1936-06-15 — Page 11

CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1936

WOMAN DOCTOR

CHARGED

POLICE VISIT TO HER

NURSING HOME

VULTURE SCOURGE OF MALARIA

(Continued from Page\6)

of.men.

Walking caricatures women, and children live in squa- lor, lacking sufficient energy to provide themselves with the bare necessities of life. Houses are

PATIENT ON TABLE IN BATHROOM tumbledown and dilapidated, many

Dr. Laura Windred Sanders-Bliss, of Bayfield House, Little Book- ham, Surrey, and Nancy Melina Hermitage Bickell, a nurse reception ist, appeared last month at Epsom on five charges that they were concerned in offences against women.

It was alleged that they used an instrument with intent to

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Mr. LA Byrne, prosecuting, stated that Dr. Sanders Bliss had a consulting room in Harley-street, and a house des cribed as a nursing home at Little Bookham. The other woman was a nurse employed at Bayfield House.

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mated by this terrible scourge. I have seen with my own eyes, vil- lages once the abode of health, happiness and plenty, crumbling mass of dilapidated structures, overgrown with jungle, According to Mr. Byrne, the The witness said she was ex-with a solitary inhabitant here first women concerned in the case pecting the fee to be sent by post and there, pale, anaemic, suffering was married. She saw Dr. San-rext day. It did not arrive, and from malaria fever, but resolutely ders-Blies at Little Bookham and Bickell said she had better so clinging to the ancestral home Pres. Adams explained her condition. She was home. She did so, and her friend stead, as if mounting guard over to pay £25 down and £25 later. gave her £10 and she put another the sweet reminiscences of the

When, as arranged, she went to £40 to complete the fee of £50. past Barfeld House, she was interview-| She then rang up Bayfield!

notes.

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ed by the nurse Next day the House, and returned, being, again Surely there is no sadder.sight community PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS zurse asked for the money and received by Nurse Bickell The in the world than a

the woman handed her £25 in £5 next day she was treated by Dr. prostrated by malaria. Last year-

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I had the misfortune to be in Taken To Bathroom

Adjournment Asked For Quetta immediately after the earth- Mr. Be said that the woman After three of the charges had quake. Not a single building in was taken to the bathroom in the been dealt with, Mr. Byrne said the city remained standing, and †'SOUDAN 7,009 20th June Marseilles, Havre, Londen, Ham house, which was apparently used that was as far as he could go the ruins covered, partially

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returned to London The magistrates adjourned the "news" for every newspaper and about her condition. The doctor sit again on another day if acces-Because it was dramatic. Visita- tions from plague, cholers, small- said: "It is nothing; it often sary.

I am too busy to see

Mr. Fearnley Whitting-pox, earthquakes, volcanoes, happens. you to-day." The woman was sent stall, defending, applied for bail, nadoes, and foods make front page! by another doctor to hospital and this was opposed by Police Super headlines, but malaria, the Ham-was there from March 5 to March intendent Minter.

spectacular disease quietly but Mr. Whittingstall: Why do you effectively performing its role of the "greatest single destroyer of It was found that she was suf-oppose bail? fering from the effects of a mis- Supt. Minter: The charges, to the human race," comparatively carriage.

my mind, are very, very serious. rarely attracts attention. It is true The other cases, said Mr. Byrne, I know of no serious ties that that malaria, too, may appear in were very similar.

either defendant has to hold her epidemic form and may then take its place in the limelight for a After a warrant had been ob-in this country.

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calamitous as these epidemics are istanbul, Piraeus, Byzzas and otherLevant Ports by steamers of the officers went to Bayfield House on Mr. Byrne pointed out that the they are merely waves on the seas Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

May 2, accompanied by medical Director of Public Prosecutions of the main tragedy. They found took no part in this matter of bail. SAILINGS man, Dr. Gardner.

Those who have given their at- Dr. Sanders-Bliss and the other. He asked the Supt: "Do you know tention to this subject appear to defendant in the bathroom, said whether Dr. Sanders-Bliss has a be unanimous that malaria has a Mr. Byrne.

aeroplane

deplorable effect in retarding the Woman On Table

"I understand,” replied the social, intellectual and natural de- When the warrant was read Dr superintendent, "that she is either velopment of any country afflicted malaria problem. Recently, two STONE BUDDHAS IN Sanders-Bliss said, "I have never the owner or the contemplated by it. Quoting from a recent Royal Commissions (Labour and done an illegal operation." She owner of "an-zeroplane.” “

publication it is stated: "Even in Agriculture) have also said, "I am examining a pa- Mr. Byrne: Has she a passport? the time of Hippocrates, the disastrous effects of this disease effects of malaria upon the social, on labour and agriculture in India. The disorganisation or suspen- Dr. Bliss (from the dock): Bat intellectual, physical and political

development of the people were sion of business, from whatever canse arising, means financial bathroom.

