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TUBERCULOSIS.
to
ed out a few days ago, it is only in this way that thousands of Hongkong Chinese can secure any treatment at all.
£121
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1928.
DAY BY DAY.
NO DELIBERATE HYPOCRITE HAS
EVER YET SUCCEEDED EVEN IN THE WAYSIDE BOOTHS OF PUBLIC LIFE. Mrs. Craigie.
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The P. and O. 6.8. Malwa, from Singapore, is due here at 8.a.m. on Thursday.
The P. and O. 9.8. Kashmir, from Hongkong, arrived at London on 21st April at 7 a.m.
this Colony the best place for such
and Institution,
whether some other spot, such as Welhal- wel, would not be more suit- able. In this connexion, whilst It is true that there are many hillly regions here, there are times of the year, such as the prosent, when the atmospheric conditions.provail- ing therein are far from beneficial to tubercular patients. On the other hand, it might be possible to find Guitable altes on less elevated "apot's where this draw-
This morning's Harbour Office back would not be encoun-
reports gave IS arrivals and the and where really bene-same number of departures. tered ficial treatment on modern lines could be assured. To attempt to solve the problem by getting a sana- torium established many hundreds of miles from the Colony would, wo
The a.. Hong Sang arriving feel, mean yet further adding to
from Swatow, reports that 8.3. the difficulties. Would it not, how-Cran is ashore on Peak Racks in ever, be' possible for Hongkong and the vicinity of that port.
some Canton to co-operate in scheme for the mutual benefit of both places? -
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There are so many angies to this subject that the whole question needs close scientifle examination,
TWO SCHOOLBOYS QUARREL.
ONE STARS OTHER WITH
POCKET-KNIFE.
A quarrel between two school boys led to one of them being stab bed in the arm by the other in
The Very Idea!
Wives of soldiers in receipt of Army allowances for themselves and children having been instructed to notify the officials of any addition to the family, one lady wrote
Yaumati on Saturday afternoon, thus:- with the result that. the assailant
"In accordance with your instruc- appeared before Mr. W. Schofield,tions I last night gave birth to a at the Kowloon Magistracy this daughter." morning, on a charge of assault.
The complainant, said Inspector Fallon, was walking along the street with this brother and sister, and, on passing a number of boys play ing football, a quarrel aroso be tween him and the defendant. The latter struck the complainant in Departures by the Suwa Maruthe arm with a pocket-kalic. Both for London via ports on Saturday boys were arrested by Sanitary Inspector Roylance and taken to the Police Station.. included Mrs. C. Montague Edo.
The health return for the past two days shows two cases each of smallpox and typhoid. All the
sufferers were Chinese.
Mr. A. E. Wood, has kindly con- sented to perform the opening ceremony of the Wah Yau College, Kowloo Branch, Nelson Street, at 5.20 p.m. on Thursday.
The local agents announced that We hope, therefore, that the matter the 9.8. President Jackson, previbus- will not be regarded as having beenly advertised to sail for San Fran elsco at noon to-morrow, will not disposed of by speeches and refer-sul until midnight. ences-in annual hospital reports, Tuberculosis represents a very real mentre to the public health of this Colony, and its prevention and cure mist he dealt with. At Friday's dinner, most of the speeches touch-
The lighting system of Nathan ed upon co-operation between the Chinese Medical Association and Road, Kowloon is undergoing a the British Medical Association change in that the present gas lamp Here, in this matter of the tuber-tandards are being superseded by overhead 1,000 candle power elec- culosis problem, is the opportunity tric lights. for very real and "live" co-opera- tion. Let the two Associations get together and study the matter in all its aspects, and then report, to the Government the result of the That would be a deliberations. first step. Others would naturally follow. Once the line of 'action were decided upon, we have not the slightest doubt that the means for opening war on this dread scourge would be found..
The Chinese Language.
