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CHINA YEAR BOOK
1935 EDITION
The 25 Chapters of the 17th issue of the CHINA YEAR BOOK edited by E. G. W. Woodhead, C.EE, have as usual been revised or rewritten with the assistance of many experts, Chinese and foreign, and every effort has been made to bring information and statistics up to date.
The Chapter on the Kuomintang covers the political history of China in 1934 The Chapter on the Chinese Government- contains the Text of the Provisional Constitution, the Organic Law, and the Draft of the Permanent Constitution.
The Chapter on International Issues gives the text of the Agreement and Exchange of Notes of the sale of the Chinese- Easter Railway, besides the latest documents relating to Sino- Japanese issues.
China's Communications Exilways, Roads, Post Office, Telegraphs, Wireless, Telephones and Aviation--are very, fully dealt with
Father D'Elia, in the Chapter on Religions, contributes an interesting Chronological Review of Catholic Missions in China.
Mr. E. Hann is again responsible for the Chapter on Cur- rency and Banking, and the Loan Tables
A new feature is a Chapter on China's Modern Industries. Price: $18 (Postage in China 30 cents extra)
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Sir John Jarvis. who recently bought the liner Olympic at a price exceeding £100,000 for breaking up at Jarrow, has no Tyneside connections. He (never seen Jarrow until a year
area.
TOO MANY DOCTORS
PHYSICIAN USURPING
PRIEST'S FUNCTIONS
BERNARD SHAW'S STATEMENT NOW WELL OUT OF DATE.
(By A Medical Man).
Does it mean for instance:
had TN "The Republic" Plato aska:
ato me that there
Does it mean that tre are
aro, when he decided to make it greater mark of an ill and base of sick people demanding medi the scene of the first experiment education in a city than that cal attention? in the "adoption of a distressed there should be need of physi-
cians and supreme magis rapidly becoming a CS nation?
In an industralised country like' He says that he was rather ir-trates?** ritated by the purely ornamental If increase of physicians is a England robust health is not nature of the post of High Sheriff mark of increase of baseness. the proud possession of the of Surrey which he held last year. then we must be base indeed majority of its inhabitants.
"I looked round for the most It is asserted that the medical Those who do not work the troublesome job I could find dur- profession is becoming over-machines usually sit in offices. ing my term of office," he said. stocked
Neither occupation involves an
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and the distressed areas seemed At the end of 1934 the names outdoor life. The community. to provide it. I went to the Minis-of 57,496 doctors were on the must see that both groups of try of Labour and asked them Medical Register-21.000 more workers are provided with large recreational centres and the which was the blackest spot-Ther than were registered in 1900. said Jarrow
That's how ity Nor is this plethora of doc-leisure to enjoy them
tors only an English complaint; Room For Good Doctors: 27 it is European. A year or two Bernard Shaw once twitted STEEL INDUSTRY HOPE
ago the matter was seriously the medical profession for hav- debated by an international ing a vested interest in 11 The Olympic will be broken up conference of medical men health. in the yard of Palmer's, which It was found that in Berlin
But the doctor of to-day is was closed down some years ago there was one doctor for every becoming more eager, to teach as a measure of “rationalisation." 800 residents, in Paris one for people how to keep well and to Big developments may соде every 600 in London one for foster knowledge of physical there. Sir Andrew Duncan is every 700.
and medical hygiene. So, if now reviewing the whole position Conditions may be different more and more doctors arrive of the British steel industry infin Germany now that so many on the scene, then so much the the light of the arrangements ar doctors have been exiled under more should knowledge of the rived at recently with the Luixen the Hitler regime. Many of laws of health spread burg steel cartel
these exiles are practising in In the end, of course, the doc- Sir John Jarvis hopes that France and in England.
tor will become as rare as the steel production unit on the site
In the Scandinavian countries craftsman.
