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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1936.

NURSES' GRADUATION DAY

GOOD WORK LAUDED

Lady Southorn

Distributes Awards

we

"It may not be known that in recent years the Tung Wah achieve- Hospital is an organization of many activities and ments. To these activities and achievements have added another its growth, although, may be slow, but its importance

Training cannot be underestimated. I reler to the Nurses. Schools run by our three hospitals," said Mr. P. H. Sin, Chair- man of the Board of Directors of the three hospitals, at the -Graduation Cerentony of Nurses of the Training Schools of the Tung Wah Hospital, the Kwong Wah Hospital and the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, which was held yesterday afternoon in the Great Hall of the Tang Wah Hospital.

.00 their

A NEW FIRE FLOAT

For Siamese Navy

It was very glad to receive the invitation to come here to-day to distribute the certificates to the successful candidates in General

· and 'Maternity Nursing. It has been my good fortune to see the

At the Bangkok Dock on Monday girls of two Eastern Countries en-

the official trial of an interesting ter that splendid profession for vessel built by that Company; for women-the nursing sisterhood.

the Royal Siamese Navy took place, The vessel is a fire and salvage When I came to Ceylon in 1908 Ceylonese parents did not look float, and although it has length favourably

daughters of only 45 ft. and breadth of 10 Th entering the nursing profession. It is probably one of the most up- but by the time we left. Ceylon in to-date and efficient are floats of 1926 Ceylonese. girls had conquerits kind; as it incorporates the very el prejudice and were doing ex-latest fire fighting equipment-de- cellent work as nurses. The same

The boat is fitted with a 110 h. p. thing has happened here, only in veloped by Messrs. Merryweather. a shorter period for when Chinese engine which gives it a speed of women make up their minds to about ten miles per hour. When do things they do not lose any

used for fire fighting or salvage time. .:The development and this engine drives a Merryweather, emancipation of the Chinese girl nigh Hft multi-stage centrifugal in the ten years we have spent

vump discharging 1,000 gallons of here is amazing and in no direc- water per minute at a pressure of tion do I feel that she has made 80 lbs. per sq. inch or 500 gallons better use of her freedom than in per minute at 143 lbs. per sq. inch. taking up nursing. Not only in For salvage work it will handle as Hong Kong, but in the vast coun- | much as 1,200 gallons per minute. try of China is there scope for the The pump is arranged with two and varfed and

be a blessing to suction strainer boxes on the skin ly decorated with beautiful flowers exacting is the work carried on ind nurse to

suffering humanity. Countless of the vessel and if one stralɗer for the occasion, and there was a modern hospital

poor mothers and babies alone gets choked up with mud the other also a very large gathering of In making the foregoing

be used while the parents, nurses and friends pre-marks," I have not mentioned the demand their skill and the minis-suction can

country-

choked strainer is being cleaned, sent at the function. Among those operations, the pre-operative and trations of were:-

post-operative care and treatment women who know their language thus it is possible to operate the Lady Southorn, Mr. "F. E Sin, where adequate and careful nurs-and can persuade them to aban-pump continuouslyth muddy or Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, Hon. Dr.ing may often mean life or death don their unwholesome supersti- sandy water. The pump discharges and Mrs. S. W. Tso, Hon.. Dr. and to the patients. In 1935, in the tons must be an invaluable asset through a swivelling monitor, Dur-

I to the poor of China.

ing the trial the jet easily topped Mrs R. H. Kotewall, Hon. Mr. and main hospital-alone. there-

the Dock shearlegs. At the base of Mrs. M. H. Lo. Hon. Mr. and Mrs. it all, 1.651 operations performed

monitor there are four discharge W.B.A. -Moore, Hon. Mr. T. N. and many of these operations were

I am much struck by the scope branches for 21" canvas hose and It must be Chau, Mr. and Mrs. Sanders. Drs. major. in character.

and.extept of the work carried out four lines of hose can be and were P. A. de Castro Basto. Phoon Seek obvious to all, therefore, that the by the Tung Wah, the Kwong Wah operated in addition to the moni- Wah.. Phoen -Seek Weng, Lwork performed in our 3 hospitals and the Tang Wah Eastern Hostor. If necessary the pump will Shu Fan. T. Z. Bau, Messrs. Ngan immense.

water through several Shing Kwan, To Kee Cheong, Sin In view of the large number of pitais, and I congratulate all as- deliver

sociated with them on the very bundred feet of hose with sufficient Wa Man: Lo Wing Kt. F. S. Ko. patients we have,

Ane achievement. My thanks are pressure to effectively combat a Li Bai Yin, Ng Chak Wah and

dre Fong Mu Chuen.

Lady Southorn d'stributed the Certificates of Proficiency, given by those hospitals to those graduates, who have passed the examination of the Government Nurses

Board and Midwifery

Board.

