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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Artists" "At Home" To the Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph. Sir Owing to indisposition have not been able, as I had intend

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as did also the Vice-Chancellor of the Hongkong University.

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Much gratification and surprise was expressed at the high standard renched by the exhibits, particularly as character in styles of both Western and Oriental Art.

they

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SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1938.

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Old Lady Tells Secret

Pasteurization

sources, it is only natural that some SHE DOES HIGHLAND

-Further- Sir, The matter of milk is more opinion, should be in favour of com-

pulsory pasteurisation. than one of publle interest but one' affecting the health of the Colony, more, by the adoption of this mon- sure, the authorities see in it an There should be no secrecy about this, opportunity of forcing the milk into The Urban Council through its health bottles, for pasteurisation would be officers are vigorously pursuing useless unless the milk is bottled of Her Vigour campaign against smallpox, people who innocently contract the afterwards.

The writer of the following lelier 3. Mention must be made on the

suffered from rheumatism, The Hon. Dr. Kotewall, and the sickness and through imorance do not

Then it hre brought up before a subject of "pooling" of the milk, once Hon. M. K. Lo, with other members report

No secrecy is tolerated Owing to the large number of small headaches, and depression. these cares,

Why

then should dairies spread all over the country, one day a vigorous old lady told her of the Legislative Council who had magistrate.

commercialised the secret of good health. And now ed, to send n short notice of the At specially interested themselves in the 10 be any secrecy about the and to the highly

Be- there Guild, were among the guests,

wonderful sense of Home of the Hongkong Works aides the Committee and members of Colony's milk supply? Milk is ene ninte of the milk: industry, dairymen she writes to tell others how she Antists' Guild held by the kind hos- pitality of Mr. John Locke, at his the Guild, the Hongkong Art Club, of the greatest vehicles of disease, in most countries have adopted the discovered a

the Travel Association, and the Impure milk supplies can cause epi-system of selling their milk whole-well-being and joy in life':--

"Kruschen was recommended to studio at 2 Connaught Road on the Education Department were repre- demies of typhoid fever; diphtheria; sale" to some company or other, whe

the Guild Studlo at 51sented.

paratyphoid; septie

throats; in

in turn retalls it to the consumer.me by an old Indy of seventy-two who can dance the Highland Fling Gloucester Road I being too small and

The proceedings were entirely in- dysentery; diarrhoea and other forms Now this system, although very con

grent source like a young girl thanks to Krus- not central enough.

speeches, of intestinal sickness-365 days of the The delay gives me oppor- formal, there being no tunity of correcting some misappre-Tea was served; and His Excellency years. Decouse we drink it or a food. ventent in itself, is a

The British Medleal Assoctation in at annoyance to the public healthchen, which she has used for thirty

with the greatest

chien Salts to try and cure a dull epidemle. It is hensions as to the scope and purpose examined the pictures with

lows: "In 1929 in one district 1,000

urce of infection that the source of difficulty were attention: and many of the artists a public announcement state as fol. authorities. In the presence 2 years. She told me to take Krus- of the reception. Invitations

on heavy headache from which I suffer- can be traced to any particular food ed every morning on wakening. I rheumatism strictly personal, by Invitation card were presented to him.

familles were affected by such an

of exceptional severity or drink.

When this has at last was also troubled with only; and it was for the purpose of

the Infection 1 15in both shoulders. Kruschen turned Introducing to His Excellency the

epidemic, other serlous outbreak elsewhere

the trick. The headache disappeared Governor the friends of the Guild

and 65 people died. In 1938 in an been done, ut i

traced down to milk, one can but who had kept it going by financial

The assistance and interest, at a time of

there were 718 cases of infection, and nugine the disappointment of the and so did the rheumatism. have 51 residents of district died.

health authorilles to find that they continued taking Kruschen because wonderful sense of crisis; and also artists who have been

Every primary case had drunk mikr

are unable to follow up the infection it gives me a connected with the Guild by using

from the same source of supply."

in its source owing to the fact that well-being and enjoyment of life."- Again, I nsk, why their studio, or holding exhibitions

all this secrecy

the mill has been "pooled." It is (Mrs.) F.B.W. In a matter which

the under its auspices, elc.

affects health

therefore, that they only natural, therefore of the public? all this moc- should fight

Why

for compulsory hard Although newspapers were not re-

The let-

such circum pasteurisation under quested to send reporters or photo-

Spreckley. Pro Mrs. ters of David

Publico, Vaca and the various artl-

Is not practised in Hongkong.

