Consul-General, presiding over the funey fitted to talk on the subject as he sy work in China and had been pre-
Lepers for seven years.
Though Mr. Lee was in his element while dealing with the leprosy question, his talk covered a wider field. He spoke freely on subjects ranging from the economic situation in Malaya to the number of dance hostesses in one of the largest cabarets in the Far East.
iHe spoke of Malaya "as the dollar arsenal' of the British Empire because her huge exports of tin and rubber to the United States provide a handsome balance of trade which helps to pay for British purchases of aircraft and war materials."
Higher Learning In discussing education in Malaya. Mr. Lee said that "Singapore is the seat of higher learning in Malaya. The only Medical degree that the King Edward College of Medicine there can confer, however. is Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery, so the medical students either -went to England for advanced studies, or went to the Hongkong University where they could obtain the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Bue While on the subject of leprosy, Mr. Lee said:
At Kuala Lumpur. I was invited to accompany both the Official Visitors as well as the Rotary Club's visiting committee, to visit the Sungei Buloh Leper Settlement. Dr. Gordon Ryrie. ihe Medical Superintendent, knowing me as a ce-founder of leprosy work im China and hearing of my coming visit. asked that I go alone in order that we may have uninterrupted time together to discuss various matters concerning his work. T accordingly went end spent one whole morning at Sungei Buloh. 12 miles from Kuala Lumpur, making the journey by motor car.
Model Leprosarium Here I saw a model leprosarium costing Straits $3,000,000, housing 2,500 lepers of various nationalities, where the horrible aspects of the disease are reduced to a minimum, where the most modern curative methods are used, where the persona] kindness of the medical superintendent brought, cheer into the lives of the unfor-as their accomplices. tunate inmates, and where 150 lepers are discharged annually as "cured." The patients, mostly Chinese, Indians and Malays, are a model of harmony and order.
Corporation in Kiangse Road, was ult outside his residence in Avenue clu Roi Albert at about 9 am. yesterday. The crime was perpetrated by three armed men, who were waiting for their victim outside Bedford Terrace, where the victim E y at No. 16.
"victim, riding in his private ved "No. 6010. was own car. while the was (forced pu on Rue Reported case to According to investigations, the vehicle was turning on to Avenue clu Rot when the three men pointed their mausers at the chauf-four and forced him to stop. The Xidnappers then got into the vehicle and ordered the driver to proceed to Rue Bourgeat. There they forced him out and disappeared in an unknown direction. The vehicle was found later in the morning on Rue the had changed the Ratard. It was thought possible that
Vehicle in their fight with the vic.
No political motives were attached to the crime and it was believed that it had been committed purely for The new treatment with injections of Diphtheria Toxoid in place of the ethyl esters of chaulmoogra ai] was used there and has proved very satisfactory, while the use of shark's liver oil, which is very rich in Vitamin A, as a dressing has been most effective in healing the ulcers. I have passed this information on to the Shanghai Leprosarium.
In this connection, the older mem-ours of the Shanghai Rotary Club will recall that China's nation-wide leprosy work was formed within this Club. In 1926, Mr. William Danner, Secretary of the American Mission to Lepers, was the speaker and his subject was "Leprosy in China". He told us that there were Over half a million lepers in China but neither the Chinese Government or the Chinese people were doing anything for them. Only 5.000 were being cared for by missionary effort.
This statement so shamed several of the Chinese Rotarians that Mr. Danner was invited to meet a small group to at Yeast do something towards the eradication of the curse.
That first meeting resulted in the formation of the Chinese Mission to Lepers in 1927 of which I was president for seven years and Dr. Fong F. Sec vice president. My successor was Rotarian Dr. F. C. Yen brother of our District Governor while former Rotarian T. C. Wu has been general secretary from the very beginning. Several Leprosaria have been built by the Mission in various parts of SES aaa, in spite of the war, the been "going on without 3 concluding, Mr. Lee said: possible by the just British rule and prosperity of Malaya was mad the industry of the Chinese people Who constitute 70 per cent. of the population. Malaya is truly a shining example of what Sino-British cooperation can accomplish.
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