GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1926, Page 4

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES

SO P<> THE GAY MOSQUITOES LONDON. Aug. 9 Gentlemen are not the only ones that prefer blondes. Mosquitoes also show a predilection in this direction. This fact emerges from correspondence) received by Mr A. -Moore Hogarth, chairman of tho College of IVstology, who has devoted considerable time to tho problem of dealing effectively with tho pesls. "If one might judge from the correspondence which has reached us. mosquitoct) would seem lo prefer fair people to their darker brethren," he said. "Of course, it has been impossible to go vcrv thoroughly into tins question, but. curiously "enough, our experience as to the preference shown by mosquitoes in their selection of human hosts, corresponds lo the phenomena discussed at a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, when it was indisputably proved thai there are, as far as mosquitoes are concerned, three classus of persons: 'Those -extremely sensitive io infection hv mosquito hue; "Those, who might be called normal and "Those \<\\r, might he called resistant. SUGAR IN THE BLOOD 'There seems to be no explainable, reason why these three .lasses should be thus positioned in regard to the mosquito. "It has been hazarded that, perhaps, this slate of affairs is due. to the presence of glucose in the blood, and it is of more than passing interest to the public that this complexity regarding the. mosquito attack should exist. "If, perchance. we could get the views and experiences of interested thinkers on this important matter, 1 feel confident that such data would he of very great pathological interest."