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*MAN'S INSECT ENEMIES."
INTERESTING UNIVERSITY
LECTURE.
In the Great Hall of the Hongkong Fairersity. yesterday evening. Dr. Francis Cark, M.D., formerly Pro fessor of Medical Jurisprudence and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University, and Medical Officer of
At the offices of the Public Works Department yesterday afternoon the lease for 45 years of 52,500 square feet Health for the Colony, gave a very of Government and at Pokfulum interesting lecture on "Man's Insect
HONKONG'S HEALTH.
LAST WEEK'S 109 PLAGUE ' CASES.
SMALL PON ALSO INCREASES.
Last week the number ct plague cases reached 109 with 74 fatal and one imported. Of this total 72 were from the city and the remainder from the other districts
The previous week 83 cases
TUESDAY, MAY 9 927.
CHINESE BANKS AND
GOVT. BONDS.
UNAUTHORIZED.. ISSUES AND CREDIT BADLY IMPAIRED: BANKERS-PROTEST TO PEKING.
SHART MEASURES XENDED.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
WANCHAI MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Domestic trouble was the cause of a double tragedy in a Japanese bouse. in Praya East yesterday morning. The victima wire a Japanese married woman named Matsumoto,
The value of Chinese national bond aged 27 years, and an elderly Japanese man named Maruyama, oft has in recent years been declining aged 54 years. The tragedy occurred continuously. The Shanghai Chinese on the second floor of No. 125, Praya
Rosd was sold to Mr. Leung Ki-ho for Luetties" to a large gathering of plague (50 fatal and one imported bankers, seeing the deplorable state of East, shortly before 11 o'clock. The $12,700. The upset price was $6,380. stedents and their friends.
Dr. C. Y. Wang, a former
Two Chinese quarrelled while having a meal in a coolie house yes-
student
were reported
During the 48 hours ended yester/ the national finances, called a bankers dat was occupied by a Japanesa A Chinese woman was yesterday under Professor Cark, and present day, 28 more cases were notified, 18 conference in October; 1920, when a pediar nimed Takigawa, and the resolution was passed recommending woman, Matsumoto, lived with him. altemoon admitted to the over-fessor of Pathology at the fatal sad one imported.
During the corresponding period the Government a scheme for the Maruyama was a friend of both ment Civil Hospital suffering from laiversity, was in the Chair, and among juries to the left arm received through those present st the lecture were H.E. last week 45 cases (33 fatal) were reconsolidation of the national debts, parties, and was a frequent visitor to The scheme was duly proposed to the house. What occurred in the Bat ported.
and accepted by, the Government yesterday morning only the two dead being knocked down by a meat truck the Governor (Chancellor of the Co- iversity), Sir William Brunyate.
All the cases hitherto reported a result, a committee for the people knew, as Takigawa was aleent at the junction of Jubilee Street.
K.OMG, (Vice Chancellor), Lady have been Chinese,
consolidation of nations! loan at the time. So quarrel or sound of Last week 16 cases of small porvie was formed and a
new issue Brunyst and many members (f the
scutie was heard by the people professional staff Kev. V. II Copley (12 fatal) were notified against zine
called the "Chinese Government occupying the door below-a Japanese week's were at Chinese, the previons Dowbiggin.
After Dr. Wang bad introduced the weak's one Indian and the others ment of the Money Market was The first that was known of the made to take the place of the bonds tragedy was when the carpenter heard lesturer, and spoken in glowing terms Chinese
a commotion in his backyard, and of the part he had taken in training During the 48 hours ended rester of the First Year 6 per cent and students in China, and particularly in day six cases of small pox (four fatal) of the 5th Year 7 per cent national rushing out found the man, Maru- Mr. A. R. Love will represent the Hon konz, in the principles and were recorded, all Chitest. This rom-loans. A committee was formed for rama lying unconscious in a pool of justices of the peace as unofficial practice of Western medicine, first a pleted the return for the two days, the purpose of supervising these blood with an ugly gash in his throat and controling the sinking fond of the and very severe injuries received by Legislative Council member during third Dean of the Hongkong College Three fatal cases Mr. H. E. Pollock's absence on leave of Medicine, and later of the Univer- Chinese and one of enteric fever, new bonds and thereby public can the fall from a height of some 10 feet. after being As Mr. Lowe's mamination was the sity, Dr. Clark addressed the gather completed the list for the cor-fidence was greatly stimulated. The He expired soon
shop. When responding period the previons prices of various nations! bonds began
to go up and it ass for the Gover the police arrived, they entered the He expressed the pleasure it gave week.
