THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY? JULY
ALARM AT PATERNITY BLOOD TESTS EMPIRE
Bill
To Demand Safeguards
"DAILY MAIL" TO MAKE
TESTS
(By Hamish Fraser)
SUCH anxiety is being expressed at the dan- gerous possibilities in unrestricted and unregulated employment of blood tests in re- lation to paternity cases that Lord Merthyr is going to introduce a Bill in the House of Lord this session in an attempt to regularise the position.
The Daily Mail also-in view of the intense public in-
NEWS
- AUSTRALIAN AIR MAIL CRITICS
Sydney.
The agreement reached for flying-bost mail service three times n week between England and Aus- tralin, beginning in August, la gen- erally welcomed. Satisfaction is also felt that a service between England and New Zealand in 1likely to start early next year.
Business men, however, protest
against the Federal Government's adherence to the d. per half-ounce rate.
cumpared with the Britishi 11⁄2d.
It la pointed out that the Australian Post Once in the past few years has made reeved surpluses.
The dissatisfaction is increased by the ansouncement that the existing ur mail service from England har becu late 14 times since Jun. 1. On 12 occasions this was due to delays between England and Singapore,
Attention is also drawn to the fact that the Royal Dutch Air Line ser- view from Sydney, which begins on July 7, offers a tramit time to Europe of eight days. compared with the nine days of the Empire service. New Zealand
UFS
General Victor Vulllemin, chief of the French Air Force general staff, greeted by Sir Kingaley Wood, British Secretary for Air, on a visit to London. Visit wus almed to co-ordinate air services of the two nations for war.
HOT COAL: FATHER DISMISSED R.A.F.,
terest in the matter has decided to make an exhaustive ELECTION PROSPECTS GIVEN GRATUITY
investigation of these tests with the purpose of revealing to what extent they are reliable and where serious errors may arise.
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Auckland.
At the font session of Parlament tize Guvernment's national health
Insurer and peusjuris legislation will be passed.
Therare grave perik in the un-
In the hands in serum of polities imagebates, so lettre lus ploerd
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TANLEY PARRACK, 27-year-old leading aircraftman at Hendoų, fined £25 on June 2 for cruelty, including making his seven-year-old son pick up live coals, is to be
dismissed from the R.A.F.
Since the tests are now demanded with increasing
The General Elections will probably take alace in November, and the frequency in cases before the courts, high medical and mo Litler campaign in the Do-
mixin's history is expected. Elec- Sir Kingsley Wood (Air Minister) made this an- legal authorities feel that written to The Daily Mail.
tioncering has begun cartier unless drastic steps are extracted and unregulated employer before, and everybody is think.nouncement in the House of Commons recently. taken serious lapses of jus-ment of blood tests tice may occur and bring werful and dangerous instrument aluerity will discredit on seientific dis- the nibuslast
which they are using it calls angra coveries which, if properly way for prompt anal searching used, can save 1,000 innu- ungary mic its rehability, and the
method of its application frum ope
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Savage and bus colleagues reamplain heavy taxation, the hugi that a muroscopic analysis of blood ha de pretence that unem shy- Lord Merthyr is actively in-can definitely place a man mesived terested in the matter by virtue anteny dispute among either met die, wat psind, and of the land of his position as vice-chairman possibles in the fimposables What
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I understand that the mam provisions of his Bill tre that
(1) If a blood test is de manded by either party or further pro- by the court, ceedings will be deharred unless it is carried out. must (2) The test made by
pathologist chosen from a special panel approved by the Lord Chan- cellor.
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The Bill will have the support of all medical M.P.8.
Already special arrangements are being made by the Assoctalim of Clinical Pathologists to set up a cen- trat bureau from which all serum used in these tests will be despatched after spectat cheek on its accuracy. I ran reveal that there is, in fact, certain element of doubt about the absolute validity of one type of test much used to-day in mediet-legal
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work.
This has devklerk the sponsors of Lord Merthyr's Bill to limit its ap- plication for the time being to tests for four blood-groups only. WHAT THE TESTS ARE
Parenthood testing is possible be- cause everyone's blood can be classi- fled into groups by means of reac- tions between the cells of the blood und certain seru.
The result of the test is to prove one of these alternatives.
(1) That he could not be the father.
