AMBULANCE
THAT TURNED
BACK
Dying Man 70 Yards Away
OVER THE BOUNDARY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
OXFORD BUILT ALL WRONG!
VERTICAL PLANNING
CRITICISED
£20,000 ADDED TO COLLEGE BILLS
The "very definite Instructions" Are Oxford colleges, and even which were responsible for an their modern extensions, built 1 ambulanco driver going to within 70 yards of a dying man and then an uneconomic plan?
EASIER TO DIE IN THE NORTH
WINTER POLLUTION OF THE AIR
BLAMING THE HOME
FIRES
Lord Cozens-Hardy, In his in- augural address as President of the Royal Sanitary Institute Congress turning back were strongly criticis. The success of an experiment at Binckpool suggested that special ed_at în inquest at Kingston: which has been tried in Queen's attention should be directed to those The Inquest was on William Ed- College for acveral years now with nonpulmonary respiratory diseases, gar Wright, aged 29, a commercial out a law suggests that this a pneumonia and bronchitis, which traveller, of Worthington-rond, the case. It substitutes tho Tolworth, who was fatally injured typical Oxford and Cambridge were responsible for the excessive, on the Kingston by-pass road when habit of building "vertically" by mortality so noticeable in later fo his car somersaulted twice after aan attempt at building "horizon-Jamong the industrial population collision. Its passenger was in tally." jured.
He pointed out that Professor Police Constable Blatch said that. the Surbiton ambulance arrived, and turned back because the ac- cident was 70 yards over the boundary.
The Foreman-Had not the police authority to command the Surbiton ambulance to take that poor fellow to hospital?
Pollee Constable Blatch-The lvent council has authority over the ambulance service.
The ForemanI think It is a great shame on the part of the ambulanco man, even if he had to go out of his district. It does not show much sympathy. It is nonsense that he should not move over the boundary mark.
At present every staircase in Greenwood In dealing with this an Oxford or Cambridge college is subject, had suggested that it was little kingdom to itself, wich just as difcult to earn a living in two or three rooms on each floor. and no connection at all with the town in the South as in the North. pther rooms on the same floor, but it was much easier to dio in the which can only be reached by way North, particularly in the case of a of the ground floor and the quad-]man aged between 45 and 65 years. rangle.
"Modern hygleno,” he continued,"
MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933.
THE "FIGHTING SQUIRE"
“A REMARKABLE
CHARACTER
CELEBRATES HIS 86TH BIRTHDAY
London.
Sir Claude Champioù de Cros- pigny, the famous "Fighting Squire," fait only one regret on his 86th birthday a week or so ago— he was not able to take his usual bost with a punching ball and his- rowing exercise before breakfast.
Up to two months ago, Sir Claude never missed a morning, except on those days at Cowes when often with Lady do Crospigny he would stroll down to the son and take a dip when the temperature would have made many youngsters tura back.
"But two months ago, Sir Claude caught a chill and he has only just come downstairs. He hopes, how over, to resume his daily boxing and rowing soon.
"All round sportsman" hardly describes Sir Claude fully. He is that, and more, for he has been Holdfor and sailor, war correspon- dent and balloonist, big game hunter and something of an explorer, and has packed so many adventures Into his life that to read only a part of them would make one think it al- in-most incredible that a man could go through them without being killed. SOME ACCIDENTS. And nearly killed he has been many times. A fow of his cidents are:
Each of these staircases is rul"has shown us that a polluted air ed by a scout, who tolls scores of times a day up and down the two supply is no more desirable than a or three flights of stairs attending polluted water supply, and it is the needs of his charges. This possible that a partial solution of daily knee-drill, though it may this problem will depend on the have much to do with the prowess purifying of the air of our of college servants on the playing dustrial towns of the north-west. field, is not economic.
This is by no means as simple a pro- blem as the purification of our water supplies.
THE DOMESTIC grate. .
