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TELEGRAPH,

The most dificult thing for the player taking (17) contract to master is the tables of valuation. The valuation tables for this sye-i tem are made as simple as possi-

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933.

to

LOCAL SANITARY Board has so failed to function

REFORMS

RECENT PROPOSALS

CRITICISED

AN UNOFFICIAL MOTION

Cortalu items in the recommen bie. The official system of valua-dations by the Director of Medical

tion is confined to:

(a) High-card tricks

and Sanitary Services regarding the reorganisation of the Colony's medical and sanitary administra- tion, were subject to severe

eri- ticism by the Unofficial members of the Sanitary Board at yeater-

(b) Low-card tricks.. Contract bridge is primarily a game of OFFENCE, hence the official ayatem will value all honour cards with respect to their trick-day's meeting. taking potentialities when played

Mr. C. Champkin, pursuant to offensively. It is a fact, however, notice, moved: that all high-eard combinations

"That, in regard to the copy of used in this system contuin the Recommendations submitted by the necessary DEFENSIVE values to Honourable the Director of justify making all opening bids. Medical and Sanitary Services for Below is given the table of high-the Ro-organization on modern card tricks:

Table of High-Card Tricks

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linca of the Medical and Sanitary Services of the Colony, which was forwarded to the President of the Sanitary Board by the Honourahlo ....1% the Colonial Secretary under cover- ing letter of the 19th April, 1932, the views of this Board in regard to such Recommendations are as follows:

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This table is to be used for valuing the high-card tricks in the bidding hans. Slightly in- erchsed values will be added to three or four of these combina- tion in estimating the values of high ecards when held in the, sap- porting hand, as well Ni The bidding hand, should it be advisa- ble for the original bidder to RM- BID.

When a player estimates the |trick-taking ability of his hand. he should calculate the value of high-card tricks, as given above, and add to this total the value of all LOW-CARD TRICKS,

The total of HIGH-CARD at LOW-CARD TRICKS eqitals the number of PROBABLE TRICKS ontained in the hand. Low-card tricks are valued as follows:

Count each card in the BID SUIT in EXCESS OF TERER, as one Tow-card trick.

Count each card in a side suit in EXCESS of THREE, as worth one trick, provided the suit con- tains at least five cards, and for- |ther provided the kide suit and the bid suit are both strong 19 har cards.

Can

Probable Tricks are the back lue of the official system. There an exactly 3 tricks to be WO24, and in a player and his partner are able to estimate accurately the mamber that

be won, f chummy. played as declarer and 99 per cent. of their troubles are over. The hands, given below show the manner in which a player contemplating making Foriginal biri should value his

holdings:

an

i.. That it is unnecessary to create a Public Health Board which is to function separately and independently of the exist- ing Sanitary Board.

3. That the Constitution of

cffectively 1.4

warrant the implied criticism of the D.M.S.8. that the Sanitary Board under this proposed new schome will confine its activities to sanitation in the restricted senac of the term.

The majority of my non-official colleagues are professionally qualified to analyse these public Kealth proposals with more perspicacity than I can claim and i would have preferred that they should have been subjected to a more detailed scrutiny than I can give them in briefly putting for- ward the motion that standa in my name:

1 would like however to say that the motion as it stands is the con- Aidered and unanimous view of the non-ocial members of this Board. I think I could go so far as to say that the D.M.S.S. kna laid us under a heavy obligation and by setting forth so lucidly convincingly needa that it is clearly our duty to urge. The Sanitary Board will not stand between the DM.S.S. and the putting into effect of such public health reforms as are obviously desirable and we non-officials are agreed that many of the reforma he advocates are long overdue.

Internal Changes.

We appreciate the advantages of his proposals in so far as they are concerned with internat departmental changes-by which I mean changes in nomenclature, increases от reductions in additions to material and equip. personnel and improvements

ment.

as to

of

the Sanitary Board be enlarged In order that it may function as a Public Health Board with the personnel

the suggested by

It is of course Impossible for Director of Medical and Sanit-

us to hazard an opinion ary Services for his Public whether the public benefits Health Advisory Board (except these proposals will be commensu- that the Vice-Chairman shall be rate with the public expenditure a non-technical man, preferably they will involve. There must be the Secretary for Chinese a point of balance somewhere and Affaira) but with a propor if we look upon this Board rather tionate increase in the number as the guardian of the public of the unofficial representatives | health than as the custodian of of the public, (so that the exist- the public purse we may still, I ing anollicin majority be ap-hope, rely upon some unhygienic proximately maintained), such Finance Committee submitting enlarged Board to exercise all this scheme to a more searching the functions of the present economic analysis than we Sanitary Board, together with able to give it. the new functions contemplated by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for his Public Health Advisory Board.

in

. That it is imperative the interests of the general public that all questions of policy and expenditure of public honey should be vested in the Public Health Board.

or

are

We, entirely agrre with the M.SS. as to the advisability of a clearer demarcation. by new ordinances, or by amendments to existing ordinances, of the many interests concerned with the health, safety and convenience of the public that come within our province.

We do not however agree that it IV. That s regards the

is necessary or desirable-we are Director of Medical and Sanitary emphatically of opinion that it is Services? recommendations under

very ununecessary and Medical subheading "The

entirely undesirable that, the carrying out Curative Branch", having re-

of these reforms should cloak a Kurd to the necessity for

scheme economy in the working out of

for depriving the tax- the scheme, sufletent recognition payer of his elementary right to has not been accorded to the fact ask questions through the elected that there are in the Colony members of this Board on matters highly qualified medical practif public interest apart from tioners who may be willing to sanitation in the restricted sense cooperate, either in an honorary of the term. capacity, or on part time engage- meut, or to the fact that Hong- kong University Clinical Pro fessors are, and have for some time past been, rendering valued and highly appreciated public services.

of

The Prevention and Treatment of Epidemics, the Sale of Food and Drugs, Factory and Workshop Conditions, the Construction Buildings, Cattle Disease, Town Planning, matters relating to Water Supply, the Public Health v. That copies of. such and everything else except Sanita- memoranda on the Director of tion in the restricted sense of the Medical and Sanitary Services' term-all these by a stroke of the recommendations as have been pen are to be placed beyond public submitted to the Head of the criticism. They are to be Sanitary Department by mem-longer matters of public concern. bers of this Board be forwarded

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vi. Subject to

The taxpayer that pays the enumerated above, the unofficial piper may be quite content that members of this Bourd are in the D.M.S.S. should call the tune, general agreement with thebut if the taxpayer is to be told to policy of reform adynented by mind his own business when he the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services."

ventures to enquire what the tune is, then I say he will not tolerate this deprivation of his right. The Mr. Champkin's Speech.. non-officials of this Board will Mr. Champkin said.-As a new

most strenuously resist the pro- comer. I am under the disability posed abrogation of their authority --or it may well be that I have the to criticise any and every depart- advantage--of knowing nothing ment concerned with Public

:: of any considerations by the Board | Health. that may have prompted this very The suggested establishment of ahle and interesting memorandum Public Health Advisory Board by the Hon. the Director of consisting of the Hon. the Coloni Medient and Sanitary Services, Secretary, the Hon. the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services. (Contlined on Peye 9)

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