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He also mentioned the possible effect Canton, and he thought of all the foreign
of the Canton River on Hongkong and ships that had sailed up that river since said, so far as he could find as present, the first of them came in 1316-409 years at one time a stream of it passed through
two countries.
TRADE EXHIBIT.
The trade exhibit which has been
It
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A special feature of the exhibition will be the X-Ray demonstrations by tho Victory -Y-Bay--Company. A dark-room has been atted up and Conference visitors will be able to see the great advances that have been made in X-Ray work.
Un Friday afternoon the Conference in to be thrown open to the public and op portunities will be afforded for inspec- on of the various exhibits; while short demonstrations of popular interest will be gives
The Public Works Department with a otherwise, but all told he gave no mean THE MEDICIAL CONFERENCE.
view to preparing plans for improving account of himself as an athlete. Perhaps the harbour had done & considerable when Chinese schoollers received the arranged in the Great Hall of the THE FIRST DAY'S PROGRAMME.
medical attention, the supervisal exercise amount of drilling and the results show and recreation, school Inncheons, etc. which University will be found of great interest RELATIONSHIPS IN MEDICINEed that there was peat below the harbour the school children of bugland and Ameries to all attending the Conferences.
at from 43 to 100 feet down. This had receira! he might be found to possess more will be found up-to-date, many firma of BETWEEN CHINA" AND WEST.
been once the level of the land. It took favourable indices of growth than the other international reputation bieng there re- There are exhibitions of The Joint Conference of the China some time for plants to decay and form
Mr. Dome went on to compare the presented, Medical Missionary Association and the the peat and therefore not only had there difference in meial rela'i nabips of the surgical instruments, drugs, hospital British Medical Association commenced been a settling of 100, feet, but pauses Cantonese, Filipinos and Americans. Com furniture, books,, patent loods and pre
paring the Filipinos and Cantonese thereparations for destroying insects. yesterday morning at the Hongkong in the process. Clay had been found no appreciable differ in height University The morning programme below the peat. The change, like thas from age eight years to serente ye rs, if well-known tirm of Kodak hare a special in North America, bad probably been taken on the average for an of ten display of photographs and apparatus consisted of 25 lectures, including "an
brought about by 'n rise of the sea bed opening address by Dr. Edward H. rather than a sinking of the land. Frof. ears. At age eight and nine, the Fdipines showing the uses of photography from Hume, who was one of the recipients of Daly, of Harvard, was of opinion that were an inch taller ; ut age 10, the Chine the scientific point of view.
at one time,600 feet of occan had been ero an inch and a half taller: nd at the honorary degrees at the Congrega gathered at the poles in the form of ice age cloren, one tenth of an inch taller: tion on Tuesday, on The Relationships and that the release of this had given at ages 12, 13, 14, 15 and 15, the Filipinos averaged less than half an inch taller at in Medicine between China and the rise to the s
Professer Wiliams exhibited a map age 17 the Chinese were again taller by six Western World."
showing what Hongkong would be like tenths of an inch. The differeare in the Dr. Hume said that as he stood on the if the sea was 100 feet shallower. The two races at 8, 9 and 10 might be due to hill above the University he saw a small sea shore would be far away to the south an insufficient number of obserrations, but steamer set its course up the river for near the groups of islands which exist the differences at the age when a much
there to-day.
larger number of observations were made was too small to be of any significance.
Comparing the Cantonese Americans, it was faunt that the Chiness were two inches shorter of the average general assumption that races living in a than the Americos. This bore out the topical climate were shorter in stature than those living in a temperate one. The difference in height between the two races might le bath. climatic and racial, but the purely racit consideration for the differ- At the afternoon session of the Conference in stature seemed to be the most New Territories on the mainland and South China Branch cf the ing medicine in the places of learaingence there was a syllabus of twenty-six satisfactory. Looking at the age-weight there are to be tennis parties.
comparison of the three races, it was found.M.A. have invited members of the in the Western world, and also of the papers down for reading.
