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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1931.
News in Brief.
MILITARY WEDDING
To-morrow is Parsce New Year
The report of the pir ector of Medical and Sant tary Services, in the matter of leprosy, concludes with 1301.. the unsatisfying statement that
conducted by the
"It is hoped it may be arranged The service in Cheung Chau for Hong Kong lepers to be re- yesterday was
Rev. P. Hinkey, of Wuchow. ceived at Sheklung-a leper settlement on Chinese territory
Dr. and Mrs. Clift ve on their controlled by the Roman Catholic.
way out from Home and will take Mission." (The italics are ours.) up residente again in Cheung Chau.
A far from antisfactory state
..
Convent..
Picturesque Ceremony at Kowloon.
LANDAU NICHOL.
Entering the Church on the arm
of her father, the bride presented a charming picture in a drees of
The Union Church, Kowloon, was the scene of a very pretty wedding on Saturday afternoon, when Mary Wilson Nichol,' eldest daughter of of affairs also exists in the case The lowest open air temperature Mr. and Mrs.. R. S. Nichol, of the of small-pox. As things stand yesterday was 77 degrees,, The Royal Army Medical Corps, resid- | at present the Colony is liable, at humidity was 82 at 10 a.m. and 77 ing at 1, Patell Villas, became the John at 4 p..
bride of Staff-Sergeant any time, especially during the
Landau, R.AM.C. Military Hospital, eldest son of the late Mr. H. Landau winter months (ant another win.
The forthcoming marriage is 'an- and Mrs. Landau of Forest Gate, ter season is showing up, on the nounced of Delfino Eduardo dos London. The Rev. Frank Short horizon to-day), to, a severe Fantos, of 221, Wanchai Road, to | officiated at the ceremony." epidemic. The responsibility for Hexmalita Tonnochy, St. Francis.
state this unsatisfactory
of affairs, however, lies with the
The M.C.L. (Peak Children's white satin charmeuse. She car- public rather more than with the Branch) Children's Sale of Work ried a beautiful bouquet of white authorities. The latter have will be held at the Peak Club on lilies, tied with the Corps colours. Monday, October 12, and will be The Misses Neesa Nichol and Rob devised measures to cope with a
opened by Lady Poel at 3.30 pm.maids, and they were attired in Booth were in attendance as brides- danger, but the former, do not
white georgetic, and carried bou co-operate. The point now is
Silk forwarded from here by quets of pink carnations. As what measures to adopt in order Empress of Canada, on August 16 flower-girl, Miss Etta Nichol was to protect the palyic against it arrived in New York (St. John's charmingly dressed in white geor self. The chief offenders, or Park) and Hoboken on September zette, and carried a Victorian posse. 3, having been. 10 days in transit. Master R. S. Nichol. in a white non-co-operators, are the Chinese,
satin "period" suit, was page-boy, The bride's mother wore a dress of and their indifference to this ter-
flowered georgette. rible disease, says the Director, is amazing,
-
A Chinese named Ngai Choi (28), stated to be a stone
mason, fell from the first floor of 36, Pa Kong A Select Committee of the Road, and received injuries from which he died after admission to Sanitary Board examined this the Kowloon Hospital, matter some time last year and submitted a report towards the
..
Staff-Sergeant C. F. Wicke, R.A.M.C., discharged most ably the duties of best man, whilst the groomsmen were Q.M.S. S. E. Evans and Staff-Sergeant W. Dixon, of the same corpa.
Later, a reception which was at-
Peninsula
During the course of a quarrel end of November. It re between two Chinese women at 183, tended by Lt-Col. H. W. Russell, Road West, a pot of.B.E., and Mrs. Russell and off- commended (1) the recission of Des Voeux
cers, was held at the the resolution that patients be bay, Leung Fung, aged ten years, toasted the happy pair, who later boiling water upset and scalded a Hotel where a large gathering allowed to be treated in their own who was taken to hospital.
left for Repulse Bay where their houses, and (2) steps should be
honeymoon is to be spent. The tan to establish a more
bride's travelling dress was of blue flowered crepe-de-Chine, with hat and shoes to match.
thorough propaganda system and, if necessary, more depots for the receipt of bodies.
