WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1930.
BEHIND THE TIMES?
Tuberculosis Ravages and No Sanatorium
SANITARY BOARD MOTION
Dr. Koch on Government's Inactivity
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the financial aspect of the proposal ROUND THE CINEMAS jas regards that feature of the aub) ject the Board, who are the ad visors of the Government in all that appertains to public health, need
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. have no concern. That is a quea- tion for other minda to concern themselves with. We must, there
PROGRAMMES and FORMS for the fore, confine ourselves to the poini
FIRST EXTRA RACE MEET- whether the time has arrived for the provision of a sanatorium for
the film picture ING to be held on SATURDAY, the unfortunate victims of tuber-veralon of the Edna Ferber novel, 8th March, 1930 (weather per A debate on the prevalence of tuberculosis, and the need for culosis in Hong Kong. So many will be finally produced at the mitting) may be cbtained at the Government provision of sanateritui treatment, was initiated by Mr. cogent reasons and so much plau-Queen's Theatre to-day with Laura Race Course, Hong Kong Club and
sible argument have been advanced La Plante and Josephh Schildkraut Causeway Bay Stables. M. K. Lo at the meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday.
by the mover and the seconder of in the featured rolos,
It is an ex-
Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock on MONDAY, 3rd March, Dr. Wellington moved an amendment expressing the Board's the resolution that it is difficult-ceptional picture, and with its Noon I may say almost impossible-for songs, music and gripping dialogue, 1930. concern at the prevalence of the disease and calling on the Govern- us to vote otherwise than for the makes a good evening's entertain- Hong Kong, 19th February, 1980. ment to consider measures to make conditions of residence less likely resolution. to cause tuberculosis, and to provide an infirmary for chronic cases.
The amendnient was carried by four votes to three.
There was lively discussion yes- terday when the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board was held, Mr. M. K. Lo, in supporting his motion for a Sanatorium for people suffering from tuberculosis said:-
very
In eannection with my work as Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital last year. I was much impressed by the fact that there did not appear to be any existing facilities for the treatment of tuberculosis, cases along modern lines. There were numerous enses in the Tung Wah, which, on account of the lack of serommodation, it was found impossible properly, to segregate. I intended all along to bring this question before the Board for its deliberation in the hope that something might be done. Since I have laid down my office as director of the Tang Wah, I have received a very interesting booklet containing the reports of the Medi- cal and Sanitary Departments for the year 1928. From this book I have abstracted the following facts which are truly alarming:
Respiratory diseases are non- natifintile: deaths from
Buch diseases amounted to 5.866 for 1928 as compared with the total of 5,824 for 1927: as causes of death in the Colony they exceed any of the other causes, being as much as 40 per cent. of the total deaths.
Nearly 6,000 deaths a year means that on an average 16 persons die every day from lung diseases in Hong Kong, and this figure would. of course, be increased if we were to bear in mind the fact. referred to by the Hon. the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services in his report, that many Chinese leave the Colony to die in their native towns and villages when they feel that their end is approaching.
On The Upgrade
Versed in theory and gifted in
ment.
the practice of successful advocacy, picture for
Harry Pollard, who directed the Universal, reproduced Mr. M. K. Lo has forcefully put his with fidelity the colourful life case beyond dlapute. The authori aboard a Misalssippi river Showy "The functions of the tuber-ties, he quotes, are incontrovertible Boat. The cast, including such culos dispensary,
of which and it remains for me to urge the favourites as Otis Harlan, Emily there are 483, 443 of these being case briefly for á sanatorium on Fitzroy, Alma Rubens, Jane La provided by local authorities, grounds other than those so ably Verne, Neely Edwards and others.
advanced by the mover of the real do justice to their quaint roles. solution.
"Show Boat" may well be called an epic of the screen.
are:-
(1) Receiving house and centre
of diagnosis.
(2) Clearing house, and centre of
observation.
It is the privilege of every citizen of the Colony to proclaim that Hong Kong is n progressive Colony. I am one of the exponents of progress.
(3) Centre of curative treatment
and supervision of domicill-But in our most enthusiastic mo
ary cases.
of contacts.
(5) Centre fur 'after care.'
Educational Centre.”
ments we cannot be so blind to the
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King Vidor, the famous director (4) Centre for the examination fact that in the matter of public of "The Big Parade" divulges a new
romance and Jary 24, 1930. health and medical service, to be conception of screen perfectly frank, we are striving in drama, In M-G-M's presentation (G) Information bureau and a sense to become progressive, yet "The Crowd," which is now showi
we are very much behind the times. Ing at the Star Theatre, Kowloon.
The film is, on the whole, a very There ure 482 Institutions Our principal hospital is antiquat- mainly or entirely for pulmonary ed. We have no infectious diseases good one, and Vidor has ably direct- cases, of which 197 are sanatoria hospital to speak of, and if we be threatened with an the total available relative beds should being 22.202, of which 14,458 are epidemic disease in a virulent form in the sanatorio. The above from a neighbouring part, there is
segregation figures include institutions main- no
camp properly "tained by local authorities as equipped and immediately avail well as by voluntary support.
