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S. P. C. AND THE MUI ALHAMBRA
TSAI PETITION
Hon. Directors Indicate Society's Attitude
INTERESTING MATTERS AT MONTHLY MEETING ·
THE PALESTINE PROBLEM
COMMISSION NOT AGAINST PARTITION
Two matters of considerable interest were discussed at the monthly meeting of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Protection of Children on Monday evening, these being the attitude of the Society to the mui-tsai problem and the question of the incidence of tuberculosis amongst children. Mr. J. T. Prior was in his completed its report to the the chair...
to
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welfare.
Geneva, Aug. 17.
The League Mandates Cominission
Council on the Palestine question.
It is understood that the Com-
and also to the necessity of frequent i continue paying her school fees and washing down of street channels, the position to be reviewed
| year. particularly in the dry season.
formation.
every
The mui-tsai question arose methods which had been employed mission will not object in principle from the receipt of a letter on with the spread of the disease, and transitional period, if necessary, with great success elsewhere to deal to partition, but that it will suggest behalf of the President of the concluded by saying that it was most with modification of the present Anti-Mui Tsai Society asking urgent that something should be mandate, In order to permit the the Society to support, either done in regard to this aspect of child examination and application of the contemplated partition in the best officially or unofficially, the
posiible conditions.-Reuter Bulletin. petition to the Secretary of The Hon. Sir Henry Pollock re- State for the Colonies whichferred to the danger of spread of the discose by indiscriminate spitting It was reported that Society is sponsoring. that the four Honorary Directors of the Suciety for the Protection of
The Hon. Dr. Li replied that these Another case was that of a boy Children had replied to the letter, stating that whilst the Society was were matters which would doubtless whose faster is a heroin addict and be considered by the Anti-Tuber-!
is at present undergoing a term of interested in all matters concerning culosis
losts Society which was now in
imprisonment. The boy had been the welfare of children in the
process of to Colony, and whilst it was anxious
Mr. G. F. de Martin remarkedsufering from scabies and was kept a time at the Po Leung Kuk, the do everything practicable in
had pre- interests of the unfortunate children that the Society for the Protection until cured. The Society in our midst, the Society must be of theten, would no doubt warily viously agreed to send him to the the sole judge of what it was prac-support any measures in regard to Taipo Rural Orphanage, paying. 500 children which might be taken in a year, and it was now reported that ticable for the Society to do,
tlils maller. further stated that the The Hon. Dr. Li stated that anyone, reply Hon. Directors were of opinion that interested in the work of the Anti-tion last Saturday, there was amongst the
the members of the Society's Executive Committee Tuberculosis Association should get into touch with its Hon. Secretary.
In another case which the Society Euch diversity of views
Miss Norah Kwok, at 301 Bank of
had financially helped, it was re- East Asia Building,
that the girl had now PULSE-POUNDING STORY OF MEN IN WHITE!} expediency, effectiveness and
nature of the proposals The meeting expressed gratifica- ported
It advocated in the petition that tion at the proposed formation of the qualified as a midwife, and that she would be quite hopeless to expect such a degree of unanimity as would Society, and added that it would be had written an expression of thanits
assist in any of its to the Society for its help. chable the Society, as a Society, willing to
Yet another case concerned a boy either to support or to oppose the activities so far as these concerned
of seven who had been adopted by petition. Therefore, the matter must children.
and
GIRL OFFERS $500
a former Chinese missionary and his be left to the individual views actions of members of the Society.
Several
were dealt with wife, a European lady, the lad being cases
the son of one of their co-workers, Copies of the petition were laid on during the meeting. In one of these who, when he died, asked the couple the table at the meeting for the It was stated that a girl aged 15
to care for the child. The couple convenience of those wishing to sign years, whose mother was killed in had since died, leaving the child in it, without committing the Society
the gasworks explosion in 1034 and in any way.
had been maintained by the Society the care of their daughter, who was now unable to carry on her parents" at the Victoria Home ever since, at work. Bishop Hall had investigated
had received XL cost of $80 per year, had
$1,000 IN HIS HANDS
BUT HE COULDN'T BUY His Girl COFFEE ! Ile faced death twenty-four a day ...... He worked in the blaze of gangland's guns, he couldn't take money for the service he rendered.
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în regard to the prevalence of sum of $500 from the Gas Com-the case and was willing to take the contribute $5 per tuberculosis amongst children, the pany as compensation, and that she boy into the Talpo Orphanage. It Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan stated that wished to make a present of the sum was decided to there was an enormous wastage of to the Society. It was reported that month towards the boy's upkeep."
Those present at the meeting, in child life in Hongkong at present, the girl, who wished to be trained due directly to the disease. Many us
as a nurse, had done excellently at addition to the Chairman, were the being very lon. Sir Henry and Lady Pollock, these children began life greally school, all her reports handicapped. Infantile mortality was fed to keep the girl at schoot for Shu-fan, the Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, favourable. Last year, the Sociely the Hon. M. K. Lo, the Hon. Dr. Li excessive, the rate being several
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be reviewed at the end of every Smith, Mrs. (Dr.) Dovey, Mr. and tries.
Mrs. A. Hicks, Mr. F. H. Loseby, Thousands of chlidren, said Dr. Lycar.
After discussion, it was decided to Mr. G. P. de Martin, Mr. S. v. only living in the same! were not room as their tubercular parents, but accept the sum of $500, but that it Boxer, Mr. A. el Arculli, Mr. F. under the same mosquito curtains. be car-marked for the girl's eventual Kwok, Mr. Tang Shlu-kin, and Mrs. Li then went on to explain various benefit, the Society meanwhile to D. Black, Hon. Secretary.
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Two calls were received by the Haw Par Ambulance Station yester- Kaiph Packam, who died at "Mend- day. In опе соке Ng Pun, 52, way", Kingston Lane, female, was removed to the Govern- Sussex, on December 10, 1930, lett ment Civil Hospital suffering from local estate valued at $30,400.
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