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CHINA MEDICAL -ASSOCIATION.
DR. ARTHUR WOO URGES
¡ HEALTH SERVICE.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1929.
FUNERAL AT MACAO ON MONDAY.
The First Line of Defence where your health is concerned la the digestive tract. The habit of regular daily elimination from the body's waste system of the materials is of first importance if you want to keep well,
To ensure intestinal regularity
The success of our Nationalist chance of meeting this tremendous LATE MR. W. F. CARY. Government in its strugglo for need of the rural population with- peace comes in hore as a light to in the next 50 years. "Does that lighten our darkness, for the very mean" they ask, "that during that Imethods used with such brilliant period that whole of the rural po
to be loft to results in arousing in the compulation of China mon people a divino discontent quacks and charlatans?" And they
The funeral of the late Mr. with military tyranny and politi proceed to suggest that there cal corruption, an Intense on-should be created a three years' W. H. F. Cary took place at Macao thusiasm for a clear and united course for medical students, on the 11th Inst., Mr. J. L. Gallo- SHANGHAI ADDRESS. government, and a new spirit of though they specify that such
nationalism, if-employed by us qualifications must be distinct in way officiating at the grave side. The formal opening of the 19th with the same perseverance and their title, and that this branch The funbral was largely attend- of of the profession should be placeded by the decoasad's friends. biennial meeting of the China determination in the cause
Those in attendance, were: Mra. Medical Assosiation took place in public health would, in the short under government cotrol. the hall of the Union Church, space of a few years, achieve I wish to take this opportunity Cary as chief mourner, Mrs. H. B. Shanghai, on Feb 1, there being in wonders. To accomplish this and of registering my protest with all Parker, Mrs. T. H. Smith, Mrs. J. attendance nearly 10 Chinese and to attain the apparently imposal- the emphasis at my command. Galloway, the gentlemen being foreign delegatea from all parts of, ble, we should avail ourselves of against a suggested change which China, as well as Dr. J. Heng Liu, the services of all who knew, on to my mind, must result hi lower- Mr. 1. B. Parker, Mr. A. Ireson, Vice-Minister of Health in the behalf of all who do not knowing the general, standard of medi. Mr. J. M. Hood, Mr. G. Buchanan, National Government, and several Prominent parts should undoubt cal education in this country, for Mr. D. Buchanan, Mr. R. Buchanan, Japanese delegates from Dairen.
edly be played by the National depend upon it, however carefully Mr. W. Jockisch, Mr. A; G. Bethell, On the platform were Dr. Ar- Medical Association of China as you may hedge around this in Messra, Weisman,, Basto, Alvarez, thur Woo, president of the Asso-social and his ferier class of practitioners, the Xavier; Dromoa, Remedios, Jat intervals, when needed, Pinket ciation, and Dr. James L. Max- Medical Association and in co-public will not make fair distine Salles, F. Salles, L. Gomes; V. G. a gently cleanse the system of its well, oxecutive secretary and trea- eperation with such present exist-tions, and the profession as a Schonkinin, Gilhornoff, Perdriau, uoisonous waste materials and re-
ing health organizations as the whole, must suffer. At
a time Adkins, Chalmers, Ollerton, Capt.stablish the fall H council on health- education. when the tendency is toward pro- Laz, Capt. Jones, Somerville, Egan, revive the jaded liver, banish sick The presidential address was Most important of all we should longing the period of study to cope I, de Silva, Dr. Loo, Capt. T. Ful- headaches, billousness, flatulence, followed by the reports of the enlist into our service
as mis-with DOW discoveries in the ham, and many others of his Euro- restore cheerfulness, a gonoral Aecretary and
treasurer, after gloriarice of Hygieno all doctora,science and art of healing and the which Dre, J. L. Lawney, Way pharmacists, hurses, midwives, enlargement of our sphere of use-
Wreaths were sent from: aung, New, J. H. L Paterson, ambulance men and sanitary in-fulness to the public, the creation H. O. Chapman and J. L. Maxwell
∙spectors and other volunteers.
of such a class will be a retrogres- beloved wife Zelmia, Sister Annie, were elected to the nomination:
sive stop that will lead to disaster. Sister Florence, Mr. and Mrs. J. committee and Drs. A. W. Tucker.