Control and Treatment
able.
Tsingtao's Lead
I feel I can say without any fear By the last mail from Shanghai
of contradiction that the authori-1 received the report of a dinner ties In Britain, realising that tuber. in the Model Settlement about ten a preventable disease, days ago to the representatives of culosis is have in recent years adopted ener-the Press when the aims of the
and highly
successful Board of Directors of the Tsingtao getic measures directed to its prevention, International Sanatorium were out- which of course involves its controllined, from which I gather the erec- I submit that the tion of a modern sanatorium for and treatment. plain difference between what is victims of tuberculosis at Laushan, being done in Britain and what is 50 miles from Tsingtao, was the being done in Hong Kong in this principal aim of the Directors. At regard is the difference between ac- the present time, a sanatorium is housed in a three-storey building tivity and inertia
I am aware that the problem of jat Tsingtao, which as yet has not Hong Kong is complicated by its been opened. The sanatorium has fluctuating population. But surely been equipped with modern medical this is not a valid ground for the apparatus and will commence func-
tioning next April. existing state of inertia.
SOME RAIN?
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:-
A shallow depression is shown over Korea.
An anticyclone has formed over China.
Freshening monsoon along the S.E. Coast of China and over the N. China Sea.
Forecast Light N. E winds, freshening; fine at first, possibly some rain later.
Rainfall
Rainfall since January 1, 3.61 inch, against an average of 2.53 inch.
Temperature and Humidity
The temperature and humidi- ty at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock
were:
Hong Kong Macao
Temp. Humid.
63
84
Pratas Island Manila
70
85
66
90
54
100
Swatow
45
88
Che foo Shanghai
30
20
43
91
Amoy
In Hong Kong we have not aj Mr. C. Y. Chu, it was stated, is single sanatorium or any other in-responsible for the movement to stitution which pretends to deal erect and equip a modern hospital with tuberculosis cases as such. Ifor tubercular patients in China. noticed in the reports of the Medi-While attending St. John's Univer- çal and Sanitary Departments that, sity as a youth, Mr. Chu fell a vic- The following table setting out in the opinion of the Medical Offitim of the dread disease and enter. the percentage of total deaths cer of Health, this problem deed a sanatorium in Norway where! (Chinese) due to all forms of tuber-mands urgent and special attention he stayed a year and a half. After culosis for the last ten years shows by the Government, especially in residing in Norway for three years, that this disease, so far from being respect of housing and overcrowd- Mr. Chu returned to China. Com- checked, is actually on the rise!- ing open spaces and wider streets: ing in contact with Dr. C. C. Tong,
spitting in public places, and smoke of the Peking Union Medical Hos per cent.
and dust abalement. With this pital, and Mr. T. F. Soong, ed it to give a clear impression of 14.
view most respectfully agree. Chinese lawyer at Shanghai, he ex- the everyday occurrences which take But I venture to suggest that the pressed his desire to become Iden-place in New York, and which a Government should go beyond this tifled with the erection of a modern young married couple have to strive and face the problem of providing heapital for tubercular victims.against.:
1919
1920
16.9
1021
16.2
1922
14.4
1923
13.5
1924
15.7
1925
15.5
1926
16.5
1927
14.6
1028
17.4
According to the reports to which
I have referred the total of 17.4
per cent. is the highest yet recorded in the Colony.
a large sanatorium. I am of course The sanatorium at Tsingtao result- Eleanor Boardman scores a auc- aware that the Government, like ed, and now fr. Chu and his ascess in the leading role, as does every one of us, has to keep its sociates are planning to erect a James Murray, Bert Roach, Dei expenditure within Its income. But modern sanatorium at Laushan.
Henderson, and Lucy Beaumont are On Kowloon Hills?
in the supporting cast.
I cannot bring myself to believe'
that a Colony which is rich enough It is a happy coincidence that thei to be in a position to contemplate sponsor of the Hong Kong sana.
an increase of official salaries torium scheme is also a member of amounting to over a million dollars the legal profession. He can be
"WINGS"
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MÁIL
Social Functions To-day-Ten Dance at Hong Kong Hotel, 4.30. p.m.
To-day-Ten Dance at Peninsula Hotel, 5 pm.
To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
March 8-Old Bedfordian Dinner, Hong Kong Club 8 p.m.
Entertainmento To-day Queen's "The Show Boat."
To-day
"The Crowd."
Theatre,
Star Theatre,
To-day World Theatre, "Trent's Last Case" at 5.15 and 2.30 p.m., "The Adopted Son's Victory," (Chinese picture) at 2.30 and 7.15 p.m,
To-day Majestic Theatre; "Wings."
To-morrow-Helena May
stitute Concert, 5.30 p.m.
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February 20-At 46A, Nathan
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February 20-At 22 Humphreys
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February 21-At 4, Aimal Villas, Austin Avenue, Kowloon, household furniture, 11 a.m.
