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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1931.
LOCAL:SMALL-POX
ISOLATION.
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of your Minutes, the primary M.O.I., in sooking ways and means object of this Board is concerned for preventing the dumping of with the prevention of disease. dead bodies.. particularly those As the present experts on pubile dead of small-pox-the real pro- health adviso that the resolution blem at issue-thinks that the is detrimental to public health, remedy is to be found in enforcing and as it has in fact failed in the compulsory inolation. Supposing for the memorandum setting forth object for which it was original-the M.O.II, regains his power to our views on the Small-poxy passed, I must record my vote order any small-pox case to hos- question referred to in paragraph in support of the motion proposed pital, how will it work out in prae- 05 of the report, I should like to by the Medien! Omeer of Health. tico? He has first to catch his any that the only materials
I
then had wa ale from the Sanitary Department.
OF
I
Chinese Rights..
to
small-pox cao. Does he think)
A
¿
that the case will be notified so I was then
that it may be sent to hospital? should, however, liko
Would it not rather result in still not in possession of all the facts and data, which apparently were emphasize one point to which fewer uotinentions, the paucity of in the possession of the Medical referred in my remarks annexed which he already bemoans?
"Perhaps ho will suggest Department as distinguished from to the report. I am satisfied that
visit with the Sanitary Board and which, as there are thousands of Chinceo house-to-house
small-pox detectives; a result of the Hon. the Director who regard the Wostorn method party of
after having discovered of Medical and Sanitary Serveles of treatment of amall-pox as being but
he not write patient offorts, are now collated fatal to recovery, and to the best the culprit eun
OT} his front door and incorporated in the report of my ability I shall press for the "Unclean" On the materials now before me, recognition of their right to be and thus produce the desired
way they think jelect? I am satisfied that the resolution treated in the
The power of removal of "Again, I would submit that in of the Sanitary Board of the 16th beat. October, 1918, has in fact fail-infected persons is contained in matters of public health it is not ita objects. But 1 still section 87 of the Public Health so much the problem of curing a ed in adhere to the view expressed in and Buildings Ordinance 1903, disease after it has manifested it
which rends na follows:
self that ought to be given impor- the memorandum, and referred to
"187. Where
person istance: but the problem of prevent.. in paragraph 68 of the report,
plague, cholera, ing altogether the occurrence of suffering from that a house-to-house visit or house-to-house inquisition, is a small-pox, or any other contagious any such disease.
infectious disease, and is Ahould not bo Polley which
Compulsory Vaccination. without proper lodging of accom- countenanced.
mudation, or is lodged. In a "So in our attitude towards Chinese Practice.
domestic bulding occupied by small-pox, the problem of eradies- more than one family, or is onion should receive a place more 4--As I have agreed with the board any ship or vessel, aimportant than that of eure, hence conclusion of the
the majstrate may, on the certificate compulsory vaccination and not Dhector of Medical and Sanitary of any medical practitioner, order compulsory isolation should Services Bint the trial of hom the removal of such person to ceive first consideration.
other treatment has failed in its objects, such suitable hospital or
"I do not know whether nuthori I am prepared to follow out the like place as may be provided for ties on Western medicine are at logical consequences of this view the purpose."
one regarding the nature of small- in the recom by concurring
The place in which Chinese pox, but it is clear that there is a nieudation for the rescission of suffering from Small-pox enn now considerable difference of opinion the Resolution by the Board. be treated according to Chinese between the Chinese doctor And But there are certain matters medical practice is the Tung Wah his Western or Western-trained which many arise as the result of Small-pox Hospital.
Chinese I shall cor-confrere. The
iloctor such rescission on which I desire tainly press for the right of does not regard the malady in such to make myself quite clear. To Chinese to be trented in ann dangerous light. With his bit- begin with, there is the question Institution of that kind, where ter potions, often admittedly in- nf the adequacy of hospital Chinese medical treatment can be elloctive, he has managed with ap- accommodation elsewhere. On given without molestation. preciable
In small-pox this point I understand the Hon. Mr. Lo said he wished to make cases to bring about cure. I[ the Director of Medical and it plain that he did not support compulsory isolation were to be re- Sanitary Services Ja quite all Dr. Pope's remarks, although sorted to, would not this channel satisfied. But the next important the supported the resolution itself, of possible cure be closed to suf- point is the freedom of choice on because the point he was making ferera↑
.
