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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, 1924
CURE OF OPIUM SMOKERS. PLUCKY PATIENTS AMONG THE CHINESE
from the The following is taken' minutes of a meeting of the committee for Public Health Education, held in the Principal Medical Officer's office. Kuala Lampar, on November 13tr:-
With regard to the success or ather- wise of anti-op.um treatment, Dr E A Travers put the following report he fore the committee:---
The following dispatches appearing in. the Northern papers will have an interest for many renders in South China-
TIENTSIN, December eth Mr. Wang Ching-wei, representing Dr. San Yat Sen has made the following
statement:-
1. As Dr. Sun Yat Sen declared while in Japan, Japan and China being bound by the ties of racial similarity and using common written characters, they must co-operate with the spirit of mutual Therefore, China demands assistance:
the Twenty-one that Japan renounce Demands and all other unreasonable pre- ferential rights.
2. The object of Dr. Sun proceeding to Peking is a prong: a National Conven tion. When the situation in the country has been stabilised, America and Europe will be notified of the result, and aboli tion of all the unequal treaties,ad an
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Up to September 21st, 980 Chinese have been admitted. Of those, 153 have com- pleted the cure and remained in hospital 21 days.
Six were discharged for bad conduct. Two died, one from pneumOLA and one from hemorrhage from a per forating gastric ulcer. Two hundred and seventeen absconded, and of these 103 left the hospital within seven days and ab andoned the treatment, 56 left between eight and fourteen days and 6 between and 20 days. The latter 112 cases went through the
afford to stay not left because they coutine treatment and longer, or were afraid of losing their coi ployment. Most of those had lost the I am of quinion that STALVIRK for opium.
.of large majority
se who remain in Bespaal for the complete twenty-one days are actually cured of the opium habi. Those who have not the "necessary strength of mind or eapacity for physical endurance abscond from hospital,
(2) The Chinese are a shrewd, sensi
but ble people, and there is no doubt that, if a majority of those undergoing the treatment were not cured, the au-
the Septime our of the
3. Dr. Sun is perfectly satisfied with the reorganization of the National Army
As "it
"it is, the and the steps taken ancat the treatinenter of those applying for admission
would rapidly decrease.
over 100 necorded to the Manchu. Rayal Flouse.
rush for tickets is so great that
office every Chinese come to the day in the hope of few vacances in the wards. There is an average of about ten vacancies daily, and the seuretary of the Anti Opium Societies and his clerks have to make those pre- sent draw for tickets, otherwise they
mobbed. would be
PEKING, December 5th.
(3) It is common for a man who has been through the treatment to bring mission. He would not be likely to do several of his friends to apply for ad- this unless he himself had heca enabled to give up the habit.
(4) We are getting very few decrepits It is con- among the admissions, and the class of patients tends to improve
TESTSIN, December 6th. Dr. Sun Yat Sen whilst he is deeply movel by the warm reception given him in Tirntsin, is somewhat embarrassed hy those who try to use him pa a tool to throw into further confusion the situation which is gradually leading to unification. He believes that the best policy for him to purse is to leave China as soon as possible, and visit foreign countries in order to explain the real conditions pre- He intends to pro- vailing in China ceed to Peking, and after staying there a few weeks, desires to visit. Russin Brat, and then other countries in Europe and also the United States, calling at Japan on his return journey. He will be neconceivable that a vagrant might undergo order panied by Madame Sun and one two the discomfort of the treatment in
to be well fed for three weeks, but this secretariesiandapaarse Servier,
does not apply to the ricksha pullers, coolies, clerks, and small shop- By an order of the Home Ministry, the keepers, who daily compete for vacancies, spacious house of Dr. Wellington Koo The fact that an inevasing number of will be used for the residence of Dr San hospital attendants, who provide sub- Yat Sen during his temporary sojourn fa
stitutes to carry on their work, are being strong argument in favour Peking. It is estimated that no fewer admitted is
of the success of the treatment, than thirty or forty thousand people of
(5) Well educated Chinese, many of all walks of life, with the exception of the Chinese menarchists and Manchus, whem speak English, bave been admitted
their Feelings,
craving, will assemble at the railway station to and freely discuss
to be im receive him. Elaborate preparations are ete., with me. Une cannot fail
k! resolution of pressed by the pluck being made at the Central Park for Dr. Sun to deliver addresses to the Peking the great majority of the patients.