One of the most interesting sections that the Chinese averaged more than six Conference to visit Canton for two days University graduates who were coming was that concerning Anthropology, where a pounds lighter than the Filipinos up to the to the Far East. He then reviewed the symposium on racial characters was taken. various medical expeditions into. China, In this category, Dr. C. McCloy read a and spoke of the influence of continued paper on "Weight Standards for the Individuals," and a joint paper by Dr. Noel exchanges on international understand Keys, (Canton), and Dr. W. W. Cad bury (Canton), was given on "An age. Limitless though her resources mine-height-weight stady of Cantonese school ral and vegetable, China, he said, boys." Dr. Keys, said observations and menaurements had been taken among 1,018 had hitherto contributed but
Cantonese Christian College students from to medicine since the beginning of the all parts,
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In the same section a paper of much local interest was submitted by Mr. A. E. Dome,
T.M.C.A., Hongkong. His paper was on a similar subject to the previous one and entitled beege-bought-weight stray based on 3,000 observations from the Hoogkong schools." In the course of his paper, from which the following extractu are taken,
with the
ENTERTAINMENT.
During the two days on which there will be so regular Sessions, arrangements have been made for the entertaiment of visitors. On Saturday there will ba trips around the Island and round the
Sir Paul Chater has also extended an age of 12, and after the age of 14 the at the conclusion of the Corfercuco. difference became greater. Compared with invitation to members of the Conference. the American, the Chinese averaged 91 to ten on Saturday, when they will have pounds lighter up to the age of 16 and from
an opporturity of inspecting his collec- then on the difference breme greater tien of Chinese works of art. More significant than the comparison of the averiges of age height and age-weight relationships, was the comparison of the relation-hip if weight for height and age In the former it was found that the Filipinos averaged six pouads beavier than the Chinese, but when com. pared on the basis of weight for height and age, which was a sounder comparison,
A GENERAL'S SHARES. JURY DISCHARGED AND CASE LEFT TO THE JUDGE.
The company's case was that General Kavanagh agreed to buy 9,000 £1 shares
The action by Messrs. Humphrey, Dea- Shaftesbury-avenue, W., against Lieut- of modern medical education being laid
three pounds heavier than the Filipinos for General Sir Charles T. M. Kavanagh, in such institutions as the Hongkong
approximately each inch in stature from of 17, Piccadilly, W., in which the com- University in which they were assembled,
age right up to and including balf of the pany, through the liquidator, claimed. observations for age seventeen. This weat£1,750 as unpaid calls on 2,000 sharca a new structure of scientific medicine
to show that the physical development of in the company as well as damages for was bound to arise. Already there were
the Cantonese was slightly better then the breach of agreement was tried last month signs of the coming activity. It was not be stats that the observations were taken Filipinos, if they considered the additional by the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) so much the papers and reports that from among students of seven schouls weight for enca inch in stature us a favour and a Special Jury.
over a period of three years. The original | »ble index. Capared with America: s on of the conference had observations were Bve, namely, the age, in the weight to height and are basis the contributed that gave him hope, as English reckoning; the height, in inches Chinese were seven to ten pounds lighter was the knowledge that from one and tenths; the weight, in pounds and for each year up to five feet, over Eve feet school or another, from not a few pro-tenths; the vital capacity, in cubic inches; the Americans became considerably heavier vinces in China, there had already been and the strength of grip of each hand in for each additional inch in height. chosen youths of promise who were pre- pounds. The measurements were all taken paring theas-ves to take up the guest: during the mouths of February and March They were
raining, these future 1922.23 24 so that the growth rythm nt Jeaders of the tine medicine in different times of the year would not effect Caina: in bacteriogy, in parasitology, the averages of the relationship of the in medicine, and in chemistry, they were doing the necessary ground work, they weight to the height. The findings ad Filipina, and were only slightly inferior were planning the needed methods of been compared with the figores
OTHER SUBJECTS. American school children. Taking the psychic approach to their communities; they were thinking over the problems of average vital capacity for the age of the
In the various other rooms of the Chinese and comparing it with the average University rapers were read on a variety persunal and community hygiene.
