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HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD PREVENTION OF TYPHOID FEVER
VACCINATION SUGGESTED. PLETEEPNAO MINIA ADOSO DAITE Val
CATTLE.
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A mating of the Hongkong Sanitary Board! was held yesterday evening at the Sanitar. Board offer. Mr. G. R. Sayer presided and there were also present the Ho, Mr. E. B. Hallitas. Col. Humphrys Dr. W. Y. M. Koch, Dr. F. M. G. Ozario.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31st, 1920.
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CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
In this Colony from severe | saved us
epidemies of this disease. The army also has the advamage of obtaining milk from {(pzxORE HIS KOSOR UK. H. H. J. QÓMPERTZ, dairies well mannged that the change of
ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE,) ALLEGED MURDER.
To Chinese Sanitary Board coolies were indicted for mitrder af Kennedy Town on May 21st.
tention from comniaption of contaminat. ped milk is reduei to a minimum. I have never been able in any cases of typhoid fever to blame either The water ny milk
enting
at riw supply of the Colony. The vrgatables, salads, and shell Esh, any has been the "saures of infection in some
The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C., cases. There is, however, a mode of infe tion which has been in the past overlooked by the general public. I refer to the can, Attorney-General, prosented. Mr. W famination of food in "honse by means of H. Drummoud defended. typho-d carriers. If pay typhoid carrier, been aged in preparing feat or handling.
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The following jury was empanelled: it, he is liable to spread the disease. An Mesar, J. Gray, A.' G. W. Ogilvie, A.
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ANOTHER SEIZURE OF COUNTERFEIT COINS. MAN SAYS MONEY WAS HIS WAGES.
A tha
Magistrasy. Yesterday,, chinese was charged with being in prisses gion of counterfeit quins to the value of 23. 10.
On Sunday evening defendant went to a fish stall a: Sai Kot and bought xix cents' worth of fish. He tendered; a cen cent piece which was found in he had und it was returned to him. He tendered a
Mr. A. II. Hollingsworth, Mr. Chow Shou- instance of this has recently sccurred. Five Johnstone. D: A. Carvalho, J. second and a third, and these too were: ana, Mr. S. W.-Tso, Dr. Pearse (Medien! Cakes of typhoid fever have occurred under Cannes, Wong Pik Tsun and F. Ellis.
Offrer of Health) and Mr. Beynolds (Secretary)."
C. 4. W.
circumstances pointing to a common source
persons was carrier.
value of $3.40.
An Indian Sergeant found to be anda.“
he noticed the incident immediately searched the man and found him th be
He arrested him and in possession of counterfeit coïns to the; took him to the station. The curious part shout the whole incidens was the fact that The inan hail twenty, copper cents with him.' but did not tender six copper cent, in pas-
of infretion, and investigation has proved Mr. Kemp, addressing the jargmen, was that a cook who prepared food for all these must inaudible to every one else in the
The
existence
The reporters, whose rent is ou Dr. W. W. Pearse, was appointed to a day privies in close proximity to kitchens Court..
and pantries offers opportunity for the the other side of the room, caught only ax Colonus! Veterinary Surgeon,
contamination of food through Bies if such anstehes of what he said. The opportunity
It privies are id by typhoid carriers. used often to be said in Hongkong that is a good one to request the Acting Chief
typhoid
Justice to come to the assistance of the bigber degree ol They, war enjoy Chinese were largely immune from immunity than the foreigners here, but there by providing seats for the reporters table shows that a considerable on the other side of the lawyers' table, The CHAIRMAN explained that by this tuber of cases of typhoid secur amcngs similar to the arrangement now in force! ment in the fish.
the Chinese. The whole community ra
cannot
was
DEFENSIVE. TRADES LICENCES. The following Sub-Committe appointed to issue offensive tender licences.
The President of the Bourd, the Director of Public Works and Dr. W. V. M. Koch
means they hoped to minimise the delay between the application for and the grant ing of a licence... The powers the Board now hell would be delegated in the Sub Committer, who if they went not 'unaviauns on the question of granting would refer the same to the Board Committee would have no power to refuse a licence without referring to the Board.
