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week, in all kinds of weather, with the result that one of thou, an old man, and was taken got ill through exposure, and to hospital whore he died." "There are several instances of people turned ont from plaguo-infected houses in Hollywood Road and Cochrane Btreat
being in the pabilo street for several days
gly Mr. Lau Chr Pak minuted :-"I strongly support this motion. Some time ago during a conversation I had with the M.O.H. 1 pointed out to him that it would be in fact it hardelup on the inmates of the - great hard infected homes to be shut up various floors altogether for a whole day or at least as lear as it does not suit the convenience of the
according to which time the body may be removed. If the body be removed about a.m. it is likely that the policeman will remain on duty till about 10 am, next day. If this body be removed at 14 p.m. the time woulă be balved. kunngjunk s
one
cleansing gang to go and disfufoot the chesaning
protsizes In Bone raves of which I hand personal knowledge the Board's oflcers and zeti furned up late in the afternoon at ag bort when the inmates were about to propare their meal, end in other cases they come the following morning. Daring, all that time the inmates wire forbidden to hold any cou
hoy munication with outside. If at the time they liad no provisions in stook they would have to be starved until they were turned out. The idea in thas imprisoning them is to restrict the spread of fufention. But is it, to restrict or help the spread of infection by turning them with al their belongings to live in the stroot F I saw with my own eyes in Queen's Bond West those who were inrned out on wet and fine deys alike, stack up their furniture imme- diately ontside their infected house, and sleep there for lys and nights, waiting for the premises to be litewashed. As a prevents tire measure the whole thing is a forco, It does no good but it is good enough to annoy and frighton people into devising all sorts of meone to evade the law."
The ACTING MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH replied as follows:
I am not in a position to say how my bodies have been duped in the streets during this or any previous year. I can only give figures for bodies found in streets or elsewhere other than in houses. These figures may include cases which have died in the street or on the hillsides.
The
dures dre as follows
(2) This is correct in the mair. The shelter of the observation blocks is however offered. With regard to clothing my answer to question Bapplies hore.
(3) Fumigation is not as a ralo done. Only Chinese shop in Victoria has been fumigated this year. After the cleansing is over and while the house is awaiting the lime- washers the doors are shat and polled up as
Sometimes the protection against thieves
fuished the same day as the and if so the teannta ag return. It this carrot be done the people bare still the option of going to one of the observation blocks All plagne inspectors offer to allow the tenants to go back to their house after the cleatsing operations are over and while awaiting the line- washing. In's very large number of cases the houses are found deserted by every one and the furniture removed,
ble that demanga may (4) It is
розв sometimes to articles such as are bere mentioned, can call to mind however only one case where a complaint has been made. The Board by their Committee offer reasonable compensation.
15.) This is quite correct, The house was deserted by the inmates before the inspector arrived. The old mas spoken of diea of plague ou the 0th of May. On the arrival of the insp-ofer at this house he found all the fire and clothing removed into the strats by o teuants. He disinfected the furniture fu the street and all clothing which he
ba dono
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JUNE 5TH 1903
Captain Larens seconded
reported that a well at the back of 26, First Bir. POLLOCK proposed that Mr. Fang Wa Street was impare, Chan be added to the committee
Mr. LAU CHU Par seconded.
I PRESIDENT accepted the amendment, and his motion was agreed to,
FROPOSED BEANCH HOSPITALS. The VICE PRESIDENT parsuant to notics moved That with a view to encouraging the inhabitants to report cases of plages and submit them for treatment, the Board room- mond that arrangements be made, for opening mporary hospitals in various districts of the and Kowloon, suitable premisen being. bired & temporary structures created, where practicable, for the purpose. The hospitals to be under proper supervision and the arrang ments to be completed in readiness for next spring, when cases of plague may be expected
to recar.
