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Birth Control Work in China.
A number of patients at the clinics have been women who have left Hong Kong to work in China with their husbands and who were therefore anxious not to have children under war conditions.
Appliances have also been sent to Shanghai, Hainan and Kweiyang as a result of requests received by the League.
The Executive Committee
The Executive Committee has continued to meet regularly during the past year at the offices of Messrs. Lo and Lo, to whom the League is most grateful.
The Committee report with much regret the resignation of Mr. W. A. Zimmern, owing to his departure from Hong Kong. Three new members have been co-opted on the Executive Committee, Mrs. D. E. Davis, Dr. T. J. Hua and the Rev. J. R. Higgs, whose services will greatly strengthen the League. The Executive Committee is also very grateful to Dr. I. Frommer, who for some time has given her services both at the Violet Peel and at the Kowloon Clinic.
Future Activities.
The organization of the three clinics in the Violet Peel Health Centre, the Kowloon Health Centre and the Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital and the three clinics in North Point, King's Park and Ma Tau Chung Refugee Camps has been completed during the year. The task before the League is that of educating the Chinese and European communities so that co-operation can be secured and the maximum benefit obtained from the clinics. Progress in this part of the League's work is very slow partly because of the lack of organization of the poorer class women, which makes it extremely difficult to make contact with those most in need.
Housing conditions in Hong Kong have steadily deteriorated during the past year; food prices have risen since the outbreak of the war in Europe and Japanese activities in China have resulted in frequent shortages of vegetables and other necessities. These economic factors have the inevitable result of lowering the standard of life with the consequent increase in malnutrition, tuberculosis and other poverty diseases. It becomes not only desirable but essential for the health of the next generation that there should be spacing and limiting of families. The infant mortality rate for Great Britain is fifty-eight, for Sweden thirty-eight, for Hong Kong 345. Nearly six babies die in Hong Kong for one baby in Great Britain. The differences in economic conditions and education account largely for this wastage of child life but a contributory cause is most certainly the wide-spread birth-control movement of Great Britain and Sweden and the lack of interest found in Hong Kong. To awaken the public to the importance of this issue should be the main task of the Eugenics League.
Medical Report
1939-1940.
The clinics at the Violet Peel Health Centre and at the Kowloon Infant Welfare Centre have been in operation throughout the period under review, and since the end of May, 1939, a third clinic has been opened at the Tsan Yuk Hospital. The attendances at the three clinics from 1st April, 1939 to 31st March, 1940, have been as follows:-
M 114
Birth Control Work in China.
A number of patients at the clinics have been women who have left Hong Kong to work in China with their husbands and who were therefore anxious not to have children under war conditions.
Appliances have also been sent to Shanghai, Hainan and Kweiyang as a result of requests received by the League.
The Executive Committee
The Executive Committee has continued to meet regularly during the past year at the offices of Messrs. Lo and Lo, to whom the League is most grateful.
The Committee report with much regret the resignation of Mr. W. A. Zimmern, owing to his departure from Hong Kong. Three new members have been co-opted on the Executive Committee, Mrs. D. E. Davis, Dr. T. J. Hua and the Rev. J. R. Higgs, whose services will greatly strengthen the League. The Executive Committee is also very grateful to Dr. I. Frommer, who for some time has given her services both at the Violet Peel and at the Kowloon Clinic.
Future Activities.
The organization of the three clinics in the Violet Peel Health Centre, the Kow- loon Health Centre and the Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital and the three clinics in North Point, King's Park and Ma Tau Chung Refugee Camps has been completed during the year. The task before the League is that of educating the Chinese and European communities so that co-operation can be secured and the maximum bene- fit obtained from the clinics. Progress in this part of the League's work is very slow partly because of the lack of organization of the poorer class women, which makes it extremely difficult to make contact with those most in need.
Housing conditions in Hong Kong have steadily deteriorated during the past year; food prices have risen since the outbreak of the war in Europe and Japanese activities in China have resulted in frequent shortages of vegetables and other necessities. These economic factors have the inevitable result of lowering the standard of life with the consequent increase in malnutrition, tuberculosis and other poverty diseases. It becomes not only desirable but essential for the health of the next generation that there should be spacing and limiting of families. The infant mortality rate for Great Britain is fifty-eight, for Sweden thirty-eight, for Hong Kong 345. Nearly six babies die in Hong Kong for one baby in Great Britain. The differences in economic conditions and education account largely for this wastage of child life but a contributory cause is most certainly the wide-spread birth-control movement of Great Britain and Sweden and the lack of interest found in Hong Kong. To awaken the public to the importance of this issue should be the main task of the Eugenics League.
Medical Report
1939-1940.
The clinics at the Violet Peel Health Centre and at the Kowloon Infant Welfare Centre have been in operation throughout the period under review, and since the end of May, 1939, a third clinic has been opened at the Tsan Yuk Hospital. The attendances at the three clinics from 1st April, 1939 to 31st March, 1940, have been as follows:-
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