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The Hospital Hall was tasteful-; how

THE REPORT

Before calling Lady Southorn to distribute the certificates. Mr. P. H. Sin said in parti—

intricate

We

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re-

were

consider

their own

IMPRESSIVE WORK

that these hospitals afford a un also due to the Chairman for his que training field for our student- nurses. and the opportunities for very kind welcome. He overesti- experience and practical work are mates the fact of my coming to- perhaps unrivalled by any

other

very

nurses I do not feel that I can

day as it is no task but a hospital in the Colony. The task pleasant and interesting occasion. Lady Southern, Ladies and Gen- of teaching our students falls on As regards words of advice to the

our Medical Superintendents and tlemen,

Assistant. Medical Officers, speak at any length on this sub- It may not be known that. in the recent years the Tung Wah Hos- and I would like therefore, to take Ject to-day. But may I suggest pital is an organization of many this opportunity of thanking Dr. to you that while carrying out the To Phoon Seck, Wah, Dr. T. Z. Bau. instructions of the Doctor faith- activities and achievements. those activities and achievements Dr. Phoon Seck Wing, the Super-felly you should always put your

selves in the patient's place, nev- Wah the Tung another its intendents of we have added growth, although,

slow, Kwong Wah and Tung Wah Easter losing the art of gentle persua may be

slon, studying as far as possible but its Importance cannot be un-ern Hospitals respectively,

assistant medical officers the peculiarities and tastes of each derestimated. I refer to the Nur- their ses Training Schools run by cur for the iné results that they have patient and combining with firm-

ness tact and discretion, 3 hospitals. I have chosen the attained.

term Tung. Wah Organisation ad-

vast

ACKNOWLEDGMENT (

Like

and

most

"

FOR FIGHTING OILS There is also fitted one of Merry weather's patent

"Xaust-Suds" generators, the very latest ap. paratus for fighting oil fires, where the ordinary water jet is useless. The apparatus utilises the exhaust gases from the pumping engine and by the aid or a special liquid

foam solution produces

which spreads over the burning liquid

and quickly smothers there. One gallon of the special foaming solution will make 1000 gallons of

fram.

For salvage work there is a

I think that a skilled sympathe-swivelling" connection on the deck tic nurse is worth her weight 1:

go further

visedly because the commonly used | In the connection I should like gold. Whether you take up nurs- term Tung Wah Hospital does not also to make a grateful acknowing in Hong Kong or fully express the

ramifica- ledgment to Hon. Dr. A. R. Wel- aneld. I wish you all great hap tions of the activities of this lington, D.M.S.S. for loaning to us piness in your work to which I gigantic and ancient institution. from time to time, as lecturers, feel sure you are bringing unsel- Few. Indeed, of the public. toth Dr. (Miss) Lat Po Chuen, Drashness, patience and understand foreign and Chinese, seem to rea- (Miss) Lily Pau.-Dr. (Miss) Cheng rg which are the foundation of a lise that the Tung Wah Hosplia! Hang Yue, and others. On behalf nurse's career. (Applause). embraces the activities which of my Board I should comprise on the medical side. 3 thank these ladies also for the large hospitals. 1 Small-pox hos-keen interest shown in their work, pital, and 1 large publie dispen- I have now come to the sary. On the educational side, delightful part of iny task to-day, run 12 free schools, giving educa- and that is to welcome and thank tion to 1,300 young boys and girls, Lady Southern for her" presence Other activities Included our con: here this afternoon. Lady South- trol of one huge depository for the or, has always bestowed a Sort dead, known as the Yee Cheong: of loving kindness and maternal cur management of numerous Interest in the welfare of young cometeries scattered all over the people. I need scarcely say that

A little national pride is pardon- Colony and the Mainland: and such kindliness is most inspiring able so early in the New Year others to varied and numerous to and exemplary to the Community. that is, before anything can have mention. Suffice it to say, there- Her countless good endeavour happened to lower and I am fore, that the term "Tung Wah and remarkable contributions to profoundly tickled to learn that a

FINDS MOST POPULAR

U.S. DRAMATIST IS SHAKESPEARE

London, Jan. 14.

for connecting two lines, of 6′′ Dexible suction hose which are suppited with foot valves and strainers, and as the pump will

handle 1,200 gallons of water ver minute it should be very useful for salvage purposes.

A powerful 9" searchlight is mounted and the boat is fitted, throughout with (electric light,-go thats it can be used at night,

The Siamese Navy now possesses a fire float capable of dealing effec- tively with oil fires in addition to the ordinary fires usually encoun- tered and one which should, also be of considerable service tor salvage work.

FREE BLANKETS FOR 10,000

Organisation". would be most ap-the. enrichment of the miblic Life "Shakespeare boom" is on in the with green and red-Portugues

United States.

