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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1927.
TWO NEW BILLS.
· AMENDMENT TO LOAN. PROCEDURE.
MEDICAL BOARD CHANGE.
RIGGS DISEASE:
CONCERNING PYORRHEA
ALVEOLARIS.
[BY A DENTIST.)
structures in
culated to cause mist or storm at any time. To cross the Atlantic by aeroplane proves little more than that it can be done. As the "Manchester Guardian" remarks, "as much can be proved as cross ing Niagara on a tight-rope." No- body would find reasonable en-
The drafts of two Bills are pub- Pyorrhea is an inflammation of couragement for experiments lished in the current "Gazette." the dontal parioatlum (mem- upon the second feat. It may be a The object of the first-an Orbranous tissue surrounding; the display of cunning and of nervo, dinance to amend the General Loan bone) and the
and Inscribed Stock Ordinance, which the teeth are imbed- but it is socially useless. Perhaps 1918, is to render it possible to dia- ded, developing pus, and pro- the distinction between bravado continue contributions to the sink-gressing to the decay of the tooth and bravery is that the former ing fund of any particular loan is-processes, and the final loosening serves no purpose while the latter sued under the provisions of that and loss of the teeth.
Ordinance when the sinking fund
It is calculated that ninety out Bete courage as a goal which is has become potentially full, 10 of every hundred people in the when it is clear that the value of world have pyorrhea or conditions the fund, with further accumula-which, if untreated, might lead to tions of interest, will be sufficient pyorrhea-which makes this dia- to enable the loan to be redeemed ease one of the most insidious of all buman allments. ́It` is found The second Bill is an Ordinance to amend the Medical Registration ing the generally held opinion to even among savages, notwithstand- Ordinance. Its main objects are as the contrary. follows: (a) to deal with the powers and procedure of the Medi- Pyorrhez is. of slow onset. So SOME AMUSING CONFESSIONS. cal Board; (b) to deal with the apelow is it that a patient may have. peal to the Governor in Council; it for years and be unaware of his (e) to transfer the medical regle condition until a dentist tells him [By "Namber. Please."]
ter from the Colonial Secretary to of it. On the other hand, it is a Telephone operators (not those the Principal Civil Medical Offeer sleeping volcano, liable to break in Hong Kong) could tell an amus and (d) to-exempt the professors out at any time. Suddenly, some ing story of their work, if they of the Faculty of Medicine at the day the gums begin to swell and could only be persuaded to University of Hong Kong from the the volcano breaks forth with au
I have tried "pumping" necessity of registration.
worth winning.
ON THE TELEPHONE, at the proper time,
REMINISCENCES OF AN EXCHANGE OPERATOR.
speak.
several of them but they were reticent. They would not confess that on more than one occasion, they had "listened in" when a young lady was talking to her boy over the 'phone.
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If (writes Uncle Peter) you are
alveolar abscess, You will and that in the fncipient stage the patient stops brushing his teeth because the gums are painful`and bleed. In the latter stages you will find exudation of pus, and the tooth becoming loose.
In advanced cases they become ao, loose in the socketa that some- times they may be rocked back and forth, or even plucked out with the fingers.
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A Poison Factory. Remember always that the 'pres-
Seeing the general public would) not get an insight into the working of the exchange, I, who have been an operator for the last 30 years, will tell you some of the splendid time, I have had listening to young It is significant that in his review couple's conversation. I can recall of the position in Hong Kong many interesting "bits" picked up looking for an ideal present for a during the past year the Superin- through the ear-cap, but none would youngster of either sex, you should sure of mastication squeezes the be more interesting than the pay a call to Messrs. Whiteaway's accumulated pus around the gum tendent of Imports and Exports following:--
Store, chop-chop. For here, I see, margins and the roots of the teeth, reported that smuggling in Indian
they have a supply of the "Enaign-where it mixes with the food, A fellow named Jack called up a Cadet" cameras. I say go chop-patient thus becomes a self-food- and is swallowed. The pyorrhole chop because that supply is not a mighty, large one, and when par-
ing, self-sustaining polson factory - -constantly busy manufacturing ents and guardians realise what wonderful bargains they are and fresh supplies of pus. These are any-what splendid gifts for the children absorbed into the circulation, or they make, Mesere. Whiteaway's is carried into the digestive and re- going to get sold right out.
spiratory tracts-there to take ad- Believe me.
vantage of any lowered resistance
opium is now practically non-girl named Jill, and this was the existent, which is more than can conversation that ensued.
