ROUND-UP
BOWLERS TAKE BACK SEAT
umbrelin, now employ more women than men, according to a survey of 54 big London firma, just published. The survey, by the Office Management Asssclution, found that on the average there were 57 In the higher grades the pro- women to every 43 inen in offices. portion of women deerensed, but even in the top bracket one in four of the supervisors was a woman.
NITY ofees, once dominated by the bowler hat and
CHURCH TO BE BUILT
where A CHURCH is to be built shortly at Chariton on a site
Queen Elizabeth I watched bulls and bears being baited by Bog. The "Bear Fit" site in Charlton Park Lane has been sold by Greenwich Council to the church authorities for £2,000. Beur bolting went out of fashion at the end of the 18th Century, but flocked to the hollow site to watch in earlier pics great crowds ths ago Bulls and hears were tied up and bulldogs let loves on Hem. When the dogs were too badly mauled to thight on others replaced Chem
FRIENDLY OTTER
YOUNG Indian otter whe earlier this year was going for walks with a family in Singapore is now promising to become perhaps latesthe U nunod ad the Londom Zoo The alter, a ferande mmed Cheeky, was the family pet at Mr E. Drake and hud the run of the house When the trunké family left Singapore to move to Auvalla, Cheeky was presented to the London Zoological Society. 1. Semlere began her quarantine in the cen's
Who
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A woman spolesmen for the store stated: "We ave had a lot of quests Loan the scaled singer sex for this men only nig Carly will stil be serving, but they are very understand about this sort of firing and are adept at hiding Their suites We have asked them to be specially tactful in this
RUSSIA BUYS DOGS
A SCOTTISH Horsley volle Tom an Citerhin 15 sheep farm is
ene of 20 bought in Britany by a Soviet Trade mission to start a The w cling sheepdogs in 105,es in when al present the shops Temos control Crir docks without go to hip them. With 10 pedig er tolls and 100 pedigree rams, the vollies have been flown from Scut van Auport to Hetlerdam on their way to Russia.
IRON RATIONS
TIN of aun entions from the South African War is being A presented to the York Curtie Museum. It will join two other South Afriran War tins #lready in the Museum One is oval and the other es lindrical, and they have not yet been opened. The contents are a mystery but the tin was generally divided into two compartments containing bully beef and cocos.
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'THE CHINA MAIL....... MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1958.
For Mr. Nixon's benefit Cummings
presents in
Washington
medical
style a
guide to
the British
P.M.
THE AMERICAN President lives in a goldfish bowl--and when he needs the doctor, his interior lives in a goldfish bowl too. The knowing politician knows not only the politics of the rostrum but the politics of the respiration.
So, for that knowing, hurrying politician Mr Nixon, Cummings presents the politics of our Prime Minister in the language of the interior- with the eager co-operation of 80 different Mac- millan images.
Padded brain cell® to soften pressure of ME Krushchev's
threats
Cummings
American blood corpuscles (gift from mother) "for warming
Anglo-American handshakes
Hormones-for running rings round Mr Gaitskell
Reinforced spinal vertebrae for resisting
attacks from Tory backbenders)
Vital digestive organs preserved due to absence of excessive secretions
from glands
TURF
The CARLTON
BULCICS The BEEFSTEAK
Follicles for preserving T.V. glamour
hair style
Worry-tight brain compartments
- close
automatically
Lifting muscle for keeping tongue in cheek when talking of general election
TROLLOPE
OLLOPE
Unflappable heart-stabilised
with heavy
weights
Bindass
polici
Temper
ture
for
Muscle
pinching
Socialist
programmus
posting box to pores for Losing little local difficulties without
trace
A REPORT OUT TODAY SPOTLIGHTS A DISTURBING SOCIAL PROBLEM
BY the end of this year, one
person in 250 of Britain's population will have occupied a bed in a mental hospital. One child in 20 born during the year will at some future time have treatment there. One child in 10 will suffer some form of nervous breakdown. And one in 100 will fall medically within the finition of a mental defective.
Are these the people too many forget?
de Britain's mental health figures reveal some startling-facts-
made in the report of the Royal Commission on the Law Ro» faling to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency are generally held to be a step in the right direction. And was announced in the Queen's speech recently that many are to be put into effect. But they do not cover the whole field. Further recom- mendations, although given in a more general form emerge from Minds Malter, Miss Cooper's pungent pamphlet.
subsequent
might
Can be cured
These facts, revented by Lord for tens of thousands of parents.
