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SCARLET FEVER.
WEATHER REPORT.
Sor. id. 395-450-Warning to Hong
SOME RIMÄRKABLE FIGURES, Long A typhoon within 60 miles sy
EFFECT OF WAR ON STATISTICS.
Lat 150 K, Lang 1150 E, moving W.
Nov. B 11A 00-Warning to Hongkong and Singapore :-A_typhoon within 60 miles of Lat. 170 N. Long. 1160 E-moring
For.58. 11. -No returns from Japan.
increased modarately Presacre has orer & Manchuris, N. China and the decreased slightly Philippines, and elsewhere: the anticyclone has increased in intensity The typhoon is situated in about Lat, 150 K. Lang. 1186 Emering
wentward.
Hongkong Rainfall for the 4 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 0:09 inch. Total since January lat 92-03 inches, against an average of 50-52 inches.
Forecast for the 24 hours ending at Bock. GeF noon on November 6th.
-- Hongkong - 10 NE winds, strong; cloudy, occasional rain.
The effect of the war on disease! has been studied so closely, says the The Times, that the idea has arisen that we are now in a position to form definite conclusions. While this may be true so far as epidemics such as typhoid fever and typhus fevee are concerned, it is certainly not true In regard to more commonplacr
** war diseases conditions. Indeed, have occupied so much attention that tre have failed to observe the many remarkable phenomena which have appeared in other directions during the years of storm. For this reason a series of tables published by the Ministry of Health on the incidence of notifiable infectious diseases to each sanitary district in England and Wales during the year
-South coat of Chins between 1919 possess a very real importance. Hongkong and Bainan. The same as They enable us to study the factus- So L tions of ordinary epidemic illnesses, ] ...... such as scarlet fever and measles, and they throw what may well prove to be a new light on the effects of the great movements of population "which occurred from 1915
the end hostilities,
It
Rel
take the case of arlet fever as an ample, we find that when the war began, this disease was very prevalent. An epidemic was in pro- gress, which had raised the usual rate per thousand of the population from 284, the figure in 1911, to 4.33,
so far as England was copcerned. A
--Formsons Channel. N. winds, strong tos gale
Leath st of Obies between dongkong and Lamocks. Theme SI So I
HOTAL OBSERVATORY, KOIGIONO, DALY WEATHER XRPRET.
NOVEMBER 3, 1690-m
Station.
Jlqur,
Barometer
Temperature.
Humidity,
decline might have been expected to; vidivostock Ba. 30.12 13
-
30.$2
303
30.25
7 a. 30.08
63007, 68
29.93
set in thereafter in any case, but not Yemuro- perhaps a decline to 1.44, which was Hakodate the figure recorded in 1917 and Tokio.
Kochi again in 1918. The death rates Sagacak. from this disease in these years Kagoshima The Oshima - were the lowest on record. question naturally suggests itself ab whether or not the movements of labijima
Fonin. Laland population, the care taken of human Weihaiwel material in the Army, and in the Stackow- murition factories, and other circum-chang stances incidental to war, exercised Kicking any affect on scarlet fever, or, rather, Changhe on the cause, so far-ar recognized, of Shanghai
Gutzfa the spread of this most disabling Sharp Pk disease. Clearly no answer can be Amoy given ofbard, and, indeed, it is wato essential to avoid conculsions until a Taiboku ----
Taicha much more thorough examination of
IRIDAD.com the position has been made. We may, Koshun however, refer to the well-known Fescadores. theory of the Medical Officer of Health Canton for London, Dr. Hamer, who believes Hongkong!
comexica exists between co
Gap Rock scarlet fever incidence and the pre- Wachow valence of fleas. This view has not Pakhoi been substantiated, On the other Boibowo band it still remains as a possible Folien? hypothesis and Dr. Hamer is entitled Tourane.... C. St. James Apazi..... Dagupan... Hanis sem Legad Tacloban ...
that a
to the suggestion that possibly in creased cleanliness during the war ruay have effected a reduction in the rumber of feas threephout the country. The remarkable fact that.