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_INPÄQLD FEVER IN BONOKONU.
lierned,
The
In ex-
Dr. PEARCE, time Medical Officer of Health, presented a memorandum on the prevalence of typhoid fever in Hongkong, planation of it he said that, no one could. safe frim accidentally requiring in fiction, Fortunately there was a new method whereby they could obtain some
fourt
be examined for the purpose of finding who in the Puisne Judge's Court. Even in A person may eschew aninds" and shell sh.
is and who is not a carrier and so although ordinary weather, the acoustic properties holl all his drinking water and milk, he of the Court are such that it is difficult will not know that his neighbour or one to hear, from where the reporters are at provided with gents, what the of his householf is not a carrier. There
revailed yesterday, reporting of the lawyers are saying, but in such weather as
ix it goed measure of protection, namely
a method whereby every one ena obtain the use of anti-typhoid inoculation. rational of this ingulation is akin t
CRE the that the
at
present
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Defendant said that the money was part of his wages,
He was sentenced to three months' hard Jabour.
CHINESE SERVANT GIRL TURNS THIEF.
STEALS FROM FORMER MISTRESS.
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A young Chinese woman, why” gor - már:: ried a couple of months ago to a Chinese The Attorney-General was understood to; sailor.. was ebarged at the Magistracy say that the murder took place in Kennedy ! yesterday, with stealing 40 pieces of jewel- The deceased was engaged with lers, valued at 8200, the property of her
former mistress, agodown Town.. others in carrying rattan to when he was set upon by three men, cha of whom, stabbed him. It was not one of
It was stated that the defendant visited her pistress and stayed the night with her.
Protection against it' and that was beans and Americans who have died from the prisoners who actually stabbed the The next morning, when the woman left,|
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WHAT shall we have for Breakfast? This question is asked
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of vaccinat on against all-pox, although proceedings was both difficult and danger. the protection afforded is not so great nor ous, because of the temptation to fill in "as in the latter case. There such portons of an argument as the re-
introduction of. men are to the British porter can bear plainly. this Army saved countless lives during the recent war. The inconvenience negli gible and the protection afforded is good, If the public will evince a desire to use this method of protection, there can be no daybe that the fevernment will provide the necessary material. A list extracted from the Death Registers of the names of Eure
the mistress discovered that her jewel.box! typhoid fever in Hongkong during the last
had disappeared. She informed the Police, se vaccination; and although the proto tion ten years, shows that there were 31 such deceased, but it was "a case of commen In 10 cases the infection was design. He was not able to say what was
There was a teling them of her suspicions, and the afforded was not absolutely sure, neverthe deaths. -hit-afforded a vainable protection, and apparently acquired ontside the Colony, the motive for, the crime,
while there were 21 cases of locally acquir
jewellery away, and stated that she this was shown is the recent great war dinletion. Similar lists for other quarrel between the parties on the morn-woman was arrested. She admitted taking umbam_the_majority of the troops were nationalities could be given, but I think we ing of the murder.
had left it at a hawker's stall. She look element of our population to set inquinted agnina typhoid with bust look to the European and American a example be availing themselves of pratee
Detectips-Sergeant Dorling to the place results: It was no doubt
tive invenlation,
and in his presence demanded from the diffent thing to introduce a practice of
hawker the jewellery she had left in his
bawker keeping. The this sort, for they pad tried is before in the plague, ontbreak, and after the staff
ficial
of the department, some Chinše students and medical man had had themselves innenlated, no member of the public raine
Jarwari, l'eople thought that it was m
Cause to have thruselors inculated as they
But in the..!
did not either live in Chine loendition or walk down than streets, case of typhoid it was different" inasmuch
as they had Chinese servants in the houses. and Chinese in their offices, and these might It was quite be carriers of infection.
possible for food to be contaminated in the kitchen or at the table by carrier. dies
"There was no doubt whatever that a good number of cases which occurred in this
Colony could be explained on no other
ground but that of infection by carriers,
If the public would take up the question of prophylactic, they might them approach
the Government and get the Medical De- partment to prepare the vaccine. Places could be arranged and "date fixed for i "pezzons-who-wished to be inculated. If this were done the cases would become very much less.
