TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1932,
CHOLERA REPORTS
IN ERROR?
Mr. M. K. Lo To Question Sanitary Board.
LENGTHY INQUIRIES.
Suggests Hospital Has Been Slighted.
Business at the meeting of the Sanitary Board to-day will include a letter from the Government rela-) tive to the appointment of the Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson to be Vice- President of the Board while acting as Director of Public Works.
Mr. M. K. Lo will ask the follow- ing questions:
"Has the attention of the Head of the Sanitary Department been drawn to the leading article on the cholera epidemic which appeared in a morning paper of June 30, and to the report of an alleged interview with the Medical Officer of Health, which appeared in the same paper on Friday, July 1, and to the letter of explanation by Dr. S. W. Phoon, Medical Superintendent of the Tung Wah Hospital which appeared in the same paper of Monday, July 47
-In view of the impression created by the said newspaper re port and comments, which were ex- pressly stated to be based on an interview with the Medical Officer of Health, such impression being:-
a."That the medical staff of the Tung Wah failed to make the neces sary notifications to the Medical Authorities after the cases had been; diagnosed as cholera, and,
b."That the 16 cases reported on Tuesday, June 28, were discover- ed by some outside person connect- ed with the Medical Department, but not connectod with the Tung *.Wah Hospital staff - Does the Medical Officer of Health agree that such impression is entirely contrary
1 to the facts of the case?
fi"Is it not the fact that the first cases of Cholera notified to the Medical Officer of Health were: one case notified on Saturday, 18th June, and another case on Monday, 20th June, both notifications being by the Tung Wah Hospital?
!
is it not a fact that the Tung Wah was the first institution to spot and to report to the Medical Authorities the existence of Cholera in the Colony?
Medical
iv.-"To whom did the Officer of Health intend to refer by the expression "Superintendent of the Kennedy Town District?" Is it not the fact that Dr. S. W. Phoon, the Medical Superintendent of the Tung Wah Hospital, is in connection with the present epidemic the Superintendent of the Tung Wah Infectious Diseases Hospital in Kennedy Town?
v.-"Is it not a fact that the sixteen cases referred to by the Medical Officer of Health were cases which had been sent to the Kennedy Town Infectious Hospital by the Tung Wah Authorities for observá: tion, and that the reports made to the Medical Officer of Health were made by Dr. E. Q. Lim who fa working under Dr. Phoon Superin- tendent of the Kennedy Town In- fectious Hospital?
No Failure To Notify.
vils it not a fact that there has been absolutely no failure to notify cases on the part of the Tung Wah Hospital?
vii "Will the Medical Officer of Health be good enough to say whe- ther or not the following, state- ments, which were attributed to him as having been made by him in the course of a newspaper Interview, and on which the newspaper: com-] ments above mentioned were ex- pressly stated to have been based- were in fact made by him?
"*"The sixteen cases reported on Tuesday were all from the Tung Wah Hospital.”
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"They were discovered by Superintendent of the Kennedy Town Hospital, There is no, that those cases should have bee notified, and the failure to do can only be laid down to omission or Ignorance" on the part of those responsible. Any person, - laymMAN or practitioner, is compelled notify cholera, and under the cumstances the people responsible for not notifying the author would be liable. Thla- ever, a matter for my I don
ink, any
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RANJI DISCUSSES HIS EMPIRE TRADE PLAN. 100% More Business
With India.
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No Politics.
Staines (Middlesex),
"Ranil's" proposal that the bust- mesa man of Great Britain and India should get together, unfetter- ed by political interference, and agree on a new trade polloy which would be beneficial alike to each country, has been hailed in commer- cial circles as the most common. sense suggestion, since the trade differences in India cropped up.
Sitting in the shade of an old oak la bis beautiful garden" to-day the Maharaja Jambabeb of Nawaza" gar, which is his full title, elaborated his scheme to-day.
It was hoped that he might travel to Manchester to discuss his pro posal with members of the Man- chester Chamber of Commerce, but he is still feeling the effects of an attack of influenza- which he con- tracted two days after his return from India, and travelling for the time being is out of the question. He aid:
"I can tell you the business men" of India are keen to meet business men here and talk matters over. While I was in Bombay recently business men approached me and, in effect, said, 'If auch a meeting can be arranged and politics left out, we will soon get to grips and decide upon a policy which we will guarantee will mean 100 per cent increase in trade between the two countries.'
The Extremista...
"I would suggest that twelve representative
Indian merchants ahould be invited, to England to meet business men from, say, the Chambers of Commerce in London, Manchester and other big cities.
"Lord Beaverbrook is keenly in terested, as everyone knows, in doing everything to strengthen trade within the Empire, and this is one way of doing it.
"We must strike while the fron is bot if we are to improve trading: relations between the two countries. The diinculties in mainly economia and there are just-grievances
ones
} which must “be removed.
Onse those economic handicaps are Aremoved there will be › big", business.
"No Hostility."
“We must get friendly and "get": rid of this terrible atmosphere that |there is any hostility. There is nore. The extremist movement of the Indiafi Congress harasses the merchants, ATASLARNI KOR
"Indian merchants do not want
|- to mix politics with business, and/ ⠀⠀ that is why I would like repre
sentative trade groupe of the two: countries to theat.
“India is crying out for economia development, and she would prefer to trade with Britain, whose mer- Chants are in high credit in India."
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