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Empress of Asia July 10, 1920
P.P.C.
"FRAUGHT WITH DANGER"
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929.
FLUSH CLOSETS
SANITARY BOARD
A SELECT COMMITTEE
PRAPS
PRAPS NOT!
(as seems likely to be the case at present) able to prove effective owing to the depth of water. It QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AT would seem desirable that such gear should be placed at con- venient points on the coast, thus minimising the time of its being put into use. The outlay would
In pursuant to notice, Mr. An Aberdeen magistrate once be fully justified, even though M., K. Lo asked several questions gave away something for nothing. submarine disasters are nowadays at the fortnightly meeting of the It was a piece of advice.
happily of rare occurrence. Such gear might also be carried by the swifter war vessels, who could be communicated with by wireless. Only by such means is there much likelihood of lives being saved in Above such unlucky accidents.
Sanitary Board yesterday relative
to flush water closet applications. Husband (to his wife, who has The questions and answers as been shopping): "What do you want given by Mr. W. J. Carrie, Chair with a new frock?" man of the Board, are as follow: "Wife (happily): "How thought-
Question:-With reference
for permission to instal
to
flush
ful of you, darling! Of course I'd
all, the gear in question should be applications to the Sanitary Board like a new hat to go with it." of the very beat and the most up-water closets; is it the ruling of
Otherwise, to-date procurable.
*
+
She: "He has a most extra-
(a) That such applications ordinary figure, hasn't he?" must be refused if the available)
as on the present occasion, there the Board:- is small hope of valuable lives being saved in such sad calami- ties.
to
A Chinese woman who yesterday afternoon atteripted commit suicide by swallowing opium, is now in the Government Civil Hospital in a serious condition.
He: "That's so. I believe an
Government sewer is for any umbrella is the only thing he ean reason not considered satisfactory buy ready-made."
as a direct means of discharge,! and
(b) That in urban areas on sea level septic tanks cannot be allowed?
A Select Committee Appointed Before the answers were given to Mr. Lo's questions, Mr. Carrie said:
An elderly gentleman approached one of the attendants in the travel- ling menagerie.
"Can you tell me what that hump on the camel's back is for?" he asked politely!
The keeper scratched his car. "What its for?" he murmured. "Yes; what use has it?" "Well, it's pretty useful, sir. That old camel wouldn't be much use without it, you know."
"But why not?"
"Why not!" exclaimed the keeper in surprise. "Well, you don't sup- the pose people 'ud pay sixpence to see 2 Selectim if 'e 'adn't got an 'ump, do
yer?"
"Is there a death scene in your
Dr. R. E. Tottenham, professor of obstretics and gynaecology,. Hong Before I answer these questions advisable to remind seems Kong University, and Mrs. Totten-it ham left by the 2.8, "Shinyo Maru" members that as applications for to-day for America. Dr. Bernardo the installation of lush systems to problems de Sousa and Mr. S. Komor left by frequently give rise the same steamer.
of a highly technical nature, and in order that applications may be
with, A workman is now in the Govern-expeditiously dealt ment Civil Hospital in a serious Board has appointed condition aa the result of being Committee of itself, consisting of atrack on the head by a large rock the Vice-President, the Medical during excavation work in connec- Officer cf. Health and two Unoffi tion with the construction of the cial members to exercise the new drama?**
"Yes, there is. The actor mur- new No. 1 dock at the Kowloon powers and functions of the Board
under Section 162 of the Public dera the part of the hero every Docks.
Health and Buildings Ordinance evening." When an Indian money-lender 1903 provided always that where
An actor who earned a large sued a Chinese At the Summary the Select Committee shall not be
decision the income but spent it as soon as he Court yesterday for the recovery unanimous in their
to the got it, was buttonholed by a needy China at the moment (Chiang of $14.40 being the balance of a matter shall be referred Kai-shek) and one of the raost judgment debt, the Puisne Judge, Board for decision." A unanim-individual. powerful of the other leaders (in Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, entered ous decision of this Committee is judgment against the defendant, therefore the decision of the Feng Yu-hsiang) has not ended.making an order that the sum be Board.
