1937-11-13 — Page 27

'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 released 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.

Alled

He was talking to doctors. "Hospitals," he said, "are with the results of preventable disease. Many people dangerously fl have to be turned away.

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

Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter said he could not be too emphatic about the need to revise the whole system.

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

'DON'T BLAME HIM'

Sir Bruce spoke of the general. practitioner.

often

"The family doctor mado to perform operations for which he is not in the remotest treat way equipped. Ho as to

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 -from 40.3 to 56.0 years for males and from 43.8 to 59.5 years for females.

diseases he knows nothing about SMALL COST OF

"Don't blame him: blame system,

this

"For every examination he has to

PROSPERITY

undertake a giant tusk of cramming HEALTH MINISTER ON Examinations are piled on him. He just crams down everything neces-

sary.

"I don't consider that he's muperly qualified for a great deal te is called

on to do.

"He has to operate on any per son they can find to operato su lic has to make great decisions on things c can only vaguely remember.

FOOD PRICES ·

10 food

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER -13, 1937.

Upper panel shows Sie Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, inspecting some of his followers before they paraded in Bermondsey, Hardly had the parade started before they were London, recently. attacked by hundreds of anti-Fascials, in some of the worst nirect fighting in years. Police jumped in and, lower panel, here's what happened.

NEW DISCOVERY

WILL MAKE

MILK GERM-FREE

-M.P.'s Claim

Mr. G. W. Rickards, M.P. for Skipton, recently an- Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of nounced the discovery of a germicide which, he claimed, Health, made a reference

would free milk from bacteria without pasteurisation. prices when speaking at Newquay. Cornwall, recently.

The germicide will be offered to the nation. "Fresh discoveries prove that pas- teurisation adds factors which per- manently and adversely alter the character, composition tional values of fresh mille," Mr. Ric-

Ite wald that although 2s, 2d. was required to-day to purchase what could have been bought for 25. in 1932, prices to-day were lower thun "The State must supervise this seven years ago when the Socialists

kards said. There must be a family were in office. The small increase consultant who is able to turn for In the level of prices since the peak advice to a specialist, without any off of the depression lind resulted in an the present vested interest la disease. astonishing industrial recovery.

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

training.

MATRON'S £1,000 FOR "BREACH"

GAVE UP HER POST

TO MARRY

and nutri-

"There is a great conflict of opinion as to what percentage of tubercular discase is due to bacteria in mlk, but the children of parents who are com-

They could not have it both ways. They had to choose between cheap-paratively well off drink more milk at all costs, accompanied by than the poor, and yet suffer for less trade depression, unemployment and from tuberculosis. falling wages, or a reasonable level of prices accompanied by record and n social

employment, rising wages

steady expansion services.

the of

"A penny in the shilling is a small

price to pay for the national prosper- ity which ur country as a whole is | enjoying.” -he sald.

Brüneli uf ̈ ̈promise damages amounting to £1,050 were awarded convalescent home, where her salary at Bristol Sheriff's Court to the and bonus equalled £199, plus free former matron of n nursing home.accommodation, food and service She said that she had given up her estimated to be worth £270. position worth £469 a year.

She had spost £150 en her

added The plaintiff was Miss Kathleen trousseau,

Miss Newth. Newth, 34, of Upper Belgrave Road. | Parker was receiving about £400 a Clifton, and the damages were given year.. against Williamn Budgett Parker, de-, scribed as the London representative

She met Parker in 1935, and the

of a tannery firm, living at Beacous-marriage was fixed for April, 1936, feld Road, S.E.

but was postponed. She learned Indirectly through friends this sum- Miss Newth said she gave up the mer that he no longer considered position as matron of a Bristol Arm's! himself engaged.

This picture from Spain is naid to show a seatch for dend children In the ruins of a sokonikouse in Barcelona, after ak Insurgeni plano had bombed, the Catalan caplial recently. Government officials reported that all importasit Ministries would soon be moved from Valonela is Barcelona, nearer to munitions works,

"Fresh milk is so absolutely eisen-

tinl for building up a child's body that many people believe that, it 100 chil- dren drank infected milic they would suffer from less disease than 100 children who drank no milk at all.

