1931-07-27 — Page 7

MONDAY, JULY 27, 1931,

THE AWAKENING OF CHINA

The West Stretching the Hand of Friendliness.

PROGRESS OF HEALTH.

und progress of the Quarantine

Under the auspices of the was aufficient to give the other Penang In Yew Seah, D Gnoh delegates a good impression of the

new China. Lean-tuck, or better known as Dr.

China's Health. Wu Lien-teh, the world-famous Plague Specialist and now Director of the Manchurian Preventative Service, delivered a stimulating address to his compatriots recently Dr. Wu is a Fennng-born and bred Chinese himself, and appealed to them not to be satisfied by remain ing for ever in this Island but to go forth into the world, to go into China, and do their bit. for their Motherland,

THE CHINA MAIL

“T.T.” CENTENARY.

The Seven Men of Preston.

CELEBRATION NEXT YEAR.

FELINE CAUSE,

'Higher Education for Cats.

CLAWS AND SCRATCHES,

www.

weapons-

'TOLL OF INFLUENZA

Need for New Weapons.

EPIDEMICS AT HOME.

The East has not been alone in

Plans are being prepared for the suitable celebration next year of If a giant strode into the office experièncing several outbreak of an

interesting historical event. of a respectable business man and influenza this year, for there have The year 1932. is the

dandled him jovially or tweaked been serious, epidemics at home, In centenary year of the Seven Men of Preston, his ears it would be unjust to call regard to which a Home paper. Dr. Wu next proceeded to tell his pioneers of

that famous group who were the him catty if he were to retaliate writes: audience what he told the League abstinence

the modern, total with his only available

The influence exerted by influenza of Nations about the development Livesey drafted the first total- the domestic eat is looked upon astry is shown once again in the re-

movement.

Joseph boots, hands, and teeth. And yet on the death rate in this coun- service in the hands of the Chinese stinence pledge in England in a despicable animal because she the first quarter of the present year. port of the Registrar-General for doctore. Up to a few years ago the those who signed theh names to liberty is interfered with, writes During this quarter, in which an September, 1832, and its terms, and clawa and scratches when her Quarantine Service in China was it, are as follows: in the hands of foreign medical

Cara J. Gordon in the London degree of magnitude occurred, there epidemic of Influenza of the second vice. Dr. Wu agitated hard and practitioners in the Customs Ser-

We agree to abstain from all Morning Post. liquors of an Intoxicating Why do we liken the

were upwards of 162,000 deaths dur- after several years succeeded in

quality,, whether Ale, Porter specimens of our sex to cats, when when influenza was absent, the num worst ing the same period of 1930, making the nations, realise that

Wine, or Ardent Spirits, except surely the cat is our most self-her was rather less than 116, China should not be held respon

as Medicine-John Gratrix, Ed.rellant and dignified domestic 000. Some 46,000 deaths therefore sible for endemics that broke out

ward Dickinson, John Broadbelt, animal? Rather should we pick were due probably, directly or in- in her ports so long as her Quar-

John Smith, Joseph Livesey, out some admirable and independirectly, to the influenza epidemic, They were 'Orientals and every antine Service was in the hands of

David Anderton, John King. dent professional woman and say and age-groups of the population: Orientul had a little corner of his foreign, men. Just at the time he Men of Preston whose action re-cat she is.

These are the historic Seven "Splendid creature. How like a The infant mortality rate, for exam- heart for the land of his birth. was starting the work of develop-volutionised the British temperance} ment, he wrote to Penang asking. For this reason he always desired for doctors and he got only one longs the origin of the world tee Tessed by children and neglected Men and women suffered equally;

