THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26cm 1908
SUPREME COURT.
A SANITARY EXPERIMENT, they would respond, and if the gentlemen
STATEMENT BY HE. THE GOVERNOR.
Hon. Dr. ATKINSON snið: that considers- prevent read the memorandum placed before tion of the question of establishing tanke them they would and that in that small all over the City was deferred until the ares in the Western d'strict handed over present meeting had been hold, but it would Yesterday afternoon, in the Legislative to His Excellency, an area picked out as bolugbe entered info seriously at the meeting of the Council Chamber, H. E. the Governor met the amongst the worst in the Colony, and inhabited Sanitary Board on Thursday, and the result members of the Savitary Board for the purpose by a very pper class of Chines", the people did of the discussion would be communicated to of submitting a statement as to the results of respond, and responded most satisfactorily. He the Government at the earliest moment, thought the the recent adminstration of the experimental had no hesitation in saying, went on His Excel- Personally. Fr. Atkinson blocks of houses in Second and Third Streets, lenoy, that the co-operation and activity of the establishment of tanks all over the Colony Thoko present were: Hon, Dr. J. M. Atkinson, kaifong were worthy of any poople of their class was rather too big an order almost to com- Principal Civil Medival Officer; Hon. Win any country. It behoved them, it behoved the mance at pace, and he suggested that probably Chatkom, Director of Public Works; Dr. W. members of the Sanitary Board as the people a batter scheme would be to introduce it slowly, W. Pearse, Acting Medical Offloor of HealiE, in whose hands the carrying out of sanitary and, in the first instance, to try to get em Mr. C. Mcl. Messer, Acting Registrar-General; measures. lay, and it behored him, who could picyers of labour-the cotton mills, and so on-- Captain F. W. Lyons, Acting Captain Super. not divest himself of the responsibility that to establish tanks of the kind mentioned for intendent of Police; Colonel Webb, K.A.M.C.; rested upon the shoulders of every Governor, their workmen, berings, since they had been Mr. E. A. Howett, Mr. Fong Wa Chan, Mr. to look closely after the welfare of the com- so useful to the experimental block, and, as Lan Chu Pak, and Mr. Ramjaha, The Hon. munity, to ses low far in the coming year they knew, in the cooli- premises of the Go down they could be in a position to forestall the dis Company at Kowloon, if they cond persuado F. H. May, Colonial Secretary, also attended.
Addressing the meeting, HIS EXCELLEROY ease that, as sure as the sun would rise on the Jardines to establish something of the sort at said bo had deferred it until he had first morrow, would be npousnext spring. God grant East Point, and very probably the Dock Com- prepared a memorandum which these present had that it might not be so, but he was afraid, Lie pany and other large employers of labour, it xecaired giving an account of the experiment Excellency said, that it would be so Sections might do something to attain the object in that, with the permission of the Sanitary Hound 22 and 23 of the memorandum shared in io. As it was the intention of the Govern he entered upon: That experiment, be assured how many ways plogue had been dessinated ment, Dr. Atkinson took it, to build permanent them, had not been undertaken from mere and the point that was in his mind-groping in bath-houses all over the Colony, the tanks un paxious desire to the dark, as he supposed most of our savants might be introduced in connection with those curiosity, bat from ipvestigate into this scourge of plague, whose wers-was that probably it was propogated by bath houses. Regarding the cost of the under anual, returnace carried away so many insects to a vory great extout; ond if taking, the monthly upkeep of the tanks used on valual lo lives ard; inflicted sach injury upon the that was so then to his mind the insects the experimental block in the west end for business of the Colony. He ventured to outer to attack in dealing with the prevention three months was $320 and the initial cost upon that experiment because he felt that of plaguo were the insects in the house- practically $2,000, and bp. estimated that
the bed-bug and the flea.