The hottest day of the year thus far in Manila was on Satur- day, the 21st inst., which, recorded a temperature of 97 degrees F., the highest temperature, according to the report of Father Miguel Selga, director of the Manila weather
bureau.
The Petricola, owned by Anglo- Suxon of interests which arrived with in cargo of kerosene from the Straits yesterday, is one of the 6,000 ton tankers built by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock in 1922. This is belleved to be her first visit here since her malden trip from this port.
Dock al
Members of the Association of Scottish Chartered Accountants held their annual dinner in London recently, under the chairmanship of Mr. J. Ivan Spense.
Mr. I. P. MacMillan, K.C., pro- posing the toast of "The Parent.. Societies," anid there was one item in a balance-sheet which he hind been taught by accountants to look upon with auspicion namely, good- will.
(Laughter.), But he was Addressing the defendant, his Worship said:-Only about six delighted to see how in their un months ago I had to try a case in professional moments accountants waich a boy a little older than you belied their rigorous rules. He had hnd stabbed another boy with a seen nothing but goodwill, and nona weapon just like this. It is a very of it was fictitious. The societies serious thing to use knives of this to which they owed their origin in I understand, fortunately, Scotland were very great bodies. kind. that the complainant is not very Chartered accountants in Scotland seriously injured. I am going, in were the first to obtain incorpora- the first place, to confiscate your tion, and they had always set before a high professional knife, and, in the second place, themselves
To illustrate his point If you are that the world could not get think you should have six strokes standard.
without. someone to Ox- plain Agurës, Mr. MacMillan told of English Mayor not to get them, 14 days' hard on
whu was asked by a townsman what
of the cane in Court,
Abour.
ASSAULT ON WOMAN.was the local death-rute of the town.
INDIAN WATCHMAN SENT
TO PRISON.
Sentence of fourteen daya' hard labour was passed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this morning, on an In- dia watebinan employed at the Tai Hing paper mills at Aberdeen. The man was convicted on a charge of assault on a Chinese woman on the hillside at Aberdeen.
The Mayor, after consulting the medical officer, give the death-rate as 14.1. Upon Being asked the meaning of this figure, the Mayor replied, "14 dead and one on the point of death." (Laughter.)
He makes piles of money, yet
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Ha a teller in a bank.
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A Chinese woman, giving evid-
Man summoned at Southend for ence, sald she was on the hillside picking herbs when she suddenly wife desertion: My wife deserted felt a pair of arms thrust around me, and a wife who has once run her from behind. She cried outaway is like a runaway, horse-not. "save life" and the Indian released to be trusted. his hold. She ran down the hillside and made a report at the paper mill
named
Woman at Clerkenwell County Court: I want justice, I do. Judgo to an accountant,
Wong, Bairstow: You have had justice. who advised her to report to the Woman, indignantly. Justice! And I 'have lost. I don't call that police.
The Indian said he did not as-justice.. anult the woman at all, and suggest-
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Mr. J. A. R. Cairns, Thames
ed that it was spite that made the magistrate: Life has an unpleasant
He habit of making us bear the bur woman testify against him. told his Worship that the woman den of our decisions."
Hackney landlady: It does not was formerly employed at the mill but was dismissed for stealing. It make her the best woman in the was he who reported the thefts to house. because she can swear the the accountant which caused the loudest. woman's dismissal.
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The class was at the grammer
I Worship naked whether the Indian would like the accountant lesson. to be called, but defendant indicat-
WINE CONFISCATED.
OWNER'S DUTY REGARDING
· · DUTY.
Arrested in Canton Road,
on
Saturday evening, with a bucket containing nine bottles of duliable liquar, a Chinese widow was charged before Mr. W. Scholified at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with possession of wine
which duly had not been paid. The defendant pleaded that she did not know whether the duty
had been paid or not.
His Worship pointed out that
her duty to find out. according to the Ordinance, it was.
A survey of the copy books re vealed one from the bright boy of' the class, in which he said, "I know a man that has two legs, but one of them is a pin one,"
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The last two iteris on the poster of a provincial newspaper" one above the other, read thus:- Popular Romilly Wedding. Is There Eternal Punishnient?