Really, the cause of cats

ple, was 94 per 1,000 live births and movement. To Preston also be never received sufficient attention of the 10 preceding first quarters. havas 2 per 1,000 above the average to come and tell them something application and that from one who total." At one of Joseph Livesey's by grown-ups, they have no chance, there were 81,078 deaths of males

at that time as. буду

was drawing eight to nine hundred drinking. literate

aahip's surgeon meetings, a little later, a hard and are supposed to content them and 81,120 deaths of females. China was progressing. That even dollars and who was prepared to Turner wandered in, and before too catching mice, while dogs are care new weapons have been forged man, Dicky selves with purring, sleeping, and is a melancholy thought that no ing he was going to talk to them sacrifice that income for a mere about his latest experiences at hundred Chinese dollars. He ap-

meeting ended he had signed the fully trained and honoured as com against influenza, and that, so for Geneva and what he told the League preciated, that spirit of not think evangelist and a popular advocate

NOW pledge. . Ho became an panions. Ing in terms of money but of China of the cause that had redeemed

as means of prevention-are concern- of Nations about the progress of and encouraged the young man. him. Speaking at a meeting in the "The cat's place is by the fireside, only fact about the disease that ed, the position has not improved I can hear our dog lover saying, during half a century. Indeed, the Eventually he earned a Rockefeller At the start Dr. Wu passed round Scholarship and returned to China celebrated Preston "cockpit," he just as woman's place is in the seems to have been established is its three booklets: one having re- with the D.P.H. Since then he had nature of the new pledge and, in

wanted to emphasise the absolute Home." ference to the League headquarters Progressed steadily and was now desperation, colned a now word to Bring them up like dogs. Try to vals of about thirty-three weeks, periodicity; it returns, as the late Why not emancipate our cats? Dr. Brownlee pointed out, at inter in Geneva, the second a Report by one of the leaders of the Peking suit his purpose, saying "I'll be education. It will help them and Its bacteriology remains obscure, in the League of Nations' Commission Union Medical College drawing on Opium and the third book deal- $1,200 and having several white down out and out t-t-total for won't spoil their cat zatures. Col-spite of innumerable efforts to dis- ing with the Quarantine Regula.doctors under him,

The phrase immediately lege women are no less women cover a causative organism, there tions of the National Government In their efforts to nationalise the caught on, and thus the name for notwithstanding all the pother la no known prophylaxis and no of China.

Chinese Quarantine Service, they

the new movement was born. people used to make about higher treatment which can be trusted to The last book contained all the at first had much trouble with the

"Ecer Street" and "Gin Lane." education. Cata with dog training cut short an attack. Nor does it

new, something about the

medical work in China.

attended throo

over."

A Gracious Reword.

It

regulations which the Republic of foreign people before they were The prophet and his vision ap still remain, cats-but super-cats, seem possible to prevent complica- China had instituted for all able to show them the efficiency of peared at the moment of the delightful creatures. Teach a cat tions with any degree of certainty. steamers coming into China; ships their work but to-day the world greatest need, Ruskin said,.. "The tricks, and she will perform, not as In some instances a fatal pneumonía of whatever nationality, whatever appreciated their work which, in-greatest thing any soul ever does a duty, but as a gracious regard begins almost coincidently with the flag, had to submit to those regulacidentally, was responsible for the to see something and tell what for her teacher's patience.

beginning of the attack of influen tions. They would be pleased to great ovation

he received ia

it saw in a plain way." Livesey, Of course, like most children, 1 za; in other cases, though the hear that all the doctors in the Geneva.

throughout his early years, saw used to plague our old tabby and circumstances are so unfavourable national service were now Chinese. Dr. Wu explained how, similarly, and horrible conditions of the when, tied human-wise into

and suffered the grinding poverty resented her grumpy demeanour as to suggest the probability (Applause).

they had been able to fight cholera, period; he saw a vision of mankind diminutive

ajof

complications, the attack At Geneva,

plague and tuberculosis in China. shaking off the yoke of alcohol spoonfuls of delicious porridge.

chair, she refused runs a mild and uneventful courac Proceeding Dr. Wu said that ha Referring to the three-year Health and, almost without resources or

What is needed, clearly, is know. Conferences at Plan of China which he presented education, he straight way set out her point of view. Looking like a cause the danger will soon return."

