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TUESDAY JULY 1, 1924

TONGKONG UNIVERSITY.

UNPAID DOCTORS.

FREEDOM NEVER ABUSED. MEDICAL MEN AND THE

The following letter, signed Bangsa Orang Cheena" has been

addressed to the Editor of the North-China Daily News-

Sir, Having recently come to Shanghai from Hongkong where I stayed for over two months on a visit to my brothers and fifty odd friends who are students of the Hongkong University, I believe am in a position to answer your correspondent "Concerned."

No fault is to be found with the

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discipline of the HKU. In fact discipline there is of a far superior kind to that of a great many so- called colleges and universities scattered all over China insomuch as there is much difference in the Constitution and training aimed at

CALL OF HUMANITY.""

Of late; says the Medical World,

there has been a crop of instances where u doctor refusing to answer summons to a serious case has been pillorled as a result of an inquest. We have referred to one in which the remarks of a well- known novelist occasioned much newspaper comment; in another doctor in the north was censured by a coroner's jury because It was stated he. refused to visit an aged woman without pre-payment of his fee, so that she

died unattended by any medical man. As it appeared that the deceased had long been alling and was quite past medical aid, a censure seems undeserved. In a country district where all the circumstances, financial as well as clinical, of a patient are known to the doctor he may be excused if he demurst to making. a long, useless, and unpaid, visit with the added disadvantage of an actual out-of-pockent loss in car expenses. These are all matters outside the ken of a lay critic. Itis bad enough for a man who has his living to earn to be expected to work for nothing, but This being the case the 'Varsity when he incurs a tangible pecu students have never intentionally public are so fond of describing a may be justly proud that her niury loss by obeying what the abused the freedom granted them."the call of humanity" it is neces-

Most of the students of the HK.U; hail from Malaya and the Dutch Indies, places where self-govern. ment for the student body is the practice Consequently we would expect to find the students there given opportunities whenever practicable and advisable to govern themselves with one of the pro- fessors standing by to give any aid required.

WILLS AND. "BEQUESTS.

MANY LEGACIES TO CHARITIES.

Ltd.,

Mesure.

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Alderman Thomas Hunter, J.P., Leamington, Warwickshire, and of of Claremont, Guys Cliffle-avenue, Rugby, chairman of Thomas Hunter builders, of Rugby, an aiderman of the County Council, who died December 8 last, aged 60 years, leaving estate of the gross value of £181,629, gave:

St. Cross, Rugby, for a Wilfred £1,200 to the Hospital of Hupter Bed in memory of his late

son.

£500 to the

Trustees for

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Pur poses (registered) upon trust for investment and to apply the in- renewal of the roof of the Wesleyan come primarily for the repair and Methodist Chapel, Market-place, Rugby, and subject thereto.for the general purposes of that chapel.

£200 to the Royal Midland Counties Home for Incurables. Leamington Spa.

Paxton, of 73, Murray road, Rugby, £150 to his foreman, Frederick in recognition of his long and faithful service.

Mr. George John Chapman, M.A., F.Z.S. of Carlecotes Hall, Penistone, Yorks, of Hill End

WC., barrister-at-law, Lord of the House, Mottram-in-Longdendale, Cheshire, and of Lincoln's Inn,

Dec. 27 last, aged 75 years, left estate of the gross value of £154.541. The testator left: each year of service, whichever be One year's wages, "or £10 for the greater, to each servant at Carlecotes in his service at his decease.

THE CHINA MAIL.

PYING JOCKEY.

BATTERED BY HOOFS OF

RACEHORSES.

How a fallen fockey was trampled.

Arnold Higgs, 19, son of Mr. W. course, was told at the inquest on on by racehorses as he lay on the

Higga, trainer and ex-jockey, who was fatally injured while riding his father's horse, William Tell, at Chester,

Mrs. Louisa Smith Wood, of Winchcombe; Chelterthani, said stambie and pitched the jockey the Higgs's horse appeared to over his head. The hind legs of his own horse caught him while he was on the ground, and the fore- legs of a horse following came on to his chest. The hind leg of the

hini same borse caught him and rolled

cause the horse to stumble it has over. She saw nothing to been stated that a woman running

ACTOBA the course emused the accident).

Dr. Lees said that four ribs were Interntion of the right lung. fractured and there was exterisive.

Mr. Warnsley: secretary and manager of the race company, said he inspected the course and found nothing to upset a horse, and the course at the spot was practically straight...

a tirrup leather broken after the Mr. Higgs Inter stated he found

at we returned

Afterwards the parents travelled

to Calne. Wiltshire, where the by.train with the body of their son) funeral took place.

My statement tay give occasion sary for him to strike a balance Manor of Hattersley, who died on accident. A verdict,of Accidental | for the question, is it better between his humanity and the duty thus?"

All educationalists who he owes to his family. But om- had tried this method of control phatically this applies only to such would without doubt reply in the cases as that quoted; a summons affirmative.

to an emergency or an unknown case demands a compliance with ethical canons no less than the exercise of common sense. We have a well-founded suspicion that most of the people so loud in decrying a doctor who hesitates to

One month's wages to each servant at Hill End, Motrat-in-years; left estate of the gross value Longdendale, in his service at his of £42.631. Testator left:

£100 to the Official Trustees of

employees).

