1939-10-06 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 6, 1939

News Snack Bar

8S. A TIME TO WIPE OUT DIPHTHERIA

IN AN ATTEMPT to stamp out diphtheria in Glasgow a scheme for the inoculation of 270,000. children has been prepared.

Two injections, each costing about 4s., will be given at fortnightly intervals to all children whose parents give their consent.

CANADA LINES UP

Simultaneously with Great Britain's call to the new Militia, thousands of Canadian youths in the non-permanent Militia have gone into training in what Bri. tish Army officers have described as the "finest camp in the Em- pire."

The camp is known as Shilo, in Manitoba. Nearly every province in the Dominion is represented among those hundreds admitted each week for an all-too-brief period of training.

The camp has been developed as the increased expenditure for defence has made Improvements possible. Work is under way on a now fifty-bed hospital, and railway connections will be es- tablished shortly.

Lord Nuffield Aids Seamen

"We hope all parents will realise the value of the scheme and will give us their support," an official of the city Health Department told the Press. "There are at present 377 cases of diphtheria in the city's isolation hos- pital. The majority of them are chil- dren under ten.

Glasgow has about 180,000 school- children and another 90,000

under school age.

American tests prove

effect

ulation

New

against diphtheria York has reduced its deaths from the disease. from 8,000 cases a year

to just under 1,000.

#

#

54,000,000 Dicl "Tim"

* About 54,000,000 cals have been made to the speaking clock since the inception of the TIM service on July 24, 1936, Major Tryon, Postmaster General, stated in a written reply in the House. Total weekly number of- calls now being made is about 545,000,

*

#

些

First Psychological Expert Dies

-Lord Nuffield has promised £6,500 to the London Port Welfare Council for the construction and maintenance

Dr. W. A. Potts, first psychological of a building in or near the docks. expert to be attached to any Bench In Here the merchant seamen of the the country, has died in Birmingham, world will be provided with all help aged seventy-three.

while in the Port of London.

* * *

Advice For Minister

Officially announced that the Minis- ter of Supply, Mr. L. Burgin, proposes, as the work of the Ministry develops,

AFTER THE STORM.-The London Irish at Burley, Hants., after the camp was flooded. Photo shows troops filling in the holes in the muddy road with sand and gravel. (Copyright, Fox).

Temporary-For 41 Years Presented From Court

Bath Fire Brigade, after occupying "temporary" headquarters for forty- one years, moved to a new luxurious station. A woman architect, Mrs. R. A. Gerrard, wife of the English Rugby international, was responsible for the design of the building.

**

***

Dr. Potts was ja schoolmaster who took medicine. In 1919 was appointed Doctors' 'No' To

psychological expert to

Birmingham

justices the first position of its kind. Woman's Bid For Board

His work resulted in an increase in psychological treatment of criminals.

גוי

to associate with it advisory panels to Pool Trustee Resigns

assist in regard to different branches of the work of the Ministry. First of these will be an advisory industrial panel.

**

*

Wrote His Epitaph

any

-

lor and president-elect of the

Mr. Jack Tanner, executive council-

Amal gamated Engineering Union, bas signed his position as trustee of Mutu.! Pool, Ltd., the trade union football pool which has been promoted to help charities. He said "To remove Baron Emile Beaumont D'Erlanger, wrong impression that may be in the the banker, died at Hythe, Kent, aged minds of the members, I have decided seventy-three. Until last year he play- to resign, and I wish it to be clearly two rounds of golf a day. When his understood that the union physician ordered him to stop playing any way associated with the venture."

is not in golf after an illness, he wrote his own epitaph-a poem with golf 'as

theme.

*

#

Tide Turns For British

Film Firms

the

.*

War Damage: Names

Soon

A number of M. P.s, headed Colonel Baldwin

by

London police court humour:

rather have the money than a warrant Magistrate, at Willesden: You would for your husband?

Wite: Yes, if I can get the money. Man at. Tottenham: My wife is un- just when she says I accused

my mother-in-law of interference. All'I said was: "I realise you have your duty to do."

*

*

His 30th Trip Round

the World

There's no place for a woman doctor on the General Medical Council ruling body of the profession.

An attempt to nominate one to the Council was heavily defeated by the British Medical Association at their meeting in Aberdeen..

Craig, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

This was despite the plea of Dr. T. He said that from personal experl- ence he knew most women were extraordinarily capable.

three, steel merchant, of Holland Park, Mr. Authur K. Rhoden, seventy- London, arrived at Liverpool on the Canadian Pacific liner Montrose after his thirtieth trip around the world. His first was forty years ago.

doctors Presented From Court

Only twenty women were.among the but only one of them spoke--Dr. B. E. three hundred doctors at the meeting, Turnér, of Marylebone.

She appealed strongly that if a woman got on to the G.M.C. it should be by reason of merit and suitability, and not from, exclusive support.

*

*

Quarter Of New Ships

Webb, M. P. who Are British

The tide has furned for British films, called on the Chancellor of the Ex- according to the Cinematograph Films chequer on the subject of compensa- Council-formed under the Cinemato- tion for war damage to property, were graph Films Act of 1938, in its first told by Sir John Simon that he hoped report

The year has witnessed the pro- of those who would serve on the body the pro- to be able to announce soon the names duction of British films of the highest which was to be appointed, quality," the report states.

"This is

demonstrated not only by the pro- Mines Kill Two Men duction of certain films at great cost, which have enjoyed wide popularity

but also by a high general average of A Day merit m

"The minimun cost provision of the

Act of 1938 has, doubtless, contributed til the week ended July 1, 870 men From the beginning of this year un- to this result; but we are satisfied that were killed and 1,584 Injured in coal the main source of the improvement mines in Britain compared with 486 lay in the fact that the financial lesson killed and 1,637 Injured in the cor- of the boom years had been learned. responding period of last year. Those engaged in production are re-This is an average depth-toll of more solved to ensure that the quality of the than two men a day, including Sun- picture justified its cost."

days!

From London police courts:-- Husband at Willesden; My wife says "Yes" and I say "No" and then we do what she wants.

Man at Highgate: If a car's brakes the driver will become aware of it. are defective, a time will come when

Man at West Ham: My neighbour owes me some money, and I asked him to lend me two-pounds out of it. Turkish Air Amazon-

+

*

to

June totalled 701455 tons. This is an hold a regular Air Force commission),

Merchant ships under construction in principal assistant

Miss Nadie Toros, aged twenty-two, Great Britain and Ireland at the end of Sabiha Guektchen (only woman

to Lieutenant

hand at the end of the previous quar- American air schools for women. Miss increase of 194,552 tons on work in is going to the United States to inspect ter. But it is 245,618 tons below that Toros and Lieutenant Sabiha being built at the end of Jurie a year members of the "Turkish Bird," ago.

For the rest of the world, 2,087,-

women's civil air guard. 837 tons were being built at the end

#

#

of the second quarter this year, which Italy Gets 'Pure' Bread

per cent, of the tonnage building, says end of March lost. That gives us 27.7 Now Lloyd's quarterly returns.

is 38,927 tons below the total at the

tre

ed States 391,824 tons; Germany 347,- explained in the Rome Press as being Italy's increase in the price of bread Leading countries abroad are: Unit- for August of a halfpenny a pound is

616 tons; Holland 223,381 tons; Sweden made of pure flour," and not as in the 882 tons; Japan 300,849 tons; Italy 224,- "on account of the now bread being 160,020 tons; and Denmark 122,440 past "a mixture of grain maize and tons.

other substâncès,'