THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 7, 1938.
Pay Your Doctor's Bill
At Least It Will Help His Wife To Dress Decently
MANY "BAD DEBT" PATIENTS
By ISOLENE THOMPSON
How long do you wait before you pay your doctor and your dentist?
A doctor's wife in a good-class London suburb writes an appeal to you and to me to pay our bills more promptly. She says:
We wives of suburban doctors and dentists often have a struggle to keep up appearances. The credit system is agony, the necounts going out quarterly and
only a fraction of the
coming in.
noticy
Meanwhile ali our own costs have to be met-wages, food, rent, light, heat, and schooling.
All have to be paid promptly. although many of our patients
delay paying their accounts for twelve months or longer. Well- to-do peuple are the worst offen- ! ders.
Then we often have difficulty in getting malds, for our houses re- quire a much larger stuff than we can afford.
So the poor wife works all day, and yet most appear well-dressed and apparently with plents leisure to attend certain functions which her position in the community demands,
focal
EMPIRE NEWS
PEASANT REVOLTS IN INDIA
CALCUTTA: The past revolts in the States| Dhenkanal and Talcher, which are becoming
broke out recently
more ser.tatas,
Rioting continues, and this morn-
an attempt was made to wreck
a passenger train between Tuleher and Pari. A detachment
#C
My house in large and old- King's Own Seuttish Borderers has fashioned, with no modern cun-1 Caleutta for Dhenkanal to assist veniences, and the added handleapin maintaining order. of consulting rooms on the pre- misca.
If we did things as they do them in the States there would be none of this worry.
The disaffertion is part of a general small independent raja-ruled States movement, throughout Orissa by the
o obtain representative government, A week aj polce were obliged to open tre in Dhenkanal, and four is persons were killed and ony in-
Over there all professional men have offices, and your house miles away if you wish. Your has-Jured. band's pallents need never know!
If you wear one dress two years or The area of Dhenkanal is 1,463
If you have one maid or six.
square miles, aid that of Talcher
300 square miles. The total popula- of the 1st States is alt
And (giory bet) when you visittion your doctor you pay at each visit 350,000.
If it is the dentist he names his fer; you pay half then and the balance on your last visit.
any
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Comfort In
Dug Outs
This shows an interior of one of the dugouts for shelter from bombs splinters that have been constructed by hundreds throughout the English countryside. This one is at Surrey, south of London. and shows two girls wearing their gas masks, as they rend news- papers. The dugouts are, three feet underground, equipped with food and water.
TAKE CARE OF THAT
GAS MASK
Every respirator issued by ench council is elelent-make no mis-
Firework Restrictions-Because of take about that. 1 have tested one the large number of serious accidents myself under concentrations of pases
May it come to us here in our on festival days, due to ignorance in far stronger than are ever likely lo time, say and
fellow-sul-handling large dreworks, only those be enemmlered. writes Capt. Normun ferers.
of which the content is known and Macmillan. spcelled by name, will be allowed to ise Inported.
can
RICHEST ARE WORST The wife of a Harley street professional Dian said: "1 sympathise with your correspondent, Everything she says is perfectly true, in my experience at least.
finit
"I have one child. costs us, on an average, between £1,100 and £1,200 a year to run the house, quite apart from my husband's professional staff and expenses, and income tax.
"Why, for Bowers alone in the surgery waiting-room, it costs nur £20 a year! Wealthy patients
But rertain rules must be observed to preserve this efficiency. For ex- Football Spectators' Anger-When ample, the respirator straps must be the Haripatia football team failed to perfectly adjusted to ensure that all appear at Cuttack, Central Provinces, the alp is breathed in through the (o FUTAI
engagement,
filter. Again it has not been possible angry ***** pretators pulled down all the fento supply all respirators i cardboard ring round the ground and made a boxes, so that special care should be bandre of t
taken in handling them.