They were the cost of establishing tasks all over the asa layun bo might dare to attempt
going to spand next year $30,000 62 Colony, would be something like $54.00) disinfectants and $30,000 on coolie hire. If and the monthly upkeep $9,010. they could establish tanks for boiling the forn cleanliness was a virtue to be encouraged, are the bed-boards-es they had done in the personally the speaker thought that disinfection and Dr. Pearse knew, if they could give the plogne, and be also thought it did people an opportunity of themsolves boiling acessarily follow that because bugs were that primitive furpiters, it would be money found in a plague house they disseminated tho well expended; and it was a question worth dissese; naturally, if a bug bit a man suffering considering whether some of the moury that from the disease, the insect would be vipinatud was going to be put into limewashing would not be better exponded by providing tanks and boiling water. What, they had to nim at wus eflciency and economy. They would find from the last report of Dr. Hunter for whose co-operation ho was very grat ful all shrough in this matter that these bugs in which plague had been found lived in a 3 or 4 per cent, Jeyes fail, when totally immorze, for about 15 minutes; and even in the strongest solution for
that from which professional men would probably shrink, For over ten years a plaguo had swept over the 'olung annually, typhoon, sweeping away thou
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Tuesday, 25th August
IS ORIGINAL JustEDICTION
BEFORE HONOUS, SIR WILLIAM M. *GOODMAN (CKies `Justter),
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Tuesday, 25th August. BEFORE ME. T. SEDCOMBE SMITH (POLICE MAGISTRATE).
TRADE
TELEPHONE No. 133.
The Attorney-General, Hon. Sir Heury S. Berkeley, with Mr. B. H. Sharp, K.C; barrister-at-law, instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowlby (Crown Solicitor), appeared in support of an application for leave to appeal to the Full Cart against two decisions of the Land Court. The Attorney-General sail the first case way that in which Lam Trang Fuk and Law
FATAL COLLAPSE ENQUIRY, ' Tak Lak claimed a traet of foreshore and son-
An enquiry was opened into the circum. bed extending from the old boundary of British Kerloon for a-distance of 12 miles in front of stances at ending the epilapse of house No. 1, KlounCity and the village of Chiawas and com. Mai Kwai Lane, West Point, on the 19th THE CREAM OF pletely blocking the access to the seover that disiast, when one native workman was killed tanca. In mupport of their claim the claimants and a' other severely injured. produced a deed and coruin receipts for paymont
alaim for an area of 40.69 acres. The allowance of fishing taxes. The Land Court allowed the
of the clains was reprted to the Governor in between the claimants, and the Governm-st with due course and certain negotiations took place
were agreed upon. No title had been granted reference to the granting of a title. No terms and in February last the Governor decided tha it was inexpedient, hasing regard to the public interests of the Colony, to grant a title. Then
Mr. H. W. Looker, solicitor (Mosses. Deacon & Hastings) said he appeared for the architect, Mr., Danby; the architect's assistant, Me Thomas, the overseer, Mr. Haughton, the
foreman superintending the pulling-down contractors, Chan U Shan and Cheung Yi, the
bricklayer employed on the work, Chun Hop Ki. operatieza, bun Fan Tin; and a
His Worship doubted the right of a solicitor to appear on behalf of parties at a coroner's
precaivas. enquiry, and asked Mr. Looker to quote a
sards in ia path, and before its ravages district of which he spoke, and, as Dr. Atkinson was a more important, thing in dealing with. the decision of the Land Court Claimants stated hold t year, in which solicitors were given?
sauitory precautions and medical science had aliko been ineffect sl. As regarded the memo andum, His Excellency proceeded, bo might thereis have said something that perhaps some of these present thought would have been better left unsaid, but he was of opinion in framing it that it would be better both for the public and for them that nothing should be omitted which might reader more complete or effective ́any arrangements made for carrying on the business of fighting this epidemic in the future. To begin with, he was quito satisfied that no sanitary arrangements which could be made would ever be efficiently or eecnomically carried out until the co- operation of the people had been secured, Hore, as elsewhere, it had been the habit to say that this co-operation of the people was not possible--that it could not be attained. The speaker had been intimately seaociated with the government of all sorts and conditions of men, from his own mercurial countrymen to the Esquimeaus of the Far North of Labrador, the Degre of the West Indies, and now the repre-
sentatives hero of the Chineso race, whose civilisation and existed for thousands of years longer than ours; and be found that if the people were only approached, in a proper spirit they could be induced to follow the course marked put for them. Human natore was very much the same, in the East as in the West. As Shylock not said "If you prick me, will I bleed; if you tickle me, will I not laugh; if you poi on me, will I not die; if you wrong me, will I not uvenge?" In Labrador, the nomad Esquimeau had been taken posses
tho sion of by sympathetic action; Moravian Mission established there had by its exertione transformed theao-nomad Esqui menax, who possessed among themselves no elements of higher feeling, into a respectable, law-biting, trading community. Whilst in the West Indies, continned His Excellency be remembered that a great ware of obolera eccurred in the Babans. There all the wafer was procured from surface wolls which wern very 'dirty. The general idea
not
not. however,
to become infected. It was the question whether the bag carried the disease from the end of an epidemic to the commencement of Another; he was much interested in His Excellency's experiment and ite results, De: Atkinson concluded, and he was sure the ranitary Board would do all it could to further his wishes in the matter.
