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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE HAINANESE,
·A CHARACTER SKETCH.
The excellent house-boys. in Singapore, Fonang, Bangkok, and other places south of China, near- ly all come froth the isle of Hainan, just south of Hongkong, writes Doreon Norfolk in the Singapore Free Press.
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1926.
RURAL SANITATION.
GOOD NEWS FOR MALACCA.
The Government of the Straits Settlements through its, Medical Department has entered into an agreement with the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation for a Rural Sanitation Campaign in the Straits Settle- ment over a period of three The Hainanese are really home-
This campaign will be yours. loving people, even though such centred in rural Malacca during grout masses of thom
go en 1926 and Dootor Paul F. Russell their travels and sook their of the International Health fortunes when, they are young. Board has been sont here as A prudent race, they, remit the
Director. greater part of their earnings in the Straits to their native- islė, and much is the business that has to be transacted at the Post Office in the port of Holhow there when the Singapore mails come
in.
and
in-
The object of this campaign is threefold as follows:- 1st.-The building of sanitary latrines and the establishment of conservancy systems throughout the territory in order to prevent the spread of Sauntering through the streets auch filth-borne bowel diseases as in the port or in the city three the dysenteries, tho enteric fovers
and the diseases due to miles away from, it, one can easily pick out the "houses intestinal worms as, for example, habited by returned Straits-boys, hookworn diseases. 2nd-The Their houses are more cleanly free voluntary treatment of every prosperous-looking than person in rural Malacca who is those of the stay-at-homes. And infected with hookworms. This there are many outward and treatment will be proceded by a visible signs of their travels to free laboratory examination to lands afar, such as their occasion-determine the presence of hook- worm infection. 3rd-The educa- al use of a guily-coloured surong
public to the instead of the drab blue of the tion of the
fundmental principles of Pre- average Chinose worker.
ventative Medicine and Public The stay-at-homo Hylams are Health in order that the pre- in externals at least, just like a valence of such proventable sick. lot of children. They are not nees as hookworm disease, the concerned with the march of civil- dysenterics, the enteric fevers, isation as yet. But it is easy to smallpox, tuberculosis, dengue, so that before very long civilisa- | malaria and other disease may tion will reach Hainan in all its be reduced to a minimum, in the forms-and then there may come hope that ultimately they may a time when skyscrapers áre be eradicated. erected in prosperous Hoihow, and
aeroplanes are familiar sights. Instead of the two or three rouds now in existence in the island land they bave been built only within the last two of three
years with their ramshackle Fordy plying laboriously between port and city, there will be a net-work of railways in the island.
Then there will be fewor facili ties for plunder and robbery than there are now.
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The construction of latrines and the establishment of con- soryancy systonis will be under the direction and supervision of the Health Officer of Malacca. who has type plans of several anitary bucket and pit latrines and who is prepared to give every assistance to estates, vill- age areas and kampong house. holders in the solving of their į sanitary problems."
examination
of
The free It was rumoured not many months ago that nine specimens, the free treatment of villages inland were burned in those who are found to be in- one day by robbers, The infected with hookworms and the security of life and property in attempt to sproad information the interior is, no doubt, the rea about public health and proventa- son why so many hundreds of tive medicine will be under the coolies emigrate every week to supervision of Doctor, Russell' whom the Chief Medical Offleor, the Straits.
Doctor Holdbrook, has assigned Progresk in the modern, full time staff of one assistant westernised sonse, is the aim of surgeon and six dressers. A General Tung, the now-roigning| spocial laboratory has been power. But it is not certain how established at Durian Daun Hos- long he will be able to retain his pital and, furthermore, the re- power; there are rumours of angular hospitals at Jasin and Alor other general making prepara-Gajah have been equipped with tions to bring over an army from facilities for making hookworm. the mainland of China, in the examinations. Free troatmont Pakhoi district, with the declared. will be available at all govern- intention of overthrowing the ment hospitals and dispensaries, power of the pro-foreign Tung. In addition, there will be a It is doubtful if the ruling special field dispensing unit that will give free treatments, at ap General would even be supported by the islanders, who, round the pointed advertised timos in the various schools and. other meet- port, which is his head quarters,
ing plaços throughout the are peace loving traders. And they are more than a little in territory-Maldera Öbserver. · clined to resent the General's insistence on the widening of
the city streets, to accomplish
which they have to pull down Fishing is good all round the their shops and erect new ones coast; padi-fields are everywhere.
| where ho thinks fit. And what
As the climate is never really
son of China so much as desires perfection in a thing of utility sevare, a bamboo hut can serve like a room for trade and barter the natives as protection from Novertheless, many of the now-the wintry wind. Stiff cotton ly-erected shops show certain cloth is made in the island, and signs of the growing wealth and also 健 narrowly-woven silk, prosperity of Hainan.
somewhat akin to Shantung, but obtainable in yellow or white. In the interior are mountains To gain food, shelter, und where the climate is most agree-raiment the Hainaneso do nos able they may be holiday need to toil and fret and worry stations like Simla and Darjeel-thomselves into an early grave; ing a hundred years henco !
they can always accumulate tips in the Straits whon young to act as comforters to their age in the island.
Fruits of the soil and fruits of the sea are as plentiful there as elsewhere Επ South China
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