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MOTORING NOTES
FITNESS TESTS FOR DRIVERS.
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Many countries ΠΟΥ cxact medical examination from the drivers of motor vehicles, but Great Britain, France, and Swit zerland are not among them. Internationale des Médecins has inquired into the extent to which various countries in Europe insist on a medical examination, before jasting a licence to drive a motor car and in a report of the results. states that medical examination of
The Association Professionnelle
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 1928.
CANADIAN MOTOR TRADE.
COMPARISONS WITH ENGLISH
HOW HORSE-POWER TAX HITS EXPORTS,
HOSPITAL 'AND MOTORISTS.
VIEWS ON PROPOSED) CHARGES.
COST OF ACCIDENTS IN ENG LAND £250,000 A YEAR.
Will the Royal Victoria Hospital Some interesting comparisons be at Folkestone succeed in obtaining tween the meter trade in Canada payment of the charges which the and in Great Britain were drawn Governors have just decided shall Mr. T. Russell, of Toronto, a be made to injured persons admit- director of the Canadian branch ofted as the result of motoring so the Willys Overland Company, in acidents writes a correspondent to conversation with a representative the London Morning Post. of the Manchester Guardian.
The expansion of the motor trade from year to year," he said,
The results of this new move will
he closely watched by hospitals, in- auraner companies, and motorisis,
all drivers of motor vehicles is con-is miraculous, but there was never for if it should prove successful the a time when people in the trade example will undoubtedly be fol- pulsory in Germany, Bulgaria, Denmark, Danzig, Estonia, Hol were so confident that the expan-lowed by other hospitals.
alon would continue. The other It was stated in the Morning land, Hungary. Lithuania. Luxem bourg, Norway, Sweden, Poland, and Jugo-Slavia,
A summary of the report in the
side of the Atlantic is far more motorised than here. Canada
with a population of 9,000,000, has as many curs at Great Britain with British Medical Journal shows that
$3.000.000. | f this works (the in Denmark the following questions have to be answered by the examins Overland Crossley factory at
Teaton Chapel) were in Canada) ing doctor:-
Post yesterday that the charge has been fixed at 11s. 4d a day for each injured person so admitted. In addition, the Governors have reserved the right to increase, re- duce, or remit the charge.
For several years the increase in The condition of the limbs; you would see the roads lending the numbers of road accidents has discussion whether they are normal or abit lined with second-hand ears been causing serious normal owing to amputations, belonging to the workpeopir. The among hospital authorities with dislocations. shortenings, anky ordinary retailer over there sells the object of finding some means losis (consolidation of the joints), paresis (insurplete paralysis), rocre used cars, costing from £10 of. relieving the strain on their muselas wasting, and other do- to £50, than he does new ones, financial resources; but it has been fects.
'Curiously enough, this does not burt generally agreed" that voluntary: the trade in new cars; it helpe it. hospitals have no power to make The man who wants to buy a new their patients pay. car does not do so until he can find a customer for his old one. distance of four netres ? Art The more people who are if a -there any indications that the
person is suffering from night-position to buy used cars the more Blindness attacks of epilepsy or faintness, mental weakness, or other conditions affecting his ps3sical health?
The degree of viual perception in each eye either without glasses er with those habitually worn. The Geld of vision.
Can a whisper be heard at a
The doctor is also asked to say whether the person is in his opinion, fit physically and mental ly to drive, a motor vehicle. The charge for the certificate, which must be sent direct by the doctor to the police with the person's photo graph signed by the doctor, is 11s.
A Common Detect.
will be able to buy new cara.
In the final report of the Volun tary Hospitals Commission A scheme for a system of compulsory insurance for motorista was moot- ed. The proposal would involve legislation," it was stated, "hat there is no other way of imposing the charge on those by whom in equity it should be borne."
Insurance Problem.
Handicap Of Horse-Power Tax. "The second hand car trade in Great Britain is handicapped by number of things. The licence fee in Cannon in nominal-about £2, as against £10 to £13 here. A tax on
Sir Arthur Stanley, Hon. Trea- petrol is much the fairest way of taxing motors, but the Canadian surer of St. Thomas's Hospital and tax is lower than yours, only 14d. Chairman of the British Hospitals ored the gallon. Then the horse-Association, told me yesterday that power tax limits the trade severely, he would watch the outcome of the A man who would readily buy a experiment with great interest. used car for, say, 95 is deterred by these further charges.
A doctor explained that visual acuity means the ensure of one's sight for objects straight in front;.