FIRE ON THE “INDRAWADI”.
AT SINGAPORE,
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the matter wae refered back to the Land Court to
Mr Loker referred his Worship to the pre was consulted, and an appeal advised against ordent created ie the case of similar enquiries decide what compereation was to be ps.d. Cousel
the total value of tLe lane to be $488,-27. They pormission to appear on behalf of parties con- paid for their right. $100 and sister absoluto cerned-persous who were called as witnesses ownership in perpetuity. It appeared that the who might have been committed. for trial deed upon which they relied was à transfer of the by reason of the verdict of the jury. He als beach, paying fishing taxes only, and that no
rai mitted bat that was not a coroner's court in ront striatly so-called was included. · Ho was
which bis Worship was sitting as a corozer, bat informed by the British Consulat Canton
a Court in which he was sitting as s'magistrate. that sook dead referred only to the right of
The authority fer that statement was Urdinance fishing anu did not carry with it a clue to the 17 of 188, which abolished the office of coreper and provided that the duties thereof shall be was a forgery, in the Consul's opinion.. What
discharged by the magistrate. Mr. Locker sub- land, and he was also informed that this deed
mitted that solicitors or counsel, to apply tho they claimed sad what the Land Court allowed was reperty in certain sandbanks along gencialume, had the right of sudieses before the sea-beach in front of Kowloog City iny, mugibate on babalf of sy persons concerned, who, or a result of the proceedings, and Chirwan valged at $35,000, and in the
might be committed for trial. The effect of judgment of the Land Coar! it was stated that the root" of the title was a red fishing the Cadiance, was to take away all the deed supported by tax receipts. In their claim fonetiens of coroner, as coroner, and to enact the claimants did not ask for any-fishing right. that such enquiries should be beard by his Wor
ship sa magistrate in the some way as a charge of a criminal nature was heard
His Lordship remarked that they paid $.00 for it, then said it was worth $25,000, and wheu the Government wanted to pay compensation for it, they said it was worth $488,000? He did not know how. they worked out theso trans- luod
formations. He noticed that the tax formerly paid to the Chinese Govera
was equal to $1. ment for their right From that it appeared prima facie that iho claimants had no mon than the fishing
HIS EXCELLENCY said he did not claim any originality for the ides regarding about 50 seconds. In that case they would have tanks; he took that idea from an examination of to consider whether the process of disinfection tanks inuse by the Godown Company in Kowloon, by an ordinary coolic with a solution of Juges They were all aware that there was I ardly a aid, which might or might not be of that large hong in the Colony that had not had its strength, of that furniture, would be so business interrupted by the loss of coolies from effective as if they got the people themselves. plagne. Two years ago the Godown Company to do it and dip the furniture into boiling established those tanks, and they had not lost
Of course it was a simple matter
a man since. The experiment having already water. There was nothing heroic nboat it, but it might been made by the Codowa Company, His Exe save money Rod live certainly the former celleccy trusted that the influenss brought to It was a question also whether more good or bear upon other large hongs by the Sanitary injury was done by the limemeshing of a ropu Board would induce them to follow the admirable the Godown Company in net open to sunlight and without a replace and leaving the walla in a wet condition. He example set by
Kowloon.
