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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1930.

WAR ON DISEASE COMMENCED.

Y.M.C.A. Spreads Health Propaganda.

"LIFE AND HAPPINESS."

A strenuous war on disease in general by educating the popu- lace was commenced yesterday, when the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association inaugurated their Health Week.

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A most interesting and instructive lecture was delivered by the Hon. Dr. A. 1. Wellington, Director of Medical and Sanitary Ser- vices, at the conclusion of which Mr. M. K. Lo addressed the gather-existence a hundredfeld. ing in Chinese.

The chair was taken by Dr. Chau Wal-cheung.

The Hon. Dr. Wellington in the

course of his lecture said that to help the public to develop & "ani- tary conscience" was probably the most urgent of all sanitary pro- blems.

"In this life health and happi- eas are closely related and life without happiness is not worth much. People do not live un- healthy lives and court Mickaess by cholee; It is because they lack anitary knowledge," said the lec- turer.

Hong Kong Chinese Medical Asso- clation, and

the Chinese Young Women's Christian Assoclution, is, to my mind, a very important event in this Colony, and I feel greatly honoured by being invited to this Opening Ceremony.

Still more recently, a great deal of work has been done in elucidat- ing the cause of food deficiency dis- enses, such as rickets and scurvy. and as knowledge regarding those mysterious factors in our diet known as the vitamins accumulates, we may confidently look forward to as great conquests in this branch of medicine aa there has been in Bacteriology. In this latter de- partment of medical research, hay ing discovered that bacteria are the cause of certain diseases, brilliant

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It is a common saying that "Health is not valued till sickness come." A healthy man does not of course worry about his health and so become a prey to imaginary ill investigators then went on to nesses. But everyone should take grapple with the problem "what did an intelligent interest in the cle- the bacteria do, and what could re- mentary principles of Hygiene and strain or prevent or control their Preventive Medicine, for these sub-infective career?" Thanks to their how thejects concern, not the treatment and inbours, we now know that though

cure of the sick, which is the bust the healthy body of a man may be. ness of the medical practitioner, but subjected to invasion by these On demand the attainment and preservation of micro-organisms. and suffer their Gold Leaf, 100 fine Health, which is so tremendously toxic effects, it can call upon its

(per tael) important to all of us, individually own blood and cellular tissues to Sovereigna and as members of a community.

fight against them.

He went on to say public could best be educated and made to devolop a sanitary con- science was by means of co-opera-

tion.

of the other.

Co-operation Urged. Co-operation, he said, was in-

Potions and Plasters. dependent of race, rank, creed,

The art of healing in some form occupation or wealth. But co-

or other must, I suppose, have exist operation was impossible unless there was mutual understanding, ed ever since and probably before trust and goodwill. Co-operation-civilisation began. To cure the would break down immediately sick, to alleviate the suffering, have when one party became suspicious at all times acted as a great impetus good intentions of the to human effort, although that effort must of course conditioned by the state of the human knowledge at the time. Mugic superpatural in- tervention, touch by a safred person, bloed-letting, potions and plasters, have all been resorted to. Medical practice became quite advanced long before the Christian era. In fact one great body of medical literature is associated with the name of Hippocrates 460 B.C.). In China Shen Nung (who lived about 4718

The lecturer, after dealing ex- haustively with good and bad microbes. the resistance to dis- case, immunity, prevention of dis- ense, went on to deal with medi- cine in general. The terms West era and Eastern medicine, he added, created a false impression on the mind. There was only one scientific medicine and neither Eust nor West had any monopoly concerning it.

Speaking on

the

control of small-pox, Dr. Wellington said

years ago) "tasted many hundred

herbs whence arose the art of heal Ing and medicine." But until at tion to Anatomy and Physiology as at present understood.

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to combat the horrors and fatalities of тапу diseases, such

ля tetanus, rabies, diph- theria and cholera, and vaccinea to stimulate the defensive forces of

the body either for prophylaxis or after bacterial invasion had begun.

According to modern ideas, the study of medielne must involve the

preliminary study of Anatomy, or,

in other words, the structure and form of the body, and physiology, or the study of the functions of the various organs of the body.

Chi-

that humidity and temperature least 1543, that art had little rela- nese medical art-learned and pro-;

had a great influence on the small- pox virus.

Inhuman Indifference.

"Considering its high infectiv- ity, its terrible disfigurement and the frequency of fatalities, the in- difference shown by the Hong Kong Chinese to the presence of cases in their midst is absolutely amazing.

How It Spreads.

In 1923 there were nearly double the number of cases there were in 1916 and only 8 per cent. of them were notified.

In

year the famous book of Anatomy by Andreas Vesalius was published. It was based upon his observations of the form and functions of the human body as the result of dia- section. It introduced a new medical science and conception.

The following list speaks for it-of the blood; self:-

Percentage Cases notified 1,320 8.0 913 2.4

Year

1923

1924

1925

1026

1927

1928

1920

66

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149

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3.98 977 5.89 Mr. Lo's Address. Mr. M. K. Lo said: The "Health Week" promoted by this Assoclá- tion, co-operation

in

with the Chinese Medical Association, the

Fascinating Story. The story of the rise of medical science from then until the present day, is a fascinating one. This progress was very much accelerated by the discovery. by William Harvey, in 1628, of the circulation the discovery of Edward Jenner, about 1796,-that Vaccination conferred immunity against smallpox; the Introduction- by Sir James Simpson (1811-1870), of the art of practical anaesthesia; the introduction by Lord Lister (1827-1012) of anti-septic surgery; the, discovery of the cause of in- fective disease; the Introduction of the new science of bacteriology by Louis Pasteur and Robert Kock; and the discovery of the X-ray by Rontgen in 1895.

