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The report of the Montauk Yacht Club, the Long Island centre for rod-i and-reel swordfish anglers, bas þeen |published.
BRITAIN'S TOLL OF YOUNG MOTHERS
":
PROBLEM OF PRESSING
CONCERN
INCREASED
RATIO SEEN
The resulta of this season's fish- ing show the keenness of American anglers,
During the season 17 boats fished alike, are becoming softer as Until this servico is made available an aggregate of 500 days for sword-a result of civilisation, writes the there seems, but little hope of re- fisk. The expenses of each boat Daily Mail medical correspondent. ducing the excessively high death were not less than £10 a day. This Our resistance to pain is probably rates in what have been termed "the gives a conservative total of £5,000. less than that of our ancestors, and black spots of England.”*
In all seven fish were caught, there is a general demand that pain Much discussion is being devoted_ making an average cont of over of all kinds should be avoided so far to the question of painless child- £700 per fish!
as is compatible with the safety of birth. Mothers to-day are growing This must be a word's record for the individual.
increasingly impatient of the trials
London, Jobstetric unit, conducted and laid
|A LL of us, men and women out to meet modern requirements.· ́
a fishing club. During the same Women in general are less able in of childbirth; that it should be cur- period and in the same area the this age to withstand prolonged and stailed and made as rapid and as free professional fisherman harpooned exhausting pain. The highly strung from pain as possible is a growingly |9,000 swordfish, which fetched anltemperament of the modern young insistent demand.
average of £10 apiece in the mar-woman-is not that of her Elizabethan There is grave doubt among the ket.
minds of those best competent to
THE U-BOAT PASTOR
counterpart.
This fact has an important bear-express opinion whether this move- ing on maternity.
ment is, as practised to-day,, wholly
cal profession."
Dr. Martin Niemoeller, still play-
The distressing toll of life among desirable. young mothers to-day is providing There is little doubt that in many ing a leading part in the long strug-
a problem of pressing concern for casee anaesthesia is not the best gle of the German Lutheran Church the public, statesmen, and the medi- thing for the mother, for it weakens against Nazi domination, was a
natural powers. The general public former U-boat commander. He was We have to face the unpleasant must realise the importance of the decorated with the order Pour le fact that maternal mortality is fact that the more naturally, within Merite for his submarine successes showing an increased ratio in Bri-reasonable limits, a mother has her and joined the Church after the tain-in fact, the figures recently baby, the safer motherhood will be- war. He is now the pastor of the parish church of Dahlem, a fashion-
Problem Not Hapeless able suburb of Berlin.
provided by the Ministry of Health come. reveal that the rate to-day is higher
The question of under-nutrition He has been a courageous critic than at any period in the last
has been blamed outspokenly for the of Nazi interference and his church twenty years.
Five mothers, it is stated, perish increase in maternal mortality. is, crowded every Sunday. A clue to Hitler's climb-down may be found for every thousand babies born. There is, however, no strong scien- is whether he has the power to in the fact that Count von Neurath, The position is all the more extra-tific substantiation for this view; in The China Mail
do so; and the importance of the the German Foreign Minister, is ordinary in view of the fact that fact, a recent survey from this angle decision will be that the preced-one of Dr. Niemoeller's congrega pansion in the science of obstetrics area, that the mortality was definite- recent years have seen a steady ex-revealed, as regards the London Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1934. ent will affect every other tion.
and the provisions for its applica-ly higher among mothers from well- tion. Yet this appears to have been to-do districts. Your Daily Smile!
of no avail
The importance of a proper die- The disappointment contrasts tary for the expectant mother is, of Lecturer (in village hall): Now vividly with the striking progress course, undeniable; but it is doubt-
Most of
Empire Citizenship
Dominion. Mr. De Valera pro- poses to enaet that "the Common Law relating to British Nation- ality, as far as it is applicable
Our comments. the other day to the Irish Free State, shall you all know about the stratosphere made in other fields; for example,ful whether the question of severe
on the ambiguity of the cable cease to be effective"; and also Chairman (interrupting
us do. But perhaps you'd better ex-infant mortality has been reduced malnutrition has any material beur- "the circumstances by plain for the benefit of those who have to an enormous extent. message about Mr. De Valera's that
ing on the problem as it exists in never been up in one."
this country...
sense.
