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THE effects of the new sleep.
inducing barbiturates on the mind are so profound and vary so much with different patients that prescribing these drugs entails a gruve responsi-
Hongkong Telegraph.bility
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1938.
THE STATE AND INDUSTRY
A young widow came to see me. Her husband had been killed in an accident. She was distraught with grief. She went into trance-like states in which, she declared, she talked for hours with her dead hus- band.
I
At night she could not sleep. Great Britain built up her It was clear to me that she industries and established her might commit suicide. I could commercial supremacy during have suggested rest, a change. the nineteenth century under and a tonic. But I feared ghc. policy of individualism and needed more than that to help private enterprise. It was then her to regain her mental ba generally accepted that the lance.
A barbiturate would be State should concern itself as the very thing; but would little as possible with industry, be setting her on the dangerous trade and commerce. Actually, path to addiction? I had to politics were nol so completely choose. divorced from industry as was Six weeks of barbiturate generally supposed. Parliament treatment made her sleep sound- passed laws governing hours of ly; the trances grew shorter and labour, the employment of wo- less frequent. She regained a men and children, and general tranquil state of mind.. conditions in factories and
mines; but on the whole the A Case of "Nerves" industrialist suffered compara-
tively little official interference NOW for the other side. A
in the conduct of his business,
and he asked little in return
from Earliament..
Many other nations followed the same lines when they de veloped their own industries.: They adopted British machines,
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policy. Now all that has been In the "totalitarian" changed. states-namely, Soviet Russia, Germany and Italy-industry is
patient came into my con- sulting room last week, com- plaining of sleeplessness and
BAFFLER
The pendulum swings just ONGE before stopping! 11 must STOP at the end of EACH swing to change directions!
during the past 15 years have
amounted
to
£130,000,000.
"nerves." She
was a stranger, but lived not far away. I pres- safe eribed 21 dose of a bar. biturate. A couple of nights ago I was sum- moned urgently to her home. in a She was state of collapse.
on
Dangerous Drugs
Are Harder
to Get, but.
T
HE prescription and sale of "ensp death" druga-particularly the sleep-inducing barbiturates-present to-day one of the most seriaus pre lems to the doctor and the chemist.
The new Poison Sale Regulations, which came into force in Hongkong on January 1, will have its good effect. It is much more difheult to buy these drugs, across the counter at the chemist's shop than it used to be, But still there are loopholes.
The difficulties facing the doctor are many, and they are explained in this article-
By
BAFFLER
"See that old bird going out the door, Harry?" asked Fre derick Wilton, head of the watch and clock repairing department of New York's largest Jewellers. "What's his particular form of inlness?"
"He told me that his old grandfather clock, which had been in the family for genera- tlons, had finally stopped, and he wanted to be sure that the person entrusted with its re- pairing really understood grand- father clocks, Iussured him we dld-thni we have repaired many of the famous clocks In the country.
"Have you?' he snapped. "Well, let's see what you know about them. This clock of mine, will run one complete day for every turn of the key, up to
sight turns, and the pendulum swinga from one side to the other in one and a half seconds. It's now run down, but if I turn the key seven times and swing the pendulum from ita centre position to the right, how many swings will it make before It
got out my penell and be- Kanguring. When I finished I looked up, but the old boy had gune. I fully spotted him iulk- ing to the manager and went over. So you finally got it. Well...let mo
ch? her."
see that
"I showed it. to him. He took ane look, went up in the air, and out he stalked,"
"Well, how inany Umes does the thing swing?" Harry de- manded.
Leuk at fool of Cufumn Four.
Most
A Local Physician People
were
On her table were five boxes It was the frequency with
labels which the barbiturates with different chemists'
them. All
marked used for suicide which led to a were
free "The Tablets. To be taken as public outery against the directed.?
and easy way in which they were to be obtained. She had gone to four other doctors in the neighbourhood, Watch for Forgeries told them the same story and
Believe
In Luck
done think
got in each case a prescription THEN on January 1 the law
SCIENTISTS and phil-
osophers have for barbiturate tablets to last stepped in and stringent re-
were brought into their best to make us gulations her three days.
force. The barbiturates can clearly; but they don't seem to The chemists disposed them now be sold only on a prescrip- have done very well, in accordance with the law and tion, but a doctor may direct a retained the prescriptions. But repetition at stated intervals for the law, though strictly adhered patients who require treatment to, had failed to prevent her over long periods. from obtaining what might have been a fatal dose.
