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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY MARCH 2 1932.

THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF HUMANITY. fancy, while the economic and social INDIAN COUPLE AT MURDER CHARGES.

DR. LI SHU FAN'S ADDRESS ON "TUBERCULOSIS **

AT THE ROTARY CLUB.

DISEASE BELIEVED TO BE RAMPANT IN CHINA: NO OFFICIAL STATISTICS AVAILABLE.......,

At the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday. Dr. Li Shu Fo FRCS av an interesting walk to membera on 4 The present situation of tuberculosis and how to combat it."

In the course of his address, Dr. Li said that oven to-day" tuborgulosis was the greatest plague of humanity, claiming ita. victims from every slíma and country, young or old, rich or poor, 3 Speaking of the prevaluage of the disease in China, Dr. Li anid it was vampant throughout the country and it played havoc among the population. The habits and surroundings of the people tead ed to the development and spread of this dreadful scourge. He said that poverty," ignorancs, underfooding and tuberculosis were bed fellows

Sir William Horbal presided at the meeting.

PREVENTION THE BEST THING FOR

Dr. Li anid:-

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The Disease In Britaini

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problume connected with bli subjace have not even been tacklash Final ly,the susceptibility of the Chinese. [do tuberculosis is greater than that of the British. This being the onse, there should be at least five mil lion persons suffering from active tuberculosis, and the same number suffering from quiescens tuberou- losis in China bo-day. I. take il that China must lose annually, no less than one and a half billion dol lars through the ravages of this dises.so..

Prevalence of the Disease in

Hong Kong. # The death-rabe from lung tuber pulosis in Hong Kong is 2,354 por annum, basing on the average of the three years, 1998 to 1930, accord ing to the reporte of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services I we apply the Framingham esl culation, we would get 28,543 native or late bases, and the same, number of quiescent or early cases, giving

year.

LAW.

HUSBAND UNDER CROSS EXAMINATION.

**THE EMBLEM OF MANHOOD"

CASE TO BE HEARD ON MONDAY.

A formal remand for a further week" was granted by Mr. Wyntio

· Jonna at Central Magistracy yester- day in the caso. of the four Chinese who are charged with murier of Mr. Mohamed Farid, who is be Trang Kai Tai, whose body was

· found at Victoria Cap. ing summoned for maintenance by his wife at Cantral Magistracy, was

very Beyore brum subjected to examination by Mr. Geo, K. Ha Brutton, for the complainant, when was resumed before Mr. the casE W. Schofield yesterday.

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fourth accused was also charged with the murder at Lľá Shek long, and with delivering lettors threatening to kill, if ransom Was not paid in both instances, Mr. T M. Hazlerigg, who appear-

Mr. E. . . Brooks was for theed for the prosecution, asked for a data to be fixed for the hearing of· the charges againet this prisoner. His Worship Bixed Monday after- noon for hearing, reserving also the afternoons of the two following' day...

* total of 87,086 cases occuring indefence.” Hong Kong at any time of the Continuing his evidence-in-chief But there are very good reasons when the case re-opened, the defen- in believing that this figure is in-dant said that the main cause of correct and too low. Firmly, be the dissension inebis house was his cause the Chinese susceptibility to the disease and the case mortality cause his wife resented his mother are greater than the British, teaching her house, work. Another revealed by the health report of the ❘ reason was because his wife was Chines Labour Corps in the Great always going out and leaving the War. Secondly, the grout desire of the Chinese to die in the midst of children. Witness added that the family must have sont many third resson was because, whenever; deaths away to the country from his wife handled the children rough whence the victims cams,

ly, his mother would remonstrate with her. Witness said that that was generally the cause of the quar. rela

As a Chinese medicul practition- or, and one who has had a lot to do with tubercttonis cases, I am convinced that at least one out of four suberculosis patients, when death is impending, leaves the Co lony..

Furthermore, I can safely say that the general opinion amonget local medical. men bears out the fact that tuberculosis is very rife in the Colony.

the Chinese susceptibility te tubér angle, viz., a study of the state of the lungs of those in apparent health.

