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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,
1938.
PARENTS: Rheumatism-
What Do You
Think?
CAYS one parent to nnather, "I've
SAYS
taken the plunge-I've decided
lo send Inhn to one of these 'new' schools." Answers the second. "What, one of these crank places where boys kick the headmaster and needn't do
work unless they any
feel like 107"
Britain's Scourge
RHEUMATISM says
people and brings suffering than cancer and
more dead in ten years, another third will more dle in middle age after a life marred by Invalidism, and of the remainder
con- some will recover entirely but many "Something like that," admits the sumption together. Yet they are doomed to be delicate for the
are the deadly diseases, rheu- rest of their days.. matism crippling far more often than it kills.
frat.
"Well, you're a benve man, that's all can say," says the second.
Possibly parent number one is a brave nian. Probably parent num- ber two would like to be. For he has no reason to doubt the common sense of patrat number one, and, for all he knows,
ba there my something in all this "erank' school" business.
knows,
There is nothing dramatle about rheumatism-either in its diagnosis
CUTE rheumatism, like the other forms, in a disease of
or, alas, eure. It is still one of the temperate zones, preferring a- the Cinderellas of
ellas of discace, in spite cold, damp ellmate---În country, dis- of its enormous economle and social trict, or home with over-crowding
the and malnutrition.. importance-demonstrated for 1st time a dozen years ago by our
The poor the wealthy. The trus affected thirty times Ministry of Health.
As much as Lord Norder, the greatest living cause is not certain: it may be a germ authority on the subject, has called similar to that causing blood-poisoning
"Public
Danger No. of civilised and senriet fever, but that is more mankind."
than a simple infection. We under-rate rheumatism bre- The majority of attacks are pre- entise in the statisties it rarely ap ceded by tonsilitis, but the germ is pears as a cause of death. It is never found in the various organs
Broadcasting last affected. er in a mask. inth to the U.S.A. as chairman of declares the t
While the acute form is important the Empire Rheumalism Council, because it kills, chronle rheumatism Lard Horder said: "Rheumatic dis- is the most serious econonte problem case is the greatest of the killers, presented by chronic disease
10-day. though it conceals its murders un- The most disabling of ol} diseases der the mask of heart disease." in the temperate zones, it causes more financial loss than any other. It is likely
a more and more Im- to become a
He knows, as everyone that กษ "experimental "Gogry-man has been lot loose in the education world, a bugey-nan who tweaks the toes of tradition,
child to be more deserving of res- pect thum is mentge und is exces, sively
rude about the team-spirit and the O.T.C.
The nume of the bogey-nun la New *Education, And to-day he carries out his revolutionary princi ples in over 50 schools in this coun-
rather try. "Co-operation
than
competition," is his battle-cry, "dis elpline by consent rather than by coercion."
What do you think, parents of children, who, have yourselves been eduented traditionally, yourselves disciplined by stick and order mark? Would you send your child to a school which gave him free reln to develop his personality, which did not punish him, which transferred responsibility from adult to youngs-
ter?
Do you believe that the chautte world is the outcome of faulty edu- cation? This was the belief that informed a small group of people in 1915, which muide them. found the New Education Fellowship, an international body which then, as it aims to-day, to produce a future generation whose qualities will be tolerance, co-operation and gentleness.
nimed
To this Fellowship practically every modern school in England be- longs. This is the body of "cranks" into whose hands we may, it we choose, commit our youngsters.
"And what happens to oitr children when we do send them?" Here, briefly, is what would hap- a selected few of such
pen in schools.
Number 1. The largest and oldest co-educational school in England, founded 40 years ago on the prin ciple of "learning by doing." Children aged 6-18, divided into
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stries at
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TT is not therefore a mild portant factor in national health is the number of old people in the affection of the elderly population increases with the de-
every age. cruelly wrecking life at the start as the clining birth-rate.
Because a large proportion never arute sheumatic fever of children, seek medical advice. It is impossible crippling young adults as rheum to count the sufferers. told arthritis, and torturing the aged
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disease. AD
Among insured persons alone It as ordinary chrenie rheumatism-to responsible for a sixth of the total
sciatica, ness, and £2,000,000 nothing of lumbago,
a year Is and neuritis all types of the same paid out in sick benefit,
It comes third on the list of com- Investigation of 30,000 fertly-nt you; men in training in plaints for which medical advice is
sought. altations has shown how powerless
Although chronic rheumatism has we are to prevent its onslaught even existed unchanged certainly for un the healthy. Within a year of 8,000 years, we still do not know their being passed as first-class lives, either the cause or the cure.
Two-thirds of the sufferers have, 300 had been afflicted with rheuma-
:lore serious rheumatoid tism. Two dled and seventy were the permanently disabled.