Euro- explain to It is not reasonable to compare residents and also fully to
when discussing the them the exa nolicy and aim of the peans with Chinese
possible care of the opium habit. It Kuomintang in politics.
be Fapaneseducated would imp Mr. Tai Tien-chin.
possible to control half-a- member of the Kuomintang, is in charge dozen Europeans who were secretly tak- ing morphia, let alone expect to cure of De. San's propaganda.
them by the method now employed to break the Chinese of the opfum habit whereas the 130 or so Chinese at the Dis As well trict Hospital behave themselves as ordinary individuals, and make a very effort to co-operate in their cure. know of the instante " "of a Chinese towkay, with whom I was on terms of intimate friendship, who was a heavy opiam smoker but who would leave it off will for any length of time. He was inconvenienced for a few days, hut soon lost all craving for it.
PEKING, December 6th.
Up to this afternoon there was no de- finite news available as to Dr. Sun Yat Sen's arrival in Peking. It is announced that the preparation of an official wel come to Dr. Sun has been entrusted hy Marshal Tuan Hs Shih-ying Houtir.
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(B) As it is only four months sinco the present experiment was undertaken, Ex-Ciril Governor Han Shih-ging, who it is not possible to say whether the curesg represents Marshal Tuan for the welcome are permanent or not, but there is no of Dr. Sun Yat Sen at Tientsin, has doubt hut that several hundred Chinese wired to the ofec of the Chief Executive i have at any rate temporarily given up reporting a prohibition of the French; the habit of opium smoking
The committees thanked Dr. Trayers for municipal council against the elaborate reception of Dr. Sun in the French Con his very interesting report. cession.
He ads that Dr. Sun is accompanied by M. Borodin, Soviet Envoy at Canton. ". Borodin Tepre- sents the communist members of the Knomintang,
Enquiries made by a representative
CINEMA NOTËS.
QUEEN' TOZĀTRE.
Long Tuck Sam's Chinese entertainers of the Paul T. Times revealed that the
will bring their Hongkong season to a only restrictions placed on the reception close to-night, and those who desire to
of. Dr. Sun was that the banners and flags see the next entertainment of its kind should not he anti-foreign. Several were
ever presented in Hongkorg should not removed for this reason. The French authorities can hardly be blamed for fail to attend. taking reasonable précautions.]
SUN YAT SEN ILL.
PEXING, December 7th. Telegrams received in Peking yesterday reported that Sun Yat Sen was ill and that Japanese and German doctors who were attending him insisted upon his reninining in bed for the present. Hence Dr. Sun's departure for Peking, has heen postponed indefnitely.
COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATIONS,
י -
PEKING, December 7th. At yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet, the Minister of Finance agreed to furnishi $10,000, to cover the cost of the welcome to Dr. Sun, while Mr. Ma Hsa-lun, the Tailee Minister of Education, was in- structed to take the necessary measures to restrict the activities of the students in the direction of public, demonstrations. Consequently the Ministry, yesterday kent a circular letter to all the Gover meat educational institutions warning. the students against taking part in mussE meetings, making public speeches, or forming processions when Dr. Sun
PLANNED.. According to unofficial reports, Marshal Chang Taolin was opposed to Dr. Sun's to Peking, owing to the fact that coming a number of Communist demonstrations arrives. were being arranged in Dr. Sun's bon- our, the effect of which would affect the is shown today by pamphlets Government in its relations with the throughout the city, saying:
Powers generally.
There is no doubt that the young Com- munists-of-Peking intend-to-make-Dr. Sun's arrival the occasion for a big effort
The
temper of the Chinese
Communists posted
must set our faces against the
... list countries, and the nations
who
inclinations to turn China
into-their-Colonies"
Yesterday parapblets were posted up to bring Communism into prominence, in the city advocating that Dr. Sun Tat and the Government is taking precautions against possible disorders. General Lu Chung-lin Commandant of the Precau-
Sea "anould be urged to strive for the abrogation of unequal Treaties between China and other countries.Renter. tionary Force, and General Li Shou-chin,
PERING, December 7th: Acting Superintendent of the Metropoli
The Provisional. Government has set tan Police, were summoned by Marshal Than yesterday to discuss measures to aside a sum of $15,000 for the expense prevent disorder on the arrival of Sun of welcoming Dr. Sun Yat Sen at Peking. Yat Sen. It is understood that the police: Preparations are being made by various and troops will be stationed on the rail-organisations to give him a rousing re- way premises and that caly a certain coption in the Capital On the day of number of delegates of various parties his arrival, all the schools in Peking will be closed and their delegates will be Will be allowed on the platform,
zent to the station to welcome him.- S. J. News Service.
Reuter
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