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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937.
SO FEW DISEASES CAN REALLY BE CURED
Doctors' Strike Wouldn't
Alter Death Rate
*So few are the diseases we can, may quite well be from outside really cure that one is tempted to medicine and its ancillary scien- believe that if all doctors went on strike the effect on the death rate would be unappreciable."
Thus stated Dr. Robert Hutchi- son, consulting physidan to Lon- don Hospital and to the Hospital for Sick Children. Great Ormond Street, London, in his Dr. Isaac Gilchrist Lecture at Aberdeen Uni- versity on "The Progress and Pre- sent" Aspect of Medical Science."
"That is not to say, of course." he continued, "that doctors are of no use, but only that they are of use in a different way from what the public imagines.
C25.
SIR ARTHUR JOHNS Famous Designer Dead
Sir Arthur William Johns, well known as the designer of many of our very latest warships, died on. January 13,"at Bedford Hill, 8.W. at the age of 63.
able career. He was created H.C.B. architect. in 1933 for his services as a naval
Until last July he was Director Referring to maternal mortality.miralty, and had had a remark- of Naval Construction at the Ad- Dr. Hutchison, according to the report published in the British Medical Journal," claims that it is well within the power of preven- tive medicine "to reduce these deaths in this country by at least a quarter.
"We must remember." he con-
First-Birth Problems They were up against certain adverse and partly unescapable circumstances. these including the increasing relative number of Brst births and the various devices to produce motherhood without tears. Regarding the reorientation of A MENTAL "POULTICE"
medical theory. Dr. Hutchison dis- "In most cases of illness the
cussed constitutional medicine, doctor is really a mental poultice. with its three aspects of anatomy, He is a source of comfort, con-physiology, and paychology.
dence, and consolation to 'the' patient and his friends, bat it he tinued, "the advice, "Know thyself." is honest with himself he 'wili ad- In other words everyone must mit that the number of patients tearn to manage his own machine who would have died but for his so as to keep it in running order. attendance is lamentably small." and in helping him to do this "As to the future," Dr. Hutchi- there should be no one so useful son said. "prophecy is idle that as the family doctor, who, in the great advances will be made, we old phrase, knows the patient's may feel tolerably sure, although constitution. the popular opinion that for every disease there is a cure if only we could find it is certainly a de- lusion,
Whence our help will come, however, it is impossible to say. It
Royal Visits
To Scotland
OTHER TOURS
CONTEMPLATED
"It is the essence, too, of the constitutional doctrine that it re- cognises that health is not a single static thing, but has many degrees," and varies even from hour to hour."
DUKE OF WINDSOR'S BODYGUARD
He went to Devonport Dockyard shipwright. at the age of 14 as an apprentice After being, an op- prentice for four years he gained în Admiralty scholarship and gineering College at Keyham. An passed into the Royal Naval En-
appointment at the Admimity fol- lowed, and soon afterwards he became Instructor in Naval Ar- chitecture at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Then, returning to the Admiral-
designs for the King Edward VII. ty in 1001 he was employed on the
class of battleship and the Kent class of cruisers.
SUBMARINE DESIGN
In 1912 he was placed in charge of submarine design and construc- tion, on which he was employed for the greater part of the war. An incidental effort was to con- trol the design and construction of our earliest airships. Through his technical knowledge he was 2 member of the Court of Inquiry which inquired into the loss of R38 in 1921.
But his great task came when. appointed Director of Naval Con- struction in 1839 in succession to Sir William J. Berry, he had to face the tremendous complexities involved in entirely new conditions.
In the six years that followed he had to meet not only the mo dern warship's need of protection from the air but comply with treaty requirements. Ships now being built to meet the necessitles of expansion bear strong traces of
lay in the design of submarines. In that department be gained in expert quarters the reputation of being the greatest submarine de- signer in the world.
Home For A Holiday his influence, but his real genius
Scotland may expect visits from the royal dukes and duchesses this year. The royal engagements, re- The Duke of Windsor has sent "arranged because of the accession his personal detective-Chief Ins- of King George and Queen Eliza-pector David Storler, of Scotland beth to the Throne, are now being Yard-back to England for & planned.
month's holiday.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will be seen much more often in public this year, and the Duke will not continue his military studies at the Staff College, Cam- berley, for the present, so that he can be tree to take on many of the engagements which would have fallen to his brother.
The Duke and Duchess of Kent, too, will hare a buster year than
ever.
Storler arrived on January 12 He was once a schoolmaster in Glasgow, and he is spending the holiday in that city.
Afterwards he will return to London to see the Commissioner of Police, and it will then be decided for what period Scotland Yard is to continue to provide a bodyguard for the Duke. It is likely to do so for at least another year.
has
Chief Inspector Storier Whether the King and Queen guarded the Duke, as Prince of will make an official visit to Edin- Wales, as King, and an ex-King. burgh, taking up residence at Holy-accompanying him on his missiona
rood House, is one of the many problems at present under discus- ston
to Argentina and elsewhere.
Inspector Evans, who accom- panied Mrs. Simpson, to Cannes, Another matter which compit- has also returned to London to re- cates the arrangement of the royalsume normal duty. programmes for this year is the question of the official announce-
ment of the accession of King ward VII told the Houses of George VI to the crowned heads Parliament he might hold, are also of other States.
It is possible that the King will follow precedent and depute one of his brothers to make a series of visits to the capitals of Europe to announce his reign, but this is a matter dependent on the general state of foreign affairs.
Tentative plans for a Coronation Durbar in Delhi, which King Ed-
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being taken into consideration by those, responsible for Court ar rangements.
Meanwhile, detailed plans for the actual Courts of Coronation year are being made by the Lord Cham- berlain and his officers. and the Earl Marshal is busy every day with arrangements for the Corona- tion itself.
Slow Motion Films Of Flight
beating them. The motion appear- ed to be much like that that used by a swimmer in floating.
FAST PHOTOGRAPHY. Equally fast photography was employed to show the flow of air at high speed over and around an aeroplane wing. This served as an excellent introduction to the plc- tures of the work done at the Roval Aircraft Establishment at Farnko- rough. After showing the testing of model seaplane bulis in the sea-
Slow motion films of the hum- ming bird in flight and of the high speed flow of air over L aeroplane wing in one of the wind tunnels at Farnborough were shown in public for the first time in England on January 12, at the annual conversazione of the Royal Aeronautical Society, held. at the Belence Museum, South Kensing 'ton. Nearly 400 members and guests attended. They were re- ceived by the president, Mr. H. E. Wimperis and Mrs: Wimperis,
Several other examples of birdplane bulls in the seaplane tank flight were included in the prn and experiments on the spinning gramme and the hovering flight of or, model aircraft in the vertical the humining bird made a remark tunnel, a special piece of film re- ablo contrast, for example. to the producing work in the big 241t, leisurely motion of gulls wings, tunnel was presented. This en- flexing to an extraordinary extent able the visitor, with the help of towards the completion of the a commentary by Mr. R. P. Alston, downward stroke, and to the vast to appreciate the way in which extent of the beat of pigeons the great stream of air la intro- wings, meeting above and below duced by a fan running so true the body, while the bird climbed that it has no more than half an after the take-off: The humming inch of clearance: how by means bird, polsed for its sip of honey, of huge vanes the awiri is taken was seen to have its body practical- ly vertical and to derive lift from wings moving at least 50 times a atcond by feathering as well as
ont of the air stream, and how by deflectors the air is persuaded to pass round the corners of the cir=" cult without becoming turbulents
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