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"Where did the car hit him?" asked the Coroner.
"At the junction of the dorsal and cervical vertebrae replied the medical witness.
The burly foreman rose from his seat. "Man and boy, I've lived in these parts for fifty years," he pro- tested, ponderouely, "an' 1 adver heard of the place."
Realisation of the seriousness of an evil often provides the inspiring force in a determination to combat it. For that reason, we are grati fied to note that the main theme touched upon in the speeches at Friday's dinner of the Hongkong Chinese Medical Association was the undue prevalence of tubercu closis in this Colony, Coming so
An encouraging feature of the
Hongkong was visited by an un- soon after the references
annual report of the longkong usually heavy rainstorm on Salur
"Now, children," said the tea- the subject contained in the General Chamber of Commeres, day night. At the Matilda Hospi-
the Alice although it occupies a very small tal, a fall of over six inches, was ed that the accountant being a cher, "I want each of you to parse annaal report of
niche in a bulky volume, is the an- recorded, for the 24 hours ended Chinese, it was unlikely that he a sentence correctly, in which you" Memorial and Affiliated Has-
nouncement that the increased at 10 am. yesterday, but at the would give evidence in defendant's must use the word opinion." pitals, the declarations by Dr. number of students attending the Royal Observatory in Kowloon, favour." Lee Sha-fun on Friday once again Chinese Language School enabled only 2.12 inches were registered lift the question into the very fore-that department of the Chamber's for the same period,
interests to show a favourable front of our problems concerning balance for the first time for many Amongst the passengers who ar- public health. Dr. Lee was able years. If this may be taken as an frived from Shanghai by the 8.8. to show that many local hospitals indication that the hongs are plae-President Taft were Mr. K. Lárs- ing an increased value as a busi- sen, Mr. D. L. McWhirter and Mr. have had to close their doors to ness asset on the acquisition of H. E. Arnhold. M. Pierre Mallet, tuberenlar zalients, whilst in one knowledge of the vernacular, it is of the French Consulate in Shang- institution which admits sufferers a very good sign. The average hai, who also arrived by the same from this complaint, no fewer than Englishman is inherently lazy boat, is to stop over here for a about languages, and the foreigner time before proceeding to France three-quarters of those admitted may have occasion for surprise on leave. had died. Even in those hospitals that,, in spite of this failing, Bri-
According to a report made to which open their doors to all and tain is such a power in interna-
tunal commerec, particularly as if the police by Mr. E. Cock, of the sundry, it is realised that a gen seems clear that the calm manner Hongkong & Whampen Dock Com- eral hospital is not the proper place in which invariably it is assumed pany, a Chinese was seriously in- in which to treat those suffering that the customer speaks English,jured on Friday when he fell into from tuberculosis, bal, as we print-immediately invests him with athe Company's No. 2,
feeling of superiority. It is there-Hunghom. The injured man was fore gratifying to learn that the thrown into the well of the deck, juniors in the Hongkong business together with seven others, when world are taking up Chinese with a stage plank, on which they were increasel enthusiasm. They may working gave way. rest assured that, apart from its
The Philippine Telephone and In his speech on Friday, Dr. Lee material advantages, a great deal rightly said that the problem is ajof personal satisfaction is to be Telegraph Company has been derived from familiarity with warmly congratulated by Mayor big one. That is so because it
Chinese in later years.. Many Earnshaw for the installation of involves so many other issues, times we have derived amitement a complete automatic telephone amongst which the biggest factors from the impatience of a foreigner service in Manila. The establish are overcrowding in ill-ventilated endeavouring to make himself un-ment of this service, says Mayer derstood to a shopkeeper when just Earnshaw, a progressive move houses, lack of personal hygiene,
a smattering of Chinese would and places the city of Manila on and our close contact with a part have sufficed for his purpose. a level with, the most advanced
be-cities in other countries. of China from which undoubtedly Such incidents are..curious
into the cause they denote such an entire many sufferers come
absence of logic. As regards the A report has been made to the
Patron (haughtily)-"How ab ไก turn, the
over-classes organised by the Chamber, No. 2 Police Station at Wanchai by
ean be seen again and again with surd! What harm can the pic-
turcs do to little Nero?" crowding evil raises other purely a further point occurs to us. It is Wong Kiu, the muster of the Yau | economic pointa, into which we can- really no matter for congratula- Cheong grocery shop of Tang added enjoyment each time, for It
tlon that a profit of $800 was made Loong Street, to the effect that at is noteworthy for its thrills, Its It is easy to open a shop but hard not go at the moment. It is gen last year, and we trust that it will 1.20 this morning, public motor car humour and its magnificent pro- to keep it open-Lord Askwith,
It is better for young men to be erally conceded that tuberculosis, be noted that the expenditure in- No. 202 crashed into the shop duction, to say nothing of the re- like so many other diseases produc- volved is in some cases the prin causing damage to the doors and markably fine acting of Reneo abstainers than moderate drinkers.
