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HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH, .MONDAY, MAY 2, 1932.
SANITARY BOARD ELECTION.
DR. LI SHU-FAN STATES POLICY
My opinion has boen sought In regard to the proposal-which understand has been under the con- sideration of the Government for the past two years-for the erea- tion of a Health Board in addition to the existing Sanitary Board, (but with its activities greatly cur- Dr. Ll Shu-fan, candidate for the tailed) or in substitution for the Sanitary Board, has issued the Sanitary Board. I am not propar- following statement of his policy:ed to give a considered judgment, My aim is to make Hongkong-without the necessary data, which by that I includo Kowloon and the alone would enable me to form an
CORRESPONDENCE.
Sanitary Board Election
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.1
ap-
Bir-In his letter which peared in your lesue of this mora- ing. Mr. M. K. Lo takes up the
Now Territories-a healthier place opinion as to the advantages and cudgels on behalf of my opponent. ARISTOCRATS OF THE PACIFIC
to live in. I have as my watch-disadvantages of such a scheme. With one part of his letter I am in word, "Healthy homes in a healthy venture to believe that my practi- full accord, namely that the public colony."
cal experience gained as Commis-
Although altuated just within the eloner of Public Health Canton will be the final judge as to which Tropics, Hongkong, I am convinced, may stand me in good stead in the candidate it profers, and with their can be made as free from diecenso consideration of this important decision 1, at Icast, shall be content.
the and epidemica as any well-regulat-problem. Whether
Health ed elty in the West. Take tuber-Board will materialise or not, I am
Mr. Lo's letter is frankly an ex culosis, for instance; it is the of the opinion that, closer Haison parte statement. With the imputa- disease amongst infectious diseasca ought to exist between the medical tion which he makes on the public In Hongkong which is causing by and the sanitary authorities who spiritedness of the Kowloon Re- far the most deaths, yet it is now have, after all, the same end in sidents' Association. I am not con
deal. The record of definitely in check in England, and view, namely, the good henith of cerned to
the the figures there are showing a de-the Colony.
public service rendered by Association is so well known that eline. It is my conviction that A question has been put to me by Mr. Lo's attempt to extract from the same can be done for Hongkong.a representative of a local paper their statement and mine a meaning
I maintain that no person ought as to what I had achieved while to be the victim of a preventible performing the duties of Commis- which they will certainly not bear disense. If a disease can be pro-sioner of Public Health in Canton.to the electorate generally will
hardly benefit his cause. vented by the exercise of ordinary I was responsible for the following care and proper sanitary pre-health and other measures: cautions, then it is the duty of the Health Authorities to instruct re- sidents as to what constitutes or- dinary care, and to provide the necessary sanitary precautions.
(1) Segregation of lepers. (3) Registration of Births and
Deaths.
(3) Registration of Midwives. (4) Registration of Doctors and
Chemists.
I wish however, to reply to his charge that I am standing pri- marlly in the interests of a sec- tion of the community only and that the interests of the Colony as a whole will come second. With this supposed attitude of mine ho clever- ly contrasta Dr. Li's pledge to serve the interests of the Colony 8 0
I am therefore wholeheartedly in favour of health propaganda con- ducted regularly and systemati- cally, with the object of guiding the public in health matters, and expecially of educating the lower classes in the rudiments of sanitary living in the hope of obtaining their co-operation. I would stress the necessity for this, as however
I do not wish to take special cre- stringent ordinances and by-laws dit for these measures, as I hap my be, the officers to enforce pened to be the first Commissioner them cannot be present everywhere. of Public Health in Canton, and At any rate I am in favour of in- the lot naturally fell on me to in- telligent education rather than troduce them. stringent regulation.
(5) Improvement of scavenging
and conservancy services. whole. (0) The organisation of the
mensurca,
Had Mr. Lo wished to make a Bacteriological, Chemical, And Analytical Departntents, fair comparison he might also have (7) Introduction of quarantine letter of April 19. "I pledge my- quoted my own statement in my
self if elected, to speak candidly, fairly and fearlessly on all matters concerning the welfare of the Colony and of Kowloon in particu lar".
It is undoubtedly the constitu Finally, I should like to say that elected members of the Sanitary tional duty and privilege of the two asses that we need in order to have my sympathy. The residents the Colony as a whole, but I submit the special problēms of Kowloon Board to represent the interests of
It is the co-operation of the
abolish the wide-sprend evil of
tion of deaths in the New Ter-
請 medical
with proper amenities. My experience as
sioner of Health in Canton,
has
com-
spitting in public, to prevent thest Kowloon and the New Territor- dumping of dead bodies, to prevailies will find me ready to listen to that it is neither unconstitutional on the people to surrender the pri- bring forward, and to join them in the needs and problems of a parti- nor undesirable for one or both of any representations that they may them to give special attention to vilege of exemption from registra tackling any problem which might cular district of the Colony, espe ritories, to notify infectious be peculiar to their districts. As cially when that district is of such diseases, and to submit to isolation a medical man,
Kowloon, which at present increasing size and importance as
prises nearly 43% of the total population. True, I have had the honour of being nominated by the Kowloon Residents' Association and I shall unequivocally adhere to my purpose to pay particular attention to Kowloon matters, but I maintain that the interests of Kowloon are so bound up with the general wel- fare of the Colony, especially as re- gards health problems, that it la Impossible to imagine any situation where there would be a conflict of interests.
TRAGEDY AT NICE.
make no distinc- tion as regards physical boundaries: I have patients on both sides of practitioner here and as Conmis the harbour. When the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen asked me in 1911 to given me an insight into the undertake health work for a period living conditions of the people, and of two years in Canton, I did not It has taught me that they are not hesitate, although I was primarily incorrigible.
Hongkong mas, born and bred It is primarily the poor and here, with all my interest
here. ignorant that we have to deal with,When it is a call to fight suffering because no health measure is effec- and disease my duty is clear. tive without their co-operation; be- cause it is ultimately through themị that it is determined whether epide- mics will arise, and whether the better homes will have to bear the
All matters, concerning the pub- onslaught of infection. In short,
lic health must be considered from the standard of health prevailing
the point of view of the Colony in in the slum tenementa in the back
general, and without regard to the streets of Hongkong will be the
private interests of any particular determining factor of the standard An election tragedy occurred to-section of the community whatso- of health of the Colony.
iday when the former Under-ever. That I fully endorse this Mosquitoes and flies are two Secretary for War, Signor Ossola, policy is indicated in the views peste which I belleve more could who was hurrying to an election which I have already publicly ex- be done to eliminate. Then there meeting in a motor-car, crashed pressed concerning certain health is child welfare. The Society for fover a precipice and fell 150 feet problems of the Colony, and I am the Protection of Children and the below the road.
prepared at any time to atate new Government Welfare Centre Signor Ossola was killed in- frankly and unhesitatingly my at- in Wanchai are performing pioneer stantly, whilst two indies who titude towards all such questions as work, but there is ample scope for were with him were injured.- may be of public interest, extending such activities.
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