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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1936.

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IGNORING THE REALITIES

Although still treading a lonely furrow, in the gense that he commands no large pólitical following. Mr. Lloyd George every now and then looms in the! news, but his declarations on

domestic and international

The MINISTER of HEALTH explains how

The Government Plans a

H

FITTER BRITAIN

EALTH and vigour We Live Longer

By

The Rt. Hon.

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD,

P.C., M.P.

I hope, in the approaching session of Par liament, ta be able to intro: tuce a Bill to Hanother gap -that which occurs at pre- sent when IL child leaves

29.000.000 weeks of work to enter employment and, hav.... were lost in {1 single year ing lost the protection of the among the insured population School medical service, is unable much is preventable.

to enjoy the protection of the National Health Insurance Scheme before the age of six- teen.

Much more, also, might be done to help those who, though they are in no sense ill. are not fit as they should be to attain and maintain full physical vigour.

So

What, then, is the action to

be taken?

In a Haphazard Way

FIRST, let me say a word about the prevention of disease, Our health services, which be gan with preventive measures. designed to protect the munity from such dangers as

com-

Another question to which much attention is rightly being directed at the moment is that of nutrition, and I believe that

the dietary surveys which, at the request of my Advisory Committee. I am about to sk local authorities to make on my behalf will assist us to deter

mine how best to apply in practice the teachings of mo. den science.

Physical Training

faulty drainge and con- NOW comes the question of

the steps we can take to

taminated water supplies, and have now been extended to in- improve facilities for physical lude elaborate provision for the training and help our young health care of individuals at all people to keep tit.

How much we owe to the stages of life, have grown up.

for all our people HERE is no need to he as things are apt to grow in physical education given in our

alarmed about the health of this country, in a rather hap- schools it is the people of this country, hazard way.

Lo the discoveries

impossible to that is the ideal we

estimate, but no one pretends have set ourselves, and our Thanks

that even here the provision is Since the present Government complete. of modern science. the self- took office it has been our policy task now is to do all we can

Much useful work in this con- work snerificing

of doctors to do all that is possible to com- nection is also being done by | affairs become increasingly dim-to make that ideal into a and nurses, and the many-sided plete the health services and voluntary: bodies.

cult to follow. Of late, the only reality.

activities of our public health build up a comprehensive sys- The thanks of the nation are services, great progress has tem for the health care of the due to all those who are giving consistency he has shown has Mr. Neville Chamberlain has been made.

people. A beginning has already devoted service to such splendid In given us an inspiring lead in been in his general condem-

£1 comparatively short been made.

organisations as the Boy Scout ination of the policies of

his recent speech at Margate, period there has been a remark-

and Girl Guide movements and the

the National Playing Fields Government, no matter what campaign to help the young record a substantial fall, in the Leave School

He called then for an energetic able increase in the length of When They

life, and we have been able to

Association, the particular sphere may be. people of this country to keep death rates from many diseases, He has come into prominence

fit, and 1. 14 Minister

of such as tuberculosis, measles, THE Midwives Act which he Health, have been greatly en- and diphtheria,

came law a few months ago The point is not that we are filled

one, gap-and Dr degenerate race

that important one it was by our health is deteriorating, ensuring that no mother shall but that, of the ill-health lack at the time of her con- Which persists-a year or two finement the services of a fully agro it Was calculated that qualified midwife.

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"the mad race in armaments," ponse which his speech has as he glibly describes the Gov-evoked.

moment

race

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Class-Room Comedy

school reminds us of the never- vides some funny answers.

#1

very

The number of organisations of this kind is now very large, and I rejoice that this is so.

But they have, like our public health services, grown up in a piece-meal way, and I believe that our first task is to consider how best we can co-ordinate and extend all the -excellent -work-that-is-being- done so that it may all be directed to the object in view without undue overlapping or waste of effort.

ernment's efforts to make its Healthy Stock defences adequate-to-the-do-| WHAT are the facts to-day mands which at any

I hope no one will run away may be made upon them by a with the idea that we are a world full of menace. It is true

nation of weaklings, the de- generate sons of sturdier an-

In the second place, we have that in the Boer War, Mr. Lloyd cestors, and that drastic mea

to make sure that in a country George was a pacifist, and a not sures are necessary to preserve TE return of the scholars to The arithmetic lesson often pro- which has been so rapidly urbanised as ours there are particularly popular one. But us

from disease and decay. failing humour of the average Bri- "Why do you always add up adequate facilities for games the Great War found him even-

Nothing could be farther from tish schoolboy. His "howlers" have wrongly in your home work?" the and exercise. the truth,

been the delight of his friends and teacher asked. Tommie Shook his tually in a very different role-

the despair of his Instructors. Here head.. are a few. Our namely, the spearhead of Allied

is sprung fron healthy stock, and most English- victory. No one knows better

men have always had, and have than Mr. Lloyd George how the to-day, a. preference for a life country and the Allied' cause in the open air and for the out. suffered through lack of pre-to those who cultivate them.

door sports which bring health

paredness and through difficulty

The increasing urbanisation in accelerating the output of of the country which followed guis and munitions. In many the industrial revolution of the passages of his many-volumed last century has, it is true, mul- history of the Great War Mr.tiplied the difficulties of attain was too funny for words."

