1936-10-26 — Page 19

ACROSS THE PACIFIC

IN A KETCH

INFLUENZA

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, ・ OCTOBER 26, 1936.

Tragedy of H.K's. Slum Dwellers

Induna Star, the small schonner in which

Lieut. Cdr. Roy Kendell, K.N.R. (LEFT) set out last Friday

for Australia.

BRITONS

DEATH

VERSUS DOLLARS

THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE

FOR EXISTENCE

"Telegraph" Staff Reporter.

STATISTICS make

dull

reading. But a "Tele-.

graph" Staff Reporter his This photograph of a notice in delved into the welter of a shop window in Kowloon tells figures contained in the last its own story.

Case Report issued by the

Society for the Protection of BACHELORS

Children to write a story of

the most tragic phase in the GAY IN life of Hongkong-the abject poverty and misery that con- stitute the social and econ- omic conditions under which fully three quarters of our

SINGAPORE

FROM SPAIN entire population live. MUST SEE

¡A DOCTOR

EV

of cases

|

THREE TO EVERY UNMARRIED GIRL TLESS

THERE ARE THREE MORE OR ELIGIBLE EUROPEAN BACHELORS SINGAPORE TO EVERY UNMARRIED WOMAN, AC- CORDING TO THE OFFICIAL AN- RECENTLY.

ALYSIS-OF THE CENSUS, TAKEN

E RADIO BROADCAST

Daventry Talk on The Policeman's Lot

ZEK. PROGRAMME'

From Z.D.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kllocycles):

5-7 p.m. A Relay of Tea Dance Music from the Hongkong - Hotel Roof-Garden.

7

p.nd.

Operative. Gems. Star of Eve-"Tannhauser"— (Wagner); Even Bravest Hearts aust(Gouned)... F Peter Dawson, (Bass-Baritone), Duets: (0) Butterfly is alone with the faithful Suzuki; (b) And with his heart so heavy; (c) One fine day... Rosina Buckman and Nellie Walker from "Madame Butterfly." (Puccini).

7.17 p.m. "From Foreign Lands” (Moazkowski), played by the Ber- In State Opera Orchestra. 7.30 p.m Closing Local Quotations, Hongkong Exchange

My Report.

Stock

p.m. A Relay from London. "The Policeman's Lot. A Talk by un Assistant Commissioner of Police In the British Mandated Territory of Comeroon.

7.47 p.m. Four Light German Songs by Herbert Groh (Tenor).

1. Heldenroscin (Werner); 2 Die Lorelei (Heine): 3. Only for Water you-Waltz Song (Doclie); 4. Lilies (Dobrindt).

В p.m. nouncements.

Time, Weather and An-

8,03 p.. A Relay from the Ko Shing Theatre (Chinese). 11 p.m. Close Dawn. 8.05-11

Because of lack of money, the Society is impotent to deal with any but the fringe of the blanket of misery that is spread over the slums of this Colony.

There are thousands and thousanda The area under review covers VERY refugee, British

of malnutrition in infants. only the municipality, and if the

Pro p.m. European gramme or alien, who lands in The Society was able, last month, to figures were taken to include

from Z. E. K. an n find enough money to buy milk and Changi, and the Naval and Airfrequency of 640 kilacycles. Britain from Spain in other foods for 111 of these cases.

Bases they would reveal a still future will have to submitenin whose only home for themselves greater discrepancy between the

Disease la rampant amongst par

to R rigorous medical and their entire family is one bed male and female ratios of the

in tenement than a a small sofy inj

TWO CURES examination on arrival, and he medically examined daily FOR

afterwards, for fear that they may bring infection due to the unsanitary condi- tions in parts of Spain following the civil war.

Strlet Instructions

ben Issued by the Ministry of Health

CLAIMED BY SCIENTISTS

INFLUENZA has

heen

have

space that takes up no more room European population.

the

European fat. But the treatment of present

comfortable living room of

ciety was

was the total average entire income

Even in Singapore Itself, with lis

European population

discases requires money. The So-1,338, the proportion of women to able to provide medicul men has decreased in the last five treatment for 41 cases last month. Sears. In 1931 It was 572 to every The price of one tin of cigarettes 1,000 males. To-day It is only 627. of the 222 persons in the poorest The Eurasians are the only race in western district of Victoria, who Singapore to have were maintained by the Society last women than men. month. Bare figures, buried in a 2,502 and 2,490. mass of statisties, cannot convey the. horrible misery this means to the unless the

more unmarried: The figures are'

conquered, claim scien. to port medical offleers at all the wage-earners and their dependants cent. in the five years under review

tists working in Hampstead ́and in New York.

on human beings.

