1937-11-13 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER

13, 1937.

'Many Doctors Do Operations They Know Nothing Of'

---SIR BRUCE BRUCE-PORTER

SIR BRUCE BRUCE-PORTER, Mayfair physician, declared recently in a speech to the New Health Club in London, that

Patients in a serious condition are turned away from hospitals,

Patients are relcased from hospital before they are fit,

Family doctors often perform operations for which they are not trained.

And he spoke of the "vested interest in disease."

the solution is for the State to take over: It is inevitable," he said.

He was talking to doctors,

"Hospital," he said. "are Alled with the resulla of preventable discase. Many people dangerously

I have to be turned, away.

"Once you have got a man into a bed, some treatment in given. then ho's turned out, long before There's such pres- he's fit to go. sure from the waiting list."

sult he Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter could not be too emphalle about the nced to revise the, whole system,

"It's wrong," he said, "ond I per- sonally am extremely worried."

'DONT BLAME HIM*

Scotsmen Are Living Longer

London, Oct. 7.

Mr. W. S. Douglas, Secretary of the Scottish Department of Health, in his evidence before the Royal Commission on the geographical distribution of in- dustrial population in London on Wednesday, said that Scots. men are living longer. During the past 70 years, he said, that expectation of life at birth there had increased by 16 years

Sir Bruce spoke of the general-from 40.3 to 56.0 years for practitioner.

"The family docter

often

made to perform uperations for

which he is not in the remotest way equipped. He has to

treat

males and from 43.8 to 59.5 years for females.

diseases he knows nothing about SMALL COST OF

"Don't blame blin: blame

system.

this

"For every examination he has to

PROSPERITY

undertake a giant task of cramming HEALTH MINISTER ON Examinations are piled un him. He just croma down everything neee!! * nary.

"I don't consider that he's property quailfled for a great deal he is called on to do.

"He has to operate on 20 per Non they can find to operate on. He has to make great decisions on Thing he car remember.

only

FOOD PRICES

food

Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of

lo Health, made a reference prices when speaking at Newqtiny. Cornwall, recently.

Upper panel shows Str. Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, Inspecting some of his followers before they paraded in Bermondsey, London, recently, Hardly had the parade started before they were attacked by hundreds of anti-Fascista, in some of the worst street fitting in years. Pollce jumped in and, lower panel, here's what happened,

NEW DISCOVERY

WILL MAKE

MILK GERM-FREE

-M.P.'s Claim

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Orchestra'

LONDON RELAYS

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 355 meires (815 k.c's.) 31,40 metres (0.52 m.c's.),

II.K.T.

12.00-12.20 p.m. Reiny of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.. 12.30 Primo Scala's Accordeon Band and Jessie Matthews (Soprano). Six Hits Of The Day (Series 6); Delyse (Gilbert-Nicholls); Boo-Hou (Heyman-Lombardo-Locb) Accor deon Band; The Little Silkworm; Say The Word And It's Yours; I Can Wiggle My Ears (all from First n Girl...Jessie Matthews; Hi-Billy. Medley; Six Hits Of The Day (Series 4)....Accordeon Band. 1.00 Time and Weather, 1.03 Light Orchestral,

Serenado

(Melro);

De

(Valse Espagnole) Plepus Au Palais D'Angkor (Marceau)....Orchestre Tangoland..... Ruby Goldstein;

Geraldo and His Sweet Music; Master Melodics....Lo

.London Palladium Or- Playing

chestra; The Clock Is (Blaaw); Dicky Bird Hop (Gourley) ....New Mayfair Novelly Orchestra. 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements. 1.40 Leallo Hutchinson

and Piano).

Broken-Hearted

Pelosi); Al

(Vocal

Clown

(Nocl

Alone

In Vienna

(Towers-Morrow-Ilda); My Love (film 'Stowaway').

1.50 Concert Waltzes.

Gypsy-Waltz

known);

Goodnight

(Composer

Un- (Composer (arr.

Volga-Wallz

Unknown); Waltz Nanette

Schwartz)....Russion Novelty Or-

chestra.

Mary Band Selections, 2.00

March (Wagner); Tannhauser Marche Aux Flambeaux (Meyer- beer); Colonial Medley: (n) Canada; (b) Australia; (d) New Zealand; (c) South Africa. I

.The Band of H. M. Coldstream Guards.

2.15 Close Down.

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7.00 Variety.

