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MISSIONARIES IN CHINA, EXCESSIVE LOSS OF LIFE AMONG

CHILDREN AND ADULTS.

1991

AN INSURANCE ACTION IN THE MALAY STATES. CHINESE CLAIM CHALLENGED BY COMPANY.

A child of a missionary family in China

A civil action of considerable import- from two to five years of age has only one-third as good a chance to survive nice was commenced, recently, before Mr. Justice Whitley in the Kuala Lumpur as a child born in southern England.

Supreme Court, in which the proprietor This is one of the many striking facts of Chop. Sui Seng, of 74, High Street, brought out in a book on The Health wholesale liquor dealer, claimed $87,000,43 the North of Missionary. Families in China" from defendant corny, written by Dr. William G.gLennox. of British and Mercantile Insurance Co..

local agents, Messr Peking, and published by the Economies through their Department of Denyer University The McAlister & Co., Ltd., Kuala Lumpur. Facts were compiled from answers to n The plaintiff's statement of claim, set health questionnaire submitted to 1,300 forth that in December. 1019, the defend- missionaries scattered throughout Chian. ant company in consideration of the sun As answers were received from 60 per of $610 paid to them by the plaintiff, cent, of the missionary body, they are issued to the plaintiff a fire insurance sufficiently representative to permit policy. insuring against loss or damage generalisations. It is the contention of by fire. or lightning the plaintiff's stock Dr. Lennex that the mortality rate is in trade in the sum of 878,000 and the indefensibly high, three-fourths of the furniture and "effects in the sum of $200. deaths being due to infectious diseases of In February, 1990, the house caught fire a preventable character. Cases of small and the stock, furniture and effects were pox, for instance, are ninety-five times destroyed, the plaintiff estimating the more common on the mission field in valus at 887,003.43, which sum the do- China than in the United States.

fendant company failed to pay though Taking the missionary body as requested. The plaintiff asked for judg whole, there has been an excessive loss of ment for the sum mentioned with costs." life among both children and adults" The defence alleges that the claim is says Dr. Lentox. "Much of this loss may fraudulent and false. The defendants in future be prevented. For such preven. amended their written statement by the tion, both intelligent vigilance on the addition of the following paragraph: part of the individual and a larger co- operative health program on the part of the churches is needed. Increased ex- penditure, if based on facts would result in great money-saving, and would aidcently been obtained against him or the in bringing nearer the longed-for cuming of the new day to China.'

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STATISTICS.

Statistics gathered by Dr. Lennox show that the danger age for a child in China is not, as at home, in the first six months of his life. In fact, the rate for this period is extremely low, lower than among the professional classes in Eng. land. During the second six months, however, the death' curve takes a decided sweep upward, and for children 'rudging

The plaintiff or the said Chop Sui Seug obtained the said policy of insur- auce from the defendants without dis closing the facts that judgments had re-

said Chop Sai Seng or that the stockain trade of the said Chop Sui Seng had recently been attached in execution, or that further Actions were "threatened and ending against him on the mid Chop Sui Seng. The defendants will contend that failure to disclose such facts in- validates the said policy."

The hearing of the case has not been concluded.

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in age from two to five years, the rate SINGAPORE RIVER IMPROVE-

is three times higher than among the

group in England having the same ratio

of infant deaths. Many factors are in-

MENTS.

A $15,000,000 SCHEME.

volved in making China a hazardous

Messrs. Coode, Matthews, Fitzmaurice place for a child to live-lack of a good milk supply, the prevalence of intestinal and Wilson; have reported to the Straits disorders, lack of vegetable foods con Government, on "Singapore River Im taining the highly necessary vitamines,provements." This was reported on by and in the interior, the fact that a phy: the same firm in 1901 and in 1906, and this sician is sometimes many days' journey Chamber of Commerce again brought up away. Though the mortality among mis the subject in 1819. Hence this further sionary children is less than half what report. As engineers, the firm had to it is among the. Chinese, it is one and supply a scheme, if it were decided to a half times greater than among children of missionaries in Japan.

Other factors which affect the child by decreasing his resistance are isolation,

improve" the river, and they submit a $15,000,000 plan for building concrete walla on either side, with the raising of the bridges and the strengthening of the about it, indeed they damn it with faint

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chance for play, the debilitating climate, and the constant fear and vigilance Praise. touching questions of food and drink.

MISSION BOARD'S NEGLECT.