"But, if pasteurisation is made compulsory, fresh milk will disappear from the English market.

- NO-SMELL OR TASTE ------ "Fortunately, the country is now able to get, if it decides to do so, milk free from bacteria, without spulling it by pasteurisation.

the ablest and greatest experts in the country, has spent many years work- ing on this problem.

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Orchestra

LONDON RELAYS

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 353 metres (045 k.e's.) 31.49 metres (0.52 m.c's.).

H.K.T.

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 Primo Scala's Accordeon Band and Jesslo Matthews (Soprano). Six Hits Of The Day (Scries 0); Delyse (Gilbert-Nicholls); Boo-Hoo

..Accor (licyman-Lombardo-Loeb}

deon Band; The Little Silkworm; Say The Word And It's Yours; I Can Wiggle My Ears (ull from First a Girl')...Jesale Matthews; Hi-Bully Medley; Six Hita Of The Day (Series 4)....Accordeon Band. 1.00 Time and Weather. 1.03 Light Orchestral,

(Valao Espagnole)

Serenade

(Meira); De Plepus Au

Paials

Tongaland.....

D'Angkor (Marceau)...Orchestre Ruby Goldstein; Geraldo and I's Sweet Music; Master Melodies....London Palladium Or- Playing chestra; The Clock Is (Blaaw); Dicky Bird Hop (Gourley) ....Now Layfair Novelty Orchestra. 1.30 Reuter and Itugby Press; Weather and Announcements.

1.40 Leslie Hutchinson and Piano).

Broken-Hearted

Pelosi);

Clown

In

All Alono (Towers-Morrow-lida);

My Love (Alm 'Stowaway').

(Vocal

(Nocl- Vienna Goodnigh1

1.30 Concert Waltzes. Gypay-Waltz (Composer Un- known); Volga-Waltz. (Composer Unknown); Wallz Nanette (arr. Schwartz)....Russion Novelty Or-

chestra,

2.00 Mary Band Selections, "Tannhauser' March (Womer); Marche Aux Flombeaux (Meyer- beer); Colonial Medley: (a) Canada; (b) Australia; (d) New Zealand; (e) South Africa....The Band of H. M. Coldstream Guarde,

2.15 Close Down

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme, 7.00 Varloty.

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

Gertrude Lawrence (Soprano); Plano Streamline Piano Selection

(Ellis); Streamiine The First Waltz (Ellis)....Vivian Ellis; Vocal-The Way You Look To-night; A Fine Romance (alm 'Swing Time')..... Dixie Lee Crosby and Bing Crosby; Comediennes-Gert And Daley Make A Christmas Pudding....Elsie and Doris Waters; Organ It Was So “The addition of a few drops of Beautiful (Freed and Barris).... Unis permicide makes milk practi- Quentin M. MacLean; Orchestral- cally free from bacteria and It Is, Whistling Rufus (Kennedy and absolutely harmless, has no smell or Mills)....International Novelty Or- taste, and does not alter the colour chestra. of the milk. "It does not make dirty milk clean, so that its use would not encourage producers to supply dirty article, but assist them to supply a foodstuff A talk by The Viscountess Astor, which would be superior to anything M.P. which has ever been produced in this or any other country."

7.35 Stock Quotations and Hong- kong Exchange Market

I See It' 7.49 London Relay As I ----Z:

7.55 Dance Record.

Fux-Frot Intermezzo-Quivering Quavers; Slow Fox-Trol-Dance Of The Gadfly....Otto Debrindt and His Plano Symphonista,

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Forecast and Announcements.

8.03 Musical Comedy.

GOOD NEWS FOR SMALL MAN

If the claims for this discovery can be justified (writes the Agricultural Correspondent) it will be good news for the 65,000 producer-retailers of milk, for, under contemplated legisla-

'Over She Goes'-Selection....The Ove tion it is likely that they would have Saville Theatre Orchestra with Adele to pasteurise all but a small proper-Novella): The Thought Never En- Dixon, The House that Jack butte tion.

