FRIDAY, JUNE 14 1901
THE PLAQUE.
Condition of Patients, The cases up to to-bɩy at nom total 1247. and the deaths 1177. During the past tvonly four hours, thero at 22 Chinese
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Debination.
Vessels Advertised es ho
Canca, Loilier Asiatic and 1 Hrmopean repon was Dry medical practitioner in practics who plugue cases Why, if that was 60, it of the European children of this Colony E-Undersigned have received inatruo: Fooches and Moji Kalgan (8)...?
tions from the INDIAN COMMISSARIAT DePATENT, to Sell by Public Auction, on
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whose name in Cugilia Almario, was received making sure wood bo for the doctor to kit-- for only a matter of tweiny or thirty cases. Copting the Diocesan Girls School the 19th Juno,-1901, at 2:50 r.,, ai Lat Liverpoolvak
like this, sem all the people to co to who | ko blind as these who would not sdmit the lefs the horse, They ubjected enough na it actual facts, Dr Boll had drawn a very u to going-out so 24 hapts to allow the beautifal pictare so beugtiful, inuoed, hope to be disinfected. Where wore the that the wonder was that a coolie, to gut THI PLASUR & BELILIOS PUBLIC Three rample to look after the parlent to the hospidid not wilfully contrast
2SCHOOL.. The Chiron olio bal gai no frunds. plages to get. It was an extraordinary Who would they or inclical prioritionist thing, that, with plague maging all round, to the cargo of the past 1 Thura veic to they could my keng of shout 20 or 30- medical practitioners doing nothing lau cases daily. What became of the others, Parents and Gaurdians and all than looking after plague casez Thers | Did that represɔnt" the sum total of their oliera closely interested in the `education ed, while the deaths during the same period would have anything to do with a place for would not be necessary for them to sit and transport yourselves with mo. along Holly – numborod 25 (25 Chinese and 1 other Asmingue stricken patients. How could they talk there every fortnight. It would not wood and right up to whore is altuated to) A Portugaone gie, 17 years of age be certain that the patient was kept on cessary for these sugulations to be the only school for female education (ex.
ticuously isulatet? The only way utenforced, or for all the IODY
be spent
Now standing in the Car Rox, Bonham Road). threshold of this establishment view the
¡À ̈QUANTITY OF children come slowly along to their daily lessons--see them cum through this den HAY 18 BALES, And Loose Mone on of alth and ovil-broading stenches where
LESS DAMAGED. ao much disease is lying. See them onter as the schoolbell rings, and with the
missant, and behold your children having in comingle with dirty little hdf washed, re- pulsive Chinese children, who most of then, hail from the above-mentioned slume, and who, if not actually tainted with the garns of "pidemic disease, have in ar
a ninjar- ity of cases con direct from where the foul and fearful plague doth exist.
there was not a man at that Board but know, pocively well that the authorities never know about the majority of plague casus People juft the colony with plague, sametimes at the earliest stages, oftou it the Intest, and the pelice and sanitary authorities now.
apa way to stop a great deal of that illicit tafle. He did not in tend that European doctor should go round attending these poulies; lie ment a Chinese doctor trained in Western medi sim. It was absurd Dr Boll's part to suppose he tuennt otherwise.
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the hotel, was sent to hospital suffering | read the statements of people who ought to proposal vothing sbout it. His Headmistress's kind permission, stand for a } TWO LARGE MATSHEDS. ERECTED N'anki, Kobô & T'ma. Yasața Maru (9),pia
at Kennedytown Plague hospital about in the room, and mediasi nao would not mit night. She was in a calantess condite in practice long Lit were known bo was siting with pingue poopla. It was in old tion when she arrived there, and bas (sizey Hut a sick. Olisaman could not hair remained so. This morning Mrs, Anna to be taken to the hospital but it was a Krater, of the Fuse, Stamrock and The wrong une The only time such a thight entered a Chinesain a head was when He kom bettor. Again, Chinean pacients were not treated by callous strangers. They were treated within the last seven works at least – by trained prse, and there were Chinese servants to whom they could tall and ask for anything they want of. Itwendisenwin which, although they- did not cure many cases of ire still a great dead could be done by treatment, and thore -us only one way to treat plague, and that way was by not using coins to be Tinted in their own houses. Ho for one-
from the disease. An Indian dump follesgt from: Kowloon died early the morning. Mr and Mrs Brownhill, are still seriously The other Europeans are all doing fairly well. The other Portuguese and Indian patients are reported to be doing well:
Proposals by Mir Osborno, At the ceting of the Sanitary Board last night. Mr E. Osborne proposed the passing of the following resolution--
ught it would hef tagut disgraceful pr eeding to dogo. As regards the ourstory about the nailing down of Colhus in sight, of the palioate that was all inngilation, - afs Osburne was fond of indulging in imagina: That porean foring from Piston The nail iig dawn was done a long for under obserration) be alluval to retrain way from the patients. Europeina might in their own homes provided all other per hear, but not the Chinese, As to the sous occupying the same floor are removed, long procossion of cufius, it did not pass except adults to attend the patient, and in front of the Chinese Latcheds, but in provided a written certificate bo proded front of European gates Incidentally, from a medical practitio tration) treat By Dell's mind, was pore imagination. he has that was to bo remedied. The whole story, charge of the man Such weedical tioners to be nominated by Government, ↑ There was no place where nick Chinese had their nurse and addresses, published, and butler chance they in a Britlah boypital, to report at once to the Medical Office of and, factor, the acount of haris dous to
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Dr Bell It is still iners abourd of you to talk of a Chiueso doctor trained in West- em raedicine.
