SCHEME FOR NEW HOSPITAL.
'(Continued from Pago 1.) '
fpublle will respond liberally, to our appeal so that we may be able to undertake this necessary recon- struction without delay, Having made these few remarks I now move that the annual report and statement of accounts for 1929 be
the vital importance of the work which it is doing must appeal to you, and that you will make yet another effort to help us with a liberal gift towards the fund for rebuilding this "Abode of Life, adopted. the Treasury to which the poor
Mr. U. Rumjahn seconded, and can come with their need, and the the motion was carried unanimous- rich with their sympathy."
read.
Chairman's Speech.
lly...
Business Matters.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1930,
YM.Ç.A. CONCERT.
LAST NIGHT'S FUNCTION
A BIG SUCCESS.
An audience of over 200 enjoy. ed a pleasant concert at the European Y.M.C.A., last night, the function being organised in conjunction with the
extensive summer programme arranged by the social committee of the "Y
The tennis courts were again the venue and were. attractively decorated. The programme was contributed to by a host of well. known local talent, all items being enthusiastically received.
Mrs. G. R. Leib rave two songs
and, with her husband, delighted with some duets. Mr. W. J. Deall was responsible for some humor- ous numbers and Mr. W. H. Bailey had an enthusiastic reception for his songs. Mr. Li Chor-chi, the popular local tenor, was in fine voice and together with Mr. Bailey sang a charming duet.
Mr. Jeeves irresistible patter provided the big laugh of the evening and Mr. V. D. Labrum gave an 'excellent interpretation of "Billy Boy" and other songs.
In moving the adoption of the
In presenting the estimates for report and accounts, the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, who presided, said: 1930, Dr. F. R. Ashton (Secretary) The annual report and statement of said that it was expected that dona- accounts have been in your hands tions would total $16,000 as compar for some time and with your per-ed with $17,500 last year, whilst raission I propose to take them as on the expenditure side, repairs. would be up just over $1,000, as In reviewing the past year's work special work was to be carried out you will note that certain changes on the roof of the Nethersole Hos- have taken place in the personnel pital. Salaries, surgical supplies, of the medical staff and in the nd-etc., would show an increase owing ministration of the Hospitals. The to the rate of exchange. The es NewAlice Memorial Hospital, which timates were approved was formally opened by H. E. Sir Mr. A. Stevenson proposed, and Cecil Clementi in February, 1929, Mr. T. H. R. Shaw seconded that has proved a great asset to the the following be elected members work. The Lecture Room especial- of the General Committee:- ly has proved of value, while the Messrs. T. H. R. Shaw, Chan Lim- At the piano were Messrs. W. new operation room, and the wards pak. Fung Kong-un, Lau Sing-R. Fleming and H. J. Fountain
who assisted in no small manuer fitted with modern conveniences chong and Dr. J. C. Macgown. have added considerably to the The Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso was towards making the evening a efficiency of the medical and sur-re-elected Chairman of Committee success" gical work of the Hospital.
and the Hon. Mr. Paul Lauder, Throughout the year the medical Deputy Chairman, whilst the Hon. work has been well maintained, the Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Mr. T. N. number of in-patients showing an Chau, Mr. J. M. Wong, the Hon. Increase as compared with the Inat Mr. W. E. L. Shenton and Mr. four years. The decrease in the T.. H. R. Shaw were elected to number of out-patients is accounted serve as the Executive Committer. for by the closing of the. Holly- Thanks to the Rev. R. H. Wells, wood Road Dispensary, all the out-the late Secretary, Mr. T. N. patients now being seen at the Chau, the Chairman and Messrs. Alice Memorial Hospital, Bonhama Linstead and Davis for their work Road, where there has been an in-in the past concluded the business crease in numbers over previous on the agenda. years.
Training of Nurses.
Mr. Kotewall's Speech.
The Hon, Mr. R. H. Kotewall in The training of nurses and mid-addressing the meeting in support wives continues to be an important of the appeal said:-Mr. Chair- feature of the work. The Chinese man and gentlemen,~Before wa staff nurses trained in the hospitals disperse I should like to say a few are a great help, and there is an words in support of the Chair- excellent spirit of esprit de corps man's appeal for funds to rebuild among the nurses, both past and the Nethersole Hospital. A printed present, which has resulted in the Appeal made in the names of the formation of a Former Nurses' As Executive Committee and of the sociation. I am very interested to Appeal Committee being in your learn that some of the women hands, and the matter having been nurses have volunteered to nurse in dealt with at some length in the the men's hospita! if required and Chairman's speech, there leaves I hope that there will be a gradual little for me to say. We all know development along those lines. the great service the Nethersole Hospital has rendered to the Colony for the long period of nearly 38 years. essentially to minister to the needs of the sick poor, especially women and children, and to train Chinese women to be nurses and midwives; and this work has been an inestimable boon to the com- munity.
