1938-09-30 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1938.

Progress Of Housing And Slum

Clearance In England

BUT PRIVATE ENTERPRISE BUILT 16,435 FEWER

HOUSES IN YEAR

Some sking figures Illustrating 100B was received In

Government of hospital has risen from 730,100 in £ 45,342,054 the progress in the work of slum grants (of which

was 3030 to

out- 781,101 in 1037, and clearance and rehousing are contain block grant, and £43,399,100 for patient attendances have risen from ed in the annual report of the Minis- education); and £183,451,443 was 1,683,522 to 1.021,789 during the same

expenditure try of Health for the year 1837-38, derived from other sources of in-period. Capital which has just been published. come, including £123,334,974 from County Boroughs and County Coun- The year under review was the trading undertakings (gas, electricity, cils on hospital improvement amount-

ast is the original five-year plan of water, housing estates, transport, ed to £1,097,930 during the year.

last

slum clearance the report states. By &c.). Local authorities received of March

slum 293,845,122 on capital account, 31, 1938, orders for

£82,207,234 was clearance, including 218,167 houses, which

raised by

had been submitted by ties. Agure

10,807

local authori-loans,

MINISTRY EXPENDITURE

by

The Ministry was responsible to Parliament in 1937-38 for a total ex- penditure of £147,300,000. O £39,-

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In excess of the During the year under review loans total clearance area programme ori-sanctioned for sewerage and sewage 800,000 spent durng the year on the ginally formulated in 1033.

disposal (£6,003,831) showed an in-services administered by the Minis- During the five-year period, 202,- crease of 20 per cent. over the pre-try, £2,274,130 went on central ad- 807 new houses had been approved vious year, those for water supply ministration. The remainder con- for re-housing purposes under slum (£3,772,662), an increase of 18 persisted of grants

local authorltics clearance, a figure equal to nearly 94 cent, and those for public open spaces (including "block grants" amounting to be de-| (£3,772,062), an Increase of 18 per | £14,000,000, ind housing grants of

to per cent. of the houses molished unt

under the original alum cent.

and to National Health clearance programme.

Continued progress was made in Insurance Funds, Since 1933, 800,000 people have the provision of water supplies in The amounts received into No- been moved from elum houses into rural areas, for which loans amount- tional Health Insurance Funds dur- new houses. Since the war, over ing to £1,484,000 were sanctioned. Ing the year ended December 31, 3,500,000 new houses have been pro-Loans sanctioned for public baths 1937, total £38,400,000, and the sums vided in England and Wales, of and swimming pools, including open-paid out for benefits and administro- which over 1,000,000 have been built air baths, amounted to £1,003,754, astion amount to £35,000,000. The by local authorities and over 2,000,- compared with £709,975 in the pre-amounts received into the pensions 000 by private enterprise.

vious year.

accounts

the year 1937-38- from contons total £29,100,000, and the amount expended during the The expenditure of Local Authori-year in payment of pensions allow- ties during the last year for which ances and administration was £41,- figures are available was £470,864,000,000, a deficiency of income being

made good out

him out of the Treasury's pen- account (including

necount.

HOUSING FINANCE £18,000,000 From Public Funds

MORE BORROWING

559 on revenue

£100,103,587 for loan charges, and he report contains a separate sec- } Local authorities built 77,944 £350,534,106 on rate fund services, of houses during the year, as compared with 71.734 during the previous year which the heaviest single item was on giving details of the work of the which sccounted for 28 Welsh Board of Health and concludes of these, 56,726 replaced stum houses, count); and £90,000,138 on sapi- with 54 appendices and a full sub-

per cent.);

ject index. The number of houses built by tal account. private enterprise, without State as- The gross outstanding loan debt of sistance, during the year was 237,081, all Local Authorities on March 31. as compared with 273,516 during the 1936, was about £1,451,300,000, a previous year.

third of which was for housing.

The Minister sanctioned the bor-

Nearly 225,000 of these houses had a rateable value not exceeding £20 rowing by Local Authorities of £97,-

502,561 for capital purpose during

(£35 in Greater London) and a lorge 1939, as compared with £84,100,857 proportion were built to lei.

The average building cost of a non-in the previous year. It is calculated. parlour subsidy house during the that the total block grunt payable in as compared with respect of the year 1937-3it is £47,- year was £355,

£324 in the previous year.

