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given their fares to Hongkong and put ashore. Subsequently the first and third prisoners were arrested in Macao and the second prisoner in Hongkong.
Chow Ping, the master of the launch, said the second prisoner pointed a revolver at him while he was at the wheel and forced him to turn the launch towards Macao. The other six searched the passengers and ransacked their belongings, taking every thing of value, including the opium, which they put in the baskets produced. The third prisoner dragged the runner and the ticket-collector into the junk, threatening to kill them if they did not go. Witness was then told to clear off, and he made for his destina- tion. When nearing Samchun he grounded, and the passengers were landed in a boat. On getting the launch free he returned to Hong kong and reported the matter to No. 2 police launch. He identified the three prisoners as having taken part in the piracy.
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for Europeans and Chinese. That was a serious state of affairs and might cause a riot every night. The defendants had no business to use daggers. He knew that for years Malays had gone about with daggers, but it was an offence against the law. He thought, however, that justice would be met by calling upon them to enter into a bound, with one surety of 825 each, to keep the peace for six months. The defen dants are seamen and live in a Malay boarding house in Lascar Row. The lodging-house- keeper agreed to act as surety.
PLAGUE TREATMENT.
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Clark, Medical Officer of Health, on
The following report by Dr. Francis W. method of dealing with outbreaks of bubonic fever (plague) is published :-
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found therein (Bye-law 22, Ordinance 15 of 1894), and the officer in charge of the disinfec- tion proceeds to the house to ascertain how many persons are detained there. He then procures, either from the matshed at Praya East or from the Disinfecting Station, as many suits of Government clothing as are needed for the persons so detained, and having thus provided these persons with clothing he removes their own clothing, bedding, curtains, and carpets, to the Steam Disinfecting Station, the clothing being tied up in sheets dipped in a solution of Jeyes fluid and conveyed through the streets in baskets; persons who are able to obtain new or clean clothing from some unin- fected premises are however not detained after- they have discarded their infected clothing and handed it to the Inspector for disinfection. New goods, silk clothing which has not been recently worn, furs and leather goods are not removed to the Steam Disinfector, but must as a general rule remain on the premises until they have been fumigated. When the clothing,
persons who have been detained are required to hours) from the Disinfecting Station, the put on their own clothing and must then leave the premises for some 5 or 6 hours while it is disinfected and cleansed. The Government clothing is returned to the Disinfecting Station to be steamed before it is again used. The peo- ple so displaced from their homes are at liberty
The prisoners were found guilty and the first were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment phone No, 257), or to the Medical Officer of etc., is returned (in the course of some two and the other two to eight years each.
AFFRAY IN QUEEN'S ROAD ·
EAST.
FIGHT BETWEEN MALAYS AND CHINESE.
SEVERAL WOUNDED.
A serious affray seems to have taken place in Queen's Road East on the night of the 18th inst. About eight Malays who visited a house in Ship street got at loggerheads with some Chinese and a free fight ensued. The Chinese began to throw bricks and other missiles and the Malays drew their knives. A Chinaman was stabbed in the side, a serious wound being inflicted, and two of the Malays were badly mauled, one being hit in the left eye with a brick and stabbed in
the back and the other being wounded on the head. Four of the Malays, including the two injured, were taken into custody and appeared before Mr. Hazeland on the 14th inst. One was charged with cutting and wounding, but as the Chinaman whom he had injured was unable to leave the Hospital he was removed until Tues- day. The other three were charged with dis- orderly conduct and carrying arms without lincenses.
District Watchman No. 10 said that at about half-past nine p.m. on the 13th inst. he was in Praya East when he heard a whistle blow. He ran into Queen's Road East and there saw
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wounded Chinaman. In consequence of what he told him he ran after the first defendant, who had a knife in his hand and attempted to cut him. He arrested him.
1, Notification.-All cases of infectious dis- ease should be reported at once to the nearest Police Station or to the Sanitary Board (Tele- Health (Telephone No. 120). This is compul- sory on "all persons knowing or having reason to believe that any person has been attacked by or is suffering from Bubonic Plague, Cholera or Small-pox (Bye-law 17, Ordinance 15 of 1894); but it is universally evaded by the Chinese and even by the Chinese "Doctors." The penalty
for its evasion is $25.
2. Detection of the Sick. In the absence of notification this can only be effected by by means of house to house visits. The Sani- tary Board has power to institute such house to house visits in any district in which the disease may prevail and must define the limits of such district (Bye-law 25. Ordinance 15 of 1894).
The City of Victoria has been declared in fected and four European officers of the Board with two Chinese constables are at present en- gaged in house to house visiting in No. 2 Health District while a hinese doctor trained in Western
medicine is making similar visits in No. 1 Health District, and two European Constables and a Health District. Their hours of duty are from Chinese Constable are making visits in No. 9
5-8 a.m. and 2-5 p.m., and a copy of the instruc- tions which have been issued to these officers is attached. The villages on the Kowloon Pen- insula have also been declared infected and six European officers with three Chinese constables are engaged in house to house visits in Yau- mati, Mongkoktsui. Taikoktsui and Hunghom.
3.-Removal of the Sick. – Ambulances for the removal of the sick are kept at the various Police Stations, at the Canton Wharf, and at
until the processes of disinfection of the pre- to make use of the Board's matshed shelters
mises are complete.