terday. One man threw a bowl in Moyle, Dr. Saunders and Mr. H. B. L. fatal) the previous week. Las Short Term Leas for the Improve carpenter, with his wille and familys.
the other's face. causing bad ents: The iajdred man hospital. the other to the police
station.
was taken to
only one received an election was not ing. DECEFRATT."
For driving motor car No. 243 between 25 and 30 miles an hour at the junction <f Natham and Gascoigne Reads, a 10-mile control ares, Mr. Nemazee's chauffeur was by ficed $10 this morning Magistrate Fraser,
of small pox,
into the
him to be in the Colony again after In addition to the plague and small ment to maintain the stimulated second floor and there found the seven years' absener, and said he did por cases already mentioned there credit by refraining from farther woman, not think Le could do better than to re reported isst weck £re cases of borrowings. "plough once again a small corner of enteric fever (one fatal), three the vast field of preventive medicine" British, one. Portuguese and other which had engaged so large a share of Chinese; three of his thoughts and energies for the past notifiable, all Chinese. thirty years. Aware that bis audience contained lay as well as medical students, the lecturer remarked that whilst the treatment of disease was matter solely for physitions and surgeop",
Matsumoto, unconscious with stab wound in her A SECRET NUE
neck. She www.s immediately The Government, en the contrary, taken to the hospital in the moter influenza (not issued bonds without any aathority ambulance. She never recovered in excess of the prescribed cumbers. consciousness and died an hour after The previous week thefollowing cases This unauthorized act was unknown admission
The pellar, Takigawa, could give reported in addition to plague to the public unt March 23 1922,
The master of the steam launch "Sang Lee" was foed $10 (or 14 days jail) by the Marine Magistrate (Commdr. Beckwith R.N.) for baring had his boat lying catside two others interest alongside the starboard gangwar of the se. "China on April 25.
An elderly Chinese accidentally fell into the Larbour from the praye wall in Connaught Road Central near the Canton what yesterday afternoon. He was promptly rescued by best people, but was unconscious when brought ashore. He died at the hos pital soon after admittance.
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and small par-nine of small pox when Sir Francis Aglen. Inspector the police na ass stance in reconstruct- (six fatal), one Indian and eight General of the Maritime Customs, ing the tragedy, which, of course, Chinese: nice of enteric fever (ore brought the matter to light. There obviously pointed to murder and everone's fatal), four Chinese, two British, two was s panic. The price of national suicide on the part of the man. Marc- to study the conditions Japanese, and one Indian; two of ing bonds dropped low. With trade de gawa. No motive is apparent In- that would enable them to lead a fuerza (both fatal), Chinese; one of pression and political disturbance the vestigation is proceeding healthy life and "avoit the hidden puerperal fever, Chinese, dangers which dog our footsteps from the cradle to the grave."
AUBONIC PLICTE.
¦ Dr. Clark drew attention to certain diseases of man, communicated to him either directly or indirectly by some member of the insect world. The fint of the diseases was one unhappy too well known in this Colony--ba bonis plague which had scourged
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panic was leading headlong towards a national financial crisis. To save the Goverment from
into going
Hoping to defraud the fire icsur- bankruptcy and to prevent it from
Chinese ance company a Wai Oi Maloo stant cleansing of streets and back further borrowing, the lanes, of yards and of all open spaces taskers had to do something and (Canton) shop proprietor attempted control to set fire to his shop yesterday contiguous to dwellings should be the that something was to first cate of every householder.
effectively the Government loans. A morning. The alarm was raised, Moreover, as the rat is by nature memorandam was accordingly drawn however, and he was arrested. might prowle, issuing from its nest up by the Shanghai Chinese Barkers after dark to seek food for itself and Association and submitted to the
its progeny, it is donbly important National Bankers' Conference held at
Tobacco, and of other sources we beg to advise that the Government shoulă make sach payments in accordance with the regulations, so as duly to carry out the national loana, re- gardless of the fact that the Sinking Fund is fully provided for by the Salt and the Customs surplus.
