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TUBERCULOSIS
*TuberculosİR.
ne of the penalties levied on man for his attainment of a high degree of
civilisation."
Thus writes Dr. A. S. Marnalty in a report in the disease recently issued by tha Ministry of Health. The state-
or
to
DAY BY DAY
the development of active tubercu losis? To MAHA infection, to
auspectibility idiosyncratic deflelent immuniaing power, malnutrition and { devitalising environment. Any one of these factors may prove sufficient, but in a very large proportion of cases all three are operative. This ex- plains why consumption is more prevalent in the town than in the country; more prevalent among the poor than the well-to-do; and commonest of all among those condemned to live in crowded, sunless tenements often shared with others already suffering from the disease.
It has been shown that in Sheffleld the incidence of tuber cutusis 4.45 per thousand in households with more than two per roun, and 2.8 per thousand in households with less than
one
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END OF A GREAT
DELUSION
KREUGER'S FALLEN EMPIRE
BY PAUL HÁRRISON
Riding between his Park Avenue house and his conferences in Wall Street. Ivar Kreuger used to pass
The President and Committee of the unpretentious buffling in lower Sailors and Soldiers' Home grateful- Broadway where bankruptcy hear ly acknowledg the receipt of the ings are held. The "match king. following donations to the funds of more famillar with palaces thun the Home, the stewards of the Hong courtrooms, probably never gave it kong Jockey Club, $500: Mir. W. a glance. Shannon $20.
to the enll,
Owing to pa viectrical fault in the wiring systein, a false alarm of fire person per room. Moreover, the was received at the Centrni Brigade effects of malnutrition were pain-Bonham Strand West street
islation at 10,13 this morning, from the alarm. fully illustrated in beleaguered | Two engines were sent out in response countries during and after the Great War in the towns of Ger- many, the mortality rate increased from 157 per hundred thousand in 1983 to 287 in 1918, whilst in Warsaw the rate rose to 840 and in Belgrade during the last year of the war the figure was 1,400, Seeing, however, how very large a proportion of the populations of all countries is, at some time or
bther. infected. it is surely the more effective and truly econg- mical way of dealing with the problem to place within the reach of all the opportunity
for
wholesome living whicb
A
But today the twisting Kreuger trail ends at this sepulchre of de
AL to-morrow's meeting of the focal Rotary Club, Mr. C. W. Jeffries, will speak on "These Weather Prophets and Storm Warnings" Mr. R. SL J. Braddell, President of the Singapore Rotary Club, will be a guest at the feat. meeting, and, it is hoped, will speak
In the account of the subscriptions so generously contributed to the Girl Guide Headquarter Hut, it was inad vertently omitted to state that J. B. Newill, 12 Leighton Hill, is kind- ly noting as Treasurer, and that any she desirous of assisting the Hot Fund should send contributions to her.
years
In one of its small rooms, liability. Another has followed his crowded und stifling, brusque example in committing suicide. strangers re pawing over the In Sweden, as well as here in broken dreams of the dend genius, New York, Americans are being Financial experts, who only a few questioned. And almost certainly short weeks ago regarded the there are scores of individuals and mighty Swede with something like concerna whose names are yet to reverence, How are helping to batter he brought under suspicion, down the rotten skeleton of his "in-
lustrial empire."
Network of Investigations. No vulogistic phrases come from After the first news of Kreuger's
sticide shock that sent Before the Hon. Cruir. Hole, by the the tight-lipped lawyers.
ali Marine Court this morning. Kwok Betere the suleide of Kreuger securities tumbling, clased a stock chun, coxswain of the stern launelt
have called him exchange and cut short the holi- thatHop Fut. pleaded guilty to a chargely might
"greatest of internationalists" day of the King-Sweden grimly of unlawfully using a class 2 steam ron-certifiente
of business or set to work to ferret out the mis- outside the loen! trade foremost genius
dazzling of deeds which everyone was sure stitutes the soumlest insurance limits, contrary to the order set forth ganization"-"most
must be revealed by Kreuger's on his firence. He was fined $50, in financiers." gainst this and so many other default, one month's imprisonment. But today they
are describing books. This, however, is being diseases. It has well been said that
him in terms of swindled millions, made difficult by the fact that the During last week, the Wuchow civil as nothing but an uncommon crook.unich king" carried most of his
cunning plans in his mind. ment may be allowed to stand to the tuberculosis problem is, in short, ¿ficials held n luttery at the Sun Yat-
housing problem, # wages sen Memorial Building, when several Truth Gradually Appears. Immediately there was set up a " high degree of civilisation"
problem,
eduention large tracts of land in the city were!