↑
- My Osborne - A mãn trained in Western noticino in a local bespital.
De Bell-Yor can't get one under 3000 month.
fr Osborne-I've got one at $100. Dr. But it's kho het cu Mr Fang Wa Chuen- And I have got one tik
Mr. Osborne, couringing, asked the mem- hers not to go on their rotten statistics, and piled up figures. These did not prove any thing
The nation was then put to the mooting but was lost by votes to 4. Mosars Os Wa Chuon waited for the motion, and horne, Browin, Chan & Fook and Fung Doctors Clark and Hell, Lieut-Colonel Hughes, Hon. F. H. May and Hon. W Chatham voted against it.
Holt if they find -ilío" patient is afos Rex them by carrying thom, when delirious The Venice Convention.
isolated, in which even the patient be in mediately sonored to the Plague Hospital
In minking the matou, Monties and -About a farmight ago we considered Fuggestion from from His Excellency the treated in their own buses, but the auda Governor that plague paticura aluld be
city of the den, if I may thus describe it, so paralysed the Board that we all with one accord voted against it. fortnight's flection has, however, taught me that the
through the streets was practically non- ortent or at lenet nothing compared to the benefit derived from treatment in the inspital Where à mot hul plenty of money, he might be rented in hisown home, sary preciations taken to secara isolation genuss he could afford to have all the neces
and skilled-freatment, and prevent the apron of the disease. Dat a coolie that was a different question, Pla resalt of Mr Odino's idon would to that they would
Appalling results. This dise iso
suggestion, startling as it first. Baral, hy they us every wiiter, qujame
would ho spring and autuma. If they carried such an ideanthis, they would be making themselves a laughing soak in the eyes of the world. Tharelong, for these reasons, be upposed it, and would opposs it tooth and mail.
Mr Osborno them moved.-
That the bodies of Chiness who have dial of Plaguu may be confined in the us Chinese manner by relatives or friends and
motrictions.
This is the establishment donated to the Government for educating the female youth of this Colony. If, in the list
ONLY A FEW MONTA
A Steam Launch will love Blake's Por at 1.15 p.m., to convey intending Pur chasers.
TERMS,As Usual Va
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Gorerament Auctioner. Hongkong, Jane 13, 1801.
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instance, it was intended for Chino only Notices to Consignees Shanghai and 3)....
( assuredly this maison d'être for a school ex- elusively set apart for European children sbould have prompted the Government to imitate the generosity of the Ho E. N Bellios, and eat about the erection of s suitable and more contrally situated build- ing.
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As matters stand at presunt most parents are obliged to keep their children at home, and the results will prove in an educational point of view very detrimental it youth is to be trained up in the way it should go Yours
доно.
Our correspondent deals with a very red from the Colony without any dorious branch of the plague and eduan- He said there was nothing more absurd, hinnal questions. This school shakl have more ridiculous, could be imagined than basu alused long ago, as well as some of the utber schools, As to the Government do- the Vonios Coven, He did not thinking anything for the European children we the Convention prohibited the removal of about first like to know what has compo corpos
of over the patition to the Secretary State for a school for the European children of the Colony. His it gone forward – Ex... C.M.)
Dr Bull-I think it is against the spirit of the Convention.
· BILY.
Mr Osborns, continuing, thought they would be quite justified in taking advantage. -of
spuit or not. The Chines had this read flaw. Whether it was against the
they died, they were baried in quicklima. objection to going to lopital that when Their iden was that quickline at up the bones. If they allowed his motion to pass therefore, he thought, it would
good
INFANT MORTALITY IN HONGKONG.