Apart from mortality reports,

culosis may be studied from another

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A complaint was made to his Worship by the first accused that, although he had been permitted by^

the authorities to write lettera, to

his relatives,, he had not boon allow ed to see a classman who was, to retain a solicitor for his defence.

Prisoner's Letters.

Chief Detective Inspector Roy-i Mr. Brooks: How would your had written aix letters. Three or noids uxplained that the accused

wife behave at those quarrela?-She would yell at the top of her voice four of the letters had been address- near the window so that the neighed to a man who was now detained in proper legal custody. The police did not consider it fair that the accused should be allowed to speak

bours could hear her,

generally speaking? She is very What is your wife's disposition,

ill-tempered. Even when I joke with her she does not like it.

Swore on the Roxan...

to-day still stands as the greatest In bringing the enbject of tuber- plague of humanity, claiming is culosis before you, I need no ex-

vietinis from every olime and egun ouse. as tubermulosis in ons of the try, young or old, rich or pour, most gignatie problems that man- Every year the world suffers a loss kind in compelled to tackle. Tuber of upwards of five million people oulonia is not only the concern of through its ravages. It has been Hong Kong: indeed it is a prob-estimated that in India alone the "Jem of the whole civilized world. | death-rate bannot be less than one

million per anum, Throughout the ages suberculosis has probably been the cause of a It is stated that in France 280.000 greater mortality than any other soldiers foll yiotims to tuberculosis issase. Today it still occupies while under military sorter during that position. At one time, the the Great War, and that consump scourge in Europe was Krent that tip was responsible for 30 per cent it was called the." White Plague" of the patients in Paris hospitals The subject is so ust and the time The disense is said to kill almost I can only touch upon a fringe tween twenty and forty years of at my disposal is limited that one-half of the French people be of the subject. The scientiße literage. ture on tuberculosis in imenta, "In Germany the death-rote in and is increasing so rapidly, that creused alarmingly from 137 por a life-time, no matter how pro- 100,000 of the population in pre

Now, she told us in her evidence longed. would be insufficient to war 1931, to 200 per 100,000 in. 1991:

In the Far 1918, in connection master it, as thousands of scientific In the United States of America with a health campaign conducted that you never had any clothes articles ATA published annually. it is said that there are no less by the Chinese Y.M.C.A., I was one made for her and that you never However, propose confine, than one and a half millions of ae of the four Chinese doptors appoint.even bought her a pair of stockings. myself to the problem of preval tive or late cases of tuberculosis, to report on the health of 219That is not true. ence and provention only, and and the same number of quiescent Chinese males, most of whom wero shall endeavour to be brief. Ar this or early enses,

from 18 to 30 years of age. The Can you tell us why your mother i casentially in the nature of a

recorda show that the results were asked your wife to join the money discours, I can only draw your

startling if not alarming.. Three of attention to various data and modern proventive methods, and in Great Britain, Dr. Menzies eat in 93 per cent. of those examined my wife was very extravagant and As to the prevalence of the disease the doctors reported lung defcuta loun Association 1-It was because trust you may be able to judge how mates that there are approximately while one doctor, who was consider it was to teach her to equaomise. for those methode are applicable to about half of a million who are ed to be a tuberculosis specialist, All the money that was drawn from Hong Kong

auffering from active tuberculosis, found 54 per cent of his subjects an In order to render the subject and the same number from quiescans having lung defecta: I admit that the association was handed back to intelligible must explain to you tuberculosis. A fact of the utmost the method of the examination was my wife. what tuberculosis means.

importance was brought to light not perfect, but it is enough to What Is Tuberculosis ?

during the intensive search for reveal the appalling state of health. tuberculosis in Framingham that of our young men, some of whom Popularly, tuberculosis is known thero were ten active and ten were athletes. However I derive consumption." It is a conquiescent cases to each case of death consolation from the conviction that tagious disense, usually of thefrom tubercaloria How many of the next generation of youths will chronis type, due to the implantaas know that tuberculosis even to be much more robust One need tion of the tuberele bacillus in day killa one person in ten in the only go to a football raatch to certain organs or tissues of the British Isles, and than of those dy be convinced. The over-increasing human body. It commonly relecting in the prime of life, one halt number of our youth taking part for attack in infants, the glandular succumb to tuberculosis 7"

in the various sporting fields, both tissues, and, in adults, the lungs.