The Free Press, commenting on the cer- report, says: The Government

money to spend on a large tably has no Neglect on the part of mission boards work of any kind at present, but it would to demand that their candidates be certainly be a mistake to listen to the inoculated against typhoid fever is an demands of those who (as a secondary The consideration, perhaps) have an eye to other cause of needless sacrifice. proportionate number of cases contracted the increase in the value of their river shore property, and to support a scheme by missionaries in China is twelve times which, as we read it, stands condemned in the number at home, the rate being even the eyes of the firm who make the report higher than that in the United States! referred to." Army during the Spanish-American War. before the introduction of compul- sory innoculation.

rule.

Dr. Lennox observed that us the lower the missionary's salary, the Largest number of deaths in his family. Low salaries mean lack of vacations, - tempts to live on Chinese food, and houses in which flies hold high carnival. "How enn i bring up and educate my children on a salary of 8400 gold a year": wrote one exasperated parent.

MORE DOCTORз.

JAPAN'S PROGRESS. IMPRESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH VISITOR.

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Mr. Arthur Black, Secretary of the Shaftesbury Society and Rugged School. Union, has had a very interesting visit to Japan, and has given an account of his impressions to a representative of the Westminster Guzetle. It is a pro-, it is the hope of Dr. Lennox that his foundly alert country," said Mr. Black, to learn from Western civilisation. investigation will result in the placing and yet proudly conscious of its own of more physicians on the mission field, frequent physical examinations of mis ancient traditions. Take education, for example; many young Japanese go to sionaries and their families, and careful American Universities, and a few come to instruction on health safeguards for mismatra They are learning English as sionaries about to sail for China,

matter of course, and speak it excellently. The tendency of churches at home to heard a choir render oratorio selections glory in tales of suffering missionaries with for clearer enunciation of this Eng is decried by the author.

lish words than one sometimes bears at Back of the mission bourds lies the home. It was delightful to see girls run- contributing "church, a church which ning relay races, and families picnicking ecems sometimes to give most liberally in the parks. I heard of one church in when its missionaries are represented as Tokyo where, under Japanese auspices, suffering most of physical privation and there was as up-to-date and efficient E Lennox. In Bunday School as you could find any. hardship," writes Dr.

One returns impressed with the order that the mission boards, may not where. be hampered in adopting "energetic, co-opportunition presented to the English- operative, comprehensive health policies, speaking nations of the United States, there is need for an increased interest of Canada, and Great Britain in permeat ing the Far East with Christian ideas. the church in the physical welfare of There is just how a hospitable welcome missionaries and a realisation of the fact given to our ideas and a readiness to that the maintenance of health is good learn economy. For this reason, the facts of this study are not kept secret: Bickness anywhere is expensive, but when the sick one or his successor has to be sent 10.000 Things miles, it is an extravagance. that make for health are not luxuries but money-saving necessities."

JAPAN AND RUSSIA. LENIN MULTIPLYING THE CAUSES

OF CONFLICTL According to Commissary Stepanoff, Lenin, in granting to Americans a ten- year concession in the peninsula of Kam chatka which bas caused considerable emotion in Japan-did-so-only-to-multi- ply the causes of conflict between Japan And the United States. Lenin answers, TO BE FINISHED AT SHANGHAI. Japan, by armed force, took from us a

UPPER YANGTSZE STEAMER BUILT AT YARROW'S!

great stretch of territory. I propose to, Messrs. Yarrow & Co., Ltd., state that you that wo should sellin ton-year cop- sequenos of the joiners strike cagion to Americans. If they like to con- which has been in progress since Novem.struct a naval base that is their affair: ber, the new steamer they are building Our business is to obtain real advantages for the Upper Yangtzo trade will be for the economic revival of Russia. If. finished at Shanghai. They write in doing this, we create difficulties bo- It may interest you to know that we twee the United States and Japas in had an order for a large river steiner Asia to much the better. These two coun for China, the contract including all the tries will then have sufficient to keep them cabin work. Owing, however, to the busy without bothering about us." trouble there has been for some time with

the Joiners Society wo have arranged for

the whole of the cabin work to be under PAPER MILL FOR IPOE.” taken in Shanghai, and this precedent is e

being followed in the case of two similar Commerce Reports (Washington) states: river steamers we are just now building A large paper mill is to be erected by for Ching. Not only therefore, is this soyeral American promoter in the vicis work lost to the country, but we have nity of Ipoh, British Malaya. The neces little doubt that in the case of orders we say machinery will probably cost over a Toceive for further steamers for this part million dollars. The mill will have not. of the world our clients will decide to only the local market to supply but an undertake their own wood worki

simost unlimited expert trade to develop,

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Japan Hotel Na

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