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HONGKONG SLUM PROBLEM.

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criminate. very rarely munke any advance of money, and grants, as a rule, take the form of milk food of some sort or other such as Glaxo, Lactogen or some other well- known brand. hope that has been i the means of vinig a number of

Ives.

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In some cases we find that the parents are unemployed and wholly deatitute, In those casey it has

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1931

Dr. W. W. Poler, Adviser to the China National Health Ad.... ministration, who will attend_the International Public Health Con- ference in America.

poor

of the number of beds there should be to the number of people in the population but there are, I think," factors which will give you a fair Indication. The death rate in this! Colony among children has been, for the past two years, over 6,000 of the children under one year of nge. Last year the number was 0,777 beneath the age of one year who died. There was n further 2,500 children who died under the

ge of five years. That, I think,

Kiven some indication that the avail- able hospital accommodation is not sufficient. There is another in- Ideation, if it is noted, and that is the great number of children's bodies which are found yearly,

streets of dumped in the

the Colony,

been the policy of this association to try and make the parents self-

A little while ago one of our supporting. We have tried to

find

Inspectors went round to sou a case employment for them. I

am afraid

fa 40 casses children and found that the child had died we have not been very successful cases, and in some cases and It is then that have been reported as eured. had been buried. She asked ensure the parents what was the matter very easy to the Inspector General of Palice be- may sound comes very useful, We try to find medical treatment for children. with the child and the reply was

"nothing

I think unless serious. few you there are employment for the entirely de can assure stitute by giving them hawkers' things more difficult in this Colony we are prepared to accept the stand- licences and setting them up with than to get Chinese parents among point of these parents that there is

the

see that their children nothing serious the matter in 8,500 a certain amount of stock,

medical treatment, children dying in one year, we are, and I think, forced to the other alter- To give you one Instance of this et proper there was a woman Being in Kow. They have an entire abhorrence and loan who was left destitute by her reluctance to take them to hospital native and that in that the hospital husband's death and she had four The parents are inclined to regard accommodation in this Colony for children. When the case was rethe hospitals as places to which children a wholly inadequate for ported to us they were absolutely they will take their children only the needs.

ua a last resort. without meats of any kind. member of the Society brought the case to bur notice and contributed

Our inspectors arv, 1 think, doing towards the licence while we paid very useful work in educating the for the stock. Through

our parents in the use of the medical spector we secured an apprentice facilities available in the Colony, ship for the eldest child and got a and they are getting the children younger one placed in school. At into hospitals and, sometimes, they lenst they now have enough to live

mage to persuade the parents lo leave them there. In many cases the parents will call and remove the child within 24 hours from the hospital: whether they expert miracles in the way of rapid cures

don't know.

on.

A

Inspector's Work.,

Sonic Bedspaces.

I should, perhaps, qualify the figures i have giyen as to the num her of beds available by saying, that there are a certain number of bed- spaces available in the adult wards but these are nat ascertainable and entirely dependent on the demanda of the adults. One thing has been stone during the last two months

increase the vecommolation. In July the Chinese Sisters of the

kmail bos- Precious Blood opened a

ital with accommodation for ap-

40

children. The proximately Hongkong Sariety for the Protec- wholly I should be leaving a

tion of Children gave

Krant of with you it I wrong impression

$1,000 Lowards the initial expenses were to leave you with the iden that | „f that hospital, and during the in very ease in which we have sup- past month it has also undertakeu phed fool, and secured medical at-

Medical Officer regards as essential tention, the Society has been the spend a further $600 on what Cie

equipment. means of saving life. It has not. to the re Unfortunately, owing

It appears to me that the Colony letance of

to take their theple

is faced with two alternatives in children to hospital, and in some the ease of sick children. One Is cases owing to ignorance as to the to provide really Arst-class medical to and hospital accommodation. existence of the Society, which is willing to help the children, cases

educate the parents as to the value jare all too frequently reported to us of these, and possibly ultimately to

at such a late stage that we can de

compel them in all cases of neces- thing. The inroads of starva-sity to make use of them. The tion and disease have lasted so long other alternative is to ignore that the child's constitution has sickness of the children and dis been so brought down that there

No Parents or RelativeR. In other cases we find destitute children in the Colony without la telutives. elther parents or these cases it has been the policy of the Society, particularly if the children are longkong born, to try! and get them into some institution where they will be educated, and where they will earn a trade and grow into useful members of the community. This bas been done in some cases during the past seven months. An instance of this was when the police one day brought My offer a half-nikel and half starving boy who had been sleep ing under the verandahs in Nathan Road. He had no relatives in the Colony and he was subsisting on what he could beg. Is has been placed in the St. Louis Industrial School and maintained there by the Society.

The Secretary for Chinese Affairs sent a boy to us recently whose be effective. father had been killed to an e- wholly cident, and this boy was destitute. That boy placed in the St. Louis Industrial School where he is learning car pentry, and I think he will ranke his way in the world.

found it necessary

Was

i

the

is nothing we can do which could pose of their bodies. The latter policy is cheaper but I think you will agree with me that humanity demands the former.

Hospital Accommodation.

commodation in the hospitals

in

children.

Sordid Slum Conditions.

I read in the papera, and i heart also While speak of medical atten-

today with

great pleasure, that tion for children 1 should like to this Society is taking an active in take this opportunity of question terest in children's playgrounds. A ing whether we have sufficient few days ago I was reading a book of entitled "The Delinquent Child," this Colony for the children and it may interest you to know Outcast Jæpers.

this Colony. I don't like statistics that in the London area the figures Referring to one of the out of any more than you do, but one must show very clearly that the incidence the ordinary cases, in which we get statistical otherwise one can ratio of delinquency is highest in

We have to place both not grasp the subject. child and parent in the care of an not the result of the present year's those areas in which there are the institution, it was the case of a consuя so I am driven back to the fewest facilities for recreation for womi who was suffering from 1921 census in which we find the leprosy, and her son, 16 years old, following figures. Children of the

I don't pretend to be an authority was also affected by the same disage ten years and under. 64,000.

That case was reported to Chinese children only); under the on the slums of Hongkong and

At that don't say that our stems are any the Society when these two people age of five years, 43,000, were living us ontcasts in a state time the death rate was stated to worse than those of many European of utter destitution in a very menn be 296 per thousand in the firsteities, but it is a self-evident fnet to anyone who goes round that mutshed on a shore near one of our year of birth. bays. Through the kind offices of Let us look at the position as it overcrowding is rampant, where the Mr. Wolfe arrangements were mudo was in June kust. The number of sole playground. for the children is available in this the street. It is wonderful huw for them to be removed to a leper beds and cols colony, and the Society a maintain- Colony for children was 160, and these children ever grow up at all.

this includes 120 in the French and fl 18 nothing ing them there.

short of if Foundling miraculous they develop A obtaining 1ospital and in the The question of medicul attention is one of the most Home of the Sacred Heart.

physique worth having and escape' important to the Society. During

disease.

cast.

This works out at one bed per the past year we have obtained 100 children. Neither I nor anybody medical attention for children in 65 else can tell you the precise ratio

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