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CORONATION

OF THEIR MAJESTIES

KING GEORGE VI

QUEEN ELIZABETH

OFFICIAL TOUVENIA

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AND OTHER MEMSIMA OF TIN BOTAL DAMELY

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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1937.

We might be prepared to agree.

The China Mail that failure to report needs to

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be approached with a certain de- gree of circumspection. Govern- ment would possibly not find it unfruitful to delve into the rea- sons for such failures, ignoring 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2 |the nsually accepted pre-

Notice To Contributors.

sumption that the Chinese ob- All communications intended for ject to their relatives being re- publication should be addressed to moved to the Isolation Hospital. the Editor, and be accompanied by That factor remains important the Writer's

and Address, with many but there is reason to

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BIRTH

CLARK.- At the War Memorial Nursing Home on St. George's Day, 1937, to Evelyn, wife of Walter C. Clark, a son, Peter.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Mr. A. P. Greaves and family wish to thank all friends and rela- tions for their kind expressions of sympathy in their recent sad be reavement, and for the many, floral tributes sent and attendance at the funeral.

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cess--so vitally necessary- affords a stronger impulse to- wards concealment than fears of voodoo at Western hospitals. Al- legations are made of wilful des- truction of property by sanitary coolies employed on such unless they are well cumshawed beforehand, and these are charg- es which are not the easier to prove because of the impres- sion that has grown up (pos sibly falsely) that it is useless to lodge complaints, that the word of a Government servant will always hold against that of a mere householder whose misfor- tune it has been to suffer illness in his family and the subsequent descent of a disinfection upon his premises.

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Even so, to present this as an argument for mild penalties when concealment is threefold Hong Kong, Saturday, April 24, 1937. and has had grave consequences,

MAGISTRATES

AND

PUBLIC HEALTH

would require the support more of ingenuity than of force. In our view, the protection of the public from such scourges as smallpox demands more drastic The standards of values of insistence upon the letter of the law than, say, the heinous offen- Hong Kong's magistrates are ces of tuning-in to ZBW without frequently called into question. Penalties imposed for different licence or of indulging in types of infringements are full tempting flutter at Ming Yuen Gardens. The Colony recently of apparent anomalies, without any indication of the reason for was congratulating itself on its comparative freedom from the distinctions drawn. strange disease. A few more Shamshui- leniency is shown

public interest would seem to demandos and we shall be crying a dif-

ferent tune. exemplary punishment; severity frequently distinguishes deci- sions in cases where the breach

on the face of it appears to be Dull Jobs purely technical. It is, for in- stance, far from easy to follow the reasoning which re-monotonous jobs, and the proces- The modern world holds many gards, by standards of fines imses of mass production tend to posed, the offence of accepting multiply them. To sit before a employment in an amusement centre which caters to man's moving platform and treat simi- lar items in the same way over eternal gambling instincts,

and over again is a task vastly failure to take out a wireless licence, as distinctly more grave man who completes a job from different from that of the crafts than the concealment of conta

beginning to end. If it means gious disease.

boredom and staleness it brings Nine residents of Shamshuipo, down the output. Music has from a small area which has been tried as a stimulant, and recently furnished the centre of according to a Medical Researc a serious smallpox outbreak, Council publication on "Fatigue were summoned this week. In and Boredom în Repetitive one house, three smallpox vic-Work" it works well. tims were lying concealed. The music. goes round and round house was described by the the output has risen in some of Sanitary Inspector concerned as the experiments by nearly 4%

As the

in his opinion, the point or ori-per cent. Apparently the music gin of the epidemic. The per- has to be spaced out and inquiry son legally responsible in this case was fined $20, and to the tenden- MAVERA ASSENTER PARK AS the workers. Waltzes in other nearby houses were make some languid, and quicker fined on a diminishing scale, two melodies are liable to disturb the escaping with fines of $7.50 each. rhythm of the actual job in It is difficult to imagine any hand. It would seem, therefore, thing of greater importance from that melody as an aid to indus- the public's viewpoint than salut-trial output is a problem that re- ary action in proved cases of quires careful approach, and smallpox concealment, particul- there may be some who will arly when it is shown that that smile to see it considered at all. dread, loathsome disease has They should remember, how- been spread as a direct conse- ever, that the mechanical and quence. It is, indeed, mystify-monotonous job need be no hard- ing that the maximum permis-ship if the mind is either at ease sible penalty under the Ordin- or ripely occupied. Spinoza ance for this offence is $50. But polishing lenses and perfecting even that authority would allow philosophy” is an example of the of a fine of $150 in an instance richer process. But if music where three cases had developed eases and interests the mind of and no report had been made to those who are not philosophers the guardians of the public it may yet come to rank as an health.

industrial lubricant for dull jobs.

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