drawn for. For several
the The hearing represents an at- special "Krenger department of involves overcrowding, overwork
problem, rather than. EL
doctor's land has not been used except for lempt to straighten out the tangled police," composed of lawyers and Inter-detectives. Scon it became evident and sanitary homes and work- shops. In spite of the fact that problem. And that is as true of soldiers' matshed barracks. It is ex-affairs of the bankrupt
pected that the new owners of the national Match Corporation and to that separate investigations also
Intrace its connexions through the would have to be conducted in al-. tuberculosis is one of the few dis-Hongkong as it is of any
centre of human activity.
omplicated, world-wide structure Inost a score of other countries. of the vast Kreuger interests,
In addition, Independent Inves- pases which have been specially selected for intensive considera-
Well acted in the leading role by
tigations have sprung up in thesc Sir Gerald de Maurier, popular player dishonesty is uncovered.
The deeper they dig, the more
countries. Holders of Kreuger Defictionizing Blography. tion by the medical profession and
of the English stage, "Escape" was|
In com securities are anxiously trying to y public authorities, the fact Biography that thrives tempor.shown yesterday at the Star Theatre purison to Kreuger. Ponzi was determine how much they can al-
de-and was warmly appreciated by the piker: beside Kreuger's schemes,
"nge from the wreck. remains that in 1930 not far shortarily on murkraking seems
audiences. The story concerning the South Sea Bubble was a mere finitely on the wane. One hear murder committed unintentionally in shell game. It is evident that not comparatively little about it in Hyde Park lends to
the gallant children died from it in England 1937 and even less up to the pre- tuhorn fight offered by an escaneal for several months more can there!
sent in 1932.
from the long arm of the labe gathered and correlated the full During business The plight of the conviel was
facts regarding his amazing activi- well ties. But here are a few cutul unessentials depicted. The majority of the scenes fished facts: propor-depressions, many
have to be eliminated, and, of were taken in the English country course, muckraking biography is side and in some well known centres
in London. The supporting cast one of them. Such nuaterial is at fairly good. best a speculation for the pub-
of 36,000 101. Women and
contract the disease und leave the
insidious attack.
hospitals
to
other and will build homes and stores
this section.
M.
are
Cages
anel
t
$800,000,000 Gone.
Some 250 of the most prominent With many of his millions he families of Stockholm are reported cases 1 death, Madras 3 cases - Ran- subsidized the consciences of asso to have lost their fortunes in the goon Benses deaths, Saigon 3 cases ciates and officials of governments. 3 deaths, Canton 1 case - Shanghai 3 Six of his former aides already have been arrested for criminal cases 1 death, Nagasaki 2 case.
PEAR
crash.
France, which had been most friendly to the Swedish Napoleon of Finance, apparently will suffer laat. Kreuger's borrowings there seem to have been secured to about 95 per cent of the amounts involved. Germany and some of its banks me hard hit. English investors had large sums in various Kreuger companies. Italy is shaken by the discovery of forged Italian bonda to the extent of necrly $100,000,- 90. Other forger'es and misre- presentations have affected Poland, Spału and Portugal.
