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HEALTHY HONG KONG.
WORK OF LEADING HOS-
PITALS IN 1927. "
NO SERIOUS EPIDEMIC,
The dedical Report for the year that the Colony was free from any serious epidemic o discuse during the year.
Only 149 cases of smallpox were reported, of which 131 were of soca ongin, the remaining is being ported. There were 10 deaths, all Chinese.
There has been no case of either ras or human plague notified since September 1923, (It will, however, be remembered that two cases have been notified this year).
INDIAN AND WELSH WOMAN.
POISON EVIDENCE AT INQUEST.
SIR B. SPILSBURY TO MAKE ANALYSIS.
Losnes, July 11th. The inquest on Mammatha Nath Saayal, aged 30, an Indian describ ed as a qualified doctor, and Gwen nyth Rose Lewis, aged 29, a Web woman, who were found lend in a boarding-house in Gower-street, Bloomsbury, was opened at St.
Pareras.
Mr. D. Hopkin appeared for the woman's Father, Mr. David Lewis, schoolmaster, of Cilyewn, near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire.
r. Lewis said that his daughter was never depressed, but was sun- A rat flea survey will be under-sitive and would sometimes magnify taken during 1999 and the findings small things into big ones. may throw some light on our pre-Did you know anything of her Sir Walter Schroder, the Coroner: sent immunity.
friendships knew she had this one friend, this doctor.
During the year 135,513 rats were examined.
Only three cases of true cholera were notified, all of which were imported. The Colony's immunity from the disease, which occura epidemically in other pots in con- stant communication with us,, is probably due to the absence of rivers aad wells which in other countries are the main source of infection.
The report then includes the re- turns from the various civil bos. pitals in the Colony.
THE CIVIL HOSPITAL.
The new admissions to hospital (exclusive of the Matemity Block and Lunatic Asylum) were 4,608.
The daily average of in-patients
was 188.
Was it a recent friendship-1 must have been recent. It could not have been going on before last Christmas.
Did you understand that it was likely to lead to an engagement - Yes, I think,su.
Never Threatened Elfe, find your daughter ever threaten ed to take her life 7-Never.
Had you any knowledge of any anxieties she had-The only anxiety I knew of was that the doctor was out of a pince and could not get one. She worried about
that.
Mr. Hopkin: In the three letters you received from your daughter did she mention in ench one the fact that Sanyal was out of a job
There was rarely a vacant bed-Yes, sir.
Mr. Lewis added that his daugh
in the general wards of "the boster said that Sanyal was very de pital.
"All nationalities of both sexes (except European women and chidren) were treated, but by far the greatest proportion of patients were Chinese males.
European, 600; Japaneet, etc., 77; Indian. 1,002; Chinese, 3,212,
The males numbered 3,952 and the females 942.
A large proportion of the 3rd class patients were treated free of charge.
416 patients died and of these 183 died within 24 hours of admission.
The high death rate is mainly Accounted for by the fact that a large number of Chinese patients come to hospital in the last stage of disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis. Major accidents oc- curring in various parts of the island were also responsible for this high death rate.
Incidentally 60 infants under the age of one year died in hospital. The commonest cause was broncho- pneumonia.
A large number of venereal cases, especially soft eores and buboes 31 (19 in 1926) and syphilis 108, (91 in 1026) were treated.
On the contrary the number of malaria cases showed a big drop 583 (029 in 1926), eo also in the case of beri-beri, 60 (109 in 1928).
The Police Force,
The total number of admissions to hospital was made up as fol-. jows:-
pressed in consequence,
Would you describe her as an ab solute Celt-Yes, she was very much up and down,"
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, honorary pathologist to the Home Office, said -that there was a hypodermic injec
tion area on the upper part of the left arm and smell of campher which led him to think it had been given as a restorative after the girl was found. He found no disease which would account for death.
There were two tiny glass tubes of strychnine sulphate and a similer tube of strophantin. There were five phials of the latter and another phial containing byseine hydro bromide,
an empty whisky bottle and a box in which was a string of pearls and a metal neck pendant. On the floor were an empty beer bottle "and glass.
There WILE
Dr. Rose, Divisional Police Sar- geon, said the man had white powder on the first and second fingers of the right hand. To syringes on the table by the bed had similar white powder on them.