The
Mr. Lau Cha Fak minuted A very good suggestion. It wid probably save more lives. Tho present system of carting patients from one end of the town to the other intensifies their enforcing spent sold it was within the knowledge of members of the Board that on several occasions permission had en gronted for the establishment of what might be termed small branch hospitals in connection with varions industrial cruceras-the Godowa Co. at Kowloon, Mesers, Butterfeld & Swirs at Quarry Bay, and the Cotton Mills where the explorers could be treated without being dealt with in the ordinary way. These firms
appeared to be satisfied that the adoption of that measure by them facilitated matters in helping people to mport themselves when they were teeling out of sorts and in carrying on their business, and", if that was se in the individual cases he thought Ho stopped it could fairly he resumed that the same would happen if it was adopted sa a general method in connection with the City sud Kowloon generally.
Mr, LAU CHO Pak accended.
nd get hold of. He was of the opinion, however, that much of the clothing was already beyond his reach. marine store hawker in the set of carrying away rage, etc., from the desseted ground carved in the completion of the Euitary foor
of this building. The great delay which
Mr. POLLOCK said he presumed that if the measures undertaken in connection with this house was due to the unsatisfactory way in recommendation was adopted by the Govern which the former limewashing contractor Onment an addition to the medical staff would Keo did his work. The clonuning operations be necessary.
The PRESIDENT That is so; that would be were comploted on the 30th of April. The limewashing was done on the 6th of May. The the natural result.
The motion was agreed to.
done and was not
In 1898, 1815 92802, found 364 27.6 per cent. work was however badly Ken was ordered
1890, 1462
38296.1.
พ.
1000, 1087
3/3 27,8
1901, 1
228 13.8
#
D
1802, 572
203 45,5 1903, 993
870 37.5 *The taken with a view to lesson
measures dumping tall ander two heade, is, these taken by the palice which are directed towards the detection and parishment of offenders in this respoet and those taken by the Sanitary Board. With regard to the former I beg to refer you to the reply to Question 3. With regard to the latter I may recall the fact to
passed by the inspector. Or to re-timewash the house and the work was not properly finished till the 13th of May.
(6) This is very indefinite bat it is ne doubt true that, owing to the very uneali factory way in which the former limewashing contractor attempted to carry out his datios people were kept out of their houses for an unresgorable time, This has been remedied. The Board cancelled his contrast on the 23rd of May. A blacksmith at 42, Hollywood Road was kept out of his business for five days while the limewashing of his shop by the or On Kee. He and his fokis were
It was agreed to clows it.
WATER SUPPLY. The report of the Government Analyst on the water supply bowed that the water in all the services was of excellent quality.
LIMEWASKING.
The mowering return for the fortnight ondud 26th May showed that 4,378 houses in the Central and 579 in the Western District had been dealt with.
BATS.
PEAK SCAVENGING. Regarding this matter, the PRESIDEST said it had been learnt that the duet bins used in the Hill district did not comply with No. 7 of the bye-laws, and it was proposed to recommend to the public a small sanitary dustbin after the
capital. pattern employed at the Goverment Civil
HOW TO GET RID OF RATS.
The PRESIDENT said many residents had been asking bow to get rid of rats in their houses. A simple expedient was to keep a few chatties of chloride of limo in the buteurent. Mr. FOLLOCK-I saw the other day in the Another way was to keep a cat in the house. papers that cats were known to have taken The FEESIDENT Yes: At the Wharf and plague. Godown Company's place leat year Mr. Osborns "obtained a number of cats to keep down the rats, and the cats contracted the disease.
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'À MASKÉT FOR ENGLISH WZYŃs," sight ended 1st inst. 6,400 rats were destroyed, Railway, M, Morkulof said that the connection
A London journal makes the astonishing of Kharbin with Dalny by rail had not in the: of these 417 were infected.
