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Of the long series of speeches which the Right Hon. R. Mc- Kenna has delivered at the an- nual meetings of the sharehold- ers of the Midland Bank, few have been of more absorbing
Hong Kong, Friday, February 19, 1937 topical interest than the most
PASTEURISATION
OF MILK
recent
He devoted his powers of keen analysis mainly to the posing and the answering of these two questions: What stage of eco- recovery has Britain A desultory correspondence is nomie
Is an early setback proceeding in a morning contem-reached? porary arising out of, if not at threatened from any quarter?
Among the alleged dangers to all times dealing exclusively with, the necessity for imposing further expansion which Mr. upon Hong Kong's milk pro- McKenna examined were short- ducers the responsibility of age of skilled labour, the de- pasteurising all milk issued for velopment of excessive specula- tion, and the possible disturb- human consumption.
Public apathy on this question ance of the balance of payments. is astonishing. It is a scant Only the first of these factors he three months since the Colony regards at all seriously at the was given a woeful demonstra-moment. The conclusion reach- tion of the perils that occasioned is that, while it is time to ally arise from the drinking of look forward and plan for the future, no immediate check to expansion is in sight.
raw
alarmed
milk. The Director of Health Services has strongly re-
Mr. Mckenna clearly does not commended compulsory pasteur- isation and has been at pains to think there was any debit in Bri- tain's balance of payments" in point out that if clean cities like
1936. If there was a small one Toronto and other leading muni do not think we should be cipalities in Canada and the United States insist upon pas-
Nevertheless, Mr. McKenna tenrisation, it is doubly and trebly necessary in Hong Kong, advocates vigilant watch by the where the germs of deadly dis authorities which is not the less ease are so much more prevalent:necessary now the armaments No-one will guarantee that loan is to be launched, lest the complete immunity will be con- vicious spiral of higher prices ferred by compulsory pasteurisa and higher costs should develop; tion What they will guarantee or unhealthy speculation breaks is that the bacterial content will out. This leads him to consider be tremendously reduced, if not what correctives should be-ap- entirely eliminated, and that plied, if danger appears. He be whatever risks may exist will believes that the old harsh correc- commensurately lessened. And live of raising the bank rate is as we have previously pointed unnecessary and undesirable. out, the carrying qualities of The country ought not to be re- milk do not begin and end with quired to submit to general dysentery, It has been demon- stagnation as a cure for the ac- strated conclusively that milktivity of speculation.”
Most encouraging perhaps of may become a source of typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis in his views is that the new power
of elasticity given to the an fection. Pasteurisan is 271 effective challenge them all, thorities by the establishment of and it is the only effective chal- the Exchange Equalisation Ac- lenge when, by some terrible count and by the creation of a misfortune, ordinarily safe harmoniously working monetary methods of hauling milk-break down at some undetectable points There is, of course, opinión in some quarters that pasteuri tion, in the process of destroy- ing harmful bacteria also sipates essential health-givmg qualities in the milk But school thought has faded rapidly as the result of observations over a long period tion. of time and it may safely be said that those who continue to de claim against pasterization, are
by little mor
rests
has before it the. dict the Colony
ported by
Govern
achine make the control of affairs very much easier. Mr. McKenna feels that any boom angers can now be overcome
hout recourse to those rough and ready measures which in
particular evils inevitably ught about a general trade
incerely to be hoped that not misjudged the situa
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