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THE CARE OF MOTHERS

Doctors Criticise Lack Of Supervision

Considerable dissatisfaction with the mensures achloved so for 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

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SEPTEMBER

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

will start operatioņe begloning from October & of this years

Obstetrics and Gynecology at Lon- ALCOHOL PLANT THE POST OFFICE

don University, said that much of what now passed under the dis- guise of ante-natal care was Un-

worthy of the name.

BEING BUILT

PEN

It was time that we realised the Pootung Enterprise to Brighten and Better Style

work called for experience and skill

and that patients must be in- Cost $1,500,000

dividualised in regard to diagnosis

and treatment.

The standard of entry to the, roll of the Central Midwives Board was deplorably low, and only 10 cent. of thosd entering for qualifying examination were jected,

In order to supply China's in- dustriel houses with native alco- hol, an oversens Chinese, Mr. per Huang Kiang-chuen, is building a the $1,600,000 alcohol manufacturing replant in Chiang Ka Chiao, Poo- tung. In co-operation with the Ministry of Industry. It has been decided that the plant will begin its operations this year.

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

he wore in 1568 in the conquest of

on October 15 of

Experiment

APPEAL TO PUBLIC

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

1934.

WHY FILM STARS

·FORGET

"TERRIBLY WRITTEN”

PARTS

Miss Lilias MacKinnon, the educational expert, told the Oxford": course in music teaching recently ¡thqt, flim atars and actura with bad memories had asked her to teach them how to learn their parts,

"The higher the artistle or terary quality of the materia],"" she suld, the caster it is to teach even people with bad memories how: to learn it. My hardest job "At!!!: la with flm actors, not cause as a class they arë dimeuit to teach, ¦ but because they often have to learn such terribly badly written lines. Sometimes the stuff le so awful that it seems impossible that: the poor actors will evor learn it."

Miss MacKinnon said that very few people realised that their subconscious mind was a perfect machine 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.

"When you aru, performing in 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 I passage, stops and plays the passage again. A mere slip is not seriouta, unless it is taken seriously,

"Liszt himself often played wrong notes, and he paid no atten- tion to them. His was the right

GIRL MOTORIST attitude, for unless the same Blip

ACQUITTED

Sequel To Death Of Sweetheart

ROAD CRASH

A drama of the Courts ended

with a remarkable public demon- stration

at Cardiff when the

Magistrates decided that there was not sufficient evidence to commit for trial a young girl, motorist charged with the manslaughter of her sweetheart and discharged her,

Immediately the decision was announced the public applauded.

In the near future 10,000 de luxe pens are to be supplied export. The Ministry of Industry, con mentally to Post Ofees in all-parts- sidering the fact that China has of the United Kingdom. The new been buying foreign alcohol worth more than $10,000,000 annually, hasa will be of an attractive type,

and the holders will be specially.. asked MrHuang-to-build--the-moulded so that they will be easy to plant. The. Ministry has invested use, coloured vivid red, and bearing 10 per cent. of the capital of the

the G.P.O. monogram. business so as to make It a joint

concern...

Mr. Huang has established his preparatory office in Shanghai in order that he may supervise the construction work. He has bought raw materials and machines from England and Germany for manufac turing alcohol, but he aims at using

native materials and machines where possible. The foreign ma-- terials are expected to arrive in Shanghal by October 6.

The factory building, which is in process of construction, will be 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 construction by the end of

the

Sir Francis Drake's sword, which September. More than 600 foreign and Chinese workers are at work on the site of the plant which the Armada was recently transportedcovers 350 mow of land. from Portsmouth to Devonport Photo shows an officer formally

handing over the relic.

Hospital, London, criticised the division of work in some of the hospitals, and suid effort should bo made to maintain responsibility for cach 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 por sonal Influence thereby entailed,

Dr. George F. Buchan, Medical: Omeer of Health for Willesden, said it seemed to him that the care of the mother and child, in. the interests of a healthy race, should be a división of medicine for special study and practice. A new kind of specialist was re- quired.

Dr. Ethel Casalo, chief medicat leer of child welfare. Birming- ham, referred to the inadequate training of tho medient student and the midwife. Expediency and im provisation, she said, were still advocated befofo eficiency.