wlightest degree improved Russia's Far Eastern remark that there are probably many people in trade; on the contrary, the opening up of that France who still believe that there is, a market route had given an impetus to foreign competi- for English wives at Smithfield, and dow and fion. The Southern section of the Manchurian again cases are reported from remote villagos line, more especially, had proved positively in which the passage of money is thought to injurious to Bassin's commercial Inforests in justify the passage of site. From the that region. If Russian trade is to have any Ubaciver we take this reproduction of a para- thing like a fair chance in Manchuria, the trans-graph from the Observer of a century ago— port tariff must be reduced seventy-five per cent. "A" man sold his wife in Shefield market on China will never become an important con-Thursday for two guiness. The fair que Jad sumer of Raision products so long as thore been guilty of unfaithfulness,” “ horoom- are no flourishing Russian industries on the pazion was the purchaser." Well we have Chinese frontier, in Manchuria, and on the improved on that simple procesa by increasing Amar litteral, and until the Amur Railway the complexity and the exponse. is built. Under the existent state of things,
EDISON'S PATENTS zaid M. Mokuloff, Russian trade and commercs in the Far East were hopelessly handicapped, The fertile brain of Thomas A. Edison, says. anil a succèseful, or partially successful, compati. an American paper, continues to be the souros tion against the West European manufacturers of the greatest amazement to the clerks and and exporters and against American and Jap-officials of the patent office who has in charge pose enterprise was practically impossible. The the work of lecking after the applications politico-commercial policy of the Manchurias placed on file by this inventor. On the 31st of railway-it were idle to disguise the fact-has, this month Mr. Edison will have obtained 791 in its result, been something worse than abor patents from the patent office, ou as many live. Instead of gaining new markete Russia is inventions, a larger namber by several hundreds losing old ones, and her project of industrial than any other individual has received in the colonisation and development in Manchuria and history of the office. This remarkable resort on the Awur is marred by the foreigner. The was ascertained by Mr. J. W. Balkon, chief prevent conditions are intolerable. Bussis must of the division of issue and gezette of the device the means of preventing the entry of patent office, who has made a 'abukted foreign merchandise into Manobaria, except statement of the inventions of Mr. EdisonL through the ports of Nicolaievsk and Vladi- From this statement it would appear diat vostock, and a general prohibition must be prior to 1895 the inventor had obtained established in favour of Hustian trade and 711 patonte and that since that time he has commerce in the Amar region)
received the following numbers: Tu 1898, three' M. Herkuloff then, in conclusion, referred patents; in 1807, two patents; in 1898 eight oracularly to certain representations being made, patenta; in 1890, three patente; in 1900, sixteen or about to be wade, to the Chinese Governmout patents; in 1901, twenty-three patente; 1902,
PLAGUE-INFECTED FOWIS FROM THE WISTEEN MARKKT. There was laid on the table a recommendu. (ion by the Acting M. O. H. for the closing of certain stalls at the Western Market.
The PRESIDENT said this had reference to the discovery of playserinfected poultry in the Western Market. On 31st May one fowl was sent from the Western Morket to the public mortuary and on examination by the boterio logist it was found to have died of plague. On
found let Jana o duck was sent and wea to have died of plague. On the four ducks and I one chicken were all reported to have died of plague, and on the 3rd there was a quail which was found to have died of plague. He did not wish to pose as an alarmist, but he thought it behoved the residente, Europeans and Chinese, to take every precaution with reference to cooking praliry generally. Of course the connection between rats and hunnu plague was scarcely a positive as we might wish. There One could easily understand that if the food was a connection, but it was somewhat remote, supply borume contominated in this way with that had occurred amongst the Chinese might have been caused in this way, infection having personally he thought that many of the sase taken place through the alimentary trest. He believed it was the custom for many of the
Mr. LAU CHU PAK-No, no. Chinese to eat the entrails of fowls uncooked.
your notice that the Board are now offering Allowed to sleep every night on the floors. Of these flours, 36 were unoccupied, and plague bacilli there was a possible danger; and by the Ruzaion Minister at Poking, in relation to nineteen patents, and in 1903, ho has so far
grödoor while so
No Cochrane waiting. It the cass of
the teannta found
place to go to at once and removed there with their furniture. At 50, Cochrane Street the hunto except the top floor was fond de sorted. At No. 27. Hollywood Hoad the people were kept out for four days because the land. loril saked to be allowed to do the limewashing himself and would not do it satisfactorily. On the third day the Board's contractor was ordered to do the work. This house was all deserted except the ground floor.
Mr. PetLOCK said that as he understood that this information was available he would uply say vay for words in support of his motion. He thought it had been the policy of the Board to enforce amongst the Chinese
MEASUREMENT OF HOUSES. Mr. A. EUNJAMIN paranant to notice asked -Since the enforcement of Sections 46 and 154 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1803 in No.5 Health District, how many bouses have already beer measured up, and what steps if any are being taken to enforce the provisions of the Sectious and how many peischs have been displaced thereby?