Bolo
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30.09
29.76 75
400 19.78 -
29,71,78
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C. W JEFFRIES, Director. Hongkong! Observatory, Nov. 5, 1920. 1. BABOM, reäcred to 8 degrees Fabreckeit, on the level of the eos in fnches, tenths and hundredths.
THOD ATTaz, in the shade in de. grees Fahrenheit.
while the scarlet fever rate per Surigao 1,000 persons was 2. 23 for England Gam during 1919 it was 60.98 for the rural tabaan district of King's Lynn, in Norfolk ard 20.35 for the borough of King's Lyno, may have an importance in this connexion. We do not wish to labour these particular figures, be cause they refer to areas having a small population,. which even a few casts make a vast difference to statistical results. Yet we think that! thecries such as that of Dr. Hamer might perhaps be put to the test in places where an abnormal rate shows itself. By this means, conceivably. a clearer knowledge of one of the. most prevalent scourges might be obtained and indications afforded for action towards its control or Limitation.
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3. Eramer, in percentage of maten- tion the omidity of air calorated with moisture being 100.
4- DIRTCHER OF WIND, to two points. 5. FORLE or WD, according to Beadferd Feale.
6. STATE OF WEATHER, b blue sky, c taches, clod. d drading.in,
a gleemy, b hall. I lahtzing,
fog, everest
P passing showera, q equal?, e rain, a mów ttharder y visibility wćen, WIL
7. Fars in Inches terths and hun- dredths.
BONGKONG TIDES.
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Eere is Senator Harding's career in a putshell Barn on a farm near Blooming Grove, Norrow County, Ohio, he is the son of George T. Harding, a country doctor whose ancestors Were Scotch, and Phebe Dickerson, his mother, whose and cestors were Dutch. Young Harding attended the village school at Cale donia, Ohio, and then a secondary school dignised by the name" of Ohio Central College, since dead, of inant- tion. He Eterally worked his way.
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From 1599 to 1903 he represented bis district in the Senate of Ohio, and in 1904 and 1905 he was Lieutenant- Governor of the State. In 1914 he was elected to the United States Senate by a majority of more than 100,000, running 73,000 ahead of the" next man on the ticket. In the Senate h is a member of, the Committee on Foreign Relations. He married, in 1895, Miss Florence Ming, but has no children. He is a member, trustee, and regular atten- dant of the Marion Baptist Church.
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He is described by his political of an American President and his friends as a typical, clean-ent, Government is to America.
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Russel of Killowen in his prime. By in which there will be no foul play- his enemies be is denounced as "ing and will not disturb the long mere respectable figurehead: a continued friendship that has existed puppet candidate, the slave, bound between the two nations. hand and foot, of a Senate cabal and big financiers."
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Siraits Bangkok and Calcutta ADEN. *Straits and *Bangkok Shanghai and North China..." Straite, Bangkok, Lalenza azd ADEN......... Deiren.
4.30 pm.
5 pm.
Swatow, Amby and Formoss via Keelung Amuza Maru 9. *Swatow and "Amoy annumennénekestane munka
∙Chetco..... MONDAY, NOVEMBER §.
Java and Port Mormby ris Bemarang .....: Taikowany!
TURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9. Bolbow and Haiphong - Katlong *wow and Bangkokuuss Japan vs Moji, Bos lol & San Francisco
2 p.m.
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Philippinn alanda men
Temperature i Bagrid by Direction of
Wind Forbe Weather
29.90 22.94
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toward England; on the contrary, he
Harding has no hostile feeling CHINA AGENCY & TRADING CO. OF
HONGKONG. does not hesitate frankly to voice his ) - Iron, Steel & Piece Goods. admiration for the cleverness with Tel. 2143. 10, Queen's Rd. Central - which England has always managed her affairs-managed thein with such
CHIKA OVERSEAS TRADING CO. ability that her power and prestige
(1919), LTD. and importance have constantly in-
Importers and Exporters. creased. He says this without envy Tel 1104. 16, Queen's Rd. Central Governor James Middleton Cox, or rancour, but he also says that whose defeat appears to be inevitable England has set an example that
CHU KYOKU TRADING CO. from progress results we America should follow and the same
Importers and Exporters. published yesterday, has been three single purpose that has always been times Governor of Ohio, his the British policy of promoting pative State.
