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THE CHINA MAIL,
PORT SANITATION
PLAGUE PREVENTION AND DERATISATION
LIVERPOOL REPORT
SHIPPING
The operations of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority during 1928 are surveyed by Dr. A. A. Mussen, port medical officer of health, in his annual report issued recently.
SECTION.
"Rat proofed"
Vessels Refrigerator
vessels Non
"rat-- proofed" vessels
Average
number Ships Rats of rats fumigated found per ship
141 45
3.1
15
4
0.3
08
MONTREAL PORT
SEVERAL NEW RECORDS “ANNOUNCED
COMMISSIONERS' REPORT
According to the annual report of the Montreal Harbour Commissioners, the port has achieved a number of new records during the past twelve months. The aggregate volume of freight passing over the harbour wharves in 1923 was 12,589,126 tons, an increase of 667,950 tons as compared with the 1927 total. Exports during the
year are recorded as 6,338,108 tons, and im- porta as 2.543,585 tons.
Domestic freight accounted for A total of Exports showed an 5,207,333 tons. increase over the year of more than 650,000 tons, but there was a decrease of 150,000 tons in imports due in great part to smaller receipts of British coal, Domestic tonnage increased by about
155,000 tons.
As usual, the major portion of the commerce in the harbour consisted of
1,753 25.6
128 1,873 14.7 These include cargoes
which con- tain least
material edible for rats, and which provide the least amount They of hiding and nesting places. are such cargoes as hardware, fruit, &c., in boxes, and other pre-grain. and grain products, these ex- ducts that can be so tightly packed ports representing 60 per cent of the grand total. Shipments of gain and in the holds that no room is left for
grain products totalled 211,293,370 the rats to move.
bushels, in addition to 15,250,000 bushels of wheat exported in form of four.
Referring to deratisation, the port medical officer says:-The extermina- tion of rats, both on board ship and in the dock area, has long been con- sidered to be one of the most import- ant of this authority's services; not only has the necessity for an inces-
been sant war upon rats appreciated because of the damage suffered by
The
relationship between the cargoes, but also because of the dan-
cargoes carried, during their last ger to human life from infection with the plague bacillus, carried to voyage to Liverpool before fumiga- man by the rat flen. In this portion, by the 122 vessels fumigated during 1928, and the number of rats the shipping companies, through the
on board has been examined. The agency of the rat-catchers employed by them, do their best to keep their rats, respective vessels free from
of this authority while the catchers cateh rats in the dock area and on board ship for the express purpose of their examination in the Bacterio- logical Laboratory.
This figure,ont B
geven
at any
traffic daring a period of treat is open exceed by a very wide months during which the port of Mon- results can, at best, serve as little margin the total of any previous more than an indication of the typefar exceed that established
season in the history of the port, and of cargoes that tend to be "rat-attrae-
ocean port in the world during a tive," since few vessels carry only twelve month period. Grain exports one variety of cargo, and where the from the port of Montreal last year rats are unconfined one hold by were
no consigned to adequate rat-proofing" measures they will tend to wander to those twenty-one different countries, the leading importers being Great Britain, Belgium,
less than
That plague is stil! a great dan- ger to this port can be appreciated parts of the ship in which is stowed the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and
when it is recorded that many cases have occurred during 1928 in the of South America, the West ports Coast of Africa and India especially, which are loaded a very ports at
the considerable proportion of cargoes destined for Liverpool. Out Out of the gradua! appreciation of this point, and of the points that any to combat the measures adequately incidence and spread of plague must be world-wide in their application if they are to be truly effective, arose. the International Sanitary Conference of 1925. The findings of that con- ference have now been embodied in a series of provisions, one of which Article 28) requires that "all ships, except those engaged in coastwise service, shall be periodical- ly deratised, or be permanently so maintained that any rat population is kept do
down to minimum." It is now agreed that those yes. have beer deratised, by sels which fumigation or otherwise, shall be granted a deratisation certificate,, as specified in Article 28, or, if found by this authority to be free from rats, shall be granted a deratisation exemption
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Wednesday,
Wednesday,
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TAMBA MARU
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Mexico & Panama.
Sunday, 11th August. .... Wednesday, 28th August.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Monday, 19th August. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
9th August.
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BINGO MARU
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.
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Friday,
Friday, 2nd August. Saturday, 17th August.
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Constantinople, Genoa,
+ DELAGOA MARU
Sunday. 11th August.