The China Mailteachings of Dr. Mitobe is of of Palmer's Jarrow yard may be
obvions importance, but in a possibility and that the ship reality is of equal, augury, for breaking company may help to Hong Kong, Friday, October 18. 1935 the future. Hidden under for contribute raw material
mulas that sound strange to us the triumph of the constitu- tional doctrine favoured by the General Staff of the Army
On
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"There goes the only woman have ever loved."
"Why don't you marry her?” “I can't afford to customer.”.
Cleaner Films
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medical students are increasing out of all proportion to the population
The parent who is thinking- of a profession for his son or daughter must ask if medicine is a profitable or even a safe
fox
¡career.
Social Status Improves What is the cause of this There is always room popularity of medicine as a pro- good doctors for the youth fession?
I believe that in Britain the is the only vocation to follow.
Hard Life For Majority There is no unemployment în
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who feels that for him medicine
It takes five years to make a
The Japanese Angle
Yes. Baby Barbara, aged two, was far- While our attention is fixed amounts to the establishment on the crucial events that are of a Fascist system that woulding her first experience with sliced spread of National Health In- There occurring on the other side of satisfy Signor Mussolini him-watermelon. She looked it over and
said: "Oh, mother, look! It has basurance is one reason.
are in that country about 16,000 the world, we cannot afford to self. Dr. Mitobe has for years tons and buttonholes."
A doctor the medical profession, but it is It was given his great authority to the
Panel practitioners. ignore our own side.
with 1000 patients on his panel a hard life for the majority who hardly to be expected that while teaching that the position of
Nor should anyone practise. Iknows that he is assured of a the other two Governments that the Emperor is that of an organ
steady income. He gets so take up medicine with the idea eschewed all further truck with of the State, which is the way the organisation of peace that we should define the func-
She's my best much per panel patient per of making money. The majori year. Besides this, he receives make just enough to keep Germany and Italy, were so tions of a King in a constitu-
themselves going and to keep fees from private patients. busy, the third. Japan, would tional country. That is to say,
The social status of the doctor their families. sit still as 2 mere spectator. the Head of the State has a
A prominent motion-picture exec has improved. He is assured The seizure of Mukden was the reserve power described as "the beginning of a long tale that is Royal Prerogative," but when utive recently made a speech before of a dignified niche in his local doctor and costs anything up to In the course of his community. He is no longer £2,000. And when qualification only yet in its first chapter, and procedure has been appointed a woman's club.
an has finally been achieved it it was inspired by the fact that by law he is expected to act in remarks he said, "We are literally looked upon merely
scouring the country for new films.”
doles out means another £1,500 or £2,000 A voice in the Powers whom Japan wants accordance with that law.
the audience inter-apothecary who
to purchase a share in a prac- to expel from the Far East that basis the elected represen-rupted: "Why don't you scour some drugs-
a of your old ones?"
Perhaps, too. the decline in tice were incapable of action either tatives of the nation have
An analysis of the earnings popularity of the Church as a because they were actually in concurrent function in that
The A swarm of bees interrupted an profession has helped to swell of 651 doctors who qualified in trouble themselves or because they make the laws.
1930, shows that 34 (or nearly they were expecting to have to doctrine of the Militarists is open-air dramatic performance. When the ranks of the doctors.
The physician is usurping the half) of those who set up alone was that the Emperor is not merely last seen, the leading man still was assist some ally who
More in practice had a gross income of threatened with trouble. It an organ of the State, but is
A novelist declares that the man functions of the priest mast be obvious that that con- the State, which being put into who would rather play golf than ex and more has he become the more than 1.000 last year. dition has only worsened, and clearer language means that should never marry. Unless of course family counsellor in things About one-fifth of this group- that without a word said, if all Government is by his prero he cares to marry a girl who would mental (or spiritual) as well as earned between £300 and £600..
It is not a profession to em these antagonisms continue, we gative, and no official act can be rather play bridge than cook shall soon find that the time for disputed in the Courts on the
and ground that it is contrary to REGISTRY WEDDING repentance has passed European infinence in the Far the law of the land.
