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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, MAY 9, 1932.

SANITARY BOARD CORRESPONDENCE.

DR. LI'S SECOND STATEMENT OF POLICY

Dr. L1 Shu-fan, cundidate for Sanitary the vacancy on tho

Board, has issued the following:

The Sanitary Board Election.

To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.1

4

Sir,-A

will frel

election the I publish this second statement

placo to-morrow I of policy in reply to certain ques- | take tions by Interested members of that the following points may the electorate which have lately be of assistance to my fellow electors to arrive at a decialon appeared in the Press,

na to which candidate to support

BRITISH TRADERS.

INSURANCE COMPANY ISSUES ITS REPORT

The report for presentation at the sixty-sixth ordinary meeting of the British Traders' Insurance Co, Ltd, ou May E7, statos:

the

The Board has now to lay before Shareholders a Balance Sheet con taining a Summary of the Property and Liabilities of the Company on the 31st December, 1981, and a Statement of Working Accounts.

to

1930 Account: After payment of the interim dividend of 66. por share and the bonus of 20% to Contributors there remains a Balance of £72,246 6 passed at the last Annual Meeting, 7 an por annexed

red statement.

Tho Board recommends that a Final Divid end of 4s. per share on 08,000 shares to Shareholders, absorbing bo paid

10,200, that £25,000 be added to the Reserve Fund, increasing that Fund the Balance bo carried forward to from £175,000 to £200,000, and that "In deciding on this nomination, Underwriting Suspenso Account

view close the Account for the year 1930.

1981 Account The Balance of your Committeo had In primarily the necessity of securing Working Account on the 31st Decem- adequate representation of Kow-ber, 1931, was £131,192 8 6 as per an- noxed statement. The Board recom loon's special requirements on all public bodica; Mr. Mow Fung, by mends that an interim dividend of 6.

Shareholders, per share be paid to virtue of his thirty seven years residence in the Colony, is sorbing £24,000, that a bonus of 20% about £5,000, and that the remainder thoroughly conversant with the be paid to Contributors, absorbing

of the Sanitary requirements

be carried forward, Colony In general and Kowloon in

....The General erai Meeting, Mr. D. O. Russell and particular Committee are confident that the the Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackle resigned public interest, and particularly the from the Board and Mr. T, A. Milt- interests of the residents of Kow-chell and Mr. L. J. Davies have joined loon, will be well and faithfully the Board. In accordance with the

Articles

cles of Association, Mr. J. A. Plummer and Mr. J. P. Warren re- served by Mr. Mow Fung."

tire, but offer themselves for election.

Lowe, Bing- Auditor.-Messra.

As I said in my election ad- dress of April 18th, the Colony Is The official reason of the K.R.A. being faced with many important in putting up Mr. Mow Fung was problems in public health with primarily to secure adequate re which it is the primary duty of presentation of Kowloon's special the Sanitary Board to grapple. Interests. This reason is india- contended then, and I do now, that putable, and if proof were needed a medical practitioner in this it would be forthcoming from the Colony and a past executive inofficial letter of the K.R.A. ad health administration In the dressed to the electorate dated neighbouring capital of Kwang- April 20th, 1932, from which I tung, such as I am, will be able quote the following (the italics to Borve the publle bettor than are mine); my rival who, whatever his quali- cortainly fications may be, has laid himself open to criticism in

representa his interview to the tive of a local paper. Listen to what Mr. Mow Fung says: "I am definitely against the practice of or allowing cases of infectious contagious disease being treated In the patient's home

disease covera a Infectious large number of ailments, from

affec such comparatively light tlong as chicken pox and German acourges measles to dangerous

Does Mr. like plague and cholera. Mow Fung seriously advocate the

Also, in Mr. Mow Fung's forcible detention in public hon-

of infectious letter to the electorale he writes: pitals of all cases (and contagious) diseases, such" pledge myself if elected to a. tuberculosis, measles, chicken peak candidly, fairly and fear- pok, German measles, scarlet fever,lessly on all matters concerning malaria,the welfare of the Colony and of typhoid, paratyphoid, meningitis, Influenza, smull-pox, Kowloon in particular." plague, cholera, to mention only the best known? If so, the rate payers will have much Under proper medical care mursing, mild infectious diseases can be successfully treated home. Even

cout- the richest

to say. and

at

tries have not enforces general hospitalisation for all infections

dircases.

Quaranthe.

Mow Fung

in

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(The italics are mine). Since the object of Mr. Mow Fung's nomination is to Recure "adequate representation of Kow- loon's special requirements" the obvious point is-Is the existing representation inadequate?

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(Continued from Page 3.) had fallen into the habit, the four

EMPRESS OF ASIA of them. of having an early supper It has already been set out in the Press that one

of the two together and then driving to the elected seats is already filled by hospital. It was a comfortable, in- that was al- Dr. Basto, who is doing excellent formal arrangement work on the Board, and is on the ways subject to unannounced re- Again, Mr.

inno-Committee of the K.R.A. The pub-vision.