Dr. PEARSE replied that a surveyor hal been at work in No. 5 Health District since 27th May. In the block in which the survey began were 42 houses and a total number of 147 Of illegal cubicles 15 were locked up at the time of the visit and there were 242, and of kitchens not complying with the provisions of the new Ordinance, 120. Eleven cases of plague had occurred in the block. The floors measured tolalled persona who could
The PRESIDENT said he was informed that it old Ordinance 182, the number of
wes the custom. They took the entrails as s occupy these under the was £231, and the number who could occupy sort of relish with their rice. That being
Not them under the new Ordinance 1,401. allowing for any alternations under the new so it was easily understood that if that fowl Ordinence, the total displacement in these as attacked by the distate it might be spread in that way. At any rate he know floors was therefore 823,
it was a fact but the Chinese did not believe in cooking fowls as well as Europeans did, ate fowls half-cooked, He had that They information from a Chinaman when he was
therefore not menantud.
DISINFECTION.
The Acting M.O.H. recommended that in disinfection operations, with a view to lossen-
the pearle and detrimental to business that they commanity such laws with regard to sanitationing the disturbance of inmates of houses, the going round the experimental block with the
compensation for articles destroyed daring disinfection, and further I havo for a consider able time endeavoured to carry out the disinfection bye-laws with as little damage to property as possible. For example it ie not now the custon to remove any partitions or cubicles whether illegal or not during the disinfecting operations as long as the structure is not rotten and can be got at at both sides for cleansing and limewashing. The provision of the observation blooks is also measure under taken with a view to lessen the hardship which the vacation of houses entails. The object of the above menanre seems however to be defeated by the fact that any disipfecting operations whatever, involving as they must do a great amount of personal disoorafort and domestic derangement, are so distasteful to completely overshadow all efforts sinde, to the people to the necessity of such measures. With reference to the question as to whether I have any farther suggestions to make in this matter I may direct your st. tantion to a minute of mine before the Board to-day referring to this very subject. Further than this I um not at present able to go Convinced as I am that disinfection and dumping stand in the mutual relation of muse and effect and not feeling justified at the present time in recommending any serions alterations in the methods at present adopted to deal with plague, I am of the opinion that unless some method of bringing the offence Lame to the offenders by severe penialment we must always expect to have an " dumped in the streets. The quetion of
measures is; however, one which can be dealt with by one who has knowledge, win i I do not possess to a sufficient degree, of life, customs and prejudices of the Chinese people.
a) Those turned out of infected honses are offered shelter in the Board's observation blocks east and west. A further block has jast been taken for this purpose in Bridges Street in the Central District. This blook would have been undoubtedly obtained earlier if it had not been for the fact that the houses though looked for could not be found.
of
of
Governor one Banday. They asked clothing and personal effects of all living on Chinsman why they could not persuade the the same floor as the affected person should to Chinese to take chicken broth: and he told them disinfected mod also all clothing
ม
other
preferred to eat it half-cooked. There was. persons who might reasonably be supposed to that they did not cock their chicken but have had intimate personal communication with andoubtedly a druger in case it was infected One could only suppose that by plague the sick person; the clothing and effects of elated seed not be disinfected; the whole lower classes of Chinese, and it was very others in the rame house except as shove such lowls had been sold cheap to the bonse, however, should be cleansed with disinfec- probably the means whereby the infection Pearre to tante and limewashed. He considered this to was caused. He bad asked Dr. he necessary in view of the prevailing opinion inspect the Western Market, and he had also that a house may become infooted through neked the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon to do 20; it appeared that there were some basement plague-stricken vermin.
dwellings within the precincts of the markets for which licenses had been grauted in years
undesirable past. It was very these dwellings should be all wed to exist. Ous human case of pingue had occurred in one of
Mr. Pollock minuted." This question will have to be considered in connection with the Bye-lawe."
