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A Challenge To The Medical Services
A
heavy sufferers.
SKYLARKING FOR A TYPHOON VICTIMS
LIVING
MOST AMAZING SPORT.
0
IN THE WORLD
MODERN AIRWOMAN'S OPINION
OF GLIDING.
(By Rhona Churchill)
me.
all sports, the one re- "Oh, no," she assured
the quiring
greatest"Gliding is quite different. It
Only "Fun!" Joan Meakin will not agree
TO BE HELPED
Concert Arranged At
The Hotel
EXCELLENT PROGRAMME
A concert, in aid of the typhoon victims, has been arranged by Mr. Gerald Sydney to take place at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garder at 5.30 p.m. to-morow. under the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Association. Tickets can be obtained at the Hong Kong Hotel, at $5, $8. $2, and $1.
Many well-known local singers.
Mr. G.
Sixteen bodies of people drown- led in the typhoon have been re- the covered since Monday in Colony, but in Macau the total loss of life is not yet known. courage, skill and presence of is the most wonderful sport in cancers and comedians will per I the world. I've tried most form. Songs will be given by facau, however, is less damaged mind is gliding: or so
imagined until I met Joan Mea-sports, so I ought to know. Mrs. Mathieson, Mrs. Doris Blair than was at first feared. Bias kin, the British glider girl There is nothing more ex-and. Mrs. Portallion. A dance Bar junks, however, have been refused to believe that anyone hilarating than swishing silent-will be given by Miss O'Keefe, the
The bodies re with the smallest desire to re-ly through the air following the popular local dancer. covered include those of me main alive could sail peace air currents and soaring higher Frost and Mr. Li Chor-chi will women and children, one male fully amongst the clonds, with and higher, and all the time
also sing. Amusement will be a somewhat disquieting child of about 3 months old being nothing but his own skill to with no sound of an engine to certainty when Miss Dixie Davis state of affairs was disclosed among them, and two other chil- prevent him and his fragile spoil the beauty of it." in an article published in last dren aged about 5 and 10. Most of machine losing height and week's edition of the Sunday the bodies are as yet unidentified. hurtling to earth and certain Herald which recounted the While signs of the storm have death. A glider must be a that looping in a glider is dan saxophone solo, played by a fact that there are apparently almost disappeared in the vicinity super-man-s man with no gerous, or even requires la number of lepers mixing more
girl glider must, courage. She sums it all up in or less freely with the general of Victoria and Kowloon, there nerves; community in the Colony. The are still scenes of devastation in surely, be a freak of nature the word "fun"
This young airwoman is the piano. article referred to the alleged many parts of the outlying disor, so I thought until I met Joan
the New Territories Meakin.
most versatile and accomplish- Through the courtesy of the presence, near the A.P.C. in-tricts, and
But let us look at the follow-jed glider pilot in Great Britain, stallation in Kowloon, of a re-have suffered severely, extensive gular "colony" of these unfor- damage being done along the scene: it is winter in the yet there is nothing masculine Hong Kong Hotel, musical selec- tunates. The paper's inform-Castle Peak Road and in the Shing Tol. A slim young girl-clad in her make-up. She is slim, tions will be rendered by the navy-and-white ski-suit, 5 ft. 6 in., has short, red, wavy Hotel's orchestra, while there will ant stated that he knew of two Mun district.
stands at the top of the Nur-hair, looks well dressed in day probably be an added selection or three establishments in MOTHER AND BABY sery Slope and pushes ginger- clothes and beautiful in the of Chinese music. which lepers were accommodat- A poignant feature was the dis-y off, down the incline. simplest of evening dresses. ed; that these people stayed in-
"Oh dear: I'm going to fall. If you offer her a cigarette, and Lady Caldecott have extended His Excellency the Governor
It was
in a
*
and Mr. Simpson take the floor in comedy items. There will also
member of the Hong Kong Hotel band. Mr. Gerald Sydney, the noted musician, will be at the
gathering will attend.
large
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
doors during the day time and covery of the body of a young wo- only emerged at night: and that man at Alderich Bay, near Taikoo. I know I am," she cries sud- she will say, "No thank you,"
And she promptly col- and she doesn't drink. But their patronage to the concert, among them were one or two with a three-year-old baby strap-denly. "personable young womenped to her back. Both were dead. Lapses and is lost from sight she is the life and soul of any and it is hoped that a the obvious implication being The body of another of the under a heap of Tyrolean snow. party.
"Tm just terrified of ski-ing,” Joan's gliding career began that there was a grave danger missing persons in the nullah
she confides to the young man more by accident than by de- arising from possible solicita-tragedy has been found.
who hastens to extricate her. sign. She was touring Ger- tion and its inevitable conse-that of Ho Sho-ming, age about You go faster and faster.many with a friend in a sports quences. When Dr. D. J. 20 years, who had been reported Nothing to stop you. Every car, when they chanced to hear Valentine, Director of Medical
missing by the Upper Levels time I stand at the top of a hill of a gliding display, being given and Sanitary Services, was in-
Police Station. The body was and push off I know my last a few miles away in the moun terviewed with reference to this
hour has come. It's ghastly-tains. They burried there and report by a representative of found in the harbour yesterday.
