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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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TREATMENT OF SMALL-POX.

CHINESE OPPOSITION TO RECENT DECISION.

THE DUMPING EVIL.

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1931.

Sanitary Board would continue to night out the amall-pox case.

Mr. M. K. Lo made some sigul- ficant statements concerning the immorance among the Chinese in refusing to follow the legal stop of reparting small-pux cases, gay ing that from 1920 to 1920 there occurred in Hongkong some seven thousand small-pox cases al out of these twenty six came to the at- tention of the medical authorft les. But

all cases the occupants

uf the houses where the

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At the Kul Fons meeting held at the Tung Wah Hospital yester-curred removed quickly and be day afternoon the Chinese lenders fore the arrival of the Sanitary

Lo

the

out the disinfection Lo said that others, M

municipalities in Chinn including those in Nan- king, Shanghai, and Canton adopt- ed himilar means of disinfection againnt small-pox and he could not see how Hongkong could stand alone in this World as not con- ceding to this modern means of attacking this dreadful disease.

of the different commercial com Board oficers, who went to carry munities offered strong opposition recent Sanitary Board decision on the rescision of the latter body's fosolutions passed in 1918 relative to the treatment of small-pox cases at private houses. Long before the commencement of the meeting the hall of the Tung Wah hospital was filled to capacity. a fart which offered ample evidence that the small-

Hon Mr. S.W. Tso fully ex- pox argument use evoked great plained how the resolution of the Board in 1918 permitting all shnder

Sanitary of

the treatment of small-pox in community, The

pri- Chinese representatives

vate houses came into existence on the after Legislative Council and Sanitary Chinese leaders, who promised the repeated appeal from the Bored were present

together that cases would be reported to f while the proceedings were pre-the medical authorities and trak sided over by Mr. Ngan Shing-the Chinese would organise vae-) kwan, the Chairman of Directors cination campaigns.

attention among

th

Chinese

After

on

ti

Sir Shou-son Chow's Speech.

of the Tung Wah Hospital, who was supported by Messrs. Chan Lim-pak and Thomas W. N. Tam, Addressing the meeting Sir the vice-Chairmen,

Shou-son Chow said: "At the out- commenting

the Het I want to define the position Chinese opinion on the treatment of my two honourable colleagues of small-pox Mr. Ho in express-and myself at this meeting. Wo ed regret that two Chinese repre-advisers of the Hospitals and come here in the dual capacity of sentatives on the Sanitary Board

defeated

representatives of the Chinese were

1911 account of

In the first capa- their being in the minority. The

In the Colony. two Chinese members made strong ty is our duty to give such ad- vise as our conscience dictates and opposition to the recision of to the best of our ability; and in the resolution passed over twelve the second empacity it is our duty years ago, but found their op.

views of the cam- the position ineffective.

present In this con-

munity to the Government. nexion Mr. Ho pointed out that "We have heard the pros and even the decision of the Sanitary

cons of the subject; but without Board was not final and the at this moment catering into its Chinesa community on the whole merits and demerits I should liko must fight out the ease as it con- to say that some months before cerned the whole Chinese

the recision of the resolution by munity.

the Sanitary Bourd we three ex- to the Government the pain that in view of the un- and the absence of report of small abated lumping of dead bodies

pux cases, the public should be Kiven a warning that unless they comply with the conditions attach

d to the resolution of 1918 that be treated not only in isolation apecial privilege might be with- hospitals but In A government drawn by the Sanitary Bourd. vekach unmed "yglea." Cases The Sanitary Board haa

com-

Mr. Ho Kam-tong. D.R.E.. gave a most interesting speech on the Bistory of the enforcement of the antall-pox ordinance which he traced back to twenty-five years ago, when the Government quired that all small-pox

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pressed

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of small-pox and plague would el without Home auch warn- be treated ou this vessel, but ing, but we three still hold the Mr. 1o regretted the fact that view that the public should have although many patients went on been given due warning before the boat for treatment few returned resolution was rescinded. Wo alive.

have not changed or modified in any way our attitude in this mat- ter, and shall certainly renew our

vice to the Government.

in those days small-pox was very common and the law being so drastic panic prevailed among the Chinese community. So much

"My colleague, the Hon. Mr. S. so that as soon as one small-pox

W. Tso, who knows more about case occurred in one of the the subject than most of us, has dwelling houses all the occupants already given a history of the re- of the same house would hire a solution. I will now ask the Hon. junk to take them Canton. As Mr. Kotewall to give the consider- much as $200 was paid to a junke views of the thrm Chinese for this

members of the Council. purpose. For fear of being punished by the Inw v

Mr. Kotewall's Speech, many as 3,000 dead bodies were dumped on the street in one year,

In summing up the meeting the Hon. Mr. R. 1. Kotewall said that Mr. Ho went on to relate the he had listened to the remarks of many pathetic incidents of how the previous speakers with more children infected with small-pox than usual care as the question at were taken from their parents issue was me vital to the Chinese. by officers of the Law and how At the outsel he would like to the isolation process was dread-point out that the Sanitary Board ed by the Chinese. The speaker in rescinding the resolution of mentioned that he and the then 1918 acted nol without reasons as Chinese representatives on the was pointed out by Mr. Ho Kam Legislative Council eventually had to appeal to the Governor, from whom permission was granted that temporary quarters should be erected in which Chinose patients could be treated with Chinese medicine. Mr. Ho said that the result of the test was most satis factory and he recalled that in one year 77 per cent of small-pox cases were cured by Chinese medical practioners.

pro- free

Concerning the dumping of dead bodies Mr. Ho said that the evil practice was reduced after the ercetion of the small-pox hospital where Chinese medicine could be obtained free. He himself alao advertised in Chinese newspapers for many years offering to vide poor Chinese with coffins. He concluded by saying tbal the Chinese community should be fully advised on tho necessity of reporting small-pox casos to the medical authorities. Mr. Ho. who is himself a well known

authority on Chinese medicine, went on at considerable length on the cause and danger of the small-pox and warned the audience of the importance of vaccination.

and Mr. Wong Kwong-th. When that resolution was passed there were attached to it the three conditions about which we have heard again and again this after not. The object of these candi- tions was to encourage people to get vaccinated so that small pox would in time be

eradicated and spicable dumping of dead bodies. reduced and to prevent the de-

The medical Officer of Health had reported that he did not recall a single case in which any Chinese complied with the conditions and

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Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, one the Chinese representatives the Sanitary Board, said that as. the suggested compulsory isolation would affect all Chinese residenta living in apartments, the resolu tion would indirectly affect ovar 80 per cent of the whole, popula tion of Hongkong.

Mr. Wong made some strong res marks on the dumping of dead bodies and made it quite clear that not only the Tung Wah Hospital but that many local charitablo a8+ sociations and individual Chinese Hike Mr. Ho Kom-tong would be most willing to provide free of |fina. Mr. Wong intimated that he and hir Chinese colleagues on the

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