A New Chapter. Within recent. years, much

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HEALTHINESS.

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found as it is, and has been for so of its ignorance or imperfect knowledge of Pany centuries-because either, must, as it seems to me, re- main more or las empirical The efficacy of Chinese medicine is, I; submit, not open to doubt. But I cannot help feeling that, if Chi-j nese medical diagnosis and treat- an art ment-based as it is upon of such revered antiquity were to be supplemented and invigorated by the modern knowledge of anatomy and physiology, Chinese medical practitioners may yet be in a posi- tion to confer an inestimable boon to mankind.

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THE ATHLETIC SPORTS will be held at Stanley on SATUR- DAY. April 12 at 2 p.m.

Parents, Old Boys and Friends are warmly invited to attend."

Buses leave Blake Pier at 1.30. p.m. (Return tickets $1.00).

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SINGLES on MONDAY, 14th April: DOUBLES on TUESDAY, 15th April, BOOKING of RE- SERVED Seats will open at Messrs. Moutris's On FRIDAY.

11th April.

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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of the

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PROPERTY known as HEANLEY'S LABORATORY, situato at Mount. Davis Gap, Hong Kong. -Containing two dwelling houses to be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION

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All that piece of parcel of| ground situate at Mount Davis Gap (X) in the Colony of the Hong Kong, registered in Land Office as Inland Lots 2090 and 2335, together with two six- roomed European style dwelling houses (gas, electric light, flush Bystem), garage, tennis court and outhouses. The leases allow a total of five European style dwell- ing houses to be erected. The property would be very suitabla for a British firm wishing to house its European staff or for Chinese desirous of further build- Ing. The gardens are one of the best areas of easily lavelled build- ing land west of the University. The Reserve is 395,000. The pro- perty may be reached by the Felix Villas bus which leaves Blake Pier at 10.15 am, 12,15 p.m., 1.15, 2.15, 3,16, 4.18 and 6.15 or by telling a tuxi driver to go to Tal Ho Wan.

ROUND THE CINEMAS Fersons wishing to purchase may

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"Flames" in a Little

Red Book.

What Is The Trend. What is the trend and aim of modern medical science in relation to general health? I suppose this question must depend on the views of the expert as to what is the chief factori contributing to disease. think I am right in saying that formerly it was believed to be an One of the hilarious episodes in unhealthy environment. At one the all talking Fox Movietone pro- time many diseases were attributed, duction, "The Cock-Eyed World,"

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"COCK-EYED WORLD."

view the property any afternoon and inspect the lenses on applica tion to the vendora Solfeltors, Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist of Ice House Street.

Area:-One hundred and two thousand square feet or there- abouts.

Annual Crown Rent:-$234. For further Particulars

and

Messra. WILKINSON & GRIST, Solicitore,

9, Queen's Road, Central,

to unwholesome exhalations from directed by Raoul Walsh of "What Conditions of Sale apply to:-

Prica Glory" fame, deals with a (Continued on Page 8.)

little red book, given by "Top Ser- geant Flagg." played by Victor McLaglen, to his pal and arch enemy, "Sergeant Quirt," played by Edmund Love, when the latter decides to leave the service.

No. 4.

Members of the public occasionally ask whether it is a fact that the gas burning inside the oven has injurious effects on food, and consequently on people eating the food cooked in such a way.

The answer is an emphatic NO The products of combus tion of the gas would in no case adversely affect the food, but apart from this the food itself gives off steam while it is cooking, and does not absorb anything from the surrounding air. Anyone who doubts this statement should put it to the test by cooking a milk pudding, onions and herrings in the same over, Neither onions nor herrings will flavour the pudding,

Where there is a Gas Cooker there is a cool, hygienic kitchen.

May we fix you ■ modern Gas Cooker on hire purchase terms? You may name your own instalments if desired. Cookers also fixed on hire $1:00 a month and sold for cash.

HONG KONG & CHINA GAS COMPANY LIMITED

HEAD OFFICE & SHOWROOM

CENTRAL SHOWROOM KOWLOON SHOWROOSE

ELL COOKED FOOD"

The little red book contains addresses and descriptions of Quirt's various former flames, a goodly number, to say, the least. When the transport carrying, the marines docks in New York, "Flagg". hurries to the nearest tele-

or to

Messrs. LAMMERT BROS., the Auctioneers,

4 & 4A, Duddell Street. Hong Kong, 10th April, 1930.

NEW M.L.C.

At closing time at 4 p.m., yester

phone booth and calls the lamies | day, only one name had been "sub- leted in this little red book. Hemitted by the Justices of Peace for locates only "Fanny," played by a member to represent them on beautiful Jean Bary. She is dated the Legislative Council during the for a rollicklig trip to Caney absence on leave of the Hon. Sir loland,

Henry Pollock, K.C.

All goes well until they meat the last person in the world they expect ed to find, Quirt, and then trouble begins. Quirt makes a siy effort [to get the girl...__

The nominee was Mr., C. G, 8, Mackle, who was proposed by the Hon. M. W. E. L. Shenton and reconded by the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow,

"The Cock-Eyed World" Is Mr. Mackie has previously served being screened at the Queen's on the Council during the absence Theatre.

of Sir Henry Pollock.

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