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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3,

1938.

REMEMBRANCES AT TRUE FUNCTIONS OF THE

CENOTAPH

SILENCE BROKEN

Crisis And Silence Shouts And

NEVER HAVE THE PEOPLE AT THE CENOTAPH IN LONDON BEEN MORE OBVIOUSLY OR DEEPLY MOVED,

At down the pilgrimage had THE WORLD TO-DAY started, until thousands upon thou-

sands lled the whole length of BY A BISHOP

Whitehall,

Yet a full hour before the Service started the gathering was so quiet that the clonk of spura as n Guards officer took up his position could be clearly heard.

SERVICE SHEETS THROWN

INTO AIR

businessmen at Bristol before

The Bishop of Bristol, addressing Silence, said:

Fights:

4 Arrested

FAMILY DOCTOR

Guiding His Patients Towards Healthy Living

DR J. M. MACKINTOSH'S GLASGOW ADDRESS

DEFENCE AGAINST, DISEASE

All education should be health „Education. Ils suggested, that this was at once the most intelligent and the most economical method of promoting positive health, and of getting away from the notion that health was just the absence of disease.

Following a disturbance during the Silence »mong unemployed outside

Dr. J. M. Mackintosh, Chief} the Southwark Labour Exchange in Medical Officer of the Depart- Walworth-road, SE, four men were taken to Carter-Street police statien ment of Health for Scotland, the and a constable was treated at confessed to members of the

hospital for minor injuries.

Royal Philosophical Society of "On the one hand we long for During the Silence a middle-aged Glasgow recently that he was a pence and are prepared to take any man, one of a crowd of about 200 "littlo bowildered" when discuss-| steps for it.

people outside the Labour Exchange, ing the family doctor's part in When we came to the family doc- shouted: "Stop this mockery. What Boy Scouts gave up trying to dia- ately hote the things that are happen- the means test, Stop the next war."80 "many wild and whirling he was a little bewildered, because - "On the other hand we passion-hout the living dead? Der with the promotion of health because tor's part in the promotion of health tribute leaflet of the Service umonging in the world to-day. the dense crowd.

words had been uttered on this, so many wild and whirling words

had been uttered on this subject. subject."

"The family doctor was the first Dealing with "Health and the line

of defence General Practitioner," Dr. Mackin-Was this true?

against disease." le should have tosh sald the twentieth century thought that the lines of defence opened with a revolution in the at- would have run in this order:—(1) Litude of the community towards Health education; (2) Preventive health. The feature of nineteenth- medicine, including housing, sanita- Other Deople demonstrated century legislation had been en-

ention, etc.; and (3) in the hand-ta- against the policeman, who look vironmental sanitation: to-day per- hand struggle the general practi- refuge in chemist's shop. The

sonat health had become the ideal. proprietor shal the door antil We stood too near this change to be police reinforcements arrived.

able to define its source or to study:

degree of accuracy. its direction of movement with any

They threw them into the air to flutter down on heads and shoulders and be grabbed by eager hands.

BARBARITIES

ANGRY CROWD "I don't think we can keep that out

After the Slience a police constable of our minds at a time like this--the went towards a group of men who bombing of defencelers

were angrily debating the incident. people three-Spain and China, the barbarities and scuffle ensued, and several men ran Chapel savagery that we read in our papers the Elephant and Castic.

along the Walworth-road towards Royal and Westminster Abbey this morning going on peared on the red-carpeted steps of

As Big Ben boomed the quarters, the choir of the

the Home OMee.

Every face wan turned towards the Cross Bushing back the rays of the bun.

Then came the applause for the

Prime Minister. The might-have- been was in everyone's mind.

The King placed his wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph, and stepped back to take un his position, and the) people grew rigid.

After the 11 o'clock had suunded, from somewhere came u sob,

A GUARDSMAN DROPPED

A guardsman, standing a few yards to the left of the King, suddenly dropped in his place with a clatter of equipment, and was carried away on a stretcher.

All the tenseness of the past few weeks was crystalised in that atmo- sphere, so that it came as a relief when the Euns and maroons boomed again, and the roar of London started

up.

By German Woman

great country of Europe. in another

CIVILIZED?

"Are we to condone or shut our cyca of these things?

pence mapped out for us, taking no "Are we to go along the road of note that in many quarters which we thought were civilised things ore happening which have not happened for centuries?

amid graves of German soldiers who died while prisoners of Dorchester.