as were deemed necessary in order to prevent the sproud of plague and aller infections diseases. No doubt in some respects some of those messure might have semel rather hard to the Chinese, but no doubt from the point of view of health the enforcement of those measurea hed imperatively necessary for the Board to impose been strictly necessary. But while it hazama upon the whole population, Europedos and Chinese alike, such measures as they considered necessary for the general safety of the com- must considered that it was equally their duty to see that in the enforcement of there measures no unnecessary hardship was caused to any individual. It was with a view to the prevention of the continuance uch hardships that he had asked for the
The P. C. M. 0. The cleansing and formation referred on his notice of motion disinfection is left to the discretion of the hoped it would be found practicable, when M. O. H, but naturally he does not wish to e information he had asked for had been modify them without the consent of the Board," applied, to take such measures as might ensore The PRESIDENT said the suggestion was a far as possible the minimum of hardship to practically the outcome of several meetings that the Chinese community. Mr. Lau Cha Fak in the Medical Officer of Health and he had bait his minute annexed to the motion confirmed in with the plagae inspectors, and after discussing come respects the complaints made by "Anis- the matter more than once they came to the cer dumping in his letter in the Hongkong Daily elusion that they would be acting wirely if they confized the disinfection of clothing and effects Press; be showed that people were turned out
ractically in the streets with their furnito the same floor as that on which a plague case occurred. Knowing as they did the ture, and he thought that with their know. ledge of the torrential rains which sometimes
case was very unlikely that. presuming s
that
the stalls about a fortnight ago➡on the 20th Or 21st of May-1nd & result cleaning operations were carried out, traps were laid and S rats were caught of which 7 were proved to be infected with plague. It therefore had accur red to him that it would be just as well to seo ifany of the fowls that died in the market had died of the disease Orders were sent to the inspecter to send in such fowle to the bacteriologist; and the result was as given. He moved that the Government be asked to withdraw the permits
and sensational revelation of Russia's designs Manchuria, cariously coincident with a recent received six patents, in that province of the Middle Kingdom.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
AND NEWS.
THE SPEED-LIMIT OF OCZÂN: TRAVEL.
The New York Ferald last month printed a wireless message from the now North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II, sent off when the vessel was beam of Fire Island, saying that Herr Plate, the president of the line, who was on board, was of opinion that the new boat
travel. He said it would require 65,000 horse- presented the probable limit of speed for vocau power to maintain an average speed of 24 to 244 knots, and nearly 100,000 horse-power for a stained speed of 25 kaots. The cost of suck resol and the tremendous expenses of operating would make anch construction probibitive, The hors-power developed by the Kaiser Wilhelm II
was 42,090,
THE LONEON BUTCHBE AND AUSTRALIAN
MUTTON.
Does the Loudes butcher, asks a metropolitan journal, let concealment feed on his damask cheek when there is talk of Australian mutton? Ata West-end shop a customer lately asked for this colonial product. The butcher showel surprise and pain. We don't sell it," he said. In this high-class ba-iness you don't get mutton from Australia, I assure you." A few daye after, the enquirer happened to be at importer. "The Australian meat trade is falling off, eh?" he remarked airily. "Who says so ?" asked the importer.Oh, come now, you know they won't have it at the West-end." Who woft have it at the West-end ?” the in- porter demanded, with rising indignation. Th
"He!* enquirer mentioned his batcher's name,
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-
The depression in the N. has passed to the Pacific to the NE, of Japan.
The barometer has risen over W. Japan and the E. coast of China and au area of high pres-
lies between these areas.
GURO
Pressure has also increased moderately over the Philippines, and probably a shallow area of low pressure crossed the Archipelago to the 8. of Lazon yesterday, and entered the China Soa. Moderate to fresh NE. winds in the Formen Channel and over, the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast: Moderate to fresh E. winds, fair,
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Gocurred in this Colony at this season of the way in which babonic plagus was spread, it given to theso tazetments and that they be not | Smithfield, where he had a conversation with ano have older and more expensive Whiskies (6) All care is taken to avoid damage year it was a very great hardship and some pre-carred on the first floor of a house, the allowed to be occupied as dwellings in future.