. In must democratic countries' in public indignation at the manner which Dr. Basto was treated in this the legislative machinery will have As perforce to be slow and cumbersome. most vital matter. The civil popu- Laws enforcing the "bottling" of lation are represented by undflelalmik, the prohibition of sale members on the Urban Council

milk, 100se"

the tuberculin testing

easily passed. It is

enly natural therefore that milk-reformers, know- they have to of the timeulty m content with, should ask for com- which would pulsory pasteurisation Rover **T

one Ho

#o" all the other re- so urgently needed.

in marked This state of affairs contrast to those obtaining in this Colony, If necessary, any piece of legislation could be easily passed, and it is therefore unnecessary to take refuge compulsory pasteurisa- tion, when there are so many other facilities for ensuring a healthy and en ilk-supply without it.

vitation were rent to

It was a pleasant and memorable landmark in the pro- occasion, and

ress of the Guild.

Artists who sent in work for the

Chan

Kruschen is a combination of six natural saits which stimulate your healthy, regular activity, They en- sure Internal cleanliness, and keep the blood-stream pure.

graphers, individual cards of in- At Home were: Mr. and Mrs. Pau korg? We are the people. Bone stances. Now, "pooling" of the milk liver, kidneys and digestive tract to

Mrs. Champkin, Shiu-you, the Editors of the lending European and Chinese Macfadyen. Mrs. A. Tatz, the three eles in your paper are evidence of

Misses Helung, Messrs, Luis newspapers, most of whom attended. Wong Ski-ling, Yee Bon, Lee Byng,

A selection of representative work, Lee Tong, Mak Shiu-ha, Ng Ku

T. Goon, selected by themselves, was collected

members and hung, S. N. Chau, Chian

and Chau Chak-kwan, Chlu Shiu-prong, in and Mr. Yee Sui-hong from Manlin: associates of the Guild as

of

from as many of the woodcuts by Emma Bormann (Mrs. the Legislative Council, und nil citi- mitch-cows cien, etc., connet he

the short space of time

If this list is incomplete, it is

It was in no sense an exhibition, but Milch) from Vienna; also a sketch of zens will agree that scerecy i is nece

excellent collection nt the really

Luis Chan by the Inte Mr. Hongary in matters of state, but it is a violation of the prerogative to en- some Afty or more works served to Chen,

force it on the representatives of the people when the representatives con show the wide scope of the Guild.

sider that the matter is one which should be made publie. Dr. Basto will be ivell advised to stick to his

Almost a hundred cards of Invita- and some eighty

tion were sent out,

guests attended the reception.

inadvertently.

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Sir-As opinions on the question of pasteurisation are in muny In- stances adopted from other countries, It is only natural that one should onlyse carefully the reasons under- lying those opinions, and compare them to those abtaining in Hongkong, The main reasons that call for pasteurisation of fresh milk in some entries are:

trinsically "milk-b milk is in these

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It should be noted however, in passing, that

is not in accordance! with the best democratic traditions to prevent an individual to drink what-

he

Legis- pleases. ever kind of milk lation along this line savours like "prohibition." Pasteurisation should be entirely optional and a person be left the choice of drinking the kind of milk that he likes best."

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The Annual Dinner of the Royal 1. The rent prevalence of the

Artillery Association, (Hongkong purely "milk-borne diseases among the population, the chief of which

Cecil on Friday, April 29, at B p.m. is bovine tuberculosis with its high

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Particulars may be obtained from disease is endemic in Europe and it

5. Lastly but not the least, comes should be clearly understood that it the difficulty of adequately control-R.S. M. J. W. Reid, by telephoning is pre-eminently a disease of the ling the extremely large number of Military Exchange H.Q. 150. cow which is transmitted to human dairies which are scattered all over

Under special circum- beings through its milk. It is in- the length and breadth of the coun-

stances as in the presence of au and, owing tries in Europe and America.

