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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 25 1988.

ALARM AT PATERNITY BLOOD TESTS EMPIRE

Bill To

To Demand

Safeguards

"DAILY MAIL" TO MAKE

TESTS

(Jy Hamish Fraser)

SUCH anxiety is being expressed at the dan- gerous possibilities in unrestricted and unregulated employment of blood tests in re- lation to paternity cases that Lord Merthyr is going to introduce a Bill in the House of Lord this session in an attempt to regularise the position.

The Daily Mail also-in view of the intense public in-

NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AIR MAIL CRITICS

Sydney.

The agreement renched for 11 flying-boat mall service three times a week between England and Aus- tralia, beginning in August, is gen- erally welcomed. Satisfaction is also felt that a service between England and New Zealand is likely to start early next year,

Business men, however, protest against the Federal Government's adherence to the 5d. por half-ounce rate, compared with the British 144d. It 19 nointed out tha

out that the Australian Post Office in the

the past

few years has made record surpluses.

The dissatisfaction is lucrensed by the announcement that the exlating nir mail service from England has On been late 14 times since Jan. 1. 12 occasions this was due to delays [between England and Singapore.

Attention is also drawn to the fact that the Royal Dutch Air Line ser- vlce from Sydney, which begins on | July 7, offers a transit ime to Europe of eight days, compared with the nine days of the Empire service,

New Zealand

UFS

Did

you

General Victor Vuillemin, chief of the French Air Force

general staff, greeted by Sir Kingsley Wood, British Secretary for Air, on a visit to London. Visit was aimed to co-ordinate air services of the two nations for war.

HOT COAL: FATHER DISMISSED R.A.F.

terest in the matter--has decided to make an exhaustive ELECTION PROSPECTS GIVEN

investigation of these tests with the purpose of revealing to what extent they are reliable and where serious errors may arise.

Auckland.

At the Anal session of Parliament

the Government's national Insurance and pensions legislation will be passed.

earlier than

Plant les

20 sents. AL

GRATUITY

STANLEY PARRACK, 27-year-old leading aircraftman at Hendon, fined £25 on June 2 for cruelty, including making his seven-year-old son pick up live coals, is to be dismissed from the R.A.F.

Asked if any provision would be made for the wife and son, the Air Minister said there would be a service gratuity, and Par- rack would be placed under the Unemployment Insurance Acts.

During the police court proceed- rack, wald: "This is a case of shock- convicted, ing it-treatment, and one really de- ngs, when Parrack was

If you do the magistrates were told that if he serving of imprisonment. were sent to prison it would mean not pay the fine within one month three liis discharge from the RA.F. and

you will go to prison for that this would leave his wife and months." children without means.

The General Election will probably Since the tests are now demanded with increasing

inke place in November, and the bitter campaign in the Do- frequency in cases before the courts, high medical and most

minton's history is expected. Elec- Sir Kingsley Wood (Air Minister) made this an- legal authorities feel that written to The Daily Mail:

There are gruve perils in the un-oneering has begun unless drastic steps are

unregulated employ- "ver before, and everybody is think-nouncement in the House of Commons recently. restricted an

In the lands it terms of politics. Present indications A taken serious lapses of jus-ment of blood tests. tice may occur and bring of magistrates science has placed a discredit

on scientific dispowerful and dangerous instrument: Socialists, who now hold office, will

ad the enthuslosta alacrity with use between 15 and when they are using it calls impera- present they hold 53 out of the total coveries which, if properly tively for a prompt and searching of 86, in the House of Representa- used, can save 1,000 inno-quiry into its reliability, and the

Opponents of Mr. Savage and his Socialist colleagues complain from proper method of its application. cent men year

The chain made for the tests

high cost affiliation orders.

that a microscopic analysis of blood heavy taxation, the

mizi involved ving, the pretence that unemploy Lord Merthyr is actively in-can definitely place a terested in the matter by virtue in a paternity dispute among either ment does not exist, aut of the land of his position as vice-chairman he possibles or the impossibles. What and housing policies of the Cuvert

15 the worth of this claim? of Pembrokeshire Quarter Ses-infallibility of the test been proved? India

one will dispute that anything sions.

I understand that the main short of that would make the test provisions of his Bill are that worse than useless.

a

(1) If a blood test is de- manded by either party or by the court, further pro- ceedings will be deharred unless it is carried out.

(2) The test must be pathologist made by

chosen from a special panel approved by the Lord Chan- cellor.

The Bill will have the support of all medical M.P.S.

of

No.

Hus the

"But benches of magistrates are acting as though the answer to the question were an unbesi- Which (With taling allrnative.

the greatest respect to the un- alysts who make the tests) in very far from the truth.

fives.

