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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1936

The China Mail

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With reference to measles a doc--APPALLING CONDITIONS SEEN IN

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MARRIAGE

HINSHELWOOD KING -

of

Porridge are them but measles it i

•

RAVAGED DISTRICTS

(By Major H. W. Mulligan, IM.S.)

the Supreme Court had hardly anything to 20. While John

Those who, when asked if they Jay was abroad on a diplomatic mission in 1795, he was nominst-have had measles have replied.

DOUBT whether most people to-, population is not confined solely to ed and elected Governor of New"Yes, I have had them twice," or

day fully realise the magnitude the death rate but affects also the York. To assume the Governor-hose who have said, "The por- ship. he resigned the position of ridge is lumpy this morning," need of the malaria problem in the birth rate, for it is. well recognis

tropics and sub-tropics. I musted that malaria is a potent factor Chief Justice with what appeared not be shaken. to be considerable alacrity.

a medical not only in preventing conception Ee They have not been guilty of a confess that even as served as Governor for six years. grave grammatical error. Porridge man, and therefore in close con but also in interrupting pregnancy- When his second term expired, is-used in the plural only in the tact with disease I remained gross in a country such as-fadis, where Christ Church, Bangkok, on

and English ly ignorant of the enormity of the over-production has become an

malaria · scourge until efferms-acute social problem. it might per June 3, 1986, Lewis Hinshel- he was offered again the nomina-obscurer Scottish wood, youngest son of the late tion as Chief Justice. He declin-dialects.

Measles have a perfectly good tances ordained that I should debaps be argued that the effects of Clyde Campbel Hinshelwood ed the nomination, giving as his

reason that the Supreme Court singular "measle" with an ances-vote a large part of my service malaria in curtailing the population study of jare beneficial to the community as and Mrs. Hinshelwood

lacked the energy, weight and try stretching back respectably to India to the special

this disease.

a whole. London to Margaret, third

Only too often the European in But the aim of daughter of Mr. & Mrs. L. H. dignity which are essential to its the Old High German "Masele

population affording due support to the pa-

the tropics, in India at least, be-limitation must be the production King of Hong Kong-

"I MEASLE, THOU MEASLEST Įtional government.

comes contemptuous of malaria of fewer and healthier individuals. Soldiers' Bonus

The modern tendency to make and regards this disease merely and malaria certainly cannot be since the end of the measles singular is widespread, as a nuisance, and as unlikely to considered a suitable agent or EWorld War Americans have but by no means a binding rule. cause him any serious incapatity-process of "healthy pruning Its

There is also a verb to measte But: we are less concerned

to-tendency is to increase the number heard about the Soldiers Bonus from the U. S. Government, yet in One can measle a friend—ie, give day with the foolhardiness of such of unfits rather than to reduce the Act which has finally passed him measles; or one can fast individuals. in relation to their them, by weeding out the weak- Congress, the word "bonus" cannot measle-Le, develop mesales. own physical and mental fitnesslings. In this respect malaria dif- By far the most serious pro- be found. Public document No.

An earlier medico than our doc-than with the fate of the teeming fers from the great epidemic dis- blem that the British Govern-425, of the 74th Congress. (HRtor correspondent wrote: "The millions of the tropics for whom eases such as cholera, plague and ment has to solve in increasing 9870) An Act: To provide for child is measling nicely.".

there is no skilful physician at the smallpox. The latter kill suddenly its power for defence is the the immediate payment of World Finally, measles could be used end of a telephone wire, and with and indiscriminately, but when the finding of the men. The money War adjusted service certificates, 2.5 an objurgation. Has anyone the serious has been or will be made avail- for the cancellation of unpaid in ever heard someone else echoing the ravares of malaria among the little or none the worse. able: the material required is terest accrued on loans secured Ben Jonson and exclaiming: "Why masses exert upon the administra Enervated Communities

Hong Kong. Monday, June 15, 1936.

Hindrances To Army Recruiting

and for other

ASSAULT ON COLLEAGUE

Indian Constables Charged

-...

+

the meazills!"

repercussions which epidemic is over the survivors are

aze,

itive and business interests in the

country concerned.

The most serious consequences It is generally stated that ma-of malaria in a community Your Daily Smile!

laria is not a killing disease. In however, not the restriction of the a sense it is not. for only about 1population, but the ravages which Another example of wasted effort

it it causes on the health, vitality and is the love-sick swain who writes per cent of those contracting poems to his fiancee's evebrows succumb to its direct effects. Yet physical development of the surviv while she is at home plucking them malaria is directly responsible for ing population, Evidence of the

deaths i : over 1.000.000

India deplorable effects of malaria in every year and in years when this direction are not far to and Just It

epidemics occur. this figure is con-

Anyone who visits a highly ma- "Do you know why your stories siderably increased.

larious area cannot fail to be ap- aren't a success?"

palled by the pitiable condition of the inhabitants. If you have lived

jout.

"I can't imagine!**

"Yes, that's the whole trouble.”