Answer: (a) I do not like to Action has been adjourned, prob-repaid at the rate of ten cents a ably sine die. To review the year. His Lordship criticised the call it a ruling of the Board as circumstances
method employed by the Indian in each application is, I know," con- which have
on its own merits, doubling the amount and actually sidered fully brought about postponement of having the temerity to come into but an application must be refus- the day of reckoning is beyond the Court to claim $40, when the aced if there is no satisfactory sewa scope of an editorial, as laborious tual sum due was only $14.40. explanation of detail is necessary
Át an exhibition of modern
Question:If the answer before the man in the street can photography to be held at the comprehend the intricacies of the Hong Kong University Union from (b) is in the affirmative, what are
afternoon until Saturday, the reasons for such ruling? case. We are concerned with con-
Answer: Septic tanks are con- specimens of the work of leading sequences in their possible effect British art photographers will be sidered
wholly unsuitable pictorial, urban areas and would not be al- displayed embracing on-trade.
and press photo-lowed in any modern city,
this
It cannot be gainsaid that commercial Chiang Kai-shek has suffered an graphs. Mr. Wesson, an expert in photography, who is at present in obvious check. For once, since he the Colony, will lecture on Thurs was acclaimed in 1925 as Ching's day at 5.15 an invitation is extent- soldier of the hour, has he gone ed to all interested in photography to great expense (not only in money) and, in the hour of achievement, had to climb down.
His paramount desire was the circumvention of Feng Yu-hsiang
to attend.
CORRESPONDENCE. VACCINATION A PREVENTIVE?
ол. SO
er connection available.
(a) Septic tanks in urban areas cannot be alleweil.
to
in
"You haven't two shillings?" he began.
"Who told you?" replied the actor.
A reporter had been sent to attend a certain meeting, and, armed with his pencil and notebook, he took up
position below the platforma.
He worked very swiftly, and the speaker glanced at him rather ner vously every now and again, after- wards speaking with greater and greater speed.
But the faster he spoke the quicker the reporter's pencil flew over the paper. Finally, the orator could stand it no longer.
"No so fast!" he cried, leaning Septic Tanks?
down over the platform. "Not Ba Questions:-(iii) Is it à fact fast! I can't keep up with ye." that a well-known firm of archi- tects have sent in to the Board a
plan for a septic tank (in connec- tion with an application for per- mission to instal water closets in Kowloon) as to which such archi-is tects made certain claims of com-
function as in-
on
g
+
Charity Collector: "Can 1 ace Lady Brown? I--"
Maid: "I'm. sure, malam, her Ladyship cannot see you now, as she in the middle of a plate of soup."
"Well." said the old man, "we boiled 'im.";
The following story is told by an plete suitability?
(iv) If the answer to the last M.P., who wishing to conciliate an question is in the affirmative, isoid captain of his, a voter, sent him with the minimum of warfare-
there any reason to doubt that a splendid pine-apple from his hot the minimum because he realises To the Editor of the "China Mail."3 septic tanks could be designed and house.
Sir,-With regard to the letter constructed to
"I hope you liked it," he said to that war would harm himself just by "C. M." published in your dicated in the last question, and the old man, when he met him a few as much as others, including the paper yesterday. I agree whole- if so, what are the reasons for days afterwards.
on the such doubt"
"Well, yes, thankee. Pretty well, people. To accomplish what he heartedly with his view
(v.) If septic tanks eculd be but I suppose we sort of people are wanted, he had to find a ready-matter of inoculation.
He states that "the majority of designed and constructed to fune-not used to them fine things, and made successor to Feng Yu-
the public would undoubtedly take tion as indicated in question lii, don't know how to eat 'em."
from the Medical what are the sanitary objections "How did you eat it then?" asked Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 10, 1929, hsiang, who would be suitable to sound advice
him. That man was General Yen Officer of Health, if free inocula- to such septic tanks in cases the M.P.
tion is provided"—and
where the Government sewer Hsi-shan.
for Unfortunately
a direct means Chiang Kai-shek, Yen Hsi-shan, But is that possible? I think not. not available as
I have read in a medical book of discharge from flush water
"Boiled it?" sighed the M.P. in horror, thinking of his pine-apple. in serving him,. placed himself in that if the community be vaccin closets?
Answer:--Reference is made to "Yes, we boiled 'im with a leg of Although, on the face of things, a very embarrassing situation. Heated, a typhoid epidemic may be business generally has not been undertook to leave China with held in check. Why, then, not be the application for a lush instalmutton."
vaccinated, which is much cheap-lation at the Y.M.C.A. Building,
Kowloon In- The conversation in the waiting- retarded to any vital extent, the Feng Yu-hsiang and Chiang Kai-er, and, according to records, just Waterloo-road, political crisis in North China shek wanted him to carry on. In as effective as an inoculation? land Lot No. 1488. The applica-room of the railway station had
The following I have extracted tion was refused..
turned to the subject of gales, and, must have had some adverse order to induce Yen Hsi-shan to
The architects made certain as usual, the tall fellow with the from the above mentioned book: effect on trade in the sphere remain, Chiang Kai-shek has Typhoid fever is one of the best claims but have failed to substan-sallow features "guessed" that the directly concerned. Hope existed, had to withdraw insistence on illustrations of a communicable tiate them. The Committee con- others had never experienced a gale however, that the tension of the Feng Yu-hsiang's exile. Therein disease, and one that can be easily sidered that septic tanks could not worth talking about.
