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WHEN YOUR PARTY REACHES ITS HIGHEST PEAK OF GAIETY THERE IS NOTHING MORE WELCOME THAN

A LONG COOL DRINK OF CLEAR SPARKLING AMBER BEER

TIGER BEER

IS

BEST

per doz. pints $4.65

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per doz. qts.

$8.00

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Wine Dept.

Tel. 20616.

Jel. 28151.

CLEARANCE SALE

PROCEEDING

Bargains In The Children's Section.

Girls' "Chilprufe" Dresses

(2 to 10 years) from $6.75 to $12.75

Girls' Cardigans, Jerseys, and Pullovers (5 to 12 years)

From $5.95 to $10.50

Boys' Knitted Suits (3 to 5 years)

From $5.95

Boys' Lumber Jackets With

Zip Fasteners

In Navy And Brown $5.95 and $8.75

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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 22, 1988.

The China Mail

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girls from 14 to 18 have no pro- per physical training. Under the is Act recently passed £2,000,000 ís to be spent on playing fields and other means of fitness. The co- operation of local authorities is

7, Garrick Street, London, W.C2 Practically certain. But it will also be necessary to bring home to a section of the public the and new opportunities offered spread appreciation of the bene- fits which they can confer. Thus the last month of the campaign

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Hong Kong, Saturday, January 22, 1938 which is March will be one of the most important. Its poten- tialities for the welfare and hap- piness of the nation are great.

NATIONAL FITNESS

The announcement that the

King is to attend a Guildhall re- P. T. in Hong Kong ception in London in connection

with the National Fitness Cam- It is an easy step from Brit- paign is an earnest of the im- ain's bid for national health and portance attached in official quar-fitness to the suggestion made ters to the objective held in by Dr. S. W. Ts'o at the annual view by the promoters of the prize-giving of the Vernacular campaign. Seventy years ago, Middle School, that the Hong should......... not with the watchword Sanitas Kong Government sanitatum, omnia sanitas, Dis- rest on its laurels in providing raeli declared that the first ob-physical training in local schools. ject of government should be the Dr. Tso had a valuable sugges health of the people. But, that tion to make. It was that new is neither the real beginning nor recruits to the ranks of qualified the end for after government has instructors be secured locally; by done its utmost, the health of providing a public gymnasium the people still depends on peo- and special instruction for suit- ple's will to health. To stimul- able Chinese candidates, who ate that, to abolish the ignorance. would carry their knowledge and carelessness and indifference training into the wider sphere which limit the use of preventive beyond the scope of the special and curative services is the pur P.T. instructors now available to pose of the six months' campaign the Education Department. When to which leaders of all parties Britain finds it necessary to pay. are giving their hearty support. serious attention to the problem Britain has built up a range of of communal health insofar as it health services which are second can be influenced by such to none in the world. They are methods of increasing the stand- being extended from year to ard of physical fitness, it is year. In the last 50 years the scarcely necessary to stress the death rate has been halved. The value to be gained by increased expectation of life of a baby has emphasis in local schools. The become 19 years longer. Tuber-need is infinitely greater and culosis, once the deadliest of the means, at present, lamentably diseases, the "white scourge.” inadequate. As Dr. Te'o point- has now a mortality rate about ed out, playing fields are not a quarter of its old record. Such available for organised sport for statistics mean not only a saving but a few of local schoolboys. of life but an advance in physical PT. instruction requires much fitness, in the efficiency and hap-less elbow room and is not less Diness of the nation.

efficient in its primary purpose.

Yet Britain has no reason to His suggestion is worthy of the be satisfied. Great as the im-closest consideration. provement has been, it might

have been much greater if full London's Green Girdle use had been made of the op-

as.

and

portunities provided by the ex- It is only two years ago that tension of the health services the L.C.C. set

aside £2,000,000 and the progress of science had for a scheme of co-operation with been fully used. It is estimated other country and borough coun- that in spite of all which is cils to establish a Green Belt of provided to prevent it, physical open spaces round London which unfitness costs the country some should be as accessible from the $220,000,000 a year. The incid-completely urbanished area ence of many diseases and the possible. To that provision and incapacity which they inflict are local enterprise London to-day much increased by neglect to owes the preservation of hun- consult a doctor in their early dreds of acres of downland turf stages. That old institution, the and wooded_dale. Since the family doctor, is of primary im- awakening in 1934, county coun- portance, and “ask your doctor"" cils and other authorities in Mid-

Surrey and ask him to time are golden dlesex and Essex, rules of health. Ante-natal and Bucks, and Herts and Kent, have infant welfare services have joined in the Green Belt scheme proved of incalculable benefit, yet with vigour and generosity. At the by large numbers of people they end of last year, the L,C.C. had are wholly neglected.

already allotted half its £2,000,- Each successive month of the 000 and 30,000 acres were secur- campaign is to be devoted to aled Since then there have been different subject. The established extensive additions, north, south, health services take up the first east and west, thousands of five. The last is assigned to the acres in Middlesex alone. London Government's new plans for the will not have a Green Belt in improvement of the national phy-an unbroken circle, but is assur- sique. When he announced these ed of the preservation of much a year ago, Mr. Chamberlain in-beautiful scenery and of a num sisted that the British people ber of great open spaces from 10 could not consider ourselves a to 20 miles out all round London. really healthy nation till we had The effort which has won this raised the general standard of has given stimulus effective development, Our generation is throughout the country not decadent.

Vital statistics Chiltern

prove that But in the expanthe sion of health services we have nor been strangely negligent of pro-

viding opportunities for physic

exercise. One result is that

the sea. Other

areas in the have

What

ide

some 70 per cent. of boys and should be

possible elsewher