Af the meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday, the report of the committes ap-
Ang Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the LOXOKONG AND KOWLOON Whang and GoToWN COM-
PASY, LIMITED, and stored at Consignees risk and expenso.
No Claims wilk he admitted altor tho |Gouds have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 17th June will be subject to rent,
LOST.
A Light Brown SCOTCH COLLIE, A UITOE. Willing to pay a small
Roward,
H.. B. KHOL
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Hongkong, June 15, 1901. All Broken, Chafed, and Exurged Goods HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. are to be left in the Clodowns, where theyEMBRIS are hereby Notified that will be examined on the 17th June, at
p.m.
No Fire Insuranco has been effected.
HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE
Hongkong Ofice. Hongkong, June 10, 1901,
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FROM HAMBURG. PENANG AND
SINGAPORE,
the RANGE, CLOSED at Fre sent, and will not be Re-ipand bufore end of this Month.
ALEX MACKENZIE,
Hon. Screbury, Homelong, June 14, 1901,
FOR SALE.
TOHN GRAHAM'S Choice
1200
FIVE
THE H. A, L Steamship Subin, | • CROWN' PORT. Well-küown to
Capt. Scamur, having arrived from the connoisseurs in the East. above Parts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of
Lading for countersignature hy the Under.
are the effect of stopping a deal of the uxodus of people from pointed to contidor the suggestinge of Drained and to take immediate delivery of
the Colony.
trische one of the vital spots wherein I think thes the secret of auctor, if ever wo are to be scccessful in grappling with this mott insidious and dendly of diseases, for believe, and have always believed, that we shall never make headway without the voluntary co-operation of the Chinese, sud I think that our future endeavoury should Captain May said he was against thus tread in the direction of securing, if neces proposal. The gentlemen who had spoken sary, by reasonable concessions, the astiat narod to bove forgotten one thing, and ance of the people themselves, first in the that was that the Chinese plague cases were discovery of the disease and subsequently in not trafik in h British hospital. They the treatment of those who become to vic were treated in their own hospital, run by time. The history of plaque epidemics in this - their own nationas, attended by their ons
Choir present Teasures Clark for redricing the excessive infant colong since 1804 reveals the discoming doctors and álled up will their own med and sorrowful fact that though we have cines The stories about the procession drove not only sick people away from mortality of the colony was submitted.. done what seemed right and proper at the of cuffine the banging down of coffin moment, our efforts to cope with the cisesse | file, and all that were quite unfrus. Head have never been successful, and the cause had been down to the Tang Wah Plaque of failure lies, I think, in the fact that we Hospital, and mew thing of the kind. In have forced upon the Chinese casures 4 and again in 97-especially in the latter which word unpalatable and which loro soar they had gond as for me they could efused them to surreptitiously thwart as it possibly go to mect-the prejudice of the etry tum. 1 mi hot saying that these Chinese. They to thou, Bare your mesures shonkl not have boen: tried, I owi hospital by all nig144, as many as you marely say they have been tried and failed, e, and an usiany clisters as you like, Allight be infeais, Is was koown that and should therefore be discontinued, that we ask is that ying don't allow your friends smallpox was infections even after an in-
terval
of fifty years. He would not, how we should in future act upon lines which i to visit you. iniliserininately, and pre over, oppose the motion.
infection," They made special wharves Dr Bell said the best way was to make an for them, and even end to them-*If you are sick you can go anywhere you like application to the Becretary of State for permission to allow the removal of bodies out of the colony, as long as you start from a particuter wharf and leave your and get hire to press it. ----- nanie and address. Only three Chin availed themselves of this permission to duncossion to the living, and the live the colony when they know they wars see and both to the living and the did. sick of plague. The reason was that the Those who are familiar with our method of exponse was too grear, the Chinese catch
will induce the co-operation of the natives and which, I think, can be brought about by conceding to some extent to their ignorance and prejudices, and by conform ing as far as possible with theirs. The iw motions which I am about in propeso
have this end in view, the first cas
searching out and dealing with pornosing plagne being generally pour soulies. As suffering from plague, cannot fail to hero, ngon hs a man of that che se gas she ho want sny but the most intensa pity for the home, no matter what his illness may b Rufferer who, dragged by force from friends Vador the speaker's charge er serer and home, conveyed his caufortless an bundred. Chinese palice, not one of whom balance through miles of struts, some paid the slightest attention" to "he regula ¡tīmoe' undur, a burning sung cloposited in ben requiring any man in the forse, when the dreaded hospital and tended by sick, to go to the Bovainment Cri Hi
enforce list regulations Were
tryng
be
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Q. C. ANDERSON,
50, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong, June 14, 1901.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unles THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA notice to the contrary be given before 5 | pan. To-day.
their Goods from alongside.