"The horse power tax also the field of vision means the
handicaps the British manufacturer portion of space on both sides that
in the export trade. In the home the fixed eye can see. He said:-
A person may have very acute market it helps to protect him, but sight and be able to read a clock it leads him to turn out a car with a long way off, but have very a lower horse power than is popu poor vision for objects on each tir in world markets. Though the side of him; that is a small field Canadian tariff on British "cars is
of vision. There are a great
If anyone stands for a time on
a busy footway he will be bumped
I wish them every possible good luck," he said, "but I cannot imagine how they are going to get their charges paid.
"The difficulty is that so few. You cannot people are insured. make insurance & condition of ad- mission to hospital, nor can you, after a serious accident, determine the financial position of the injur
inany people with this limitation. far lower than on others-12 ored persons before admitting them. 15 per cent.. as against 20 per cent, It may be said that if a man into by a number of people pass for cheap and 27 per cent, for more owns a motor-car he can afford so ing, even when there is plenty of expensive cars, very few are impy something for the treatment he room; the fact is that they departed into Canada,
late the distance.
receives in hospital, but it must not be forgotten that a large pum-
penniless pedestrianesthrough their own fault
not see him early and miscalcu- "We in Canada de a good ex-ber of accidents are caused by
Obviously this limited field of port trade, especially in commer- vision would explain a great cial vehicles. We used to. export, number of motor accidents, such parts to be assembled in England, as colliding with passing cars or but the Manchester works are now lamp-standards and telegraph- posts. In these cases the drivers inure self-contained. Our main fac. may have excellent vision for tory at Toledo. Ohio, has now as straight ahead, but do not see big an output as is convenient for ed by insurance companies, simply things clearly on either side.
It would be well for every motorist to have himself examin- ed as to his field of vision.
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JUDGMENT IN DRIVING. THINKING IN TERMS OF FEET AND SECONDS INSTEAD OF
MILES AND HOURS.
one plant, and our present policy is to develop the factorica nearest to the markets to be served-e. Toronto and Manchester."
The McKenna Duties.
The insurance companies help us admirably and are very sym- pathetic. But the fact remains that of the £250,000 that motoring accidents cost the hospitals each year, not 20 per cent. is contribut- because people do not insure them-
selves."
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A TAX ON IMPORTED
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FORCEPS IN ABDOMEN,
GRUESOME SMUGGLING.
EIGHT YEARS AFTER WOMAN'S OPERATION.
A woman from Yorkshire under
success of the Folkestone scheme. A STRANGE TRAFFIC IN IRAQ went a serious abdominal opera
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Urgent Cases.
insurance established
October 2nd.
"I should like to see some form (Director of the London School of Taken ill last month, she was re- would provide a fund upon which Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) at moved to Nice, where an X-ray we could draw to recover our ex the opening of the winter session examination showed that a large of the London (Royal Free, Hospi-
yesterday.
We ask
one man who
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WOMEN VICTIMIZED. "CRUEL AND HEARTLESS FRAUDS."
Leslie Raymond, 38, a South African, described as a mechanical engineer, was charged on remand before Mr. Fry, with stealing a ut Bow-street, London, last month, wedding ring, a wristlet watch, and £3 by means of a trick from Elsie Brooks, a widow, of Sparkbill, Birmingham; and, further with saulting a police officer.
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tion in London eight years ago Sir, William Letts, managing
“You cannot argue with injured
and afterwards went to live at director of the English branch, people how much they will pay be "The tropical feld: Its possibili-Vence, in the French Riviera. prophesied vigorous developments fore you take them in," be declar- ties for medical women," was the in the output of the firm, to begin ed. and, once they have been subject of an introductory address another operation two years ago, She still felt pain and underwent after Christmas and to continue treated, there is no method of
It was stated that Raymond met limitably as long as there is making them pay.
Andrew Balfour but obtained no relief.
Mrs. Brooks in a London restaur. given by Dr. land to build workshops on." Ask-
ant. He said that he had just been ed as to the possible effect on the
shipwrecked while on a voyage fran A Canadian police magistrate is business of a change in the Govern
Canada, and had lost the whole of to be commended for putting for ment entailing the repeal of the
his belongings, and that the Cana- ward suggestion to motoriste McKenna duties Sir William said: pensez.
