WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1931.
THE
the Government Bacteriologist
WATER SUPPLIES OF HONG KONG wessly and the others, as request
Main Difficulty That of Storage.
"ONLY A GRANITE CONE."
The Purification System Explained.
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In the course of an instructive address on "Water Supplies of Hong Kong," given before the Rotary Club at the weekly tiffin yesterday, Dr. E. P. Minett, the Government Bacteriologist, gave interesting details of the method of treatment of the raw water, by filtration and chlorination, before it reached the household.
ed. The Altered water is of excel- lent quality.
The chemical analysis of the raw water is: Total solids 8.6 to 11.8 parts per 100,000; Chlorine
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This
is a very good class of raw water, Jas would be expected from rain water collected off granito sar- faces.
Brackish Well Water:
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To'day--Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hotel.
To-night-Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels.
To-day---Police Interport Car- nival Dance, Lane Crawford's, 8.30
A word about wall waters. These are all of the "shallow" type and practically none of them are fit for drinking without purifica-p.m. tion. Their salt content varies
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Friday S. P. C. A. Carnival, Dr. Minett emphasised the fact that Hong Kong was nothing with the season and their pro- Peninsula Hotel. more than a granite cone. This made the matter of storage a dif-ximity to the harbour. One at the
March 17-St. Patrick's Society'e Cricket Club varies from 2.5 parts Ball, Peninsula Hotel. ficult one, as there were no natural reservoirs, such as lakes or of sodium chloride to 30.69 parts
March 20-Yorkshire Society's partment. rivers. For this reason he was of opinion (in answering a later per 100,000. Of the private walls Dinner.
Entertainments. question), that the question of consumption would veto any proposed at Shek O, those that I have Jexamined give a very good quality
To-day Queen's water-borne sewage system.
of water.
"So This Is London."
To-day
Central "Hit The Deck."
To-day Majestle "Smiling Irish Eyes."
Star To-day-
Theatre. "Firemen Save My Child."
Theatre, To-day-World When a Brother Sacrifices." (Chi- nese picture).
The water
CHLORINE NOT HARMFUL.
Capacity.
Theatra
Thentre
Theatre;
Water Shortage Measures. Referring to measures taken |during the water shortage in 1929, the speaker said that it had been we have clean water. necessary to bring in water to the in Hong Kong, ho left, then said, was practically up to the (Laughtered applause).
Colony in ships. He had been out himself to select it, "and I might London standard. The popular
The reservoir capacity in Hong say that some of it was pretty bellef that the purification of water by chlorine was harmful was Kong is 2,210.41 million gallons, awful stuff" Being badly pollut quite erroneous. Typhoid fever, and in Kowloon 501.95 millioned, it was found necessary to treat
To-day "Art & Mrs. Bottle" by new reservoir under it on the ship before pumping It A.D.C., Theatre Royal, 5.15 p.m. and other water borne diseases, gallons. A had been known to have followed construction at Aberdeen is of 175 into the tanks on shore. The tanks when chlorination was discontinu- million gallons capacity, and Kow-were connected up so as to allow
loon Byewash reservoir another water to flow
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ed.
In addressing the Rotarians, Dr. Minett said:
from one to the
175 million gallona. The Shing other, the water being treated Mun Valley scheme is estimated to again with one ounce of chlorinat- The water supplies of Hongyield 2,000 million gallons, availed me to 1,000 gallons, or two Kong as regards fresh water can able in Hong Kong by pipe line parts per million of chlorine.
The Director of Medical and be summed up in the one word across the harbour.
Hong Sanitary Services fixed the chlorine "rain," as whether you get it from Average consumption in the tap or draw it up from a well Kong is 10.0 million gallone per in water taken from tanks at the original source is the same. day, taking the population of Hong parts per million before issue. This was a very wise precaution, Kong дет 435,000, this giving
of 24 and most important, as the water an average consumption gallons per head per day. Kow had to be issued, of necessity, with- loon consumes 4 million gallons out previous filtration.