The

their

lending passenger ports in Britain ordering them to enforce this rule. Watched Three Weeks The National Institute of Medi- The ofelul circular states that cal Research, Hampstead, has such passengers must be individually names and been working on a new vaccine examined, give their and experiments have shown that

addresses in Britain to the it gives immunity from influenzauthorities, and, report at once to the to animals used in testy.

medical officer of health in which- vaccine is now ready to be used ever district they intend to stay.

They must be kept under strict period of surveillance during a quarantine, usually three weeks.

The order affects people arriving not only from Spanish ports direct, but also those who have come vie Tangier, Lisbon, Gibraltar and the French frontier. The parts affected here include Londen, Southampton, Plymouth, Harwich, Newcastle, Dover, Folkestone, Bristol, Cardir, and Newhaven.

It is prepared in the same way as smallpox

vaccine Animals

are

Arst inoculated with influenza virus. and the vaccine is then prepared from their blood.

A specialist anid:

his is the first real advance In the battle against Influenza. It bas bera one of the greatest pro- blems facing medical science.

In USA. the Rockefeller Inst tute has solved the problem in a dif- ferent way. Their vaccine is culture taken directly from an in- Aluenza palient

It is proved a protection for anl- mala able to the human type Influenza,

of

Epidemics ore expected to break out in Spain at any moment. The Ministry of Health most fears typhus and smallpox.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

START SOME KIND WORD ON 178 |

The P. and O. liner Carthage is due TRAVELS. THERE IS NO TELLING WHERE | here from Singapore at noon on THE GOOD IT MAY Do WILL STOR- Wednesday." D. Talmage.

Road.

aid.

The fact that the European com- munity has increased by 27.92 per Soclely comes to their is attributable almost wholly to the recent strengthening of the Defence CIGARETTES EQUAL CHILDREN Forces in Singapore, including the The money an average European addition of a second infantry batta-

lust him one lion. pays for cigarettes day, for one thirst-quencher at the hotels, or for a taxi to the Peak Ist Percentage increases among other the money that, Fate decrees, must races were much smaller-Eurasians sustain a human life in Hongkong 16.59; Indians 14.02; Chinese 8.81;

Malaysins 3.93; Oliers, 4.43. for 31 days.

The verge of $1.10 income per¦, had per month of the cases dealt with by the Society in the western, part of the Island does not mean that this in the lowest figure upon which life is sustained in Hongkong,

Last month, the Society dealt with) 27 cases in which the recipients of

ᏥᏓᏐ ; ald were absolutely destitute.

These increases ure due to im- migration as much as to the high birth rate among the Asiatic races.

Bournemouth

8.05 p.m. Popular Melodies by the Keyboarders.

Waltz Medley-The King Steps Out": Fox-Trot Medley-"It's Love Again"; Spanish Quick-Step Medley; Military Fox-Troi Medley,

8.18

p.m. The Municipal Orchestra,

Raindrops-Pizzicati for

Strings (De La Riviere); Oriental Dance- Novelty Duet (White); Carlsbad Doll Dance (Plier); Intermezzo Pizzicato -Strings (Montague-Birch).

8.32 p.m. A Recital by Norman Allin (Bass) and Jascha Heifetz (Violin).

Violin Solo-La plus Que Lent Waltz (Debussy); 2 Songs-The Midnight Review (Glinka); Edward (Loewel: 3. Violin Solo Caprice Op. 1, No. 24. (Paganini): 4. Songs True till Death (Scott Galty); The King's Own (Bonheur).

9 p.m. News and Announcements from London.

.920 p.m.

Greta Keller (Vocal) Guitar Ducts Val Rosing (Vocal). -Ferera and Paalubi

L. -Song- Would You? ("San Francisional-Chiquita Wultzoch,

Keller; Greta

2.

Greta

Songs--A little Door, a little Lock, Only 40.2 of Singapore's popula- tion are

a Hittle Key; A Penny in my Pocket natives of the city. A

Val Rosing: 4. Instrumental- large proportion-come-from-over-ionolulu -March: 5.--Songs-Light scas.