But the mental hospitals them- hint of, suçcess. No breath of for example, an association call.
ing itself the Friends of the. Whichever way of Birkenhead to Cohen
the All of these people are haunted selves pre also desperately short encouragement,
This story can be repeated Fountain Hospital, has contri- Parliamentary support House of Lords last February, with the grotesque fear of what of baste requirements.
the stress Consider Fountain Hospital, at word for word up and down the buted a 'arge number of huts, fall,
must be have failed to break through the well become of their Imbecile Inherent public apathy towards children when they themselves weeks during the Boer War for hospitals out of 201 have been represent the only additions to the mentally ill can be cured, Tooting. It was bullt in eight country Only five mental including one staff 'reom, which rehabilitation. By realising that the growing problem of Britain's are dead. Living, they bestowy
Not one has the premises since a flying bomb and the mentally deficient can mental health. Yet last year 44 upon them all the love and care the treatment of 200 scarlet butit since 1914.
become the National knocked out one quarter of it. per cent of all patients in the passible.
can do fever patients. To-day relatively been built since Dead they
un-changed. It country's hospitals were mental nothing.
dealing with Health Servico Act, came into patients.
800 mentally defective children, force. Yet vast mums of money While the maximum number of have been poured into propping children to a ward is supposed up the Victorian relics that to- to be 20, Fountain Hospital has day serve IS the nation's anything up to 55 per ward. mental institution.
The fear
Con-
This percentage, Involving 143,220 people, drought a loss to this country in terms of man-
It is under this fear that power equivalent to 20 times
Moodle lose that from industrial disputes. parents like
And who In hard cash it cost Britain ro
can possibly £120 million in production lost blame them? It is a fear from and wages paid out, quile apart which they should be freed by from the £20 million paid out the community as a whole. poisoning.
Not long ago the gas pipca were found to have rusted com- pletely away and the matron was found suffering from gas
Shortage
Handicapped
useful members of society, help now could take the pressure off an ever-growing problem.
Only in this way can the Yet even these volunteers are Welfare State begin to mean handicapped by officialdom, and Welfare for everybody, includ at present hospital staff are not ing the mentally impaired. And allowed him them in any only in this way will tragis official capaci
spite, of cases such as that of Prison such atrietures, they immense Officer Moodie become a thing Shortage of money for capital service, and in too many cases of the past. expenditure is one of the largest form the only source of hope for.
• Minds Matter, a new "ap- Yet what is the community,
Most of the floor boards have age towards a modern mental the dedicated staff who work the Government, and the local
health service..
mental heal Dy Shortage of these hospitals,
proach to nerul P. Cooper. (A Bota authority doing about the ques. rolled, are cracking open, and staff is another. At the present tion? Last year Britain's mental in the nurses' home have given time there is a
cent 20 per
What can be done? A lungo Group puhilcailon, 20, 00.),
London Express Service). hospitals were coping with way. In spite of repealed coats
cash register is only one of the tion designed to
This burdes on the national 142,000 patients i accomunada- of paint, the corrugated fun shortage of doctors in mental number of recommendations
take only roofing corroded away and even- aspects of the whole problem of 121,000. Thre Wero 22,007 tually had to be replaced by mental health which is alred in fewer places than patients for asbestos, a now pamphlet published to them, causing on average over- day." Recently the cost to crowding of about 10 per cent. the individual was dramatically Illustrated in a tragle court case.
in sickness benefits.
Burden
Urgent, but....
hospitala.
Beenuse fewer nurses, are: needed in looking after detes tives and mentally 1 people, All the wiring, which was the shortage of these is less completely out of date, had, to noticeable, but it is significant bo replaced at considerable that in a recent survey only 10 cost, All the heating had to per cent of the nursen in general ́ ́be converted to oil. At present hospitals said they did not liko one their work, while in mental one of the end walls in ward is in the process of slowly hospitals the nguro was as high crumbling down.
as 50 per cent.
No news
Prison Officer Willam Ernest Moodle described by his doctor as "a falher in a million," was At the end of 1960, mental sentenced to three years Im deficiency Institutions had wall prisonment for killing his help ing lists containing the names of less 11-year-old daughter, This 9,247 mental defectives requiring
Not enough money, not enough was yet another case of a man treatment. Of those 3,000 were
buildings, not enough staff.... there are only some of the more eminently upright in every way urgent cases. One of the reasons --being brought to the breaking for this shortage of space was
.obvious problems which maku point, by the atrain of looking that 10,000 of the available Three years ago, the super- it apparent that, were it not after a mentrily defective child, places were taken up by old Intendent of Fountain Hospital for voluntary -organisations,
who simply For there was ample evidence. People
submited plans for the construce Dritain's mental head ja facilitien that Moodle lavished love and nowhere else to go.
tion of a new hospital, with would be in a state of chaos.
Act incliitles, devotion upon his daughter. That is one of the problems, full research
What is nedded # more day ministrative quarters and ade- As It Is, 100 of the 201 mental The situation facing Prison occupational contres, old people'a quale “ward" space for the hospitals and Institutions in this Officer Moxxile la not an toolset homes, rehabilitation | centres, demand, That was three years country receive help in nasio
The crime to which hoctionis for the mentally back ago. Today, nothing. There is, form was tempted is one that occurs ward,
no nowe. No promises. No groups. At. Fountain Hospital,
one.
have
or.
other from
tiden
1
Friell
"Hay, stop Mr. Nixón! I'm the man who was the
same size or him, remember ?"