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151
THE GENUINE
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YES, WHY WORRY?
THE INDIAN PLAGUE
Use of Disinfectants.
SIM A, Juno 24th.The following are the main portions of a report on the use of disinfectants in connection with plagna addressed on the 25th May by Capt. Glen Liston, MS., Acting Director, Bombay Bacteriacion Laboratory, to Colonel
Intimations.
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1908.
Rember, L.M.B., oficiating Sanitary Con MITSUBISHI GOSHFKWAISHA
missiner, the Government of India and now published by the latter-
ABOUT your Business, realth, Pleasurer, Friends Abend, your Love Affairs and
The experiments on the puboldal powers? Changes in late. Yen, Why Worry! Canxalt Pharoa. He is able to advise Fat, Console you and Warn you. His ambition in this life is to help those in trouble, of the diemfestants enumerated below have and mast not be classed with the run of Palmists who are their Suppoed Gifts to make buen onzied out by Capt. T. H. Hoster, money, Pharos is independent of this. Wsihog nikto to halt ali i uble and
IM.S., with mut labour md cars. 16" relay their anxiety to the best of his ability and experience,
will be well at the outset to properly PHARDS HAS A MESSAGE TO YOU.
stummet the he will proses. Will your appraise the value of disinfection with Yap are in love are 1 made a wise choice regard to plague. It is an atom to state that a disinfectant can only be useful whon Binees? Should be wine in going shroad?
Yon are anxious to pay your fi daughter be happy in her married life 4. in mato? Eball takes partner inte my All there questions. Phatan pay her figvis by the def astray. Why not applied directly to the micro-organism in put this to the test 1 Bend Ku. Value 1/ and addressed, stamped required directly to kill. In order then 40, Union Street, Glasgow with your Birth Date, Fulled to combat the spread of plague, is it
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OLIVER
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1744
that a disinfectant, may be usefully employ
MITSUBISHI 00.)
COAL DEPARTHENT MARUNO UCHI, TORIO.
IWASAKI CASER ADDRESS: which applies to all Branch Offices.
41, ABO 5th Edition, Western Union Codes mod.
necessary to know where sud to whitAl Letters to be Addressed :- extent plague germe may exist in nature.
It has recently been conclusively proved that the plague is communicated to pai from cats by means of
BAT FLEAR
Tau
The disease is solder if ovar, except by accident transmitted directly from sick parsors to healthy individuals. In other words, contact with the excreta of sick. animals or utan is rarely the means by which the disease is required. excreta, if they contain playne Lacilli, ape haruless. The plague bacilli when present in oxareta rapidly disappear from them. The exereta become disinfected by untural procesas, a few hours suficing in this climate to bring about the deste etion of any plays bacilli in thom. This rateral disinfection is accomplished either by expo sure of the lagne bacilli to desiccation or in most conditions is brought about by the developraent and multiplication of expre phytic bacteria which are inimical to the existance of plague bacill. As has been stated above, plague is communicated from rate to rato and from rats to man by means of the mat fea. In the body of this insect
8113 the pingue bacilli are protected from the above-mentioned natural disinfectants; here they are protected from desiccation.
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EA, 138, 160 16 11 The Accumulated Famils of the Fles and ullo Departments we ime from liability in rospect of each other tomes d'&.
SHEWAN, TUMES
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HOW TO DO MORE BUSINESS.
MAN
ANY AMERICANS bare built ap great commercial enterprises, by the use of Trade-zene items eappled by our CLIPPING BUREAU: Chinese mer chants can do the same if the
it they follow American methods, he had
We slip business news from teore than 60,000 papers monthly, and would these items to you while there is good profpeot of supplying what is needed and doing buktresa
We can send you news and allpplinge ou any line of businese, or my subject, and you will be able to know, IN TRUTH, just what American business methods are like, and where there are openings for Chiness Suppose, for instande, you "aro a maker of Potterysar Clipping Barest might find in some papar an itam saying that a
and from the action of saprophytic bacteria HETI APERIENT WATER|erchandise
in the stomach of the flea, so they find a
suitable supply of food in the blond-
which is sucked by the insect from its host. S.S. SAN CHEUNG
The digestive processes gain in the stomach of the fer appear to cause little injury to the plague bacilli. As long as the flea remains slive the bacilli ne pro- tected and preserved on the death of the flea the natural disinfection
processes referred to above quickly destroy any plague bacilli which may have been present in its body. We are thus 196 in s position to know that plague Ensili exist in nature either in the body of a plague sick animal chictly te rat) or in the stomach of a rat Sex which has fed on such an aimai, Any disinfectant to be useful must be dievoted against the plagio bacilli. In these situations.
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of the room are expelled, to live or work in it. The pulicide mast, however, bu applied within 24 hours after the death of the rat, and it should be remembered that the room is always liable to reinfection by: the advent of fresh plague-infected rats carrying fleas with them into the roem,
From what has hoon eaid above it is okrious that DAGAR
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LABOR LABAS, * == Hongkong, February 10, 1908.
ALFRED HERBERT HENNIE DECEASED.
SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY,
THE
of the above deceased invites offers the purchase by Private Treaty at the undermentioned Property, giz:-
Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Estate
All that piece or parcel of grid situate at Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong. containing an ages of 199,560 square feet red known and registered in the Land Cafes, as Lot No. 1533 hald under a Crown, Less for the unexpired residue of a term of 75 years from the 9th day of April, 1901, at the Annual Crown Rent of $552, together
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PABE
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THE REVENUE OF CHINA,
A SERIES OF ARTIOLES. Reprint from The China Mali,
WINE AN APPSSDIF
The residents is exceptionally well sitna- fed on an elevation close to the junction of the Magazins Gap and Bowen Roads and close to the Rowan Read Tram Station.
The house is fine two-storied building carfairing Frary modern convenience."
The bailding contains largo. Basement, and well arranged Laundry On Ground Kloor-Drawing Room, Billiard Room (fail. To be had at the Orros of 2013 PazzTE size) and Dining Boon, Kitchen and other wwal Offioca..MAANA
which is alike pisonous to ints and deagatsu with all that substantially built rēsi- and which is capable of penetrating date the inaccessible places frequented by these. creatures is the only one which offers much hope of success, in combating the plague. At present experimente are being carried. on in, this Laboratory with a machine (Clayton gas machine) which pro dace a large volume of gas poisonous alike to mts and fleas, The advan tage of this machine is foned in a mochanical device which forces the gas into the room to be disinfected and so brings about a greater concentration and diffusion of the disinfectant than has ever before been accomplished, Apathy low. ever, from these experiments, which have not yet been completed, cortain experi ments have been carried out with Liquid visinfectants. These latter experiments prove that the ordinary disinfectants. need for destroying bacilli oro of little use
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