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The tendency of modern call- ed man to behave like a sponge, mopping up the ideas and bellofe of those about him, was discussed in a very kindly way by Dr. Hugh Crichton-Miller on Jan. 25, in a lecture at the People's League of Health. The subject of the new series of lectures is "The Mind and What We Ought to know about it," and this first lecture was on menta! mechanism.
The three outstanding features of a man's mind, Dr. Crichton Miller said, were the relative inadequacy of his instinct as compared with the instinct of other animals, his enormous capacity for forming judgments, and the tremendous control over his environment which he had achieved and which opened the way to vast field of purpose.
Children had to learn by direct experience and by the transmis sion of other people's direct ex- perience. It was impossible to explain every order given to them, and ench generation depended on the accumulated experienes of past generations. It absorbed a vast amount of keowledge without argu-
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LONDON “TRUTH" ISSUES
A WARNING.
FORMER LEPERS.
TREATMENT AT CULION GIVES EXCELLENT RESULTS.
A "FEE-SNATCHER."
TWENTY-FOUR FREED.
Just over a year ago, says.
Twenty-four negativo lepers "Truth," I warned young man and two non-leprous children from who were desirous of getting Culion who arrived on February jobs on tea and rubher estates in 24, on the steamship "Fortuna,' India and Malaya against the were set free by Dr. Jacobo specious promises of C. E. Young. Fajardo, director of the Philip aon, a harpy posing as "The pine health service. In addition Overseas Gazette," 19, Roseberry to these, there are other 80 or Street, Hull. Youngson's proce-more negative lepers in the dure is to advertise in the news. colony who are at present under- papers offering to supply for one going observation, and will soon shilling complete lists of "situa-be released, it is expected. tions (all descriptions) vacant According to Dr. Sulpicio abroad; passages paid." When Chiyuto, chief of the Culion Leper applicants send the shilling he Colony, this batch of negative next endeavours to extract more lepers have undergone treatment money from them for drafting in the colony for a period ranging letters of application at a fee of from one to five years. 12s. 6d. The Federated Malay The present treatment adopted States Information Agency have in Culion is progressive, there be- informed me that Youngson has ing no definite treatment pre- resumed his activities in this cribed to all the patients. As the direction. Those who contem-result of this kind of treatment it plate a career in the Enst will not is found that every year there is realise their ambition by seeking a gradual increase of negative his help, because he is only a fee-lepers who are allowed to return snatcher with nothing more to to their families. offer than stereotyped letters of Last year, there were 208 application, which, being in com-negative lepers declared cured as mon form, are more likely to in- compared with 160 in 1926. Ac- jure a young man's chances of cording to Dr. Chiyuto, there are employment than to help them. already a total of 900 negative And managers of estates have lepers since 1922 who were suc- been so annoyed in the past by cessfully treated in the colony and his "clients" flooding them with were allowed to return to society. letters that I doubt if they would even be read.
Director Fajardo plans to estab lish another skin disease clinic for the East Visayan provinces, com- prising Iloilo, Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental. He re- cently made a trip in Iloilo to select the site of the proposed clinic.
ment or test, and it found it casi. er to accept what was offered than to reason for itself. Therefore in every civilised community one, could observe how far individuals tended to
thrash things out for themselves and how far they were inclined to absorb the opinions and ideas general in their environment. In view of this suggestibility, said the lecturer, one viewed with the instinct of self-preservation certain amount of anxiety and capa- or of race preservation, which is city for the transmission of ideas, the sex instinct, and we have very tention camp, there are a total of
In Camarines Sur leprosy de not only by means of the printing strongly the herd instinct, which is 13 positive lepers, most of whom press and public lectures. but by a development of self-preservation. are in early stages of the discase. wireless and telegraphy. And The herd Instinct of the animal or In Sorsogon, there are 23 posi- how America had produced a load the human being is essentially the tive lepers, 22 of them are in the speaker that could be heard twenty same, the desire to keep with its late stages and one already ad- miles away. In historical times man own kind ns a protection against vanced. The prospect of eradicat- had created for himself a millieu the predatory enemy, and the ing leprosy in Camarines Sur that was charged with human ideas, obligation in each case is the same: seems much better than in those; and now we were living in an at- to behave as the rest of the herd of Sorsogon, especially when the mosphere charged with
other behave. It does not matter skin disease elinic near Legaspi is people's ideas.. It WAB im whether it is a bison herd or a completed. "Manila Bulletin." possible to get away from Mayfair herd. the individual that || the saturation, and to many it was breaks the law of the herd is horn- obviously л standing tempta ed out. The person who goes to tion, not to produce any ideas of Mayfair and says: 'You people their own but to mop up those of are all wrong' is going to be horned other people.
out of the Mayfair herd, and his only hope is to find another herd. Therefore we continually tend to accept ideas from the herd instead of forming our own."
COLONY'S HEALTH.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASE LAST WEEK.
Last week's return, of notifiable disease in the Colony, according to reports to the Medical Officer of Health, was as follow:-
Small-pox: 1 death.
Enteric fever (typhoid): 5 Chin- ese cases from the city, 2 deaths. Puerperal fever: 1 case from the city, 1 from Kowloon (both Chin- j'ese), 1 death.
The Mayfair Herd. "In this amazing development of the material world which he so marvellously controls," said the [lecturer, "Man is producing for Man's great birthright, he added, himself a constant challenge. A was his capacity for conceptual hundred years ago people lived purpose. Animals had a per- more or less by themselves. Op- ceptual purpose. They did things portunities of thinking, forming because they felt like doing them, judgments, devising, and creating, but man had the power of choice, were forced upon them. That op- and that was the cause of all his portunity has been taken away. trouble. "We are the miserable There is no longer any need for us, creatures that we are," said Dr. "Nottingham's alums are worse then, to think for ourselves, We Crichton-Miller, "because of our than those at Glasgow, Newcastle, can only do it by making a spiri- mental condict and our infinite or Birmingham," said Captain tual effort and resisting the sat-possibilities of choice.”
Morris, a woman officer in charge uration of other people's ideas. Sir Claude Hill, Governor of the of the Salvation Army slum post in We have big, crude, rough instincts, Isle of Man, presided.
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