This was all the business, and the meeting rights along those banks. - thanked them for the opportunity they had
concluded. given Lim of carying out this experiment. Hebad already expressed His gratitude to Mr. Fung Wa Chan for the assistazos ha bad afforded him. Then he knew they had been considering the question of local hospitals. Now,
I Singapore Harbons on the 18th inst, the the local hospital that ho established in Third Street was a very primitive affair, but there British steamer Indrawadi of the Indra Line was no doubt in his own mind that if local hoisted the signal that she was on fire, and the hospitals were established and properly looked agents at once communicated with the Tanjong after because he did not pretend to say that Pagar Dook Co., who sent the tags Sunda and this hospital was properly looked after-with Bangkok to the assistance of the burring vessel. all the appliances of a local hospital and all the The fire, which occurred in the larger of the nonishment that the patients required and two after-holde, was Arst discovered by the were able to take if a fow such hospitals wors second oficer. The vessel was working cargo established bo hoped, and believed that they at this hold on the previous day, and as she would reduce the disinclination of the people to was to leave for New York on the 18th go to Kennedytown, which, they must retospaber, the hotel was put on and securely fase i appen to the Fall Cours on law and had a very ominous name for thurdinary Chi-tened for the voyag». By a mistake, Lowever, that the position was desperate, because press; and if they e: uld only spread the system the cargo slings were left in the hold, and for three months unless the appeal osuld bo of kuifangs or strat conraities they might as these were needed this morning to work gft from them the same hearty assistance that a small quantity of cargo to be put in the he gratefully acknowleged. he got from the fore-hold, the hatch was taken off and the Thoy Record officer, Mr. Scott, went down into the committees of the western district, would and in the return what was perhaps the hold with a quarter meter to obtain them. only real, rustworthy cousus that had ever While in the bold Mr. Scolt discovered a small been taken here: every man, woman and ebild wisp of smoke issuing from bebing-come bales, living in every one of these 614 floors appeared and further examination proved that the smoke in the census; and they had to remember that was coming from the very bottom of the hold. that had not been done by him or by Laspector Efforts were made to locate the fire and Gidley, who had worked for io, but the extinguish it, but these were of no avail. The kaifongs worked it out themselves and presented hateli was then put on again and sourely it to them. It showed in the first place what battened down, but before long the gases
was
The Attorney-Genersi agreed that there was to other construction to be put upon the deed. Then they said this red deed was a forgery. In the matter of law they would bring expert evidence to 3 Tove that a deed of that kind could erofer fishing rights but no right to sail They had also expert evideres to the effect that it was not empetent acerrding to Chinese law and customs for any private individual to sell lund covered by water, so that the red dead
power to do. They desired the Supreme Court purported to do that which the parties bad no
to hear the care de novo. Their contention was that the deed cid-pot confer ownership.
His Lordship granted the Attorney-General fact and stayed proceedings arising directly or indirectly qut of the decision of the Land Cour
brought cos earlier:
E-Winbip said he did not feel himself! bound by the precedent of similar enquiries, He was sing as a magistrate discharging_the| datjes of eurover—a set of magisterial coroner. He was not eccducting à magisterial enquiry, but földig a prelimitary investigation joto | so it the death of a person, and is dolg seemed to Eim that he was acting as a corecer and not ab a magistrata enquir
ing into a crimin 1 matter. The argument that the effect of the Orainanes quoted by Mr. Leaker wes to take away all the functions of coroner was one in which his Worship said he' could not ustent, and to did not think that in the prssi at case be could allow anyone to appear for anybody. If the cast showed any an expected dvelopments it would he different, but at present he did not require any assistemos. Mr. Locker suggested that his clients might not appear as withersee without beingenbpónsed,, His Worship gave instructions for subpones to be iud.ni once.
Evid ace was then called, Mr. H. P. Tooker, executive engineer, Public Works | epartment, being the Erst witness He attributed the collapse to, the fees that the top portion of the western wall, the part that first collapsed, was ' Ladly built and left without support, after half of the roof had been removed.
Medical and other evidence followed, and the enquiry was adjourred,
The Attorney-General said they also desired leave to appesi against the decision of the
**CAPTAIN" DEOWN WENT TO PRISON. Land Court in a case in which Ho Lap Bun's
Herry Asell Brown-"Captain" Brown, as elaim to 621 mow of land extending from
ho calls himself-was sentenced to three montla Lye to Kowloon City for about 24 miles hard labour for failing to return to the house of
detection on 29th May lust. He was brought apan Saturday, it will bo remembered, and told the imagistrate that he had enough 'be intended sailing us a third-class passenger on Tuesday (yesterday). But I had no money money, to take him to Singapore, whither
worth speaking of and people whom he re- Boned to the police as being ready and willing to
inter tion of doing any such, thing whon ship him to Singe pore at their expor su deniedall
In the circumstances his Worship felt! enquiries wero made of them. Justified in passing sentence of three months imprisonment with hard hbour.
