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* 100CHOW

THE HONGKONG

ANNUAL HEALTH

WEEK.

OPENED IT CHINESE Y.M.C.A. ON SATURDAY.

PROFESSOR SPEAKS.

MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1931.

TELEGRAPH.

Fot

Twas

and buxom, round and stout,

apoplexy bowled

out

Educate the Community.

hor

DUTCH AVIATION.

EAST INDIES TO HAVE A WEEKLY SERVICE

London to Africa.

London, Feb. 28.

I think most doctors now realise that in addition to treating

The Haguo, Feb. 28. the sick and ailing they have an The Royal Dutch Air Navigation additional and now function Company proposes to start a week- namely

to keep the people in ly service to the Dutch East Indies henith.

on October 1 if, the country's Your continued effort must be financial position is such as to on- campaken to sea that

isable the necessary subaldy to ba The annual health

the community under the auspices of the Hong-educated in health matters and granted.-Reuter.

know that difficulties kong Chinese Medical Association, you well the Chinese Y.M.C.A. and the have to be gradually overcome-- Chinese Y.W.C.A. was opened on Your -energies must be confined to

The new Empire Air Route con- Saturday at the YMCA. Build the realm of Preventive medicine necting London with Central Africa ing in Bridges Street. Addresses the function of which is In the

was inaugurated by the Imporial were delivered by Prof W. 1. Ger- first place to prevent the occur Airways this morning when a pine rard, O.B.E., M.D.. M.R.C.P.

renco of disease: secondly, if ton Armstrong Siddeley Air Liner (Lond), Mr. T. N. Chau and the disease does occur to keep it under left Croydon Aerodrome carrying Hon. Secretary of the Medical As control: and thirdly, to secure for mails and freight for India and sociation. Dr. F. I. Treung presid- the community all the best pon- North and Central Africa. There ed.

sible conditions of living which in were fifty bags of mail containing themselves are hostile to the pro- | approximately Addressing the large atten-pagation and spread of sickness. British Wireless. Jance present Prof. Gerrard'sald: It is a great honour for me to address this opening meating of vour Ilealth week.

The annual

health week with hinder well-nigh everyone The By all means let us encourage

uxample of frail and unworthy health conscience and re- its revived enthusiasm dopiled efforts on behalf of pre-authority: long-established cus-sprend A knowledge of the laws ventive medicine is becoming of tom: the sense of the ignorant of health obedience to which in crowd: and the hiding oneg

12casential to freedom from degen- increasing importance to the com-

own ignorance under the pretenco eration and discane. munity.

to a stirring up of the There already awakened health cona- elence.

1

to the We are so accustomed use of the term "Health" but what do you and I mean when we use the word.

"Health" 113

As regards obstacles to your efforts it is aald that there are

40,000 lettors-

PACIFIC

STEAMEN

three principal stumbling blocks asters of epidemies and contagi- in comprehending truth which ous diseases.

of

ami let UN

of wladom. In these avery man Preach self-control, persever is involved and every state beast.ance and the will to health. For in every act of life, or busf-

Health lectures must be of ness, or study, these three worst) arguments are used for the same practical value and alded by tart-

ful methods. conclusion-this was the way of

If you are to deal with the is the custom. our fathers, this this is the common view: there-high rate of infant mortality which exists amongst the poorer fore should be held.

classes do not tell poor mothers might define that state of mind in which the efforts because of the faint cry to live well and keep fit-That is body is not consciously present to that the practical and scientific an insult to their maternity. They us the state in which work is application of hyglene will cure are balf starved and no one could

too easy and duty not

grent a the patient that produces the ail-keep fit in the sordid atmosphere trial-the state in which it is a ver dollars that if a patient en- of social and moral destitution in foy to see, to think, to feel, to be.joyed bad health, well, it did no- which they live.

The stock in trade of most of body any harm and benefited the "A night without stars us is health which is often our doctor. only capital.

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If that goes we are physically and often metaally bankrupt-As health wanes so happiness do- parts. The man sick in body anel mind will never un board to muy ike the gipsy of George Barrow: There's night and day brother,

hoth sweet things Sun, moon and stars brother,

All sweet things There's likewise 1 wind on

the oth

Life is very sweet, brother

who would wish to die.' Instead ke Job he will curse his day and you would know there was neither joy nor happiness for laims.