success
re-
the part of the patient as to the was that Chinese should be given "To come to the matter of dump- kind of treatment he is to have the opportunity of selecting elthering, I do not believe that the Chi- in the Inolation Hospital. On Western or Chinese methods for nese with all their reverence for the dend and their respect for this point my views are emphatic. [treating the disease. Although I personally am a great Dr. Pope remarked that he was their forbears would for a moment believer in the effeacy of Western not condemning Chinese treatment, countenance the throwing of dead it were not for medical science, I for one am not and the President pointed out bodies in streets, prepared to deny to those who that the M.OH. would be satisfied the fact that dire consequences prefer Chinese treatment the with the rescission of the resolu- would result to the inmates of a right of having such treatment. tion, as the question of treatment house, one of whose number hus I know as a fact that many was not under discussion. Chinese regard the Westorn
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been found dead of small-pox. If there were no consequences com- ing to these inmates, or if these method of treatment of small-pox THE CHINESE CASE.
consequences would only take on (involving the washing of the
milder form, I can assure the re Attempt to Enforce Isolation Bourd that canes of dumping would patient) s being fatal to
Described As Brutal. covery, and I feel strongly that
he few and far between. I refer Chinese should be entitled to
of Mr. Wong joy their national method
Kwong-lin said:to the munner in which disinfec treatment unmolested. Moreover, "The attempt of the 3.0.1. to re-tion is now carried out. I would I am not very clear in my own cind the concessions granted by urge the Sanitary Authorities to mind as to whether the Hon. the the Resolution of October 15, 1918, take the greatest care possible of: which they have Director of Medical and Sanitary will be viewed with the test property with Services would have any medical concern by a vast majority of the been entrusted and to pay due re- objection to home treatment IfChinese community, or whore be yard to the convenience of occup the home is not a tenement house half I can claim to speak. To the ants. I will not go into detail with the undesirable results men-average Chinese, condemnation to of what very often happens: but! tinued in paragraph 70 of the be, compulsorily isolated bas the it suffices me to say that far great- report. I gather that the Hon. same tone as a sentence to impri- contentment will result and in Medical and sonment and to him has the same notifying cases more alucrity will
horrors. Hospitals, particularly be shown." Sanitary Servicea has none, pro isolation hospitals in this part of vided that the Medical Officer of the world, are not what they might Health considers that the caso
the Director of
My understanding of this matter
Bows to Experts.
the
Reservations in Committee.
of
Mr. Wong then drew attention is one which is capable of being be, and until what I might term the properly isolated, and without hospital habit has fastened itself to the reservations he made to the an the Chinese people, any attempt report of the Committee, those oh- any danger to the Public.
to enforce isolation is, in my servations being as follows: opinion, brutal. If the habit of "I wish to join in expressing is that the rescission of the going to hospital is to be fostered, thanks to the Hon. Director solution merely restores
habit which I gather the medical Medical and Sanitary Services for status quo and in no way
authorities are anxious to en- the very arduous work he has done. judices the consideration of the courage. the only means in by I have three points to make, subjects referred to when they gradual coaxing. Threats of com-
"(1) The Chinese believe that arise for consideration."
pulsory isolation will have an op-small-pox can be cured by her- posite effect. Even if the ameni-balista, a belief not unsubstantiat. tien obtainable in hospitals were ed by fact. I venture to suggest In matters of public health I sometimes superior to those en- that home treatment be allowed to feel that, as a layman, I must joyed by some patients at home. continue with the imposition of naturally give due weight to the yet it must be remembered that opinions of such experts. in "however humble there is no place public health as the Hon. the like home." The home to the Chi- Director of Medical and Sanitary neso means a great deal and it is Services and the Medical Officer this foudness of home and not) of Health. Apparently the
re-superstition, as has been alleged, selution of the 16th October, 1918 which has prompted many of them was introduced on the advice of to come forward and urge that the the thon Medical Officer of present system of receiving treat- Health; the facts set out in the ment at home be allowed to con- sub-committee's report show that tinue.
in point of fact the resolution has not achieved the success then anticipated in reducing the dump-
"Will it Work in Practice?"
"It seems to me that, the ques-
Ing of the dend bodies. As you, tion of receiving trøntment at home Sir, lucidly pointed out in one has only arisen, because thef
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