WES He
born national interests should now be pur 2108 and 2908. on a farm in Butler County in 1870. sued by the United States.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE.
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EDWARD MOW FUNG. Import & Export-Merchant.
He started life as a teacher in the **It would have been crass folly for district school in which he had been the United States, he said, 'to as- educated, but he spent his evenings sume a mandate over a country in Tel 1676 60, Des Voeux Rd. Cd and holidays in a printing office, which the United States has no and became a reporter on the political interests."
Cincinnati Enquirer. After ten years. In one of our conversations I with the Enquirer he went to brought up specifically the subject of Tel Washington as private secretary to Anglo-American relations and the Mr. Paul Sore, a member of Congress. commercial rivalry between the two In 1898 he bought the Dayton countries as a sequel to the war Daily News borrowing most of which may produce some irritation, the money to pay for it!
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Harding anticipates some, but he Tel. 2203. 28, Queen's Rd. Centrale and five years later the Springfield does not fear it will threaten the har Daily News Mr. Cox was first mony of intercourse. He believes elected to Congress in 1908 for the that the United States ought to carry Third Chic District, and became the the great bulk of her Atlantic com leader of the Democratic Party la merce in her own bottoms and is the State in 1912.. when he was ruly convinced that this is for the nominated for Governor. The legis benefit of America.
How foolish we have been, be
We built up England's great Tel.
lation for which he is is best known includes a model workmen's `com- pensation law and a child labour says law, which have been extensively merchant fleet, we made Germany's copied in other States, while the mercantile marine possible, but we Obio, school code enacted under his must not repeat that folly. We must direction has been received with give our carrying trade and its Tel. general approval Governor Cox Profits to other nations when we recently purchased a farm near Jack ought to keep those profits in our
own pockets." sonburg, where he was born, and is
Harding foresees a sharp struggle making it into a modern farm home between. England and the United for himself on his retireinent from
States for the trade of South America, public, office. He is married and which, in his opinion, the United has four children.
HARDING ON ENGLAND,
-AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW.
States and not England ebould con- tról, because South America is within the sphere of America's infinence and not England's.”
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TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was received by the American Consulate General from the Manila Observatory": at 11.30 a.m. to-day
Typhoon is about 115 Long E and; 14 deg. Lat.N moving WNW;
hostile tribesmen. On the other:
FROM BAD TO WORSE IN hand communication between
MESOPOTAMIA.
20.-The London, September
Bagdad and the Mosul vilayet to the Morning Fast correspondent who has
north, which had been interrupted by spent the past few days at Senator
raids on the Bagdad-Samawa-Mosul Harding's home in Marion, Ohio, has
Mesopotamia continues to absorb railway, is being successfully restored had several conversations with the Senator on his policy, especially so ever more men and munitions. The by a column of infantry, cavalry, and far as it relates to England. The forces employed there cannot now be artillery moving northwards up the corespondent says that Harding was less than 100,000, and the fact that line, and several British prisoner in not averse to having his position no speedy settlement is expected is Arab hands have been rescued. clearly mated to English readers shown by the despatch of yet more notably Mrs Buchanan, whose through the Morning Post and that troops from India and by the per husband was recently kilied by the where he has been quoted it is with chase by the Government of a mum Insurgents. Sir Percy Cox will ber of high-powered motor-cars for shortly reach Mesopotamia with, full his own permission. A
Harding's policy, in a few words" conversion Into armoured cars. The powers to handle the situation but says the correspondent, will be a garrisons of Hillah, Kufa and there is little hope of any speedy ime policy of America first, protection Samawa are sull invested by provement,
of American Interešti, fostering and development of American commerce and un-American merchant, marine/ and recognition that the first duty.
rimed and Published for THE CONCERNED BY GEOBOE WILLIAM
CADE BUZNETS, Editor, No.