Under this
plen Government shirks an obvious duty. It has shirked this duty in days of pros Heng, Kung, Monday, Sept. 7, 1911. perity; it may be expected to con- tinue shirking it to-day when "panic retrenchment", hovers above the Colony's Budget. The unfortunate victims of this dread- scourge of humanity, are ed with a section of the report for therefore, to continue to eke out in regard to malaria and plague.| midst, and in divers ways spread their miserable lives in our very
infection.
Colony's Health-II.
*
On Saturday we dealt in part
Very much happier and more gratifying is the state of affairs
The body of a woman, Wong Kam-mui (30), was found drown Street, near the old Shamshulpo ed on the fore-shore off Chung King
Maybe she was another victim of the recent typhoon..
village.
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The bride's gift to the groom was gold watch, whilst the bride- groom's gift to the bride was a diamond ring. Among the many presents received were the follow- When a junk, at unchor off Ków- | Ing-Silver tea service and black- The Director tells us that both loon City, swerved round, a man wood and silver tray from the named Kwok 'Sun-yau had his Officers, R.A.M.C.; and canteen of have practically disappeared left leg fractured through being cutlery from the Sergeants, from the Colony: That has caught between the junk and the R.A.M.C.
anchor rope. He was taken to been due, we understand, to sys
hospital. tematic investigations, active
the Year 1930 issued by the Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington. Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Hong Kong. To-day we concern ourselves with those portions of the report which deal with leprosy, small-pox and infantile as highly infectious by the gen-plague may also be achieved with effect that two accountants employ- on what would happen "if all
mortality.
We are aware that in the matter of infection men of medi rinc hold divided opinions. But, through the ages, the lepor and leprosy have been regarded
eral public. The leper and his disease have been held in such
great fear, fear of infection, that humanity has been, perhaps, in- humane to the leper. Even if the
propaganda and anti-malaria and Chan Ying-ting, # married anti-plague measures, The suc woman, residing at 31, Pokfulam, cesses achieved with malaria and Road, has notified the Police to the
ed by her at the Luk Pul Kee bean tuberculosis, small-pox and curd shop, Tsat Tee Mul, collected leprosy, if a less apathetic policy $735 between them, and, she alleges, was pursued.
Infantile mortality is high in
absconded.
In the matter of leprosy and lepers, the Hon Mr. W. E. L Shenton asked certain questions at the meeting of the Legislative science proves, without
Reports received at Oslo confirm the Colony. Maybe it is not the theory that the reason Council held on September 3 shadow of a doubt, that leprosy ern cities, but that does
higher than it is in most East, wireless communication with the not polar submarine Nautilus Was
the Colonial Secretary were the
why
AUTHORS AND ANONYMITY.
Mr. Gilbert Frankau, the novel.
ist writing in the Morning Post
authors were anonymous," says: "Every human being, what- ever his or her work, craves, both consciously and subconsciously, recognition for that: work. Even in "ol over which I went (un- officially, after several refusals from those in authority) for the sole purpose of securing accuracy in word-picture of grisert con-
that he found, after long experi- ence, that it was "kinder" not to call men by their numbers.
"They like it," he said, "when deeply as this instinct to be call- I call them by their names.' And ed by one's name, is ingrained in. the average human being, it is a
The replies furnished by the Hon. is not infectious, it will take cen-materially affect the issue. Here broken, was the vessel's diving ditions, the Governor told me turies for the fear of infection, again the public, rather than the damage, although it was not seri for the prejudice to be overcome authorities, are to blame. Inten- ous, 5 and eliminated,. ..
same, in substance, as state- ments contained in the report we have under consideration now. The only two points of im. portance to note in the replies
under ice, which also caused some
says Reuter,
sive propaganda is indicated. We But to return to the lepers in are aware this is being proceededWoh Pig Dealers shop. 202, Port Yip Man, master of the Shing our midst. They are, of course, with through maternity hospitals and Street. Yaumat, has notified not permitted to come into the welfare circles, children's So the Police that his accountant col-
are (1) It is felt that no actual Colony. But they to find their cieties, etc., and that Government lected $530 from various shops in thousand times more, deeply in. liability rests on this Colony for way in. It is extremely difficult encourages the work not by tin Kowloon between July 20 andgrained in the artist. And right-
public treasury, It is again the keep them out. And once alone but by dipping into the September 1 last, and, he alleged, ly so, because the artist's name
Chinese who are most affected,
has since absconded:
is his trade mark--the sign by which all may know that he does good work.
