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you
If ask
RAMSEY, 1.0.M. ERE in the Isle of Man they have something new in strikes. Thirty four of the island's 40 che-
want a pill, policeman.
enrrying medicines to the sick Round at the courthouse In- that getting a fresh consignment and maintaining law and order, spector Gale, or his girl clerk, or to the morning boat was "impos- Those islandera who need one of his constables, will take sible." So he phoned the pon drugs will tell you the whole your prescription, listen to your lice. They put a fast car on the
tale of woc, and say "Your job und delivered the goods. thing is a "blooming nuisance."
medicine will be ready in four
mists downed bottles the Four-hour Service Everyone bore is saying "our
other day and announced they would make up no more National Health pre- scriptions.
hand him П
Tłe roemia your Brasa Hayang un avval tapping a plausura "throughout the
Now Yam
They Like It
• police
are wonderful." Their FTTLE Mr Corteen's shop in station' window-sille are littered TS a game," the police will
"ITS Ramsey's main street, for with filled medicine bottles, and tell you, but they are rather For everyone who has letters to instance, is still open to sell helmeted constables can be seen liking it. drugs and cosmetics for cash, knocking at front doors with Onicially the strike started be- write, reports to make, lessons to
National They have kept their word. But
tle medicine bottles in their cause,
do the career girl, business The Inland's 68 policemen, led by Henith prescription and he will hands, or standing walling in the T. C. Cowin, chairman of the
- island's Health Chlef Superintendent Kelly, have politely refer you to the police dispensaries of the six
Board, gave man, doctor, pupil, journalist #gentle striking for the whole
who are now chemists,
now them only a
a few hours' notice- been mobilised as Health Ser- courthouse. He has a vice messenger boys, and are man's agreement" not to serve dispensing
dispensing for the white typient. of sixpence per prescription that will be treasured.
by telephone to make a charge the HERMES BABY is a gift now dividing their time between you even if you offer to Day.
found him standing in A way to treat professional men.
Wicksteed among
The Gooks
Seoul,
HAVE any husbands or boy-friends written yet and
told about the fabulous Gooks?
They are the inhabitants of this country, and in official Americanese they are called the "indigenous population." But the simple soldier finds it easier to refer to them all as Gooks.
The lads will be seeing quite a lot of them in the next few months, so I will tell you something about their peculiar customs,
appearance, and
habits.
The most notice. One snag
able thing about
Gooks is that
they're all so Gook around here looking. You simp-
can't tell them is this:
ly
Gooks we are fight-
apart, The North
ing are exactly
the
same as our allies
Both men
the South Gooks, and women
and to the Western eye neither of them
em wear the distinguishable
15
the
from the Chinese, the Japanese, Manchurians or the Inhabitants Outer Mongolia.
of
trousers...
the wear
only that,
but in Not
when winter,
they all trousers and wrap themselves up in sheets, it is hard to tell the difference between male Cooks and female Gooks. And those faces are so flat and similar that they look as if they'd walked into a wall in the dark
They are all about 5ft 4ins. in height, and fat Gooks don't exist because there's nothing in
Near the front in North Korea Gookland to get fat on. Their
four British delicacy is
other day, dried the favourite
soldiers and I went over the culticash.
abandoned house of a man who have beer the local Cuttlefish are not the nicest must looking creatures when fresh, squire. In one box he had u but they are even less appelising whole lot of books that were when rolled flat and dried Ul clearly Japanese propaganda, they are brown. To eat, they are something like catapult elastic, only tougher.
Callous
By the look
of their land, Gooks are good farmers in a peasant sort of way;
They are fond of children and kind to animals. But they are extremely beasty to each other.
Down at the Pusan docks the other day one of them fell into the water and sank. The others there made no attempt to rescue Jirra. They just looked at the bubbles coming up, and laughed. When there weren't any more bubbles they returned to work.
They try their war criminety
in batches of 20. I had one case interpreted for me.
The fellow had been the head- man of village and the Com- munists told him to make a collection for their victory fund. He collected the equivalent of £3 106., and the sentence for
that was
death. There were no witnesses and his trial took 10 minutes.
Of course, just as they all ook alike to us, so we must be puzzling to them.
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In another box he had some more that were equally clearly Russion propaganda, and in a third he had some books, which included
Best One-Act Plays of 1934," and "The Fundamental Prit- of Taxation," by Sh ciples Josiah Stamp.
He had certainly tried to understand everyone's point of view, poor fellow, but it hadn't done hun much good.
His home was abandoned and tooted, and if he and his family were still alive they were in one of the endless streams of refugees.
The theft
of people who you hear
would steal the shirt off your back, but a colleague of a Gook mine in Seoul caught woman stealing his long winter underpants.
