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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1937
The China. Mail
Ninety-Second Year of Publication SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong,
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housing conditions and deplor- able overcrowding. The hovels or tenements in which men earn- king the west of wares the are getierany gloomy, m-ventilated, dilapidated and damp What
makes matters worse is that the rent charged for these dwellings is often exorbitant. When a man has to pay a disproportion- ate amount of his earnings to hause himself and his family in one room or even a single cubicle All communications intended for space, they must naturally be publication should be addressed to underfed and generally neglected the Editor, and be accompanied by in regard to clothes, education Writer's Name and Address, and medical attention. It is ob- not necessarily for insertion but vious that the physical and |as a guarantee of good faith.
moral deterioration of the very poor is largely due to their living conditions.
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CHILD BEGGARS AND SLUMS
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wise and vigorous pro- gramme of slum clearance is the remedy, and it has been delayed too long. It is true that there is more than one problem. It would be one thing to demolish noxious" slums but nothing would have been achieved if the rents charged for the tenements that replaced them were beyond the means of those who were to be thus rehoused: The result would merely be that the former dwellers in the slums demolished Tourists come to the Colony in would drift into other congested large numbers during the areas and their last condition be season" and the same tourists worse than their first. Respon go, as they must, carrying away sible social workers who have memories and impressions which, carefully examined this problem for the main part, are seldom have reason to be profoundly revealed for our edification or dissatisfied with a scheme which for the disturbance of our self-drives out one class, of tenants satisfied peace of mind. It was in order to house another class more than interesting, therefore, which is not in such dire need. to have the views on modern But it must also be realised that Hong Kong of Mr. Charles Oat-clean and decent dwellings can- ridge, particularly as point was not always be provided for next lent to them by the fact that re- to nothing. Closely bound up visiting the Colony after an ab with the problem of better hous- sence of nearly fifty years, he was ing is that of ensuring a living able, in consequence, to employ wage for the lowliest workers a sound standard of comparison, and finding employment for Having said that it is obviously those who judging from ascor no light reflection upon the Cotainable facts behind the child lony that the things which most beggar problem can earn little or struck this resident of former nothing at all.
years, impressions which may be
assumed to have found an echo
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in the minds of many of the Feebleness & The Clock visitors who passed through in the Franconia, Empress of Bri- tain, Reliance, were the swarms
The question of physical fit-
of child beggars and Hongness (or more often unfitness) Kong's slums. He showed rather appears to hold a fascination for caustically that the Beautiful all sorts of zealous axe-grinders. Hong Kong propaganda, Riviera The "anti" brigade in particular of the Orient and so on, rested shows much ingenuity in tracing almost solely upon the existence the cause of our feebleness of of Repulse Bay, and while he ad frame. The latest, and not the mitted, as honesty demanded, least curious, theory (which that considerable advances had perhaps furnishes an answer to been made since 1890, there may the correspondent who wonder- be at least a germ of truth in his ed what had happened to a allegation that there has been certain proposal of Sir Andrew concentration upon improving Caldecott) is that it all comes of the lot and the amenities of the putting the clock forward each European residents and the April. Such was the view ex- wealthy: Chinese, and that the pressed by the president of the mass of the community has been Anti-Summer Time League when left very much, beyond sanitary he visited the city which some measures, to fend for itself, calling Bonnie Dundee.****
English journalists persist in It is not suggested for a mo- ment that Mr. Qatridge is the The result of this vicious ar first person to point the errors rangement, it was suggested, is of our ways regarding the that young people get up
too lony's slums and child-beggars, soon and stay up too late. Their the existence of which are part vitality sapped, they are listless of one and the same problem, and sleepy. On the other hand, that of acute poverty among the it was pointed out, Germany and many. He has rather drawn at Italy had dropped Summer-Time tention once more to conditions and look at them now — simply recognised as a blot long ago, bulging with muscle. It is hard- but not sufficiently acted upon ly the result one would have ex- and then only, or chiefly, by pected from a scheme designed such voluntary effort as is to be to furnish more dayligh'ssefor found in the work of the Society health.giving exercises; Perhaps for the Protection of Children, the young people are doing the In many respects, the problem of wrong kind of exercises, at the poverty in the Colony is intim-Wrong time. Or, having risen an ately bound up with the problem hour earlier, are they too tired of housing. Fifty per cent. of to do anything but tumble into the
be found in our bed ? But then again, they won't reets is que to
to bed. All very puzzling.