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Tuberculosis is preventable and curable, but to prevent and cure It means the whole-hearted co- oparation indicated in the preced- ing paragraph.
solution:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1932,
ANTI-SPITTING BY-LAWS
SCOPE IS NOW EXTENDED BY SANITARY 'BOARD.
'Yesterday's Discussion.
Dr. Li deals at length with the medical and social aspects of pre- vention, and in particular stressos the dangers of spread of infection
At yesterday afternoon's meeting of public resort. He also recol by that unhappy custom, so preva- of the Sanitary Board, the Chair-, lected Mr. Chau's argument that lent, of expectoration. He des man (Mr. G. R. Sayer), pursuant they were nothing more or 1083 cribes as "beneficent legislation" to notice, moved the following re- than the poor man's dining table. Members would find that none of the Hong Kong anti-epitting by-law "That the Board does approve the places on this list could be (we concur) and hopes this will the introduction forthwith of by said to be places of public resort. mark the beginning of a long over- laws (or conditions of grant) as Nevertheless, it could also be circulated in regard to spitting in found that spitting in one or other due movement against tuberculosis, each and all of the following pre- of them was injurious to health, We sincerely hope so too. But, we mises licensed or registered by the and it appeared to him appropriate think the by-law of itself is only Board namely—
that those different premises half the battle, as it were. More than that is needed.. An Intensive anti-spitting propaganda. have suggested it more than once. before. We repeat the suggestion to-day. Anti-spitting propaganda
Wo
(1) Premises specially licensed should come under the same re- under Section 78 for the gulations, and spitting therein re- sale of food usually sold in stricted. Substantially, the argu a 'market.
ments were precisely the same as (ii). Aerated water factories. the arguments for the by-lawa (1) Bake-houses.
which had received the attention establish of this Board and which with the assent of the Legislative Council had become law.
(iv) Food-preserving
ments.
(v) Dairies..
(vi) Public Laundries. The, Chairman said that those of them who were present when the
Tuberculosis Danger.
on similar lines to anti-malaria and anti-other things. But it must be intensive and carried on intensive ly among those who are the Board introduced. the by-laws re- in the Colony and stressed the de greatest offenders-offenders main-gulating spitting in eating houses ly through ignorance and offenders' would remember that in seconding, because of the cultivation of a bad Mr. Chau had suggested that they and nauseating habit. What about, in respect of all premises an anti-epitting boycott? If auch trolled. by the Board. u boycott could be organised as posal to give effect to that sugges successfully as another boycott wetion, due to the customary modesty of Mr. Chau, was being moved by know of, what a great stop forward him (the, Chairman).
The Chairman referred to the serious Incidence of tuberculosis
sirabllity of introducing such re- gulations as one means of eradica- ting the disease.
Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau expressed should make similar regulations his pleasure at the promptness
we would make! It's worth considering.
only the Hong Kong Govern- SHANGHAI REFUGEES
ment (though we want to see it Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 2, 1932. doing a great deal more), must
Tuberculosis.
take greater interest and spend money more generously than they have done hitherto. Such money spent to-day may not en- Itail 'immédiate returns but they will assuredly, as god made little apples, grow into gilt-edged securities.
Wel
FUND.
To-day's Special
Shows at King's.
con-
This pro-
with which his suggestion had the Board, and quoted certain been taken up by the President of portions of the speech made by Dr. Li Shu-fan at the Rotary Club meet- ing that afternoon as being appro priate to the occasion.
Mr. M. K. Lo associated himself with the remarks of the Chairman and of Hon. Mr. Chau.
Difference in 'Detail. Continuing, the Chairman said that there were certain differences In detail which differentiated the premises on the list from eating
Eating houses were places the eemting.
Captain J. J. Blankett, master of the J.C.J.L. s.6. Tjibadak, has reported that during Monday night his cabin was ransacked, but no- thing was stolen, and no damage
A reminder should not really be done. necessary, but in case it has escaped your mind, by this note your atten- tion is drawn to the special pro- grammes being shown at King's Theatre to-day.