RW. ing to the full these valuable

Lloyd George has told us all aids

to health, but there is about it, and incidentally claim-happily no sign that our desires ed for himself a greater degree and inclinations have changed. of prescience than any of his contemporaries, civil, military, made safe against potential enemies, but, by his attitude, he or naval. Surely, then, if the

has laid himself open to that necessity for Britain's being charge. The rivalry in arma- prepared to defend itself should ments may be regrettable, but person more it surely cannot be seriously

be clear to any

i

We are doing much to en- "Anyone help you?" she queried. courage the provision of open "Charles I. was going to marry "Yes-my father." "Oh, and what spaces, recreation grounds and the Infanta of Spain. He went to is he?" "He's a waiter, teacher," swimming baths, and that work

Shakespeare says be said Tommle, see her, and

must continue. never smiled again."

Soon after the new inilk scheme "After nineteen years in prison had started wee Geordle was work-

Mary Queen of Scots was executed, ing out his sum with great patience. Depends on the People and remained as beautiful as when Then he looked up. "Please, teacher, she was young."

when am I gettin' ITIN milk?" he N these and other ways the "Clive imprisoned 140 men in the asked. "You'll Hel your milk, Government, local authorities Black. Itole of Calcuits, and so laid Geordie, when you've done your and voluntary organisations are the foundations of our Indian pire.”

Em sum "Please, teacher," he said

pouting, "l be soor."

*

* "Wolsey saved his life by dying

Public health services and way to London where he was to executed," we are informed. recreation grounds are a great

A class was told to write a short essity on "The Funniest Thing I Ever Saw," One boy soon did It. He thing I ever

wrote:"The funniest

on the

*

seeking to do their part. But in the long run success must de- pend on the people themselves.

"The inflammability of the Pope waste of public money if they

身

an awakened Public Opinion-

A country teacher had to smile when she saw in one of her pupils was proclaimed in the Vatican de-are not fully used. We need exercise books-"A smock is a surt erces," of nightshirt worn by country inen "The tractor can plough six not, indeed, to make our people In England during the day."

boroughs in the time a horse taken "Well, Johnnie," said uncle, "and lo do one."

overcareful of their health-for

how do you like going to school?"! A schoolmistress was describing we do not want a nation of "Oh!

霾

*

*

was

I don't mind going to school, to her class of small boys the hypochondriacs-but so that we Uncle, or coming home from school, different but the time in between bores me world is a vast area" she explained, the opportunities that exist for races of mankind. "The may all take full advantage of stiir."

"and the various tribes.........

She paused and eyed the wee a complete and vigorous life. "Daddy," said little Willie, "our Inddie who could pay attention to| teacher says that the world is round. nothing but "bools. Well, Bobbie," Be Careful, Nót Fearful If it is, and I wanted to go cast, I she said to him, "will you tell the could get there by going west, class which is the greatest race in couldn't I?" "Yes, my son.

ET me say to all who read Loshi the world?" "Yes," miss," than another, that person is Mr. contended that Britain should. But you'll be a taxi-driver when plied. "The Musselburgh Stakes, this article--your health is Lloyd George. But we found sit with folded arms whilst you grow up.

The youngest of the family largely in your own hands; be "If a train is travelling" said the about to commence his education careful but not fearful of it. him recently sending a message other nations are arming to the headmaster to the senior class, from when a visitor to the house asked

Use the public health ser to the Pacifist candidate in a by- teeth. Britain has run great Inverness to Edinburgh at 60 miles him "And when are you going to vices as and when you need.

an hour, another is going from school, Kennie?" "Oh, I'm not go- election, wishing him success risks in the recent past by at- Edinburgh to Inverness at 40 miles ing to school," answered the young them. If you are ill consult a

an hour, where will they pass cach hopeful. "I'm going to Herioi's!" and condemning the Govern- tempting to get others to accept

doctor in good time; but it is other?" At the same place. sir!"

Another small boy had just com- better to keep well, by seeking ment's efforts to make up ar- a policy of disarmament. She said the bright boy,

pleted his first year, and mother was open air and exercise. I com A few more historical "facts": celebrating the event with a little rears of armaments. It would, has now been compelled to give

"The British Constitution is per tea party.

"And how do you like

to you two lines of perhaps, be too much to say that up the effort. And the making feetly sound. but owing to its Mr. Smith, the headmaster, Freddle?" verse:-

"Better to hunt in fields for Mr. Lloyd George is more con- good of deficiencies is obviously insolent position it suffers from asked his uncle. "Oh, he's all right.

fogs.

"I heard he was like a father to cerned to discredit the Govern- the only safe and sane alterna-

Bunyan was the inventor of the you?" "H'm-m. He's worse than

health unbought, Presbyterian religion, and he wrote { that!"

Than fee. the doctor for a ment than to see the country |tive left.

The Pilgrim's Chorus.""

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