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
† BENGAL MARU
↑ MALACCA MARU
Thursday, 8th August. Friday, 16th August.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
↑ MORIOKA MARU (Kobe direct). Monday, KITANO MARU
+ MATSUYE MARU
+ Cargo only.
Monday, Saturday,
5th August. 5th August.
17th August.
Reduced 1st Class Excursin Fates quoted between Manila and Australia
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national
of
of
be re-examically ra-infested become interim. The first certificate was issued by this authority on October 5, 1928, and up to the end of the year 25 deratisation certificates and 11 de- ratisation exemption certificates have been issued.
Eradication of Plague
When the provisions of the confer- ence become ratified, and are put into practice by all countries, it is obvious that a step forward of the greatest importance will have been taken toward the ultimate eradication
of plague.
A very marked improvement has already been observed in the number of rats found upon vessels entering this port during the last few years. that the figures While it is likely for the average number of rats per ship may be somewhat higher than is actually the case for all vessels arriving in the port, since a a certain namber of the vessels included had been fumigated as a direct result of the discovery that they were in a "ratty" state, this in no
in-
way
4
validates the findings which prove the gradual improvement that is taking place nor the variations that are ap- parent on the various trade routes.
Only those vessels are included which were fumigated in this port and afterwards examined by this au-
thority's searchers. The material used was SO2 th 537 and HCN in 43 cases.
The
Many interesting points arise. from an examination of the results. first is that there has been a gradual, and marked improvement since 1913, as shown by the average of 68,6 rats per ship in 1912-1914, of 88.3 in 1925, and 14.9 in 1928. The ond second pulut is the high ave
average given by Vessels trading with River Plate and Brazilian ports; this is due, as will be discovered later, largely to the (ie, grain). The third point is the type of cargo carried on this route
Tel. Central No. 292 and 3897. (Frivate exchange to all departments.)sels arriving from the West Coast of
0. S. K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Vie Singapore
Colombo, Suez and Port Said.Tonk
ATLAS MARU...
Sunday, 11th August.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Singapore,
Crema Colombo, Durban & Capo Town,
HAWAII MARU
BOMBAY....Vis
7th September.
Monday, 6th August.
HONOLIT gapore & Colombo, priest
MARU
*(Callawat Penang)
GANGES MARU
Monday, 10th August.
reasonably low Agure shown for ves-
South America, North America, New Zealand and Australia. It seems probable that this le largely due to
the cargo most attractive to them. The results, Lowever, do bear out the premise that most rats are to be on vessels carrying grain, foun while sugar and palm kernels may "rat- apparently also he classed as attractive,"
Fumigation
A High FigureC The total movement of coal into the
port last year reached 2,161,968 tons, a decrease as compared with the 1927 total of 2,500,147 tons. It is interest- ing to note, however, that of this total, Nova Scotia bituminous coal rapre- In this method lies the only sure sented a new high figure of 1,659,203 way of completely ridding a vessel en of all rate. In the port of Liverpools. There was a decline in imports the S02 method is that most com- 685,090 tons for the previous twelve
being
359,253 tons as compared with monly relied upon, but hydrocyanit months. acid gas, being more rapidly fatal to
The total number of ocean ships en- rats. lethal for other
vermin, andering the harbour in 1928 was 1,607, less liable to damage fittings, cargo, &c., is frequently used. If, then, in vious year, but the net registered ton- as compared with 1,610 for the pre- the future the gradual diminution in the number of rats
Rage was half a million tons more, per ship is to be maintained the measures adopted totalling 5,404,062 tons. A larger de- to attain that end should be along vessels untering the port from inland
crease occurred in the number the following lines:-
care to be taken at for-instance also facre was Greater
navigation routes, although in this cign ports in the leading of cargoes crease in. tonnage, the number being a great in- known to be rat-attractive," ing arder that as few rats as possible less by a15 and the net registered ton- may be allowed to enter the vessel. number of ships entering the harbour
nage more by 1,360,000.
The total The "rat-proofing" of
of all
vessels,
both ocean-going and inland, waa A continuance of the present 7,480, and the total registered tenage measures with regard to trapping.
Periodic fumigation of vessels en-
compared with gaged in the carrying of "rat-attrae- tive" cargoes, and of other vessels when the rat population is abnormal-
ly increased.
CUNARD LINE
$8,500 GIFT IN RESPONSE TO PRINCE'S APPEAL
The Royal National Lifeboat însti- tution has received from the Cunard Steamship Company a gift of £8,500, made in response to the Prince of Wales' appeal last year to shipping companies, when he said, "What prouder thing could a great shipping line have than its name on one of our lifeboats?"
