THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 2, 1989
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"SCHOOLS" FOR PANEL DOCTORS
More than 1,100 panel doctors "went back to school” during 1938. By taking a fortnight's "re- fresher course” at sixteen different medical centres in all parts of the country, they learned at first hand of the latest advances in medicine.
During the coming year more than 1,500 doc- tors will attend such courses.
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Traffic was held up at the Lon- don Pavilion corner to allow Comet to cross the road.
CABBY "IRON GUSTAV” DEAD
Of these 600 will spend a fort- night at the British Post-Graduate School at Hammersmith, London.
Doing the Lambeth Walk, song and dance hit of "Me And My Girl," is Betty Fran- kiss. And Betty's an
expert 'cos she ap- with Lupino Lane. cognise it's probably because
pears in the show
If
Betty
re-.
you don't
. this step,
the
plays “vamp,” and she's do- ing a bit of vamp- ing here!
"Me And My Girl" has just celebrated its first birthday at the Victoria Palace (London).
The other English centres are Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, New DOCTORS PELT castle, Nottingham, Oxford, and EX -| Sheffield.
Some 250 Scottish panel doctors will attend similar courses at Glas- gow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aber- deen, and 100 Welsh panel doctors at Cardiff.
Doctors are not eligible for such courses until they have been quali- fied for five years.
The old "family" doctor, thirty years away from his university and so thirty years out of date, is be- coming a thing of the past. But only slowly, for there are 61,109 doctors registered in the United Kingdom.
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* * BLACK MONTH ON THE ROADS
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Worst road accident figures for any month this year have been dis- closed by the returns for Novem- ber of the leading industrial surance offices. Over 500 members of wage earning classes (compared with a monthly average of about 400) met their death as the result
of fatal traffic accidents during the
month. Victims' families received £15,800 under assurance policies.
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BREAD-MÜST BE DELIVERED -
SERGEANT
Pelted with snow- balls by two doctors, an ex-police sergeant summoned them at Leeds yesterday for assault.
The stipendiary magistrate told the ex-policeman that he
was
making un- necessary fuss about the matter, and sug- gested an apology by the doctors would
meet the case.
Mr. W.R. · Har- grave, for Dr. Hugh
and Dr.. Whalley John Teasdale, both of Leeds Infirmary, said they were will ing to aplogoise.
Ex-Police-sergeant James Magee said that outside the town hall Dr. Whal-
ley threw a snowball- which hit him on the ear, and when they were talking Dr. Treasdale threw another snowball.
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Iron Gustav, famous Berlin cabby who ten years ago drove his cab from Berlin to Paris and back, has died, aged eighty. Tis epic journey Practically everyone with his horse. Erasmus, created expects their bread to be delivered trate told Magee:-
"What really happened was that Commander-in-Chief of Uganda a sensation at the time, and on his for it has been represented to the
Council that where shops you got into a snowballing competi- since 1985, was thrown from his arrival in Paris he was mobbed by. Food
have been opened for the sale of tion. You were struck with snow horse at Entebbe and broke a col- excited crowds.
His real name was Gustav Hart- bread over the counter at reduced balls, a very annoying thing, but lar-bone says a message from Kam-
still alive and prices the demand has not been suf- people do stupid things when they pala.
ficient to make the shops pay.
nowadays Dismissing the case, the magis- GOVERNOR INJURED
Sir Philip Mitchell, Governor and
mann, Erasmus is
helps a milkman.
SPEAKE
are snowballing."
* * * 'NEW CHURCHES SHOULD
BE SMALLER'
WILLIAM POWELL-THIRD
OPERATION
Film ctar William Powell is going
Closing large churches with small into hospital for a third operation. congregations and building new That is confirmed by M.G.M., which churches in places to which people state that Powell's "Return of the have migrated, is advocated by the Thin Man" is being held up until Rev. Dr. W. Landsell Wardle (Man- he has recovered. chester), President of the Methodist Conference, in his New Year mes-
sage to Methodists.
"I would never in the future," he says, "build a church to hold more than 300 or 400 persons, on the ground-the curious ground if you to go like that people delight where there is no room for them.
"People like to go to a success- ful church, and not to one that is, obviously declining."
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ELEPHANT AT THE (PICCADILLY) CIRCUS; — Comet, an elephant from . Chessington, was in London the other day to, seo the Trocadero was large enough to receive her. She is to, perform there. This photo shows Comet stopping to quench her thirst - in the fountain below the famous Eron statue in Piccadilly Cireus,
PALACE “FATHER” RETIRES
"Father" of Kensington Palace servants, Mr. Henry Day, is retir- ing after thirty-seven years' service, first as footman and then. as butler, to the Dowager Countess Granville. Mr. Day, who is sixty- „one; frat came to London as à boy in the service of Lord Ellesmere, hearly fifty years ago,
Comet tried to board a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue.
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