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SPOILED CHILDREN,
The use of blood tests to deter William Paddock, aged 22, a "We do not want too much cot- mine paternity is illustrated by two plumber's mato, a former chairman ton wool or hot-house trasiment to legal cases reported from Germany. of Bethnal Green Housing Com-develop the kind of boy which this The first was heard in Wurttem-mittee, who came into prominence country wants," said Dr. L. R. borg, where a woman applying for in connection with his tenancy of Lempriore, Medical Officer Df an affiliation order swore that a one of the flats at the Lenin Estate, Haileybury College, apeaking at certain man was the father of her pleaded guilty at Old Street Police the Public Institute of Health, Illegitimate child. The defence Court to fraudulently converting to London, on "The Health of the countered by producing evidence his own use and benefit two auma Public Schoolboy." Dr. Lempriere, that the characteristics of the in- of £5 entrusted to him for safe who has been at Haileybury for fant's blood were incompatible custody. with this relationship. The blood
twenty-five years, said it was his He was sentenced to five months' experience that boys returned to of the man, they said, was of one imprisonment in the second divi-school after holidays out of con- type, and the woman's was of an-alon.
dition. The time allowed for bath- other; it was impossible that the Detective Dawson said that Pading at public schools, he thought, union of two such persons could dock was secretary, trustee, and was much too long, and was res have produced offspring whose everything else in connection with ponsible for a considerable amount blood had the characteristics de- the Coventry Mutual Loan and of debility and loss of weight. monstrated. By which reasoning Investment Club. No money at all Twenty minutes in the school the Court was so far convinced as had been paid out. "This is one of swimming-plunge was ample. He sentenco the woman to six the worst cases of its kind in found that the public schoolboy of months' imprisonment for perjury. Bethnal Green for some time," said to-day was taller than the boy of The second case was of the same the detective. "The people con- forty years ago, but was more of kind, but the judgment delivered on cerned are among the poorest, some a Sybarite and it by the highest Prussian Court of them with very young children.".
weakling. There was in a contrary sanse. Similar Those people had hoped to re-lish public schools to-day
were more weaklings at the Eng- medical evidence was brought to receive money for their Christmas formerly, although it was than
to
not
It was due to
fute a charge of paternity, and the dinners, and had not had a farth-public school life which was reg- general validity of the blood tests ing. Paddock had run the club for ponsible for this. was admitted. Apparently, how-two years, and told him (the officer) the material supplied; it was not ever, a witness stated that in a that he took some of the money the the soll, but the seed. series of over 2,000 cases Investi-rat year and borrowed to pay it gated in 1926 there had been one back. When the second year start-found more in the public schools of The weakling type of boy was exception to the rules and the Courted, he had again to take money.. accordingly decided that the tests do not provide the absolute proof required by the law,
Incompatibilities.
Out of Work.
the South than in those of the People had been led to entrust North, and represented from 10 to Paddock with money on account of
per cent of the whole school his position, e69
Catarrhal defects was a member population. Before commenting од these of the Bethnal Green Borough Caused more illness, loss of work judgments, It is convenient to con- Council at the time. Paddock had and play, and interfered more with sider the origin and nature of the been out of work and had received the happiness of boya than any new tests, whose use for legal pur-money from the guardians,
other disease. Nasal bygiene poses is no more than adventitious. Mr. Clarke Hall: As the officer was in a deplorable condition In They have arisen as a by-product rightly says, this is a very bad case most public schools, but dental of the operation known as blood indeed. You have taken and used hygiene was very good. Parents transfusion that is to say, the money entrusted to you by other were mainly responsible for дег- transference of blood from the people. They saved up their money vous ailments among boys. veins of one individual to those of in order to have a happy Christmas The highly nervous boy was in- unothor.
a spoiled After sudden haemor- with their familles, and you have variably found to be rhage, and in many forms of dis-had it all. You must go to prison child, and the best possible cure ensc, such reinforcement is of great for three months on the first charge was the public school life. Defec- value, and has been from time to und two months on the second tive gyesight was very common, time attempted by surgeons for charge. They will be consecutive, and 20 to 25 per cent. of those who hundreds of years. But the tech-That will be live months, I will entered the schools had bad eye- nical difficulties have always been make it, in the second division as it sight. The effect of public school considerable, and even when they is your first offence.
