1937-10-30 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1937.

Walked To Dog Races

Dog Races With 6s. 6d. He Taxied

Home With £150.

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DOCTORS TOLD :

STICK TO

BEDSIDE MANNER

DOCTORS who spend too

much timo on scientific "ologics" and statistics, instead of straightforward diagnosis, physic and a comforting bed- aide manner, are trounced by Dr. Robert Hutchison, consult- ing physician to the London Hospital, reviewing the year's progress in medicine in The Practitioner.

He says! "The effect of it all is

bob exhausting and expensive to the patient, so that the process of diagnosis is now often worse to en- dure than the disease, and only the very rich or the very poor enn afford 'modern methods of Investigation.'

LEADS TO NEGLECT·

Too scientifle a view of medicine causes an exaggerated importance to be attached to laboratory methods and reports of one sort and another to the neglect of ordinary clinical observation.

"The ultra-scientific outlook leads to a wrong attitude towards our work at the bedside..

so

London, Oct. 3.

Jolin Walls, 30-year-old unem- ployed clerk, walked Inlo the Harringay Greyhound Stadium one day fast week.

Hehind his last 5n. in his pocket and he had walked all the way from Sidcup.

Walb, until he left Harringay, was like thousands of men in Britain to- dity.

For months he had roamed ihr streets looking for work. His small stock of savings grew smaller. He sent his wife and two children bock to her mother's home in Shefeld.

Last week Walls found himself with one thing left unpawned In the world. It was a watch-not a very good watch, but one that he valued because it had belonged to his father and hh grandfather, ·

He took it to a Sidcup pawnbroker, who gave him 10s, for it.

FLUTTER ON THE DOGS

Walis ate the best meal, he hud had for months, found himself with 6s. Od, at the end of it. But he had been studying a mid-day paper in the cafe, and by saw some dog- racing forms,

That brought.back memories, for in the days when he was prosperous he had often had a futter at the dogs.

Wills set out 10 tramp to nort London. He paid is. Ditz to enter the stadium, was glad to find that the race-card was Included in the admission money. Gingerly he went to a tole win- low and put 2s, on Bell Chain in the first rare.

It won at 7 to 1 and Wall's 55.

bad miraculously become 10.

He left the next race alone, but

invested 10s, of his winnings many come to the sickroom think-Binder Twine in the third.

ing of themmelves as men of science Oghting disease and not us healers with a little knowledge helping Nature to get a sick man well." "This atlitude is lending to n great) deal of pseudo-scientifle qunckery.

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That brought him in 30s,, which he put on Testudo for the fourth race with a bookmaker.

NOW FOR A HOLIDAY

He got odds, of 0 to 1, collected £10 wher. Testudo romped home.

Then Walls had a drink, and de- elded he would return to Sidcup. But he glanced at his race-card again, and something held him back. He had pawned his watch-West-

"There is reason to doubt if the art of medicine, that is to say the application of existing knowledge in the management of the Individual patient stands as high to-day as 11minster Chimes must surely win the

did a generation or two ago."

0-42 mice, he reasoned,

y 0-40 he was so certain of the dog that he put all his £15 on This time ho got 10 to 1 and Westminster Chimes won

Dr. Hutchison says that, while pre- ventative medicine is reducing the death-rate, the amount of Invalidity

him £150. He thinks we are more is going up. fussy about health than our predeces sors, not more unhealthy.

TOUGH LITTLE MEN

He also has a word for the title

man.

for

To relation of god physique too resistance to disease Is very un- certain, and may well be that the small man with no great muscular development is really better filed to stand the conditions of urban lire than finer physical specimens of the race."

Sitys

that

Then Walls really did ge home......... in a xi. He stopped on the way for arother good meal.

I found

him in his room at Sidcup As he packed a sullense he was whistling happily.

"Luck? No, I

said. "I you," he

was just malter of working out the form..."

These Pictures Will Puzzle You

don't agree with Policeman Suspended

In Mid-Air

Now he is going to Shefeld for his wife and children, to take them for a holiday to Scarborough.

London, Oct. 25.

P. C. Thomas Davies climbed a 5ft. fence surmounted by trellis at Wem- bley when he was in hot pursuit of o

talking and coughing is sufficient to suspect. His uniform got caught in transmit bacteria.

London Hospital ynaecologist Eardley Holland, also has a knock

doctor-colleagues, maternity death-rate could be res "No! to wear an impermeable duced if doctors took more care to mask is criminal negligence," he de-

that loud clares. proper face-maski,

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the woodwork, and he was suspended In mid-air-until the trellis gave way under his weight. The man was sentenced to 21 months' hurd inbour | for burglary.

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Mother Going To Leper Colony

On a voyage half-way round the world which she has undertaken in order to act as compassion for her Bon, Mrs. Esther Southern, of Waterloo-road, Blackpool, left Lon- don recently in the liner Kator! Maru.

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Mrs. Southern, who is 50 years old. the mother of Mr. Robert Southern, native of Fleetwood, and she salled for Penang, where her son is superintendent of a leper colony'

Mr. Robert Southern's wife, Mrs. Rona Southern, of Glaston- bury-avenue, Marlon, Black- pool, has ref

refused to go out to join her husband while ho working at the leper colony, inte:

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Last May Blackpool ordered her husband to pay £1 week

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the Penang magistrates had refused to confirm the Blackpool order.

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Indians Soon Will Number 400,000,000

Unless there are violent epidemie outbreaks, the popula-- tion of India by 1942 will exceed the 400,000,000 mark, slates Colonel A. J. H. Russell, Publie Health Commissioner with the Government of India, in his re- pork on the health of India for 1935, which was published cently.

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"In British India alone up to the middle of 1935 approximate- ly fifteen millions were added to the population since the last census was taken in 1031," the report states.

"Assuming what the same rate of increase has occurred in the Indian States, the population in India ás a whole is stated to have increased since 1931 by 5 per cent, bringing the total esti- mated number to well over 370 millions."

A friend of the family who lives RECOMMENDED

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for

companionship's Sake

"She will have travelled nearly 10,000 miles before she reaches lier destination," said the friend, "and will disembark at Singapore, where her, son will be waiting for her. There will then be another 400 miles Journey to the leper colony.

"Bob's parents have stored their furniture, and his mother's fore has cost nearly 100, His father, Mr. J. Southern, is living in lodgings during his wife's absence, so that the parents are making sacrifice for their son."

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The Pictures Represent- The top one a square-front, view of o stack of ralfway metals at Chatham Road, Kowison.

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