Meetings
February 27-Eleventh ordinary meeting of shareholders of the Bank of East Asia, Ltd., 10, Des Voeux Rd., C., 4.30 p.m.
February 28-Kowloon Residents Aahociation St. Andrew's Church
"Wings," the mighty epic of the Hall, 6 p.m.
a year cannot find ways and means confident of gaining adherents to so alr with "aces" of different
Time Now Opportune
Miscellaneous To-day--Lecture by Rev. Fr.
5.30 pm.
March
6--Annual
Show of
What is the position in Britain? to introduce some better medical praiseworthy a scheme. There is nations as its principal actors, Joy on "Some Constructive Ideas According to the book published by services in the Colony, and thus to no end to the choice of suitable was shown to capacity houses at of Sun Yat-sen," St. Patrick's Hall, Mr. D. G. Bannington called "Eng-remove what I humbly consider to sites on the Kowloon hills, on the ail the performances at the lish Public Health Administration,"
be, a great blot on the fair name crest of one of which, let us hope,Majestic Theatre, Kowloon. It is of the Colony as a healthy place of the Hong Kong Sanatorium will be a picture well worth seeing, be-Flowers and Vegetables, City Hall. residence.
built and on which the unfortunateing so realistic that any who see victims of tuberculosis can look on it cannot fall to feel themselves It seems to me that the time is it as "the promised land" with that flying in the aeroplanea thousands now opportune for taking up this ray of hope that under its benovo- of feet up in the air question, because we are singularly lent roof, if no radical cure can be pilot loops, dives, and spirals to fortunate in having as the Director assured, alleviation at least of their
enemy planе get away frpm an 1 of Medical and Sanitary Services sufferings can be obtained. that spits bullets from the such a highly qualified expert on heartily support the motion before machine guns before your very public health as the Hon. Dr. A. R. the Board.
in 1861, the death from tuber culosis was 3:6 per 1,000. From that time to 1907 the rate was re- duced to 1.6. Since then the figures are definitely and continuously on the deerense. I now quote from Whitaker's Almanack for 1930, at page 383:-
Consumption and Chest Diseases
Rate per
million living Wellington, who has already spent. An Ignominious Position
Year
1921
1322
.. Deaths 39,505 33,819
884
889
1923
32,097
836
1924
32,690
841
1926
32.382
833
*1920
31927
30,108 31,066
771
701
765
1028 ... 29,799
Granto-In-Ald
In 1912 tuberculosis was made notifiable. Under the provisions of the Public Health, (Prevention and Treatment of Diseases) Act 1918 and the National Insurance and Finance Acts of 1911 local authori- Hes were given grants-in-aid by way of encouragement to them to take effective steps to stamp out this disease. I quote from page 200 of the book to which I have referred to a hobbitt e
while the
дуел. Pleture of this rare type should not be milased, as it is a so much time in reviewing the Dr. W. V. M. Koch in supporting thrill that does not come to one whole question of, and collating the motion suid that while a Sana-
every day. the necessary data in regard to torium was a crying need, his pre- The management desire, though public health, as in shown by his vious experience had ahown him the China Mail to apologise to extremely iluminating report.
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The following programme. will be that motions and resolutions had those who have been unable to broadcast to-day from the Hong trust and hope that with his help gone up to the Government and secure seats and request that they Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. and guidance the Government will nothing had happened. He was now book their seats in advance lose no time in dealing with this fully aware of the difficulties either at Moutrie's or matter.
of the Government where fin- Majestic Theatre. With these remarks I beg to move ance
concerned, but he WEA the motion standing in my name, as was at the same time compelled follows:-
to point out that a lot of money had SILVER WEDDING
That this Board views with been and is being washed in fantas grave, concern the increase of tic plans. This money could have Celebrated by Mr. tuberculosis in the Colony and been devoted to a more useful pur-| respectfully urges the Govern- pose. No doubt the Director of ment to take prompt steps with a Medical and Sanitary Services was
Mrs. A. Stevenson
and
view to making due provision for placed in an Ignominious position Mr. A. Stevenson, manager of the the treatment of persons suffer in that he, being a member of the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage ing from such disease, including Board, had no authority in the mat- Co, and his wife celebrated their the provision of a properly equip-ter of schemes such as the one put silver wedding yesterday bokeped sanatorium, ve
to the meeting.
The scheme set out in the An Urgent Need Interim Report of the Depart- Mr. Wong Kwong-tin. In second- DR. WELLINGTON'S VIEWS mental Committee on Tubering this motion as proposed by Mr.ME culosis (Cd 6164) has been Lo, I quite concur with the remarks generally followed, It laid down made by him. A sanatorium in
Advocates Poor Law Infirmary'
the principles that the tuber Hong Kong is an urgent need. 1 In reply, the Hon. Dr. A, R. culosis dispensary should be, the think it is an asset to the Colony Wellington said Inter alia: common centre for the diagnosis if not to the Far East
and for the organization of the
treatment of tuberculosis in each
Mr. Braga's, Support
The Hon. MJ
and that it should act as a ported the motion.
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