21-12.

of

BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS

Calcutta,

of

اري

The 80 branches throughout India Travancore National and the Caulon Bank have suspended bus!- ness. For a month there has been "Have we not often seen how a run on the bank by depositors, and

share scientifle witnesses in murder trials Its

quotations have give varying evidence as to the deslumping. ductions properly to be drawn from In a statement saued by the bank an examination of blood spots? it is

is alleged that the present position "Paternity blood-test experts may of the bank is due to hostility in

different from their brethren

An appeal is to be political circles. Perhaps they are right, perhaps they made to the Government of India to

be

cemon- home i

ANGRY CROWDS MOTHER IN LAW'S PLEA Mrs. Lily Glubs, Purrock's

After the case, people mother-in-law, told a reporter: "strated outside Patrick's have not seen him since the pulice Picton

Street, Brighton. Angry court proceedings and do not know crowds shouted "Lynch him." where he is. All I want is to have had to be dispersed by the police in the custody of the boy given to me.the early hours of the morning. He wa

year with ine until August of last

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and

Accommodation

provided elsewhere for Parrack and his fami- Crowds hissed him as he drove

At the house In Rowan Avenue,ly. Hove, where Mrs. Parrack has resuway. cently been staying with relatives. It was thought that Parrack had it was stated last night: "Mrs. Par-gone to stay with his brother who rack is in London with her husband. was un officer in the East Sussex We do not know the address."

polico.

n

Parrack had claimed that, when been

he mude his son plek up the coals with his bare hands, he did not know the coul was so hot, nor that the boy was really burned,

are wrong, Vail all reasonable inquire into these allegations. It is doubt hus been removed, their co- added that the bank will remain clusions ought not, in my opinion, closed till July 1 to be accepted.

The bank, which advertisen

an

£375,000.

Already special arrangements are being made by the Association Clinical Pathologists to set up a cen-

which all serum tral bureau from used in these tests will be despatched There are vital matters at stake. Issued

Issued capital of about afler special check on its accuracy. Not least of them is the liberty of and reserve funds of £325,000, has en reveal that there is, in fact, the subject, In 1930 850 men were among its clients many small in- a certain element of doubt about the committed to prison for default un-vestors of Travancore, which is u absolute validity of one type of test der affiliation orders many of them State in the Madras presidency. much used to-day in medico-legal | refusing to

to pay as a protest against Cawnpore Strike Moves. It is pre- work.

what they considered a miscarriage dicted that there will be an early

make s This has decided the sponsors of of justice. The magistrates

resumption of negotiations to end the Lord Merthyr's Bill to init its ap-over 4,000 such orders every year. general srike in

In Cawnpore, which "Before they make an order, the has lasted 37 days. A deputation of plication for the time being to tests for four blood-groups only. WHAT THE TESTS ARE

Parenthood testing is possible be- cause everyone's blood can be classi- fed into groups by means of renc- tions between the cells of the blood and certain sera.

The result of the test is to prove one of these alternatives:

(1) That he could not be the father.

(2) That he might be

[No test, of course, can prove

that he is the father.

This is how the test is done:

A single drop of blood is taken by needle-prick from the subject and mixed

B

a

with saline. To sepurato por- tions

ons of this mixture are added

of each

of. drop of

the testing sern. observing w which scrum causes the blood cells to clump together the group is determined.

In the simplest form the test re-

a requires that the complainant's employers will call upon the Prime story be corroborated in some ma Minister of the United Provinces to terial

particular.

discuss the recommendations of the Labour Inquiry Committee set up by the local government. These

"In one case

brought to my noilec a bench of magistrates accepted evidence of 'might be

in-

The magistrate, sentencing Par-

Dennis Parrack, the son, is now in

public Institution at Brighton.

A friend at Hove said she under- stood there was a possibility of Mrs. Parrack leaving Brighton for Lon- don, where her husband had gone.

Case In Private, "To Ensure Fair Jury Trial"

PRESS representatives and public were asked to leave

the court at Nottingham recently when Charles

cluded wages increases in the textile Ruscoe (30), described as a traveller, of The Cottage,

as, In itself, sufficient corrobora- industry.

Lion, and made an order.

"In any case, where is the Bench South Africa

which would not be prejudiced by

the disclosure that a blood test in- FOOT-AND-MOUTH IN

dicated that the defendant could be

the father, being of the right group?

"I have been told of another In which blood test

caso

NATAL

Capetown.

Beck Road, Scunthorpe, Lincs, was charged with the manslaughter of Mrs. Kathleen Joyce Crossley (27), of Farnsfield Avenue, Burton Joyce, near Nottingham.

He was further charged with driving to the danger An outbreak of foot-and-mouth of the public, and, after a sitting lasting until late disease has occurred in Northern ing, was committed for trial at Notts Assizes.