Police Constablo Brickles said
SCOUTS' CREATER WORK. that he told the driver of the Surbiton ambulance to call the Accordingly, all the rooms on Malden ambulance, but he reversed the top floor of one side of a and went away. The Malden quadrangle at Queen's were con- ambulance was called by a motor-ñected by a corridor, and two of
"I think you will agree that in coach driver,
the three staircases that had serv-the average industrial town during Mr. R. H. Wright, clerk to ed them in their days of sopars the winter months the bulk of the Surbiton Urban Council, said that į tion were sealed up. Then a the driver of the Surbiton ambu-scout was given charge of the air-pollution comes from the domes- lance had very definite instructions floor.
a smokeless tie fire-place. Until which were framed in conjunction
fuel for domestic use is universoily with neighbouring authorities a few his rooms and work on one floor, rely on regulations that affect only It was soon found that, with all adopted it is practically useless to years ago that he was not on any instead of four, he could account to cross the boundary into
com-factory chimneys." adjoining districts.
fortably serve twice as MARY
Referring to the nation's health rooms as he could on the old system. In other words, under-services generally, Lord Cozeny- graduates who had had to support Hardy said: "A panel patient re- two scouts before, now only need-ceives efficient general practitioner ed to support one.
service, probably much more elli- cient than he did in pre-National
י.
QUESTION OF CHARGES. Mr. H. Tonbridge, Sanitary In- spector of the Malden Urban Council, said that cooperation be- tween the Malden and Surbiton Councils was suggested some years ago, but it was chiefly a question of signing an agreement on the pay- ment of charges.
In a
The consequent saving in ex-|Health Insuranco days, but unless pense may amount to as much as he happens to subscribe to a volun- £10 per undergraduate per year.tary hospital, his resources or well over 5 per cent. of the severe Illness stop at that, average Oxford total for college bills.
Malden Council were willing to
"It is preached high and low co-operate in accident cases so that
that the remedy for industrini de- nothing of this kind should happen.
By a simple calculation, if 2,000 pression is rationalisation, and I During the last twelve months the undergraduates are resident in suggest that a good dose of the same Malden ambulance had gone into the college in Oxford (allowing for medicine would improve the health Surbiton area on at least six rather more in "digs"), £20,000 services of the community."
Mr. Wright sald that
year is being spent in the Uni- on one versity for the mediaeval oddity occasion a Surbiton ambulance dri- of living in "vertical" lodgings. ver went into an adjoining district, and later received a message. from } the authority concerned not to go
occasions.
added, the erude death-rate per In the middle of last century, he
thousand was about 30; to-day it' was less than half that figure. In infant mortality in those "good old there in future. It was not Malden. blamed the driver of the Surbiton days," one out of every two children Mr. Farley (a motor-coach dri-ambulance for taking the matter born dind in the frat four years.. ver)Is there anything in the into his own hande and going over compared with one out of every regulations of Surbiton Council the boundary.
seven nowadays, which would prevent-a-driver-leav-The-jury-returned-a-verdict-of- ing his ambulance and going over accidental death and, the foreman Major-General P. II. Henderson, the boundary to render aid? said that they regretted that the Director of Hygiene, War Office, Mr. Wright I am not here to councils did not seem to agree re-said, "In the past we have rather answer questions.
garding the saving of life. They been in the habit of neglecting Mr. Farley-I think it is an hoped that "this boundary busi-diseases which are common. and absolute scandal.
ness" would be dispensed with and concentrating an others which The Coroner (Dr. W. J. Lord) they considered that the Surbiton jappeal more to the scientific mind. said that human life was the first ambulance driver might have acted There are signs that in recent years consideration in every case. He independently of whatever instruc- we are paying more attention to did not think anyone would haveįtions were given to him.
common diseases."
QUEEN'S
AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE
THE HOUSE OF PLEASANT COOLNESS
Che was in the Blue Book; he wasn't even in the phone book. What happened when he became the Cinderella Man of a
PLATINUM BLONDE
comedy sensation--with LORETTA YOUNG
ROBERT WILLIAMS
cad do desaling siren of "Hell's Angels"
*ANK CAPRA
production
JEAN HARLOW
FROM THURSDAY
ac-
Both legs broken in a balloon accident;
Three broken arms (at sundry times) while hunting;
Three broken ribs while steeple- chasing;
Rib broken in a cab mishap; Fingers broken a number of times while boxine:
Repeated concussion-none - of which has affected his general health; and
Nearly scalped by a favourite monkey.
