Isolated for 40 Days in Hovel; "T.B." Association's Appeal for Assistance The wires leading to the Muni-"cipal police headquarters are hot as a report comes in item a sikh policeman, that a moaning child of seventeen is found in the ruins of a Hongkew house and that only immediate help can save her.
The ambulance driver "steps on the gas. "The siren fills the air with its weird sound as it passes through ihe deserted streets of Hongkew. The few lonely passers-by on the Hongkew streets of those days wonder what it is all about.
At the scene of distress even the hardened ambulance attendants stand aghast. Tucked under an open staircase they see and smell two reeking bodies, and upon the top of the staircase they find the moaning girl, who seems in the last stages of tuber-Culosis. Upon their question put to the frightened girl mo coherent answers are given, and the ambulance staff had to make its own dicisions. it has long been known that am-balance surgeons have to make quick decisions. Accurate diagnosis must give way to immediate help in many cases.
"Tuberculosis and starvation" the ambulance doctor scribbles upon his report card. "To the refugee camp ior tuberculosis" he says In a moment the half naked and hopeless looking case is wrapped in the am-balance blankets and rushed off to the camp operated by the committee for the care of the aged and infirm.
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