Natal, and is now admitted by the Veterinary Department to be cx- tremely serious, though no death has

yct occurred.

even-

showed that the defendant could not be the father-yet the girl had received a letter from him admitting

Mr. P. C. Williams, chairman of the Bench, said: "In the paternityi "Before fingerprints were adopted

event of the man being committed for trial it is important, if he The affected herd into the police system, they were numbers 800 and is located in the

is to have a fair trial, that he should be tried by a jury having searchingly Investigated by a com)-

nar district, mittee set up by the Home Secretary

no prior knowledge of the case. The magistrates, therefore have Helpmakoar in 1000.

Inoculation is frequently adopted decided to hear the evidence in camera." "No less important is it that this as a precautionary mensure in cul-

breaks of foot-and-mouth disease. A coroner's jury returned a ver- dict of manslaughter against Huscoe, inoculated in Southern Rhodesia. who was the driver of a car which

Sunday Broadcasts.--Sunday lunch

alleged to have struck Mrs. hour broadcasts from all South Crossley on a path at night. African wireless stations will star! When charged with manslaughter next month.

Ruscoe said: "I plead not guilty."

BENCH'S POWERS

quires two sera-A and B, If, after new process be probed in the same In 1932, 185,380 head of cattle were half an hour, microscople examina-way." tion shows that the cells have been

clumped by serum A only, then the

blood tested belongs to group B und DOCTORS

vice-versa. If neither affects the

cells, the group is O, while it both

do the group is AB.

These properties of blood are here-

ditary. It is impossible for a child

WANTED Kenya

Capetown,

to belong to a blood group different HE

THERE are too few doctors in the

as both

Union of South Africa, accord-

from that of his parents, contribute to determining the group, ing to

By means of A and

tests-cou-Journal.

the South Africa Medical

KILLED

ELEPHANTS

BY ORDER

Nairobi.

was

Revenue girls win

UN

more pay 【NESTABLISHED women teil-

ers in the stamping depart maent of the Inland Revenue are to receive, an increase in the maximum scale from 42s, to 455 a week, announced the Industrial Court recently.

The Civil Service Clerical A- sociation claimed the Increase as compensation for the fallure to exisblish the women with pendon rights.

This decision to hear o caso in private follows a speech by Mr. F. J. O. Coddington, Bradford Stipon- diary

Magistrate, to the Magistrates' Association at Leeds, in which he pointed out that Benches can tako cases in depositions in indictable pled with two more recently dis- The latest register states that there) In various parts of Kenya last

camera covered called M and N-t is possi-is

is one registered doctor to 2,443 year 281 clephants were killed by

He added that he had never heard Bie to distinguish 12 groups.

people. The total number of such official order of the Game Warden's of this being done. The chances of a man clearing doctors at the beginning of this year Office. The order was necessitated

"said Mr. Cod- the contrary, blood test vary, accord- was 2,896. himself by

by the depredations of the beasts in dington, "you get .columns and ing to his group, from 65 per cent.

The number of medical students native plantations,

columns of evidence of most causes to 8 per cent.

and medical and surgical nurses hins Ono particularly large pair of celebres reported in the Press before THE DANGERS

decreased considerably since last tusks was sold to the New York the person charged over, comes for year.

Museum of Natural History,

trial at all

Wood Chopper, 101, "I think it we all stood togather and declined to allow this sort of

Busy One is that not all samples of

obvious reasons mina is not going to

San Jose, Cal, test sera are reliable; the other

be the only court in England, closed

Jesus Maria Andasoin is willing to that only a few pathologists are

Far-famed California climato of

1

An anti-chiselling ordinance which jon such occasions." sufficiently practised in the re- winter sunshine received a hard blow provides a fine of $100 or 30 days":

Mr. J. Wellesley Orr, Manchester bet that the former Kaiser will never expressed pass his woodchopping record. Quements of the test for their here when Robert Quest, 11, who jail sentence for falsifying applica-Stipendiary Magistrate, report to be 100 per cent, reli- had left Woodland for a tour of the tions for reller, changing reiler orders, the view at the time that such an Andasota, Mexico resident here, able.

world, gave up the trip here. He and not reporting change in financial attitude by magistrates would be celebrated his 101st birthday by Lawyers are well aware of this. A told the police, it was too cold to status, has been adopted by the city, welcomed and upheld by the High cutting and carrying in his regular,

{ day's supply of wood for fuel.: of Quarter Sessions has continue.

Courti counelt

Although all authorities agree that the A-B tests are as infallible as anger prints, there are grave dif ficulties.

chairman

California Gets Shock Toledo Fights Chisellers thing, it might be beneficial, but for

San Francisco.

Toledo.

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