The accounts show a small deficit for the year, but the statement includes allowance for all sundry creditors.
Its work is
CATRIN KONKURSIJINANZIAM
THE "TELEGRAPH" ART
SUPPLEMENT..
To-morrow's Selection of
Pictures.
There will be an excellent variety of topical pictures in to-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement.
Union
Amongst the illustrations will be portraits of the Rev. E. G. Powell, the new Church minister; and of the late Miss Gladys Grace, who was recently killed at Home in an aeroplane crash.
Other pictures will illas- trate the wedding of Dr. Edward Law and Miss Phyllis Viola Ho, last Saturday's - lawn bowls matches, and the
dinner at the Repulse Bay! Hotel in honour of the birth- day of the Queen-Mother of Holland,
A photograph will also. be given of the damaged aero- plane which made a forced landing at Kai Tak last week, whilst other pictures will in- clude the I. R. 'Kay Pickers and the cast in "Black Magic" which took part in the Indian Recreation
Club's open-air concert last Saturday, as well as photographs of H.M.S. Medway and "O" Class sub- marines in Hongkong harbour.
TRINITY COLLEGE.
RESULTS OF MUSIC THEORY EXAMINATIONS.
CINEMA NOTES.
FOX STAR SPEAKS MANY
LANGUAGES. ·
The following are the results Patrons who hear Lenore Ulric in (supplied by Mr. Wm. Anderson, her Fox Movietone, "South Sea local secretary) of the Theory Ex-Rose," at the Queen's Theatre will be amination held at the University listening to one of the most gifted
linguists of stage or screen. of Hongkong on June 7th last:... HIGHER LOCAL, Honours.
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Fuki Inouye
ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE.
Irene Ung
Proficient in several languages, Miss Ulric has had the occasion to speak four different tongues in her various stage and screen charac terizations.
Born of German parents Miss Ulric learned their native language 98 in her childhood. After her dramın- tic career got well started in the smaller stock companies, she re- cognized the importance for fluency. In Spanish and French, which she set out to learn.
Honours.
INTERMEDIATE. Honours,
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"South Sea Rose"
reveals the
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talented star as a half-caste girl
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utterly without conventions, who
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a staid New England town.
Caroline Braga Mary Braga Frances Lau Isabel Pestonji Anita Silice.. Of Lin Cheung
Benedieta Xavier Aurea Baptista
Marie Alves
Pass.
Hilda Alice Wood Barbara Wong Yüet Laan Wong Lily Agnes Shearer
Marion Lau
ADVANCED JUNIOR.
Austra Miller
Honours.
Pass,
Joan Smith Beatrice Rose Cullen Ansie Lee
JUNIOR. Honours.
Clement Leong Harold Clarence Leong Kathleen Mackay Maria da C. Gertrudes Gomes Pureza D'Eca
Pass,
Alvena Laikovetsky Kathleen Chester Raymonde Blackmore Maria Branca da Costa Eric T, Wood-
· PREPARATORY, P2s8.
Doris Li Maurice Rupert Leong Beatrice Pestonji Carmen Marie Aloneo Grace Swan
Alice Leurig
Phyllis Mooney
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The supporting cast includes 66 Charles Bickford, Tom Patricola, 80 Kenneth MacKenna, Farrell Mac- donald, Elizabeth Chase, Charlotte Walker, Ben Hall,, Daphne Pollard 76 and Roscoe Beth Patterson, George 71 MacFarlane, Ates.
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"City Girl."
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"Charming little actress." less an authority than F. W. Murnau has predicted a glowing future for Dawn O'Day, nine-year- old, screen player, who plays her. second role under Murnau's direc- 82 tion in the Fox Movietone talking. picture, "City Girl," showing from Sunday at the Queen's Theatre. for Mr. 77 Her first appearance
Murnao was in "4 Devils."
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At the Fox studios in Hollywood and on the 1,000 acre wheat ranch near Pendleton, Ore, where outdoor shots for "City Girl" were made, little Dawn won a warm place in 96 the hearts of the entire company. 93 Sometimes they would watch her, 91 between scenes, lost to the world, 87 sewing. Again she would be seen 81making sketches. She had talent
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in this direction and already can produce a very passable likeness of any subject on her pad..
"Mr. Murnau is just like the 70 good giant in my Oz Books. He is 73 the tallest man I ever have seen 66 and his voice is soft like that.of a 65 real friend. You can tell, too, that be must have done a lot of smiling in his life by the twinkle wrinkles that come out from the corners of 97 his eyes." This is Dawn's word
picture of the Fox-director.
"City GH" co-features Charles
Farrell and Mary Duncan.