That
great screen favourite, Maurica Chevalier, may be seen
from 7.16 p.m. until o'clock; and
Personal Pars.
Miss Luelle Graham arrived on the Messageries Maritimes liner D'Artagnan, Miss Graham plans
The proposition was passed by
UNION JACK TORN TO SHREDS
By Ardent Welsh Nationalists.
UNSEEMLY BEHAVIOUR.
(Reuter's Special Service).
London, Yesterday. The Union Jack was hauled down
Zeus played an unkindly trick upon the world, when, in a fit of anger with Prometheus for steal-] ing fire from heaven, he deter- mined to counteract that bless-]
In the confines of an article of}: ing, and placed within Pandora's Jar all kinds of misery and evil, thia nature, it is impossible to in "The Smiling Lientenant" at 5.10 to visit the ruins of Angkor and She will be which, the moment Pandora deal as adequately as we wouldp.m., the Marx brothers in Monkey then go on to Siam. opened the jar, escaped and took wish with the lecture and Its sub- Business" will keep you amused away from Shanghai for six weeks. to-day by ardent Welsh National- Ista, and the Welsh Flag (diaplay. possession of the earth. And, ject under consideration. that British picture
Mr. H. D. C. Jones has been ap- ing a Red Dragon) was substitut- like the poor, they are yet with shall, therefore, confine ourselves "Plander" is the choice offering at the Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank-Wales.
success pointed senior London manager of ed at Carnarvon Castle, North UA, But, the unkindly action to the salient features, those the 9.30 p.m. show.
ing Corporation in succession to, the This netion followed local agita- Prices will be as usual, and, aste Sir Newton Stabb. Mr. R. E. N. tion for the Welsh Flag to be having especial reference to merges into villany of a hue
China and Hong Kong.
the entire proceeds of all the shows Padfield has also been appointed flown on the highest tower or the since unmatched, when it 诎
are to be made over to the Tung junior manager.
Castle on St. David's Day, which is borne in mind, that among "all In China, it is a recognised fact, Wah Hospital for onward remit-
Wales National Day. Govern- kinds of misery and evil" was says Dr. Li, tuberculosis is ram-tance to the Committee managing
Sir Newton John Stabb, O.B.E., ment sanction, however, was refus- that one great misery and evil pant and plays great havoc the Refugees Fund in Shanghai,of Saxmundham, Suffolk, jointed, and the "Red Dragon" was you are given the opportunity of manager, London branch of the flown, as previously, from West the tubercle bacillus,
The bringing down the proverbial two Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Tower, which is not so prominent, This is a subject which cannot habits and surroundings of the birds with one
stone-the stony Corporation, who died on
"It Decem- until too often be talked and written people tend to the development your money; the birds, personal ber 1, aged 62, left estate of the nailed to the highest tower about, even to the limit of en- and spread of this dreadful enjoyment and much needed relie?
for destitute people. durance. It is too vital a sub-scourge." There are no reliable ject, and one about which no death statistics to go by. But, excuses are necessary for con- be as 'conservative as you wish, stant reference to it. It is not a yet you will concede the inci- case of "Wolf! Wolf!" for the dence is appalling. Dr. Li esti- Wolf is within the home, and we mates that China loses annually must grip with and overpower no less, in terms of money, than one and a half billion dollara him, otherwise go under.
Dr. Li Shu-fan has done a pub-annually! Such loss surely must lic service in speaking so forcibly be checked.
among the population.
gross value of £80,014, with personalty £39,160.
WAS removed and
the
net by an amateur steeplejack 'Im bued with nationalism.*
Off cials, however, discovered substitution and restored the Union Jack, but a party of students later entered the Castle, climbed the Tower, and again removed Union Jack, which was torn to rib- bons in the Square.
