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MONDAY
DECEMBER 16, 1935.
Last year, of 20,424 Chinese babies born in Hongkong, 7,094. died. Why? Excluding China proper, for which no statistics are availablo, the Hongkong infant mortality figuros for 1933 were the highest recorded in the world. That your, of every thousand babies born in Hongkong, more than "half died before they roached the age of twelve months. They did not have a chance.k
This your babics ara still dying at a‘torrible rate-móstly from malnutrition and semi-starvation. The Society for the Protection of Children is endeavouring to relieve the misery and distross that is so rampant, but it is tied down by lack of money. Last your its total revenue was the princely sum of $17,448,30—a sum hopelessly inadequate to do more than touch the fringe of the gigantic task upon which it has embarked.
The Annual Report of the Hongkong Society for the Pro- tection of Children tells a sad story.
But, more than that, it ex- emplifies the world that exists in Hongkong between Poverty and Plenty.
No more terrible indictment can be levelled at us than to say that one half of this Colony does not know how the other half lives.
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Its rounded checks are flushed with health; dark curls nestle on a snowy pillow.
If you pause to think you are thrilled, for, in all that collection of wonders you have just seen the most marvellous of nature's achievements-a healthy, happy baby.
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TURN to pages 15 to 18 of the Annual Report of the Hong- kong Society for the Protection of Children:
Case No. 1307.--While visiting another case the Society's Inspec tor found this family, consisting of six persons, living in total dark- ness in a cubicle for which they were paying $3.50 a month. The youngest child was only alx weeks old and was wasting away as his
NOTES
OF THE DAY
FACTS WANTED
The outcry against the Franco- British peace proposals must have
At a moment when world at-been a shock to the negotiators of tention is centred on the united that amazing document which has been offered to' Italy and Ethiopia efforts of some. fifty nations for as a basis for a truce and negotia- imposing sanctions against Italy, tions towards permanent settle-
д
WHY
these
mother was unable sufficiently to feed him herkolt. Milk was sup-. piled and regular attendance at the Infant Welfare Centre secured. Various ailments have been over- come and the family has moved in- to more healthy quarters. The infant, now cleven months old, is likely to grow Into healthy child.
norma)
must Babies
DIE?
during the year no fower than 749 families could not afford such costly accommodation as that provided by a cubicle but had to content' themselves with bed-spaces."
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THE Report does not end with the Society's own activities. It tells of the wonderful success of the Government Clinics, of the heroic self-sacrificing work of the Convent of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood, who this year managed to save .970 of the 1,436 children ad- mitted-no mean fent in view of
HOW shamefully wasteful na- the Colony's statistics, and of turo can be. In Hongkong, the fact that so many children Case No. A. 1113-The father in in two years, thirteen thousand were admitted moribund, or suf- the Lam family earned his meala mothers hoping, enduring, suf- fering from incurable tuber-
by working for a relative. The
Here, the crying need is, ne-
wage earner was the mother, who fering, grieving all for noth- cular conditions. made about $4 a month as an earth ing. Charles Lamb wrote a carrier. Their baby Bon,
lines:
Riddle of destiny, who can show building a new hospital", but What, thy short visit meant, or only have "about half the funds in hand necessary to enable them to begin."
kame
3 poem on an infant dying as soon commodation, and it is tragic to months old, was fat but pule and no bom. Here are some of the read that "the Convont authori unhealthy from being fed on un-
ties have a scheme in hand for suitable foods such as sweet paste, the mather's milk being deficient in quality. Baby Lam was given a full supply of Lactogen, and the mather was instructed what foods to let him have and what to avoid. and gradually the child is being weaned. But for the sintance
almost certainly have gradually wasted away and ultimately died of maras- mus through the deficiency in the quality of the mother's milk at a critical period of kis infancy.
this child want's n
Care No, A. 1990-Baby Li'a father died four months before Baby L was born, and the mother eked out a precarious existence by. knitting and odd sowing, by which she earned the princess was liv
wage of The $2 a month.
tree, in
ing, rent-free, "Cock loft," the mother occasionally having meals
was unable
her child, and that at the age of three months he was
thin
..
:
What thy errand here below! Shall we say that Nature blind Checked her hand, and changed her
wind
Just when she had exactly wrought
"The work is unsatisfactory
in a way," is the heartrending cry of the Superintendent of this A finished pattern without fault! Clinic. "We feel that so much did the stern-eyed Fate descrý more needs to be done, and that ant, babe or mother, one miat die:
Or
That
Sn in mercy left the stock
we are only touching the fringe
of the suffering that lies all
cut the branch; to save the round."
shock
Of young years widowed, and_ther' WE have already read that the
path
average monthly income per head of the Society's cases is
When Single. Stato come back
again To the lone man who, reft of wife, $2.01. It is the price of less Thenceforward drags maimed
than three tins of cigarettes, less life?