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

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

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occurs

it is best disregarded. Many planists, in their fear of playing wrong notes, make far

This is not the first time that the Post Once has supplied superior

For two days the girl, Miss Maranin (20), of pens for the use of the public, but, Kathleen despite the legend, the pens have Sandringham Road,

Cardiff, proved so attractive that the public pathetic figure, sat in the dock, has indelicately deprived other while witnesses told the story of members of the community of the the car crash, in which her Hindenburg erected at Bad Rolnars opportunity of expressing apprecia-sweetheart. Halph Edward Long, tion by "appropriating" the pens received fatal injuries. wholesale.

Stainless steel nibs were first tried in the Post Office in 1929. The results were satisfactory, O satisfactory that the nibs supplied for the use of the public dia- appeared with such rapidity that the supply had to be stopped.

She stated in evidence that she did everything possible to avoid the collision,

"I Wax not to blame," repeated again and again.

A mounment of the late Président

in Silesia.

worse mistakes in musicianship. The fear of playing wrong notes she is one of the chief cause of

breakdown in memory_ploying...

When Miss May Gordon Williams, a young woman barrister,

Гово

Miss MacKinnon said that people.

to cross-examing her the sometimes went to her for help in crowded Court was charged with solving rather ramarkable prob

lems. poignant drama.

I know how you feal.". Misa Williams once told Misa Moranin, who feelingly replied. "Yes, but I am telling the truth."

"One day a very agitated woman caine to me,'

e" she said, "and explained, "Oh please, can you do He

OVER THOUSAND TAKEN, The introduction of an ingenious device for fixing the nib Armly in the metal part of the holder mado it worth while last year to under- take a further trial. Again, the good intentions of the Post Office: half an hour: Miss Moranin broke because his lips tremble. I told

After a cross-examination lasting something for my poor son?

is a trumpeter, but he cannot play were frustrated. Tho proved so effective that the "collec

device down, and although she recovered her to advise her son to try to tore" got over the difficulty by

Miss Williams announced that she forgat his lips when he was playing. would not cross-examine any was another example of the taking both holder and nib.

furthers

Last year approximately 2,000 holders and 9,000 stainless steel nibs were provided exclusively for the use of the publle in 75 of the largest Post Offices in London and the provincos. After 4 month's experiment. It was found that over 1,200 holders complete with nibs had been taken.

At Bournemouth, Cardiff, Croy- don, Scarborough, Swansea, Tor- quay, and Glasgow all the pens supplied disappeared, and in Lon don, out of a

240 only 40 a total of 2 remained.

the

Only one post office throughout

country could.

1. proudly report. all pens intact. The tact, that at this post office the pane chained to the

Anpply the reason for

were

pärhaps

apparent Datori

the hib-looking d

be atted with davice, but the Post Office is not relying on this or on the fact that the holders are col oured a vivid red with the G.P.O. monogram to prevent losses. It is felt that the legendary post office

Prinow Lauls Ferdinand, Irandapen should disappear, and the co

of the an Kalist, who has, just operation of the public is sought in 1

turned to the United Stater to Vosum work in a motor works In Detroit.

order. to render the experiment a success.

importance of learning to relax before beginning a piece of work."

AID FOR INSOMNIA.

At the end of Miss MacKinnon's lecture a woman In the audience sald she wanted to testify, to the efficacy of the cure for Insomnia which Mise MacKinnon rocom mended on tho

day. The previous lecturer had advised sufferers from complaint to practise relaxing the muscles of tho face, including the muscles

thin

of the eyed, and to banish thought from the mind. She said that with a little practice: It should be possible to stop think ・ing at will, and even to fall asleep Int will

| The woman, who had risen toi herfect, and she had suffered from Insomnia for years, and on the previous night she tried this relaxation of the face muscles. "I probably got as far as the musclos "behind, the cars," she said, "when"

"I loat consciousness completely *Miss Mackinnon added that this "method" Was! Infallible, and there

WAS NO TABon whir anybody should) dreis of Marie Antoinette Adulter from insomnia if they feed worn by a Chicago" debutantë ke tha,

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