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In the Puise Judge's Court at the Criminal Sessions this morn ing, Mr. Justice Wood mado reference to four jurymen who ware absent when their names were called yesterday, namely, Messrs, A. C. Johnstone, D. A. Goodman, F. Ellis and Wong Pik-chuan.

His Lordship said the four gentlemen had made their ex- planations. Two of them, residents af Kowloon, were unable to come across owing to the weather. The

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and control, OWN care and continue the treatment under more favourable circumstances to the and with a readier access resources of modern medical science.

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN :

ISSUE OF MEDAL

The primary health centre

An Army Order recently would provide the patient with The present organisation has food, nursing, and all equipment published authorises the grant of "India General Service failed to bring the advantages of for efficient treatment, but not the medical science within reach of with medical attendance which Medal, 1908," in silver, with clasp the people. A full state medical would be paid for either by the "Afghanistan X. W. Frontier, Service is no adequate substitute. patient himself (if a private 1919, to the troops who took part It is therefore proposed that there patient) or through some method in operations against Afghanistan

of insurance, or by the local in 1919. should be:-

authority.

1. Primary Health Centres, in each

Then there would be a second for district, Lopulous curative and preventive work.ary health centre for each district, be in a town where an adequate Cottage hospitals could

equipment is possible and an adapted..

efficient staff of consultants and specialists can be assembled.

service.

Subject to the approval of the Army Council, the medal and clasp will be granted ta xll troops who served --

(a) West of the Indus, ex- clusive of the Province of Sind between 6th May, 1919, and 11th

both 1919.

dates Novamber.

2. Secondary centres in each large town (with big central

For many of these centres, the hospitals as nucleus) for care and

nucleus of organisation would inclusive. consultation on special cases.

(b) Under the orders of the 3. A new type of local health be found in existing hospitals.. authority, with a medical advisory la other districts it would be G.O.C. the Baluchistan Force on necessary to establish a com-the East Persian lines of com- For this munication between 6th May, The recommendations are made.plete and model centre. in an interim report as a matter purpose a hospital survey should 1919, and 8th August, 1919, boil

dates inclusive." of urgency-by the Consultative be taken at some early date.

side the (e) In North-East Persia under On the curative Council of Medical and Allied Services, which is associated with services of secondary centres the order of Major-General W. would be mainly of a consultative Malleson, C.B., C. 1. E, between the Ministry of Health.

type. They would need a com-16th May, 1919, and 8th August,

1919, both dates incisive. plete hospital equipment.

Officers and men already in will medal or treatment from the primary possession of the centres would attend at the out-receive the clasp only. patient clinics of the secondary centre or would occupy in-patient beds. The medical staff of the secondary centre would treat these cases, but general practi- tioners would be able to keep in touch with their patients while! attending the centre, and to resume supervision over them on discharge.

It is "in view of the urgency of the orderly building up of a constructive health policy" that the Consulative Council issues this interim report.

The present organisation of medicine (the council inds) has failed to bring the advantages of medical science within reach of the people.

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Public opinion appreciates more and more that the home does not always afford the best bygienic conditions for recovery from serious illatas."

So the council, in this report. lays it down that--

1-Any scheme of medical service must be open, though no: necessarily free, to all classes of the community.

2-1: must be such as can grow and expand and adap: itself to varying local conditions.

3-In each locality it must comprise and provide for all the medical services. preventive and corative, necessary to the health of the people."

4-These agencies must be brought together in close co- ordination under a single health authority for each area.

A RALLYING POINT.

Domiciliary medical service bould continue, the doctor at tending his patients at their own homes or at his surgery.

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them time! for their the part of the people as leave

On whether the private consulting practice. the committees of selection medi-carried through with with sar- cal men would have the larger cess. This lack of confidence bas grown greater, and now the in- representation.

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But this system should be brought into relationship with a Primary Health Centre, in each big centre of population, to serve as the rallying point of all the services should be provided at the each of the new rouble notes to be characterised as an unheard-of{ medical services, preventive and cust of the community but the equal to 209 of the old ones-is and cynical swindle." As & corative, of the district for which majority recommend that in the

about 25 peri it is established-a great centre public wards of the primary and of professional life sad learning. secondary health centres standard result, only

been converted into the new A: this centre, staffed by the charges should be made for treat- cent of the old currency has doctors of the district, therement, though these charges might notes in the Maritime Provinces, would be wards for various vary in different parts of the while, in the territory of the purposes, including provision for country, and they could only, as Chinese Eastern Railway, not a rule, be a contribution to the midwifery, an operating room, a

notes are in circulation. The radiography room, a laboratory cost of treatment, which is often more than 2 per cent. of the new

maby object aimed at in the introduc for siople investigations, a dis-beyond the

tion of the new notes was to LANE, CRAWFORD. & CO., WISEMAN'S CAFE, pensary, medical baths, and & peating place for the general

and other Stores. entirely replace the old Siberian Practitioners of the district and The Council further recom-notes, but the measure bas been for the torage of clinical records meads that private and self-worked so badly that, in fact, the on an agreed and standardised supporting wards should be a part old notes, far from being super- basis. }

ot the provision at the health seded by the new ones, are still There would also be accom-centres

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"It is a true instinct that de-him to sleep soundly, digest well 6 years old or more. They are AGAINST A STATE HERVICE..mands free choice of doctor,and develop into a sturdy, healthy confidently recommended as a the equipment.

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