Not even un estimate can be
und Wales. Here in Hongkong,
made of total losses, for those con- cerned admit that still more sen- the mortality rate İs
sational cases of juggling and for- tionately much higher, since,
Ivar Kreuger forged, with his Key may yet be brought to light. In Kreuger stocks and bonds alone, with a population of some 200,000,
is own hand, securities to the amount which have tumbled almost to the
of $100,000,000. the yearly death-toll is Tully 2,500,
He sold, for hundreds of mil- vanishing point in price, the col- even this figure taking no account lisher, who must depend upon its i The Health Bulletin of Eastern hons of dollars, stocks and bonds apse is expected to wipe out $800,-
V00,000. of the hundreds of others who immediate sale for profit. Metin- Ports for the week ending June 4 partially backed by non-existent Sweden is still staggering under shows the following caser of infectious companies with imaginary assets. the blow delivered by its dazzling while, writers who qualify merely diseases and death therefrom.-- Through well-known banking industrialist, Colony before they succumb to itaas smart-alecks have witnessed Plague, Alexandria 1 case 2 death houses he borrowed huge sums on which was forced off the gold stan
The government, their own debunking at the handsenses 6 deatha Cholera, Calcutta
Bombay 1 case 1 death,
Colombo 6)
match monopolies he never owned. dard by the loans it granted Speaking generally, it may be
of able book reviewers. Evidence 38 deaths, Saigon cases 1 death, To conceal some of the evidences Kreuger, is striving desperately to of a brighter outlook for biogra- Canton 2 cases 1 death, Shanghai 70 of his swindling he juggled phan bolster its credit. There is a pros said that more is known of howphy is sketched by Claude
2 deaths. Small-pox, Baghdad tuin fortunes between dummy corpect of more idle factories and men. 14 cases a deaths, Bosrah 2 cases 1porations. to prevent the disease than to Fuess, writing on "The Blogra- death, Bombay 7 cases 4 deaths, Cal- cure sufferers from it. High
aspher and His Victims." Mr.
cutla 15 cases 17 deaths, Karachi 7 the mortality rate is in England, Fuess considers biography a fine there as none the less been aart, "one of the leisurely arts, re- marked decline is both the inquiring investigation, meditation revision.” Although he recognizes cidence and fatality of tubercu
that there are charlatans and sen- losis. Some part of this improve-sationalists of biography, he finds ment must be credited the it consoling to know there organised measures directed many honest craftsmen endeavour- against it-elinies. sanatorin, ing to uphold the highest stand- consumption
ards of this field of literature. #116 No
Numerous commentators have forth. But it seems clear that
stressed, as he does, the helpless- these have not been the most
ness of biographical subjects t important contributing factors. the hands of those who write There is evidence to show that lives." It seems appropriate to there is a much more intimate reverse the picture and show how diminu- the biographera themselves are de. tion af tuberculosis and the pendent. It is true they may level general improvement of public pens at both public and private sanitation and in the material their thrusts. But they, in turn. persons, and gauge the force of
states of the working classes than will be judged by the skill and between the decline and the fairness with which the literary, direct anti-tuberculosis campaign. tilting is done. Criticism of To say so much is not to minimise biography begins with the choice the value of that campaign, of of a subject; it ends with a long- pending appraisal of the work which a striking example is forth-both as history and as literature. coming in one town where, na One who selects a subject to por- result of the intensive application tray should assume the obligation of every form of publie health to depict it adequately. Some so- activity, the tuberculosis death-called biographies, written in the rate has been reduced by over 66 last decade, have been more like "pot-bollers" in fiction; they pre- per cent. In a little over five years.sented, news reel "lives" of the It is well to remember that prac-subjects, with scenes sometimes tically everybody has been, at one chosen more for sensation than Ilme or another, infected by the substance. Obviously, the value tubercle germ, so much so that it if any of such sketches is ephemeral. Biography seems to
connexion between the
is supposed that, as a result of be approaching a more construc-
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. | repeated mild infections, must of tive period, partly because moro
JEWELLERY DEPARTMENT.
us develop a degree of unity.writera are attempting full-length Then to what is to be attributed portraits, painstakingly done.
"You gotta know human nature, Bince I made those bull's- eyes so big that you can't miss them, my business has doubl-
od,"
America, from which Kreuger is said to have taken at least $400,- 000,000, will be one of the heaviest losers.
Amerleans "Hooked".
Kreuger traded regularly in six of the world's largest stock ex- changes, and brokers, many of them Americans, appear to have lost large sums he owed them for trans- acting his orders.
The independent protective com- mittes formed in New York by holders of Kreuger and Toll se curities is headed by Samuel Un- termyer, prominest corporation lawyer, and Bainbridge Colby, for mer U. S. Secretary of State. The committee believe that about 350,- 600 Amorienu Investors have lost $250,000,000 on Kreuger and Toll debentares alone.
Banks involved in the market- ing of the debentures in the United States also have formed com- mittees, avowedly to protect their Investors. But now a court fight- looms, and Untermyer promises the airing of "n public scandal of gravo magniture" in "connexion with his attack on the bankers.
Sluce Kreuger is shown to have. been guilty of draining about
(Continued on Pagt 5.)