Dr. Minett concluded by thank- estimated per day, and with an
and population of 175,000 this equala ing the Director of Medical an average consumption of 21 Sanitary Services and the Water glve gallons per head per day. These Authority for permission to figures apply only to the water the address. delivered from Government.mains and does not include the number of private wells used for flushing purposes in various residences.
But I must say that I think these figures are far too low, especially
The following factors influence the rainfall here:-The situation in Lat. 22°N. Long. 114°E., which should be a good one for rain; the temperature, which averages 72° F., ranging from 50°F. in February to 82°F. in July. Extremes of 32°F. and 97°F. huve been recorded.
Then there is the humidity. which is affected' by the tempera- ture. The average is about 77 per cent. of saturation, ranging from 66 per cent. In November to 84 per cent. in April. A minimum of 4 per cent. has been recorded, and complete saturation, 100 per cent.in Kowloon. is of fairly frequent occurrence.
Filtration.
As regards the source, the Filtration is carried out in Hong average rainfall is 85.7 inches per Rong by eight filter beds, arrang annum. The lowest recorded wased along the hillside, and supplied 45.8 inches, and the highest 119.7 with water from the reservoirs by inches. This compares very means of an
favourably with Great Britain,
aqueduct,
These
Chlorination Explained.
A Rotarian who remained anony. mous having asked a question as to what the chlorine treatment was, Dr. Minett explained that chlorine was a gas. It was used to put into the water in 2 com- pressed form, as a liquid. The machine through which it passed re-converted it into a gas as it trickled through into the reservoir.
Friday--Concert, Helena Institute, Kowloon.
Sports
See Diary on page B.
Meetinga. To-morrow-Hong Kong Members, 5.30 p.m.
To-morrow Lecture by A. M. Bowes-Smith, Hall, 5.30 p.m.
May
EDGAR E. STROTHER, Millington, Limited, Manager (Hong Kong),
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE FIRST EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (wes- ther permitting) at Happy Valley on SATURDAY, 14th March, 1931,
commencing at 2 p.m. The first
-
bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their ladies must wear their badges prominently displayed.
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclo
Badges admitting Club members to the Members' Enclo-
Burc.
non-
sure and Club Rooms at $6 for Mr. Gentlemen and $3 for Ladies (both Cathedral including tax) are obtainable through the Secretary upon intro- duction by a member, such member to be responsible for payment of all chits, &c.
March 16-A. S. Wataon & Co, Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, 11.30a.m.
March 18 Green Island Cement Co., Exchange Fuilding. 11.30 a.m. March 18-Dairy Farm Ice Cold Storage Co., Ltd., 2, Lower Albert Road, noon.
Home Malla To-day-inward from Europe via Siberia (Kaga Maru)-
Friday-Inward from Europe via Suez (Karinala)."
LADY'S DEATH.
MRS. J. E. ANDERSON PASSES AWAY IN KOWLOON,
Badges admitting to Members" Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.
Members can obtain upon op plication to the Secretary badges (Limited to two) for the free ad- mission to the Members' Enclosure of wives, lady relatives and friends. Names must be stated when applying.
On no pretext will children be permitted in either Enclosure dur- ing the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $2 including tax, for all persons including ladies. and is payable at the gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform
are admitted half price.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, &c.
Sewage System Question.
The numerous friends of Answering a further question as Messrs. W. J. and J. E. Anderson, filter beds are all connected so that to the feasibility of installing a of the Anderson Music Company, water can be drawn into the beds water-borne sewage system on the Limited, will regret to hear of the from any of the reservoirs. The Island, Dr. Minett said that the death of Mrs. J. E. Anderson, will not be permitted to operato newer Alters are very up-to-date, answer was in the negativo. Five which occurred this morning in within the precincts of the Ilong gallons per head per day had, been the Claremont Hotel, Kowloon. Kong Jockey Club during the Race being on the Patterson rapid
Mrs. Anderson came out to the Meeting. gravity system, and give a Arst computed to be enough, but actual
practice showed that it took ten Colony in 1915, accompanied, by class water.