A Penary correspondent sites mankind at intervals for the st that these open space should be clear Hangchow last April. The three vennes of the Ministry of Communi- that at a public meeting of Indians three thousand years-in fact Dr. ef refuse by rundown, and that no essential features of the memorandum cations, of the Bares of Wme and and Ceylonese in Penang it was Clark indicated a reference to it in fresh refuse should be cast there dar are as followe decided to erect welcome arches for the Bible (I. Sazazel, V). It had acing the hours of darkness. A further (1) -The Minis'ry of Finance should both communities for the Prince of counted for 7,000,000 deaths in Indis necessary Trecaution consists in the at once inform the Bankers' Associa Wales's visit. Another arch will be alone in the last 25 years. Epidemics destruction of rats and rat fleas on ion of all particulars of the national erected by the Muslim community in of this disease in man were invariably | board ships calling at plague infested loss redeemed and unredeemed. Macalister Road and the poor will be preceded by bigh mortality from ports, sad the prevention of the accers
(2)-The Sinking Funds of the loans fed.
the same case among fats, marmets of rats to ships from wherres and vice should be an ited from time to time and kindred small mammals. Yer. The Hon. Mr. (land Severn, sin was the first to prove that the interes, for it is by ships that the dis by the bankers.
ease is net frequently spread from |CM.G., Colonia! Secretary, left for fection WAS not directly com. one country to another."
Peking on elort leave yesterday. A municated from the animal to the Government Gazette Extraordinary buman victim but that there was an issued yesterday announced the ep pointment of Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher to act as Colonial Secretary during Mr Severn's absence and Mr. A. Dyer Bail as Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils.
csually in change of scene. Luckily
on the Esplanade. dreamer is an indefinite and incomin this colony of Hongkong it is easy, municable longing, which makes him and a matter of minutes, to reach
this
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(3)-That in case of new national losas the Government should at once publish all particulars in the Govers ment paper and inform all bansers'
sociations of the same.
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THE DESIRED REMEDY. Apart from the measures for the provision of the Sinking Fuud, says the petition, we beg to make the fol lewing proposals concerning the issue of the national bonds:
(1)-As it has been discovered that there are certain bonds in excess of
If
Dr. Clark next dealt with Malaria intermediary, in this case, the rat fes. The problem therefore, was to which he said was known clinically as
These three points were approved reduce the number of rat fleas and far back to the fifth century before the obvious way was to reduce the Christ, when the different varieties of by the Conference and embodied in Eibed by a petition presented to the Govern number of rats.
It was quite easy, by means of Hippocrates but it was not until 1880 ment on April 20, 1922, which point the schedule numbers, it should be s poisan and traps, to produce a tem- that Laveran discovered the specific ed out that loans fated from time to certained whether or not such bords A Penang correspondent wires porary reduction in the rat popule- patasite in the human blood, and in time and not yet redeemed, still have been issued by the Government. that the provisional arrangements for tion, but the enormous fertility of 1894 that Manson, working in this amount to more than $300,000,000. If they were forged, the matter the Prince of Wales' visit to Penang there animals was euch that any Colony, suggested that these parasites According to article 9 of the should be seriously dealt with on May 23 are as follows: Reception reduction brought about by these were carried by mosquitoes. Ronald Consolidated Loan Service which they were issued by the Government at Victoria Pier st 10.30 a.m., means was abolished within a few Boss followed up this idea sad alter provides for the protection of the (a) seecozities for loans or (b) nów in circulation in the market, the inspection of guard of honour of months. One pair of healthy young three years of close laboratory work Binking Fund, the bankers shall IZETE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICK" Pression in various waye here, in long ex-Service men, then a drive along rate, given an ample food supply, he hit upon the species of mosquito elect representatives to take pair Government should at once call back and lonely walks, in yachting rips, the decorated streets to Government and have 900 dscendants within which 13 the actual carrier in the roanagement thereof. The (and destroy) such bonds in exchange or even in the composition of poems House, where there will be a rive moths (laughter). Acother of the infection. The lecturer rebackers are therefore under a duty for other bonds of similar value or and though it