Jack: "Is that Jill?" be said for the products of certain
J: "Yes; that Jack?" other countries who were signa-
"Yep... Did you notice tories of the Geneva Agreement. thing in last Saturday's papera?" Unfortunately, only three nations
You bet your life, Jackie......" "What struck you, Jill?" "I'm quite positive it wasn't a REMEMBER TWELVE NOVEMBER, and so on."
"But what's that all about?” - "Do you know?" "Do you?" "No"
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trouble about, and if you follow the
to start the particular kinds of mischief best adapted to their germ
nature.
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factors as
Common To All Races. Dr. Younger has written that
In the first place, these "Ensign Cadets" are cheap. They are being Bold at $3.95 each. That doesn't mean to say that they're no good The patient may exhibit the or anything like that. They are symptoms of various other diseases eminently practical cameras, and connected with the eye, pose, will take fine photographs. I've thrust, heart, or kidney etc., which "Well, I simply can't keep it any tried one, so I know.
may be traced to mouth Infection longer! It's too selfish to keep it
They are just the thing for the from pyorrhea, to myself, because I want you to boy or girl, or young man or young The duration of pyorrhea la very have a good time also?”.
woman who is just starting-in as uncertain. The incipient form so "But....what is it? Do shoot it an amateur photographer. The called gingivitis, may run along In spite of the general feeling out, please......dooooooo! I'm so "Ensign-Cadet" gives you some- many years before developing into
intrigued!"
thing against the continuation of fur-
to practise with, and the more "Listen here goes! On the all the time gives you decent infection of long standing does be severe types. When an Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 15, 1927. ther attempted flights across the twelve of November, the St. Peter's pictures, and the prints can be on-gin to make inroads into deeper
Atlantic, particularly now what is Church Young Men's Club is hold-larged, too.
structure, the progress of the dis- A SATURDAY CAUSERIE.
termed as the "close" season has of the Club at No. 1, Oakland's simple to work and are construct- many
ing a Garden Fete in the grounds In the second place, they're 60 case is very rapid. There are set in, yet another party has made Path. Proceeds to go to Clubed on the box principle. On handi- mouth conditions and character of to health, local The opium question has been the attempt and met with disas funds, Club Division of St. John ing one, just six things on the box- infection or inflammation which again to the fore this week owing ter, fortunately without atten- Church Repair Fund and the Blind These are all the parts you have to
Ambulance Brigade, St. Peter's like exterior strike your eye, affect the duration..: to the publicity given to the de-dant loss of life owing to the pre- Home in Kowloon....and...." liberations of the advisory Com« seace of a Dutch oil tanker which "Just a moment, Jackie. Are instructions in the little Red Book mittee of the League of Nations. was able to render assistance. You sure that it's the St. Peter's which goes with every camera, you
Club that's organising this Fete?" can't go wrong. The parts are:- Bordering as it does the territory Although it was obvious from of a nation which, despite the brief cabled reports over a month
Talking Sense.
a. Lens, efforts which have been made for ago that public opinion was fairly auppression, must be numbered as unanimous as to the inadvisability amongst the world's greatest con- of flights on such a scale as were **Nothing....only I was thinking sumers, and, numbering amongst being attempted, the strength of that since the St. Peter's Club's treats are always t-r-e-a-t-e, this its populations thousands who use such opinions could not be forthcoming Fete must certainly be the drug, the opium problem is of gauged until the arrival of the a most enjoyable affair." particular local importance. Hong direct mail. From latest mail On some occasions you do really go right ahead and take photos, the weak are all affected. Neither Kong has reason to recog- reports it is plainly apparent that talk sanse, Jill, you know! But using the Ensign Speed Film which does temperament seem to produce nise the necessity for the imme- the protests which were register-only the introduction!
don't get excited yet......that was Messrs. Whiteaways also stock. immunity, for the nervous, the
They are
The "Ensign-Cadets" have other sanguine, and the phlegmatic suffer diate ratification, and rigid an-ed against the running of un-having very many other attractions admirable qualities. The above, from it." ~-- forcement of the Geneva Conven- necessary risks represented a in store for us too."