Out: These Foolish Things The actual Census figure obtained Keller:

er: 6. Song-Ask your heart with was 400,155, compared

Val Rosing; 7. Instrumental- estimated figure of 500,353.

o Sole mio. Distribution of population by na- follows:--Chinese tonalities a 317,117: Indians 47,402; Malaysians, 45,077; Europeans 8,338; Eurasians The Income of many cases for 7.151; Japanese 3,605; Otliers 4,375. the month of September totalled

IN EVERY HOUSE One of the most serious deductions

Their allemalive to ald from the Society was theft or the garbage cans. No wonder that Hongkong's prisons are overcrowded with cases of petty crimes.

A

lew

cents sufficient to buy enguth rice for a

week.

The poor of Kowloon and the East- made from the Census figures is the ern portion of the island are rich in aggravation of Singapore housing with their unfortunate problem in the last five years. An comparison brethren in the western part of the average of 14 persons are Island. In Kowloon, the average crowded into each dwelling house, monthly Income of the cases dealt compared with 11.4 in 1931. willi by the Society was $1.94, while Although there has been a 14,436 they averaged ion of the island, population Increase since 1931, the

in the Eastern

number

9.50 p.m. Fifty Years played on the Organ by Cagay.

of Sony

Terance

10 p.m. London.. Big Ben. Dance Music.

11 p.m. Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following warm-lengths and frequencies

are observed by Daventry.

FEVEDETICY

Wavelength 4.10% k.. (9,89 MIRËTOR 11.18 meires 31.30 metres 28.43

Sign

GRA

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2,340

GAC

1.485 ke

GAN

$1,380

11.5 h..

CSP

(2017

17.70

CAR

217

681 GRI CBL

15,1x2

ka. ke k.c.

12.25 Mritza

13.97

metres 19.00 meinve

of occupied houses has de Two dollars, it is computed, will clined from 33,403 to 33, 321. buy enough husked rice to sustain In his comments on these figures life for a month. But the rice must the Superintendent of Census, Dr. W. be the cheapest obtainable, so that Dawson, states: "The comparison to cat it is in court the dreaded beri, muy not be strictly accurate owing to the variation in the classification beri and other diseases.

of a dwelling, but the fact remains there is now a smaller number of occupied houses."

In the slum area between the Pulau Chlarse Protectorate and Salgon an average of as many as 26 man, woinen, and ebldren are herded together in squalid houses, many of which have only two or three rooms,

For stealing an opium pipe from Chu Wan, aged 20 years, was nd- divan in No. 5 Wa Lane yesterday,,

STARVE TO DEATH mitted to the Government Civil Hui Ying-yul, 23, unemployed from

Swatow, was bound over a sum of To an agonised Chinese mother, Hospital yesterday suffering from $50 and ordered to be sent back to such food means death to her babe, injuries received when he alighted Swatow by Mr. K. Keen at the Cen- She can keep her own body and soul from a moving tramuar in King's tral Magistracy this morning.

together with the dally diet of vit-j ominless husked rice, but she cannot Appearing on remand before Mr. build the reserves of food in heri Another man who is alleged to have W. Schofled, at the Central Magic poor, collapsed breasts to feed her

infants. taken part in the audacious robbery tracy this morning. Chan Sing, 31, at 220 Nathan Road on September 22

There are no birth control clinics; unemployed, was sentenced to six.

At the other end of the sente is the has been arrested. He is Wong Wing-months hard labour and, twelve in Hongkong to show her the way to sang, 30, od job coolle. At the strokes of the enne on a charge of prevent those unwanted babies from Thomson Road area, embracing the and Mount Kowlow Magistracy this morning, he theft of a handbag from Chiu Unar coming with such terrifying regu- MeRitchie Reservoir was remunded until Thursday after-ching; married woman, in Queen's larity. But where man declines to Pleasant, where there is an average noon when his case will be heard to Road West on Friday. Detemuan teach, Nature itselt takes a hand, ro. of only seven residents to a dwell- kother with that of Sze Hok-chuen, was remanded Saturday

on

for that more than a third of the Hong-, itig. also alleged to be implicated in the medical examination.

kong babies born to Woman are robbery.

