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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 1939

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'Phone 26615 February 20, 1939

Made In Japan

THE JAPANESE should like, us.

We are such good customers. We don't ask for any return for favours.

This Colony, which is at the bottom of the list of British Colonies importing British goods (only 7.6| per rent, of our total imports come from the United Kingdom) is one?

of Japan's best customers,

In the lust three years for which afatistics are available, we have bought Japanese goods to the value WWW| of $151,170,631, sold to her goods to the value of only 343,451.791. Our adverso trade balance with Japan has been over $100,000,000.

In three years our imports of Japanese piece goods and textiles alone (total $84,500,193) has been nearly as much as our total imports · of all commodities from the United Kingdom. We spent only $82,905,- 239 on England's wares, much less than half as much as we spent n "Japan's.

England,

ten thousand miles away, bought almost as much from Hongkong as Japan did. Our adverse trade balance with the United Kingdom is only a tithe of the adverse balance with Japan.

If we had diverted a fraction of the enormous total we spent on Japanese textiles to Lancashire. thousands of idle English spindles. thousands of unemployed English people, would have been at work,

Why should we buy textiles from Japan which we could buy in the Empire? If the cost of English textiles is too high, for the average

APPEASEMENT

MEMEL TROUBLE

A CURE FOR SEA-SICKNESS.

"Fix your mind firmly on something that isn't there"

TUNIS

CRISIS

Mrs. Chamberlain, when asked for advice on the subject by the Ladies' Carlton Club.

The doctors who

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go back

DOCTOR friend mine is "going back to school. I have sent him. Professionally, he 13 Qx- tremely able. Eut, about some things, lic is profoundly Ignorant.

of medical students, but for doctors, Doctors who have had experience of it claim that it compares with anything in America, where they do these things so spectacularly, And its only serious competitor on this side of the Atlantic will be the Numeld post-graduate school at Oxford.

For fustance, he came back from Germany recently raving about effelency, about mother- craft services, about medicat training, and about many other things in the Nazi health system.

Now I am not one of those who deny that any good can come out of Germany. If they are making advances there we ought to hear about them. Nazl thoroughness may have some- thing to teach us.

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UT i was obvious that he, qulte properly, had been shown the "how- pleces." I could match his mother- craft show-pieces with as good maternity and child welfare clinica here (not all by any means) and his culogies of the training clinics for doctors annoyed me.

What you want is a course at the British Post-Graduate Medical School," I told him.

Because, as Hannen Swafer said, Democracy has a lot of things to boast about.. And the Post-Gradu- ate Medical School is one of them.

Nine years ago there was a work- house infrmary in Du Cane-road, Hammersmith, W. To-day that workhouse has been transformed into a teaching hospital, not for

Hongkong purchaser, let us buy In Army, Cannot

our

per

Speak English

THEY had to hunt through

from India, which is part of Commonwealth. Let us set up our; own spindles and produce our own textiles. The Japanese quota of

Great Scotland Yard recently something like 320,000,000

for somebody who could speak annum is worth going.after.

French because one of the latest Why should we buy Japanese goods recruits at the Central London when the adverse balance of trade, which we have to even by exporting bullion, is being turned by Japan into gans and bombs?

Army recruiting depot knew only a dozen words of Engilsh. George Raymond Buck, at twenty, a would-be "Soldat Anglela," took his turn in queue of twenty

There is nothing that Japan pro-recruits, and when he came before duens that we can't obtain else the officer, announced: "Je desire

etre soldat." where.

Keys

JAPAN is annoyed with America for deciding to carry out the Navy

Guem.

"Can't you 'speak_English?” asked the officer, and Buck who had Ilved all his life in France, replied: "No."--one of the twelve words of English be knew.

"Well, If you want to be an Eng- Department's scheme as regards lish soldier, you had better learn quickly," replied the ofeer, pretty enlling for an interpreter. Why? BecISO she Bees in Оле was found after A hunt fortified Guam a

the building. to her through

He asked Duck what regiment he would like to naval lines to the south and the Join.

west.

menace

It does not matter that Japan herself has heavily fortifled Formu- j sa and her outlying Pacific Islands, or that Hainan, Island, is. Ilkely to follow sult. These: Japanese, forti fications constitute a potential menace to an enormous area. In the Pacific, a much, greater menace to America than Guam is to Japan. .⠀

Buck replied: "Je desire a rat- a-fal-tat!"