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NAVAL SALVAGE
Jean Alistair Bryson Dora Ellis
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Agnės Laing
Evelyn Dorothy Witchell
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Charles Abbas
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Sheila Leung Mary Stella Bander
This year, the low sterling value of the dollar will make it very difficult for us to meet all our obligations, as the salaries of the European staff, passages and most of the medical supplies are paid in sterling, while the donations re-
To-day the building is in need ceived are in dollars. To meet the of re-construction.. As a member deficiency I trust that the regular of a special committee appointed, annual subscribers will have this in some months ago to look into this: mind and new subscribers would be question, I can give you the assur- welcomed. On behalf of the Com-ance that the building has now mu mittee desire to express our best reached a stage when further thanks to all who have subscribed patching and repairing would be to the funds or given help in other decidedly uneconomical.
You aspects of the activities of the in-
stitutions, have heard from the Chairman
The Superintendent (Dr. R. M. Gib- that the fabric has deteriorated, son), in the course of his report, states and that its equipment has become that the children's ward has been full
The following extracts are from unsuited to modern conditions. throughout the year, and many serious
have recovered
the Broncho-the Hongkong "Telegraph for pneumonin is the most prevalent com-week ended August 14th, 1909. plaint and for this disease Western
ways.
treatment of disease.
Imperative Need.
cases
I realise that the time is un-medical treatment should at once be
generous
my
21 YEARS AGO.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES.
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obtained, without wasting the first The rate of the dollar on demand
was 1s. &7/8d. · few days in trying the effect Chinese native methods.
of
Of the medical diseases which have
are -
MONEY.
AWARD NOW READY FOR DISTRIBUTION.
The following award of salvage money is now ready for distribu- tion in the department of the Accountant-General for the Navy:
Salvage of the lighter Anting by H.M. Tug St. Breock on the 17th- 20th July, 1927. The following ere the amounts due to individuals in the various classes.
8th Glass
9th Class
10th Class
11th Class
12th Class
4 7 2
5+ d.
3 9 9
2 12 5
2 3 7
1.6 2
In addition to the foregoing the following special awards have been made
0.B.E. t-Car. H M C. Pardon, W. T. Savage, Master
£ 5.
ů.
4 .28 16
28 0 0
17 10 0
R. S. Spencelay, 1st en-
gineer.....
D. Snow, bate
11 13 4 D/J, 105560 P. T. Sprules,
Teleg.........
$ 10 10 Four man in the 12th Class, who formed the lifeboat's crew, to re- ceive double shares.
Need of New Building. The Nethersole Hospital which has done yeoman service for 37 a stage years has now reached when the building no longer meets the need of the work. The fabric has deteriorated and its equipment, propitious for embarking upon which sufficed in earlier years, has this expenditure; but it is impera- become unsuited to modern condi-tive and urgent, if the Hospital is tions. The advance which has to continue its good work. After
The Hongkong and Shanghal taken place in medical science now all the sum required-$160,000 a bearing on the health of the com-
tuberculosis may be specially men- Banking Corporation contributed demands better accommodation and is not so large as to be beyond munity, typhoid fever, malaria and more modern equipment for the the means of this wealthy and tioned. Most of the cases of typhoid $50.000 and Messrs. Jardine, Mathe
Το community.
brought to hospital about the son and Co. $25,000 to the flung cannot give for a third week after the onset of the kong University Endowment Fund. The Executive Committee has mind, one
than for this. disease, when the patient is nic gone very carefully into the matter worthier cause and has come to the conclusion that Speaking as a member of the com- serious' condition owing to complica-
At a meeting of shareholders of as one serving tions having developed. There is it is uneconomical to spend large munity and not sums of money for repairs, from on the Committee of the Hospital, need for enlightening the community the Hongkong, Canton and Macao year to year, in order to patch up! say that it is our bounden in regard to the early symptoms of Stearaboat Co., Mr. R. G. Shewan,
to help.
over $28,000 | this institu- this disease, as no doubt the faver of in referring to a loss this old building and that the duty
That the work of the typhoid is often considered to be problem of erecting a new Nether-tion..
its affiliated to malaria. The practical lesson is on Subsidiary coinage, said if the sole must now be faced. Sir Cecil Nethersole Clementi, in his address at the hospitals has been appreciated that all fever cases should seek advice Government did its duty, they would early for diagnosis and treatment, and not be forced to receive coins worth public can opening of the new Alice Memorial by the
be judged if the fever proves to be typhoid, the less than their proper value by six Hospital, expressed the hope that from the fact that apart from the patient will have the benefit of carly to ten per cent.: the erection of a modern Nethersole financial support which it has treatment and something done Lo would be undertaken at an early always received from all sections wards limiting the spread of
The death occurred of Mr. Erich date. A sketch plan has been pre- and classes of the community, discase.