By contrast there exists a total epidemic. It could be enforced for a to the fact that fresh Countries very cheap, and extensively number of less than 30 dairies, in time, but as for as one is aware, n

caused - been drunk, the disease becomes more the whole of this Colony. With the epidemic

assumes exce

"primarily through milk, widespread and therefore

exception of the one at Fokfulum,

The last dysentery greater importance. It is necessary the rest are clumped together in two

Hongkong (Tal-1 not be blamed on to mimic can-]

but to the that one should not confuse this ype groups-one

and another In

In Kowloon osis which is of tuberculosis

fact that it had been in-}

illegally Diamond Hill). Advantage could feeted while it was "boxing" with the 19 known as Hang)

in Hongkong of these

be taken of this by instituting in each tampered with. The new cover for which is so common not exist in of these localities a communal milk-

ilk bottles should prevent "Bovine" tuberculosis

-the milk

It is maintained a population that does not drinking and bottling depot under govern- similar occurrence. fresh milk; and we know that ment supervision if necessary. The that our milk is one of the healthiest, the majority of our tuberculous cases milking and bottling could then be and it could be made doubly so by of supervised are too poor to afford it. Further-made under the most hygienic and adopting the system more per cent, of

modern conditions, and the public milising and bottling above are otir cows tuberculintested and if necessary all will then be ensured a healthy, clean, gested.

natural milk-supply without It, in spite of everything else, mulch-cows could be made to under- To the test. There

itung it t to the expense and dis milk is still considered by some as is therefore no submitting danger from this source so far as advantages of an artificial and often dangerous, then the best and surest our milk is concerned.

inemcient process.

way of making it "safe" is by boiling With regard to dysentery, typhoid,

It will be interesting to know that it. The only advantage that "pus u

"boiling cholera, etc., there are not strictly whereas in most countries the pro- teurisation" has over speaking

Fri but ace duetion of milk runs into millions of that it does not make it so dimcult

this only and milk gallons per day, in Hongkong the to digest. But then, contaminated by dirty water or other approximate ictal daily output is plies to infants under one year of infected material may carry

these 1,080 gallons for all the dairles put age, seeing that older children and Kerms. But this is no reason for together. As one large dairy is al- adults can digest bolled milk quite Santorisation.

milk as the sole victim for ready voluntarily pasteurising its well. As the number of infants fed seeing that any other milk. compulsory pasteurisation on fresh cows milk is extremely children article of food or drink stands the when enforced will only effective

small (in Hongkong poor une chance

hetter of being similarly in against the ridiculously insignificant are fed on human or tinned milk. fed on class children are fected. In view of the very rigid number of 189 gallons of

of bye-laws governing the datries and Pasteurisation is form of treatment powdered milk, in the majority milk-shops in this Colony, our milk for milk, and just as it is wrong to instances) pasteurisation, which was is in point of fact less exposed to treat individuals with drugs when invented for the special purpose of Infection than many other articles they

milk when it is not diseased, infants, cannot even be advocated on of diet which are not so carefully treat all, it is wrong to sterilising milk for the benefit of

this safe-guarded.

As it is the object of scientific and

ground Although the dairies may be easily Another reason which is cry-rational medicine to keep an indivi-

npasteurising Ing out loud for compulsory dual fit and in good health without compelled to buy pasteurisation in some other coun- recourse to drugs and other artificial plant, it is quite another and more dimcult matter to compel them to iries, is found in the very unhygiene measures, so also it should be our practice of selling the milk

policy to employ every means avail-use it. We shall then be faced with or "unbottled."

the problem of dairymen "relaxing" This practice as it able to present to the community sin well be imagined exposes the healthy, clean and pure milk-supply, in the ordinary hygienic measures, milk to all sorts of infection, and without subjecting it to an artificial coupled with the fear that pasteurisa- what with the "primary" inherent process. It is right therefore to con- tion has not been falilfully or cf- infection, added to the possibility of tend that pasteurization should not ficiently carried out.

R. A. de Castro Basto. a "secondary" Infection from other be made a permanently compulsory

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