3 COMMON, Occurrence 10
vision should be made in order to prevent a repetition. Such rains were not only projadi cial fo the people who were turned out but destructive to the belong inge which were turned
on
the third floor wonkl con-
laminated. The object of the rect momenda- tion
B$
was to cause the least inconvenience to the
to furnitore and property during disinfec- tion but if the people will not, as is generally the case, go to the observation hlonks, the Board has no means of housing
Chinese. This would not apply to a case of pneumonic plague, which was not so dangerous furniture turned out from any premises. In out into the streets,
The PRESIDENT said he was personally very infections. With reference to Mr. Pollock's mention that it is quito this connection I may zu and that people have glad that Mr. Pollock had brought forward this minnte, the first of the bye-laws for the pre- begun to move their fernitare before the Board's motion, because it gave the officers of the Board vention or mitigation of endemia, pidemic or officers arrive at the premises. With a view to an opportunity to reply to anonymous letters contagious disesse left cleansing and disinfooting providing protection of feraitare it would no appearing in the Press. They would agree
of Health. denkt be possible though expensive to rent a with him that it was the object of one and all of to the discretion of the Medical Officer of Mr. FUNG WA CHUN proposed that notice much larger number of houses than the Board them to carry out those measured with as little dces at present for sheltering people and their discomfort as possible to the inhabitants, and of the now procedure be given to the Chinese. property. If space can be found matsbeds he thongil the Acting Medical Officer of Health
plague. might be built for this purpose but the accom-would be able to conclusively show to the It might encourage them to report case of Mr. POLLOCK Seconded the proposal, which modation would have to be provided for twice members that many of those statements in the letters referred to were, to say the least of it,
was adopted. the cleansing and limewashing exaggerated in many cases aud in others
grossly untre operations take as a rule over 24 hours.
by familia each day, as there are cases of
8
5. I om informed, and I believe rightly,
· HILL DISTRICT SCAVENGING.
flat where a pit this was done becatee the mittoo be appointed and that Dr. Pestre 8 from 18th to 24th ult, was 637 pionis., 2
of the Mr. PoLocs thought it would be satisfac A report dealing with the scavenging : but I do not know for a fact, that in 190 the tory if a sub-committes oeuld be appointed to Hill district was submitted. It showed that the go int this matter. He moved that a sub-com-rabbish removed to the depot and the dast-basis osse occurred only was disinfected; also
printed and circulated. It was a very report disinfecting apparatus in Taipinganan was out
order and could not therefore deal with a important question indeed, and it seemed to contractor should be kept to his work.
this him that from larger amount of clothing. Presumably.
might my practice was discontinued on the disinfection that possiblet had bean and by Dr. Pearse plant being put in order. As was not in the ; many of those people blys great contractor's attention had been drawn to
of
PLAGUE AT TRAT-TSZ-MUI.
Mr. POLLOCK minnted that the scavenging The PRESIDENT said the avenging were turned | the matter by a letter from the Secretary, and out and living in the streets in the rain and if he failed to do his work properly he would Colony at the time I can give no date^ "The disinfection now carried out, as far as clothing bad weather wore not aware of the fact that be summoued before the Board.
they had the privilege if they chose of going is concerned, is
is eu the same lines as it has
int these ob ervation blocks. always been during my stay in the Colony.
6. It is impossible in say particular case lo say whether the winter clothing locked in box may or may not be infepted. Rats suffer from plagas all the year round, and human plague may begin before winter clothing is left off. Winter clothing is not sharply de- marvated from other clothing. Each base is treated on its merits and always bas been as far as I know,
0
"Anti-dumping's" letter
(1)..
1) A policomadia telephoned for by a M.O.II. er sapilary inspecter when du hears of an nacertified death. The insporter or M: O. H views the body, and if he decides that the body should be removed to the mortuary for examination the policeman remains on guard over the house till the cause of is made known. This may be over 24 hours but the length time varies
death
The PRESIDENT said they were always in- forused that fact by the sanitary inspectors, Mr. FuNO WA CHU-I do not think so. Mr. POLLOCK added that it was hard to soppose that people would voluntarily live in the streets during heavy rains. He moved that e sub-committee be appointed.