Incalculable Ravages

within the capacity of British such certificates. factories. But the necessary purposes" enacts the law, but the number of recruits is not world "bonus" is not mentioned. forthcoming in spite of an in- tensive campaign to obtaini them. In the course of the next 12 months 35,000 men will be required to fill the ranks of a regular army which would then be substantially below! the strength of that of 1913. In some directions recruiting is better than it was, but the num- Two Indian Police constables ber offering themselves is not attached to the Wanchai Police sufficient to fill the gap. There Station named Bahader Singh.

The figure which I have menon the highways you may not have is the paradox that with many P.C.B. 743, and Harbus Singh.

tioned is a most conservative ́esti- observed these conditions at first thousands of young men unable p.C.B. 659, appeared before Mr. An ariation engineer says that mate, and alarmping as it may hand, but if you have stepped off to find regular employment inw. Schofield at the Central Ma- within 10 years we shall be travel-sound, it is nevertheless the least into the byways you will have seen civilian life the army does not gistracy on Saturday charged ling 500 miles an hour through the part of the tragedy. For every the tragedy for yourselves. appear to them an alternative.with having assaulted P.C.B. air. He, maybe, but not us.

under one which it kills, malaria incapa- Sickness is rife. poor, Much has been done by im-728, Bajjat Singh, in Fleming

less ex rourished and under-developed in- provement of pay, by the teach road, and with misconduct. The "The face of every girl you meet citates; to a greater or ing of trades, the encourage hearing was formally adjourned in the street," says an essayist, "is tent, very many more, and there dividuals are the rule, the children ment of sport, greater facilities for one week, bail of $50 each story in itself." Usually one she no doubt that, through its de- crawl about on spindly legs which for leave and for recreation, to being allowed.--

has made up herself.

bilitating effects, this disease is seem almost incapable of support- indirectly responsible for a mor-ing the weight of the distended make life in the ranks more at-

Letting a girl call you by your tality figure greatly in excess of abdomen which so frequently har- tractive in itself and a pre-

Christian name is sometimes the the number of direct victims. bours a huge spleen. There is an paration for re-entry into the industrial world under advan-

first step toward letting her call The effect of malaria in prevent-jair of stillness and depression. herself by your surname..

ing the matural increase of the (Continued on Page 11.) tageous conditions. About 76 per cent of the men leaving the army educational training centres find immediate employ- ment. Yet young men seeking a career avoid the army.

HAWKER IN

TROUBLE

Committal Asked In Coin Case

On the application of Chief One cause is that life with-Detective Inspector J. Murphy, jout employment has itself be-Chan Kwan. aged 34, hawker, come more bearable. Un-was remanded for three days in employment insurance Kas re-custody, by Mr. Balfour at the moved the dread of hunger. Central -Magistracy on Satur Even so, there can be no com- day, on charges of the posses parison between the conditions sion of 51 counterfeit Hong of the soldier, with all found Kong ten cent pieces at No. 13.) and 14s. a week to spend, and Sai Yuen Lane, first floor, and the average young man unable the possession of 150 counter- to find regular work. A second feit Hong Kong ten cent pieces cause is that the public mind at No. 81. Bonham Strand has not wholly shaken itself West, first Boor.

free of the habit of regarding C.D.I. Murphy stated he had. the soldier as in some way in-been instructed to ask that the ferior. Years during which case be taken for committal. we have been steadily reducing

our military strength have not the numerous specialised em- added to the prestige of army ployments to which it gives rise, life. More potent still has been the old monotony of the sol- the effect upon the minds of dier's training has 'ceased." the young, and the mothers of Probably the greatest factor in the young, of a pernicious paci- turning the eyes of youth from fist propaganda that has too the possibilities that the army. often represented the soldier holds for them is psychological as the enemy of the world's Rapid disarmament has indue- peace rather than its guardian. ed the belief that soldiers nc Vastly as life in the army has longer have a great part to been improved there are many play. The country knows now small ways in which it can be how fallacious is that idea, and bettered. The bigger reform, how urgent is the need to put however, is in the hands of the ourselves in an adequate state public. It must come to re-of defence.. Official coldness gard the soldier - nowadays, a towards the Territorials, the healthy, clean-living young impression created on the minds: man, better educated than most of civilian soldiers that they others of the class from which were not a vital part of the he is drawn as engaged in military: machine, accounts for an honourable profession and much of the falling off in their performing an absolutely neces- numbers that is now recognised sary service for the State. as a national danger. Ideas. "In answering questions in fostered over years are not to the House of Commons recent-be removed in a day. To in ly Mr. Duff Cooper gave a quali-fuse the new spirit that will fied assent to the idea of re-make men eager for service in cruiting more boys for the the regular army and the Terri- army. No such expedient torials will require time and should be necessary if the earnest work. By these we facts as regards army life may avoid any form of that con could be brought home to the scription which Mr. Baldwin youths who have attained the has said he would not consider normal age for entry. With in-without prior appeal to the creasing mechanisation, and country.

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