War

men in the road followed, and it was More scenes between police and during these scenes that the constable was injured.

to

Finnily, a police van arrived, and four men

+ken Carter street police station,

were

WOMAN WOUNDED

This Armistice Day the wreath was DURING SILENCE : luid by u German woman, Sister

Anti-Fraudein Annie Whisler, of MAN CHARGED Friedenshort, a deaconness in charge of an organization which cares for orphans and homeless German chli- dren.

square,

no

of

LEGISLATION FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE

The sanitary reformers 'of

the nineteenth century were obliged to concentrate their efforts upon moving the worst horrors which fol- lowed in the wake of industrial expansion under a system of laissez- faire, and their work was rendered dimcult by obstruction frem in- numerable interests, both central and local.

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tioner.

"STARTLING STATEMENT" Again, one found in the splendid report on the Scottish Health Ser- in the course of a well- vices. thought-out scheme for the develop- ment of the health services, the fol- lowing startling statement:-

"The training of the general prae- titioner should be such as to develop the preventive outlook, and to equip him fully for the role of health ad- viser."

Hed this really any meaning, or was it just one of the pious gener- allations which were apt to creep into even the best of reports? To begin with, the average family The twentieth century begun in called in the doctor when some one different spirit because men in the household was Ill; and national

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During the Silence in Albert-women of independent mind had be- health insurance was based on this Manchester, where the gun to study social problems objec-assumption. Did the sentence quot- of praise and prayer for peace."

The wreath was inserted "a token principal se year, a woman fell to the was more ready than usual to re- polley, with a suggestio

service in Manchester takes tively and scientifically. The State ed abo adumbrate a a change F760 "War never did one said Sister Annie.

any good," ground with a wound in her face.

ABUSEestion that the ceive new truth.

doctor should be consulted at regu- Later, William Mason, aged 43. "It is a wonderful thought to place year after

jar Intervals whether there was ill- special address, was remanded for Nevertheless we were in someness in the family or not? wreath on this memorial to soldiers week at the Manchester City Police court, charged with unlawfully wounding Miss Catherine Hays, of Pauline-street. Salford, near Mun- chester, by slashing her across face with a razor blade.

of my own country."

.

year a

Every year since 1918, a wreath In war-torn Madrid, $0 British has been laid by the Mill-street residents took part in the silence at Mission, Dorchester, on n German the British Embassy with a radio Memorial at Fordington Cemetery tuned in to the Cenotaph in London.

Armistice News In Brief

The King and Queen and the Capetown. W. R. Hammond, the Princesses purchased their poppies capitału, laid a wreath at the foot of from Dame Regina Evans, who called the Cenotaph. at Buckingham Palace at breakfast time. She made a tour of the Palace, selling poppies to members of the

Earl Haig, son of the founder of Royal household and to the servants. the British Legion, walked at the Miss Victoria Lloyd sold Queen Mary head of the procession of. ex-service lier poppy at Marlborough House.

•

The King Sings-An unusual sight this year at the Cenotaph was that of the Guardsmen holding hymn sheets and singing "O, God, Our Help In Ages Past, in which the King joined.

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men at Oxford.

the

Mason was alleged to have said after the incident: "I don't know what made me do it. I am a convict on licence and I have had nothing to cut for five days."

Miss Hays and Mason were com- plete strangers, a police witness said.

at hospital.

danger of falling into the KAME disorder as our predecessors, be- cause legislation for personal hy-

PREVENTION AND POSITIVE HEALTH

glene lacked the force of a single was so, because such

He could hardly believe that this revolutionery change of policy would have been

directive aim.

It

but only in response, to specifle pres-mean that the family doctor was ex-

It did not grow as an organism, more clearly stated. Nor could sure here and there and not as the pected to undertake the duties of result of any inspiring social policy. sanitary inspector.

In fact, if the words were clearly One of the mala sources of dim- culty at the present time was that thought out at all, they must bear two issues which were really separ- an entirely different meaning, owing nte were becoming confused: and to a confusion between prevention

The woman's wound was stitched quite a number of authoritative re- and positive or had an immense

EXPLOSIONS IN BELFAST

silence in Belfast.

Two loud explosions broke

the

One was at Seaford-street, off the Newtownards-road, a storm centre during the rlots of 1920. The other In Dublin some irresponsible was at Ardenlec-street, off the Old youths indulged in Poppy-match- | Parke-rond. ink.

Que air iner landed at Croydon during the Silenes, but it immediate- ly came to " standstill and

At one time a piri tu Edgware-engine was shut off.

road had a queue of nine workmen

waiting to buy poppies.

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U.B.A. Remembers. For the first! time since 1918, Armistice Day in the United States was a national holiday. In New York underground and road traffle halted for one minute.

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For the first time for 12 months, all work on armament making in Woolwich Arsenal censed--for two minutes.

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Nearly a hundred men working on the Highgate Tubs extension stood In silence, with lights switched off, in the tunnels 80 feet down.

