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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1929.
KEEN OPPOSITION MEDICAL WOMEN
TO TEA MARK.
ENGLISH, GROWERS IN DUTCH COLONY.
A BUYER'S OPINIONS.
London, Dec..17.
The inquiry at the Board of Trade concerning the application for an order requiring a mark of origin on imported tea was resumed to-day one of the first witnesses called being Mr. Charles Morrell, representing the British Chamber of Commerce in the Dutch East Indies):
Mr. Morrell said he believed that
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In an address' delivered at the opening of the session at the London (Royal Free Hospital)
SMALL-POX ON THE INCREASE.
NEW RECORD TOTAL DURING LAST WEEK.
NEARLY 300 TO DATE.]
Latest returns show that small- pox continues on a serious' scale, the figures for the past week being the highest so far recorded for any week since the outbreak began in the latter part of October.
Last week, there were no fower) than 91 cases, with 29 deaths. Of these, 69 were from Kowloon and all the others from Victoria dis- tricts, excepting one from Aber- deen. All were Chinese.
a marking order would adversely School of Medicine for Women affect the British export trade to recently, Dr. Andrew. Balfour, On Sunday, a further eight cases the Dutch East Indies.
C.B., C.M.G, Director of the were notified, whilat yesterday the Mr. Eric MacFadyen, the chair-London School of Hygiene and total was again increased by 22 man of the tea section of the same Tropical Medicine, dealt with the cases. organlention, and that some of the possibilities for medical women in British firms had expanded their the tropical fleld. He outlined business from Ceylon and India to the position in various parts of the Dutch East Indies because ten-the Empire, in which connexion planting, territory could be pur-ho dévoled some of his remarks to chased in Sumairaat 14/- per aere, Hongkong.
Mr. MacFadyen considered that the standard of East Indies teg hud considerably risen in recent years. The marking of ten coll- tainers entering Britain "would re strict investments in tea produce in the East Indies.
* Opposition to the marking posal whi' also voiced by Josep Travers and Company.
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as against from £15 to £20 per In his first referance to Hong- acre in Ceylon.
kong, Dr. Balfour spoke of its, past history of gross overcrowding and its attendant evils, and con- tinued ---“No wonder plague aud cerchiro-spinal fever have here! from time, to time found happy hunting grounds! No wonder tuberculosis elnims many viclims! proNo wonder leprosy is rife. Yet
great deal has been done and is being done to Improve conditions One of Messus. Lyons" representa, and to safeguard health, though tives expressed the opinion that malaria constitutes A serious would create chaos in Great Br-problem. As ever in the Bast, fin, while their ten buyer, Mr. Hmaternity and child welfare takes C. Barton gald that Java tea grown should take a foremost place by Dutchmen was very different and. together with, the medical from that grown by English firms care of School children, indicates in the same country, Dutchmen that in Hongkong there is need, he said, do not understand ten, and if not room, for the medical with one exception, prediced ́u lower grade.-lieuter.
THE CHONGS AND THE WONGS.
17
STREET FIGHT LEADS TO SENTENCES.
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woman,
Burden of Discuse,
These figures now bring the total up to 201.
The details of the case reported for the weeks ending on dates gives are:
Сивея November 3... · November 10. 22, November 17 .. 31 November.24 December ... 'December 8.. December 15. 91
Deaths
0
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17
B
33
25
61
16
261
93
RIVER VESSEL LOSES PROPELLOR.
YUET ON'S MISHAP NEAR PAKKAL.
It was learned on the arrival of the ss. Yuet On last night from Kongmoon, that an hour out of Pakkal, a serious mechanical de- fect developed, with the result that the starboard tall shaft and pro- pellor were lost. The ship was: obliged to make the rest of the way down on one engine.
Dock specialists were called in this morning, and it is announced that the vessel will proceed to Taikoo at 2 p.m. to-day for repairs: which, it is understood, will take: some time.
"Much of China in in the tropfes and everywhere there is a great burden of disease; surgical con- ditions calling for remedy, worm Infestations of all sorts and notably schistosomiasis japonicum, clonorchis infections, lung flinke troubles and filariasis. In addi- About a week ago, the Chongs tion to the more common tropical and the Wonga, two clan factions maladies kala-azar exists in cer- The .. Sarning was taken in in the Tung Tak Coolies' Union,tain districts while two species of hand at the Kwong Tak Cheung were in deadly endlict over the local hamster have been found shipyard this morning for annual allocation of certain lucrative susceptible to inoculation with overhaul and refit. jobs. In a fight which occurredLeishmania donovani. China in-
With the San Num Hol also in
on December 19 on the waterfront, deed is a mine of pathological dock and the 9,8. On Lee on the a number of them were injured; wealth and han, as you know, been alternate night run, there will, the police, who intervened, making a great centre of medical mission-therefore, be only one vessel sail- Four arrests and sending to hosary enterprise, and a place where ing for. Kongmoon this evening, many women doctors have found a the s.5. Tai Lee, already well pital a number of the injured. vocation. It is now under a booked for both passengers and
At the Police Court hearing cloud and no one can envisage its eargo. to-day, it was stated that the fight future, so that we need scarcely was the direct outcome of the dwell upon it." Wongs having obtained arme bust- uess which the Chongs had pre- viously enjoyed.