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ALLEGED TH: FT OF REGISTERED LETTEE,
Chung Yuh Lun (20), a clerk in the General
the islands were inhabited by primitive population of negroos. His Excellency got tboss people together, and asked them to do something for themselves. He explained to them where the danger was and told them what to do to get their weils clawed and keep them
along the shoro was allowed. The claimant clean. Arrangements to that end wore carried
alsimed absolute ownership of the land as out the wells were cleaned and made perfectly safe, and cholera cond to exist. In Jamaica, as in most places, the negroes were voty improvident;
buying been acquired from the Chinese Govern. ment in 1891, through the Sax Cin magistrate, their farming was conducted on very primitive
hand at $50,000. Assuming that the land lines, and they had no idon of progress. He
at an annual land fax of $5, and be valued the
was leased by anthority the lease applied again they were got together, an agrimltura society, with small branches, was established, be thought they had not known before the generated blow off the batch, the fores of the
were necessary for leading local men gave their assistines, and real proportion of people living in that district explosion sending it over the sile, or otherwise, only to the fabing rights and the ervotion trained mop wore secured to teach the nggroes and the preval sea of overcrowding from some of the crow might have been seriously of such buildings as what they ought to do. Now that agricultural the point of view of public health Still burt. The second officer as it was had a mar-fab-curing and did not grant to the losses matters row escape, as he had only just stepped off the anything like alsolute ownership. A certain society at Jamaica was the wost Bourishing in causidering all the sanitary institution in the island, the people were they must not forget that the allimate result batch a minute or two before it was blown away. cfficial despatch which the claimant also By this time the tugs Sunda and Bangkok produced in support of his claim monly referred improving their methods, and the island was bo of the new Ordinance must be to double coming more and more prosperous. Ta Hong the rent of every floor. He thought he was had arrived and hose wors got to work from to su event which might steur in a possible kong, His Excellency said, they had been freed right in saying that a house which built under these vessels on to the burning cargo. They contingency which had never arisen, namely, with the same conditions; they were face the old Ordinance would cost $2,000 would now, were only suficient, however, to keep the Are the possible reclamation of certain fields He also produced a to face with n'great dilBonity, but they entered | cost $2,500. It would cost i por cent, more to under control till about 11.3), when it broke and wa-bed, and it did not form any| Pest Office, was remanded till the Ist prox. on a upon their task with the determination to build and it would accommodate only three but again and volumes of stifling smoke poured part of the title. leave nothing undone that money would accom-fifths of the inhabitants. The effect of the new from the hold, driving back the officers and crew plish in the effort to try to reduce the ravages law therefore would be to very largely increase of the steamer, who were working strenuously that pli goe was responsible for. That the the expenses of house rent to the poor people of to extinguish the fire. It was then decided to Colony had not been skimped in the matter the town and increase also the expenses of swamp the bold, and seven jels were got to of sanitation would be realised when it labour, for labour would bear all the work, the pups on the tags working at full This fortunately subdued the fire, was stated that in 1897 the expenditure on inereused expenses in, the future. Therefore power.
vessel gare her a beavy nod dangerous list to sanitation was about 898,000, in 1893, in round in carrying out sanitary incasares it baboret tabugh the quantity of water pumped into the zumbers, it was $105,000; and the estated ex- them for the sake of the people who had to pay starboard. The origin of the fire is not known, penditure for next year was $481,600. Nobody, the piper to try to obtain en-operation that says the Free Prees, but as the hold, where it therefore, could any that money had been would give them the same or better results occurred was fall of tea, gatta-peroba, and kapok it probably broke out amongst the latter, spered or denied on sanitation in Hongkong, with the saving of a great deal of mousy. That through a ranich being carelessly dropped by but so far as concerned this particular disease, could only be done by approaching those people one of the cargo-occlies. The vessel was to be and he was sure it would always taken to Tanjong Pagar, where the damaged plogue, we were just where we were in 1897, with sympathy, a The people, however, were now more inclined to meet with a response from them, and he es cargo, which is said to be fully insured, was to
be removed. no reason why it should not be tried. They
The Indrawada arrived at Bla
I at Singapore from | extend their help, but there still existed a
st Kobe, doubt, uspicion, a distrust of authority that had a nesolens in that distric, and they might Yokohama en the 12th, having was not gonfined to the Chinese alone, but was possibly try it in that district. He commended Moji, shanghai, and Mavila. Her owners are really found in certain classes in all countries. it to them, and again he thanked them for T. B. Boyden of Liverpool, and she is quite at Whiteinah on the Clyde. The Indrauti It was His Excellency's experience in other having given him the opportunity of tying a tuow ship, having been built only last year countries that if the people were spproached this, one of the most interesting experiences be is a vessel of 3,889 tons gross, and is commanded
by Captain Conby. in the proper spirit and trusted a Bitlis way had over had in his life.
map, but there was no evidence as to its charge of atesling a registored letter from the
chrisant bad .wilfully misre. Canton. aathenticity or its accuracy. They contender Post Office addressed to a person residing in that the presented his rights before the Land Court and the Land Court had blindly accepted his misrepresentation.
His Lordship granted leave to appeal in this
case also.
.The Court adjourned.
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