(2) That he might be,
[Ne test, of course, can prove that he is the father.}
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This is how the test is done: A single drop of blood is taken by needle-prick from the subject and mixed with saline. To separate por- tions of this mixture are added drop of cuch of the testing sera.
By observing which scrum canses the blood cells to clump together the group is determined. in the simplest form the test re- quires two sera-A and D. If, after
None will dispute that anything short of But would make the test worse than useless
**Bust
we not
BANK CLOSES ITS
DOORS
Calcutta.
have
bren
benches of magistrates me acting as though the answer to the question were an untrend-
Winch with The 50 branches Uroughout Iulia Labing affirmative.
the Travancore National the greatest ruspect to the un- alyst wha make the testa) 18 Quilon Tank have suspended bust- very for from the truth.
For a mouth their has been ]] V
often seen
THW a run on the bunk by depositors, and
share quotations Lacientie witnesses in murder trials its
give varying evidence is to the de-stumping. ductions properly to be drawn from In a statement issued by the bank an examination of blood spots?
alleged that the present position "Paternity blood-test experts way of the bank is due to hostility in be different from their brethren politicut cireles. An appeal is to be Perhaps they are right; perhaps they made to the Government of India to are
All wrong. Until
(emsonable } inture into these allegations, It is doubt has been removed, their con-acided that the bank will remain casions ought net, in my opinion, elosci till July 1. to be necepten
The bank, which
advertises Kn
"There are vital matters at stake, | issued
på of about £375,000, Not least of them is the liberty of¦ and reserve funds of £325,000, bas the subject, in 1936 850 men were anung Its clients many small it committed to
to prison for default un- vestors of Travancore, which la er uffiliation orders many of them State In the Madras presidency. refusing to pay as a protest against
Cawapore
pore Strike Moves. It is
la pro
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what they considered a miscarrings dieted that there will be an early
justle. The magistrates make resumption of
resumption of negotiations to end over 4,000 such orders every year. the general srike in Cawnpore, which Before they ronke an arder, the has instext 37 days. A deputation of law requires that the complainant's employers will call upon the Prane story be corroborated in some ma. Minister of the United Provinces to terial _particular."
discuss the recommendations of the "In one cas brought to my
Labour laquiry Committee set up by notice a bench of magistentes
the locul government. These accepted evidence of "might be as, in itself, suficient corrobora- tion, and made an order. "In any case, where is the Bench which would not be prejudiced by the disclosure that a blood test in
diented that the defendant could be the father, being of the right group?
have been told of another
case
Asked if any provision would be made for the wife and son, the Air Minister said there would be a service gratuity, and Par- ruck would be placed under the Unemployment Insurance Acta.
During the police court proceed- jenek, said: "This is a case of shock- TIDES, when Parrack was convicted, |ing ill-treatment, and one really de- If vtu to the magistrates were told that if he servlag of imprisonment, were sent to prison it would mean not pay the Bne within one month
nud Jus discharge from the RAF
you will
for go to prison that the would leave his wife and
months." children without meris,
MOTHER-IN-LAW'S PLEA
JALY
Mrs. Jaly Gibbs, mother-in-law.
told n
three
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ANGRY CROWDS Parruck's After the case, people reporter: "strated outside Purruck's have not seen him since the police Picton Streef. Brighton. Angry Court proceedings and do not know feroveds shouted "Lynch him." and where he is. All 1 want is to have had to be dispersed by the police in the custody of the boy given to me. the early hours of the morning. He was with me until August of lust Accommodation
year
provided
jelsewhere for Purrack and his faml- At the house in Rowan Avenue, ly Crowds hissed him as he drove Hove, where Mrs. Parrock hus re-away. cently been staying with relatives, It was thought that Parruck had it was stated last night: "Mrs. Par gone to stay with his brother who rack is In London with her husband.
was an offleer in the Eust Sussex We do not know the address."
polica. Parrack had claimed that, when he made his son pick up the coals with his bare hands, he did not know the coal was so hot, nor that the boy vs really burned, The magistrate,
Dennis Parrack, the son, is now in a public institution at Brighton,
A friend at Hove said she under- stood there was a possibility of Mrs. Parrack leaving Brighton for Lon- sentencing Pardon, where her husband had gone,
Case In Private,
"To Ensure
Fair Jury Trial"
PRESS representatives and public were asked to leave
the court at Nottingham recently when Charles cluded wages increases in the textile Ruscoe (30), described as a traveller, of The Cottage,
industry. South Africa
FOOT-AND-MOUTH IN
Beck Road, Scunthorpe, Lines, was charged with the manslaughter of Mrs. Kathleen Joyce Crossley (27), of Farnsfield Avenue, Burton Joyce, near Nottingham.
