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THE SMALL-POX
EPIDEMIC
ABDUCTION OF A A TRAGIC SCOURGE
GIRL.
140 Cases from Kowloon CHINESE SENTENCED TO
WESTERN TREATMENT SUPERIOR TO CHINESE
That the Western method of treatment for Small Pox has been proved to be far superior to the Chinese herbal method was the con-
tention of Mr. T. Megarry, the President at the fortnightly of the Sanitary Board yesterday when questions relative to the present Small Pox epidemic were asked by Dr. Li Shu Fan. In his replies, Mr. Megarry stated that the only measures available to prevent this disease are isolation of patients and vaccination of others. Dr. Li, pur- quant to notion, asked.
IMPRISONMENT
Babies Dying By The
Score
"Another doad body," sighed the Sentence of two months har Police Inspector, and told a Daily labour was imposed by Mr. But
Press representative that is was the ters at Central Magistracy. yester- day on a Chinese who was convict-thirt that day. It is a common oc- ed on a charge of harbouring a Chinese girl uned Ng Yin Sang aged 18 years.
currence on the Mainland, this un- ending procession of babies' bodios
According to Sub-Inspector Fra to the mortuary, and in nearly ser of the S.C.A., who prosecuted very ease they have died from the the girl was reported missing same cause. Unknown to the aver by her mother on January 20 E-age msident, the spectre of death- quiries were made by the police who traced both defendant and small-pox-stalks the streets of the were Chingle quarter day (and night, the girl to Tai O. They taken to the Kowloon City Police n the doctors are helpless to pre- Station, where the report originally made, and later to the S.C.A.
the furnish
WAS
to
With reference to the present The defondant "first came Small Pox Epidemic, will the know the girl through her mother, lend of the Sanitary Department who was an opium addict and who be good enough to
was in the habit of visiting an Board with the answers to the fol- opium divan in which defendant lowing questions!
employed. On one of her What is the total number of visits, she sent her daughter to the Sinall Pox cases reported up to the defendant to recover some pawn tickets. That was the last sho end of February?
SAW of her daughter until the police found her at Tai O.
Mr. Megarry replied:140 cases were reported from Kowloos, a case from. New Kowloon and 96 cases from Victoria.
Q. Whether it is a fact, that there is a decidedly higher inciden ce of cases occurring in Old and New Kowloon than in the city of Victoria.
A. It is a fact.
Q. If no, what is the compara- tive rate of occurrence?
A. Victoria approximately ·40 per cent, Kowloon approximately 80 per cent. of the total.
Q.To what is ascribed the canse of this higher incidence
A. The cause is not known.
was
verit it.
Some of the cuses which reach the Police ara pitiful in the extreme.
On Sunday an Englishman was walking with a companion in the vicinity of Chatham Road. They noticed a bundle lying on the grass and going up to it, discovered that it was the body of a baby. It was quite dead. As the cloth "carrier” was still attached to its body, the mother must have unslang it from her back and let it fall to the Defendant pleaded guilty and ground. One en imagine the feel- said that he was asked by the girlings of the mother when she turned round and saw those eyes that to take her away, and he had ac
would never move again. A drend. ful conflict must have raged in her cordingly done so.
His Worship to Inspector Fra-mind; should she report to the ser)-The girl looks to me te be Police, or leave the baby lying there more than 16 years of ago, What in, the open, where none could guess evidence have you got that the whose child it was! Fear of an in- girl is under 107.
quiry, no doubt, caused her to take the latter course and, dropping the body on the ground, she must have fled.
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Inspector: Her mother said that the girl is 15 years of age.
failed t
A. This might seem to be the cane in default of any other more plausible reason for the general re- luctance to notify..
The Only Possible Measures. Q. What further effective mea Q. Whenever a case of Small Pox sures of prevention, does the Clovis reported and is removed to the ernment adopt or propose to adopt Infectious Disease Hospital is the in the areas in question?
patient free to choose between hay A. The only measures available ing Chinese nad Western method are isolation of patients and vae of treatment? cination of others. As regards isolation, as long as there is con- cealment of cases and neglect to notify them, the only further inch- sures which might be considered would be house to house inspection and compulsory isolation, a very onerous matter to all parties. As regards vaccination & campaign is being energetically conducted by the Government Medical Depart ment, by the St. John's Ambulance Brigade and by the Chinese Public Dispensaries and it is hardly pos- sible to do more in this line than is being done.