In Japan the annual average in Hong Kong and in China will Although it is not hereditary, the death-rate froth tuberculosis, rose in the future have the best of re meiority of cases are contracted in from 80,000 in 1910 to about 120,000 sults. childhood It now questionable whether more than 10 per cent. of 1980. That country is annually the people living in cities, up to losing approximately 8360,000,000 through the discase. For fear that

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ounce of prevention, is the age of 18, escape infection.

this increasing scourge may in time worth a pound of cure, then for My formar toscher, Sir Robert

exterminate the population, the deadly disease like tuberculosis I Philip, one of the loading Laber Japanese Government has definitely advise taking two ounces of the culosis workers in Great Britain, decided to map out a 30-year cam

former. Tuberculosis to-day in the And you allege that Mrs, Madar ence said, "The distribution of paign to commence in April this greatest chemy of man. Its attack was committing perjury-She did tuberculosis infection throughout your

is ruthless, be its victims womon not tell the truth. the civilized population ir prac

And you are the only person who Finally in regard to the preval-or children, rich or poor, young or tically universal, and in an over. whelming majority of casee, tuberce of the disease in China, we all old; no one in exempt. As a matterin telling the truth -I know I am gulis occurs in infancy and child know that it is rampant through- of fict, tuberculosis has killed more telling the truth.

Your wife was telling lies then 3- hood inter manifestations being out the country, and that it plays People than all the wars put to efflerraconoce of the tuberculosis havoc among the population. Agether. We must, indeed, attack Yes

And Mrs. Mader was telling lies fidling, implanted in more or leas most at every atage of life, the and redouble our utinek until the favourable soil." This describes habits and surroundings of the enemy is completely routed. No re-To a curtain extent,

After some other questions “had concisely the present position of people tend to the developmacas and sources should be left unmobilized.

There must be no hall measures; been put to the witness, Mr. tuberculosis in regard to infection. spread of this dreadful scourge.

whole-hearted co-operation between Brutton asked if it

дов It is a fact that" tuberculosis iswa Next to the infantile mortality the medical profession, politicians perfectly true. that his wife. discase of civilisation It was from tuberculosis, the disease has and philanthropista is essential. had

wait on him during shown that the advent of the white peculiarly taken a heavy toll of Our motto should be, "Fight with mends but the defendant denied this, min into uncivilized countries in the student class; apparently all our might." We are fighting saying that he was not used to variably brought in its train the it has a predilection of the intelli for the defence of health, the birth-augh luxuries. He admitted. advent and spread of tuberculosis. gent, the industrious, and the bet right of every child, woman and however, that his wife did pant. of North American Indians, when they for-looking types of youth, and, man. Apart from public efforts, the house work. Mr. Bratton Rak- have become civilized and removed many a promising career has been the State owes evory citizen a per- ad the defendant why his wife had into cities, show an appalling thus out short. I can woll illustain degree of care for his health. to boil the rice when they had an death-rate from the disease; while trate this by a very lamentabls ex- From the outact, let it be under. amah and witness replied that s wild animala in captivity share the ample I know in Hong Kong. Three stood that tuberculosis is both pre- the amah only had 86 per month; same fate.

very industrious and promising vantable and curable, and it is not it was hard to expect her to do boys were studying together in

hereditary. We have so far traced all the work. certain local college. They were the animal to its lair, and we know known to be very chummy and its method and choice for attack. without exception, brilliant; bus We have the proper weapons to Thanks to the noble and persever within the space of three years all fight it. The victory is ours, if 'wo ing efforts of scientists, reformers, the three died, one at the age of only use them. Bub do we all use happened one day about six months and philanthropists, tuberculosis is 21. from glandular tuberculosis, thom. The question dempads an after his marriage, witness said

control in civilised and the other two, both at the age answer. countries During certain parts of of 20, from lung tuberculosis. More

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What is Present Situation of Tuberculosis?

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How to Combat Tuberculosis.

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to the man under arrest."

Mr. Hazlerigg informed his Worship that the defondant had also written to a relative, but this man refused to have anything to do with

the case.