to would-be to a quantity of goods. The driver Adoree and John Gilbert, the twoSir Thomas Barlow.
I think I am right in saying that Ing a high mortality rate, can be students: The aim of the Cham-of the motor car ran away after leads in a strong cant cured if taken in its early stages. her should be to attract numbers the accident, leaving his car be- attention has also been paid to no psychical society in London has the music, an augmented orchestra ever had a bishop as a member.— But for that purpose, sagregation rather than to make ends meet, hind.
being responsible for some fine Sir A. Conan Doyle. and after care nu essential, what and, if there is a good response,
There is more money in the coun- A report has been made to the connective numbers.
Owing to the length of the film,try, and people are wearing more pollee by the coxswain of the Yaumati Ferry Launch, Man On only three performances are being gloves.Sir P. Cunliffe Lister. that at 12.80 this morning, whilst given daily at 2.30, 6.30 and should be done along the lines of: As the St. George's Society fa
the boat was on its way to Yau-9.15 p.m.
One of the smaller of the Kow- loon Dock launchos has been pur- establishing a tuberculosis dispen-holding special concerts for the ser- mati, a Chinese first-class passen- ger, about 28 years of age, jumped sary and clinic, connected with a vices this evening, there will be no into the harbour. The launch was Mra. Charlotte Pickford, mother chased by the Hongkong Police: movic performance at the Queen's immediately atopped and a search of Mary Pickford, "America's who have converted it into a Police sanatorium. An important point Theatre to-night at 9.15, but the of the vicinity was carried out, Sweetheart," and of Jack and launch for patrol in the harbour. was raised by H.E. the Governor, in 2.80, 5.10 and 7.16 performances without success. The man left be- Lottle Pickford, also of filmland The latest acquisition is to be his remarka on Friday, when he ex-will take place as usual. The con- hind him a parcel containing a fame, died after a lingering illness known as the No. 8 Launch and tinuous programme at the Star small pocket book, two pencils, a fat her home at Beverly Hille, near was put into use for the first time pressed some doubt as to whether Theatre to-day will be from 2.30 police whistle, a pair of shoes and Los Angeles on March 22. She yesterday, it having just been com tho climate of Hongkong renders to 8.80 only.
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was 55years old.
pletely overhauled.
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A fine of $25 was imposed and the wine ordered to be confiscated,
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An incident, not without a pecu~ liar significance ocurred at a-meet- ing recently in the Kintore Rooms, Edinburgh, of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection."
During a speech by the Duchess of Eamilton and Brandon, protest- ing against the practice of vivisec tion, there were frequent outbursts of applause. On several of thesd occasions could be heard the bark ing of a dog.
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It seemed as if the dog was join-" "The Big Parade," the American war film which has been the sub-ing in the applause. ject of considerable controversy,
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This is one of those films which
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