The humble daphnia, or water~ es, who scientists identity by the moe Important-sounding tile of the fresh-water entame-strachan, has gained notoriety in Shanghai with the report that three Japanese commercial establishments in Hongkew have found the diminutive crustacean im their water supply. The Shang-hho Waterworks Company and the SMC. Health Department have been notified, snd a hunt is on to determine the source of the water-fleas. was presented with the inseritied mug Joy the president, Mr. M. Reader Harris, who said that Mr. Curmming, in Addition to being one of the founders of the club, was its first president, 'A number of veteran members of the Shanghai Scottish gathered at the SVE, Club, that evening, when Mr. C. B, Blaikie, on behalf of the unit, presented Mr. Cumming with an Insetibed cigarette case bearing the badge of the Company.
It is in the small irrigation canals of rice paddy-fields where the disease most likely to be found. The parasites breed. in fresh-water snails, of] which hundreds are to be found in these creeks, It was after development in snails that they became dangerous to man, and were capable of infecting him. Just how this came about Dr, Robertson illustrated on the screen. First was seen the parasite before infecting the water-Shall seemingly elastic gelatinous Substance. slightly elongated, which slowly. moved. with a snakelike motion, The head was fairly. pointed. The parasite in this form is not injurious to man. In its active stage, afler dwelling four or five weeks in 8 water-snail, the parasite transforms rom a slowly moving substance in! a dynamic force.
Shown on the screen. magnified thousands of times under the micro scope, the parasite had developed a tall like a propeller and a head like torpedo, On the screen. their long fails, forked at the end like a fsh's were seen revolving in rapid motion. Tt was easy to understand how such a parasite, when in contact with human flesh, would, like a pneuma-tis drill on a roadway, worm its way 'W.-C. Herald" Photo,
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