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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 12, 1937.
The China Mail
Ninety-first Year of Publication. 3A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong Telephone 20022. London Office:
Garrick Street, London,
Notice To Contributors.
Kong, many danger- iseases are endemic. Truth is that Hong Kong has been hopelessly behind practice in other parts of the world with
regard to methods of guarantee ing the purity of its milk sup- W.C.2.plies. Pasteurisation properly
carried out is a recognised pro- tection not only against dysen- tery, but also against typhoid, `All communications intended for diphtheria and tuberculosis, the publication should be addressed to Colony's chief scourges.
the Editor, and be accompanied by The per that sometimes the Writer's Name and Address arises was brought home vividly not necessarily for insertion, but and tragically last year. Surely as a guarantee of good faith: the issue has passed beyond the stage of discussion and argu- ment.
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Colour In Dress
It was obvious that the Public Order Bil in Britain would
Hong Kong, Friday, February 12, 1937 cause controversy if not amuse-
PASTEURISATION
OF MILK
.
ment. The Fascists are COF- tinuing to wear their black shirts and deny the right of the Government, Public Order Bill or no such Bill, to determine the colour of the shirt an individual may choose to wear.
Government's decision to in- clude dysentery in the list of And they deserve support, if notifiable diseases arouses more only on the question of principle. than a mild curiosit in juxta-Unless some check is imposed position with official hesitation upon official interference, about the more vital issue of shall have seen the end of the pasteurisation of the Colony's brighter dress movement for milk supplies. Dr. Wellington men.
we
was not disposed to insist too Shirts will have to be chosen. strongly upon the importance of from purely non-committal co- notification in his report on the lours and designs. Flannel Shiga outbreak. On the neces- trousers cannot with safety be sity for compulsory pasteurisa-other than a dirty grey. And as tion, he was most emphatic. for green or blue hats, with or No one is likely to challenge without feathers attached, it the fact that the problem pre-would be safer to keep a few sents difficulties demanding close heavy bombs or serial torpedoes study. But to order notification, in the house.
while giving an impression that Thus does British liberty there is to be no hurry to stretch in ever-widening circles deal with such menace as exists, over the whole duckpond. Thus at one of its main sources, perishes Britain's last hope of approaches closely to the height cutting a dash in the world of of futility.
colour.
Where community health is It is bad enough, of one's own concerned, cost considerations free will, to put one's shirt on a are relatively unimportant. The horse and lose it. To have one's issue resolves itself into the shirt taken from one by a gang simple proposition, What scheme of politicians; despite one's voci- can be devised for meeting the ferous protests, is the last straw. necessity that has arisen? It It looks as though Britons are. having been conceded that the doomed to wear the most dismal small dairies are unable in- garments for ever and a day, dividually to meet the cost of in- with minds to match. No more stalling pasteurisation plant, a will they be able to explore the co-operative system presents the psychology of clothes. obvious alternative and it re- Yet no corresponding move is mains only to devise a satisfac-made to curtail the sartorial or tory
chromatic extravagances of wo
scheme.
Cost, a matter of a few hun men. Many of the dresses they dred pounds at most, hardly en wear must be political uniforms, ters into the matter. What is in that they are often to be to prevent Government from heard speaking politics and when wearing them; adopting the policy of compul: worse
sory pasteurisation and provit but they will go scot-free. ing the means? What is against We admit that many of the installation of plant, by coloured shirts we have seen will a loan to the dairies participat be better abolished, but the mere ing, to be repaid over two a fact that all the legal genius at three years in proportion to the disposal of the Government is unable to define in fool-proof their average daily output?--
Pasteurisation is compulsory terms when a uniform is not a even in the International Set-uniform, rightly fills us with the tlement in Shanghai, where deepest foreboding. there are international complica- Many it is to be feared, will be tions to compel a policy of arrested when nothing is far- gradualness in health matters, ther from their thoughts than to Dr Jordan, the SM.C. Health dress provocatively or cause a Commi ner, now has in mind riot. We cannot see ourselves a scheme for compulsory tuber as others see us, or foretell what culin-testing, and it is meeting the effect will be of any parti with strenuous opposition be
ular olour scheme we may cause (a) the dairies fear the affect. tests would result heavy. wastage of animals, tion! and (b) it is pasteurisation elim portance of tubercu
But that pasteur perative has never challenged in
Indeed, it
Lies
conviction of
blind
gland.
all men colour- fore,