and Recturers
his Continuing evidence, General Les China, through them, ingin ta for Americans, it was found that from ages of Cubjects
Icllows:- take her part in advancing science and eight years to seventeen inclusive, the once more her pilgrims would wend their Chinese were approximately thirteen cubic
Medicine, Parasitology, Public Health. Kavanagh said. when he heard that way westwards. They would not have inches less than the Americans, and that The Work of the China Hookworm Enever had put his name down n De identical curricula in their schools among from age sixteen on, the difference became Commission (Grant); Epidemiology of director he regarded it as "great check the different nations. They would not greater. At ngen" eleven and twelve the the Hookworm infection is the Soochow He wrote protesting to Enever, who, in
(Cort,
Stoll and build hospitals or write prescriptions all difference was only six cubic inches, aren
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in the company, and accepted £30 8 salary and 500 as expenses for a trip to China to report on a large number of cou! tines on which the company had an A general conclusion from the foregoing option. It was alleged that he failed in that duty and brought about the ruin was that apart from comparis as bearing of the company by making allegations directly upon age the Cantonese indices of about its objects. growth baring upon height and weight were abre Lavauriole than those of a
for to the An--riezus.
48 were
General Kavanagh denied that the money claimed was due and asked that his name should be struck off the list of shareholders on the ground that he was misled, fraudulently, by the statements of E. A. Enever, an agent of the plaintifi *UKEAT CHEEK."'
company.
Svensson); reply, ridiculed the attacks that had been in the same way. But it was absolutely probably due to the temporary arrest China (Cort, Dlut rertain that in no sphere of life more of growth. After general comparison,demiology of the Hookworm in South made on the company and pointed out and Cadbury); that £23,000 had been subscribed for than in medicine would there be found however, it was found that the Chinese Length of life experiments on bookworm shares. Enever added that if he wanted the unifying forces that the world peed-had a slightly more favourable index Lavac (Svensson); Practical aspects of to leave what he thought was a sinking Pů. Let them give themselves more for each year of age than
did the bookworm control in China (Bercovitz); ship be could have his name taken from
the directorate. devotedly to disensering these and to Americans, that was, by using the greater Hookworm therapy based on the treat-
The Lord Chief Justice: Shortly after- advancing medicine. not merely as an end indez as the determining factor. The ment of 5,000 cases in Hainau (Bercovitz); wards Enever got three years' 'peñai ser-
hookworm results of treatment of in itself hat as a means of strengthening Chinese ratios ranged from 1.2 at the age ascaris and sricaiurus infection as check vitude. goodwill among inen everywhere.
of eight to 1.5 at the age of even aned by egg counts (Cadbury).
Mr. Greaves-Lord, K.C. (for General then remained fairly constant to the age of Surgery-Intestinal obstruction (Tay. Kavanagh): For obtaining the £21,000
General Kavanagh said Enever, also The Americans ratios ranged for); Treatment of Gallstones (Digby); evente n
made him a director of the Anglo- from 1.3 at eight to 16 at eleven and, then Thrombo-argitis obliterans (Ludlow)..
Anthropology-Recens work the Chinese Trust, of which he had" Dever remained approximately at that figure until the age of Bereatcen. They could claim field of prehistoric anthropology in China heard. His visit to China was a fool's from.
that (Black); The origin of the peripheral errand. the foregoing comparison
nervous system (Shellshear); A study of His lordship said the important ques- A recent discovery of fossils in the New the vital capacity for the growing the cause contributing to the develop- tions for the jury were (1) whether whet Territories, he said, had enabled the age Chinese boy was quite satisfactory, re
meat of the left aortic arch in mammals he subscribed for the shares General of certain rocks in the Colony to be gardless of external conditions, if they and in the right aortic arch in birds Kavanagh stipulated to Enever that o definitely Axed. Chinese literature had claimed satisfaction from the American
(Longdon)
shares should be definitely allotted to been of little assistance to the geologist figures.
OphthalmologyChoice of operation him until after ac came back from China, in extraction of Cataract (Hareton); and (2) whether the directors knew of Block akinesia of the lid sphincter in that conditibu when they allotted the intra-ocular operations (Howard); The shares Use of the indications for
- HONGKONG AND THE SEA."
Dr. Williams, Professor of Geology at Vancouver University, who is making a geological survey of the New Terri tories, read an interesting paper ou
liongkong and the Sea."
Age:
сол Eventually the jury, having regard to junctival bridge or sclero caracal sulture the dificult legal inauce, were discharged and the decision of the case left with in extraction of cataract (Howard).