Do not scratch or bend the win- AUSTRALIA
dow:
Do not exp950 the respirator 10 strong light or heat; Keep it dry; and Do not carry it by the straps, as that will stretch the rubber
face
LESSONS OF LONDON TRADE TALKS
The
It should be stored, for maximum efficiency, in a cardboard box, and bottom of the box, so that the micn assuming packed with the metal alter at the
on the top. window Ties flat and facing upwards
A thin film of wet soap rubbed on the inside of the window will keep it from becoming misted by breath. Carbolic soap should not be used.
are often the worst payers."
SYDNEY. Sald Finchley ductor's wife: "1
Commonwealth Attorney- | pieur. have heard my husband say that 25 General, Mr. Menzies, on his arrival per cent. of his patients ure bad back from London, declared that the debts,
tin was coming when, "Most people like to argue that that ni ajor change took place in the panel system has made duelars the rich. Pauel practice allows openings Australia would be compelled so to ceonomies of the Old World, for about 15,000 doctors to attend extend her about fifteen milion patients."
manufacturing to be substantial exporter of
"The difficulties
trade negotiations in London," sald Mr. Menzies, "were very great, and on The wife of a dentist in North the whole the results must be re- London, earning
year, garded as not unsatisfactory,
British market in which we have en- We have not been married long,joyed generous preferences since the but non-paying patients are already Ottawa
Conference is
naturally not
(A doctor gels s. a year for each manufactured goods.
Cooe
panel pallent and is allowed up to 2,500 patients.)
said:
"A NIGHTMARE"
£500 A
of
our
The
a nightmare to ine. When a pro- capable of indefinite expansion. feantonal man starts on his own he "Great Britain not only has her runs the risk of the non-payers own agriculture to consider, but also flocking to him at first.
has her position as a large inter- nalunol trader to maintain." SOUTH AFRICA
sti
"Our hadget leaves no margin for savings, car, possible family- ant It all depends
whether pallenis pay up if I get a decent evening track this winter," "Most doctors have big Insurance. premiums to pay, heavy penses, and a big house to keep Up Salda Surbiton doctor's wife. Their training is expensive, and in buying practice they often put themselves under heavy financial responsi- billies for many years.
for
ex-
DROP IN REVENUE
of
for
But Don't Do This-
As a large number of Brad- ford children did retently, when they discovered ficto toys some of the 100,000 respirators which have been issued there.
$76 one open
space, where A.R.P. trenches had been dug, two gangs of children took pos- session, and staked mimic battle from parallel trenches, Stones and eluda of earth were the missiles.
All the "combatants," most of whom were aged from 5 to 10, wore the new respirators-antil they were dispersed by police, who did what they could to warn parents against permitting children to damage the marks.
YACHTSMEN FINED
AFTER SEA
RAID
Captain Richard T. Dixon, aged seventy-five, international racing yachtsman, of Admiralty Cottage, Mylor, Cornwall, was ordered at Penryn, Cornwall, recently to pay fines amounting to £55 and £29 expenses for contravening the Excise and Customs regulations.
For the five months of the Governouring three buifles of aqua vila a to ment's financial year, April, May, Admiralty Cottory, and failing to "When we started at £500 a year! June, July and August, the total declare on the yacht Seacrest four non-paying patients caused us many
collections amount 1 £17,077,502, bottles of gin, a steepless night, in mure ways than which is a drop of nearly £700,000
two battles of aqua one. Now, our Income is round about compared with the corresponding] £1,200. We have three children.
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CAPE TOWN, August was £1.242,372, a drop of was jointly charged with him, was cigars, 680 cigarettes, and
The revenue
the Union
C. IL from South Africa (By cour- His deck-hand, Albert Corke, who vitae, two battles
tesy of the South African Broadcast- of whisky, flying £54,000 17 compared with the ord: red to pay fints totalling £6.