One day she converted me to ledge. The need is very urgent be Geneva; that fact alone showed before the Conference, Dr. Wu to proclaim his gospel of deliver- tiny able-seaman, with how China had advanced: About stated how they in China had alance by voice and pen.

á doll's Some hope has been awakened re- 15 years ago it used to take months ways been handicapped for funds.

sailor cap tied on her head, and cently by the studies of diet which and months before China decided Yet in Penang, where money was of the early nineteenth century in- below the cuffa of an overtight pices of the Medical Research Coun Among the social characteristics her big brindled paws dangling far are being carried out under the aus to send any representative to attend plentiful and there were several variably noted by students of that doll's nightgown, she took action. cil, and which suggest that in Vita- one, conference. -

wealthy people he was surprised to period insobriety stands out vivid-With clumsy crablike bounds she min A a means of raising the body's Quite a number of them would find that tuberculosis was still remember what he had told them exacting a beavy toll. It had reclasses, from the drinking parties up the chimney.

iy. It was prevalent among all escaped into the nursery, grate and But whether or not Vitamin A will resistance to infection is available, several years ago that those

of cently been discovered, Dr. Wu of the rich to the public-house de Two minutes later, dirty faced, pneumonia and bronchitle remains: them who had the foresight would said, that tuberculosis was first bauches of the poor.

prove efficacious in preventing realise that the time for the East contracted by a child when it was scarce and dear, beer was cheap, delicately holding up a singed paw vegetables offer the choapset and Food was dragging a sooty nightgown, and still to be seen. Carrots and green about three months old or during and spirits plentiful Public she cofffronted the amazed cook meat readily available source of this The East had awakened. He did the first year. The germs remain houses were to be seen with swing downstairs. This was equivalent not know whether China had in-ed in the body and lay quiet coing signs, "Drunk for one penny. to a hunger strike, and convinced fluenced India, or whether India long as the child was healthy and Dead drunk for twopence"; and me that cats have rights. had influenced. China or whether able to resist those germs: it came some added, "Clean straw for My next cat was even Penang had, influenced China to this: germs versus resistance, nothing." Hogarth's famous pic-lected by the servants when I was (laughter) but the fact remained and at the first signs of weakness",

tures. "Beer Street" and "Gin just grown-up. that the East had wakened up. If the germs asserted themselves. they had any doubt about that he China had earned a lot of kudos Lane," are faithful presentations.

"To be sure, Miss," said Cook, Alarmed by the results of the "she may be a plain eat, but "ahe asked them to buy a third class for her quarantine work,

heavy spirit drinking, Parliament as a 'cart of gold, and we've made ticket-those of them who could

legislated to induce people to drink so bold as to call 'er Mona, an to be adopted to "bloodsports" and not afford a first-and pay a visit

The controversy over the attitudo Hitherto China had always been beer instead of spirits. The Beer she gets bathed o" Sat'day nights." visisection, which has been agitat- to China and see the tremendous progress she had made in recent blamed for the various epidemica: Act of 1830 was passed to permit

As a cat's natural toilet coming the ranks of the Royal Society China was responsible for every the general sale of beer and cider bines cleanliness with the pleasure for the Prevention of Cruelly to thing, but since the Quarantine by retall in England.". During the of taste, the Saturday soap intro Animals for many months, culmin Service had been staffed entirely year following the Act 80,000 beer duced a gustatory deterrent that ated in riotous scenes at the annual by Chinese doctors they were able shops were, opened, and the result weaned her from all further cares meeting in London. Before the prg to prove that cholera came from was an increase of drinking. The of her person, and I was forced to ceedings, began leaflets were freely few temperance societies in exist continue the hated baths. Never distributed urging the subscribers

was coming.

times.

Bobbed Hair Women.

