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ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1931.

POOR CHINESE CHILDREN.

Urgent Need for More Assistance.

WORK OF THE S.P.C

The hardship of poor Chinese children were vividly described by Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg to Rotar ians at the weekly tiffin yester day.

The Society, he said, was es- tablished in January, 1930. its effective life really starting in the following August. The most outstanding fact gleaned from the first year's experience was the amount of poverty existing in the Colony for which there no organised relief. In some cases the parents were found to be absolutely destitute, and in 40 cases the family in come worked out at under $2.50 per head.

was

A £600 WALLOP.

Lancashire Camera

in Action.

A single blow from a navvy's sledge hammer has cost £887 125. 7d. at Fleetwood..

It came about in this way.

The Fleetwood Cound recently com pleted the construction of a new main roadway-Fleetwood Road- into the town; and when the road had "settled" it was discovered that

11,000,000 BRITISH CASUALTIES.

Toll of War Wounds and Disease.

MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENT,

+

medical services in war is brought The vital importance of the

a piece of iron, presumably the end out in a hundred ways in the lat of a crowbar, was projecting a few est volume of the "Official History Inches, above the surface. A gang of the War"

and,

of workmen was summoned, bat Major T. J. Mitchell, D.S.O., of all efforts to withdraw the obstruc- the Royal Army Medical Corps, tion were fruitless as firmly embedded to yield.

it was too with Miss G. M. Smith, has prepar- ed in this volume on "Medical Ser- clared that he would do away with 218)

At last one of the workmen de-vices" (H.M. Stationery Offico, a statistical analysis of the projection action to the word, he dealt the indeed, the most complete work of suiting the casualties on a vast scale. It is, piece of iron a heavy blow with Its kind ever attempted.

It shows how the problem of the sledge hammer, which forced it below the surface of the roadway. conservation of man-power can be iron bar had cut through the main failure of the efforts made behind The trouble then began, as the acutely affected by the success or telephone cables, and hundreds of the lines to return the sick and It was the policy of the Society subscribers in Fleetwood, Blackpool, wounded to the effective forces. to supply food, to families, and they were cut off.

and Thornton-Cleveleys found that In the case of the British Forces, in the case of destitution, to try hurried hither and thither and the the wounded and 93 per cent of Messengers it is calculated that 82 per cent. of to make the parents self-support- post office telephone engineering the sick or. Injured were ultimately ing. Endeavours were made to staff were at a loss to account for returned to some form of duty. Of find them employment, and in the fault until, at last, it was found the wounded who returned, 64 per some cases hawkers' licences were together with the cause. The cent. went again to the front line. granted, together with a certain road had to be dug up and what and the rest to the lines of com- amount of stock. Destitute chil-with this expense, general damages,

dren without parents were often and a score of other items, a bi munication, gorrison duty or the

placed in an institution where of £587 128. 7d. was run up, they could be educated.

Medical Aid.

During the past year medical attention had been obtained for children in 65 cases. This was

ciety's work,

There were few things more difficult than to get Chinese parents amongst the poor to see that their children got proper medical attention. They had an entire abhorrence and re- luctance about taking them to hospital. In many cases the par- ents would call at the hospital within 24 hours, to remove their children.

COURT STORMED.

A

When Michael Bradley, aged 22,

like. The value of this achieve- ment in a prolongad war, where vast forces emphasised.

Lower Percentage of Deaths, The approximate total casualties was sentenced to nine months' im in the British Expeditionary Force an important branch of the So-prisonment at Spennymoor for as- are returned at 11,096,938; For suults on two police officers, extra-every causalty inflicted by the ordinary scenes occurred.

visible enemy (in battle) the in- their way into the police-court, and two

Hundreds of people tried to force visible enemy (disease) claimed when the doors were locked one of

Both the percentage of deaths: them was broken from its hinges from disease and the percentage of deaths from wounds are lower than that recorded in the South African War. Another vast improvement is noted with pride-the prevention of the enteric group of fevers. In the South African War the number of admissions was 103.8 per 1,000 of strength, and the deaths 14.45 per

by the crowd.

The case followed disturbances outside a Spennymoor dance hall.

Hospital Accommodation. further, and use their influence to Mr. Hazlerigg then raised the get districts reconstructed that question of whether there was clamoured for demolition and re- sufficient hospital accommodation building.

in the Colony, for children. The After giving figures of necessary 1,000. In France the respective 1921 statistics gave children of expenditure Mr. Hazlerigg said that figures for 1915 were only 5.86 and the age of ten years and under toward a total of $15,000 the anticl-26, and they had fallen by (Chinese only)

20 and 01. Only as numbering pated income

wae a Government 1918 to 64,000, and under the age of five grant of $3,000, which he hoped in the Dardanelles, with 80.49 years, 43,000. The death rate would be maintained. Subscrip- per 1,000 admissions and 2.82 In the first year was stated then tions amounted to about $1,000, the deaths, were the figures comparable, to be 296 per thousand. In June 'Ministering Children's League $500,

Infantry Bear The Brunt, last the number of beds for chil-and income from investments about According to official records, dren in the Colony worked out at $500. The deficit he estimated at 86.07 per cent. of the total casual- $10,000. But he did not think that ties to the fighting arms were suffer- need concern him greatly, as he was ed by the infantry, 7.58 per sure that the community, knowing cent. by the Royal Artillery, 2.57 the value of the work, would not by the Royal Engineers, 2.45 by the let them down.

only one to cach 400,"

Deaths amongst children in the Colony during the last two years were over 6,000 of those under one year old.

Last year there was further 2,600 who died under the age of five years.

Work Of Clinics.

Machine Gun Corps, 1.08 by the Cavalry, and 0.24 per cent. by the. Tank Corps. According to large- cale analyses, 68.8 per cent. of wounds were caused by shells, 39 by bullets, 2.1 by bombs, and .32 by bayonets,

Mr. Hazlerigg said that the

In reply to Professor Gerrard, Colony seemed to be faced with two Mr. Hazlerigg said he had not lost alternatives, in the case of sick sight of the fact that large numbers children. One was to provide first of children were treated each year! class. medical and hospital service, at clinics in the Colony. The clinics

Exclusive of the Dominion and educate the parents to its value, did an immense amount of good. Forces, 2,414,000 individuals, or 40 and possibly ultimately compel but he thought that more were per cent. of those who served, suf- them in all cases of necessity to needed. make use of it. The other was to

The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall fered death or disablement for which State compensation was ignore the sickness and dispose of thanked the speaker on behalf of

given. the children's bodies, Humanity those-assembled. demanded the former course.

Playground Necessary.

Prior to the address, the Chair-

man, the Ifon. Dr. S. W. Teo, read A safe weighing ons and a half The provision of playgrounds a letter from the Colonial Secretary, tone crushed to death George Cole, the speaker, considered a work of commanding the scheme mooted 87; of, Holloway, who, with offer immense value to the Colony He by the Rotary Club for the manage-workmen, was fixing it in a building urged that the Rotarians go a step meat of playgrounds.

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CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD

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