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SANITARY BOARD ELECTION.

TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 2. 1932.

DR. LI SHU-FAN STATES POLICY

I

Sanitary Board Election

My opinion has been sought in CORRESPONDENCE. regard to the proposal-which understand has been under the con-1 sideration of the Government for the past two years for the crea- tion of a Health Board in addition to the existing Sanitary Board, (but with its activities greatly cur- Dr. Li Shu-fan, candidate for the tailed) or in substitution for the issued the Sanitary Board. I am not propar- Sanitary Board, has following statement of his policy:ed to give a considered judgment My aim is to make Hongkong without the necessary data, which

[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.1

ap-

Sir.-In his letter which paared in your issue of this morn-

by that I include Kowloon and the alone would enable me to form an ing, Mr. M. K. Lo takes up the

Neir Territories-a healthier place opinion as to the advantages and cudgels on behalf of my opponent. ARISTOCRATS OF

to live in. I have as my watch- disadvantages of such a scheme, with one part of his letter I am in word, "Healthy homes in a healthy venture to believe that my practi-full accord, namely that the public cal experience gained as Commis- colony."

Although situated just within the sloner of Public Health in Canton will be the final judge as to which Tropics, Hongkong, I am convinced, may stand me in good stend in the candidate it prefers, and with their

the Health can be made as free from disease consideration of this important decision I, at least, shall be content. and epidemics as any well-regulat-problem. Whether

Mr. Lo's letter is frankly an ex culoats, for instance; It is the of the opinion that closer liaison parte statement. With the imputa- disease amongst infectious diseases ought to exist between the medical tion which he makes on the public the in Hongkong which is causing by and. the sanitary authorities who spiritedness of the Kowloon Re- far the most deaths, yet it is now have, after all, the same end: Insidents' Association, I am not con-

public service rendered by Association is so well known that definitely in check in England, and view, namely, the good health of cerned to deal. The record of the figures there are showing a de- the Colony.

that A question has been put to me by Mr. Lo's attempt to extract from cline. It is my conviction the same can be done for Hongkong.a representative of a local paper their statement and mine a menning I maintain that no person ought as to what I had achieved while which they will certainly not bear to be the victim of a preventible performing the duties of Commis-to the electorate generally will discuse. If a disease can be pre-sloner of Public Health in Canton.hardly benefit his cause. vented by the exercise of ordinary! was responsible for the following care and proper sanitary cautions, then it is the duty of the Health Authorities to instruct re- eldents as to what constitutes or dinary care, and to provide the necessary sanitary precautions.

I am therefore wholeheartedly in favour of health propaganda con- ducted regularly and

ed city in the Weat, Take tuber-Board will materialise or not, I am

to

pre-health and other measures:

(1) Segregation of lepers. (3) Roglatration of Births and

Deaths.

(3) Registration of Midwives. (4) Registration of Doctors and

Chemists.

+

I wish however, to reply to his charge that I am standing pri- marily in the interests of a set- tion of the community only and that the interests of the Colony as a whole will come second. With this supposed attitude of mine he clever- ly contrasts Dr. Li's pledge to serve

ля 3

the interests of the Colony systemati-

of the

of

infectious

ILS 21 medical

has

(5) Improvement of scavenging and conservancy services. (6) The organisation of

Bacteriological,

the Chemical,

whole.

Had Mr. Lo wished to make a and Analytical Departments, fair comparison he might also have quoted my own statement in my (7) Introduction of quarantine letter of April 19. "I pledge my-

measures.

self if elected, to speak candidly,

com-

cally, with the object of gulding the public in health matters, and especially of educating the lower classes in the rudiments of sanitary living in the hope of obtaining their the co-operation, I would stress

I do not wish to take special cre- fairly and fearlessly on all matters necessity for this, as however stringent ordinances and by-laws dit for these mensures, as i hap-concerning the wolfare of the enforce pened to be the first Commissioner Colony and of Kowlood in particu may be, the officers thein cannot be present everywhere. of Public Health in Canton, and lar".

It is undoubtedly the constitu- At any rate 1 am in favour of in- the lot naturally fell ou me to in- rather Than] troduce them.

tional duty and privilege of the two telligent education stringent régulation.

Finally, I should like to say that elected members of the Sanitary It is the co-operation

the special problems of Kowloon Board to represent the interests of masses that we need in order to have my sympathy. The residents the Colony as a whole, but I submit abolish the wide-spread evil ef Kowloon and the New Territor that it is neither unconstitutional spitting in public, to prevent the les will find me ready to listen to nor undesirable for one or both of dumping of dead bodies, to prevail any representations that they may them to give special attention to on the people to surrender the pri-bring forward, and to join them in the needs and problems of a parti vilege of exemption from registra-tackling any problem which might cular district of the Colony, ospe tion of denths in the New Ter be pecuilar to their districts. A cially when that district is of such ritories, to notify disenses, and to submit to isolation medical man, I make no distinc-increasing size and importance as

tion as regards physical boundaries: Kowloon, which at present I have patients on both sides of prises nearly 43% of the total with proper amenities.

My experience

the harbour. When the late Dr. population. True, I have had the practitioner here and as Commis-Sun Yat-sen asked me in 1911 to honour of being nominated by the sioner of Health in Canton,

undertake health work for a period Kowloon Residents' Association and Kiven

me an insight into

of two years in Canton, I did not I shall unequivocally adhere to my hesitate, although I was primarily purpose to pay particular attention a langkong man, born and bred to Kowloon matters, but I maintain here, with all my interest here. that tho interests of Kowloon are and poor It is primarily the

fare of the Colony, especially as re-i ignorant that we have to deal with,When it is a call to fight suffering so bound up with the general wel- gards health problems, that it is because no health measure is effec and disease my duty is clear.

impossible to imagine any situation tive without their co-operation; be

where there would be a conflict of cause it is ultimately through them

Interests. that it is determined whether epide-.

All, matters concerning the pub- mics will arise, and whether the

lic health must be considered from better homes will have to bear the In short,

the point of view of the Colony in onslaught of infection.

general, and without regard to tho the standard of health prevailing

private interests of any particular in the slum tenements in the back streets of Hongkong will be the

An election tragedy occurred to-section of the community whatso- determining factor of the standard

day when the former Under-ever. That I fully endorse this of health of the Colony.

Mosquitoes and flies are two Secretary. for War, Signor Ossola, policy is indicated in the views pests which I believe more could who was hurrying to an election which I have already publicly ex- be done to eliminate. Then there meeting in a motor-car, crashed pressed concerning certain health prepared at any time to state is child welfare. The Society for over a procipice and fell 160 feet problems of the Colony, and I am the Protection of Children and the below the road.

Centre Signor Ossola was killed in-frankly and unhesitatingly my at- new Government Welfare in Wanchal are performing pioneer stantly, whilst two ladies who titude towards all such questions as

F. C. Mow FUNG work, but there is ample scope for were with him were injured.may be of public interest.

Reuter. extending such activities.

the

living conditions of the people, and it has taught me that they are not

incorrigible.

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