"The aeroplane is now in the recognised.” “Shortly afterwards," added custody of Brooklands Aerodrome, The action of the disease upon loss, and how numerous are the Mr. Byrne, "Dr. Sanders-Bliss and for all I care the police can the degeneration of important na examples of malaria as the dis came out. The inspector could keep the sparking plugs," said Mritions is well illustrated in history. organising agent

It is impossible to compute the Malaria has been cited as the see a woman lying on the operat-Whittingstall.

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When the first woman began her evidence, Mr. Byrne gave an assurance on behalf of the Direc-i tor of Public Prosecutions that

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ling table with the nurse in atten- Each defendant was allowed chief cause of the change in the losses to the world from malaria, dance. The woman was taken to bail in £1,000 on her own recognis, Greek character which took place though many people have attempt discovered in the compound of the in the fourth century B.C. About ed to make rough estimates for residence of U. Ba Dun, Secretary countries. In the of the Barma Legislative Council, her bedroom by the nurse.

this time, the Greeks became dis-¦individual

when gardeners digging in the satisfied and querulous and gradu-U.S.A., for example, which most

garden of the house unearthed people probably regard -स.. ally lost their brilliance.

"Patriotism declined, initiative malaria-free country, it has been two stone images of Buddha-

and indeci-estimated that in deaths, loss of According to some experts they vanished, vacillation sion, fitful activity following by labour. reduced value of real es-are of great archaeological and Oxe of the depression, cruelty and weakness tate and in other ways, malaria religious value-

and the country $100,000,000 images is of white marble in public life, led to the struggle costs

somewhat broken. The throne of with Macedonia and the final con-esch year.

the image was artistically carved. quest by Rome. The decline of

15th Century Relic In India the losses from malaria the Roman Empire, has also been While Ernest Perry, aged 25. linked up with the spread of to the individual and the family

The other image is of green alone have been placed at about stone which, it is said, is a relic of EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS she was not going to be prosecut- of Aberavon, and another man malaria."

£30,000,000 a year, while the effects 15th century art. It is further ed The Chairman of the Bench, named Presdee were working in-

Economic Losses

of this disease in preventing the stated that it was brought Mr. J. Tudor Bees, said that inside a gas holder at the Port Tal-

Other works have attributed, the fullest exploitation of the natural Burma by Bayin Maung after his dydney view of this assurance no answer bot, Glamorgan, works of Messrs.

of the ancient resources agricultural and invasion of Simm and Cambodia. |she gave would incriminate her. Guest, Keen and Baldwin they disappearance

civilisation of Ceylon and the de-eral and the successful develop when the Araksete myaded Bar- Asked For Help

were overcome by fames. The witness stated that she was] Presdee collapsed, and Perrecline of Egypt to the same cause. {ment of various kinds of manufac, mis it was taken to Arakan but It would appear, therefore, that turing industries probably run Bodawpaya invaded. Arakan and married and told how she saw Dr. was found leaning over him in a

malaria tends to hinder the pro-linto unbelievable millions of brought back the image to Burma. Sanders-Bliss in January and ask-state of exhaustion. Both were un- ed if she could help her. She conscious when rescued and Perry Tess of man at every step it pounds sterling every year.

Some of the most fertile tracts Along with it he also brought the kills off by direct and indirect

white marble image which is be- not only or country in India cannot believed to be a 16th century image. it inhibits At the inquest last month the the physical and mental de colonised on account of malaria. The images have now been coroner said that Ferry died in an velopment of those who survive Government offers the land free placed in a shrine erected in the Another married woman wit attempt to save his comrade. The but even the propagation of his but in spite of many attempts, no garden to enable the worshippers ness, who stated that she saw Djury returned: a verdict of ac species, and leaves behind a com successful colonisation has so far Sanders-Bliss in Harley-street, and cidental death.

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said she went to Bayfield House died, on Jan. 15 and described what shef alleged occurred there.

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agreed to go to Bayfield House, They recommended that the energy declared that she was told the feel, Home Office should issue safety work, obey the dictates of habit, ed and fruitless attempts to would be 65 guiness. It was paid measure orders for that class of and abbor what is new and pro- colonise certain parts of Italy some other countries a start has by cheque. She went to Bayfield;

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losses affect the entire community prosperotis peoples mantles the cost of protection is well -the individual, the family, the I could quote to you numerous within the financial resources of agriculturist, the industrialist; the examples of how and where the the community Unfortunately, L planter, the business-man, and the malaria scourge has been reduced cannot maiće such dogmatic and government of the country to unimportant proportions, and encouraging statements in regard As a protest against raising The labour problem, such of the financial gains which have to the masses of Agriculturista a friend, and on going to Book the tea duty by 20. per ib. z Manx stumbling block to many enter resulted. Malaya is full of them living in comparative isolation. ham was received by Narse Bic-MP. hurled two packets of tea to prises in the tropics is often conThe chapter is not yet completed But the future is not without kell, who asked if she had the fee. the floor of the Tynwald Court.

with sidered synonymous

the and much remains to be done. In hope.

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