than two scuts in the cinema and
a
with friends. It is not surprising DEATH strikes indiscriminate- less than the average chit signed ly, rich and poor alike. But for a round of drinks. Yet it and death, in Hongkong, stalks more is the total amount with which wenkly, as his mother was supple- often in the ill-lit, unventilated, each of 1,178 new cases brought her milk with rico paste. squalid tonements, where twenty to the notice of the Society for Fortunately she brought her baby quality people huddle in one the Protection of Children this to the Kowloon Centre in time, and
here she was given Lactogen for room, or where whole families year have had to keep them- her baby and soup for herself in must make their home in a hed selves alive.
of
To relieve the misery and dis- her denied even floor space be- milk. The child is now ten old, and is taking soup and rice and
Inspector doing well. The charge of the ease specially re ports on the care the mother de votes to the child.
order to improve the quality months cause they have not enough tress of the hundreds of thou-
in
money to hire more than the space in which they take it in turns to sleep."
sands of sufferers, the Society received the princely sum of $17,448.80 including $5,000, from the Government, for the Case No. 1393-In this case the REFER again to that Annual twelve months ended October 31. This sum represented a decrease. Report:
the of nearly $6,000 on the previous "At the end of 1932. .
1
father was unemployed and the 'mother deserted him, leaving in his charge their baby need eight average monthly Income per year's figures. For the Society' months. The grandmother tried head of the Society's cases was it proved a calamity. It meant to feed the child on artificial foods
any milk.
ED. KELLY'S CORNER
(Both Played by Jack Jackson's Orchestra). there is a danger that the at-ment of their controversy. There titude of countries outside the can be no question that the formula is a surrender to Italy; and the Lengue may be overlooked by the fact that it emanated from New Mayfair Dance Orchestra.general public. It is obvious Franco-British sauruc makes it that the United States, Ger-evident that the British attitude many, and, to a lesser extent, has undergone a sudden change. Japan could, if they so desired, Why? The House of Commons make a farce of the League clamours for an, explanation: for penalties. That, no doubt, is it was on a platform of resistance
but the family was too poor to buy $2.93, at the end of 1933 the that, with increased demands why Mr. Baldwin said the other to the aggressor in the Italo-Ethio-
A (213 more cases were dealt with pian dispute, support of the League
figure had dropped to $2.49. day that, before he would con of Nations, and re-armament that
year later there had been a fur- than in 1934), less Lactogen sent to British participation in the National Government appealed
ther drop to $2.05 and for the could be supplied, less Milk League blockade, should the to the poople, and was re-elected. CHINESE babies, according to past year the figure is $2.01. In Foods and Cod Liver Oil could vital statistics issued by the the case of 221 families concern- be purchased, and smaller gruata necessity arise, he would want to The newspapers of the realm, and
of the world, want an explanation, Hongkong Government, have ed in cases investigated this year could be made to contemporary know for certain what the-at-and, on behalf of the general publle, just over an even chance of live there was no income whatsoever, institutions. titude of these three Powers they are entitled to it. If the
To lose a child is one of the would be. Recently, there have alteration of the British attitude, ing more than twelve months. while in the case of 856 families
as is suspected, was a result of the That is to say, of every five the income amounted to less greatest tragedies that can hap- pen to a woman, irrespective of been indications of the policies realisation that Italy would go to Chinese babies born in this than $4 per head per month.
"If some more concrete evid- race or station. Motherhood- of two of these nations, at any war against any mailon attempting Colony, two die. The mortality rate. Germany has decided to to enforce the League's proposed rate is the highest in the world ence of poverty than that sup- be the mother rich or poor, go a considerable way in the oil embargo, and if it became appar with the exception of China plled by figures as to income be black or white should be a
ont that Great Britain would be proper.
desired, it is furnished by the woman's crown; to the majority direction desired at Geneva. left alone to fight the League's Last year 20,424 Chinese and fact that out of the 1.173 new of Hongkong's women it is a Would-be profiteers, who hope to battle, we can understand the de- feather their nests by selling to sire of Sir Samuel Hoare to make 462 European births were regis- cases investigated by the Society crown of thorns,
Hongkong. In the any arrangement which would give tered in Italy supplies which she is un- the Government time to take its same period 7,094 Chinese and
the Was
vital 23 European babies died before able to obtain elsewhere, are to bearings. Time
the Committee ofthey reached the age of twelve! he effectively dealt with. Nor-thing. For
Eighteen was about to proceed with months.
the "Untouchables," 0 mal trade will be allowed to pro- the oil embargo discussion, and the
The infant mortality rate for HAVE you heard shout the Whon
some other dark, thin gentlemen, ceed, although it is indicated embargo might have become a fact:
professor who says most put their tongues out at the British or call after him, "Yah, Old that this is most likely to be and war a certainty overnight. It Chinese was 347.34 per 1,000
would seem that Great Britain births. The mortality for non-foods are so fattening that if Raj,
the head with Inthis or bamboo modified by Italy's capacity to agreed to the French proposal for Chinese was 49.78 per thousand. you cat two slices of bread and Bottle Nose," policemen bang them
butter (or 300 calories) it would sticks. pay for goods received. Any-a settlement in a desperate effort
Lists of figures make dreary take half an hour of squash Then Mr. Gandhi sulks and won't thing beyond this will be firmly to avoid one of it Italy or to reading, you say? But these are rackets to work off the weight cat his dates (just as you won't ent
alternatives: war with
re-
your spinach), and the British Raj stamped upon by the authorities, signation from the League and figures everyone should digest. and energy accumulated?
puts him in prison: Then they take Was to be expected, the abandonment of responsibilities
him out of prison because he won't German decision has been and undertakings given at Genova.