"Believe me," ho said between last two months would result in lies the compromise.
Later, prevented and entirely stamped give the excellent results predict
out."
ed. The reasons for that opinion chews, "way out in Pennsyltucky, some advantage to the immediate others who come under. Chiang Typhoid fever, according to the would appear to me to be as fol- I've seen telegraph poles bending future. Irrespective of whether Kai-shek's attention will be same book, may be contracted lows they had faith in either Marshal tempted to hold on tenaciously through drinking infected water, [a ear- Chiang Kai-shek or General Feng for terms. That course will lead through human agency
rier). and through drinking in- Yu-hsiang, or, again, whether nowhere; and the fact that Feng Zected milk.
Vaccination against typhoid they deemed one to be the lesser Yu-hsiang has done it, irrespec- of two evils, the majority of tive of other considerations, will fever had done much to stamp it Chinese believed that the friction furnish more obstacles in the path out. This was well illustrated in the Spanish-American War, which vaccination between these two great person- which h_Chiang Kai-shek has took place before ages must culminate in the defeat chosen, that of restraining as soon against typhoid fever was practis- 29,738 cases of one. The logical expectation, as he can all regional leaders in ed. There were
among the 107,798 men in the cherefore, was that at least one China, Chiang Kai-shek's policy, army; in the South African War, quarter from which trouble might although it has commendable there were 25,359 cases while arise would be removed; and the features, is now surely fraught during the late War, typhoid fever fewer portents of discord the with danger but, unfortunately, was comparatively unknown, be- cause all the men were vaccinat- better was the chance of peace one from which his stubbornnessed upon entering the army ser- being maintained under the cannot be turned away. National Government.
vices Mana
Typhoid fever is easily pre- ventable, yet 26,000 people in America, (to quote one country) One of the telegrams to hand die annually of this disease, and now appears to be the likely solu- regarding the sad loss of twenty- 300,000 are crippled or incapacit- tion of the present impasse. It four lives in the collision between ated by it."
A precedent has not been estab- The Submarine Disaster lished in the compromise which
"Ignorance. and carelessness
has been said more than once, and the two British submarines open the way for most of the with abundant truth, that the root H47 and L12 mentions that the epidemics of typhoid or enteric of civil war in China lies in the best available salvage gear was Chinese antipathy towards fight- being rushed to the scene of the ing an issue to a definite finish. disaster. But even the best pos- In other words, the open enmity sible gear is of little use if it is between the strongest man in not to hand in time and is not
fever
Thanking you for space in your valuable paper,
Yours, etc,
Hong Kong, July 10
MCN.
before the wind until their tops (i.) Practically no tank is entirely almost touched the ground! Yaas,
етед and aniell devoid of odoura so slight as to pass un-
noticed in open country would
believe me!"
But they didn't. Presently a
fortable silence.
the
be intolerable in close proxim-quiet-looking man broke the uncom ity to domestic buildings. (ii) Experience shows that
efluent from an anaerobic tank
"I remember a gale in the North
is not clear and odourless; if of England," he said thoughtfully, it were, there would be little when I was doing soine work on need for the further purifica-the roof a rather tall building in tion which is provided for in the town of Wigan. The sale was most installations.
(ii) The frequency with which a se atrong that the building, with
tank
is sludged depends, yours truly clinging to it, bent be- amongst other things, upon its fore it like a piece of cane. With size in relation to the number amazing suddendess the gale ceased.
users, and in the case of
the tall building straightened itself tank constructed. to serve large Institution it is not im with a jerk, and I was shot away probable that au aanval sludg like a stone from a boy's catapult!" ing (claimed as all that was
"And still live to tell a yarn like necessary) would be found in that?" scoffed the sallow person, sufficient (iv) The principle if once adopted dropping his gum.
applicant and would before "Yes," continued the quiet chap. could not be confined to one I was lucky enough to clutch hold long result in a multiplicity of
tanks, some of which would of a church-steeple in Manchester! almost certainly be neglected. Believe me!"s Moreover, the sludging of the
tanks at different times would being a direct discharge from be found very offensive in a
densely populated residential flush water closets should be
available? district.
Answer: The answer is in the In Urban Areas Question:(vi) Is it desirable affirmative and in this particular from the sanitary point of view case plans already exist for an that, in urban areas on sea level, intercepting sewer which will no Government sewers capable of doubt be constructed some day.