Dumping of Bodies.
Q. Whether it is a fact, that the practice of dumping dead bodies is mainly confined to casca of deaths from Small Pox!
A. The total number of bodies dumped in 1932 was 1,487, of which 4 were smallpox cases.
Q. What have been the approxi- mato percentages of apparent ages of hodies se dumped (a) under one year (b) between two and five years, and (e) over five years during the period. 1930 to 19027
A. Figures for the ages specified are not available but in 1980 there were 1,208 children and 108 adults, in 1831 there were 1,171 children and 124 adults, and in 1992 there were 1,308 children and 50 adults.
Has the practice of dumping dead bodies increased or decreased during the past three years?
A. The percentage of dumped bodies to total deaths was :-
8.18%
1930
1931 1939
Concealment.
6.12 7.30%
Q. Is there any truth in the cor- mon allegation that the practice of concaling cases of Small Pox is dus to the popular belief that Chinese herbal treatment is superior, to Western methods, thus leading to concealment and dumping of bodies when much herbal rentment has (Continued on nezi Column)
Every morning brings to light grim discoveries such as these. A Policeman, walking on his beat at dawn, will find a bundle on the doorstep of a house. He examines it; a dead baby. Everyone in the housa in frightened and protests that he or she has no knowledge of the affair, so it is taken to the mortuary where a ticket is hung. around its neok: "girl, aged eigh- teen months, parents unknown."
Scared!
A. The patient is free to choose.
"The whole trouble," a Kowloon Western Treatment Superior.
doctor told our representative, !! is Q. Whether it is not a fact that that the Chinese of the lower classes the Western Method of treatment are scared stiff to report cases of for Small Pox has been proved to be small-pox to the health authorities. far superior to the Chinese herbal They cannot be ignorant of the methods If the answer is in the symptoms, for the disease has affirmative, can you furnish statis claimed, hundreds of victims this tics in support of this vitally im- year, and the word is on every portant fact, and give the names of tongue. They are afraid that if a Hospitals where Small Pox case have been treated by thene respoe tive methods?
A. The figures for the last 23 years from the Tung Woh Infec tious Diseases Hospital where only Chinese herbal methods are used and the figures from the Govern- ment Infectious Disctees Hospital where only western methods are us- ed show:-
Case 1619
Cases
299
Tung Wah LD.H. Horbalist Treatment. Deaths Case death rate. -629,
'40.63% Government L.D.EL. Western Treatment. Deaths
441
Chee death rate 14.86%
case is reported they will get. into trouble or that they will be turned ont of their homes and sent away. There is no means at present of persuading them that they will re- ceive nothing but consideration from the authorities, and that their child- ren will be taken care of, and per haps cured, in Hospital."
Vaccination the Remedy i
He added that if only the Chiness would take advantage of the free vaccination treatment that was offered many lives might be saved. It was extremely difficult for the medical profession to deal with the situation, which was made trebly serious by the stubborn attitude of Those present at the meeting the Chiness. Vaccination, he shid, were:Mr. T. Mcgarry (Presi ought to be compulsory whenever dent), Hon. Mr. R. M: Henderson en epidemic occurred, but he agreed (vice-president), Dr. G. W. Pope that it would be very difficult to (Medical officer of Health), Mr. carry it out Thousands of men, Wong Kwong Tin, Mr. M. LA, women and children lived in un
healthy, overcrowded tenement Mr. F. C. Hall, Mr. L. C. F. Bel lamy, Dr. Li Shu Fan, Mr. C. H. houses in Kowloon, which were Basto, Mr. C. J. Roe (secretary) perfect breeding places for germa When the and Mr. Ng Miu Kai (asistant of contagious disease.
warm weather set in, it would help secretary).
to destroy the germs, but the prob- lem would remain and crop up ecli year until effective measures were devised.
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