The disinfection of the premises consists in perchloride of mercury (1 in 1.000) or fumiga. the spraying of the walls with a solution of
tion with free chlorine obtained by the addition (1 quart of a 1 in 8 solution of the acid to each of diluted sulphuric acid to chlorinated lime
I of the chlorinated lime). Floors and furni. ture are then scrubbed with solution of Jeyes' fluid and the walls are then lime-washed, chlo- rinated lime being added to the lime-wash in
the proportion of th to the gallon.
6. Burial of the dead.—This is carried out Officers, all bodies being buried at the Kenedy. under the superintendence of one of the Board's
town Plague Cemetery, unless a special permit has been granted for burial elsewhere.
7. General Sanitary Precautions. —Chlorinat ed lime is supplied to all the public latrines for use in the bucket, and the officers of the Board
are instructed to see that it is freely used.
A reward of two cents per head has been offered .. since January 16th for every rat brought to an officer of the Board, and some 25,000 rats have
by this means been collected and destroyed.
FRANCIS W. CLARK, Medical Officer of Health.
Hongkong, June, 1900. method of procedure
Dr. Clark adds in a postscript:-This applies practically to Asiatics only, as European cases are reported. tioners and are only removed to Hospital at the and are treated by registered medical practi- request of the medical attendant.
the Board's matsheds at Praya East, Taiping shan. Yaumati and Hunghom, and sick persons are removed in these ambulances to the Tung Wah Hospital on application to the Sanitary Board, the Medical Officer of Health, or the Police, and are there examined by a Chinese Doctor trained in Western medicine and are either drafted at once by him to the Plagne Hospital or detained under observation in case of doubt. In making any such appli- cation tinctly whether the patient is alive or dead, for in the case of dead bodies, a dead-box is for- alty the go away,
warded for the removal. The ambulance is at- tended by a Chinese constable who conveys the details concerning the case to the Hospital Au-
Sanitary Inspector Cotton said that he was just retiring to bed when he heard a police whistle. He rushed down from St. Francis Street, where he lived, into Queen's Road East, and there saw the second defendant followed by a crowd of Chinese. He was running among the crowd stabbing right and left.
He shouted out to him to drop the knife, and in reply the man said to him, Go away, and pointed the knife towards him. attempted to close with him, but the man got away. He was immediately afterwards knocked down, a Chinaman striking him in the left eye with a brick. On getting up the man ran towards Arsenal Street. Here he stopped, gave his knife up to a soldier, and witness took him to No. 2. Police Station.
He
Chinese constable No. 296 said that on hear
ing a police whistle he went up Ship Street and saw the third defendant running with a knife in his hand. He knocked the knife out of his hand with his truncheon and arrested him. There was a crowd of Chinese about the man.
Inspector Ford, who has charge of No. 2 district, said he was in the Police Station when the defendants were brought in. There were two classes of houses in Ship Street, some being for Europeans and some for Chinese.
All the defendants told the same story. It was to the effect that they visited a house in Ship Street and on coming out were set upon by the Chinese.
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His Worship said he was quite satisfied that this quarrel, or almost riot, was due to the fact that in this Ship Street there were houses both
thorities.
care should be taken to state dis-
Heavy wooden boxes, with rubber washers fitted to the lids, are used for the removal of dead bodies to the Government Mortuary; these are kept at the various Police Stations and at the Board's matsheds and information concern-
ing the death is forwarded on a card attached to the body.
4. Treatment of the Sick. This is entirely In the hands of the Medical Department. The Government Hospital at Kennedy Town is sup- plemented by a series of Matshed Hospitals, also at Kennedy Town, which are managed by the authorities of the Tung Wah Hospital but are under the supervision of the Medical De- partment.
3. Disinfection of Infected Premises.-This is carried out by a European officer assisted by eight coloured foremen, a Chinese foreman and a varying number of coolies. As soon as it is known that a case of the disease has occurred at any house, a Chinese constable is sent from the nearest Police Station to detain all persons
Pursuant to an order of the Court of Admir- Chinese junk Fleur de Lotus, was put up for public auction at Colombo on the 22nd June. The junk which left Hongkong in January last was towed into Colombo some months back by the Shell Line steamer Chigwell from Singapore, having been built to the order of a Frenchman who intend- ed exhibiting her at the Paris Exposition. Messrs. Delmege, Forsyth & Co., the local agents of the Shell Line, preferred a claim of 1,000 dollars for towing the junk, but her owner could not settle it and left Colombo, and later on the crew deserted the vessel. The claim was brought before the Supreme Court, which is also the Colonial Court of Admiralty, and it was ordered to sell the vessel by auction. At the sale, however, there were only a very few persons present. The vessel was put up for sale by Mr. L. H. Ephraims, auctioneer, and there were also present Mr. Jos. Grenier (Re- Morrison (representing Messrs. Delmege, For- gistrar of the Supreme Court), Mr. C. 8. V. syth & Co.), the Hon. Mr. F. C. Loos and the Captain of the junk, The bidding started with R1,000 and the junk was purchased by Mr. Mor- rison, for Messrs. Syme & Co., of Singapore, for R1,100. The vessel has a fine collection of carios on board..
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