashing, where the disease is prevalent. and the second the development of the schistosomiasis parasite itself, He Fevealed that the institute was at present working to find another parasite, which, while harmless human beings, would be capable of rendering sterile the reproductive organs of the water snail, in which the schistosomiasis parasite thrives.
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