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THE CARE of MOTHERS

Doctors Criticise Lack Of Supervision

Considerable dissatisfaction with the measures nchloved so far for the ante-natal care of mothers was expressed in addresses delivered at the meeting of the British Medical Association, at Bournemouth.

Dr. F. J. Browne. Professor of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 5, 1934.

WHY FILM STARS FORGET

WHAT

The above pictures show part of the big alcohol plant in process of construction in Chiang Ka Chiao, Pootung. The upper view shows the big reservoir for storing raw materials for making alcohol, while the lower one is of the water tower which is already completed. It la expected that the plant

will start operations beginning from October & of this year,

Obstetrics and Gynecology at Len: ALCOHOL PLANT

don University, said that much of what now passed under the dis- gulse of unte-natal caro

worthy of the name.

why

tin-

It was time that we realised the

BEING BUILT

work called for experience and skitt Pootung Enterprise to dividualised in regard to diagnosis Cost $1,500,000

and that patients must be in-

and treatment.

The standard of entry to the roll dustrial houses with native alco- In order to supply China's in- of the Central Midwives Board was hol,

an Overseas Chinese, Mr. deplorably low, and only 10 per Huang Kiang-chuen, is building a cent. of those entering for

the $1,500,000 alcohol manufacturing qualifying examination were

re-plant in Chiang Ka Chlao, Poo- Jected.

tung, in co-operation with the Ministry of Industry. It has been decided that the plant will begin its. operations on October 16 of this year.

Mr. John S. Fairburn, consulting obstetric physician, St. Thomas's

Sir Francis Drake's sword, which he work in 1558 in the conquest of the Armada was recently transported from Portsmouth. to Devonport. Photo shows officer formally handing over the relic.

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Ilospital, London, criticised the division of work in some of the hospitala, and said effort should be made to maintain responsibility for each patient in the same hands throughout. For these reasons the family parctitioner was the ideal supervisor of the mother and her infant.

The British Medical Association scheme to delegate part of the work for insured patients to the public clinics did not appeal to the speaker because of the division of responsibility and the loss of per- sonal Influence thereby entailed.

Dr. George..F. Buchan, Medical Oficer of Health for Willesden, anid it seemed to him that the

care of the mother, and child, in the Interests of a healthy race, should be a division of medicine for special study and practice. A. new kind of specialist, waa quired.

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Dr. Ethel Cassie, chief modleat ofleor af child welfare, Birming- ham, referred to the inadequate training of the medical student and the midwife. Expediency and im- provisation, she said, were Attil udvocated before efficiency,

THE POST OFFICE PEN

Brighten and 'Better Style] Experiment

APPEAL TO PUBLIC

The success achieved in bright- ening Post Offices throughout Eng- land has induced the Department to tackle a perhaps greater problem one which is legendary that of the Post Office pen.

In the neur future 10,000 de luxe pena are to be supplied experi- mentally to Post Offices in all parts of the United Kingdom. The new pens will be of an attractive type, and the holders will be specially moulded so that they will be easy to

The Ministry of Industry, con- sidering the fact that China has been buying foreign alcohol worth more than $10,000,000 annually, kas asked Mr. Huang to build the plant. The Ministry has invested 10 per cent. of the capital of these, coloured vivid red, and bearing business so an to make it n

the G.P.O. monogram. joint

concern.

Mr. Huang has established his preparatory office in Shanghai fu order that he may supervise the

This is not the first time that the Post Office has supplied superior pens for the use of the public, but, despite the legend, the pons have construction work. He has bought proved so attractive that the public raw materials and machines from

has indelicately deprived other England and Germany for manufac-members of the community of the turing alcohol, but he aims at using tion by "appropriating"

opportunity of expressing apprecia- native materials and machines wholesale.

the pona where possible, The foreign ma- terials are expected to arrive in Shanghai by October 6.

The factory building, which is in procena of construction, will be a three-storey concrete structure costing $500,000. Two of the three reservoirs and a water tower have been completed. The building con- tractors have agreed to complete

the

construction by the end of September. More than 600 foreign and Chinese workers are at work covers 150 mow of land. on the site of the plant which

at a much lower price than that The factory will sell its product Axed by foreign exporters, and hopes to realize $800,000 annually.

Stainless steel nibs were first tried in the Post Offee in 1929. The results were satisfactory, so satisfactory that the nibs supplied for the use of the public dis- appeared with such rupidity that the supply had to be stopped.

OVER THOUSAND TAKEN..

device for fixing the nib firmly in The introduction of an ingenious the metal part of the holder made it worth while last year to under- take a further trial. Again the good Intentions of the Post Office; were frustrated. The dovice tors" get over the difficulty by proved so effective that the "collec taking both holder and uib.

