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THE CHINA MAH, BRUARY 20, 1937.
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with their special health pro-- blems the latest example be ing the provision of doctors to help Spain to fight the menace ef disease brought on by the civil war.
Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 20, 1937. tragic
MAN'S UBIQUITOUS
ENEMY
.
Altogether, it would be a error to judge the League's achievements solely on the political front where, after all, the disinterestedness which makes health co-operation pos- sible can hardly be said to
At last there are signs that dominate. the most serious influenza
epidemic for many years past is Milk At The Bar
abating
Great ...in
Britam
Though the erstwhile victims
Nothing is more
fallacious
will soon forget the discomforts and inconveniences which they than a belief that to urge pas- have endured, not so the docteurisation is to condemn milk tors, research workers and pub- as a wholesome beverage, On the contrary, we find it some- lie authorities. quest on the epidemic will what surprising that Fong In Kong's enterprise has yet to ex- be of long duration. spite
advance tend to the provision of a mo
Their
the of all
of modern science, mankind's dern-style milk-bar such as that ubiquitous enemy, disease, re- which delights every visitor to fuses to submit tamely to his Fleet Street. quietus. No sooner is he de feated on one front than he crops up again in an unexpected like milk and for those who don't, while supplying all with quarter.
The beauty of the milk bar is that it caters both for those who.
In the case of influenza, he the health virtues that the cow almost seems to be poking fun, puts into her product. The cow at his victims. Just as the doc-would be puzzled to recognise tors are congratulating them- her milk in some of the "cock- selves upon having got to the tails," and even the calf might bottom of one epidemie, along turn away from the stranger comes another outbreak charac-ones, but the concocters in Lon terised by a different set of don have proved conclusively that men, women and children symptoms.
that pour them down their throats with profitable alacrity.
Some interesting theories are being advanced to account for the most recent visitation AC cording to certain authorities, Britain had to thank Germany for the epidemic.
Milk cocktails are only the latest example of the amazing versatility of a product that until a few years ago was re- Herr Hitler and his colleagues, garded as only a convenient food of course, are hardly likely to for children and as a desirable subscribe to the view that the addition to a few beverages and influenza germs were really good a few luncheon dishes. To-day Nazis; nor is a microscopic ex-fresh milk is recognised as one amination likely to reveal swas of mankind's most valuable tikas instead of Union Jacks health-giving foods and it has But the fact remains that germs lately proved itself a raw ma are no respecters of man-made terial almost without equal for a whole range of useful pro-
frontiers.
It is this self-evident proposi- ducts, from umbrella handles tion which has brought the overcoats.
After the butterfat has been Health Organisation of the League of Nations into being, separated from the whole milk if not In the sphere of public health, the skimmed residue the nations have recognised by used for keeping pigs or chickens their actions that co-operation up to the
more important than a narrow into
conception of rigid,
[ising national
the welfare of the
mands the
knowledge a
The abandonment of isolation-
ist theories with rega
prevention of disease has
the League to achieve an ordinary amount
Colossal epidemics typhus other diseases in Eastern
Greece after the
the Health Organis
early oppo
what
proved
the Health
Burean,
being
taikre
ats
So far
been
can be turned