The profession in China though Galloway, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. U. K. Koo, H. H. Morris, H. G.
In its infancy, has already attract Parker and family, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Mary L. James, and
ed to its banner an army of camp A. Ireson, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. J. L. Maxwell were elected to the
followers. Men who have spent Smith, Mr. J. M. Hood, Mosary. G.
D. Buchanan, Buchanan, business committee.
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Another problem that has re- cently taken up a great deal of our thought is the question of the supply of midwives in China. We inced thousands of them and we
more
In the evening, a very interest- ing address on "China's Contri- that we have succeeded beyond coolios, cooks, ward dressers or staff of Chinese Maritime Customs, our dreams in educating the pub-surgical assistants, dispensers and A. Alvarez, Chan I. Thong, Mr. bution to the Science of Medicine" lle in sanitation and public health, what not, are in the market place H. C. Weisman, A. S. Basto, Capt. was delivered by. Dr. K. Chemi that we have replaced the ancient loud in their claims to heal by the J. Luz, Ah Pat, Kwok Leung, Bri- Wong, chief medical officer of the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Rail-ignorance and superalition by the latest modern methods,
gospel of knowledge and light, and| The creation of a special grade way, which was listened to by a
that the Hoary system of Chinese of medical practitioner by lower- large audience, the meeting being medicine and with it the multituding the standard of entrance into but not least, the provision for a public one.
inous forms of quackery and char- the profession will not, I fear, old age by a system of pensions Presidential Address. latanium have been swept bag and minister to one crying need of the all these, which such a service baggage Into the limbo of dis-rural districts. Rather will it must provide, will; I think, be Dr. Arthur Woo, after express- credited cults. Are we not still help to flood the commercial cen- found sufficient inducement to at- ing his sense of unworthiness to faced with the thorny problem, so tres and large towns with anothci tract the younger members of the speaking in place of Dr. Fowler, often discussed, of an adequate army of men ready, always for a profession away from the glamour the President whose departure supply of qualified medical men consideration, to attempt more of the cities where they now con- from China put this duty upon for the great needs of the coun- than their knowledge warrants.gregate. hins, said: I make no apologies try? Indeed, has not our very This can only bring discredit to for taking up a few minutes of success matiplied our difficulties the profession and drive the pub your time with questions of pub-a hundredfold1 For we shall lic back to the old style He health, for if there a one have succeeded in creating a de-herballata and pulse-feelera. country that cries out for every mand without the means of sup-
Gavernment Control Essential, available unit of energy for pub-plying if. Among the 400 million lie heilth reform, that country la population there are perhaps nat I submit that the progressive need them quickly. It may not China, where, generally speaking, core than 2,000 doctors practicing policy is not only the best, but the be news to some of you, when I even, an elementary appreciation Western medicine, that is, one in only policy. The time has arrived aay that even in England and of aanitation, physical culture
200,000, and out of that number for the Government to demand Wales every year 3,000 mothers. and the benefits of a hygienic way large proportion are located in that all those who profess to heal die of child birth and of of life is Inciding.