life on the individual was in the had been overcome it was still
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majority of cases beneficial, and re- found that the operation sometimes The Lonin Estate, so-called be- sulted in the weakling becoming caused dangerous symptoms--such cause the Bethnal Green Borough robust, and the nervous boy grow- as shock and unconsciousness-and Council, which has a Communiating confident and self-controlled. even sudden death. Thus it came Socialist majority, dedicated it as a Many people considered that the to be realised that the blood of memorial to the Bolshevist revo- public school was not the place for some human beings is incompatible lutionary leader, cost £28,000. the weakling, but he diagreed. with that of others, producing a Paddock, while chairman of the He quite recognised that such a violent and dangerous reaction if Housing Committee, was, from boy was a nuisance and an anxiety, injected into, the bady,
among at least 1,500 applicants, but he had as much right as the Although blood appeara homo- given possession of one of the first robust to the advantages which the geneous it really consists of dis- of the flats, and this caused con-system offered, crete corpuscles floating in an al-siderable anger in the district. "In our public schools we un- most colourless fluid known as Complaints afterwards raacked doubtedly want a very much higher serum. It is easy to separate these "The Daily Mail from residents in standard of cleanliness, both per- two constituents, and it was found Bethnal Green regarding the cir-sonal and general," he said. that if a drop of serum from one cumstances in which their appifca- food was good, but there was an added to ations for the flats were treated. Insufficiency of fresh fruit. The drop of blood from
Later the Socialists and Com- hours of work required some an-i other, the conjunction somatimes munists on the council decided to modification in the case of the small caused the corpuscles to run to- dissociate themselves from Paddock boy, who worked as long as his gether in clumps. To this "agglu- and to deprive him of his post of elder brother in the higher forms. tination" the poisonous effects of Socialist Whip. This was followed Only in the summer time should transfusion were evidently due, and by a statement in the Workera study be demanded before break- it became the practice, before start Life, the official organ of the fast. At Haileybury he forbade ing the operation, to make sure that Communist Party of Great Britain, the wearing of overcoats except the bloods of the two individuals that the local recommendation that when sports were being witnessed, concerned did not show this Paddock "is expelled from the Com- or during railway journeys. antagonism to each other under the munist Party for acting contrary believed that a boy should keep microscope.
to the interests of the working himself warm by his own active class" had been endorsed.
movements.
Colonel John Buchan, MP, who presided, hoped that Dr. Lem- priere's next lecture would deal
(Laughter).
person
Classification of Blood. Even simpler means preventing accidents are now, however, avail- able; for. it has been discovered
The
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that the blood of all human beings HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS, with "The Neurotic Pathology of |
falls into one of four groups,
The tests which define these groups depend on a theory that
human blood corpuscles may con-
tain one or both of two substances,
February 8, 1928:
Mr. and Mrs. W. Armstrong, Mr. called A and B. Similarly, human B. M. Armstrong. serum may contain one or both of Mesara, R., J. Birbeck, N. .C. two substances, a and b. It is im- Berry, G. L. Blum, A. Bandmann, possible for A and a to coexist In W L. Butter. Mr. and Mra R. B. one individual, for the result of Bullock.
Mr. S. D. Gisslespi
Parenta."
BIG BOND FRAUD,
ANOTHER.MAN ARRESTED IN PARIS.