Georg, a well-known member pared by Messrs. Little, Adams & many leading residents have served Wood which shows that a block on its General Committee, and very
Tuberculosis of the spine, hip-joint, the German community in Hong similar in design to that of the busy men such as Sir James and knee-joint are common, but most kong, who was a former President Alice Memorial Hospital can be Stewart Lockhart, the Hon. Mr. prevalent is pulmonary tuberculosis of the Club Germania, built on the site of the present. W. Brewin, the Hon. Mr. E. R- and in Hongkong there is no Institu building and when the scheme is Hallifax, the late Mr. P. H. Holyoak tion where adequate treatment can be
The half-yearly report of the completed the Nethersole and the and Sir Hehry Follock have acted obtained. The treatment of early
would benefit Hongkong and Whampao Dock Co., Alice Memorial Hospital will form as its Chairman.
cases in a Sanatorium would benefit Ltd,, showed a net profit of 376,609. pital and detained. the individual patient, one large modern hospital building. A sum of $200,000 will be requir-proud record of thirty-seven years the health of the community, and An interim dividend of three per
would be of great educational value in cent. was recommended.
and
The Nethersole has behind it a
Need For a Sanatorium.
due
the
of
ed for this building scheme, and to splendid service, and there lles extending the knowledge of the wards this amount there is $50,000 before it an opportunity for yet benefit of open-air treatment. The
The special Chinese Commis in hand. An appeal is being issu- greater good, if it were given a great need for a Sanatorium is a call ed asking for liberal donations ao building adequate and suited to its for a united effort to work out a sioner for the delimitation of the that the proposed building may be needs. It is in your power to trans. scheme for erecting such an institu- Macao boundary reported that after
MANY INJURED IN RAIL CRASH.
HOLIDAY TRAIN'S COLLISION AT STATION.
Forty-six persons, most of them holiday-makers," were Injured when two passenger trains collid. ed at Grimsby Towa Station.
Thirty-seven were taken to hos-
A train from Sheffeld to Cleethorpes was waiting in the station for the departure signal to be lowered when another train, from Hill, crashed into it with such force that the engine of the arriving train lifted the guard's
proceeded with as soon as possible. late that potentiality into reality, tributes to the staff, past and uguese Commissioner, the concin.van of the other almost bodily off
Baby Welfare.
Its bogey.
tion.
several conferences with the Port and I am confident you will do it.
are paid by the Superintension of a satisfactory settlement present,
It was the Hull train, however, Those present were: Dr. S. Went, whilst all who have subscribed
in which most of the casualties The Nethersole has helped to Tso (in the chair), Dr. F. R. Ashton to the fands are thanked. It is stated was likely to be very difficult,
Gibson that during the year no addition to
occurred. Two coaches were de- supply the need in Hongkong. for (Secretary), Dr. R. M.
railed and badly damaged and special hospital work for women (Superintendent), Rev. R. H. Wells, the Endowment Fund was received, and children; by holding gynaeco-Mr.-Justice Wood, Hon. Mr. R. Hand and this, form of contribution.
the Committee again desires to A serious increase in the number many of the passengers were
of New York beggars, whose earn-thrown out on the platform. logical, antenatal and child welfare Kotewall, Measrs. A. Stevenson,
Doctors and police were quickly clinics besides the daily general F. S. Cassidy, Fung Kong-un, A It is further stated that "the drop in ings are estimated at $10,000,000
the value of the. Hongkong dollar clinic for women and children. Sommerfelt, U. Rumjahn, T. H. P. will make it difficult to meet our (£2,000,000) a year, is registered in at the station and the injuries of the annual report of the subcom the victims were dressed in the His Excellency Sir William Peel, Shaw and J. M. Wong.
obligations for · 1030, as salaries, when, he visited the Kwong Wa Hos-
passages and medical supplies have to mittee of the New York Welfare waiting rooms,
The guard of the Sheffield train pital a fortnight ago, expressed his
be paid in Sterling, while our sub- Council. The number of beggars appreciation of the interest that The annual report of the affiliated scriptions are in dollars. We shall be is estimated at 2,000, but this figure stated that he had just given the hospitals in Hongkong are taking hospitals, which are operated in con- glad to receive donations from new does not include temporary beggara, "Right away" "signal and was in baby welfare, while Lady Peel nexion with the London Missionary subscribers, which may be sent to whose total number is calculated at about to enter his van when he also takes a deep interest in hospital Society, was presented at the meet Messrs. Linstead and Davis or to the 1,700. An official warning has saw the approaching train and work for women and children. We ing. It is a lengthy printed docu- Superintendent. Allee Memorial Hon been issued against giving money jumped back on to the platform.
His van was badly damaged, earnestly hope therefore that the met of over thirty pages, covering all pital, Bonham Road."
The Annual Report.
to beggars.
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