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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927,

OUR DAILY TALK ON

HEALTH

DISTURBED SLEEP NOT DISEASE ITSELF.

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THE KUOMINTANG CONFERENCE.

MEETING IN NANKING SOON,

Recent events at Canton, and the impeachment of Canton mem- bers of the Kuomintang which re sulted in Mr. Wang Ching-wel good their leader, fleeing to Paris, and others going more or less into

Remarkable interest was shown by undergraduates recently at Cambridge Iri the Cambridge MENTAL REACTIONS. Union debate on birth control..

An hour before the debate. Inability to sleep under atarted undergraduates walted at conditions is a difficult problemf he doors. When the speakers and one which constantly receives hiding, will not affect the forth- coming 4th plenary session of the arrived they had to force their medical attention. The London Kuomintang, according to informa- way into the hall through a crowd. Lancet considera, in a recont surtion in Nationalist circles in By a special order women stu-vey of the subject, the various Shanghai. The conference will be dents were excluded. It was causes of this disturbance. held at Nanking on January 1, and thought that the speakers would

The term insomnia implies not General Chiang Kai-shek was ex- not feel themselves so hampered only inadequate sleep but also rected to leave Shanghai at the as they would have been if we failure to obtain sound and restful end of the last week to complete ar- men were present.

sleep. Three types of insomnia rangements.

Mr. G. Crowther, who proposed

conference,

are concerned: 1—Cases in which Other officials have also left the a resolution in favour of control sleep is delayed in the beginning. Nationalist capital to make pre- admitted that any measure of 2-Sleep in which there are disparations for the birth control was unantural, but turbing dreams,. 3-Sleep which which is expected to last 15 days. he presented arguments which in his opinion justified some control.begins normally but does not con- Dr. C. C. Wa, the Foreign Minis- tinue because the sleeper awakens ter, left Shanghai for Nanking He anld:

and is unable to sleep, again. in the early hours of the morning some days ago... ".

A great many children are being born in this country in cir cumstances that preclude them from using what natural abilities they have. We must look for- ward to a steady lowering of the average health and character of the people of these islands.

This tendency can be checked only in one way-by persuading, or rather by enabling, the poorer people of this country to Ilmit their families.

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the six com- members from Canton

Two Still In Russia,

According to an official state- ment by the Nationalist Party, the Disturbed Sleep is Symptom. - 4th plenary session of the Central Committees will. convene ая Disturbed sleep is not to be rescheduled during the fortnight garded as a disease in itself, but from January 1 to January 15, as a symptom of disgriler some-1928, in spite of the Government's where in the body: In some cases maudate to place definite physical causes are found mittee and bodily discomforts will in under surveillance. variably prevent satisfactory sleep. In other cases definite phy- sical causes cannot be found and There are altogether 36 mem While Mr. Crowther was speak it is necessary to determine the bers on the Central Executive ing the president of the union, psychical cause or the emotional Committee. The gix Canton com- Mr. J. B. S. Lloyd, called attention state, whether anxiety, fear or mittee members now placed under to the fact that one of the mem- depression, which acts as a mental surveillance will, by the fact it bera had fainted and suggested irritant and interrupts sleep, solt, be barred from attending the that, further windows should be

Among the physical causes of session. Two committee members opened. At this time not only disturbed sleep are pain, shortness are now in Russia, and one in were all the seats occupied, but of breath, frequent coughing, itchnot be able to come back in time Japan. These three probably may also undergraduates were seated ing, high fever, disturbances of recesses, and on the steps lead-circulation and irritating poisons, attend the plenary session, now in on the Boor of the hall, in window digestion, disturbance of the blood to attend the session, leaving the committee members qualified to ing to the president's chair. in

Overwork Seldom Cause. the country 27 in number.

According to regulations of the The mental cause may include Kuomintang, the session can sue- an emotional disturbance such as ceasfully open with the presence bas been mentioned, severe of 19 Central Executive Committee fatigue, obsessions, or various members, over one-half of the petunto certain of the evila it was

total number of 36. The 27 mem- intended to cure. Not only was

hers now in the country can most Overwork is seldom a cause ofprobably all attend, which will medical opinion divided, but im- partial investigators were divided insomnia, but, overwork is fremake the quorum by the big mar- on the question of birth control.quently associated with anxiety, gin of eight members.

"The country with a steady irritability, or other mental reac- General Chiang Kai-shek, in an rising population is more likely to tions that may result in insomnia. interview with the Chinese news- be vigerous and powerful than In certain hysterical cases the papers, has expressed himself ns. aleeplessness does not actually oc: being very pessimistic of the re- one governed by birth control."

Fundamentally Immoral.

Mr. G. Harding (Queen's College), who opposed, contended that birth control would per

forms of insanity,

Dr. H. Crichton-Miller, ex-cur to anywhere nearly the ex-sults of the conference owing to president of the Edinburgh Uniontent that the patient may claim. the recent rupture which has prac Society, supporting the proposi-Such people talk constantly about tically sheared the Canton faction tion, pointed out that the House how little they have slept, but a from active interest in the affairs was discussing the dissemination careful observation will show that of the Kuomintang.. of the knowledge of birth-control actually they sleep a great deal. methods and not the use of them.

"I am not speaking in any lighti

opportunity of a reasonably ex- pensive education and the social

spirit when I say that to regard was wanted was to encourage as the birth of a child as a piece of far as possible the good stock advantages which belong to its bad luck is an attitude towards] and included in the good stockelnes. the next, generation which is fundamentally immoral that cannot be supported for one mo ment," he said.

were the artisans and to main- "Are these advantages to be ittain their numbers and not to give compared for one moment with them encouragement to reduce the the education a child gets by 48- numbers.

and sociating with its brothers

"The morality to look forward

"You are more likely to get good sisters? The best chance a child to is not that of a man who lives results by encouraging the good has, in my opinion, is to grow up a sober life when he is living in stock to broad freer than by en-with brothers and sisters. Clear a prohibition country, but of one couraging the poorer clagg to your minds of cant on this ques- who keeps sober despite the fact adopt methods by which their tion before, you vote." that he has a well-stocked wine breeding may be somewhat re- The division resulted in a ma-

duced."

jority of 197 for the resolution. in "With regard to the question favour of control. The figures of giving the child a chance, what were: do you mean? I suppose you mean the child should have an

cellar."

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