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"Frinted and Published for the Proprietors by BENJAMIN WYLIE at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1987.
IS NATION'S EYESIGHT ALHAMBRA
BECOMING C3?
Hundreds
Suffer Optical Delusion
By H. de WINTON WIGLEY
Is England becoming a nation of weak-sighted people? The question is raised by a recent experience of the staff department of the Underground Railways,
The Underground appointed about 700 additional temporary staff during the Coronation, and afterwards desired to make some of the appointments permanent.
Three hundred men were sent for the necessary eyesight test, which is particularly strict. In fact, successful applicants must have what is called perfect sight or "6-6" for each eye.
Of the 300 applicants, 120 falled men regularly, they might be of great! In this test.
about
use.
Incidentally,
half the Health records from all big em- remainder falled in the medical test ployers of labour who subject appli- cants for work to eyesight and which followed.
medical tests would also throw con- siderable light on the nation's health.
Result, the Board were able to appoint only just over 80 of the 300.
SO CONFIDENT
The significance of the eyesight | failures lies in the fact that every np. pleant knew that his sight had to be perfect.
They might not supply cut and dried statistics, but at least they would give some ludication of national tendencies that otherwise may come as a startling revelation some day.
Mr. H. Day, M.P.. is to ask the Presumably most of them im President of the Board of Education agined that they had nothing to
how many children have been pro- worry about in this respect.
vided with spectacles in England and From the War Office I received Wales during 12 months; whether the Agures which show that 11 per cent. education authorities have the aer- of the recruits who presented them- vices of qualified experts; and when selves at the Central London recruit-the children's eyesight is re-examin- ing depot in the six months ended the ed. 31st of last month, were rejected on the score of faulty sight.
This may not seem a large pro- portion, but again it has to be re- membered that the applicants were young men who imagined themselves to be fit enough for the Army,
The rejects, therefore, represent 11 per cent of our presumably fittest young murhood,
The Ministry of Transport has just lad to call attention to the fact that driving test candidates must be able to read, ut distance of 25 yards in good daylight and with the aid of identification glasses, if worn, the
marits of a car.
If he falls in this--the first part
of the test the test is at once dis- continued.
had failed in this test.
MEDICINE FROM THE AIR In Budapest successful tests have been made to send down by para-
medicaments in hermetical chute closed boxes. Thus damage to the medical oppilances is avoided. The aim of this new tichnique is to give assistance to countries which have been stricken by disasters.
STALIN IS
GOADED
BY HEART
ATTACKS
Vienna, June 17.-
Rector, 55,
55, Soving Dictator Stalin's
Marries
Chorus Girl
Aged 17
London, June 17.
continued ill-health is |regarded in Vienna medical circles as partly responsible for his violent political ac- tions.
When Dr. Hans Eppinger, fore- most Vienna specialist, was called to Moscow last week for sultation, he found that Stalin's condition was deplorable.
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Normal blood pressure is 120;
Dr. Stalin's had risen to 200.
tor's indomitable spirit enabled him I asked the Ministry how many SEVENTEEN-YEAR-Eppinger said that only the Dictu
OLD chorus girl Hilda to carry out his duties. Hall, of Claxton-grove, Ful- Stalin suffers from angina pec- four hundred in the last six months."ham, was married yester- toris-heart disease. He lives in This number, again, is drawn from day to the Rev. Stewart perpetual fear of extremely puin-
Browne Priston, rector of
The reply was: "Between three and
good who claim eyesight propie enough to drive a car.
ful attacks.
TO
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A large London eye hospital ad- Bacton, near Ipswich, who A Vienna medlent authority ex-IT'S THE FUNNIEST PICTURE EVER FILMED I mitted that the number of their is aged fifty-five.
patients was increasing, but was un able to give Agures.
plained to-day :-
The ceremony took place in secret "The psychological result of an-
at St. Paul's Church, Hammersmith. gina is that sufferers are mis- The Ministry of Health said it Only the closest friends of the fair-trustful, and afraid. They tend to would be "a terrifle job" to keep haired girl bride were allowed in the auapeet people round them figures relating to the nation's sight.church.
of
deceiving or persecuting them. It of is really a form of persecution
mania."
An official said that as for as he Mr. Priston became rector knew there was no way of getting Bacton in 1928. the Information. There would be a record of ophthalmic benefits dis pensed under National Insurance, but
would be by no means presentative 'guide.
The living is worth £553 with a rectory.
it
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re-
Mr. Lloyd George's announcement of n C3 nation during the war came as a thunderbolt,
Would the nation's eyesight pro- vide another eye opener?"
EMPLOYERS COULD HELP
I suggested to the Ministry official that if eyesight records were kept by the four main line railway companies, whose experts examine thousands of
Ship Turns Turtle In Collision
London, June 15. Badly holed amidships, the Danish steamer Victoria turned turtle after a collision with the British ship Cormount in the North Sea. No lives wore lost.
His bride has been on tour for the last eighteen months.
The
mother
said
Dr. Eppinger has ordered com- last plete rest for Stalin. He has ad- bride's night: "I am sure they are going to vised him not to leave the Kremlin be very happy."
for some time.
MAN SAVED AFTER
DAY AND NIGHT
DOWN 28ft., WELL
Lowestoft, June 15.
After having been buried by falling earth 28 feet down
a well and trapped for 17 hours, a man was dragged to safety at Kessingland, near here, to-day and taken to hospital in a critical condition.
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The man, William Mallet (52), a bricklayer, display- great courage during his long ordeal, directing the rescue operations and joking with his rescuers.
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Ho had been at work on the well yesterday and was ascending Yesterday 22, survivors of the Vic- toria including Mrs. Hansen, wife of when a portion of the sides caved in and he was burled up to the the chief engineer, and a passenger
were landed at Newcastic by the neck.
British motor vessel Karamea.
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Campers from Kessingland Holiday; unth Mallett was eventually freed by
One member of the crew jumped into the sea but was picked up by Camp, which the well is to serve, ran the combined efforts of campers, local the ship's boat which jammed as it to his help. was being launched.
With quick presence of mind an officer whipped out a knife and cul the rope.
Mrs. Hansen, the one woman
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Miss Muriel Mounter, of Forest) Gate, London, who is convalescing after an operation, offered to descend the shaft, declaring that she was the
J. Neilson, the second officer of the smallest and lightest of the party.
men and fremen, police and Corpora- tlon workmen from Lowestoft,
WORK BY LÄMPLIGHT Mallett himself directed rescue work which went on through the night with the aid of light from hurt- caño lumps.
He was so weak, however, that he
restoratives of brandy and
Victoria, said: "There was no panic. She was kept back and another had to be supported by a sling and The ship took a list and slowly cop cumper, Mr. Frederick Reading, of given
oxygen. sized a few minutes after we got Kentish Town, went down.
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After seven hours work soll had been cleared from around Mallett
clear."
Carl Isberg, of Copenhagen, the pas He had cleared/earth from Mullett's songer, who is visiting England on face when a second fall forced him to down to his legs, but the suction of
our | return is the surface. holiday, nid: "We all lost
sand and water at the foot of the well clothing and other personal belong-
A local man, Mr. Stanley. Brown, held him fust and it was with the ings, because there was no time to collect, anything in the rush to clear took Reading's place and remained greatest difficulty that he was finally the ship."
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