-Shakespeare, thou shouldst have been Hving at this hour; thou wouldst have garnered a fat meed of royalties,

propriate for our present purpose. in Hong Kong are so well-known Whilst our three hospitals art that it would be a matter of re- well-known to most people, I fear dundance for me to mention them. that it is not generally known 7 can conceive of no pleasanter or that attached to each of our hos, no more Atting conclusion to our pitals is a large and increasingly term of office than that of hay- important training school for ing the popour of Lady Southom has just played Jullet 232 dmes t nurses, to which I have just made here this afternoon, to give a few forty cities, travelled 24,000 miles reference The Tung Wah Or words of sound advice to our gra-about America to do it, and gar- ganisation is now like a father duating nurses who are leaving nered £135,000..

As it is, Miss Katherine Carnell

who suddenly wakes up to the their mother tristitution for the For one performance in the realisation, that he has 3 daugh-fuller and perhaps more trying town of Des Moines, Iowa-you ters rapidly growing up whom he work, in the practice of their pro- remember H. B. Irving's warning cannot overlook.

- to his famous father: "Dön't go down Des Moines, daddy"?---she took £1,815. make s

fession

Of all the impressive remarks † have heard none stands out with such, insistent charm as that in which a film magnate once pro- fessed to me his faith in Shake- speare.

In these training schools. I can We wish our graduating nurges visualise the opportunities for all possible success in their future character-building among the We hope that they will always re- student nurses themselves, the member their mother school where possibilities for acquiring know in they have been trained, and ledge for the relief of suffering hope the ceremony. this afternoon among the poor and needy, and and the inspiring message they the facilities for the effective pro- will no doubt receive from Lady pagation of ideas of hygiene and Boutborn will ever be gratefully Mark you," he said, daring & of, scientiae, methods of treatment. remembered by them. On behalf pause in the Malvern Festival, T Any scheme embacing such a pro- of my Board of Directors, I thank don't say Shakespeare could write gramme must find ready and Lady Bouthorn for her, graciou dialogue, but I do say he was a enthusiastic support from all who presence here this afternoon, born scenarist." have the welfare of this Organisa, also want to thank our other ·Pride. "should also inflate the tion at heart."

guests who have so kindly helped boom of New South Walshmen: to make this function a success Prosperity is returning to the

gives me great pleasure to call senior state in the Common upon Lady Southorn to distribute wealth, as is evidenced by gauged by the scope and extent the certificates to our graduating to allow married : of the work performed in our Bosnurses (Applause).

schoolteachers to resume the pitala, Agila reverting to statis- LADY BOUTHORN'S SPEECH tions, from which they were tics, the main hospital, has, on D After Dr SW. Phoon, Buper missed during the blac average, dally, about 600 In-pat-Intendent of the Tung Wah Hos- fants, The Kwong Wah has about pltal had reads the reports of the 350, the Tung Wah, Eastern about Nurser Training, Schools of the 275, In'all there are therefore,

tals Lady Sou 1/125 In-patients who dally need addre the gathering said: nursing attention and treatment: As lay people we may not realiss

AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY What should constitute an ade quate supply of nurses may be

in favour of a thousand studen teachers.

The Bill would also

in ried women

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gen-

nuaFideclaration

cial

Bitate their empl

wome

Lisbon. Brown blankets striped

national colours are to be lent to 10,000 needy persons by the Government. Borrowers will re- turn them at the end of April.

MADY

THE SOAP FOR

REAL SKIN

LOVELINESS

MADY

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THE PROPHETS CONFOUNDED

London, Jan. 10. England did at Twickenham yesterday day what was desired, but not expectør, at them. Their Rugby Football Fifteen defeated both the prophets and the All Blacks and trounced them, both handsomely. For the victory was decisive.

This is the first victory of any English team over the New Zea- landers. Wales had done ft. Swan- sea had done It, and now England has done it. The Rose, in short. has proved that it is even "more" powerful than the Leek, for the Welsh win had been by the rar- rowest possible margin, whereas England scored three tries and a' drop goal and had no point scored against them

England? Well, England, with `n little aid from Russia and Bouth Africa. It was Prince Obolensky who set the pace, scored the first- two tries, and generally proved that it is possible to make rings round an "All Black, When the band surprisingly emerged to give us a little miore music at half-time it would have been an apt compli- ment and commentary had they chosen to play the Russian Nation- Anthem-old style. Or they might have elected to give a sold "Oboe" to the crowd.

£1

on the oboe-for the Prince la

A PERFECT DAY After the appalling weather of the past week a përfect day for football proved the climax of an All Blacks tour. There was a good light and occasional sunshine: the breeze was gentle and the day wild. A tremendous crowd could be anticipated, and it arrived early. An hour before the game begań there seemed to be little standing- room left. The parties who were

take trying to

picnic lunches squatting on hired cushions had to Jump to attention and eat as beat they could or they would have been trodden under foot. Mean- while, room was found for still more thousands by men megaphones ordering the myriada to stand a little closer, and the band of the Grenadier Guards, in scarlet and gold, informed us that it would like to be beside the sea.

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