Their ship The quality of the filtered water gallons. This meant that the Miss Jean Anderson.
too was unfortunately torpedoed by a operating outlay would be is dependent on the rate of filtra-much. It would be necessary proc- German submarine, and they lost tion, and in a lesser degree upon tically to double the supply, and the raw water, which varies onor to bring water over from the main- mously and has to be very carefully land. The trouble in Hong Kong watched. For some unknown rea-was not lack of rain, but the diffi son the raw water on the Kowloon culty in storing it,
side is nearly always superior to that of Hong Kong.
All filter beds are examined both
everything.
Mrs. Anderson had been in fall-
ing health for some time.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 10th March, 1981.
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where the average is from 30 to 40 inches. The rainy season Is supposed to extend from May to September, necessitating about 7
Collection.
Speaking merely as a bacterio- logist, however, an operating
satisfactory in other places, and weekly. The filters are adjusted he saw no reason why the same according to the transparency of system could not be introduced the water, which varies from 4 cen- timetres to over 100 centimetros,
here.
Rotarian Arthur Woo returned
excellent address.
necessitating a constant change in brief thanks to the speaker for his the clarifying charge.
son
Chlorination. Chlorination is carried out after water
That. Is
BEGAN WRITING BEFORE HE WAS 16.
are hereby informed that all goods are being lauded and placed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra- hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong
Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co, Ltd, where delivery can be obtained as soon
the goods are landed.
...
London, Yesterday. The death has occurred of Sir
No claims will be admitted after the Alfred Robbins.-Reuter.
goods have left the Godowns, and all [Sir Alfred Farthing Robbins, goods remaining undelivered after the
Д
All claims against
on the
must
Visiting Rotarians.“ months storage. Usually June. Altration, and before the
The President, previcus to the July, and August are the three enters the storage tanks and dis-address, introduced four visitors in journalist, author and prominent 18th March, 1931, at 4 p.m., will be wettest months with about 15 tributing mains.
Mr. G. P. Parker, Professor Freemason, was born at Launces- subject to rent. It is done with
Cornwall, in August, 1850, goods are to be left in the Godown, All broken, chafed and damaged inches each. This rainfall is large chlorine gas by means of a Pater-Huizinger, Mr. R. D. Arnold, and ton, ly affected by the presence or ab.
Mr. New..
and educated at the local grammar where they will be examined by Chloronome. The quantity sence of typhoons, one inch of rain used varies with the quality of the dent of the Parker Fen Company, papers before he was 6, and for 17th March, 1 st the vess
Mr. Parker, he said, was Presi-school. He began writing for news- Messrs. Anderson & Ashe falling on an acre of land repre-water and ranges usually from one-of Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S.Amany years combined journalism be presented to the Undersigned before senting 22,617 gallons.
quarter part up to one part per and a Past President of the Rotary with authorship, writing some the 21st March, 1931, million. This is about the same Club of that town.
or they will The catchment area од the dose as is used in the London water Huizinger was Professor of Hia warda comedy, and also
Professor plays, mainly with a leaning to-not be recognised. · Island is 3,278 acres, and on the supplies, probably one of the best tory at the University of Layden, serious works as "Five Years of
Buch Na Fire Insurance will be effected. mainland, for Kowloon reservoir, in the world. '
Bill of Lading will be counter- algued by 4,270 acres. We have no natural There seems to be a popular be- and the President of the Royal Tory Rule," which appeared in
JOHN MANNERS & CO. LTD. reservoirs such as lakes or rivers. Hief that the purification of water Academy of Sciences of the Nether-1897 just before a Disraeli Gov-
Agents. and as the Island is simply aby chlorine is harmful.
Innds. Mr. Arnold had come from ernment was succeeded by. Hong Kong, 11th March, 1991. granite cone, a reservoir has to be not so, as the chlorine combines Singapore Rotarian,
Yunnanfu, and Mr. New was Gladstone Cabinet, "Wm. Edward apecially constructed at great ex with the water and gives off oxygen.