The proverb "Prevention to

better than

Cure" is

almost a

platitude but its practical applica tion has only been learned of re cent years.

Da not be deterred in

your

Why should the layman in- terest himself in Preventive Medi- cine? It is even more important

to him than to the doctor.

The layman, whatever his call- ing in life and however brilliant his career, falls when his health breaks down.

The wind withdrawn God's face hidden Indignity near me

Drink and the paraff flares

to acar mo

Dust coloured hunger

So was I born.”

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Crippled and diseased indivi-pling and mortality from venereal duals have no chance in the river, diseases the penple must be en- of life flowing so swiftly by them. lightened-They should be taught The BUCCPNA 01 Preventive simply and clearly and warned Medicine depends in considerablo against the pestilence that wal- measure on public opinion and keth in darkness and the sickness the individual members of a com- that destroyeth in the noon-day- munity and not entirely on the, Without this knowledge the efforts medical profession.

of Preventive Medicine will be in vain.

Pure

air. pure water, jure food, adequate sun-light, good housing conditions, cleanliness and civic, personal, domestic sensible habits of eating and recreation are important factors drinking, opportunities for healthy

In the promotion and preservation of the health of the individual and the community.

I would remind you of the old Chinese custom whereby doctors Doctors have

no more direct were paid to keep the people well control than any other citizen over and healthy-This would appear the supply and fostering of these to be a suitable way of paying ahealth-giving factors. They do doctor and such a method of re- pond an economic, political and muneration is to all intents and personal decisions. purposes in force to-day in coun If a community tolerates poll tries where panel practice exists cies and conditions which make In panel practice the healthier not for health but for disease the those on the panel are the less responsibility for the consequence work the doctor has to do and his resta on the community. income shows no reduction.

was

The object of an enlightened public opinion in regard to Pre- | ventive Medicine is threefolt,

(1) It teaches how to

Accure

And preserve personal health.

(2) It teaches how to avoid dis-

ease and

(3) It teaches the community

how best to give its assent to sanitary reform and its consent to sanitary govern- ment.

The medical practitioner la one of the most important agents in establishing this enlightened pub- lic opinion.

gards his practice as a social sor Every righteous physician re-

vice, a means not only of bodily, but also of social reconstruction and of moral and intellectual health.

Preventive medicine is not a water tight compartment and the different groups of doctors in the community all work towards one and the same end in the fight against disease and in the promo- tion of the health of mankind.

We can look for an improve-

The Practical Romans.

The Gospel of Health, The wise and practical Romans The medical profession does know that bodily health. and preach the gospel of health but it Imental health go together.

rests with economists, politicians Very many years ago in Eng- and health authorities to apply Jand it was deemed so necessary the teaching-These in turn de to impress healthy modes of liv-pend on enlightened public ing on the people that a novel and the pressure of the individual method of doing so was introduced citizens' conviction. in some pinces. The result

The health of a community is that many excellent health rules a responsibility which is shared by ment in health and prolongation -were-found-in-grave-yards. As a all-the members and not merely -of-life-to an ever increasing de

rule epitaphs give nothing but by those belonging to the medical, gree-We may indeed look forward praise to the deceased but oc profession.

to something yet better for we easionally you find blunt medical In this colony there have been may hope for a philosophy of the and hygienic truths as at Wolver-great advances in the prevention hampton an epitaph of 1690 tells and control of disease but this is no reason for rest and content and for a little folding of the hands to sleep.

08:

Here lies the bones

Of Joseph Jones

Who ate whilst he was able

But once o'er fed

An epitaph of

of

He dropt down dead And fell beneath the table

1741 tella Constance Bevon' Constance Bevon, wife of John Lies beneath this marble stone

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mind that shall make life better worth the living~~-

We cannot give Immortality but we should be able to live out our full lives.

Here as elsowhore the results Death coming in due and not are due to a combination of scien- undue time, is shorn of all his te knowledge with suitable legis terrors when every man and wo- lation and administration and to man

"shall come to his the gradual recognition by public,

grave in a opinion that it is only by such a full age. vombination that the community'. "Like an a shock of corn comath can be protected from the

din in, in his season.”

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