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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 23, 1937.
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fourteen cases. Dysentery is rife. Diphtheria has been un- usually persistent for months on "end". "All of these diseases and the still more dreaded tuber- culosis which cost 71 lives in the Colony last
are all
Pasteurisation, it is admitted, is no guarantee of complete im- munity. But it
does reduce chances. It does limit the op- W.C.portunity for contracting these
ailments.
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PASTEURISATION OF MILK
proved Hable to ek milk-borne.
"We cannot, in fact, find validity in any arguments for postponement of compulsory pasteurisation. Britain's pro- blems are in a category_quite· different from ours. The small Chinese dairies, which doubtless protest the loudest because they are least able to meet the cost of acquiring the necessary plant, are certainly also least able to meet the cost of modernisation of dairy, of cow care and of handling and dis- tribution methods, which alone can furnish any assurance of a clean milk. When it can then be shown that the most perfect of methods are still liable to break down, in mystifying fashion, where is the case against pas- teurisation?
If the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo's questions in Legislative Council this
afternoon are what they seem, a challenge to the compul-Government's Financial sory: pasteurisation policy, it is
to be hoped that the answers will Policy make it clear that Government has no intention of being divert ed from the course it has set
Government's decision to re-
of revenue
itself. The decision to so ensure store to civil servants the cuts reasonably safe milk supplies made under the Levy on Salaries was founded upon an uncom-Ordinance, and gradually to re- promising recommendation", by move economy measures in other the Hon. Dr. A. R... Wellington, directions, is presumably- -war- It brings Hong Kong into line ranted by evidences with sound practice in the inter- buoyancy, despite the Treasury's ests of community health. The March figures which suggested fonly ground on which criticism otherwise. It is safe to suppose has been persisted in apart that subsequent events have from that by vested interests proved the March returns to have who would naturally avoid the been false as far as the trend cost of installing pasteurisation was concerned, in view of the of a trade re- plant if they could seems to plain indications have depended upon the admit-covery. May's returns maintain- ted difficulty of making junket! ed the record of remarkable im- Mr. Eo introduces extracts provement this year as compar- from a House of Lords debate in ed with last, the brightest fea- support of his plea for postpone-ture being the high figure for ex- ment, but do they altogether ports, revealing that the Colony help his case? Viscount Halifax, is beginning once more to fulfil urging that the
of its function as the centre of an question vested interests did not arise, important entrepot trade. On nevertheless revealed that it was these grounds, there can be no their point of view that had possible criticism of Government been impressed upon the Goy-policy, though a word of caution
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one of Britain's most eminent extension of the principle. physicians, declared unequivocal- There is much to be said for ly that he saw no other way of the view, which is gaining in- dealing with this vital health creasing adherents, that a gov- question than by having a pro-ernment's duty these days is to perly organised and controlled plan to prevent too wide a fluc- system of pasteurisation. He tuation in the graphs of boom went on to make suggestions and depression. It should not similar to those made in Hong spend lavishly when money is Kong, that producer-retailers plentiful in a community should go in for co-operation, or, then, when scarcity appears and if necessary, be compensated in business is bad, place further strains upon a weakened system What seems inescapable is by boosting taxation to meet its this. If pasteurisation is, for own normal requirements. The any reason, considered desirable modern way, or perhaps we in England, or in any part of should say the future way; in- England, it becomes a matter of volves a policy, best described as urgency for Hong Kong. There "repair and maintenance, and can be no comparison between the establishment of substantial Poole or Bournemouth and Hong reserves in times of plenty, to be Kong,
from a health point of expended by way of enlarged view, which does not reflect de public works, programmes and so trimentally upon this Colony.on when normal trade is in the Lord Cranworth spoke of panic doldrums. There might be highTM legislation because he was think-taxation in good times and low ing in terms
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| typhoid in th of the rarity of in bad. New money would be
British Isles. In injected when most needed, in- Hong Kong, not a week goes by stead of being used in a boom the year round without one or period to send it still higher- more and sometimes seven foffor a farther fall.mash
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