Mr. Richard Bartholmean, the News in Brief. famous film star, and his wife, left Hong Kong for Saigon on the M.M. Lowest open air temperature liner D'Artagnan yesterday after yesterday was 50. Humidity at 10 noon, after a stay of a week, here, am. was 81, and at 4 p.m. 563. From Saigon, Mr. and Mrs. Rarthel- mess will motor to Bangkok, and The "N.Y.K. Yasukuni Maru from after spending a brief vacation la London via port will arrive at Hong Siam, will return to Hollywood vla Kong on Thursday, March 3, at day- Europe. He comm^ces produc break, and not on Wednesday as was tion again with Warner Brothers expected.
||In April - 27
The certificate and prize giving of
Suffering from injuries to her
head, alleged to have been inflict-
OF SPAIN.
Passes Through
Hong Kong.
the
FRENCH IMPOSTS ON BRITISH GOODS.
Rugby, Yesterday. The President of the Board of Trade replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day gave a
of Cool subject to the
French fifteen per cent, surtax, but said that sixty per cent of the Bri tish trade with France was now free from this impost.
*. He said they had made it clear that their objection to the surtax was one of principle, and the ques-
on this subject. His lecture, de- Turning to Hong Kong, this livered yesterday, on the occa-Island of Fragrant Streams," sion of a tiffin meeting of the tuberculosis is rife. That will not the Chun Shing Typewriting School PREMIERE DANSEUSE
And a health cam- will be held in the hall of the Hop Hong Kong Rotary Club, is be disputed. published in full on the opposite paign conducted, only three years Yat Church, 2, Bonham Road, on made revelations which Friday, March 4, at 7 pm. Mr. Ho page. It should be perused and, ago.
Sai-yu will distribute the awards, what is more, should be explain- prompted Dr. Li, and his col- ed to those many thousands, nay leagues, to conclude that there is tens of thousands who make up an appalling state of health among
ed by her husband who has ab- Among the through passengers tion of Its definite removal was one the illiterates and less well-our young men. T
sconded, Wong Tong, of 12, Pok on the MM ner D'Artagnan, which would have to be included in educated members of the com- It is an unhappy picture, but fulam Road, was taken to the Gov- which left yesterday afternoon for any future negotiations with the munity, in whose ranks tubercu- because it is go, we must not fear ernment Civil Hospital, yesterday, Saigon, was La Belle Terrazini, French Government.--British Wire-
premiere danseuse of Spain, and less Service. losis thrives, and who provide an to look upon it. It is essential that Resulting from a fall from
sher Manager, M. Antonio Momplet. inexhaustible reservoir for its we do so. Let us, accordingly, scaffolding at a house under con- La Belle is returning to Paris nefarious work:
bear in mind, that "tuberculosis struction In Hennessy Road, a to commence a yeason there, after We are aware that propaganda has killed more people than all the bricklayer, named Chul Siu (80), fulfilling her Far Eastern pro- enffered a lacerated wound to the gramme, the last two months of work to combat this dreadful wars put together," and that in left thigh; and was sent to hos- which have been spent in Japan. contagious disease proceeds "gating for the defence of health, piital,
During her stay in Japan, Ter kedve razini played to crowded houses in apace, but we shall not be satis the birth-right every childr
A meeting of the Hong Kong all the principal cities there, and fled until it proceeds at an in- woman and man, there must Brantir of the English Association greviously had successful seasons tensified pace.We want to see no half measures there must be was held yesterday Sir William in Manila and Shanghai, the fat more doctors and others come
atlon be Hornell taking the Chair. After the ter concluding just two days be
business of the meeting had been fore hostilities broke out between forward and carry the fight, not
{deal
the Japaneseɛand «Chinese troops, rsen, Terrazing was to have returned to that Trom Japan for a repeat ormance, but present condi-
ared this impossible to settler
to meetings or educated members
of the community alone (though, mind you, such efforts are not
"deprecated), but to the
etes and less well edit this matter governments,
arted
The
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "Chinn "Mali” of March 2, 19227-
To-day's dollar is worth 2/4 1/18.
We are informed by the Hon Mr. E. R. Halifax, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, that a telegram has been, received from › Canton stating that four of the seamen's „delegates "äre expected In Tong Kong to-morrow, with full powers
aky
The delegates may.
of life la difes not panfed by several members of