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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1930.

DR. WELLINGTON ON DISEASE PREVENTION,

HEALTH WEEK AT the illiterate. Through co-opera of avoiding them is by keeping world.. But in a properly organis tion all can be accomplished; with clear of the places where they are ed and disciplined assembly there Y.M.C.A.

out it, very little.

likely to be. Clean food, clean must be co-operation and co-ordina- The very first step in the mattor houses, clean clothes and clean tion-the city owes duties to: Its of co-operation is the establish- bodies are free from germs-dirty citizens and cach citizen owes ment of confidence and there can be fand, dirty water, dirty houses, duties to the city and to his neigh- no doubt that altruistic bodies like dirty clothes and dirty bodies carbour. the YM.CA. exert a powerful in-bour them in abundance. Dirt is free to do as he likes if his netloris No one in a community is fluence in this direction.

dangerous in that it may contain have any effect on his neighbours the germs of infectious disease. or on the welfare of the community Where there is dirt there is as a whole. danger. Therefore, if you wish Each individual should realise to avoid danger, avoid dirty food, that he is a part of a whole and dirty water, dirty houses, dirty that his conduct and actions have clothes and dirty bodies:

an effect on himself and on his Dirt and untidiness go together. should not only do his duty but for neighbour for, good or for evil, He

Prevention of Disease. The purpose of Health Week is to teach the individual the best way to keep himself healthy and happy.

EDUCATION NEEDED.

The Chinese Y.M.C.A. Health Week was Inaugurated last even- ing when the Hon. Dr. A. R. Wel, and Sanitary Services, gave the same in the East as in the West A tidy place is easily kept clean, his own good and that of the com lington, the Director. of Medical The germs causing disease are mast interesting lecture on the and there is very little difference but cleanliness is almost impos-munity he should keep, an. oye on prevention of disease through co-if any between Chinese and Euro-sible where things are all in a mud his neighbour and stimulate him to What is good for one is good for breeds untidiness and dirt breeds persists in defaulting, the facts A man once said "antidiness do likewise. Where the neighbour the other, and what is bad for one dirt" and he was not far wrong. should be brought to the attention. is bad for the other, and there is Therefore be tidy and be clean, no reason at all why the methods

of the authorities. of control which have proved their

It is possible for an individual) worth elsewhere should not

If a community is to flourish the to avoid infection in the open comfort of the individual has to country where houses are small give way to the welfare of the adopted here with equal success.

A Special Danger.

operation.

Dr. Chau Wai-cheung presided and there was a large attendance Hon. Dr. A.. R. Wellington, in the course of his address said: Ladies and Gentlemen, once agaid I have the honour of addressing You

at the commencement Y.M.C.A. Health. Week. The causes of ill health are the same to I am going to say to-night is neces- day as they were last year and what

sarily very mach

a repetition of what I told you before.

of

peans in the matter of resistance. dle.

be

It has been said that the Chinese and scattered, where the air is masses. will not accept them but I have pure and the water above suspicion and I know the majority will acsible for the individual to avoid disense represents a battle. în s lived among the Chinese since 1906 and where everyone knows his

neighbours. But how is it pos Each person sick with infectious cept if they only understand. infection in Hongkong where the fortified town where the bandit England we have a proverb which says "None so blind as those who uses are packed closely together, microbes are contending for vic will not see," and there are thing up to 100 people, where each pose the body.

where each house contains any tory over the cells which com- bably here as there some die-hards

In its efforts

In this life health and happiness are closely related and life without happiness is not worth much.