Last year approximately 2,000 holders and 9,000 stainless steel alba were provided exclusively for the use of the public in 75 of the largest Post Offices in London and the provinces. After a month's experiment it was found that over 1,200 holders complete with nibs had been taken.

At Bournemouth, Cardiff, Croy- don, Scarborough, Swansen, Tor- quay, and Glasgow all tho pens supplied disappeared, and in Lon- don, out of a total of 240 only 40 remained,

Only one post office throughout the country could proudly report all pona intact. The fact that at this post office the pens wero chained to the desks may perhaps supply the reason for Chelmsford's apparent probity.

Tho the nib-lock will be fitted with davice, but the Post Office. In not relying on this or on the fact that the holders are col- "oured a vivid red with the G.P.0. monogram to prevent losses. It is fell that the legendary post ollee

Prince Loule Ferdinand, grandson pon should disappear, and the co- of the ex Kalear, who has just re-operation of the public is sought in turned to the United States to retume order to render the experiment

work in a motor works la’Detroit.

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GIRL MOTORIST ACQUITTED

Sequel To Death Of Sweetheart

ROAD CRASH

A drama of the Courte ended with a remarkable public demon- stration at Cardiй. when the Magistrates decided that there was not sufficient evidence to commit for trial a young giri motorist! charged with the manslaughter of her sweetheart and discharged her.

Immediately the decision was announced the public applauded.

There was a rush for the dock, -where-the-first-to-congratulate the nequilted woman was the dead man's father.

For two days the girl, Miss Kathleen Moranin (20), of Sandringham Rond, Cardiff. B pathetic figure, sat in the deck.

while witnesses told the story of the car crash, in which her sweetheart, Ralph Edward Long, received fatal injuries.

She stated in evidence that she did everything possible to

avold the collision.

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Was not to blame," repeated again and again.

"TERRIBLY WRITTEN"

Mign

PARTS

Lilias MacKinnon, the educational expert, told the Oxford course in musle tonching recently that alm stars and netora with bad memories" had asked her to teach them how to learn their parts.

"The higher the artistic or Ilterhry quality of the material," she said, "the canier it ls to teach aven people with bad memories how to learn it. My hardest job atill is with film actors, not because, au n class they are difcult to teach, but because they often have to learn auch terribly badly written lines. Sometimes the stuff is so awful that it seems impossible that the poor netors will ever learn it."

Miss MacKinnon said that very few people realised that their subconscious mind was a perfect machino which never broke down.

"If

you want to remember a thing," she said, "concentrate on it with your conscious mind, but leave the rest to your subconscious mind. It cannot make a mistake. After you have trained it you must let it work by itself...

SLIPS NOT SERIOUS.

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"When you are performing public do not worry if you make a slight slip. The audience very often does not notice, and if it does it will forgive, but audiences will never forgive the performer who, after making a slip in passage, stops and plays the passage again. A mere klip is not serious, unless it is taken seriously.

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Liszt himself often played wrong notes, and ho paid no atten- tion to them. His was the right attitude, for unless the same slip occurs

is beat disregarded, it Many pianists, in their fear 01 playing wrong notes, make far

A morament of the late President Hindenburg erected at Bad Reiners in Silesia.

worse mistakes in musteionship. The fear of playing wrong notes" shes one of the chief causes of

breakdown in memory`playing.”

you fool," Miss

loms.

When fas May Gordon Williams, a young woman barrister,

Miss MacKinnon said that people rose to cross-examine her the sometimes went to her for help in crowded Court was charged with solving rather remarkable prob

art drama. poignant Williams once told Miss Moranin, came to me,"

"I kne

know how who feelingly replied. "Yes, but I explained, 'Oh please, can you do "One day a very agitated woman she said, "and am telling the truth,"

After a cross-examination lasting something for my poor sou? half an hour Miss Moranin broke is a trumpeter, but he cannot play down, and although she recovered her to advise her son to try to

because his lips tremble.' Miss Williams announced that she forget his lips when he was playing. would not cross-examine any further.

It

Не

I told

was another example of the Importance of learning, to relax before beginning a piece of work,”

AID FOR INSOMNIA,

At the end of Misa MacKinnon's lecture a

woman in the audience. sald she wanted to testify to the efficacy of the cure for Insomnia which Miss MacKinnon recora mended on the previous day. The lecturer had advised sufferers from this, complaint to practise relaxing the muscles of the face, including the muscles of the eyes, and to banish thought from the mind. She said that with a little practico it should be possible to stop think- ing at will, and even to fall nalcop fat` will.

The woman, who had risen to her foot, said she had suffered from Insomnia for years, and on the previous night she tried this relaxation of the face muscloe. "I probably got as far na the muscles behind the chra," she said, “when I lost consciousnem completely.”

Miss Mackinnon added that this method was infallible, and there The dress of Marie Antoinette as suffer from Insomnia if they used was no reason why anybody should. worn by a Chicago, debutante at the

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