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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 19, 1988.

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Colony long enough for us to realise that the Medical Depart- ment will not fail, on its part, for lack of energy. The Port Health, Authorities may be relied Jupon to prevent cases reaching Hong Kong from outside ports, as far as human agencies can guarantee. All possible precau- tions may, however, be ineffec- tive if the widespread epidemics reported in various parts of

17, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. South China develop seriously in, say, Canton or the Kwangtung districts close to the New Ter- ritories border. It is imperative,

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CHOLERA AT AMOY

should not require to be stressed more than once. There is al-

assume ways the temptation to immunity until cases The outbreak of cholera in

prove the contrary. It would be wiser, war-afflicted Amoy gives point to with memories of last year as a the warnings of the Director of prod where necessary, to accept the suggestion that the Colony's Medical Services earlier this week

good fortune will be remarkable

Ignee Friedman. that the Colony must prepare it if it does escape an outbreak this self against possibility of a re-summer. Its degree of severity, Friedman. petition of the severe visitation or its prevention, depends in very Edward Kilenyi. which cost so many lives last large measure upon enlightened

public self-interest. year. Conditions in Amoy could] not be more serious, from Hong

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Kong's point of view, than they Community Centres Ania Dorfmann. are at present. Kulangsu is

Speaking recently in London swarming with refugees from at the National Conference on Ania Dorfmann.

Amoy Island across the harbour; Community Centres, Earl Stan- William Murdoch. health and sanitary services are hope, President of the Board of woefully inadequate to meet the ticular need for these centres on Education, remarked on the par- problem created by a trebling of new housing estates, where peo- its normal population in 24 ple, finding themselves in a new hours; until the arrival of Brit-home often amid entirely strange ish warships there were no more tion to loneliness.

conditions, require a counterac- than two foreign doctors in the One can imagine that itis island, which now has more than sometimes difficult, when a colony 125,000 people

is thus planted whose members crowding its

are strange to one another, for streets and living accommodation, the English temperament to rise built for about 40,000. An out-to the occasion. The case of break of cholera in these circum-Gilbert's castaways, who dared

not speak without an introduc stances may well be catastro-tion, is hardly to be relied upon phic. This Colony is already jas typical; but though the aloof- housing some 4,000 to 5,000 re-ness of the Englishman has been fugees from Amoy and as thou-much exaggerated, and his man- ners are changing to the extent sands more are on the way or that he may one day boast that Jendeavouring to secure

he is not only free but easy, he to Hong Kong, the promptitude mit necessity as the mother of is still a little unwilling to ad- of official action yesterday in im-convention. posing quarantine restrictions Mrs. Grundy is not the exact- against arrivals, immediately on ing social dictatress that she receipt of news of the outbreak, longer enforces the full "rigour once was; but though she no was commendable, if `an obvious of the game," she has still an precaution. It is only by swift-eye to its ritual-and she is not ness of decision such as this that to be hurried by an impertinent

demands to there is any hope of success at- tending the efforts of Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke to meet the threat

Jest and youthful Jollity. of trouble half-way and to avoid In the circumstances,there. the errors of treatment of past fore, a community centre, which epidemics which (the impression sees to it that such matters existed) were recognised as de- properly organised, and arrang- manding drastic action only when ed "all ship-shape and Bristol figures jumped to heights creat- fashion," would certainly appear ing general alarm.

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