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WAR ON LACAL EPIDEMICS
It may seem a long way off, but, în a little over two years, Hong Kong will be celebrating its centenary and it is time we be- gan to think of the form the celebration is to take.
Hong Kong has contributd much to developments of manifold variety in the Far East, and its centenary, for that reason, will not be without importance to the big world without its boundaries..
The form it should take is an in- teresting question, to which all might contribute by valu- able suggestions, though it would seem that the com- memoration should place chief emphasis on civic development. Hong Kong has prided itself on its rise to a foremost world seaport from a barren rock, and no more interesting ex- hibition 'could be devised than one designed to illustrate, chiefly by contrast of old and modern, the giant strides which have taken place in the organised life of the city, and in the way of the health, com- fort, safety and education of the citizen.
It might also subtly suggest that what we have already achieved is nothing to what we are go- ing to do in the next hundred years!
As the record of the toll of The Child and the Film
cholera gradually disappears, from the Colony's daily bill of health, smallpox, dread ailment of the winter months, is be- ginning to come in to take its place.
Knowing by comforting experi- ence something of the methods of our Director of Medical Ser- vices, it is not surprising, therefore, that he has begun his campaign early, and given time, warning, that community co-operation is essential BUC cess in the eternal war on epidemics.
Most of the nations of the world take some care to see that children do not suffer from the. impact of unsuitable films. British parents who discover on reaching a cinema that the re- gulations may forbid them from entering with a ten-year- old will learn with some as- tonishment that in parts of Switzerland and Austria no young person under 18 is ad- mitted to a commercial pic- ture theatre at all The fact emerges from a report presented to the Advisory Com- mittee of the League of Nations on Social Questions by Mr. S. W. Harris, of the British Foreign Office, which embodies information about the practice in many lands. The eighteen age limit is exceptional, but the habit of dividing films into categories roughly correspond- to Britain's “A” and “U” ing is widespread.
Chief point of Dr. Selwyn Clarke's message is that the virulence of the type of smallpox which exists in Hong Kong is such as to break through the long- held belief that vaccination once in every five years afford ed adequate protection. Three The years, at the most, is nearer to the safety margin in Hong Kong, and wisdom would re- commend intervals of not more than two years. Of a repetition of the disastrous first few months of this year, when there were 2,290 cases and 1,811 deaths, nearly 80 per cent. mortality, there is little likelihood, thanks to an ener getic drive and a million” new vaccinations. But the outbreak will be there, ready to spread →if given the opportunity, and the many persons not suffi ciently protected should take heed.
degree of severity with which censorship operates var- ies from country to country, and, in Hong Kong, from cen- sor to censor. The Danish censors are said to reject for children's entertain- ment about a quarter of the feature films that come before them. In Belgium the average of rejection over sixteen years has been 80 per cent., and in the Netherlands in 1938 it was as high as 46 per cent. About what the child likes best the world over there is more agree ment.
The clean adventure tale still holds its own from Poland
Thus far, the medical authorities Peru, the educational film, t
have not carried their powers less carefully disguised, is re- of compulsory vaccination to jected, the more fatuous sort the legal liialt, preferring to of farce makes little appeal, and there is short shift for exhaust the possibilities of educating superstitious people the producer who, seizing on a well-known story, distorts. It to the view that what is sug gested is for their own good. to suit his Heir children's: good. If the
itbreak develops
with meet