Orchestral-Salut D'Amour (Elgar arr. Phillips)....Van Phillips Quar- tet; Nicolette (Van Phillips)....Van Phillips and His All-Star Orchestra; Vocal-Gertrude Lawrence Medley.. (Soprano); ..Gertrude Lawrence

Mr. G. W. Rickards, M.P. for Skipton, recently an- nounced the discovery of a germicide which, he claimed, Piano Streamline-Plano Selection (Ellis); Streamline The First Waltz (Ellis)....Vivian Ells; Vocal-The would free milk from bacteria without pasteurisation.

A Fine To-night; Way You Look The germicide will be offered to the nation.

Romance (Alm 'Swing Time'). He said that although 2s. 2d. was "Fresh discoveries prove that pas, the ablest and greatest experts in the Dixie Lee Crosby and Bing Crosby; what Leurisation adds factors which per-country, has spent many years work- Comediennes-Gert And Daisy Make A Christmas Pudding....Elsie and required to-day to purchase

the Ing on this problem..

Organ--It Was So and adversely alter

Doris Waters; manently vaguely could have been bought for 2. character, composition and

Barris). "The addition of a few drops of Beautiful (Freed and 1932, rices to-day were lower than

this germicide makes milk practi-Quentin M. MacLean; Orchestral

Rufus (Kennedy and cally free from bacteria and it is Whistling "The Slate must supervise this seven years ago when the Socialists tional values of fresh milk,” Mr. Rie-

absolutely harmless, has no smell or Mills)....International Novelty Or- training. There must be a family were in office. The small increase

laste, and does not alter the colour chestra. consultant who is able to turn for in the level of prices since the peak

of the mük. advice to a specialist, without any of of the depression had resulted in un the present vested interest in disease, astonishing industrial recovery.

"There have been grave mistakes. because there is too much to con- sider bealdes the patient."

MATRON'S £1,000 FOR "BREACH”

kards said.

nutri-

"There is a great conflict of opinion as to what percentage of tuberculer disease is due to bacteria in milk, but They could not have it both ways, the children of parents who are com- They had to choose between cheap-paratively well off drink more milk than the poor, and yet suffer far less nest at all costs, accompanied by

from tuberculosis. trade depression, unemployment and' falling wages, or a reasonable level "Fresh milk is so absolutely essen- of prices accompanied by record tial for building up a child's body that employment, rising wages and many people believe that, if 100 chil- social dren drank infected milk they would less disease than 100 suffer from children who drank ne milk at all.

"But, if pasteurisation is made compulsary, fresh milk will disappear from the English markel.

expansion of

the

stendy services.

A penny in the shilling-is-inal price to pay for the national prosper- Hy which our country as a whole is enjoying," he said.

GAVE UP HER POST TO MARRY

Brench of

darnages promise amounting to £1050 were awarded convalescent hate, where her salarF the and bonus equalled £199, plus feet at Bristol Sheriff's Court to former matron of a nursing home accommodation, toud and service She said that she had given, up her estimated to be worth £276.

She position worth £400 a year.

Miss

7.35 Stock Quotations and Kong- "It does not make dirty milk clean, kong Exchange Market.

7.40 London Relay-As I Béo It' so that its use would not encourage producers to supply a dirty article, -2:

A talk by The Viscountess Astor, but assist them to supply a foodstuff which would be superior to anything M.P

7.55 Dance Record. Fox-Trot Intermezzo-Quivering which has ever been produced in this or any other country."

Quavers; Slow Fox-Trot-Dance Of The Gadfly. ..Otto Dobrind! and Is Piano Symphonista,

9.00 Local Time Signal, Weather B.03 Musical Comedy. Forecast and Announcements.

GOOD NEWS FOR SMALL. MAN

If the claims for this discovery con be justided (writes the Agricultural Correspondent) it will be good news for the 05,000 producer-retailers of

'Over She Goes'-Selection....The mlik, for, under contemplated legisla-: tion it is ikely that they would have Saville Theatre Orchestra with Adele NO SMELL OR TASTE

Dixon; The House that Jack built to pasteurise all but a small propor|(Novello): The Thought Never En- "Fortunately, the country is now tion.