Out
+
* Old-Fashioned Phrase *Does your parrot talk?”. "Yes: he says I beg your pardon
"Hm-m! Must be a very great age.".
Faint-Hearted Attack .: The seriousness of the position
Can the athletic type of woman- was recently emphasised by. Mr. hood be blamed as a contributory Baldwin, who, as spokesman for the factor? This point is often put to
doctors Government, stated that money
I can say that there is would be found to attack this pro-absolutely no foundation for the "Do you keep your cows in pasture?" blem. The Ministry of Health have view that a healthily developed mus asked the young housekeeper as she shown alertness by authorising an cular body le any other than a most
exhaustive inquiry into conditions definite asset to the young mother.
The problem is not hopeless. of maternity welfare in those die-
-
*
What She Wanted to Know
You see,
LOCAL NEWS
BREVITIES
new Bill dealing with the quali-which any person is a native of fications for Irish citizenship the Free State shall not of them- anticipated only by a few days selves operate or confer on such news which indicates that the person any other citizenship The way has same questions have occurred to or nationality." the responsible people in Ireland, been prepared for these princi- and that amendments have been ples by the abolition of the juris- proposed by Mr. De Valera which diction of the Privy Council, to are intended to clarify the rights which any aggrieved citizen
"Certainly, madam." acquired by a child born in might have appealed; and there paid the milkman. POHOLATUM Required and to define them in the is nothing to prevent the validity "Well, I just wondered.
of such provisions being upheld I've heard that pasteurized milk is so triets which revealed in the latest There are statistics available to most restrictive excuse for recerting to the sub-in any Irish Court. Ireland has much better."
report an excessively high mortality show that in hospitals and localities.
where thaternity service has been ratio. ject is that what is apparently a now her own "Great Seal," and
For all this, there is a feeling organised and practised along the mere legal technicality affects the only thin shred of recogni-
among the medical profession that best lines, maternal mortality has very closely many of our most tion of the Crown--the append-
the roots of the problem are not be been reduced almost to vanishing documents,has been turned respected citizens in Hong Kong,ing of the Great Seal to official and many of the best known men into the merest formality by a last Thursday and is due here this that the attack has been and is be
The s.8. Santhia left Singapore ing sought with sufficient vigour point in this country, in all the British Overseas terri- law which forbids the Governor tories.
Thursday...ane
ing too faint-hearted; that there is FRESH FRUIT RUSHED to withhold it..
nced for a ruthlessly clear presen- It is so long since any of the It may be argued that even so
-TO COLONY great principles of the English the new legislation will have no thank all her pupils who contri-
Mise Violet Capell wishes to tation of facts.
In Great Britain there are 1,800| Common Law has come under effect, because the grant of buted towards the clock presented municipal ante-natal clinics. What J.C.J.L. Boat Due On discussion that they have been autonomy is only effectual taken for granted and have be- within the boundaries of the to her on the occasion of her re-benefit, it will be naked, are these
Thursday cent Dancing Display. come traditional; and it is not at Free State; and that an Irish all easy to get the ordinary lay-citizen who passes beyond the
The lecture by Dr. G. P. de Mar- men to realise that any of those three mile limit of territorial principles is threatened and that waters, passes into the jurisdictin on "Machiavelli and I Prin-obstetric thought has been, the in-three" of the Java China Japan Line he has a personal interest in a tion of the Common Law, so long cipe" has been postponed to Friday, disputable, realisation of the signis rushing towards the Colony at Controversy that appears to be as that last vestige of recogni- December 21, at 5.30 p.m.. Instead ficance of ante-natal practice; the full speed and will arrive here on Thursday; instead of Friday as per merely a lawyers' argument. tion of the Crown remains. This of being held on December 18. The health of the prospective mother
In schedule. Every Irishman is proud of the principle was clearly laid down invitations which has been issued by must be periodically assessed.
The reason for the increased speed legislative autonomy that has in the Imperial Interpretation the Italian Consul-General for the this way abnormality is detected, been granted to his country, and Act; but that was repealed some original date will hold good for and arrangements for Its skilful is on account of the large consign- ment of fresh mangoes from Panoe- treatment are made. is determined to protect that years ago. The new principle is December 21,
It is well recognised that there ean, East Java Approximately autonomy. It is therefore that a Dominion Parliament has
150 cases of fruit are to be dis". necessary to make it clear that equal and co-ordinate powers For stealing a suit of clothes are insufficient clinics of this type there is no question at all of the with the Imperial Parliament at from Chan Po, an electrican living available; further, that these that charged here, together with 3,000 power of the Saorstat to regulate Westminster. The Common Lawat No. 4, Woosung Street, Wong do exist are not co-ordinated as tons of white sugar from Semarang. the rights of citizenship that are is at the base of Irish law as Heung, a 28-year-old unemployed they should be...