Fortunately, she recovered.
Sleeping Potions
"and
faces
Modern people have belief's that wouldn't be out of place in a tribe where the witch doctor hovers over everybody and puts voodoos on the things he doesn't
want touched.
The chemist has to retain his prescriptions for two years and to submit them to a Government inspector whenever required. The belief that so many of us Attempts will almost certainly have, that il-luck will follow THAT is the problem which be made to forge prescriptions, walking under ladders, spilling doctors, chemists but chemists are as keen-eyed salt, marrying in May, getting "the law. How are as-bank-cashiers-to-detect such the number thirteen, shows.. people to be prevented effee. attempts, and the penalties are we're as superstitious to-day as when our ancestors looked out of lively from buying, dangerous correspondingly heavy.. drugs in excessive quantities? The effectiveness of the new their caves and read symbols in The trick I have just men- restrictions in preventing the the lightning and portents in the tioned has been often played indiscriminate purchase of dan- thunder.. before it
When Daily Express readers became
drugs necessary gerous
can easily be,
in over the country sent 1 on January
have to
a realised. Take, for instance, all
the person who, letters some time ago telling us prescription for all barbiturates. the case of
of some unforeseen the things they carried in their I mention barbiturates parti- because cularly because they have been worry or misfortune, is plunged pockets or their handbags, more
****************ICHHODDETSUITCHOGCICONONOBASTOMOSesos vate initiative; the State is During the financial year 1936-7 the means of many suicides dur- into a fit of intense depression than half of them mentioned
MAINTAIN
CONSISTENT
ADVERTISING
DURING
1938
the
It is the consistently advertised product which makes the steady gain in sales. This way consumer is constantly reminded of a particular product. Newspaper advertising is pre- ferred to any other form because it enables the advertiser to place his message before the consumer in the most effective manner.
It can be changed every day. It does not become monotonous. The "South China Morning Post" and "The Hongkong Telegraph" provide the finest media, guar- anteeing the largest morning and afternoon circulations.
Mako 1938 a more prosperous year by using the two loading nowspapers.
now occupies itself very
direct subsidies to industry totalled £17,000,000.
com-
London
nerve. remedies.
The
dencies.
insufficient,
On the other side, Don Brad- man played the game under a spell cast by three chicken wish-
neither individualistic nor does its enterprise depend upon pri-
ing the past few years, and be- and desperation. He sees death some lucky charm or mascot.
Factorics with hundreds of supreme. Unrestricted compe-
way out especially the cause, under the guise of a score as a tition is dead. In one country
During
workers are kept busy supplying death by barbiturate; of numes, they have been sold easy agriculture at any rate competition has 1937-8 those to been almost completely elmin alone will amount to £12,000,000 freely as sleeping potions and poisoning. If he could dash out a demand for lucky trinkets.
Nearly every man and woman and buy the necessary drug un-who goes in for sport has faith ated, and under the other-and more, if prices fall:
So subtle Another direction in which
are they in their hindered, he would do it. dictatorships it is regulated by
But when he has to face the in a particular lucky charm or the State has moved has been effects that many practitioners the State.
in the control of public utilities, making dally calls on parties formality of visiting a doctor mascot. G. O. Allen, England Test captain, depended on a 48. In Great Britain there have such
as water, gas, and elec.prefer to leave just the requir- and making up a credible story piece, minted in Queen Victoria's been considerable modifications tricity monopolics, and its grined dose-one or two tiny tablets...when he finds that the quan Jubilee Year, to win the toss. of the nineteenth century policy on transport has been consider--each day, so that there can be tity prescribed is of laissez faire. Parliamentably tightened. Examples of no danger of an overdose.
and that to get more he would much the British method of
memory especially is have to visit other doctors, as with industrial and commercial promise, of continuing private affected by these drugs, and it my patient did-when he meets bones. affairs; but the principle of com- ownership, or part ownership, is easily possible for a patient these difficulties he usually aban- plete State control and regula- under Government charter, to forget that a dose has been dons his desperate idea. The Sportsmen's Mascot tion has not been adopted. As whereby the public authorities taken and to take another one. mood of depression passes.