Ellen and Myra were in the rently remarks,

tolle may not know-ns I did not regard

yesterday-that another kitchen when Stoven arrived. Ho quarantine: "Whenever an out-until break of contagious or infectious member of the Sanitary Board, a brought with him his usual offer- disease occurs in a neighbouring nominated one, namely Mr. Wonging, a large box of flowers. They were old-fashioned garden flowers port or city and is clearly ahown Kwong-tin, was also a member of

this time. After being assured that body. Mr. Wong is serving to be of such a degree as to neces

his third term on the Sanitary that there was nothing he could do sitate quarantine of vergels

the supper preparations persons arriving from that place. Board; and as a resident of Kow-to aid such quarantine should be effee-loon, an ex-Committee member and Steven ignored orders to wait in a present member of the K.R.A.. the living room and seated himself tively carried out, at all custa ...... Effective quarantine of people surely he, with Dr. Basto, is in the on one of the kitchen chairs. (and if necessary, fumigation or position to represent Kowloon's some time he watched the sisters

"special requirements."

at their housewifely tasks and then disinfection of baggage, etc) ar-

he spoke suddenly: riving from even adjacent cities,

"Are you

Iwo satisfied with is practicable I proper facilities

Mike's progress.

or

Herein lies the danger. I ven- ture to point out, of half-baked knowledge. Mr. Mow Fung, as a non-medical and

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International women's claims for sickness and Sanitary Convention of Paris, disablement benefit is seriously 1920, which the British Home jeopardising the solvency of the also Hongkong National Health Insurance scheme, Government and ratified, but he should at least is revealed in the Government Ac- have familiarised himself with tuary's report. such elementary knowledge us:

Infectious disease is rarely, if ever, carried by air.

Bubonic plague is not convey ed by man but by the rat and its harbouring flea.

Women's claims for the past years have amounted to [five

51,000,000 above the estimate and are still rising steadily.

A new Government Bill issued to-day reduces the sickness bonellt Prevention of disease tenda of married women by two shillings more and more to a concentra-weekly to 10s., and disablement tion upon the living person and benefit by 29. Gd. to 5s.-Reuter's attaching parasite rather than Special Service. upon inanimate objects, like baggage, ete.

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"Satisfied?" Ellen echoed, a faint frown on her forehead.

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She had been puiling threads of slik

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"Well,

Stoven I'm not," nounced definitely.

"I'm not either," Ellen confessed tone. "But a low, reluctant

we can do, there's nothing there?"

"I'd never have brought it up if there hadn't been," he replied, his "But eyes grave and unsmiling, there is and I've done it."

"What have you done?" "Last week I cabled Vienna and He'll arrive. this asked Dr. Stengel to come have a look at Mike. evening. Wait a minute before you say anything. I didn't do this on a hunch or without advice. 'I did it because. Dr. Ellis assured me, as the modernly-run institution. We did the other doctors at the hos- all appreciate the effectiveness of pital, that it was the thing to do. If Mr. Mow Fung had his way, it would be folly not to take ad- couldn't ask for yours."

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I am glad that my views are shared by such an eminent authority on infectious diseases and their treatment as the world-famous Dr. Wu Lien-teh who happens to be

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She found herself confused and

the he had done was so sensible, so necessity for the intelligent logical, so altogether wise.

"It's only," Ellen said thickly as education of the masses in health

to melt matters, as I have advocated, side her arguments seemed by side with the Intelligent om- away, "It's only that it'll be years ployment of preventive measures. and years before Myra and I can

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Strangely she could and no in my flest statement, in favour of pleasure in that knowledge. All at isolation with proper amenities.

once she knew that she had been One more point alluded to in I have in the course of this pre- silly and school girlish to lat 80

election been the interview. Speaking of "prisent.

sometimes small a thing na pride stand in the vileges at the isolation hospital," blamed for not being so quick as way of Mike's welfare. Myra' too my worthy opponent advocates my opponent in publishing my

was being silly. "option of being treated oither by opinions on certain health ques-

Ellen," Steven naked in the al- Western or native methods ...." tions. But as a responsible lence," are you being fair to want And this, strangely, with the same medical man, I have to measure to shut me out now? Who would broath as advocating the hardest my words carefully and not rash-I help if I couldn't help you?" measures on quarantine quoted ly premiao things incapable of

"No. Steven," she said slowly, Mow Fung had fallment. I could not, like Mr. above! If Mr.

"I wasn't being fair." consulted page 24 of the able Mow Fung, discourse on matters

Throughout the dinner she was Medical and Sanitary Report 1929 upon, which I have not the neces-oddly subdued. Afterward when compiled by Dr. A. . Wellington, sury data to enable me to form a Myra and Bert mentioned the dish- he would have noticed that out considered opinion. To talk la of 106 cases of small-pox treated one thing; to accomplish is an- at the Tung Wah Hospital under other. I profor scientific prac be left for her and Steven, Myra Passenger Rates: Chinese methods, 85 died, thus tice to abstruse theorisation in hesitated, then saw something in giving a mortality rate of 48.8 por this vital matter of health nd- Ellen's face that made her hurry! cant. On the other hand, 85 ministration and sanitary policy closed the door that shut her and Bert into the living room. Ellen cases treated by Western methods of the Colony.

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"If you would still like to marry

"she said softly, would like to marry you.”

(To be Continued.Į

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