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The Ideal Doctor Canadian Report On Capital

Must Be A

Good Listener

Dublin, Apr. 18.

An Irish country doctor who has conducted a sort of "Gallup Poll" among his friends and neighbours, has come to the conclusion that the most valuable quality a general practitioner can possess is to be a good listener.

Writing in the current issue teachern, (armora, labourers. af the Journal of the Irish business men, clergymen and Medical Association, the doctor students, and housewives. While swyk: *Having been in general the replies had much in common. practice for riore on forty

there was a "marked difference" in the order which the “votera" years, I can truthfully say that

Tho experience and observation have give to different qualities. at last taught me that the most following to the order, according

to the majority of votes cast:

useful quality, in general practitioner at any rate, and The one that will win him the affection of his patients in Krentest degree, and possibly the highest rate of cures, la the enpally for being A good I tester."

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The Ir, of course, re loquacious people, and there is nothing an Irishman likes better them to be able to button-hule somebody who is prepared to listen to him while he discourses the latest news, of length on whether it be the winner of a сделай глечи H some scientie discovery.

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1. Friendliness, the capacity of being easily approached,

3. Kindness and gentlenes. 3. Honesty.

4. Copacity to impart con- Adence

6. Sympathy. showing A genuine interest in the case and the determination to see it to a satisfactory conclusion.

the

0. Concentration on patient's mind rather than on his body.

7. Homeliness, the appearance of not being rushed.

B. Cleanliness, especially of the hands,

9. Reasonable speed in making his examination.

10. Ability to wssess the patient's intelligence

"All he touches

11. luck. turn out well."

12. Being a good jstener.

himself (The dielar

put this rst).

One woman sumuned it up by saying she required only two qualities in her doctor--a kind and understanding heart, and us a desirable, though rather unim-

innecurate to say that at least portant second, medical skill.

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First of all Goodness, which, he says, is difficult to define but is well understood. Next should follow Kindness, the quality of the Good Samaritan, which he as hatred of injustice; Jeines Salisbury

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The wriler doubts that such u doctor. embodying 11 these qualities, exists.

Yet, he writes, "we can all try to emulate those virtues in After greater or less degree. 01, It isn't what we are that matters so much, it is what we strive to be and, God willing what we may one day become."

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Prisoners Give Blood

Australia To Mother Japanese Scientists

He said the ship would make a preliminary trip to the Anture- the next November.

Melbourne, Apr. 18. The Australian Antarc- tic base at Mawson will be

Dr Nishibori is in Australia "the mother station" for for talks with Mr Philip Law, Japanese scientists during director of Antarctic Division of the 1967

Geophysical External Affairs Department and Dr E. Nishibori, other officials. year, logistics and operationa leader of the Japanese ex- pedition said tonight.

"And

the daughter will have to obey mother, he said.

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Singapore, Apr. 18. Convict blood now runs in the veins of some Singapore citizens. Bloodbank authorities reported here that 40 prisoners at the Singapore gaol are regular blood Dr Nishibori said Japan was donors and have a better record spending £30 million on of public service in this respect Antarctic research. than most Singaporo eltizens. A 2,200-ton ship previously Tho other main source of used to supply lighthouses blood here is from British and around the rocky coast of Japan Malayap servicemen in local was being rebuilt to withstand airfields and garrisons. -- China; the strong lee pressures it would Mall Special.

encounter in the Antarctic.

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Dr Nishibori sald that Japanese expedition would look for a base on the Prince Harald Land const, west cr Mawson and would tcave ten men there to establish a station.

He said the ship would inter return for the geophysical year with

a full expedition of 53 anen.

Punishment Expected

Ottawa, Apr. 18. Recommendations concerning the abolition of flogging and capital punish- ment are expected to be made soon by the Joint Committee of the House and Senate on Capital and Corporal Punishment and Lotteries.

The Committee's report Ja due to be issued by June after three years of intensive colite- tion of evidence.