"Oh, a machine-gunner," ro- marked the Interpreter, and Buck replied: "Oul ral-a-tal-fal gun.” And that was how George. Ray- mend Buck, son of a war-time subat- |tern in the Royal Artillery, who married a Frenchwoman, became a soldier in the Middlesex Regiment Buck arrived in England as a ship- although he could not speak English,

wrecked, sullor,

medical

It has been provided by public money by the Government and

by

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of panel doctors at a post-graduate school. Hammersmith Hospital is taking its quota, 25 at a Ume, In addition. It attracts large numbers of private practitioners from all over the Commonwealth. Sirice 1935, when it was opened, 2;250 dục- tors have been through the school. Witen I visited the hospital yea- terday I found doctors, grey-

RITCHIE CALDER REPORTS PROGRESS

Llic London County Council. The Hammersmith Hospital, to which it is attached, is one of the 77 L,C.C. hospitals, the largest hospital

in system

the world.

Notice its func- tion to teach doctors and not medical students. No under- graduates aro trained there. It is confined to doctors who have already had practical experience.

It would be asking too much of the busy family doctor to expect him to know all about modern ad- vances in the treatment of illness. Recent years have been crowded with new discoveries and new methods. many demanding high degree of specialised know- ledge.

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But the patients have a right to expect the best available treat- ment. And to provide that doctors must "go back to school "at inter- vals and brush up their knowledge.

Thousands of them do not, but the Ministry of Health realised the vital need for it when it offered, out of the National Health Insur- ance surplus, to pay the expenses

haired, middle- aged and youthful, sitting in the di-

agnostic rooms. learning how to discover diseases and allments carller and more efficiently by modern methods.

I saw a dark- skinned Indian. surgeon, white- capped. white- amocked, white- booted hurrying into the operat- ing theatre.

I saw the professors and lec- turers, quiet, effelent, enthusiastic. demonstrating how modern medi- cal science can benefit humanity,

I saw the patients, in this bright Inspiring place, receiving the bene- Ats of the best which accumulated expert knowledge and equipment can provide.

For

there is nothing

of the "human guinea- ple" experiments about Hammersmith.

This is speciallst treatment at its best. The spçelalists are all full- time. They are not like the teach- Ing-specialista in many of the voluntary hospital medical schools giving part of their time to their

GRIN AND BEAR IT

wards, part to their lectures and most of it to the fob of earning a living in Harley-street.

They are zealots. And they have the advantage of their, nk with the other L.C.C. hospitals of re- ceiving the cases which Interest them and demand their specialised knowledge.

Not only has the last vestiges of the workhouse heen swept away, but in its place Hammersmith Hospital, of which Sir Thomas Carcy-Evans is medical superin- tendent, has emerged as an exam- ple of what a first-class modern hospital should be.

I went into what was once an Infirmary block, Part of it was for children. Brightly decorated glass- cubicles, each with its wash-basin and nursery furnishings provided single-rooms for the new admis- alons, preventing the spread of any Infection.

At later stage, for company's sake. they are moved to four-cot wards, and when convalescent to

bigger, even joiller ward,

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ORE touching than that was the cheerfulness of large airy, flower- decked ward of patients suffering ~~from painful, and In many cases,

hopeless disease.

I have never before seen such a battery of X-ray equipment. Black and cream and chromium, the

were machines

arrayed the doctor's armoury in the night against hidden disease.

There were machines for dental X-ray, for brain examination, for the chest and for the stomach. These were the detectors.

But there were also two 200,000- volt, and

one 100,000-volt tubes for treatment, for destroying the disease in its hiding-place. Anothor this time a half-million-volt tube-is being installed.

The specialists, also, have an- other ally in getting results--the enlightened policy of the L.C.C.

Most people who have been in

By Lichty hospitals shudder at the thought

- Čigr. 199 by Vallot Pyattyi #yuttenda, fan,

“Shh-l've just vianaped to get the class to albep!"

of the food.

But in the L.C.C. hospitals the feeding is part of the cure. I was shown the vast alry Kitchens where the food was being prepared. I met the diet-expert. I saw special meals being prepared for those whose diet had to be watched. saw, too, the general menu.

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BEY Insist, first, that the food shall be good, second. that it shall be tempting, and, third, that it shall be varied. No patient knows what to-morrow's dinner will be. And, very important, there are the nurses. No harassed, weary, overworked nurses here. They work the 90-hour fortnight. They have

to do orderiettes"

the domestic work of the wards, while they get on with their proper job, the care of the sick,

Within a few weeks, they will have their new nurses' home-a. grand place.. It provides 305 separ- ata rooms, each with wash-basins, bright floor.coverings, fitted ward- robes and all; the amenities of a modern hotel.' :

The

probationers, staff-nurses and sisters will have their lounges and dining-rootă. And there is a tennis-court.

It will be a hostel in chargo of a Warden providing no atmosphere entirely different from their work. Hasn't Demperaeg something to boast about?