Sir Walter adjourned the inquet He said that an analysis would have to be made by Sir Bernard Spils
hary and Dr. Rose,
VICTORIA GENERAL AND MATERNITY HOSPITAL. Admissions numbered 315 in the general wards, 323 patients being treated compared with 287 in 1997.
There were 138 operations. The nationalities were:-Eurn. penne 297; Eurasiane 8, Chinese 18.
Eight deaths occurred.
Deaths. European. 153
Nil. Indians
329 (1) Phthsie. Cantonese 197 (1) G. S. Wound. Wei-bai-wei ... 141-
Nil. Government servants were at- tended to daily, as out-patients between the hours of 2.1. and 63 patients. 10.30 a.m. The daily average was
12,
The out patients department was extremely well attended by Chi- nese of the poorei classes...
Maternity Department.
were 32
The admissions numbered 686, of which 028 were Chinese.
There
still births, matemal deaths and infantile death;
Only four reported.
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cases
of twins are
The Maternity Hospital treated ·
·
81 children were born and all survived.
There was only one death in the Maternity Hospital.
TSANG YUK MATERNITY
HOSPITAL.
The work in the In-patient De- partment increased, considerably during the year.
Maternity Wards, Patients were admitted as be low:-From Western District, 165
KOWLOON HOSPITAL. cases; from Central District, 137 Dr. Newton was in charge for cases, from Aberdeen District, 18 the greater part of the year, Dr. cases; from Yaumati District, 20 Smadey and Dr. Fehily each being cases; from Causeway Bay, Dis- in charge for a short time. Dr.trict, 20 cases; from Shaukiwao Dovey attended in the Dut-patient Dietrict, cases; from Boating Department and acted as anca Population, 17 esses; Total, 190 thetist to the Hospital.
37 cases attended in their own homes.
cases.
980 patients were admitted dur ing the year, 890 being males and 84 females. The nationalities were
Gynaecological Wards. made up as follows:-British, 203;
Owing to the increased number Chinese, 084; Other Nationalities, of patients we have had to engage another sister to help in this Chinese women and children and department. Over 6,000 patients Indians are not admitted. except were seen at the special women's under very urgent circumstances as clinics at the Dispensaries, and there is not the accommodation for from
these our in-patients are
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130 operations were performed There under general anæsthesia. was a slight increase (sixteen) in the number of cases of malazio admitted, many of which were of a very malignant type accounting
for 8 deaths out of a total of 44 deaths from all causes, All these more severo cases occurred in
drawn.
OTHER HOSPITALS. The Matilda Hospital. Patients remaining at the end of 1525, 15; admitted during 1927, 276; deaths, 10.
The Ho Min Ling Hospital. Patients remaining at the end of
deaths, 27.
“THE RED MILL."
HOLLAND IN HOLLYWOOD.
A CREEPY SCENE.
BY QUE FILM CRITIC]
"The Red Mill" was haanted, its broken satis turtled with Sticl gusts of wind, and inside it spiders, owls, foxes and all the things that bump in the night" bad had made their homes.
Beside the mill was an inn, a huge rambling place with luxurious rooms waxed floors, box beds, and gardens planted with stiff rows of tulips in fact a traditional Dutch Inn in which a scared looking. Marion Davis with twenty petti- coats, strached cap and clogs work- ed as a servant girl,
Outside the Ian is Holland in
Californians in fancy dress skating Hollywood, with a crowd of pretty on artificial ice and making love to "the Irisher. Owen Möore, in high pitched voices.
That is really all there is in The Red Mill except the Burgo- master's ugly daughter and her lover, Karl Dane, Tina" (Marion Davis), falls in love with the Irish tourist, and shows her predilection for him very artlessly when she can escape from her drudgery and her brutal master (Georgo Seegman), She wing him after sundry adven- tures including an ice carnival, an exchange of clothes with the Burgo- master's daughter, and a terrible night locked in the haunted mill.