the large cities. It can safely be the sick by modern scientife than half of this number death is to attribute said that there are millions in methods should have undergone due to septic infection which, it is To what are we' this lamentable state in a country country places who never sufflelent training. The Ministry claimed, is or should be a provent- which has enjoyed thousands of hope to have, the aid of of Health, in conjunction with the able condition. If this is true of years of advanced civilisation and western trained physician. Much Ministry of Education, should a country with a well organized with an industrious and energetic might be done no doubt in draw up and strictly enforce re medical service, how appallingly people? To my mind the main establishing more good medical gulations governing the training high must the maternal and in- factors are poverty, ignorance schools elther under private or and examination of medical stud fantilé mortality be in Chinal.. and selfishness. With the first it government control, in reducingents, and the government should I am glad to note that at the is not within our-province to deni. the cost of medical education so as forthwith require the registration present moment a joint committee We can thankfully leave it to the to bring it within the reach of a of all medical practitioners on the of the National Medical Associa political economists and the ex-greater number of students, and production of satisfactory evidtion, ourselves, and the Nurses pert personnel of the Ministry of by the creation of acholarships by ence of such training and the Association of China is altting in Finance, but there can be little government or private donations, passing of the requisite examing-Shanghal to discuss the whole "or thoir equivalents. The question of midwifery training hope for the emergence of a but when all these have been done, tions healthy and strong China unless we shall still have the agricultural old familar proverb that a little with a view to laying our opinions
unprovided wo us doctors can devise ways of districts
for. The knowledge is a dangerous thing before the Health Department of dispelling the ignorance of the rural parts of China are and must applies with added force to the the Central Government in Nan- population in regard to the most remain for many years, so lacking treatment of disease, and the king, and it is hoped that as a re- simple facts of human physiology in the amenities of life and so un-quack and the charlatan should sult efficient regulations will be and anatomy, and by arousing attractive to the educated man as find no place in a well organized established on the basis of these. them from the terrible apathy in compared with the large cities, eociety.
The fact that in our efforts to which they Be. Intimately as that the only result of these mea-
The public should be encouragfind a solution to the problem of Rotiated with this is the dead-sures must be to awell the numbered to be liberal in its support of providing skilled obstetric assist- weight of tradition and super- of doctors in the large cities of medical education and research, anca to the mothers of China we stition which cause the people the coast without in any way re- and when the national finances are working in harmony and still to regard epidemics and ill-lieving the needs of the farmers permit, the government should friendly co-operation with our nesses in any form as visitations of the interior. We can already establish medical schools and an- sister organization, the National from irate gods who require pro- seo this tendency at work, for of dow research with a lavish hand, Medical Association, is pregnant pitiation in the form of proces- the many students who graduate more particularly in the depart with happy augury for the future alons and the beating of gongs, in medicine in pe medical schools ment of pharmacology and the of scientific medicine in Chine. The third factor which we muut of China every year or who return rapeutics to the end that what is There are many links which bind overcome is selfishness and the from medical schools abroad, few of value in the old material medi- the two Associations together. inck of any sense of social re- Beck to estabilah themselves in the cal may not be lost, but be given We are both animated by a great sponsibility, but once again the country where the need for west- to the world. root cause is to be found in the cr trained doctors is greatest, of the Inrgor lack of knowledge, for even sel- whereas in some fishness, were it only enlightened treaty ports the struggle for exist- selfishness, would at once have ence in the profession is growing reflected the glaring fallacy in keener year by year. that well-known Chinese admoni- Lion; to sweep only the snow from your own door steps and to leave the rime on your neighbours Leaves alone..
A Divine Discontent. Car immediate task must be to create a desire for knowledge on the part of the masses and to find the best methods of supplying it,
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In this way only can this great and both aim at the advancement
contribute of the art of healing for the bene Republic of ours worthy share towards that great ts of her people. field of acientific knowledge which has been built up by contributions from all the nations.
I am sure I am voicing the sentiment of all when I say that, In all matters. pertaining to the In my view the only solution to good of China, It is the earnest the problem of rural China is the hope and desire of our Association creation of a State Medical Ser- to have the full support, sympathy vice on the model of the Indian and co-operation of the National security Medical Association. We should Medical Service. The of tenure, the dignity, of being a always work together at council state official, the prospects of pro-and committee meetings in order motion, the facilities for research to bring about a closer, bond be- and post graduate study and, last tween the two organizations.
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