The Postel chairman (elected annually) assisted by a committee of eight, is responsible for calling the roll of his hostel, morning and evening absences are reported to the Warden. There is, I think, only one case on record of a work without, payment are those decease (including his gardener Charitable Funds, upon trust to pay student failing to observe regula, slowest in nireting their own Dutton, but excluding farm or estate the income to the vicar and tion hours after having been Does this not show the warned. general conduct of the students?

Tutors of the H.K.U., so far as I know, are broadnijnded men "of experience who know better than to treat the students like schonl. boys to hard and fast regulations like the rules of the twice one ate two table,

doctors, Bill, if, indeed, they trouble to pay any attention to thein..

IDEALS OF ' LOVE."

PROFESSOR'S GLOOMY

ANALYSIS.

For many years I have been greatly interested in the HK.U Viscount Astor, who presided and during the time no word at the Wembley Exhibition over reached me of students openty | the Imperial Social Hygiene coming into conflict with their | Conference, said the public should tutors.

be warned of immorality, of the palo, suffering, and death, and the infinitude of social unhappiness and misery, and of the cost to the State in money.

"Concerned" should write for the catalogue of the Varsity and subscribe to the Hongkong Univer- sity Union Magazine, should be really wish to know fully the con- diis existing there, for I can assure him the rumours he heard are unfounded.

The H.K.U., Magazine is wholly managed by the students in the interests of the students. On the cover are these words or some- thing similar, "Give me leave, a chapter as large as the wind, to blow on whomsoever I please."

KING'S MISSUS."

QUEEN HIGHLY AMUSED.

WEMBLEY INCIDENT.

An amusing incident occurred at Wembley while the King was inspecting the African weavers' primitive instruments,

Ap official explained to the native in charge who the King was, saying in the native language, "This is your lord and master" The native bowed law,

Then the official said, "This is the Queen," but the native failed to understand, and the official whispered, "It is the missus of the "big King."

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HUMAN BALLAST.

SAERONAUT SAVED FROM THE SEA.

they reached each other the bout was in such a perilous state that the balloonist could not be lifted into it, and could only be supported in the water.

WIRELESS AT

SEA.

NEED FOR AUTOMATIC DEVICE.

church wardens of Galleywood, Mrs. Ellen Cohen, of 2, Cleve Chelmsford, to be by them expend land-terrace, Hyde Park, Wed in bread and meat to be given widow of Henry Louis Cohen, on Feb. 7 in each year to deserving

This series of buir-brendtli left estate of the value of £26,314 widows of 50 years and upwardsving his friend when both were de Mowbray, of the Fulford Hos Futernational Shipping Conference An nerunnut's great gallantry inescapes had been witnessed by Dr. The congluding sitting of the Under the provisions of the will residing in the Galley wood district. of her Husband she appointed £400 to Edith Maud Everhard, if

pital from the cliffs. He had £1,000 each to Gladys Lavinia still in his service.

driven off at full speed to tell the was begun at Leathersellers' Hally Abecasts, Alice Moses. and Florrie Moses.

coastguard what was happening. under the chairmanship of Sir Alan: A boat was hinuched by the cost- Anderson,

£1,000 each to the Almshouses of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, and the Emily Harris Home for Working Girls, Alfred-street, Tattenham-court. road.

£500 each to the London Ophthalmic Huspital, the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women, and Alexandra Hospital- for Children, with Hip Diseases.

£250 each to the Surgical Aid Society and the National Lifeboat Institution.

She herself gavej Men and women have hitherto £550 to her maid Maud P. been too reconciled to a compara-Pursey; and other legacies to tively low male moral standard, to † servants.

the sowing of wild oats, and to the 450 each to the Board of young man about town,

Guardians of the Spanish and

At all times, idleness and Portuguese Jews; the Jews' Board curiosity," he said, "have tempted of Guardians the Bayswater the young and the old to go to hell Jewish Schools; the Stepney to try and discover what is there." Jewish Schools; the De and Professor J. A. Thomson said it Dumb Home for Jewish Children; is probable that love has suffered the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots; considerable materialisation. "It the Association for the General is probable," he said, "that the Welfare of the Blind; the Hospital ideals of chastity, faithfulness, for Mental Disorders, Euston-road; control, and clear-mindedness Queen Charlotte's Lying-In Hos have been weakened, and that men pita!; the Evelina Hospital for in particular, even in a country Children; the Spanish and with our traditions, like pleasure Portuguese Synagogue; and the more and enduring hardness less Bayswater Synagogue, than their forefathers did.”.

Captain Markland Barnard, of Professor Thomson, declared Galley Doaa, Galleywood, four lines of education in social Chelmsford, Essex, formerly of hygiene gave good promise of the Royal West Kent Militia and success. These were: First, the of the Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, giving of sound lessons in phy. who died on Jan. 16, last, aged gr siology-physiology that did not ignore the reproduction system. Secondly, lessons on biological nature.