Dr. Koch, in supporting Dr. Peurm, said that cages had occurred in different parts of the city but it was difficult to trace the origin, and in several cases it was said to have been due to the eating af raw vegetables. He did not think that the manuring of the vegetables in the Colony
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After the evidence for the prosecution had been given, the prisoners gave evidence for themselves, completely denying any conuretion with the crime. They alleged that the identification parade was conducts ed by a Chinese, cousuhle and that the Habbergasted that hes commenced search-
who identified them!
Was
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two chief witness a position in they ing for a jewel-box among sarne plums? |
were standing in
were not able to see where the two prisoners The Police tone the woman back to her were placed in the line of 25 en paraded
for neatidication. They mid that they
house which was searched, and the jewellery eventually found in a clothes bas.
were placed first and grand in the line
Air Kemp recalled Inspector Willis, Mr.
in foto the statements made by the prisoners in regard to the identificaher
Defendant said her husband did not visit ofen. She could give no reason why
tion parade. The parade, he said, way she stole the jewellery. conducted wholly by himself, and the Chi- nese constable could not have carried out.
a prior-parade. beraie be took the prison ers to the scene himself. The prisoner were placed twelfth and sixteenth in the line of men placed in the row for identifica-. tion.
Mr. Drummond sail he rested his defence on three points lack of motive, weakness of identity and lack of premeditation. Counsel dwelt at some length on what he termed the very doubtin evidence of identification by the two chief witnesses. He said. that the evidence given on the identity question was such that no jury could connect the two prisoners with the crize they were apused of committing in broad daylight.
The Attorney-General, in the course of his closing speech, said that the prisoner's story of the identification parade was a pack of lies. Any Police Officer who was in travesty of farness responsible for such a would be instantly dismissed.
Dr. PEARSE, in moving that the Board order that 46 Atralian cattle, imported by the Dairy Farm Co., be slaughtered, na
In his summing up, his Lordship aid it they were found to be suffering from was somewhat extraordinary that the two pleuro-pneumonia, and thing the sheds be chief writes e-on whose identification the
case for the prosecution mainly rested disinfected and declared a segregated area,
should have been able to pick out the stated that he received a note from the prisoners without any difficulty at all at Veterinary Surgeon, attached to the Dairy the identification parade. The attack on Farm, stating that on June 15th he had the deceased was obviously a surprise to everybody and these two witnesses could ordered the slaughter of two of the cattle not have gained more than a cursory look na ha found them to be suffering from some at the faces of the prisoners in the hurry
was any different to that in aur other part disease, having the characteristics of of, the moment. The prisoners, according
of the world, and as far as be was con
Mr. Smith Seatedged her in three weeks' imprisonment,
MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT
SHAUKIWAN, WOMAN'S BODY FLOATING IN THE
BAY.
A mysterions murder has been revealed nt Shaukisan by the discovery of a woman's body which was floating in" the bay at Shaukiwan. When the body was brought ashore and examined, several stab marks, were found on it, and the head wa hanging to the body merely by a piece of skin. The Bolles believe that robbery was the motive of the crime as the body was identified as that of a wealthy boat- roome, he disappeared a few days ago. On the day she disappeared "be was wear- ng jewellery to the value of about 40,
SCAVENGER TURNS THIEF.
A Chinese scavenger w sentenced to a to the two chief witnesses, were among 14 pleuro.pusumonia. Yesterday morning, or 15 other Sanitary Board coolies similary month's hard labour for stealing an oil cerned that theory had exploded. There
dreased. He had to remind the jury that lamp, a joss-stick holder and two shirts two more cattle, suspected to be suffering the two chief witnesses did not know the from the residence of Mr. M. K. Lo, No. was no doubt that those cases occurred more
from the same disease, were killed, and a prisoners and had never seen them before." from carriers han anything else | HE| thought it would be interesting if the mortem examination revealed similar in regard to the prisoners' story of the 53, Robinson Rond.
identification parade, his Lordship said he Medical Officer of Health could give figure. *ymptoms. There was now no doubt what believed Inspector Willis, who was a senior and percentages contrasting the condition ever that the envie cecurred among a con- officer of the Fores and a man of long
experience.
in the Colony with those in other places sigment of cattle which came from us
[BEFORE HIS HONOUR ME. J. R. Woon,
ACTING PUIENE JUSTICE] **
CHILD STEALING.