however, gives you a general idea Dr. J. J. Sarrazin in "Items of tion of 1925, for which the League very large section of the thinking "Well, I presume it'll be us, Jillness as gifts for camera-learners, a case which ended fatally. In of their usefulness and appropriate Interest" for March 1915, reports. of Nations is striving. In Hong public. It is generally regarded Why, surely you'll come with me to and if you are interested, go along writing he says this is the first Kong and all possessions of the that to attempt to cross the At- the Fete!"
to the Store and have one demon certificate of death issued in this British Empire where opium islantic by air in the present limit-
"You're folly lucky, Jack, cause strated to you without obligation.country (U.S.A.) possibly in the temporarily admitted, every tran-ed stage of aviation progress is tinue with the rest of the story!"
I'm such a sport!......Well, coa-
One more point. They're Bri- world) where the original infection tish, both the cameras and the from Riggs pockets was recognis Baction from import to individual merely to tempt fortune and it "They are having Goldfish Ponds, films. And you know what that ed as the primary lesion eventually sales is under State service and certainly appears time, In view of Aunt Sallies, Gifts from Paradise, stands for. The makers are causing death" **** every person participating in its the heavy death roll, to ask what Football Competfilon, Toys Stall, Houghton Butcher (Great Britain) There are many, of course, who disposal is a paid servant of the useful purpose is served by such Rifle Range, Concerts, Punch and Holborn, London.
Sweets Stall, Flower Stall, Hoopias, Ltd., of Ensigu House, High contend that pyorrhea is of sys- State. In this manner, push sales peculiarly hazardous flights and Judy, etcetera, etcetera!" and encouragement to addictive whether they should be encourag use are entirely removed, and if ed any longer.
it were possible to give adequate protection from smuggled pro-
There are risks and.
risks
"As sure as you and I are born, my dear girl! But whasaa matter?"
"Jackie......US!"
Be Prepared. "Any dancing?"
"fully ninety per cent of the Anglo-Saxon raca have pyorrhea in some stage of development In one or more of the alveoll (the sockets of the teeth). It is common among all races in all countries, and among all classes. The rich and the poor, the well conditioned and the menu, the vegetarian and the meat eater, Not very formidable, eh? Well, the bibulous and the abatemious,
b. Direct Vision View Finder. c. Time Exposure Indicator.
d Exposure Lever.
e. Winder Key..
f. Catch Fastening Door.
having observed these six points the fat and the lean, the robust and read the instructions, you can and the debilitated, the strong and
On Monday $8,000,000 of the
tomic origin arising in some de- praved state of the metabolism, or from the presence of rachitis dur fag childhood, or to tuberculosis, "Oh, yea; Gee, I nearly forgot HONG KONG GOVERNMENT syphilis, diabetes, Brights or that! Sure, both in the afternoon
diminished alkalinity of the blood. as well as the evening. So, Jill, be
Wema "All these conditions, in a way, do ducts from other countries, the and it is a fairly obvious prepared a more
influence opium traffic here and in other principle of social conduct that You had better be more pre- $5,000,000 loan authorised to be causative factors,
the development of pyorrhea But they are not direct, Possessions would be speedily dangers should not be wantonly Pared than I, Jackle. Remember, lasued by the Hong Kong Govern
It's almost always the man that ment for necessary public works, man as
Pyorrh brought under complete control. faced. The perils of exple atión ve
Pazal and of pioneering effort where "Doesn't matter, Jill. I'll see the issue being in the bands of and cats, which live as pets under.
is to be offered for subscription, domes The problem would have been something substantial. maybe
that we enjoy everything at the the Hong Kong and well on the way to solution by now gained to case the
Fete, even though I may to Bank Everything poin hock my sult had the signatories to the Geneva who follow after are perils which
loan being over subse what are you going to view of applications already made Protocol of 1925 ratified it in the are well worth the risk taken same spirit as have the British the adventurous. But the cond
Such applications have
Empire and
the Atlantic
India
direct
wn business, turned as they
the
the teeth of well as those of certain animals, such as: doga