Forster, the Man and his policy," pense. On the island there
Mr. Parker, in a brief address, and sketches of the lives of Lord are Typhold bacilli cannot live In this six there being Tytam, Wong Nel water, but on the other hand ins-referred to the kind reception ne- Salisbury and Sir Beville Gren- Choag, Aberdeen, Pokfulam, Shau- tances have been recorded, where London, which had caused him to In 1888 he received the im
corded him at the Rotary Club in ville. kiwan and Chai Wan, and there are outbreaks of typhoid fever, and revise his previous Idea that the portant appointment of London -two large reservoirs on the Kow-other water borne diseases, have British were rather "cold" people correspondent of the Birmingham
loon side. The water received into followed whon chlorination these reservoirs la very soft, the been discontinued...
to those they did not know."You Past, and in the same year publish average hardvese being 2.5. parta Each filter bed normally supplies Rotarians will shape the course of od "Practical Politics, or per 100,000. This is excellent for a special area of the system, but all drinking, laundry, and trade pur mains can be connected up so that poses, but slightly deficient in the supply zone can be varied
Tests For Chlorine, Quality Variable.
The amount of free chlorine, The quality, as regards polla-
any, present in tap water supplies tion, of the raw water varies with is estimated daily by the Govern the season of the year. It is poor ment Analyst, and the purity is, In the early part of the rainy tested by the Government Bacterio season, when the falling rain logist, from four to six, samples washes all sorts of pollution down being taken daily from different Into the reservoirs, but it gradual parts of the City of Victories and SEQUEL TO "BLAZING CAR"
lime,
has
ly improves after the rainy season Kowloen. A bacteriologist can
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RUBBER SCHEME.
DUTCH RETICENT ABOUT.
PROCEEDINGS.
“MAXWELL PROPOSALS.”
Amsterdam, Yesterday. The Dutch Rubber 'Committee
Hong Kong, he said. "People will Libéralism of To-day. It was, look to you in time to come as the however, his work as a London leaders of your community. Keep correspondent that brought him up with Polary work, and you will distinction. In the 36 years after are very reticent in regard to the utong Kong, where it belongs." his appointment, he was in touch Proceedings in London, but ac- (Applauro).
with politicians and atatesmen of cording to the Handelsblad, it is all parties and his "London believed that the scheme adopted letter often attracted the Atten- is based on the Maxwell proposals, tion of the political world.
which, in the course of the next He was knighted in 1917. a fortnight, will be submitted for.
the consideration of circles inter- On the professional side of
MURDERER HANGS.
TRIAL
London, Yesterday.
Journalism he was very active, ested in rubber, both in Holland being chairman of the London and Great Britain Reuter. district of the Institute of Journa lista: In 1903, president of the In
AGE OF VOTERS,
ELECTORAL REFORM BILL WITHDRAWN.
is over, owing to self-purification, detect one part of sewage in a mil especially the Kowloon waterllen with ease, Houston gives the storage safety Our water here is practically up- Alfred Arthur Rouse, convicted stituta in 1908 and vice-president of figure as two months, but we often to the London standard. Should a or the "blazing, mator-car murder, the Newspaper Fund in 1925.] get six
sample be below standard the was executed, in Bedford pri- Dr. Mirett then explained in water Authority is at once inform son at eight o'clock this morning. fion-technical terms the action of bacteria.Ordinary, ascteria, hod, and a further sample taken It is revealed that the Home The egg production in Prince Faid, "will double itself, if there after investigation. All water re- Secretary, before finally endorsing Edward Island last year is estimat
The Privy Council, strongly Is any food in the water, in twenty prts are forwarded dally to the the death sentence, took the ex-ed at 1,100,000 dozen as against
Water Authority" and the Director traordfuary step of conferring 4800,000 dozen In 1829, 2,580,000 opposed the lowering of the axo minutes. This process of multi- of Medical and Sanitary Services, with Mr. Justice Talbot, who tried dozen, valued at $775,000, mère ex- qualification for de parliamentary: vlication goes on as long as there There are three private water the cabe, and the Lord Chief Justice, ported in 1980, while 300,000 voters, hence the Government has leany food left Then they, trwa zi
supplies on the faland, fitted witch who presided at the appeal Bau- pounds of poultry were produced, decided to withdraw thes Electoral cannibals, and begin to eat each a Glters, One is examined by tar
at a value of $405,000.0
Reform Bill Reuter Thor, And whan, there are mode va
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