THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 14, 1941-
DOG HAS MAN'S JOB ON HAND
Mick, the
Alsatian, does his bit by solving a wart me labour problem.
He has a workinate-Mr. W. R Harris, Weston-super-Mare Cor- poration sewage ejector engineer,
can
Because work In man-holes
be dangeroue ooth to the worker below and he careless
pedestrian above. It is usual to have two men on the job when a manhole cover ls lifted.
But other towns, has its labour pro- blems It was hard to find a male for Mr Harri --until Mick the Alastion came along.
Weston-super-Mare, Itke
Mek is always on guard above when his mate goes below.
Once, when
rescue came.
children
closed
a manhole, Mick barked until
ing near.
LOW RAID TOLL AT RECORDS
HOSPITALS
TOPPLE ON SATURDAY
Despite the very humid weather conditions on Saturday, a very full
Since the raids on Lon-¡staffs and patients was one stoker programme of sport was con.
don started last Septem-|
casualties ber hospital patients been just over one hospital.
This statement was
among have
per
made by Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Health. The figures he gave to in the 400 support it were that hospitals in the Greater London area the total raid casualties up to mid-April were 235 killed and 195 injured. The higher number of killed was due to two "in- cidents."
This shows that the risks in hospitals have been very much might think after Now he patrols the area of the less than we hole and prevents anyone cum-reading of the extent of damage
done to them,” he commented.
said Brown also Mick lives at the heal water-
that works Every morning at exactly casualties at provinciali hospitals At two a were on a similar scale. the same time. he walks to street conuer nearly half a mileports which had been repeatedly away tu meet Me Harris
bombed, and where six hospitals He has his own lunch packet, were hit, the only casualty among
HERE
Mr.
slightly injured.
Of the staffs in the 400 Lon. don hospitals three doctors, 40 nurses and 15 porters and other members of the lay staffs had been killed. The total nursing s'aff was about 5,000.
cluded.