People do not live unhealthy lives and court sickness by choice, it is because they lack knowledge of the risk they run or because of neces alty. It has come to be recognised From what has been said above that, where the health of the masses it is plain that there are two ways is concerned, medical relief is in- of escaping disease. The first is to effective unless it goes hand and avoid as far as possible contact with hand with improvement in preven- disease germs, and the second is to tive measures, and if the efforts of tone up the body so that it may A government to effect the latter destroy those germs which do enter are to be successful, the close co- it before they have time to multiply operation of the public is absolutely and produce sickness.: necessary, Schemes CUT be The doctor has no charm to keep formulated and laws passed, but, off disease, but he knows unless the people understand and thing about disease and Avoids tion, such as exists in the body approve there is apathy and op- conditions which will render that the individual has any chance sick man is a menace, not only to full measure of his body susceptible and conditions of obtaining comfort and of escap through them to the general public. position and the

the immédiate contacts but success can never be attained. It which will bring bis into contacting disease and early death. In is only by persuasion that radical with the germs of disease under a properly organised and properly dividual only, the choice of nursing When disease affects the in- health reforms can be effected and conditions favourable for the im-administered city it is possible to and treatment lies with the patient secure for the individual security or his guardian. Where the illness of life and property and protesis of such an infectious nature that tion against the risks of disease the case not only endangers the Germs or microbes are too small London, leas favourably situated health and lives of those who to be seen except through a micro-than Hongkong, has nearly eight approach near, but through them. scope and therefore, the only million inhabitants, yet it is among the health and lives of those more chance the ordinary individual has the healthiest of the cities of the

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who will not see the truth, but I individual has little or no control to rid itself of the diseases the feel certain that the majority will over the factors affecting the body throws out daily millions of accept the facts if only they be ex-water he drinks, and the air he contaminate the clothes, the bed- purity of the food he cats, the the microbes, which microbes plained to them.

breathes, where no one knows any-ding and the surroundings of the thing about his neighbour and has patient.

Anyone approaching no control over his actions or his withe it due precaution is liable to movements? The answer ie that become contaminated and to carry under such conditions the indivi-away on his clothes or on his per- dual cannot take care of himself sen the

virulent microbes, the any more than the individual cell

germs of disease, everyone of. it is only by division of labour and enter a fresh host and repeat the in his body can take care of itself, whom is waiting an opportunity to a discipline which ensures order-process. liness, co-operation and co-ordina- individual should realise that the It is most important that the

that persuasion must come from within, through a recognition of the benefits brought about by im- proved hygienic conditions.

How the public can best be

educated and made to develop á sanitary conscience is probably the most urgent of all sanitary problems which confront the health authori- ties of any country. The solution of the problem lies in co-operation --in other words co-operation among those who know for the pur- pose of teaching those who do not know to the end that there may be co-operation among all for the good of all.

Mutual Understanding. Co-operation is independent of race, rank, creed, occupation or wealth. There can be co-operation between Chinese and Europeans be- tween Christians and Mahomeduns, between officials and non-officials, between doctors and laymen and between those possessing great wealth and those who have none at all. But co-operation is impossible unless there be mutual understand- ing, trust and good-will. Co-opera- tion breaks down immediately one party becomes suspicious of the good intentions of the other. The puzzle la how to establish under- standing, trust, and good-will, în the matter of sanitation and dis ease prevention. Understanding can only come through explanation and demonstration. It is difficult enough to instruct educated people who have not been grounded in the modern theories of disease causa- tion and bodily resistance, but this difficulty is enormously increased when оле is dealing with illiterate people which speaks a totally different language and who look upon disease as a manifesta- tion of divine displeasure or as a spell east by an evil spirit. Al communication must be made by word of mouth in their own language and in a form they can understand perhaps by parable or fable. When once the people be come aware that it pays to help themselves not only will they take the necessary action but they will see that their neighbours do like- wise.

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In England there is a central council for health education. They haye organised services of press publicity, health weeks, health ex- hibitions, health talks, etc. The public press has always been a very important instrument in the dis- semination of health knowledge and the authorities make full use of it knowing that its service in a good cause can always be counted on,

Printed propaganda in the form of pamphlets and posters teaches the literate but in itself has little or no effect in those who cannot read and in Hongkong the latter form the great mass of the popula- tion. But the literate are the leaders in every nation and know- ledge spreads from the literate to

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