He was further charged with driving to the danger An outbreak of foot-and-mouth of the public, and, after a sitting lasting until late even- disease has occurred in Northern ing, was committed for trial at Notts Assizce,
NATAL
Capetown.
Natal, and is now admitted by the Veterinary Department to be ex-
Mr. P. C. Williams, chairman of the Bench, said: "In the event of the man being committed for trial it is important, if he is to have a fair trial, that he should be tried by a jury having no prior knowledge of the case. The magistrates, therefore have decided to hear the evidence in camera.'
in which a blood test showed that the defendant could not be the father-yet the girl had received a letter from him admitting patemity! "Before ingerprints were adopted tremely serious, though no death has into the police
vol accurred. The affected herd system, they were numbers 800 and is located in the searchingly investigated by a mittee set up by the Home Secretory
Helpmakaar district. In 1900.
Inoculation is
is frequently adopted "No less important is it that this as a precautionary measure in out- new process be probed in the same
breaks of fout-and-mouth discase. In 1932, 185,388 head of enttle were dict of manslaughter against Ruscoe, inoculated in Southern Rhodesia,
half an hour, microscople examina-way.
lon shows that the cells have been clumped by serum A only, then the
blood tested betongs to group B and DOCTORS
vice-versa. If neither affects the
cells, the group is O, while if both
de the group is AB.
These properties of blood are here-
ditary. It is impossible for a child
com-
A coroner's jury returned a ver-
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WANTED Kenya
Capetown.
ELEPHANTS
KILLED
BY ORDER
Nairobi.
who was the driver of a car which alleged to have struck Mrs. Crossley on a path at sight,
When charged with manslaughter Ruscoe said: "I plead not gulity."
BENCH'S POWERS This decision to hear a case in
follows private
speech by Mr. F. J. O. Coddington, Bradford Stipen- diary Mugistrate, to the Magistrates' Association at Leeds, in which he pointed out that Benches can take depositions in Indictable enses in camera.
He added that he had never heard of this being done.
to belong to a blood group different HERE are too few doctors in the from that of his parents, as both Union of South Africa, accord- contribute to determining the grouping to the South Africa Medical
By means of A and B tests--cou-Journal. two more recently dis- pled with
The latest register states that there
last covered enlled M and Nit le possl-is one registered doctor
In various parts of Kenya ble to distinguish 12 groups.
to 2,443 year 201 elephants were killed by people. The total number of such official order of the Game Warden's The chances of a man clearing doctors at the beginning of this year Omee. The order was necessitated himself by a blood test vary, accord- ing to his group, from 65 per cent
by the depredations of the beasts in
dington, "you get columns pnd The number of medical students native to 8 per cent.
plantations, and medical and surgical nurses hus!
particularly large pair of celebres reported in the Press before One THE DANGERS
decreased considerably since last tusks was sold to the New York
the year.
person charged over comes for Museum of Natural History.
trial at all.
Although all authorities agree that the A-B tests are as Infallible as Anger prints, there are grave dir-
aculties.
One fa that not all samples of test sera are reliable; the other that only a few pathologists are sufficiently practised in the re- finements of the test for their report to be 100 per cent, roll- able.
was 2,000.
"On the contrary," said Mr. Cod.
columns of evidence of most cases
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San Francisco.
Toledo. For-famed California climate of An anti-chiselling ordinance which winter sunshine received a hard blow provides a fine of $100 or 30 days' here when Kobert Quest, 11, who jail sentence for falsifying applicu- had left Woodland for a tour of the tions for relief, changing relief orders, world, gave up the trip here. He and not reporting change in financial Lowyers are well aware of this. A told the police it was too cold to status, has been adopted by the city chairman of Quarter Sessions has continue.
council.
Revenue girls win
UNEST
more pay
【NESTABLISHED women tell-
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The Civil Servies Clerical. As- sociation claimed the increase as compensation for the failure to establish tho women with pension rights...
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