So if you want to grow up to be ent any dates in there. Then they cordially welcomed in League ever the arguments used to make
Whatever the case may be, what you turn to the Ministry of
Health statistics for 1933, one of those slim; shapeless women put him back in prison to maintain when Mr. Gandhi thinks he has had circles. The United States has Sir Samuel Hoare fall in with these the last available from London, you had better take plenty of exerelee the dignity of the British Raj, and
after meals now.
enough publicity ho cats his dates Using the professor's formula again. This is known as "governing also taken a definite step in the ridiculously one-sided peace pra- you will discover that in thei matter, and one which shows posals, the public has a right to whole of the United Kingdom, my guide, we should advise you to instead of getting out," or "showing that "neutrals" have duties as chicanery or back-sliding by any nearly
know them. If there has been any with a population of 40 million, swim across the Harbour after one the Ung."
40,000 babies under of your normal teas of six slices of well as rights. America views nation, or if the League powers as twelve months of age died. Ter- chocolate cakes. This will just give brend and butter and jam and four the League's efforts to shorten whole have made it evident that rible, according to British stand-! you time to swim back and have your Hoat, who la called Mabel.
they are not prepared to defend the war in Ethiopia with "sym- the League Covenant by force of ards. But return to Hongkong, usual breakfast of fruit, cereals,
bread, but
butter, marmalade, pathetic interest." She will, arms if necessary, British people, with its population of less than eggs, bacon, b
"Why did you beat the poor man moreover, "contribute in every and all peoples, have the right to a million, and the United King and acid drops.
After that the only thing we can practical way to that end." know these facts. For it this is dom statistics seem mild in com- suggest is to turn double somersaults down in his pricot and one long- we have been labouring parison. In 1933, 464.80 per till timin time when we expect you kong young man to another as they Already there have been indica-lunder a delusion, and the League mille, or almost half, the babies-will have two helpings, of meat, a came out of a tailor shop. "You tions that the United States is is a dead thing and should be born in this colony died. The pound of potatoes, and rico pudding or clothes you're just ordered,
"Quite true," said his friend, "but total number of infant deaths
...totalling about 2,000,000 calories, not disposed to look with favour buried.
that's no reason for allowing him to were 6,822, of whom only 40 As there is no exercise on earth lose any more than is necessary.” on those who would seek to profit
were non-Chinese-more than strenuous enough to work this off, from the present situation. So has not shown the slightest in- died in the whole of Australia; you had better sit down quietly and far as Japan is concerned, she clination to adopt any stand Canada and New Zealand, three walt for tea. is more intent on consolidating which would hinder the League British Dominions on other sides her position in the Far East than in its enforcement of sanctions. of the Pacific,
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One day a woman pulled the dom- munication cord, Aa. the train slow- jod down, sho romemboret the Now that you are on the wrong nenalty, and turned for advice to upon taking any active part in does not embrace all the prin
side of eight we think you ought Scotsman. He ranlied promptly:-
fit." to know something about Mr. Gandhi, "Give me £4 and I'll have a the Ethiopian crisis. It is cipal Powers of the world, there
who celebrated his sixty-sixth birth- known, however, that Japanese is satisfaction to be found in the
day last week.
A Scotsman (remarks an American contemporary) had to send an urgent opinion is more favourably dis- fact that those nations which are NO epidemics
deaths. They were caused Mr. Gandhi is a dark, thin gentle telegram, and not wishing to avend posed towards Ethiopia than to outside it have at any rate re by malnutrition, injury or neg-man who wears horn-rimmed glasses more money than necessary, wrote.
vealed a sympathetic frame of
Ilke this:- wards Italy. The reasons may mind in connection with the leet at birth," congenital mal- and a tablo napkin, si
"Bruises burt ornsed afford erected He lives exclusively on dates, goat's be largely solfish, for they are measures now being applied formation and debility.
milk, and water, and in the friend ofnalysis hurt too infectious dead." not unconnected with the Japan-against Italy. Had the facts
The Seotanian who resolve it im- Do not blame the paronte. lot of other dark, thin gentlemen (The words.)
lled "Untouchables," not becauso ese vision of markets in Ethio- been otherwise, a situation of Look, again, at the Annual Re- they are mean but because they are lately decided it was: Bruce In pia. However that may be, it the utmost gravity would have nort of the Hongkong Society considered rather low and vulgar, like hurt. He raced a Ford. He wrecked. is reassuring to know that Japan been created.
for the Protection of Children. the Smart Sot-over here.
and Allco hurt, too. In
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