Mr. LAU CHU PAR seconded. It was high tine, he said, that the Board should coquire into all the complaints which were dealt with in the report. The suffering inflicted upon the Chinese must be very severe or they would not go to each an extreme as that a wife should allow the body of her husband to be thrown away or a mother the body of her child.
The motion was agreed to.
The PRESIDENT proposed that Menara Pollock, Lau Chn Pak, Dr. Peerse and hiraself be appointed as the sub-committee.
There was submitted a minute by the Acting M. O, II. reporting the deterrence of four cases of plague in Bat-tez-toui and suggesting limewashing, etc., in the village.
Tho zaggestion was adopted, on the motion of the PRESIDENT, seconded by Mr. POLLOCK.
DOMESTIC CLEAN LINKAB.
A minute by the Acting M. OH. Was submitted recommending an mendment to the note to Byn-law 5 of the Byelaws regulating domestic cleanliness and ventilation.
The VICE-PRESIDENT moved that Dre Forse's recommendation be adopted
POLLOCK seconded, and the motion was
to.
agreed
IMPUEN WELL. The Gorernment Analyst (Dir. F. Browne)
Mr. POLLOCK (econded.
The VICE PRESIDENT said that some arrangements were being made for the accom modation of these people outside the market at present, and es a temporary markat wie in progress it might be possible permanently to more Alose some of these parts which were seriously objected to.
The motion was agreed to,
The VICE-PRESIDENT added that it should exploded the other. "He don't sell Australian be clearly understood that these cases of in- mutton! Why I send him twenty carcases a fected fowle were from the Western Market day!" and not from the Central Market, from which s great deal of the focd supply was drawn.
This was all the public business.
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"IT IS LITTLE ENGLAND THAT PAYS." This is one of dir William Harcourt's phrases. Of the 264,000,000 spent every year on the defence of the Empire all bat an odd Before a meeting of the Fociety for the Pre-million or less comes from the White Man at home. Yet Little England, which pays all the motion of Persian Trade and Industry at
bills, drawe only half the ravenna of the Empire. Odens, Merkaloff delivered, isst month, an
If it is true that every man living under the address, general tenour of which explain Union Jack is equally responsible for keeping CHINA, JAPAN AND COREA Russia'e desire to adopt a "closed deer" policy the ing lying, then John Bull at home is in Manchuria, says the Standard's correspon-paying exactly nine times too much. Etern dent. The lenturer, who spoke from a very arithmetic would bring down comprehensive and complete knowledge of his of defending the Empire from 80s, fur subject, pointed out, in the first place, that, in
every man, woman, and child at home to spite of all its Forestoring efforts, this country's 3. for every man, woman, and child in the export finde to Chine was comparatively in Empire. If wo exempt Indis from liability AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS, faitesimal. China's imports last year were the reponsibility comes up to 10s per head, but Shanghai; valued at three hundred and twenty-throa
even that is impossible, for out of the Mr. EDWARD EVANS, Missionary Home,
Shanghai millions of renbles, and to this total use 120,000,000 people outside India not quite one Messer KELLY & WALSH, LD., Hongkong,
Shanghai and Yokohama; nesian contribution was twenty-eight thousand half could be expected to contribute. For that rables. The high freight rates from European 56,000,000, or thereabouts, an annual charge of Mesra, W. BREWER & Co. Hengkong and
Shanghai, Aussia to the Far East way, in some degree, £1 per hood, with a bonus of £3,000,000 from YVES CHONG BOOK Sroen, Swatow; meant for this. From Odessa to Vindivostock the United Kingdom, weald keep up the Messrs. A. S. WATSON & Co., Amoy: this reight rate in two and a half times higher Empire's defense, and the eat would then, be: Mesra A. 8. WATSON & Co., Frichow; than that from Hemburg. to the same Far Toited Kingdom, £49,000,000; Australin Mesura. H. BLOW & Co, Tientsin
Eastern port. Braides this drawback, however, Fussian products generally fail to hold their £5,000,000; Canada, £5,000,000; Cape Colony wa with those of Western Europe is the Natal, and the new Colonies, £5,000,000. But even this would double taxation in most Chinese markete.
Colonies.
Turning his attention to the Chinese Eastern
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