The new lifeboat will be of the latest type, and will replace a motor lifeboat which has been at St. Mary's, Scilly, since 1919, and has rescued 88 lives.
of
tans in 1927. Revenues collected by the port authorities totalled $5,589,987, as com- pared with the 1927 total of $5,453,851. This total has doubled during the past eight years, the 1921 figure having
been $2,891,274.
Customs and excise revenue collect-
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1929.
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AUGUST SAILINGS.
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the to respond to
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initiated by Prince's appeal. The others are the A movement
the Hull on foot for Peninsular and Orient group, which Corporation is already
holding lifeboat led the
conference of all the au- White Star Line, which is present
Mary" for Padstow;
the thorities concerned to consider the the
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COLLISION IN HARBOUR
A
A collision in the harbour yesterday morning caused some excitement." passenger boat which was being towed in the central fairway collided with a steam launch but no great damage was done,
thrown into the sea by the force of the Three occupants of the sarpan were
impact, but all were rescued by other craft in the vicinity.
The biggest damage was suffered by the sampan repairs to which is estima-
The launch, the "King Fat," was only slightly damaged.
the strict insistence upon periodie ated will cost $200, whilst the boat fumigation which, in past years, has people also lost clothing and furniture been the policy of the United States worth $60. (including the Panama and Canal zone) and Australasian Governments
Thus it will be seen that there are marked variations in the degree of rat-infestation of Vessels on the different trade routes of the world. What cause, or causes, can explain these variations? Rate board ships" by several routes; up the gangways, stowed away in cargoes, and down grain chutes. Once on board, be the conditions at all favourable, they may breed rapidly,
There are certain factors, however; that tend to keep down the degree
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SEATTLE MARU
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VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Parts from Adam Shanghai.
LABAMA MARU (From Shanghai) Wednesday, 14th August. MELBOURNE Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney,
SHIMALAYA MARU... Wednesday, 7th August
HAIPHONGV Hohor & Pal
ŽE MENADO MARU
Thursday 8th August, 10 a.m.
NEW YORK—Vin Japan ports, San Francisco & Panama.
HAMBURG MABU
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Sunday, 18th August,
Sunday, 11th August.
Sonday, 4th Augual, 8 pms. Sunday, 11th August, 3 p.m. Thursday,
,. 1st August, Noon.
Friday, 16th August.
09AKA SHOES
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· Rat-Proofing
On a vessel structurally "rat-proof for the animal
ed" It is marble fined space; :
one
wander from to such as a hold, and it cannot, there fore, as is so frequently possible on vessels not "proofed," run from hold to hold or from hold to storeroom in Bearch of water, food and a comfort- able nesting place. Most of the VUS- sels recently launched have been cou- structed with due regard to
to this face tor, and certain of the older ships
have been altered so as to render them rat proof.
WARSHIPS HERE
The following are the warships at present In harbourti
At the North Basin :—H.M.S. "Temar," "Sandwich," and "Bridge: water."
At the North Arm: FMS. “Somme."
In Dock; HMS, “Cicala" and L19. At the West Wall Dock:-.M.9, "Castor" "Sterling" And "Stormcloud.” Foreign Men-of-War U.S.8. "Mindanao." French Gunboat "Vigilante."
U.S. WARSHIP IN THAMES
The United Sater cruiser Raleigh the flagship of Vice Admiral John H. Dayton, officer commanding the Unit ed States naval forces in Europe, re- cently arrived in the Themes off Gravesend, and remained moored off tive evidence that vessels adequately the town until the end of the month
After leaving proofed tend to harbonr an ex-
the tremely small number of rats,
The following table offers sugges
and
Стауелер
Oslo, Stockholm “ ́ and
this in spite of the fact that severWDER isited Edinburgh (Port
of the vessels in question were carry Copenhagen, and will return to ing large cargoes of grain. For the Southampton before returning to Apurgous of this table, the 128 vessels America The Mayor of Gravesend fumigated during 1928 have been in-paid an official visit of welcome to
the vessel
M. TAKEUCHI, Manager vestigated.
a
agreement is reached.
OLD TAYLOR
AGED BY TIME
7
American
[1,068 tons-Capt. Trott.)
TUES.
6th SUN. 11th FEL, 16th
AUGUST
WED. 21st
TUES. 27th
9.S. TAI MING" [649 tona-Capt. C. J. Spink.] AUGUST
SUN.
FRI.
WED.
+
4th
9th
14th
MON. 19th SUN. 25th
FRI. 30th
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