It was arranged, however, that the defendant be given an oppor- tunity to interview the relative with a view to cugnging a solicitor.

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wife is away 1-No; as a matter of fact I had not been able to sleep at night for several months.

Continuing, Mr. Brutton put it to witness that he was very submis sive to his mother but witness deni ed this.

In opening his cross-examination, Mr. Brutton: I wish your mo Mr. Hall Brutton taked the defenther were here to bear this! dant if, according to his story, it You said," "My wife was extrava- was not true that it was he, and gant." Now, what was she extrava not his wife, who was the ill-used gant on 1-Even when she was pre- person. The defendant replied in paring milk for the children, she the affirmative.

would only use half and throw the other half away.

Mr. Brutton: And yet you want her to come back 1-Yea

After further questions had been "put to the witness, Mr. Brutton, asked why it was that he (the de fendant), insisted that Mrs. Madar, one of the witnesses, ba sworn on the Koran. Defendant said that it was because he wanted her to tell the truth

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Lost Control of Himself,

Referring to an incident which

there had been some trouble and he the last century, appreciable de- over, one of the latter infected har not so simple as it at first appears.struck his wife a slap with his open But the problem of prevention ia lost control of himself.!!! and orease in tuberculosis death-rate younger brother who is at present Legislative and publie mensures hand. He admitted that his wife WIEK notionable,

particularly in in a hospital in a precarious con may be adopted, but unless the was expecting a child shen: When estantrios more advanced in civiliza-dition. I may add that the father tion. This implice the increase in of the 21-year old boy is one of the public co-operates with the govern- naked if it was not true that he al wealth and betterment of tho people, the initiation of canitary China-to-day."

ment, the efforts will be largely ways put his mother before his Imost distinguished" generala in nullified

wife, witneai aaid that it was: not In this Colony the question true as he was a very fair-minded roforma, improvements in social welfare, and the adoption of mea- In view of the great incidence of naturally arises as to whether tuber-peraon. tures introduced by the Government the disease the pertinent question culosis-prevention is really worth Then followed some questions from time to time, such as the pro-ia: What is the probable situs while or advisable, in view of its about witness having struck his wife vision of sanatorium banafte, im- 4ion of tuberculosis in China to direct relationship with the main with the business end" of a fes proved medical services, etc

day ?" I can only any that it must land Again between Hong Kong, ther-duster. Mr. Sadick, a witocu Lest you may be misled. # note be appalling. I am unaware of Canton and Macao, there is always called during the earlier etages of of warning must be sounded, be any reliable dech statistics over the potential triangle of infectious the case had said he had seen weals. cause the dealing in death rate from having been published. Without mess. If this argument is upheld on Mrs. Farid's armas Was that. tuberculosis is mainly due to the tatistics we can only guces. I will we may just as well cease, to pre- trust Witness agreed that it was. plaguette Mr. Brotton: Do you call that reduction of the general death hazard the view that the fncidenos vont small-pox

of tuberculosis in China, change be The question of tuberculosis-pre proper treatment of a wife less than fon times the number covention, may be divided into, the upholding the emblem of manhood 1- That tuberculosis is not shorn of curing in Great Britain, as it is modionl and social aspects

Witness then went on to say that: ridoousness and deadliness, I common knowledge that the popula The Medical Aspect of Permen 2000rding to his religion a man waad

Intion in China is, more than ten now endeavour to show.

The medion principle of bom entitled to be his wife and that of radical and persevering times, that in the United Kingdom bating the disease in to prevent he could produos authority on that in advanced countries, the This calentation must be far below the implantation of the germ in point, vel para poder doord ality due to tuberculosis is as the actual figures, as the sanitary pathological numbers, and, whom it You are very glad now that your:

tremely highị berculosif service in China is still in its in-

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What money do you allow her?

per month.. And you retain 815 yourself?- And yet you call her extrava- gant

Yes.

Ro-examining the witness. Mr. Brooks asked if the reason why he retained 815 was due to the fact that he held a position with the Union Insurance Society of Canton and that he had to keep up a cor- fain standard This, witness ad milied.

After further evidence had been takan, the case was adjourned until 9.30 p.m. to-day.

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