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The results of the examination are summarised below : 
No. examined 
Hookworms 
Ascaris 
Trichuris 
Enter obius 
Strongyloides 
Dipylidium caninum 
Rhabditis hominis (adults) 
Heteroderasp. 
Over 
15 
1-15 
M 
F 
M F 
Total 
Percentage 
47 
26 
22 22 
117 
— 
21 
13 
12 
11 
57 
49 
36 
20 
19 
15 
90 
80 
6 
7 
7 9 
1 — 
29 
1 
24 
1 
— 1 
1 
1 
— i 
There were no eggs of Taenia sp. in the faeces but Mr. Hayter, the Protector of Aborigines 
in Malaya, assured me that on two occasions Aborigines carried to him at the end of a stick 
tapeworms that had been passed by them. They looked fleshy and white and were as long 
as a man’s height. 
None of the 50 or so Aborigines the writer saw had any signs of elephantiasis but the 
laboratory assistant at Pekan Hospital showed the writer a blood film with Microfilaria malayi 
said to have been obtained from a Senoi from Nenasi by the Hospital Assistant in charge of the 
Travelling Dispensary. The latter asserts that there are cases of elephantiasis of the leg 
among the Aborigines living along the river banks to the south of Pekan. Green (1932) in 
the course of blood-film examinations for malaria parasites from Aborigines behind Killinghall 
Estate came across five with microfilariae but the species was not determined. Poynton and 
Hodgkin (1938) found a Microfilaria bancrofti in an Aborigine-Malay in the Ayer Danak 
reserve. 
Aborigines in Selangor 
The writer had arranged to visit a small Aboriginal reserve in the district of Ulu Langat 
near Kajang in Selangor but was unable to do so. Dr. E. Jumeaux kindly examined the 
faecal specimens brought from there and reports 
as follows : 
Over 15 
1-15 
Total 
No. examined 
M F 
... 5 2 
M F 
2 5 
14 
Hookworms 
1 — 
— j 
2 
Ascaris 
... — 1 
— 1 
2 
References. 
Cole, F. C. (1945). The peoples of Malaysia. New York. 
Poynton, J. O. and Hodgkin, E. P. (1938). Endemic filiarisis in the Federated Malay States. Bull. 
Inst. med. Res., F.M.S., No. 1. 
Williams-Hunt, P. D. R. (1952). An introduction to the Malayan Aborigines. Kuala Lumpur: 
Government Press. 
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