Most of these are men in a small tered My Head; Moon Enchanted way of business, and a complete pas Derek Oldham; Chocolate Soldier (Besley)..... Winnie Melville and teurising plant would cost baout "This is due to the discovery of a £150. Many of them would elther Selection (O. Strauss, arr. Benedict) germicide by a leading medical scien- have to go out of business or become Helen The Shepherd's Song (Of- ....Marek Weber and His Orchestra; tist who, in conjunction with some of simple producers of milk.

fenbach, arr. Korngold): The Du-

Dreaming barry'-If I Am

(Mil- .Heddle locker, arr. Mackchen) Nash (Tenor); From Erik Charell's White Horse Inn'....New Mayfair Orchestra.

ROBOT PILOT FOR NEW

ATLANTIC PLANE

Air Ministry's Bid For Winter Flights

THE 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- vices before being flown to Martlesham aerodrome, Suffolk,

for official tests.

and

8.40 London Relay-London Log. A talk by Cyril Gardiner. 8.50 Bougs by Tino Rossi. Gullore D'Amour (Poterat Schmidseder); Lentement Dans La Nult (Sauvat and Cuscina); Les Fleurs C'Est De L'Amour (Montier and Tillymoon).

9.00 Local Sport Resulis.

9.07 A short concert by Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) And Simon Barer (Plano).

Die Fledermaus (Strauss): Mein Herr Marquis Spiel Ich Die Unschuld Vom Lande: Nahe De Geliebten (Goethe-Schubert); Lachen Und Wehen (Ruckert-Schubert)....Eli- No. 104 Del Petrarca (from "Annees sabeth Schumann (Soprano); Sonetlo relgen (Liszt): Etude in F Minor Pelerinage)-Liszt); Gnomen-

de

(Liszt)....Simon Barer (Plano).

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

10.15 Landon Relar—The B.B.C. Singers

The equipment is now being fitted the country of a valuable pilot the nt the de Havilland works, Hatfield. | flying of the Albatross was resumed. It was not necessary for the manu- The Albatross is a beautiful mono- fucturer tests, which have been

plane, bulit on Comet lines, and auccessfully undertaken.

intended by the Air Ministry for Elgar: The Cuckoo Sings in the After Many a Dusty Mile (Edward long-range high-speed fight in re- Poplar Tree (G, A. Mactarren); The cognition of the fact that the flying The Wee Cooper of Fite (arr. P. F Koya of my Heart (arr, Erle Thiman); boat, no matter how successful, doea Mansfield); What is got by Sighing? not solve the problem of all-the- (F. L. Hatton); Let me the Canakin year-round Atlantic ying, saya the

Clinic (F. B. McEwen). · Daly Telegraph.

Much of the test flying on this machine wne made by Mr. R. J. Waight, the company's chief test pilot, who was killed in a crash in another machine on Oct. 1,

It is characteristic of the aviation **atmosphere" that within a few hours of the accident that robbed

Campaign Buttons

Too Late

Висутия, О.

In winter the fiying bout will be much hampered by Ice on the water- ways of North America, both field

10.30 Kelay of the Dance Orches; tra from the Grill Room of the Hong- Kong Hotel,

12.00 midnight. Close Down...

A reader at Ichang writes to the lee and broken, while even when Hongkong broadcast is the only reli

Shipping Review, Shanghai, "The

and where this is not the obstacle able thing we get. Nanking we give

the temperature fa often so low that spray will freeze in great masses on

| Wings and hull at the take-off,

Mayar George Birk had 100 cam- palga buttons and no campaign. A It is not likely that an Atlantic friend in the campaign button bust- Albatross in th epresent your, but Alght will be attempted on the ness sent him the buttons that asked during the winter,

nt favourable Bucyrus to "Re-elect Birk for mayor,"portunities, certain long-range fly-

ing tests will be made. Dirk's button friend was two years too late-Birk "did not choose to run" for a second term.

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

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