JAPAN S S. LINE
Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the HorGKONG FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL AND KOWLOON. WHARF AND GODOWE
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sands of healthy wirktion. That was a the Colony but thousands and tens of thou.
Hon. W. Chatham, who prasided, pro- point which he wished to make clear to posed that the report be adopted and for- those who'd not have their hasiness interwarded to the Government.
Mr. May said that in. his opinion the in- ford with by their workmen tearing whole- sale.
fant mortality was greatly szaggerated by PANY, LTMETER, and stored at. ConsignTHE Stan the Medical Officer of Health, and that thus risk and expense admitted after the or about 10th July. Bắc Chân A Foot secunded.
will be despatched for the above Port on No Claims will was that, he said the only imaginably the count. The number cuming from Can-Goods have lefs the Godowns, and all Goods
Dr Clark
danger importation of infants had been left out in
For Freight, apply to on and Macan, if included, would be found remaining undelivered after the 19th June, to average three a day. The minber of vill ha subject to rent. Chinese coming into the colony during the
All Biokang Chafod, and Darnaged Goods your had been estimated at 10,000, and hears to be left in the Godowns, where they
Mr May) did not think that that estimate will be examined on the 19th June, at was very far out.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE;
Hongkong Ofies.
1245 Hongkong, June 12, 1901...
words be added to the motton: If the Dr Clark suggested shit the following Goserpinent are of upinius that the motion will not, 2008 a travention of the Venice
Convention.
The Prolecnt-Will you accept that
Mr Osborne I had better take half a loaf (Laughter).
and carried. Lieut, Cal, Hughes was the The motion was then put to the meeting only dissentient.
The Godown Company and their
Servants.
whu esh possibly afford to loves the docis, while peut did the sus and surrounded by many proposed to
colong does so tho tinjont they fill sick, bigame-sick again he ganie
trasco. What the Company
and frequently beforehand. No wou thing. (Laughter). They did not go du, it permitted, was to place all sick der that friends Muggle away thair to the Tung Wali Hospital, they sick and dead, is failing the latter and want to Heangshen or some other wild fearing the cofacquaure of kasig identifed, brious phos. As Dr Bell had pointed out. with the surse, dun p it into the strest, if they went into the doinils, they would Will a view to prevent this wholesale sett trd i could not be done fu such a plaes
Dr
death-rate had been exaggerated. Chinese Clark did not think that the infant
number of infuts who died before they parents were not bound to registor a birth
reached that age, and whose deaths - sequently could not be registered, countor balanced the number of deaths registered
bafora six weeks, and in his opinion the
amongst infants impertit into the clemy. Mr Brawin asked if it was the cas
report, that of every the Medical Off cor of Health and in his thousand children born in the colony raventy-two
died. De Clark-No, seventy-two live,
LIU
t would be.
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Mr Brewin, continuing, said they ought to fake measures ciuply on account of strangers, lies, sanidst the most. Depressing |pital, He had long ago given to A letter was next sabuitted. from Mrjeither 1805 or 1895, for instance, 400 out an exceptional death rate in one year. In surroundings within touch, of the indianies every man who disbeyed the ruin, Oborie, Secretary to the Hongkong within sight of the dead, and I am led
of a thousand infants livad a great con- Telieve itin istiot of the hardniering at the end of six months there would not Bon of cuttin be waiting in slifery he a Chinese constabis lect. They simply and Kokon Wharf and Godown Com- to the present dust-rate. despair til death complete the sork which went off to their village horses, and wrote any requesting that the Company's births registered. They were registered in De Bell six the first step was to get the insanitation fund disc, ne begqj. This is vo Humoured Cir, I feel a littic sick, I
picture of my awufus). I could not get well anywhere than in doctor, Mr Kwan Kin Leong, tay ba allorary blessed British colony except Hong- exdeguruted er fancital
Kong. The colony had been running for but a faithful representation of resity and my native village, so hope you will granted to treat the Company's arployees suffer05 years, and yet it had never been able to
He (Mr May) One that exists, and correctly in the mea furtolout's end freithing from plagre (if there should be any) on 26 it done. If the Chinese could not be Steamship PARRAMATTA, Capt. ||emi, P. &. 0.8, N. Co and of the Chinese, No wonder, then apply wrote back
it
impossi the Company's own prenitsest Kowloon, made to obey the intero Chinese man woman, onỏ chill you feel better, plošno return to yo9instalads isolated from other dwelling is to know that's law to comes this for--BOMBAL-on- SATURDAY, the MAET TO
registration existed hers, but in fuis sister compile correct figures. He was
years of living in the colony he had never heard of a man being proscented for non- compliance with that low.