Paris. The biggest financial scandal in France since the historic Panama Bond affair is, said to be imminent as the result of the latest development of the £10,000,000
their meeting is agglutination of Measra. R. A. Denton, A. C. Davis, the blood corpuscles a pheno- Mr. and Mrs. Dulorg. menon which also occurs when bi Messrs. R. W. Elsum, L. Edmond- meeta B. Thus there are four pos- son. sible types of blood, known as Groups I, II, II, and IV., contain- Messra. A. F. Henry, Fred A. Hungarian Bond fraud, the inquiry ing (A plus D), (A plus b), (a Hill, Chas. A, Helzaky, F. H. Hill, into which has been going on for plus B), and (a plus b) respectively. Hunt, C. A. Henderson, S. more than two months and in con- A person's group can be ascer Hicks, J. M. Hutchison, R. J. Harri-nection with which 16 arrests have tained by putting two drops of his 204, G. A. Haley, J. P. Hunt, Capt. so far been made. blood at opposite enda of a glass T. F. Hall.. alide and adding a (serum from Mr. J. E. Joseph. Group III) to one, and b (serum Mr. H. A. Keller. from Group H.) to the other. With- Mr. and Mrs. Li Ming. Mr. and in a few minutes one, both, or Mrs. W. S. Leeds, Misa H. Lillie. neither of the drops will show Messra. N. Mouw, F. R. Milue, clumping of the corpuscles, and W. W. Murdock, D. MacLeod, C. B. will thus reveal the group to which Morrison. their owner belongs.
Mre. W. V. T. Owen, Mr. F. S. It may be remarked in passing Odum. that the evil effects of transfusion Messrs. W. Pait, H. S. Prophet, only occur when the corpuscles of Miss Helen M. Pend, Mr. and Mrs, the donor are susceptible of agglu-H. H. Priestley. tination by the serum of the recipi- Messrs. A. U. Held, F. L. Robbins, enti.e., the patient whose blood is Miss R. M. Robinson. being supplemented. This means
Mr. and
Karl Blumenstein, the young son of the Vienna banker Blumenstein, who was one of the first to be ap- prehended, arrived in Paris from Switzerland of his own free will, and after being questioned by the examining magistrate was taken to the Santé Prison;
The magistrate also interrcgated the former French consul Lacazes, who is charged with complicity in fraudulently introducing the bonds into France so that they could be! atamped to make them payable on a gold basis instead of on the basis Mrs. H. V. Stenberg, of Hungarian paper currency.
that the blood of people, in Group Miss E. Van Slyke, IV. (who comprise some 40 per Messrs. C. Timmerman. E M. A dinner is being given in cent. of the population) can rafely Tyler, E. F. Thorpe, Miss Thorazen. honour of Mr. W. S. Harvie by be transferred to anyone, of what- Mesars. W. Wright, G. Wragge, ever group. A roll of these "uni- Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wagner, Major versal donors" is kept at hospitals and Mrs. Waner.
so that they can be called on to give Mr. E. A. Yates..
their blood in an emergency with-
out further investigation
Value of the Tests as Evidence.
One medico-legal application of accepted in the liw-courts for more theas tests is to the examination of than a year, and a number of men blood-stains, for it can sometimes who had been paying for the up-
Shanghai Hockey Players pait and present when the opportunity will bo. taken of presenting him with a memento In recognition of ser vices to hockey during his resi dence there.
NURSING MOTHERS
PINKETTES
be shown that the blood from a port of their alleged children have should be careful to avoid consti- given stain could not have been bad their cases reopened and by pation, for this condition lets loose elied by the person to whom it is this kind of evidence have made poisons into the blood, which rob Attributed. Their use to refute good their denial of paternity. the baby's food of purity and. allegations of paternity is not so Without knowing more about the strengt The most efficient laxa- simple, since it depends on our "exceptional" cats which tafluenced tive for woman's use is Pinkettes, knowledge of the way in which the the Prussian Judges in their decl- characteristics of the blood are in- sion, it is impossible to assess its herited. The available evidence significance. The tests are believed indicates that A and B are to rest on a sound, foundation and which act as gently, as nature, and "dominant" characters, whilst a to be reliable within the limits in being purely yegetable cannot and bare "recessive." On this dicated; but, as the Lancet points assumption A and B can never be out, the British courts do not al-harm even the most delicato. Of found in the blood of a child unless ways accept the most definite scien-chemists, or post frec, 60 cents the they are present in that of the tinc evidence without reservation. vial, from Dr. Williams Medicine father or the mother. For instance, Even proof of Santity by finger Co. 60, Kiangse Road, Shanghai, a child who belongs to Group: II. prints, though used by the police Let Pinkettes but cannot have sprung from two Group for purposes of detection, is seldom
IV. parentss
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In Austria the tests have been viction of a criminal-Observer."
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