In spite of their having been reverely injured, fines amounting in $20 in each case were inflicted
on two of the arrested men by virtue of their responsibility in the matter fis foremen of the coolies.
Two other defendants were each fined $6, while all the four were ordered to sign a personal boud of $100 to keep the peace for six months.
I
DEAD SEA SALTS.
Hongkong Opportunities.
said:--"Of
Later in his address, Dr. Balfour Hongkong, Mra. infor-
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MANILA SCANDALS.
WOMAN LAWYER GETS SIX YEARS.
انده
Mann, Dec. 14. Estela Romualdez and Luis Ma- bunay, who were convicted yester day by Judge Eulogio P. Revilla, of the Manila Court of First In- fauce of the crime of falsification of public documents in connexion with the 1926 bar scandals, will appeal to the Supreme Court.
Minett, who is my chief mant, has not much to say. woman holds a Government ap- półntment as school medioni officer and there is a medical woman with an assistant in charge of native maternity hospitals. No infant or child welfare work has yet been organized, though there is a huge field. Private practice could be built up and would in time he lue rative, but the language is a dim-
Miss Romualdez was sentenged calty and there will be increasing to six years and one day imprison- competition from Chinese women
ment and to pay a fine of Pesas who are qualifying in medicine.
200 for falsifying public docu- "Single-handed women's prac-ments as a public officer, together tice has been tried and abandoned with the accessory penalty of per- neveral times. A firm of women,petual disqualification from hold- says Mrs. Minett, with capital ing publie office. enough to wait and to enable them London, Dec. 17.
Mabunay was given four months In the House of Commons 10-10 spend six months in learning the and one day imprisonment with day, Mr. L. Al. S. Amery was asky difficult language might do the accessories of the law a fine. ed about the nature of the claim needed who can afford to do volun-
extremely well, Pioneers are of Pesos 50, as accomplice.
Both furnished the appeal bond regarding the Dead Sea salt con- cessions made by a foreign Powerary work, and there is scope for of Pesos 7.000 and Pelos 1,000, re- ambulance training and general spectively, for their temporary health training aniong the Chin-liberty pending the appeal. ese."
BRITAIN DOES NOT RECOGNISE CONCESSION.
on behalf of its nationals.
He replied that before the war, the Turkish Government were' al- leged to have granted to certain Ottoman subjects a concession for the
extraction of certain sub- stances from the waters of the Dead Sea. From time to time the British Government had been re- quested to recognise this conces- sion, the most recent request be- Ing. from a French Company who were understood to have acquired an interest in Hat n compara- tively recent date.
A Hopeful Sign,
The Vice-Admiral Commanding
In conclusion, Dr. Balfour said: the British Squadron in China re- "Perhaps the most hopeful sign turned the call of the Senior of the times, from your standpoint, Officer of the American fleet in is the increased employment of port this morning, the medical women in laboratory work salutes being fired. and research. After the war, men' did not seem to be so rendy to go
usual
That is
to the tropics as formerly, and medically unprepared. for a time it looked as if women fair neither to the doctor nor her would have to step into the breach patient. It is little short of and save the situation. This is no criminal to send medical men or The British Government were longer the case, but undoubtedly medical women to hot climates advised that they ware under no
the opportunities for women are unless they know how to take care legal obligation to recognise the multiplying. Women are, they of themselves and how to diagnose Turkish concession and had re- must be to some extent, arbitors and treat those diseases which, if peatedly declined to do of their own fate in this matter, they cannot, strictly speaking, be British Wirelcan,
If they maintain the satisfactory called tropical, yet are found standard already set by those of chiefly in the tropice and require, them who have made good, If they nay, demand, appropriate study prove adaptable, and nöt unduly for their correct understanding. contentious, and If they bear in It is not enough to be a compe- mind the wise and humane advice tent obstetrician or gynecologist, of Sir William Osler, there is though that counts for much. every likelihood that, as the years There must be that special know- rass, the number of medical weledge which is only acquired by men in the trupica will show con- special study, and which, if pro- siderable apgmentation, and that perly assimilated and applied. new spheres of activity will open spells efficiency. before them..
Miss Ruth Wooster, a wealthy American of Seymour, Connecticut, left Southampton recently for New York in the liner Homeric with a tiny silk-padded coffin, containing the emixulmed body of her pet fox terrier which had died during her visit to England.
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