Alleged to have killed a pedestrian For stealing a roll of cloth worthwhile driving his forty, ip wan, 20, 60 cents, an unemployed man, NB lorry driver, was charged with Tak-wah, 23, was arrested on Satur- driving without due care and caution day and brought before Mr. K. Keen in Tung Chau Street on October 10 at the Central Magistracy this morn- when he made another appearance ing where he pleaded guilty to the before. Mr. Macfadyen at the iscw:oon offers. The cloth was stolen from Magistracy this morning. Hearing in No. 242 Queen's Road Central during his case was fixed or 2.30 pm. 01 business hours, and defendant, who weaneday, on the application of | had a previous conviction, was sen-Trafte Sergeant J. Serim, tenced to two months', imprisonment,

Friday afternoon has been fixed for

t-nec.*

destined to die before they reach the outside the control of the parents, but are within the control of the age of twelve months,

With its seant supply of money,' general public of Hongkong to the Rociety for the Protection of alleviate. Children has, during its years of

The Eociety for the Protection of servies to humanity, sayed count- Children is undoubtedly the most lest thousands of infant lives. worthy charitable organisation in It has given to the thousands of Hongkong. That I must luck funds kobles of our poorest people the in its struggle against our greatest annariumlly to attain adulthood social crime is a sad commentary on and start off on an equal fooling the people of the Colony as a whole. In this clernal struggle for exis- The Society has many benevolent supporters and many regular con- Charges of cruelty have often been tributora, levelled arainst the Chinese. But, But there are thousands of people in

with the cases dealt with in Hongkong who could afforda contact with the S.P.C. are pararons, it in its fight against poverty and

the average of almost 400 children disease. alt with each month by the Society, The sum of one dollar corld them have perely been cases of 11- Treatment and. In fact, it is many ance for an Infant to do it over moths new since the Society, has

th* dane"ro"# first twelve months at cause to take action in this re- of its.ex'sience. A contribution of spoet.

one dollar a month would nas"red- 19 mean the myvine of at least one Infant otherwias doomed by the Inexorable law of Nature to death.

metres 15,169 kc. 10.02 metres

21,500 ke 19.48 metres

49.10 4.11.ca

MOLETO

Transmission 1

LOAD.. GR.R.) 3.1. Ben. The Music of Mozart. 3.5 pm. Tak "Belenifats at Work." 4.10 p.m. "War'd for Sale."

4.85 pint. The News and Anneutremente.

Greenwich Time Signal at 8 pm.

Transmission %

(0.8.0, 0.8.75.1

732 p.m.

7.4 p.m.

* P.M. 1 Ben, "To the Well To the

West'

Tha Policeman's Lot." aydn Heard and his Band

End from The Weat

Cinem*. Birmingham..

A 38 pm. Variety.

8.39 p.m. Á Recits! by Spencer Thomas (Tenor) and flerbert Withern (Violanes!!). Greenwich Time Bignal at pin.

• H.M.

The News and Annasneemenia. 9.21 pm. The B.B.C. Danes Orchestru.

Transmission 3

(0.8.0, 0.5.P... (1.6.1)

to p.m. ille Bell, Arthur Salisbury and

Nrchestr

10.18 m. Varleiz.

10.5 p.m. The R.3.C. Midland Orchestra. 11.3 p.m. Light Pianoforte Music. 11.45 p... "Farlight."

Greenwich Time Signal at 12 m.

12 ... Harty Farmer, at the Organ of

the Grands, Tooling.

12.30 am. The News and Announcements, 12.00 .m The Histo! Victoria Orchestra

Denying n charge of having as- saulted the complainant To Fan, 32, In coolic, on board the 9.5. Tin. Yut

the nearing of the case in which Yuen peple who come ini minule port of their carnings to help yesterday, Cheny Lam. 3. a cook on

The Hongkong Branch of the Lin-kwal, 32, woman, is charged with English Association will commence (n) detaining a two-year-old boy, Ha Its activities for the Session 1936-7 Yun-hot, with intent to deprive his by holding a general meeting at the mother of his custody, and (b) taking Helena May Institute on Tuesday, part in a transaction to transfer the November 3, at 6.16.p.m. The Beat custody of the boy at 177 Cheung Sha part of the 'meeting will be devated Wan Road, ground floor, on October lo the statement of accounts and 23. Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios the election, of office-bearers. Mr. will defend her, and inspector E. J. P. II. Leung, B.A., will then speak. on Ellis, of the Secretariat for Chinese "Basic English Versus Fidgin Eng-Affairs, will prosecute. Bail has been

Axed at $500,

Ush."

POVERTY AND DISEASE Nearly all of the eases

nre of poverty or disease, causes which are

board the ship, was bound over. 1: $25-to keep the peace for six months by Mr. K. Keen at the Central

started through an argument over money matters.

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