non-British lepers," and (2) to "Forty lepers have been sent they are in they become a source away by the police during the of danger to the residents. Bri- frst six months of the present tish residents and others, of this and concerned in this matter of Company's launch Esmeralda was While the Green Island Cement
"The only excuse, indeed, that year." The first point has been! Colony. And yet the Govern infantile mortality.
Only last under way in the harbour, off the any artist can have for not sign- -held for, a long time, we under-ment seeks to evade its. respon week, at the Rotary Club's tiffin was run into by the Revenue De- ashamed of it. In which case
Star Ferry pier at Kowloon, she ing his work is that he feels meeting, Mr. Hazelrigg drew apartment's launch Kwong Lee, unless the money it will bring la being an eminently sane' and sub-lepers and there is jeprosy in the graphic picture of the tragedy which struck her amidships on the vital to him for bare subsistence stantial one, in view of the facts Colony. Whether the lepers are and hardships of Hong Kong' was beached near the railway pier.
--that bad work is better de. stroyed."
stand. It does not strike us as sibility. The point is, there are
of the case as may be gathered. We shall deal with it in due
course.
British or non-British lepers is immaterial. It is a strange con- ception of duty to evade respon- ability in the way the Govern
ment is daing to-day.
There is no leper asylum or settlement in the Colony where
lepers may be sent for care,
treatment
And that can
starboard side.
The Esmeralda
poor Chinese children. The
must Chinese
them help selves.
According to the Kuo-wen News only Agency, one million persons have be done efficiently and been drowned in the Kunghsion aren, on the south bank of the effectually by the educated Chin Yellow River, owing to a big ese interesting themselves in overflow. Kunghaien is an impor this major problem. The contant town In North Honan, and fa servatism of the Chinese in the on the line of the Lung-Hai Rall- way, about 100 miles West of Kai- matter of the care of the young feng. No further details are yet is blamed for the present very to hand, cables Reuter from Fe unsatisfactory state of affairs, king.
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mail" of September 7, 1921.3
To-day's dollar le worth 2/8%.
Following the series of earth- quake tremora recorded by the local Observatory on Monday night, come
Leprosy is a notifiable disease. Yet very few cases are actually notified. Also, the Governor-in- Council has certain powers in- vested in him concerning the "segregation and treatment of
`and, above all, lepers." These powers, relating to segregation especially, do not segregation: At present they
particulars of more earthquake appear to have been used for two are attended, to at the infectious
alipeka last night. decades at least. Of the number diseases hospitals. There was a but we believe that conservatism At the meeting of the League
The following is the official record of lepers in the Colony the Gov- settlement many years ago, but is breaking down, which is an en of Nation's Council at Geneva the from the Observatory ernment, has no data, but the it was destroyed in 1910 since couraging sign for those who Austrian Chancellor, Dr Schoeber, One from th im. 80s. to 2m. Director of Medical and Sanitary when to place has been appointed realise the necessity for the pro- best she was unable to carry out other: at 0h 5m. 165. to 7m: 25a stated while Austria was doing her 50s. amplitude 14 m-m, and an- Services estimates that there a leper) asylum,wenty-one per care and, brising up of in herself the necessary measures to amplitude 3.9 m-ma may be some 500 to 800. The years and nothing done. What a fants. But, it must be remem restore her finances, and appealed It is impossible at the moment majority are believed to be non pitiful record! What, sheer neg-bered, as the Arabic proverb has to the League for assistance. The to state whether the tremens are Council Instructed the League's the result of a mild local disturb tish lepers and for them, of lect of the public weal and good
Financial Committee to study the ance or whether they are due to a "it is felt that no actual by members of two great public.
You must scratch your own question and report Immediately, more distinct movement •at a Jability rests on this Colony," services!
head with your own nails, anys a British Wireless message greater distance-