To be fair, he wasn't actually wearing them at the time of the theft. He had left them in a drawer, and he came into his room just as the cleaning wo- was making away with them. He grabbed one end of them and she hung on to the other, and they had a real tug- of-war before he got them back.
man
All the same, they disappeared next day, and since then he has seen them protruding below the cleaning woman's trousers.
A Gook's Tour of the black market in Seoul is an interest- ing experience. Every kind of American equipment you can think of is laid out openly on the stalls.
The canteen had no batteries for my electric torch the other day, but on the black market there were as many as I want- cd, all from the American Army, stocks.
A Gook colonel who speaks Engilah told me that he bought his uniform in the black market. There was nowhere else he could get one. Zo didn't think there was anything odd about a Gook dipo was had by
Bernard Wicksteed |
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the
chemists
блу,
That, said the chemists, was no
ten days'
new
the
son's (Douglas) dispensary at 0
for They asked p.m. sipping sweet tea, looking tired, and waiting for Mr Alkin- warning, prior consultation and son (who looked utterly exhaus- notice in writing, of any ted) to finish making up Mrs P's regulations. Both chemists and "urgent" heart mixture. He doctors strongly object to was going to run it into Laxey behaviour and make-up of the Village, nine miles distant, for Island's Health Board,
It consists of a baker, monger, cafe owner, former, ac- countant, and retired fish seller. The baker is chairman, There Is a Health Advisory Board of medical experts (doctor, dentist, optician e'c.) who say their ad- vice is "veldom sought and never taken,"
her.
The old lady's doctor had pre- scribed special pills. Her own chemist had plenty, but Mr At- kinson's regulars do not UCA them, so he bad to send 10 Liverpool for them. He handed P. C. Cretney a little bottle.
One Of The Few
of this is equivalent to one
fish-
it will produce £1,000 a yent-
Doctors' Dilemma
The sixpenny charge has been introduced to save money on the Health scheme. Chemists say
an ocean of pill, and her pills will be over
000," They point to the
and by the morning plane," he said. necessary
extravagant" But P. C. Cretney knew he building programme- £157,000 job.
and He might now be for a hospital extension chemist's messenger boy, but he nurses' hostel. was not turning chemist. "You write that on the label," he said. It had gone on like that 31 day John Atkinson was one of the few chemists not on strike. Ho
the with sympathised strikters, but was not in their as sociation, and be felt the sick should have their drugs.
Prescription from Ramsey and surrounding villages had poured into Douglas all week.
Mough Ramsey police phoned Liver pool on behalf of a little spins- ter who suffers so badly from migraine that her doctor is now trying "something special." Nane
THERE is much plque and The politics in this strike. Health Board boys say the doc- tors are fogging the scheme by prescribing too many medicines at too high a cost, and that the
The doc od. will deter them. tora say that in an overdoctored Island they must pamper their patients or lose them to another doctor.
The island's drug per
head bill 19s. 74. per year compared
of the non-striking chemists had with 125. 10d. in England and Wales and the average cost per these pilla
bottle is 38. 9d. as against 3s. 1.
The Liverpool police obtained them, put them in the nex: plane, and the local police promised to deliver them if Miss S. was feel- ing really bad" when they a rived.
A large proportion of the is Innd's population consists of re- tired old folk. Many of them expect to spend their remaining doc- One chemist ran out of several years comfortably, with a vital drugs on the first day. His tor at the bedside and a well- dispensing business had sudden alocked medicine chest in the ly trebled. His wholesaler sald bathroom.
Dysentery most common in persons betweart & wenty and thisty, though not infreqocar in childryn,
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Flies
Fluids
Food
Fingers
If you go where the senliation is poor, guard against dysentery, Drinking water may be polluted.
Leam how the 4 F's carry Dysentery danger. The organisms which cause dysentery travel chiefly on the "FFFF"-Food, Flies, Fingers, Fluid. And they travel far and fast!. The favorite habitat of these partaites is the human intestine. Once discharged from' there they live literally "from hand to mouth.** Flies pick up these parasites. They leave them on food, dishes. And from there we may carry them to our mouths. They live in milk, too. And a person whose hands carry the organ isms may touch our food before wo get it, and contaminato it.
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Memorize thesa Safety Rutes! Prevent dys entery! (1) Get flies out of your house-uso screens, or flykillers Hke D.D.T, (2) Boil drink- ing water and boil its contriner occasionally, Cook foods thoroughly. (Organisms won's survive ten minutes of boiling.) (3) Wash cating utensils with hot water, and soap. Scrub toilet seats. (4) Wash your hands often-al ways after you go to the bathroom, always bofore you cat. (5) Mother should promptly Isolate any member of the family with diarrho "and call the doctor at once. Danger of contagian.
is greatest in the first few days,
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