Eucasian guard of honour. The point had to be considered, that counted the familiar mesures against which cannot be denied by them and make due provision for the Sinking. relancholy
Prince will tiffia at the Perang Club, Curing and alter a rat plague the breeding of mosquitoes and under an obligation which cannot be Fund, hand over the came to the it is
ad ispect guard of honour of epidemic, one destroyed by poison mentioned that the reason spraying shifted to others. Now owing to the Committee for the Consolidation of more than the echo of migratory Chinese and Malays. He will play the survivors of the epidemic, one large sheets of water with kerosene unsettled politient conditions and to National Loan Service to be paid impulses, of hereditary memories of polo in the afternoon and make sa Tte dawn arrives, and the dar nomadic habits. So and chiefly so it unofficial departure at 6.30 p.m. Twas destroying rats that had acquired was effective was that the insect the recurring disturbing rumours, the into the Sinking Funds and treat such
a certain immunity to plague and breathed through pores in the skin prices of the bonds have fallen low. bonds as authorized ones,
(2) These bonds which have been proceeds, and in the heart of the wha manifested, and comfort found Prince will probably attend the sports they would be speedily replaced by and when these were choked it died The National Banker Conference |
young non-immune rats; a consum- at once. Sir Ronald Ross stated that was this year held, when the following sued by theGovernment from time to Hongkong was one of the places where proposals were made with a view to
as to their descriptions, amounts, and The news that the Prince of How the, can we hope to control the best work was being done in the strengthening the credit of the time should be classified and scheduled to sigh, and to stir uneasily. He some height from wind Prout Waks will pay visit to British North the rat population 1" said Dr. Clark. prevention of malaria and the lecturer bonds
(1)-Where according to the regula distinctive numbers, and should be on ecarcely knows the meaning of unfamiliar may be found. Yachts Borneo bas cansed great satifaction. By reducing to a minimam their was sure this would encourage locali
med may go to the Isle of Monkeys, there. The local Herald breaks out food supply.” The average rat popala. folk to redouble their efforts against tions of the national loans, payments one hand published in the news which the Chinese call Lintin, feeding into a long leading article on the tion of any ordinary haman com- & disease justly described as the most are to be made out of the Salt Surplus | papera and the other hand printed in the bankers associations in various on lobscouse, and frying as many enbject, of which the opening manity is estimated to be not less formidable enemy of man in all we beg to sdvise that the Government pamphlet form to be distributed to
should make such payments on due paragraph is reproduced here The than the equal of the human populatpical countries. and come
of His Excellency and
dates, and that we may in writing parts of the country so that they may ✔ OTHER DISEASES. tion-thus for England alone it is put
which the issue has not yet been ly well cotil it gets it. Perhaps he boastful of how much better they feel
Mrs. Pearson from the Malaya roughly at 36 millions-whüe the
After discussing yellow-fever, which request the Chief Inspector of the be widely known, while others of Borneo Exhibition at Sis spore value of the human fod consomed was fortunately not known in this, Salt Revenue to act on behalf of the authorized should all be destroyed so zasays to communicate something of for it. They are the wall favoured with the wonderful news of the 1s these rodents is estimated in Eng- part of the world, the diseases Government on due dates and in a that their issue may for ever be pre- the feeling, to wife or trend, and few. Others of us get the like cure
projected visit of His Royal Hish money at about £1 per rat per conveyed by the common house fly; cordance with the regulations ac vented and public suspicion and very likely he is acrised
anxiety may be removed." by climbing the Peak, and from fill-which is like Severn's Walk gazing along the Highness the Prince of Wales to sznum, so that there are moet cogent the book-worn disease and diseases tioned by the Government.