"You may take it from me the which, if generally followed, should McKenna duties will not be repeal-
to pay him 833,000 compensation on On the whole, I have found tal) School of Medicine for Women pair of artery forceps had been dian Pacific Company had arranged
left in her abdomen, from the first safer condition of ed.".
motorists very generous. bring about a
operation. A third operation will the following day, but in the mean- time he had no money. Feeling affairs on the roads. We have our
them to pay varying sums up to Dr. Balfour told how an unele be necessary for their removal. five guineas a week-the full cost of his, a famous professor of
sorry for him, she leat him £3, and A medical correspondent points also banded him her wedding ring selves pointed out that scme
of their maintenance during their botany, and Dean of the Faculty drivers are deficient in their judg should, therefore, be constantly in stay, and we usually get. what we of Medicine in Edinburgh Univer- out that forceps are attached to the and watch. He promised to return sity fifty years ago, was a stout opends of severed blood-vessels to stop them next day at Canada House, ment of speed and time in relation the motorist's thoughts is the time ask.
limit which his speed is setting "There is
was ponent of the medical education of bleeding during an operation. It She met him there by appointment, ta distance, remarks The Motor".
for him should an The magistrate really elaborates arise."
emergency treated here after injury in a women. One evening he was giving is possible for them to be overlook- and after entering the building he street accident 30 years ago, and dinner party when the servanted and remain in the body when absconded. He was arrested a few It is, how days later in the Strand by Detec- this point when he advises drivers
A driver whose perception is thus has contributed ten guineas a year woman in the hoote" who want ever, customary for nurses to count tive May and then struck the officer
announced that there was "a fierce the operation is over. to cease to think in terms of miles trained in terms of feet and seconds ever since."
ed to see him. Amid the mingled the instruments and sponges before on the face. and hours-and-to think in terms of car in constant control and must Association held the view that guests, his uncle interviewed a recount them again on their return.that. Raymond "hind" been further
is much more likely to have his
Detective-sergeant Hawkes said An official of the Automobile jeers and encouragements of the handing them to the surgeon and feet and seconda. Enlarging upon the quicker to judge the speed and charges could not be enforced. doubtable woman champion, who
charged with atealing 24 by means this, he continues: If an object possible action of some more ir I have no doubt that injured protested at having been
of precisely similar representations suddenly crosses your path so ft. responsible driver. In other words, motorists would be willing to make unjustly, she averred, in a profes
as it has been very aptly put, st
Dr. Balfour gave instances of from Mrs. Hannah Gorman, of ahead from where you are sitting
is not space and time behind, but their contributions after treas- sional examination,
curious customs in different tropi-Mulgrave road, Fulham. According "To-day," said Dr. Balfour, "I cal regions. "There is. strange to complaint, which had reached at the wheel and you are travelling space and time immediately ahead ment," he said, "but I do not think charges.could be legally en at 30 miles per hour, you have only that he may have to reckon with. forced."
can face without more than a corpse traffic in Iraq," he said, Canada House there was reason to one second in which to act to Judgment in driving should al
reasonable amount of trepidation due to a transit of dead bodies believe that 20 or 30 women had avoid an accident, and only half a ways be concerned in anticipating He pointed out that motorists an audience which contains not for burial in its holy cities, and, been victimized in a similar way, second if the object is only 25 ft. the unexpected. Thinking in terms contributed to their local hospitals only aspirants in res medice like as there is a system of inspection Some of them had made complaints to the police, but were not prepared sound in the same way as other people, the champion, though, of course, and a tax on imported corpses, a A motor-car travelling 15 of feet and seconds is a miles an hour is covering 2 ft. per polier and the figures shown in though probably when injured they without her grievance, but many considerable amount of smuggling to come forward and give evidence. This is an illustration of Raymond was married carly this
The Magistrate said that Ray-" second; at 20 miles per hour it is this article should impress upon were taken to hospitals in other women who bave qualified in medi goes on.
cine, and a consultants, practi- the quaint and curious side of year, after being twice divorced, covering 99 ft. per second; at 25 all drivers the need for copcentra- districts.
For this reason," he added, tioners, and research students, are tropical medicine, which is never and deserted his wife very shortly mond had committed cruel and miles, 36 ft. at 30 miles, 44 ft.;tion upon the job in hand, for,
sentenced him to 12 month' im- at 33 miles, 51 ft.; at 40 miles. 55 particularly in these days of crowd. "I cannot see that motorists are in carrying out useful and in many lacking in the element of surprise afterwards. There were many. pre- heartless frauds on women, and itat 45 miles, 68 ft. What ed roads, driving does really call materially different position from instantes distinguished work and can rarely, if ever, be dubbed vious convictions against him.
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