THE SUNNING'S CARGO Let's go and have some coffee" were in time to see the huge, the paper concerned, he stated
Speed Scares Her
cata- Work was commenced yesterday.
motorless planes being that there were quite a num-!
And they do.
pulted off the hillside, rising. ber of lepers "knocking about afternoon on the task of salvag-| the Colony, but that they were ing cargo from the China Naviga- That is Joan Meakin, now zig-zagging, and making their towards the oncoming
Y the popular usage the word no danger to the community. tion Company's s.s. Sunning, now Mrs. Ronald Price, dare-devil of way
the air, who spends each sum-clouds, to turn and sail on the "boat" has come to mean of the approaching any craft afloat, but the term is Dr. Valentine continued, in the lying a total wreck at Junk Bay. course of the interview, to des Cargo is being removed frommer doing engineless aerobatics wings
used incorrectly. In the strictest cribe the system in use in the Nos. 3 and 4 after holds, and, in a glider; the only woman to storm
And yet One afternoon of watching sense, "boat" refers only to small Hong Kong for dealing, with with the favourable weather pre- attempt such feats.
was enough for Joan, and the craft speed scares her." this subject "Whenever availing, there are hopes of re
"I don't know what it is." same evening she signed on for lifeboat, launch, leper is found in the street covering a considerable quantity.Joan said to me.
In So, by oars. "In the air, a course of instruction. by the police, he or she is taken
VERANDAHS COLLAPSE speed is quite a different thing. for the next few weeks she time, both popularly and legal- to the hospital and examined
the With a deafening crash You can travel in an aeroplane found herself living in a rough r, the term "ship" has acquired
building, verandahs of the first and second at 100 m.ph. or more, without school
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It is contact with the day, sharing frugal meals, tional maritime law and by the vanced case, the patient is sent West collapsed about 8.15. p.m. speed.
that makes speed mostly consisting of sausages, Merchants Shipping Acts of Great to the Leper Hospital at Ken-resterday, and fears were enter- ground
potatoes and black bread, with Britain (1854, 1894, and 1906) nedy Town, but if the dread tained for the safety of two fokis frightening."
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a card the hospital, where he have been buried underneath the engineless machine,” I said. is treated as an out-patient." debris.
It seems to us that this mat- Police from the West Point! ter of the free intercourse of
Station and the Fire Brigade were
lepers with the general com- munity, which the system of 8oor on the scene, and commenced a search of the debris, but after
out-patients obviously en- shrines, is a matter of vital im-two hours arduous work, no
In the mean-} portance. We have the bodies were found..
of the shop authority of the Encyclopaedia time the two fokis Britannica for stating that returned, stating they had been!
there is no doubt that human out for a walk. beings are inoculable with
of
leprosy, and that the disease cinema and theatre halls, is may be communicated by close surely open to grave objec- contact. Cases have been re-tion. Finally, why is no really corded which prove it conclu- large-scale, adequate segrega. sively; for instance, that of a tion accorded to these unfortun- man who had never been out of ates in this Colony, in company the British islands, but deve with every other civilised place loped leprosy after sharing for in the world which has a leper a time the bed and clothes of problem? What are the facili- his brother, who had contract ties at the Leper Hospital at ed the disease in the West In-Kennedy Town? Does it, in Įdies.” The article continues: fact, deal simply with treat- "With regard to prevention, the ment of the disease, or is it! isolation of patients is obvious possible for lepers to be segre- ly desirable, especially in the gated there, apart from the later stages, when open sores general community, in anything
like may disseminate the bacili
an adequate ratio scrupulous cleanliness should the numbers of people suffer- be exercised by persons at-ing from this disease to the. tending on lepers or brought generally healthy community?; into close contact with them.' Are any real steps taken by the It is difficult to see how the medical authorities concerned system outlined by Dr. Valen- to round up lepers, other than tine can possibly be upheld in dependence оп their being any circumstances. Firstly, "found in the street by the po- the only or at least the main Kice?" Is it or is it not a fact system of identification of that a leper "colony" exists in lepers seems to depend on their Kowloon near the A.P.C. in- being "found in the street by stallation, and has any move the police" and it is no doubt been made by the authorities true to say that for every to verify the information; and leper so found and therefore if not, why not? These are all subjected to treatment, liter questions which must be an- ally hundreds must go undisswered, and the problem simply covered Secondly, the practice must be tackled if the grave of treating. lepers as ordinary disquiet felt by the general out-patients, placing no restric community at these reports is tions whatsoever on their daily to be allayed. We express the contact with members of their opinion" most emphatically that 23122 families, the general public in a general statement dealing the streets, on trams, buses, with the questions asked above ferries, în-crowded places like should be issued immediately.
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