(2)-Where according to the regula Jesselton has caused a Wave of
(3.) The Government should give Commercial reasons for preventing the conveyed by pansites, Dr. Clark crasting through
unpath on the waters to the west, enthusiasm and. gratified surprise
national bends in future without due' chutch window during service, or where the silhouetted sails of surely throughout, the Territory. North access of its to food stored for dealt with recent investigations into tions of the national loans paymests] if Joliet on her blony were to janks suggest faerie seas forlorn for Borneo is young, and Jesselton, in human consumption.
infantile paralysis which suggested are to be made out of the Customs express orders prohibiting the issue of Godowos; stores and wharves can that it was conveyed by a fly known Surplus, we beg to advise that such provision of a sinking fand and also But whether we take a long comparison with Colombo, Singapore. a dieharmony. At Home they would weekend or an evening hour to it Hongkong and such great cities of be rendered rat proof by the use of as Lurlia Casse, and these investiga surplus, after deducting the payment prohibiting the pledging of unisoned should wholly forms part of the bonds may for ever cease to have the be sure to diagnose the complaint as here, praise be, is ever waiting the the ad is but a primitive cette concrete and cheet iron, while dwell- tions were instance of the collaboration of the indemnities and foreign lost, bonds for loans so that the national Conclading, Dr., Clark remarked Sinking Fund and the Government differentiation of valid and invalid Hurk Twain does in one of his tales.cure for that numb, dumb ache with-ment. Yet His Royal Highness, with ines can be so cocstracted as to of veterinary and medical workers. Tuey would be sure to say: "We out a name, concealment of which that gracious charm for which he is afford no hiding places for there. But kow our trouble, old man. We've should never be let, like the worm in already world-famous, has not dis-rata feed, not only upwa aach food as that he did not suggest war should be) should not in future use the cancelled issues and the holders "ard the par- I bad it. It is the Spring Fever.the bad, to prey on damask or even dained to turn aside and honour og buman beings live upon, but also waged upon all insects there were Russian and German inderemities for chasers of the bonds may not, hava
all kinds of unexpected anxieties. You'll get over it. Which again is diapered cheeks. er Unto an high
by au informal visit. May we not in upon garbage and refuse, and it is not less than 500,000 different species other purposes, and that we may in
We beg to recommend the abors like unto the offering of a stone to one place," gentles, is the idea, alike for deed pride ours Ives on the fact that essential that no such” garbage be left but only upon those known to con- writing request the Inspector General wsating breid. Here in Honkong it care of Springtime discontents sa for the very smallness of our community accrasible to them. In other words, vey disease or to be destructive in of the Matit me Customs, on de to men at other simi's than these of prophet. All the same, otte little emphasises and enhances this signal the problem of the prevention of other ways Many insects served dates and in accordance with the proposals to be carried into fect, plague resolves itself into a question most useful purpose in the scheme of regulation, to press for and collect which have been made by the Na #he vernal equinox.
voyage to Lantin is one of those events
of efficient scavenging, combined with life, for without their assistance there money from other various sources to tional Bankers Conference of this the rat proofing of dwellings, of would be no such thing, for instance, be used as parts of the Sinking Fandyest
A copy of the above proposa's has Not to one man here and there, of a that claim a permanent niche among.
stables and cow sheds and of all stores the cross fertilization of flowers, and to pay such moneys into the The and mooty kind, but so many, our-bappier temories, and these fest.
a request for this support. "In reply I comes to men of business reputa words it gratitude are quite in order, For rheumatism you will fed nor him for food, but the greatest of these 18 and we should lack many of the most fustoms surplus for the purpose of been sent to Sir Francis Aglen with
redeeming the national losus.
(3)--Where according to the re- he expressed in a telegram on April on, to man whom, superfi tally Done at our office this fair eighth better than Chamberlain's Pain Balm scavenging. All food satus should delicious fruits known, you would never suspect of of May, in the year Ninetees Twenty Now is the time to get rid of it. Try this be placed at once in covered metal De Waug then proposed a vote of
ments are to be made out of the re-proval to the proposals. ang leaning toward rounce. Nor is two. Foreman! Ranit in se Taesent and see how qol kit it will receptacles which should be emptied thanks to the lecturer which was gulations of the national loans pay-24 last his hearty support and sp-
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