THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1937.
Walked To Dog Races With 6s. 6d. He Taxied
Home With £150
"MIRACLE" OF
2s. BET
DOCTORS TOLD:
STICK TO
BEDSIDE MANNER
DOCTORS who spend too
much time on scientific "ologics" and statistics, instead of straightforward diagnosis, physic and a comforting bed side manner, are trounced by Dr. Robert Hutchison, consult ing physician to the London Hospital, reviewing the year's progress in medicine in The Practitioner.
.
He says: "The effect of it all is both exhausting and expensive to the patient, so that the process of
London, Oct. 3.
unem-
Johu Walls, 30-year-old ployed clark, walked Into the Hurringay Greyhound Stadium one day Just week.
He had his last 35. In his pocket and he had walked all the way from Skdcup.
Walls, until he left Hürringay, was
like thousands of men in Britain to- duy.
the
For months he had roamed streets looking for work. His small stock of avings grew smaller. He sent his wife and two children back to her mother's home in Sheffield.
Last weeke Walls fourid himself with one thing left unpawned in the world. It was watch not a very good watch, but one that he valued because it had belonged to his father and his grandfather.
He took to a Sidcup pawnbroker, who gave him 10s. for it. FLUTTER ON THE DOGS
Walls ate the best meal he had
bad for months, found himself with
6, d. at the end of it. But he had been studying a mid-day paper in the cafe, and racing forms.
Enw some dog-
That brought back memories, for długnosis is now alten worse to enin the days when he was prosperous dure than the disease, and only the he had often had a flutter at the very rich or the very poor can afford dogs. 'modern methods of investigation.'
LEADS TO NEGLECT
Walls set out to tramp to north London. He paid is. 6d. to enter the stadium, was glad to find that Lite race-card Was included in the admission money. Gingerly he went to'n tote win- dow and but 23. on Bell Chain in the neglect of ordinary clinical first race.
"Too scintille a view of medicine causes an exaggerated importance to be attached to laboratory methods; and 'reports' of one sort and another
to the observation.
"The ultra-scientific outlook leads to a wrong attitude towards our work at the bedside... so many come to the sickroom think
It won at 7 to 1 and Wall's 5s. had miraculously become 10s.
He left the next race alone, but
winnings invested 10s. of his Binder Twine in the third,
од
That brought him in 30s.. which
ing of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healere put on Testudo for the fourth ruce
with a bookmaker..
NOW FOR A HOLIDAY
o got odds of 9 to 1, collected £15 when Testudo romped home.
Then Walls had a drink, and de- elded he would return to
Sidcup.
L glanced at his face-card again, and something held him back.
with a little knowledge helping Nature to get a sick man well." "This attitude is leading to a great deal of pseudo-scientific quackery.
is reason to doubt if the "There art of medicine, that is to say the application of existing knowledge in the management of the individual He had pawned his watch-West- patient stands as high to-day as it did a generation or two ago."
Dr. Hutchison snys that, while pre- ventative medicine is reducing the death-rate, the amount of invalidity is going up. He thinks we are more fussy about health than our predeces- sors; net more unhealthy...
TOUGH LITTLE MEN
He also has a word for the little rnan,
mingler Chimes must surely win the 9-42 race, he reasoned,
By D-40 he was so certain of the dog that he put all his £15 on it. This time he got 10 to --and Westminster Chimes won him £150.
Then Walls really did go home--
| In-a-taxi.--He stopped-on-the-way
for another good meal,
room
at
I found him in his Sidcup. As he packed n suitcase he was whistling happily.
These Pictures Will Puzzle You
In Mid-Air
"The relation of good physique | too resistance to disease is very uh-:
"Luck? No, I don't agree with Policeman Suspended certain, and may well be that the you," he said. "It was just а small man with no great muscular matter of working out the form..." development is really better Allied Now he is going to Sheffield for to stand the conditions of urban his wife and children, to take them life than finer physical specimens for a holiday to Scarborough. of the race."
London
Hospital gynaecologist
London, Oct. 25.
Eardley Holland, also has a knock talking and coughing is sufficient to suspect. His uniform got caught in
P. C. Thomas Davies ellmbed a Sft. fence surmounted by trellis at Wem- bley when he was in hot pursuit of a the woodwork and he was suspended for doctor-colleagues, Boys "that transmit bastacia,
In mid-air-until the trellis gave Way rc- *Not to wear an impermeable under his weight. The man was duced doctors took more care to mask is criminal negligence," he de-sentenced to 21 months' hard labour
proper tore-masks, that loud clares,
for burglary.
maternity death-rate could be
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Mother Going To Leper Colony
On a voyage half-way round the world which she has undertaken in order to act as companion for her son, Mrk Esther Southern, of Waterloo-rond, Blackpool, left Lon don recently in the liner Hator
Miaru.
colony
Mrs. Southern, who is 50 years old, is the mother of Mr. Robert Southern, native of Fleetwood, and she sailed for Penang, where her son is superintendent of a leper
BIT.
Robert Southern's wife, Rona Southern, of Glaston. bury-avenue, Marton, Black- pool, has refused to
to go out to Join
her haband while he is working At Ieper colony, Last May Blackpool magistrate ordered her husband to pay £1 a week maintenance, but recently i was announced that the Penang magistrates had refused to confirm the Blackpool order.
Here are two unusual photo- graphs submit-
ted by a reader, who says that
ho bas tested several of his friends, but not
one Ваз suc-
eceded in guess~- ing the subject tho matter of pictures. If you haven't already worked it out, the answers will be found at the bottom of Column Four.
Indians Soon Will Number
400,000,000
Unless thero are violent epidemie outbreaks, the popula- tion of India by 1011 will excred tho 400,000,000 mark, states Colonel A. J. F., Russell, Publie Health Comtalesioner with the Government of India, In his re- port on the health of India for 1935; which was published cently.
re-
"In Brillsh India alone up to the middle of 1835 approximate- ly afteen millions were added to the population since the last . census was taken in 1931," the
report states,
"Assuming that the same rate of increase has occurred in the Indian States, the population in India is a whole is stated to have increased since 1031 by 5 per cent., bringing the total esti- mated number to well over 370 millions,"
A friend of the family who lives RECOMMENDED
in Fleetwood told the press that Mrs. |
Southern has gone out to her son
for
componionship's Fake.
"She will have travelled
10,000
destination
nearly
her.
before she
she reaches her said the friend, and will disembark at Singapore, where her son will be waiting for There will then be another 400 miles
สมม journey to the leper colony,
"Bob's parents have stored their furniture, and his mother's fure has cost nearly £100. His father, Mr.
J. Southern, in
ving in lodgings absence, so that making Kroat
during him wito's the parents are sacrifice for their son."
The Pictures Represent-
The top one a square-front view of a stack of railway metals at Chatham Road, Kowloon
The other pleture, the same stack of Hines, taken from a different englo, (Pletures are by Mr. F. F. Moses of Kowloon).
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