That night in the mill is the saving of what otherwise would have been a very ordinary picture. She is thrust in and the door locked upon her during a night of stream- ing rain, screaming wind and vivid lightning The constant flashes of horror of the place, giving her it only serve to heighten the
terrifying glimpses of birds and vermin, and involving her, as she starts back, in the clutches of the broken tangles of cordage, etc.. with which the place is hung. The introduction of two lifelike scare- crows and a skeleton is unartistic because unnecessary. Miss Davis is a suficiently clever actress to con- vey an atmosphere of horror which verges mental derangement without such artifices. It is a terrible scene, neted with power restraint, and artistically, worth far more than all the rest of the film.
Owen Moore with his cheerful honest Ince is always pleasing, and lovers of Karl Dase will move in their seats and wake up when he shows his face over the half door
of the kitchen,
Sea Liens And An Elephant, The short comedy which precedes "The Red Mill" is very good and the introduction into it of half a dozen admirably trained sea lions and a baby elephant makes an opportunity for many amusing situá tions.
Cinema goers should remember that there is no 0.20 film perform- ance at the Queen's this week as Long Tack Sam and his troupe are giving their display of magic, danc- ing and music at that hour.
QUEEN'S THEATRE
FOR 2 NIGHTS ONLY TO-NIGHT FRIDAY, AUG. 3rd. At 9.20 p.m.
THE
WORLD FAMOUS MAGICIAN
LONG TACK SAM
DIRECT FROM LONDON AND NEW YORK
With his brilliant company of Chinese.. wonder workers, dancers, acrobats, equilibrists, jugglers, con- tortionists, gymnasts, and devil workers
INCLUDING THE BEAUTIFUL.
Misses
MI NA
AND
Northern Chinese who had recently 1923, 20; admitted during 1927, 440 NEESA LONG
come to Hong Kong and were living at Kowloon City.
In the Out-patient Department there were 11,114 attendances 1,697 of these being cases of external diseases of the eye.
WHEN IS A MAN DRUNK?sion to withdraw
Bummons against a motorist charged with being drunk in charge of a car.
The total cases were made up as The law, dicts, and rulings on
cases, 6,918; Old the question are in an appalling follows:-New Mr. Elliott Barker, solicitor for state," he said, and some doctors case, 9.007; Dressings, 2,129; the police at Kingston-on-Thames say there is no such word se drunk Total, 11,114. County Police Court, asked permis- in the medical dictionary,
"
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The Nethersols Hospital Patients remaining at the end of 1926, 30; admitted during 1927, 400; deaths, 48
The Alica Memorial Maternity Hospital:
Patients remaining at the end of 1926, 2: admitted during 1927, 406; deaths, 3.
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MEN LIABLE FOR WIVES' TAXES.
YARRIAGE WARNING BY A JUDGE,
"I am afraid that a man is liable for his wife's income tax. That is
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why you should be careful whenrganize A MOTOR PARADE on Ons you marry, because you may be of the Evenings during the GRAND marrying income tay and no TATTOO.
income.
Mr. Justice Rowlatt made this comment in the King's Bench Division on July 9th during the hearing of an income tax case.
Around up" of tax defaulters before Mr. Justice Bowlatt brought á crop of judgments for the Crown, representing an aggregate amount of £31,500) Penalties, forfeits. super tax, and other forms of tax occupied the court for two hours, and the tax haul was made at the rate of more than £15,000 an hour.
Mr. Justice Rowlatt made the comment quoted above when it was intimated to him" that one claim comprised fifty counts.
"Good gracious me!" he observ ed, and was not much relieved to hear that only thirty of them would be proved
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Mr. Justice Bowlatts But whose property la it-is wife's
Mr. Lever, appearing for the Mr. Lever: Well, they pitched on taxpayer "concerned, said that the the whole family. His wife has nearest approach he had to any in- been assessed, and so have his come for many years was his in- daughter and his son. Some pay- come tax. He never owned the pre-ments have been made by tenants perties with which the tax was con- with which he has been credited. cerned, and had only succeeded a involving himself in interminable wrangles with the tax inspector, but he had not appealed. Con-
Mr. Justice Rowistt: I am afraid sequently he was called on to pay. lax on property with which he was he is.
He gave judgment for the Crown, in no way connected.
Why did they pitch on him" but pointed out that the Revenue
authorities should asked Mr. Justice Rowlatt.indd
examine the
le not a man responsible for his wife's taxes 1-I do not think so,
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