Pharmacology. The pharmacology of his lordship
His lordship gave judgment for the Ms. Huang (Chen); Further experimente
TRADE MARKS REGISTRATION,
on the pharmacology and clinical, uses defendant. of ephedrine (Chen); Experiments de monstrating the action of certain drugs on the heart (Chu); Experiments with mesenteric lymph gland extracts from spleenless rabbits (Mole); Vaccines and serums and their production in China (Huang): Centrifugal method for the quantitative determination of albumin in urine (Wong).
FIGURES FOR NOVEMBER.
The following list of trade marks re gistered or approved on six months pro- bation daring November, is published by, the Chinese Economic Bulletin
Nations its of Applicant
in South China although they knew that Over a span of nine years, from age eight at one tiine this territory had been sub. merged. The discovery of these fossils to sixteen inclusive, there was only 06 had enabled the date of certain granite difference in favour of the Americans be rocks to be placed in the Mesozoic Age. tween the average surface ratom of the two The oldest rocks in the Colony were now races, average for Chinese being 1.55 and placed in a pre-glacial age. These rocks for the America 1.61. Over the same were of a sedimentary nature and bad at length of time there was 1.06 in favour of one time been laid down in the sea just the Americans between the height ratios of as mud was laid at the bottom of the the two races; average for Chinese sea now. This meant that there had been 12.39, average for Americans, 13.46. rapid erosion on the land. Volcanic Judging from the three ratios he was action had then predominated, but whe-led to believe that the vital capacity of the ther explosive or of a sure nature it growing, Chinese schoolboy in relation to could not be said, and lava had flowed the other factors was as favourable as the over this area. Later there was evidence American schoolboy. In the age-vital of explosive volcanic action. One geolo list had found at Miry Bay a boulder capacity comparison the Chinese fell. far short of the American, but this in itself could which was evidently of the Paleozoic not be a fair comparison. In the strength Then there ensued a period of eleva of grip, the Chinese averaged 12 to 17 tion and Hongkong as we know it now pounds less for the right andsand 11 to began to take abape this volcanic period 15 pounds less for the left hand, comprad The of activity beginning in the Mesozoic with an American of the same nge Age and ending in the Tertiary period. difference was due (1) to the racial Erasion was always more active follow difference in the size of the muscle and ing elevation. The mountains were balk the two, and (2) to the Boon Keng, Amoy: JR. Koros. Peking formed by elevation of rocks from the more active play-life of tu, sterage G. W. Leavell, Wuchow M.C. Paster sea bed and erosion modelled them. This American school boy, as compared with the Peking; Major Lewis, Hongkong and weathering and erosion had continued more sedentary habits of the average W.H. Dobson. till the present-day. ·
In the Ear, Nose and Throat sertion, Chinese schoolboy.. During the past few The question arose: Why in our
Pre-ara he had had the opportunity of seeing from T. Matsui, Mukden; J. Hua Liu sent here where it is? Certain small hundreds of Chinese schoolboys in action Changsha F.E. Dilley, Chefoo; Thacker beaches along the shore of the Colony in the gymnasiums and swimming pool and Noville. Changsha, and A. N. Dunlap, hore indications that they had not been his experiences had bees that even though The Public Health section. from Tong there and he considered that the he was flat-chested and mƏTA
Arthur Woo, Shaughal R.M. Atwater present shore line had risen in a recent meatless or perbap lacking in muscle and F.C. Yes, Changsha LM. Miller, Mr. Winston Churchill has resigned from the National Liberal Club, and to be a "drowned coast." and it was bulk, yet for what there was of him, one and Mrs. Minett, Hongkong,
In the Gynecology and Obstetrics seen the Eighty Club has requested him probable that Hongkong had been sepa could not help but admit that he was a
"Ho"""" pretty good animal
doubt tion, from J. P. Maxwell, Peking; and to resign, stating that it will otherwise rated from the maisland more recently had a great many defects, remedial and Lois Pendleton, Tehebox.
erase his name from membership. than had Formosa.
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of
or less
period of time. It had been recognised
no
OTHER PAPERS. Other papers down for the afternoon In the season included the following. Rame section (Anthropology), from Ap- picton, Shanghai; Kilborn; Chengtu LM. Miles; and Marian Yang
In the Medicine Section, from Lim
Peking.
Chineso .....
Japanese
D.
No. of Trade
Marka Trado Jiwka B-gistro I Approved
21.
es
10
105
47
17
16
48
British American
German
French
Dutch
Swiss
Total
245
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