Melville and able to get, if it decides to do so, milk Most of these are men in a smoll tered My Head; Moon Enchanted

(Besley)....Winnle free from bacteria, without spoiling way of business, and a complete pas Derek Oldham; Chocolate Soldier teurising plant would cost boout

Selection (O. Strauss, arr. Benedict) "This is due to the discovery of a £150. Many of them would either'

Helen' The Shepherd's Song (Of- Newth, germicide by a leading medical scien-have to go out of business or become...Marck Weber and His Orchestra; fenbach, arr. Korngold); "The Du- barry It I Am Dreaming (MII- 400tist who, in conjunction with some of simple producers of milk.

locker, ärr. Mackeben) .....Heddle Nash (Tenor); From Erik Charell's White Horse Inn'....New Mayfair Orchestra.

her

had spent £150

added The plaintiff was Miss Kathleen trousseau, Newth, 34, of Upper Belgrave Road, Parker was receiving about Clifion, and the damages were given year, against William Budgett Parker, de scribed as the London representative She met Parker in 1935, and the of a tannery firm, living at Deacons field Road, S.E.

Miss Newth sald she gave up the position as matron of a Bristol frm's

marriage was fixed for April, 1036, but was postponed. She learned indirectly through friends this sum- longer considerel mer that he no himself engaged.

This pidure from Spain is said to show a search for dead children In the ruins of a schoolhouse in Barcelona, after an Insurgent plans had bombed the Catalan capital recently, Government oficial reported that all, Important Ministries would soon be moved from

Valencia to Barcelona, nearer to munitions works."

it by pasteurization,

ROBOT PILOT FOR NEW

THE

ATLANTIC PLANE

Air Ministry's Bid For Winter Flights

and

8.40 London Relay-London Log,' A talk by Cyril Gardiner. 8.50 Songs by Tino Ross Guitare D'Amour (Poterat Schmidseder); Lentement Dans Lo Nuit (Sauvat and Cuscina); Les Fleurs C'Est De L'Amour' (Montier and Tillymoon).

9.00 Local Sport Results.

9.07 A short concert by Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) and Simon Barer (Piano).

Vom Lande;

four-engined land aeroplane Albatross, built for the Air Ministry for Transatlantic experiments, is being equipped with a de-icer, an automatic pilot, and other de-No. 104 Del Petrarca (from Annces vices before being flown to Martlesham aerodrome, Suffolk,

for official tests.

The equipment is now being fitted at the de Havilland works, Hatheld. It was not necessary for the manu-

the country of a valuable pilot the Dying of the Albatross was resumed.

The Albatross is n'beautiful mono-

'Die Fledermaus' (Strauss): Mein Herr Marquis Splel Ich Dle Unschuld Nahe Des Gellebten Lachen Und (Goethe-Schubert);

.Eil- Weinen (Ruckert-Schubart) ...E sabell Schumann (Soprano); Sonetto de Pelerinage)-Liszt); Gnomen- relgen (Liszt): Etude In F Minor (Liszt)....Simon Borer (Piano).

9.30 London Relay The News 9.50 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Grill Room of the Hongkong Hotel.

30.15 London Relay The B.B.C.

facturers' tests, which have been plane, built on Comel lines, und alter Many a Dusty Mile (Edword

successfully undertaken.

Much of the test flying on this machine Was mode by Mr. R. J. Wälght, the company's chief test pllot, who was killed in a crash in another machine on Oct. 1.

It is characteristle of the aviation few "atmosphere" that within a hours of the steldent that, robbed

Campaign Buttons Too Late

Bucyrus, O. Mayor Georgo Dirk had 100 cam- paign buttons and no campaign. - A friend in the campaign button but ness sent him the buttons that anked |Bucyrus to "Re-elect Birk for mayor," Birk's button friend was two years too Into-Bick "did not choose to run" for a second- term.

intended by the Air Ministry for Elgar): The Cuckoo Sings in the long-range high-speed flight In re- Poplar Tree (G. A. Mactarren); The cognition of the fact that the flying Keys of my Heart (arr. Eric Thimun); The Wee Cooper of File (arr. P. F. bout, no matter how successful, does Mansfield): What is got by Sighing? not solve the problem of all-the- (F. L. Hatton); Let me the Cannkin

Clink (F. B. McEwen). year-round Atlantic flying, says the Daily Telegraph.

10.30 Relay of the Dance Orches tra from the Grill Itoom of the Hong- kong Hotel.

12.00 midnight. Close Down.

In winter the flying boat will be much hampered by lee on the water- ways of North America, both field' A render at Ichang writes to the Shipping Review, Shanghai, "The ice and broken, while even when Hongkong broadcast is the only rell- and Where this is not the obstacle able thing we gel. Nanking we give the temperature is often so low that. spray will freeze in great masses on wings and hull at the take-off.

It is not likely that an Atlantic fight will be attempted on the Albatross in th epresent year, but during the winter, at favourable opportunities, certain long-range fly- ing tests will be made.

The Albatross type is already on order for operation on other pro- jected routes.

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