They would see how the cities had developed and especially the

change in the women. They would outside. see that all the women now, had

China Blamed.

but

a stray col-

vitamin.

ANTI-VIVISECTION: Scenes at the R.S.P.C.A. Annual Meeting.

cancies of the Council, These praise-loving cats learn should first be discussed was put

Learning Tricks.

The proposal that the report and I brought up a deserted kitten declining to accept It his voice was tricks quite readily. My husband and seconded but on the Chairman's

withs, fountain pen Aller Jan cries of "Turn out the vivisectors by squirting milk down her throat drowned for several minutes by omlated at the pump, while, as if and the hunting man

At the meeting that discussedence tried to promote temperance theless, her eart of gold attached to vote one way or the other and bobbed hair, that they had taken the question of the limitation of by advocating moderate drinking itself to me in an uncanny man pandemonium broke out as soon as to dancing and even how they were Narcotics, he cited instances of the and refraining from the use of the ner, and as I found she had a Sir Rbbert Gower, M.P., who presid all trying to find husbands for numberless morphine and, heroin highly intoxicating spirits. It is hysterical desire for praise I learned, announced his intention of tak themselves and what was more im addicts, and appealed to the other the special distinction of Joseph ed from her the art of training ing at the outset the election of ya portant not permitting their nations to do away with that trade Livesey that, from the moment he cats. mothers and grandmothers and mothers-in-law to bring up their fattened

on which mysterious millionaires became alive to the peril, he saw which brought that it was not spirits only, but children in their own way.

They, in China, had for too long thousands of the poor every year he completely forawore the use of poverty, starvation and death on alcohol, that was the enemy, and lived in a fool's paradise, too much He was confident that some good all alcoholle liquors... in the hole, proud and conceited, would result from that appeal, A Temperance Pageant allowing opportunities to pass," and There was no doubt that Europe These are the circumstances that allowing other nations much more was beginning to realise that aght have made the Seven Men of backward than them to get ahead ing was not a lucrative job. People Preston famous in the history of we were loading a tiny hot-water When find animal welfare work and to bully them

all over the world were becuing the temperance-reform movement, bottle anxiously tested her handicapped by petty Jealousion, it But China was up again and her more human and more and more and it is to celebrate. Attingly the Never having known a cosy, furry said the chairman, reaffirming his swelling tummy by squeezing it makes me extremely depressed," present sons were seeing to it that sympathetic towards their fellow hundred years of remarkable pro- her rights were being given back,

gress inaugurated by them that mother, she looked upon us as two intention of proceeding with the beings to her and that China was not One of the reasons for his travel, preparations are now being made. well-meaning monster cats, election. Protests and counter- ing to take things lying down any ling on a P. & O. Steamrater At a conference of national tem- Very soon she could shake-a-paw, proteste continued, ne tie ballet actuated the Government to-day 24 years was to see whether the perance organisations, held at balance scraps on her nose and die papers were being collected and the That was the spirit that had ac officers and passengers in that Line Westminster, a reprezentative for her country. As she was a climax was renched when a member Centenary: Committe under the War oat I induced her to sit up declared that he wished to make a tuated the National Government to had changed in their habits

and lift her paws at the Chairmanship of Mr.

speech. The chairman declined to word send him, a mere doctor, to attend am glad to say he went on, I have celler, was appointe

Kamarad. Like the captured permit him and warned him that had a very pleasant journey and the League of Nations as Ite am-

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the chair As the would-be with the possibility of o centenary celebration

esker took no notice he was put The committee held seve

outiamid scenes of utmost confu efon In the midst of the habhub, ments

the Chairman put the motion that neating the adjourned, then de

It ended and left the chair. ssued by the Society after tipg stated that, in the elce all the moder

longer. That was the spirit that

be so any longer You gates and the great men and the you will be treated

great men of the world, The dele

Press men were surprised to hear

human beings. 23

that he did not feel nervous when In conclusion Dr. Wu appea he made his first appearance and to Chinese stude

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