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Two Chinese women, sisters, were charged with stealing a two-year-old Chinews bay from the custody of his mother.
Mr. P. Jacks, Acting Crown Solicitor, prosecnted.
The following" jury was empanelled Messrs. B. L. Sim, J. J. Gibson, E. H. O'Farrell, H. O, Odell, J. E. Ellis, R. Mahaled and Peter Wong, Mr. D. A.
The jury brought in a verdict of not Dr. Koch referred to the researches made tralia en May 26th. So far no other cases guilty after ten minutes' deliberation, by the late, Dr. Hunter, at one time had occurred among any other cattle. As and the prisoners were discharged, Government Bacteriologist, as to whether noon as the disease was discovered the or no Chinese were inmune from typhoid. Australian cattle were isolated. He in- He found that, even babies, ten to twelve formed the manager, that he would ask the months old, suffered from it. He thought Board to order the slaughter of the con- THE ABSENT JURYMEN. They ought to urge the Government to signment of Australian cattle and other
Before proceding with the work of the allow the Government Bacteriologist to cattle, which were regarded as contacts. Lourt, yesterday, Mr. Wood told the Goodwin, one of those who had been absent prepare the vaccine forum and that this in the case of indirect contact, the oattiassemblet-gorymon that he had a statement on the previous afternoon and had been should be supplied free. If they had a would be segregated for twelve months, and to make with regard to the four jurymen excused because he lived in Kowloon, WAK Bacteriological Department attached to the if any symptoms showed they would be who had been absent when called on Mon-agais called and again found absent.
day afternoon. These gentlemen had since Mr. Jacks Rid that the child that had Board, na was the case in other countries; destroyed. He recommended that the sheds made their explanations to him. Two of been kalen was a baby boy of the years them, Messrs. Johnstone and Goodwin, said who lived with his parents in a house in they could have done the work without all should be disinfected and declared age that they lived in Kowloon and were unable Yaumat. The prisoners were both widows, this trouble.
gated. It was not desirable to send the to come across, owing to the bad weather and had apparently been accustomed to THE MEMORANDUM ON TYPHOID. cattle to be isolatet at Kennedy Town for He had accepted these explanations. Mr. taking the child out with them frequently. F. Ellis, who lived in Kowloon, said he had On May 24th, they asked for permission to
o Canton intending to return on take the child-out, and after some oppori The following was the memorandum fear of the spread of the disease.
The Hon Mr. HALLIFAX wished to know go to Cap
to the state of tion on the part of the mother, they were
Bunday nigh but, owing at did not come I beg to submit for the consideration of if there was any danger to human beings. the weather, Canton the Sanitary Board the following pemo Dr. PEARSE replied in the negative, say to Hongkong
randum on the prevalence of typhoid fever ing that it was only dangeron to cattle until 3.p.m. on Monday, allowed to do so. A little time had passed
had, therefore accepted that haps because they found that the prisoners
in this Colony The table attached shows As there was a considerable trade in cattle m
explanation. The the number of cases of this disease, notified between Hongkong and Bouth Chins, it was each year from 1910 to 1919 inclusive. It best to take steps to prevent the spread. be seen that in none of these years has otherwise other caitle would be affected and incidence been great and in ng instance trade would be harmed.
when the parents became suspicious, per-
gentleman had taken all their things away, and wens
W. Wong Pik Taup, explained that he bag to look for their child, but without had come to Court on Monday moving, fecess. They reported the hitter. to the and, having been released from the Chief Police, and, faally, the Child was found Justice's Court, he thought he had to come in Mica on June 14th. The prisoners the next morning, yesterday This was denied having takes the child away
The jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and the prisoners were sentensel to five years' hard labour vach,
has the disease assumed spidemic propor- The Board agreed to the recommend tion The infection may be acquired in tions. · · various ways but all great epidemics of this It was further ordered that notices be misunderstanding, and be. (Mr. Wood)
accepted that explanation.
disease are 'due to contamination of water posted at the sheds in Pokfulum, stating a Costinied at foot by ment-coln.) Few cupplies Our good water uppythasibat the sheds were segregated areas
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