Mr. Brewin-It has only been in force Dr Bell-It ought to havo baen in force. be
and to get at the trua doath rate of the The iden those men had did feet from the nearest dwellings
have never heard of anyone being pro cobay: we should, I think, allow the sick | hottori-was-ly, get back to their nativa
The President's motion to adopt the re- to be treated in their own homes under villages, where was panty of fresh air. If Mr Ostona explained to the meeting Goran dition, and perdit the balic of they did, they know where they would-be the be found grent difficulty in keeping port and forward it to the Government,
oud Cantonest Had Sato to the meeting sad carried. the dend to be collined in the usual Chinese buried. The adoption of Me Offorss, idea
which was seconded by Dr Clark, was put mon at their work just now. The only way -apanmug" "Bud" removell to four ane-zical: would not belp things in the fenst, because
home or buria. At first, comparatively fawit was impracticable. If they con wriggle was to employ a Chinese doctis, and in- woud probably avail themselves if the out of the Venico Convention so much the mediately a en didu'r eat his chow he was privilege, but when the confocusión cirus to better. If a culio got sok mud wanted to packed away. Several easy which they o known, when it cive to be undere not have the colony, he would love it had been able to send away had his to that nun could disul flagüe ultandod by: Dr Ulark, who also opposed this contube sent to Hospital. He was now to Racer his friends and in his own bous and suck that it had been only saw Hatake, if the Bord allowed it, to erect ave buried according to his most cherished pingue suron from Hr to Buoc, that segregating mat-shed for the sick and
Funny who
could the tresting of a paint in his own bow another matshet for those who developed plague. The coolies objected to being sout to a hospital under European mangerent.
- bug from thy colony, to stuptsadumping of ng Hongkong the Venica Convention and
people in separate untsheds ander obser vation, and if their sickness developed into plague to transfer them to another mustshed and leace then there till they either refor four years, covered or died. The observation and
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38.
those who, through poverty, could not Me May had nah, the ficuis wis impact Bir Any-This is very diferent proposed would ba laes reluctant tegu to the native ble, and the faculties in the way of to allowing enolies to reussin in their own The O. &. Co.'s es. Curtis, with the hospital if they were assured of bolig | carrying : it out wore many. If they were Leasted by their friends, and, in the ovent - wealthy.
• population all right, hat with private
hospital, and I don't [
of death, being red for the redunpopulation many o
juir, are my jégtele
Fraud for be
serinement
have nu ohjection to this
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AMERICAN MALL of 21st May, left Yokohama u Tursday, the 11th Jane, THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
Et daylight, and may be expected re on or about Thursday, the 20th June,"
without fear. These based on his Excellency the Upcornor's Me Ulan Fook al isth the Casol uche I ppose it for The T. K K Amerio Man, with suggestion, int, though there a are - dermis, all wanted to do was to extermitate pla gue which would require to be carefully but after are you of trying they were the roman shut, if you allow this case, considered. I put
then forcat in the tonearer that and hit Usbornes proven will live very many more applications Stm conviction that if lapted they post might be givun trial for a few will not be barres of goodnault months to pon if it would have
Mr. Kurg Wa Chuen Stended, and stic
kind.
Dr Bell-1 vary Casy thing to put
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naint
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thia, proposal on paper, but it in a very The P. M. & S. CO of Peling, with mailaJONSIGN and are bereby informed. niach o nding all time had been different thing to run such a place as a bos the hospital without having a European to look
the present system of dealing with plague and patients was do'ng inere harm than
Town
They had been going on the same, ling
the last seven years, and nothing wit
the health of the colony. WAS
To his ouirion, sufferer Ern, pligne Las good a cluso of retivering in his house us to the hospital He believed were hotler streude by their. oms Dr. Bull said the motion had appar Lacu brought forward with jất vane
they all hyn of trying
Figue come orety
not stop 20 pruge
Aerts Of Domi9188 to
The proposal to treab18) agmer had
Eseling amonget
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Gooda ure landed midnight an saree clay Vix Nagasaki Otand Gouts will las lauded bare gh, at ulkana are given to the Cistrert
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