The vote aguinst the death penalty in the British House of Commons and a recent hanging. El Montreal have affected the public atubude to capital punishment, while a wave of rex crimes, particularly in the Toronto-Hamilton ares, has re- cently caused many people to modify their attitude towards flogging.

CAT USED

Whereas the use of the lash has been abolished in Britain and most other countries as a ་ sentence under the criminal law, it has so far been retained in

ordered Canada, It

KOT criminals who have committed

example, riots. This um is | quite different in principle from the use of corporül pünishment as ordered by the courts and used as a sentence under the criminal code.

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Figures on the use of the lash and the strap for the year 1952 were presented to the Joint Commitice. The lash p prescribed by sentence in 33 cases, the strap in 14.

Most of the crimes being punished were violent ones, but in one case it

awarded

criminal Was

for negligence, and in a third for malicious damage to property. In four cases, it was given for theft.

The lash was prescribed for 13 rex casts, most of them violent, while out of the 14 instances in which the strap was ordered, sex crimes accounted for no less

clicly than ten.

violent crimes, such as armed robbery, assault or rape, or for the graver sex offences such as sodomy and incest.

In addition to the lash, better known as the cat-o'-nine-tails, nine strands of consisting of

inch cord, corporal quarter punishment in relatively minor cases

bo may

administered through the strap, a #leather hong sixteen inches long and two and a half inches wide This instrument is chiefly used to inflict summary punishment maintain discipline In

PAMPHLET

Demand

STAGE

for the application of the lash in violent sox crimes in widespread though its effec- tiveness was hotly contested before the Committeo,

The lasuts

logging have pamphleteering

of hanging and

renched tho stage in Canada with the publication of a paper backed volume directed

aguinat the the present system. The author Mr is an eminent authority, W. T. McGrath, head of the delinquency and crime division

Canadian of

Welfare Council, a major national social, owił cages like, for agency.

federal penitentiarica,

Dr Nishibork said the last Japanese expedition to the An- tarctic was under Lieutenant The Wardenis of Canadian Shirase who perished in the prkons may order corporat Ross Sea in 1911–China Mail | punishment

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Mr. McGrath, who

gave evidence beford the Joint Committee, declares that com poral punishment has been in flicted in Canada

the upon talk people leas

to benent from it "the emotionally unstable, probably aggressive people who will only react with further violence; as for us sex offenders are

concerned, these people are unable to control. their emotiond and will commit further crimes, even against their own wishes."

MORE DIFFICULT

While sentiment against, the death penalty has been growing in Canada, it is by no means certain, that sentiment against corporal punishment has fataly Increased correspondingly. In- deed, because of the recent prevalence of violent crimes -1

diminished.

may even have

Until the recent crime wave developed, it had been con Bidered

likely that the Joint Committee of House and Senate would recommend the abolition of the lash and strap pa a entence under the griminal code

but retain corporal pimishment 12.4 1

means of discipline inside

ing

The task. confronting the Committee at this session is made much more difficult to the inclusion of lotteries with in its term

Already, it has 1,600 pages of evidence to be digested, much of it relating to lotteries, with many witnesses offering sub missions on all three subjects.

While capital punishment and corporal punishment are related subjects, lotteries · are so dit- ferent a

matter as to seeme

positively an irrelevance,

The

came to be included only because Parliament... while revising the Criminal Code of Canada

ii 1932,, excopied the. provision relating to them firon- subjects because they wera, so highly controversial:

MORE LETTERS

“In the upshot, somo meinteri of the Joint Committee would prüfer to make-definite stcompl mendations on,capimé and cor- poral puntament, but content themselves with suggesting appointment of a Royal Crank inlasjon to wift the intensely' complex subject of lollerine

Manwhile however,! of the popsilerity of similar garnes of chancey oukayly, Ini Onénrio, montary Communištion. In more: letters, anu tha loiboyles than on the Constantions)