Bribritis. This attacks those be-
By A Special Medical Correspondent
opposed to surgical-departments of producing severe deformities, Severe cases need institutional It is our
and the
Rheumatic heart disease is direct- tween the ages of 20 and 40, women Ly responsible for
at least 25,000 twice as often as men. In England and deaths each year
The hands and fingers are the Wales alone. According to the Ministry of Health, one out of three people die from organic disease of the heart, for the most part rheu- matic in origin. An eighth of the most commonly affected, but the attendants and complicated appar- must be studied and controlled at patients attending the medical-as disease moves patien
from joint to joint, tus.
its beginning.
Empire Rheumatism general hospitals suffer from rheu- Worry, emotional strain, exposure to treatment, but there is not nearly Council now that leads international matic heart disease.
into the causes County Council cold and dump, and septic infection, enough room for these in the hos- research In the London
especially of the teeth, are contribu- pitals, though the number of rheu- methods of treatment. schools there are ten thousand
mation ellies is steadily growing. To
To the Approved Soclettes the children
with juvenile rheumatism ry factors. in one form or other, and it accounts
What, then, is the position? Here the
Here caving of
single day's benefit there for a quarter of the tainl in- other hand, is rare under fifty, and a disease which, had it been in- would mean the saving of £83,000. would have This alone should make generous teresting or dramatic, It appears chiefly in the knee, hi been reduced long ago to the same support a good investment, but the The rheumatism Itself is nothing and spine. Injury to the joints, and state as the other scourges of man- Council is "hampered -too often it is passed off as "grow bad posture, both due often to a kind, smallpox, plague, malaria and funds.
by lack But every me it licks cupation, help to bring it on. ing pains."
a joint, it bites the heart and leaves
yellow fever.
But it is the ordinary doctor and Yet every year In the insured the ordinary patient that can do the permanent scars that cripple it for
population-alone it still affects near- most to win the war on rheumatism THOUGH there is no cure ly four million people in England -the one by enthusiasm and a plan chronic rheumatism, and Wales, costing £17,000,000 and of campaign, the other by Intelligent much can be done in alleviate the wasting 60,000, years. through loss of co-operation, and both-by-their stay- He knows that of a hundred suffering and prevent crippling. Un- tine.
ing power. This is impossible white disease with Any children suffering from rheumatic fortunately the treatment is expen-
such serious bolh treat it as an uninteresting fever to-day, at least thirty will be sive and prolonged, needing skilled economic and social consequences though uncomfortable nuisance.
validity.
the rest of its shortened life.
The doctor who first sees a patient may be presiding at the opening of a life-long tragedy.
three sections. First, Montessori; boy in any one ease special methods second, general course; third, are resorted to. There is no self-
specialised subjeels.
Girls and boys have separate dor- mitories, work together, have own
government, but boys sit on School
committees, Council, ninnage
eletles, groups.
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council to manage school affairs. Guiding principle-trained In- No fagging, but shared duties. Re- telligence, ie, while free expression Kular classroom hours, but physical is welcomed, no child, it is felt, can health the basis of education.
develop the best ideas without guldance.
Sex freely explained, classes
In
sex, marriage and parentage held
for older children.
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sectarian, presented
Religion
un-
to "bring out Number 4. A girls' school run on those principles on which there is the Adler theory of individual general agreement rather than the psychology and the will to power. things on which there is difference." "Joy in achievement" sounds key- note of system-the child is only fully
through joy, there-
ried into classroom.
Chronic osteo-arthritis,
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for
on
THE ARMY ON WHEELS
given way to the faint
aroma of oll. The horse lines surrendered long ago to solld ranks of lorries,, break-down waggons, ambulances and "experimental vehicles" in un- familiar guise.
Why they are still offelally called vehicles I don't know. In the ety- mological sense, whatever a lorry is
It is certainly not a vehicle.
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By A. J.
Df
Cummings
This place is run with the bust- ably due to the methods of disci-
pline which, ness efficiency of one of the great telligently applied instead of being
commercial distributive concerns.
though firm, are in-
The stures depot, every article at reduced to a de-humanising formu-
which is
is periodically "turned over" la..
for dowsin itself à gigantic task-e Officers and men are of an excel-
is turge-scale model of simplified lent type. They are encouraged to
fure pit of happy resures at TN furtherance of the War Minis- chassification. The aim is to avoid think and develop their own initin-
BI elaboration in checking which tive. Number 2. Large
They ter's policy of letting the public would break down at once in the mechanics, in particular.
work hard. The experimental school in West of England. Founded
have, 1 1025 as part of a general plan to
too long a day. Bul they Element of fear and competition know as much as possible about the rough necessities of service in the min reconstruct rural life and Industry, rumoved by absence of
work cheerfully and play cheerfully marks, modernilsed features of the British field. School claims (a), that traditional prizes, intental exams. Large free-Army, representatives of the Press.
in a pleasant environment. education Is crude, and that the Born of subject choice left to the were invited some time ago to visit
child.