In the intricate administra- East is a thing of the past.
tion of a modern government it There are two ways in which is not of course possible for any we can infer how things
*mate to do everything.
It used rudely to be said that going with any nation its There must be advisers, and
A quiet wedding took place at the fool went into the Church. actions and its thoughts. In the militarists are at present in the Registry Office of the Su-The recent concern of the medi- both activities Japan is seething control. The Prime Minister preme Court this morning when cal profession with the standard with restless energy, and cary-and the Foreign Secretary can Miss Mary Ann Kirkwood, of of education required for the transfer to the Government hos-- ing out her destiny along the no longer therefore claim to Manila, daughter of Mr. Sampel path of Imperialism. The oppose any policy of their own Kirkwood. became the wife of intending doctor reveals, per-pital of about 40 villagers of haps, a fear that the fool may Shaab, near Acre (Palestine), Customs dispute at Swatow, no to the decisions of the Staff. Alfred Edward Tomkins, son of be going into medicine
who were suffering from typhoid, less than the progressive con- Not only China, but all the Mr. John Frederick Tomkins, of There was a great increase the infected persons refused to trol of the Northern Provinces, nations will have to realise that Manila.
in the number of medical leave the confines of their vil-
are one
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shows, one must say, a careful they are dealing, not with a The Deputy Registrar, Mr. study of history. The Provin-policy that is the result of dis-J. B. Prentis, officiated at the cial Governments, as we know cussions in the Parliament, but! ceremony.
to our cost, are taking advan-with 2.
Treaty. There is obviously no
end to the process by the way
of negotiation or
argument
Commander-in-Chief public, exhibition of a selection
CORRESPONDENCE
¡5.30 p.m.
physical. The naughty and
difficult child these days is bark upon light-heartedly. taken to a child guidance clinic run by a medical psychologist. This is an alternative to-advice from the clerical schoolmaster. Astounding Increase
DEATH AT HOME. PREFERRED
Arab Villagers Fear Hospital
When the doctor ordered, the
students immediately after the lage
war. This led to a sudden rise They wanted to die at home, in the number of new doctors they said.
tage of the turmoil to impose with the same sort of authority
registered between 1922 and They medical authorities have super-taxes over and above the that is wielded by Herr Hitler of the entries from 4.30 pm to 1926. In 1924, for example, now been compelled to improvise 2.570 new doctors were regis-ja temporary hospital in the vil Customs Duties agreed upon by and Signor Mussolini.
It is hoped that your readers tered; last year the number lage, and many of the villagers
are, in spite of themselves, being” will-treat this letter as a cordial was 1,664. izveication to come
to the prize The increase during the years cured. Reuter giving and view the exhibition soon after the war can be ex- plained partly by the fact that ja number of prospective students were waiting for the war to end before starting their medical career. But there was another reason.
Profiting by the precedents
set in their own case by Come THE PEACE POSTER on November 15
[modore Perry, and by us
in the case of Canton,
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Emy Koo
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I believe it was a reaction to argument. If the arrangement myself of the courtesy of your
the destruction so many
had that Japan is to send in her columns to inform your readers
witnessed. A closer acquain- goods at the legal tariff, while that the last date of entry in con-
[To The Editor, “China Mall"] tance, too, with the surgeon and other nations have to make rection with the above competi
Sir-Being an amateur stamp the physician in the field and additional payments. is estab-tion has been extended to October bished the "Open Door is no 317 It is hoped that intending collector I would be pleased to at the base hospital stimnisted longer even ajar. In the North competitors who have not quite correspond and exchange with interest in their work. the doctrine of "Dangerous completed their posters will take readers who are interested in this Thoughts" has now been ex this opportunity of making the hobby, Australian stamps will be tended to include any expres Decessary finishing touches to sent in exchange for those of your no doubt that at the present sion of defective. athy their entries and sending them to Colony or other British Colonies rate with a population hardly with the Japa
ese occupation me at the address below...
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