"Without sparing good botany The native, smiled broadly, and and zoology much may be done to held out his hand, which the let the open air and, sunshine into Queen laughingly took After the whole subject of sex and wards abe insisted on knowing reproduction," said the professor. ing what had been said to the man, The third line of education and when she was told, said. should be the development of Well, that's the first time that I external interest, preoccupations, have been described as the King's responsibilities and service, Finally missus,"

King George acted as guide to the King and Queen of Italy, and with Queen Mary made a tour of the exhibition. Their Majesties were much amused by the butter model of the Prince of Wales in the Canadian Pavilion.

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there was the pre-occupation of the mind with things that were comely, noble and of good report.

Sir Frederick Mott urged the encouragement of early marriages among people healthy in mind and body cudowed with three attri- butes of civic worth-courage, honesty and common sense.".

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£59,445

Other wills proved include:

GROSS Mr. Arthur Henry Wilson,

of Sandridge Park, Totnes, Devon Mr. Arthur Edward Sey mour Cake, of Accra, Gold Coast Colony, and of 51, Kensington Palace-manslous, W: £33,760 Mr. Daniel Edwin Petit-

jean, of 5 and 7, Ather ton-street, Liverpool... £26,355 Miss Harriet Mary Lees, of Holmeroft, 7, High- lands-road, Bromley, Kent.......... Mr. Alexander Graham, of Crigfin. James-place, Cupar, Fife, retired fanner...

£25,588

£24,713 Mrs. Caroline Fox," of Shute Leigh, Welling- Mr. Joseph Filley, of

ton, Somersetshire... £18,996

Glenfern villas, Chel builder... tenham, Gloucs., retired

... £17,295 Mr. Thomas Chalmers, of Harewood, Plymouth-

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grove, Manchester £16,625 Mr. Richard Clarke, of 8 St. Paul's-square, Burton- upon-Trent, retired en- gineer

...£13,382 Mr. George Carter, J.P., of Causeway House, Whit- Mr. Henry Paulson Bow

church, Hants, grocer £11,584 ing-Trevanion, solicitor, of 21, Amherst-avenue, Ealing, W.

£11,153

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perilled in u drifting and falling balion, was actually witnessed on May 18 by people in the 1ste of Wight and on the Hampshire

tanknd,

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A balloon was seen floating low in the sky over the Solent, obvious ly in danger of crashing as soon as it reached the shore.

guard. and the aeronaut Wax The report of the Drafting Com brought safely ashore He was mittee. which had considered taken to hospital and was found to international shipping matters was be suffering froin exhaustion. His presented. "On the question of first anxiety was to hear news of life-saving appliances and wireless telegraphy the report stated that

The spectators saw a man club | his friend, to the top of the basket, where hẻ A Daily News reporter is in the committee had kept in touch stood for a monitent, waved his hand formed that the aeronauts are two with the action taken by Govern to his friend, and then jumped into Frenchmen med Boitard andments in fixing the types of vessels" | the sea. • His friend emsied over Enis. They started from. St.upon which wireles was to be the basket top, and watched aim | Cloud, near Puris, at five o'clock-of-curried. It had used itrendenvoury hit the water, rise to the top, and tlie afternoon of May 17, in a through the national associations and strike out.

balloon race for the Aument otherwise to get Governments to The bullion then drifted inland Thioville prize. M., Bris was the adopt a reasonable standard and out of sight, rising higher, and pilot.

uniform practice as to exemptions. clearing ground obstacles, but still During the night they lost their The committee which had dealt obviously in danger,

bearings, and drifted out to sea, with this subject further pressed It drifted slowly until it reacheil By dawn they found that gas was upon Governments the urgent Houghton, near Stockbridge, when leaking from the envelope and that need for adoption of an automatio a Mr. Lionel Wells seized the trail the balloon was falling rapidly.device to receive emergency calls, rope and helped the remaining They threw out ballast in the and the adoption internationally of aeronaut to make a safe landing. form of sand as rapidly as they an emergency call which was best As soon as he reached the ground, could, but the balloon still fell calculated to make the use of such the neronaut rushed off to get news slowly. It was to prevent the craft apparatus effective.

The com of his gallant friend. He der from falling into the sea that M.mittee had suggested that a fresh tained that as soon as he struck the Buitard insisted upon jumping out. diplomatic conference was urgently water he swam off although partly Late at night on May 18, M. needed to review the conditions duked by the impact. A man on Enis. hurried to the Milford-on-Sea under which wireless could be used the cliffs who hud seen his exploit Hospital, and the two, friends had as a life-saver at sen to the beast ran down and lamicheď a boat," a joyful reunion. M. Boitard isadvantage. They had discussed The aeronaut was quite two going on well, although he states possible bases for a new convention miles out at sen; and his rescuer that he was on the point of drown-on this matter but, were not pre- found to his dianiay that his heating when assistance reached hins. pared yet to make any final recom- was leaking. He rowed on, how M. Enis, on the other hand, was mandation. ever, and the aeronut wwar able to land only just in time to steadily towards the boat. When escape a serious crash..

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