Where Clinics Fait to be exercised within the boun-much as it is of English, and is was sentenced to 14 days', hard!
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elinics to the health of motherhood? The answer is: of inestimable value. One of the clearest advances in
daries of the Irish Free State. liable to be overridden by Statute labour: by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at To be of proper assistance each
HIRED BICYCLE THEN STOLE IT
Receiving Charge Dismissed
Two unemployed Chinese, Ng
local health visitors with the homes
of the prospective mothers, and
The m.v. Tjibadak, one of the "big"
TRAFFIC HELD UP IN NATHAN RD.
Injured Boy's Mother Harangues Cyclist
where home conditions are not suit able the principal medical officer in charge must be able to provide the Motor buses, private cars, and individual with a bed in a hospital
many other vehicles were held up' or nursing home where she will rein Nathan Road near Jordan Road, ceive the best of attention, and to at about 9.45 a.m. this morning supervise, should this prove desir when a messenger boy, while able, the actual confinement cling towards the Alhambra Thea
The failure to integrate the acti-tre, accidently knocked down a
cy-
The present controversy has to Law. Moreover in these days of the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-clinic must have contact through do with the rights that an Irish-mounting totals of unemploy-ing. man can exercise when he crosses ment there is a good deal of the boundary. He is at present jealousy of the influx of Irish entitled to exactly the same labourers into Glasgow, Liver- rights and privileges as if he had pool and, the other Western been born in England or Scot-ports; and even of Irish practi- land; he can receive attention tioners in the professions. It from any British Consul in a would be quite a popular move foreign country; he will be able with the Labour Party if it to get the British Ambassador to should be declared that as Irish intervene if the foreign country men had voluntarily legislated] injures him by a breach of Inter-themselves into the status of national Law; he can become a foreigners they would be taken Kin-ching, 20, and Chung Lan, 28, vitles which centre round these 10-year-old Chinese lad citizen of any of the Dominions at their word and treated as appeared before Mr. E. W. Hamu- clinica is one of the outstanding de The mother of the boy, who by: mere: residence without such. It is surprising that there ton at the Kowloon Magistracy this fects in the present system, happened to be on the spot when naturalisation; and in the is no little realisation of the morning. The first defendant was Another distressing fact to be the accident occurred, caught hold Colonial Dependencies he has all immense issues at stake. The charged with stealing a bicycle after faced is the appalling shortage in of the messenger cyclist, and be the privileges of citizenship British Commonwealth has been hiring it from Chong Man at No. sot parts of the country of gan to give him a good scolding. without any restrictions or for built up far more, by law than by 47 Argyle Street, and the second de maternity beds. It to almost un- She held on to his jacket and told malities at
at all In England, arms, and it may be dissolved by fendant was charged with receiving believable that in quite a number of him, no on this Scotland, or Northern Ireland he the same means."
the bicycle from the first, knowing large towns, the principal hospital she would have done if her son the same to have been stolen. makes no provision for obstetrical had been seriously hurt. The us- has complete equality with men born in that part of the United Dr. E. L'Allen will give a talk The first pleaded guilty and was cases. Moreover, there is attached ual crowd of Chinese collected Kingdom. What Mr. De Valera on "Dreams to-night at 8 o'clock, accordingly sentenced to one month's to the staff of many of these hospi and the traffic was blocked for a wants to do is to rob him of at the open meeting of the Chinese hard labour, while the second plead- those rights. He would not reYMCA, Overseas Girls Club, at ed that he had no knowledge of the the cycle had been stolen. ceive anything in exchange that the Y.W.CA International Service fact he does not already possess.
This state of Centre National Commercial and He was just asked to sell it. Hla The question for the lawyers Savings Bank Building..
plea was accepted by the police and remedi ever
hospital was somewhat shaken by his ex- should be equipped with a proper perience.
tals, no medical
skilled in obs
Spots
mpst
few minutes until she was suaded by one of the onlook continue her lecture on the olde path: The boy was not hurt
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