Corporation). Buz, of 9.30. London Relay-The News, corresponding month last year.
tobacco. The men were charged with har-
i 55. 4d., and on the second to
9.50 The Reclmentat Duty on the first charge amounted H. M. Coldstream Guards,
£8 is. Ild.
livan): "The Mr. B. N. Stephenson, for the Cus-Guard" (Sullivan)....conducted by
(Sullivan): "The Yeomen of The THE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD. toms and Excise, described how aut R. G. Feans: The Changing Of went aboard the Scterest at Torquay conducted by Lieut, J. C. Windram nying squad of rummage officers The Guard (Flotsam and Jetsam).. and found the spirits and tatucco hidden in lockers
10.10 London Relay "Remem- and behind brance," drawer which could not be opened until a companion way was removed. PRIVILEGE AS YACHTSMAN
New Zealand
"If he does, surely it is a African Mixation. The Southį a.........
Mr. ANXIETY FOR NEWS
Auckland.
Jate
period last year.
the Great War Malaya pold about "I wonder if your correspondent Practically the whole of the de- £5,000,000 loves her husband?" was the com-crease is reflected in the Customs India, Burma and Slam-Reuter.
for rice supplies from ment of a doctor's wife in Hamp and Excise returns. stead,
Mining
By Ralph De Pemeral: Characters of Finance,
(in order of speaking): Joyce Bar- pleasure rather than a trouble to Havengo, defended the Government's have the consulting rooms on the mining, taxation in the House of
low, Barlow's daughter: Nigel Fowler, premises instead of as she would Assembly to-day. He said that he prefer, in offices miles away.
young author; Edward Barlow. The danger of war in Europe tils
He stated that Dixon left Fal-K.C., v.5.0., M.C., barrister, unwilling to accept the sug- the pubile mind to the exclusion of "Most doctors' wives complain that gestion that his taxation
mouth in April for a six months O.C., B/Bly: Ruth Barlow, his wife; they see too little of their husbands, high-Reuter.
wn! too other topics, The Empire broadcasts in the North Sea being al-Captain Taylor, C.R., M.C., an Army "I think, taking things all round,,
from Daventry, are awaited with in-yachtsman of considerable integrity Second Lieut. Lennox, B/Battery lowed the special privilege as a chaplain; Lieut. Frank Haddon and we've jess to grumble at than most Capell, the South African racehorse
TWO £50,000 Bequests-Mr. E. A. lense interest.
Crowds are thronging the new spirit and 10lbs. of tobacco.
of carrying in bond seven gallons of Lowner, who died here recently han Paper offices to-day, anxious to learn
men: Gunner Clarke and Bessie, a left £50,000
make: Scene: The lounge of Barlow's euch to the Rand of any new developments at the ear-
The Seacrest left Dover in May residence, near London, on an Armis- University and the Johannesburg liest moment.
and returned on August 11, when de- tice anniversary, during a broadcast Hospital. Exchange.
claration was made at Dover that at the Albert Hall Festival of Re- there were MALAYA
on board only ninety membrance; Production by Howard elgarettes, lib. of tabaceo, 1 1-10th
į Rose. gallons of spirit, and 2-8ths gallon of wine, which were placed under seal. When the vessel was boarded at Torquay the rumminge squad found other quantiles of dullable goods. These were seized together with the yacht. a well-known racing ‚érafi, which was later released
forfeiture of 250,- --
women."
Rats Store Nuts
Virola, Cal.
A. J. Dula, rancher, who had lald FOOD CONTROL PLANS
KUALA LUMPUR.
Mr. C. A. Vlieland, who joined the
Indla
AIR MAIL NIGHT FLYING
Bombay. Night flying facilities between
out a few bushels of walnuts on the Obor of his granary to dry for the winter, was surprised to find they Malay Civil Service in 1914, has Bombay and Karachi to link with bad all disappeared. Investigation been appointed to the new post of Imperial Airways are expected to be showed that a mother pack rat and Chief Food Control Omice, Maloya, complete by the end of the financial ber young brood had stowed all the
He will be particularly concerned year. The erection of beacon lights
haul away in the winter supply.
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The squad then conducted a search
boxes for their with plans for making Malaya self-is in progress. They will be spaced of Admiralty Cottage and there found
the three bolties of aqua vitae.
supporting as regards food. During 40 mlies apart.
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