273,925.

Government subsidies for housing HEALTH INSURANCE

More Deposit Contributors

amounted to £14,715,000 during the

increase of £500,000 year, un

คล compared with the previous year. The annual contribution to housing

the rates amounts to from

about £3,500,000 year. The total annual contribution from public funds at the end of last year was therefore about £18,000,000,

During the past year the number of insured persons in England has risen from 16,998,000 to 18,077,000, an and the increase of 3.6 per cent. amount collected in contributions has increased by 3.4 per cent. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING The improved conditions of trade which these Agures reflect are fur- The acreage of land under plan- ning control has increased by about ther illustrated by on increase of 1,750,000 acres, the total on March 14,000 in the number of "deposit 31, 1930, being 24,103,000 acres as contributors to the fund (non- with the compared with 22,357,000 acres the members rise and fall year before. This represents nearly

rly fluctuations in general prosperity), two-thirds of the total acreage of benefit during the year was £8,072,

The total expenditure on medical England and Wales. Ninety-six planning schemes were submitted to

to: 500, of which £7,200,000 went 10 the Minister and thirty-one were ay- doctors, and £2,195,700 to chemists proved as compared with seventy- for drugs and appliances. six schemes submitted and sixleen approved in the previous year.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES

£164,914,084 Collected In

Rates

Some 13,416,000 members of up- proved societies are entitled to addi- tional benefits. either of cash or treatment, £2,178,108 having been allocated this year to dental benefit and £548,875 to ophthalmic benent.

The number of beneficiaries (in England) under the Contributory Pensions Scheme increased during

the

VOLUNTEERS GET

128. A DAY

Increased rates of Day An- nounced by the Government make New Zealand Territorials the high- est-paid military force in the world. These new rates bring

G.

Tragedy parted Daniel Dodge and his bride of a few weeks, the former Laurine Mac- Donald, on their honeymoon at Little Current, Ont. The 21- year-old heir to $9,000,000 Michigon motor fortune suffered terrible injuries when a stick of dynumite he was examining ex- ploded. When his bride, above, also injured, attempted to take across Georgian Bay he leaped from a boat.

NEW WONDER WHEAT

By an Agriculturai Correspondent

Ten years of research and ex- private's pay to 12s, a day while periments in six counties have attending camps and courses, plus resulted in the production of a 28. 6d, a day rations and quarters new wheat that promises to have allowance.

Casti remuneration played very smalt part in the routine of

(very useful qualitles. So far it

has been given no name.

the Dominion's first militla, nearly Tested in 17 trials against that a century ago. Pay in those days famous wheat Squarcheads Master, it was 11. d. for officers and cap has never yielded less and lains; 68. 6d. for lieutenants: 38.

on [LF]

3d for sergeants; 38. for corporals; average has yielded 10 per cent.

28. Gd. for privates, all with rations. | more.

Pay has been increased as a - The straw is about six Inches special inducement to men to carry shorter than

that of most English

out the prescribed training camps wheats and is very strong, so that and

and at the same time! courses, to compensate them in some mea-heavy crops of it will stand up well sure for any loss of wages incurred in high winds or heavy rains,

by going to camp. This was com-highly resistant to rust. puted on the basis of an all-round

5. a day increase to all ranks.

INSULIN

GOOD FOR BREAD-MAKING

is

So far its grain has been valued at ittle less than that of Squareheads Master, but it has proved to be af least as good for bread-making and is especially well adapted to heavy land.

SUBSTITUTE will probably soon be put right. The

It has one defect at present which

colour of its grain is not fixed. As soon as consistently while grain is Britain's 250,000 diabetes sufferers produced the wheat will be tested In regard to the finance of local year from 2,468,480 to 2,578,833, and may be able to dispense with diets pain for yield and released for com- government the report states that 253,280 new pensions were awarded and save themselves hundreds of mercial production. during the latest your for which com- (10,155 more than in the previous plete figures are available £164,014,-year), 084 was collected in rates; £132,947,-

Glostora

Boing well-groomed is es sential to success. Others judgo you by your appear

anco.

There is no excuse for un idy hair! The daily use of just a few drops of Glostor assures you of being always well-groomed.