Number 5.
system of marks, punishment, re- ward and compeition do not pro- duce results claimed, mud (b) that the traditional school opposes the social changes necessary civilisation.
Teachers are "on the children's
authority in conventional tree will express itself in love
to
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one of the largest Army Service de- The anclent army jibe about "In-
denting" pots in the country.
for ever on forms which I saw three classes under tuition never occurs seems to have lost its in lecture rooms superior to those In order that potential enemies savour. I was, told that 95 per cent. In many public schools. Now, nc- Most progressive co- educational school in the country, shall continue In what is officially of stores demanded are on the rall commodation is being provided for Fundamental bellef in completely supposed to be their present state or on the road within 48 hours of the better housing of the men. The free expression of child ego if left blissful ignorance, the locality will belleve that; but the documen- envious
the requisition. No ex-serviceman sergeants' new mess is said by the to be a dream of luxury, sense being absent. A child coming and creation: it suppressed It will must on no account be mentioned. tary evidence le said to be conclu- But I was not asked to see. it.
But it may be sald, without betray- sive. out in destruction, "hate "Respect in commonly de-ing Slate secrets, that hostile bom-
side."
to the school after being at another declared that it was the first time
will be punishment of admission to next class being retused.
And
way
to "produce boundspeople don't yet know that i
On the whole I do not think It I wish every civilian learner-del- likely that the British Army in the she had faced teacher without a
amanded by adults of children bebers would probably meet with a ver could be compelled to go to X field will ever be let down by the sense of guilt. Children iniss lesions cause they (adults) are afraid of hat reception If they came within to be trained before he is passed, remodelled Army Service Corps. If they feel like it and can show being found out.
striking distance of this little bit of out. The training of drivers is ex- good reason. If reasons given are
Two questions, however, accur to emplary in a thoroughness. For continuously unsatisfactory thera School has own parllament, England.
six weeks they are taught not only nie neither of which (let me say) governs itself, tries delinquents by Not having seen our army trans- how to delve, by first-clasa Instruc- was prompted by any officer at X own jury, Headmaster has seat in parliament, but cannot make laws port at close quarters since I was tore and by means of demonstration - Every child has own bed sitting by melt. Credil, made demobilised in 1918, I found it in models, as well as in the driving
The first is whether the present school but "alam rooth, freedom, voice in school at law, "We may swear within school teresting to Inspect the component their vehicles,"
how to maintain system of supplying the variona falps. Aim of school
but not in the town-units of this important tranch of
types of mechanical transport from mintature copy of the world as wathe
Last the service and to note the enor
yeur 1,600 drivers were private manufacturers to the Army wout love to have "
swearing doesn't matter.' "Cinsa at-
uniform, and tendance is purely voluntary, and I muus technical changes that have passed out, and the number of ac- Corps is suficiently
eldents--the sightcat mishap being whether the system itself is not con- found to be numerous. "We are not taken place.
put on record was one in 7,000 siderably less than foolproof. Interested in what it is.”
inites. Number 3. A school for boys,
The secund is: In what degree founded by the Society of Friends Most modern schools use varia-
and by what means could this high- in 1000. Stonde
For a mechanised army mechan- on the right tions or modifcations of Dalton and
ly specialised service bo expanded to "left" seliools, but holds to Quaker Project Plans. Dallon Plan assigns and transport must be as good as The commanding officer, who' has meet the urgent demands of the belief in the inherent goodness of children weekly or monthly work}the frat Ine wenpons themselves. Impressed his striking personality great new army which would have children and value of personality, to be completed on child's own res-
on the whole station, intends to in- to be created on the outbreak of Punishment mild, nover corporal, ponsibility. Project based
I did not see a horse pr a mute, troduce psychology tests which will war? upon reasoning technique, recognizes only or even a handcart, all day. In disclose temperamental weaknessCH cause of study to be child's demand place of the riding school, the driv la drivers and thus enable them to until the Baldwin dovernment aban- The last question was superfluous In bogeys. What do you think?
ing school. Instead of the veterin- be corrected.
doned the principle and practice of nry hospital, the repair shop. The
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to perceive the fine collective, security through tho of the stables. has spirit in the station. That is prob- League of Nations.
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Restraint mild,
of
The Individual, it is held, is more Important than the system--it, therefore, the system fails to pro- duce the happy, readily obedient
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