A safe, The law, if it does not ab- in most other matters the have the decisive word in mat-The margin between
JIM MOLLISON has a lucky rabbit's paw- Government has taken theters of general policy, are the therapeutic dose and a fatal one solutely prevent a person from middle course. Private enter- London Passenger Transport is small. Five times the proper obtaining a fatal dose, at least favourite mascot of many aporta- prise and initiative are still Board and the Central Elec- amount may endanger life. Even interposes a delay, which, in men; Jack Lovelock, the Empire moderate doscs have been most cases, breaks down the miler, puts his faith in an old encouraged; a restricted indivi-tricity Board. The
straw hat; Campbell, the golfer, dualismn is allowed; but the Passenger Transport Act, 1933, known to induce desperate ten- temptation to impulsive action.
stepped in State has
toauthorised the amalgamation of
Nearly every doctor knows of in his match againat James Mc- influence, to encourage, or to the Underground Railways, the
Yet these drugs are highly people who would now be dead Lean, shot three successive support industry and commerce tramways and the bus services valuable in modern practice. if they had been ablo-as they birdies after he had touched his as occasion demanded.
rush lucky penny. In re in the London area into
One, which is the drug used be- were before January 1 to one
There are men and women gard to the workers the State corporation. The Central Elec-fore operations, is so effective to the nearest chemist and get
advanced enormously dur-tricity Board was established by that patients often refuse to be "fifty dial tablets, quickly please!" walking about to-day with pieces ing the present
tolleve that century Act of Parliament in 1926
the operation
That is how the law is saving of potato in their pockets--so
that they won't Parliament interests itself not link up all electricity services in taken place at all.
get the rheumatism. only in their pay, and in their the country and construct main
Nutmegs to hours and conditions of labour, transmission lines for the supply
ward off-boils; but in their health, their educ-of electricity in bulk for distri-Government and facilitate " to function irrespective of na-shark's teeth to stop cramp tion, the welfare of their bution. Both Boards are sub-considerable amount of reor- tional requirements and Govern- blue glass bends to keep bron- children, their homes, and their ject to Government control in ganisation, involving lower costa ment control. Parliament takes chitia away; pieces of cel akin as a preventive against deafness various ways, but financed by and general stabilising of con- rapidly increasing interest in maintenance during periods of
Control, in order to the nation's industries, but it all have their supporters to unemployment and when they private capital and have yet ditions." rench old age.
wide freedom of initiative and maintain prices, has been com- exercises its powers in the swear that they are Infallible pulsorily introduced in some traditional British manner. Pri- remedies. In fact, the health recent action. At the opening of
industries, including conl, her-vate initiative and effort are mascots are the most popular of Parliament the Sessions of
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the ring fishing and agriculture. still encouraged; the individual all. King's Speech has been con- cerned referred to an Swastika Beliefs
with Government mea-Prime Minister, in a recent Another form of intervention, still retains his independent out-
co-ordinates Individual fishing, important development-the of-sists of measures to increase ment cottoni, electricity,
PEOPLE foresaw in efforts and private organisation, agricultural, film and transport ficial encouragement, or
when Hitlor camo into It is therefore a mistake to to the end that they may minis-power. Not because of anything sub-enforcement, of central control Government industries.
could collaborate with the industry and commerce continue national needs.
(Continued on Page 4.)
has
even Industrial efficiency.
has
life.
❤❤❤'sklica and loans to industry within certain industries, which assume that in Great Britain] ter: In the best possible-way to ho said or did, but because he
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