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↑isolation must be disregarded, but we are also assured, by com- | petent authorities, that the real complaint of Hong Kong a poor, among whom the disease is rife, in fumigation. Accusations are is against the methods employed

made against sanitary coolies: including accusations of petty thieving, but principally of complete disregard of the feel- ings of owners of a few small belongings, (valueless but all they All communications intended for have in the world) of a careless- ness in handling or of wilful des- publication should be addressed to truction. If the facts are the Editor, and be accompanied by tion, not of the people whose stated, here is a case for educa-

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duce where most needed a better understanding of the merits of Western medicine and of the in- evitability of isolation for the common good, but unless a re- medy is provided for the third point of resistance, concealments and intensifications of epidemics by reason of concealments will continue. In short, unless. Gov- ernment reveals an alert purpose to understand the mental pro- cesses which lead to concealment and to meet the problem where it can be met, they will be de- While it is too early to place feated at the outset in all endea- the figures in their true perspec-vours to eradicate disease, which tive, the disturbingly sharp in-will pursue its tragic natural

Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb: 17, 1938.

SMALLPOX CONCEALMENT

crease in incidence of cases in course.

the smallpox epidemic in the

past two days definitely suggests

that, far from having reached Manuscripts and

its peak, Hong Kong's worst out-

break for many years is likely to Typescripts

occasion even greater ankiety.

treasures·

The average number of cases Among the greater had for about three weeks be-in the Dickens House in London, come more or less stabilised at which has just been reopened to approximately twenty daily. In the public, is a single page of the the 24 hours ended at mid-night manuscript of "Pick-wick.”- It on Monday, 68 fresh cases were is the more valuable because only reported. On Tuesday, 40 fur-forty-four of the remaining pages ther cases were registered more are known to be in existence. than a hundred in two days. All The loss of the others must be sorts of reasons have been ad-ja matter of regret to all students vanced for this sharp rise. The of Dickens; for an original manu- primary cause, however, is that script is fascinating as a relic which has maintained at the that has been in intimate contact epidemic at a high level of in-with the author, and has always cidence, namely, the failure of some sidelights to throw Chinese to notify coupled with his character, methods, and train |the dumping of the dead bodies f thought His handwriting of victims in the streets. The has something to tell the experts, [record of street-discovered_mor-we may deduce pauses for tuary cases, proved victims of thought and rushes of inspiration, smallpox has been appalling high and his corrections are particu- The consequences are grave be- larly illuminating. He may even cause not being known, infected be, to use a new arrival in the premises are not decontaminated language, a "doodler," and re- but are left to spread the disease veal unsuspected artistic talent from cubicle to cubicle and from in the margin! fenement to tenement..

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To-day, the typewriter has,

* Quite obviously, this is a sit- with many authors, taken the uation

which confronts the place of the pen; and one won- Colony's health administration ders whether this will not con- with the most serious problem it siderably decrease the interest has to face in its efforts to com- of their original scripts, even in bat the epidemie, and the root the matter of corrections.

Re causes cannot be too closely stud-tracing one's steps to make al- ied. There is more than one terations on the typewriter 19 a Chinese objection to notification.|laborious business: it may be. One of them is distrust of West-effectively done, subsequently, it ern methods of treatment. An-is true, with a pen-but, in spite other, which is stronger, and is of this, is not the result to make generally assumed to be the writers think twice before they strongest, is the reluctance of tap the keys? relatives to appreciate the pur

If so, those first careless rap- pose and importance of isolation, tures, once so easily disciplined together with the fact that the by a stroke of the pen, will no Isolation Hospital is not pleasant-longer be even faintly visible ly described when a Chinese or at least, far less often. In makes reference to the institu- the case of those with whom first tion at Kennedy Town. There thoughts are good enough, we is, however, a third objection, shall not, however, lose much. which we have been assured is Here, în fact, there may even be the primary cause of unwilling-a gain. For typewriting has not ness to notify, and that is the the friendliness, the softening Sanitary Department's insistence effect, of familiar handwriting. upon fumigation of premises in and occasionally, confronted by which a case has occurred. If its bold and impersonal present-

the objection were to fumigation ment, an impulsive author ma as such, it would have to be dis- be startled into desirable Seco regarded just as the objection to thoughts.