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For the first time, the Minister of the Hebrew congregation in Brigh ton, the Rev. F. Brummer, took part for peace.

a the service and offered a prayer

"HAIL, MOSLEY" CRIES After the National Anthem had been sung at the end of the armistice service outside Bethnal Green public Hbrary, shouts of "fail, Mosley" were raised, and several people gave the Fascist salute.

Police

were called to disperse them.

Armistice Day produced a reord number of recruits at Victory House, Kingsway, the R.A.F. main recruiting centre, and nearly 140 recruits observed the silence in Kingsway.

Borstal Boys To Work

On The Land Soon

Dorchester (Dorset).

Borstal boys from Portland Institute are to begin work at a "labour camp" in Dorset next spring to assist the "Grow more food campaign" by reclaiming land now useless for farming.

Dorset Agricultural Committee op. proved the plan to-day. The com-

mittes were fold that the Borstal Woman Accused of authorities are prepared to establishi

ports were serving only to add to the confusion.

BRANCH OF PREVENTIVE

MEDICINE

of

The family

contribution to

to make to individual and

family

health, but we must not confuse the public mind about his true functions.

The advancement

We tried to persuade ourselves and personal health as a branch of preventive out to be trained in all aspects of

that

the general practitioner niedicine had been fostered during ought to

dust.

no

the past 36 years by a volume of the great art of medicine, and we legislation which had thrown in-walled because specialism was in- creasing burdens upon local author-vading the field of the family practi- ities, and there was as yet so sign) of remission.

"SPECIALISM MUST CO ON" sc must inevitably go on The statutes dealing with mid-} in

just as it went on in wifery, maternity, and child wel-other branches of selence. We fure; the school medical and dental tonger expected a family doctor to services; with tuberculosis, Infectious

tious undertake major disease, and venereal disease; and hal

hology And the great bulk of the provisions re- we expect him to undertake preven- bacteriology or pat- why should luting to the Poor-law, were part tive me

medicine selence for which and parcel of preventive medicine the man who specialised forsock the and reflected faithfully the new at-art of clinical medicine?

itude to the health of the indivi-

To give special Instruction in pre- ventive medicine in the ordinary The mass of social legislation deal-medical course ing with pensions, national health in-carry us very far, unless we had a was not going to aurance, and the general welfare of clear idea of the purpose for which children and old people, was all con- it ในกร given. sciously directed towards the promo- When we said the doctor should tion of health through the preven-be health adviser to the family, tion of destitution and disease.

surely we meant something quile "SOMEWHAT NARROW SENSE" different from preventive medicine |

Ail these, and many other ad-in the accepted sense. vances in preventive medicine, were We meant, he thought, that the f worthy contributions to the health of doctor should be taught how to the people, but it should be observed guide his patients towards healthy that they were devoted largely to living, and it was alckness of the preventive

ive medicine in a somewhat mind rather than of the body that narrow sense and make little contri- was the greatest enemy of health in bution to the promotion of positive the family. health. This was the second issue Le spoke of, and it was more

than either treatment;

which

or

tion

of positive health

and

The good general practitioner knew this perfecily well, and he could say thankfully that there were in this country far more good doctors. Usa some omelal vas the logical outcome of a polley

reports would lead us to believe. which began with treatment

The basis of "the preventive out- then proceeded

We book" in the general practitioner was to prevention. were just beginning to understand a sound knowledge and an intelli- the need to educate for health, and gent practice of psychology. The even at the present time health edu-general practitioner would learn cation, whether physical or mental, more of the preventive outlook from seemed to be regarded by many as a men like Freud and Jung and Adler kind of luxury provision, to be sup- than he would in a lifetime from ported by voluntary effort until the Simon and Chadwick. State was aroused from its long! Professor Edward Taylor Jones, Work must be at a suitable dis-i A

the president, presided. named Jean sleep. tance from the institute. It was re-Clarke, aged 24, of Blenheim-street," ported that the Home Office are Southsea, was remanded at Porla- considering carrying out such work mouth Police Court recently charged on the River Frome in Dorset. The with concealing two stokers absent

under the Naval Discipline Act. | report adds:-

a working camp for selected boys to carry out reclamation work on land drainage or other matters affecting. agricultural or public works.

Hiding Naval Absentees

factory hand

A detective' said that he went to the woman's house. She denied

"The objects of the scheme pref particularly twofold: First, to im-knowledge of the men but when he prove the productivity of the land, entered the house with a warrant he now badly waterlogged and requir- found the stokers hiding in the bed- Ing a good deal of more than ordin~: nry maintenance to put it in order room, one being in a cupboard.

"Second, to provide a break in Industrial life and civil life for the boys who are under detention, and to assist in fitting them for civil occupations after their period of detention."..

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