Sir Claude now lives quietly nt Maldon, Essex, and his house, Champion Lodge, is full of trophies he has won in different parts of the world. At Nairobi when in his 59th year, for instance, he did the "hat trick" by winning, at the East Africa Turf Club races, the three events which are equivalent to the English Derby, Ascot Gold Cup and Grand National, and was beaten by only a head in the next race. He never realised, however, his ambi- tion to win the Grand National at Aintree, for his mount Corriezo broke down. One of the things of which he is most proud is that in forty years in the saddle no objection has been made to his riding.
FEW ADVENTURES. Some of his adventures have been:
Escaped from the coils of a python
Flew the North Sea in a ballon (believed to be the first time this feat was accomplished);
Jumped into a shark-infested river to rescue a man;
Fought a wounded tiger: Climbed church steeples; Jumped into a flooded river after a fox which had sought re- fuge on a hillock of grass in the water and dived after it when it was killed and sank;
Swum the narrow gut of the first Cataract of the Nile;
Fought a waterman for an hour and a half with his bare fists, although two fingers were broken. and did not stop until the police arrived:
Killed a charging 'rhinoceros «t two paces by breaking its neck with a soft nosed bullet.
A PINT OF PORT.
As one of the old school Sir Claude deprecates the cocktail habit. "Give me a pint of port a night," he said once, "änd I am content." He thinks modern people are apt to look after themselves too much and, as his life shows, bc- Heves in fresh air and athletic exercise and plenty of it.
The "Fighting Squire" la the fourth baronet, and head of a famous old Norman family which fought in the first Crusade and were champlona of the Dukes of Normandy and Brittany. He and Lady de Creapigny celebrated their diamond wedding last September.
Router.
COMING SHORTLY TO THE
KING'S THEATRE. PRIMITIVE ROMANCE in a weird setting
FOX FILM proate a JCM L, LARC¥ Pudrother
ZOO IN BUDAPEST
LORETTA YOUNG
GENE RAYMOND
DISTRESSED AREAS RELIEF SCHEME
...
DEADLOCK CAUSED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Negotiations Break Down
scheme against the wishes of a part of their block grants, no lise largo section of the remainder of purpose would be served by sur tho House of Commons.
sumption of the Conference. Par Tho revolt of the members re- The demand for relief for the presenting the distressed areas distressed areas came from mem assumed, formidable proportions bors of Parliament of all parties. some months ago before the Govern- Their view of the present altua mon granted their demand. The tion is expressed by the following Minister of Health, Sir Edward rosolution, passed at a meeting at Hilton Young, then proposed the Houso of Commons over which permanent scheme for the relief of Sir Nicholas Grattan-Doyle, Con the promised comprehensive Un-servative member for North Now employment Bill, and a temporary castle, presided: scheme to operate by consent until "That this committee of Mom |the passage of the BII,
bers of Parliament, representing DE-RATING ACT GRANT. ·· distressed areas, vlows with great Negotiations between the Govern
The temporary scheme was set anxiety the delay, which has taken ment and local authorities with a before representatives of the local place in Implementing the promise view to implementing the Govern-authorities of the country at a cons of the Minister of Health in the mont's acheme for bringing tom- forence held at the Ministry of provision of monies to be found by porary relief to the distressed in-Health some weeks ago. It was the more fortunatoly placed local dustrial areas the North have, that the more prosperous broken down.
areas authorities, for the relief. of the should forgo £600,000 of their able-bodied unemployed in the dis- share of the block grant under the tressed areas, and, in vlow of the The cause of the breakdown is De-rating Act, and that this sum, reported breakdown of the negotia the refusal of the local authorities together with an additional £260,000 tions with the authorities concerned in the more prosperous arena to to be contributed by the Exchequer, and the very pressing needs of the make the anancial sacrifice required should be distributed among
of them on behalf of the distressed distressed areas.
areas.
the distressed areas, calls upon the Minister of Health to act upon his The Conference was adjourned in own initiative without delay." The Government to thus con-order that the local duthorities) fronted with the
Coples of the resolution will be. alternative facing a new fovolt of members of proposal. It has sinco emerged and to the Prime Minister, Mr. of should have time to examine the sent to Sir Edward Hilton Young Parliament representing the dia- that, owing to the refusal of the MacDonald, who will be requested tressed areas, or imposing their more prosperous areas to forge any to receive a deputation.
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