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

The immediate effect of the trans- fer to the Unemployment Assistance Board of a large proportion of the able-bodied unemployed, which took final effect on April 1937, was to bring the number of recipients of outdoor relief below 1,000,000 for the

to Arst time since 1932, and reduce the number of those in receipt of re- liet on account of unemployment to less than 60,000. Nearly 144,000 were actually transferred on the appointed day.

persons

thousands of pounds yearly if the

claims of a German doctor are found! The resourch work has been carried to be effective.

out at the Cambridge Breeding The doctor is Dr. R. Schnetz, an Institute. assistent of the Medical University Clinic of Graz, Austria,

Ile claims that the expensive Insulin treatment сам be, in many cases, replaced by small Injections of copper at only a fraction of the cost of insulin in- jections.

After years of exporiments he con- tends that diabetics, even though

DENMARK GROWS BANANAS

Denmark has just harvested her Bret banana

and cold it for crop record prices..

The trces were imported from Jamaica and have grown well to a height of 24 feet, while the quality of the fruit has proved excellent.

The success of this experiment, consuming large quantities of sugar carried out in Jutland, has been sur The total number of persons re- and starches in menta, will suffer no prising, but bananas are being grown Reved during the year was 1,040,413, ill effects if they take a small dose of farther north than this, as against 1,237,830 during the pre-copper.

vious year. Most of this decrease Dr. Schnetz's Andings are was due to transfer of able-bodied further Investigated by the persons to the Unemployment Assist- Laboratories of Chleago. ance Board, but, had that not taken

place, there would still have been a reduction of at least 60,000.

The total cost of out-relief for the year was £16,829,000, compared with £10,844,000 in the previous year.

PUBLIC HEALTH

Low Mortality

The report records "steady im- provement In people".

being

Iceland produces them, together Hille with other tropical fruit, by making

use of her hot springs.

Lupe Divorces Tarzan:

Says He Threw Dishes

One of Hollywood's atormiest | Two weeks afterwards Lupe with- the health of the love and hisses" romances drew the suit and fell into Johnny's i

crashed after keeping the fins

arms, while the cameras clicked.

Another year passed and again

The maternal mortality rate for the year 1937 for England and Wales was city in suspense for five years. Lupe went to court. She told the 3.1 per 1,000 births, the lowest figure Lupo Velez divorced Johnny same story-curses, broken furnituro yet recorded. The infantile mor- "Tarzan") Weissmuller at the tality rate was 58 per 1,000 live births, only 1 per 1,000 above the third attempt.

bruises.

The couple went on lying, loving

and fighting until a month ago, when

record low figure of 1935. The

The num- She described him as a "cruel, dish-Lupe alleged, Johnny left, her. ber of deaths from tuberculosis was throwing, furniture-breaking cavo- only slightly above the lowest num-¡man.". Johnny preserved a Tarzan- ber over recorded (In 1936).

like sllence and entered no defence.

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She inakled that she would never return to the man she used to call her "lovely brute." He wAB 30 Jealous she alleged, that he didn't) even want her to go to a beauty parlour to get her hair touched up.

The process of appropriating Poor Twice before Lupe (sho's Law Institutions as Public Health Mexican) bas started to divorce Hospitals has gons atendily forward, Johnny. Twice the attempt has and there are now 122 Institutions or ended in stormy tears on Johnn-For seven years' hò là àn actor p hospitals under the Public Health coat lopel. But that's all over now, Acts, as compared with in 1031. The number of Publle Assistanco In- stitutions has fallen during the garne period from 628 to 400. The total in-patient admissions to both types

They were married at Las Vegas, Tarzan the ape-man, af Metro-Gold- Nevada, in 1911. The first divorce wyn-Mayer," she told an interviewer. hult Was Died Your Diler, Lupe and all he- mys-is-'Ugh!' - Not an alleging that Johnny had threaten-other word does he speak on the ed her and thrown thhigs at bør,İnorgen.

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Tempestuous love!

The love of hot-headed Dion" O'Leary for glamorous Belin Fawostt...a young, unheeding love that was hate and love again!

LOGE BEATS

glorious love!

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The love of valiant Moily O'Leary for her fighting sons... a love that never wavered... even when all sixe van- ished in the flames of the great Chicago fire!

IN OLD

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world!'!

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BRADY DEVINE · DONLEVY

PHYLLIS BROOKS TOM BROWN - SIDNEY BLACKMER BERTON CHURCHILL - JUNK STOREY - PAUL, HURST

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