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THE HONGEONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMHER 17TH, 1911.
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In many Hongkong Residences Jeyes Fluid has a firmly established reputation, in others the importance of the choice of a disinfectant has not been thoroughly realised, the selection, being left more or less to the
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How many people in Hongkong and the Coast Ports take the trouble to examine the label on the tin to make sure they have received JEyes.
While there are several preparations on the market which are efficient, there are many so called "disinfec tants" which are quite useless. All they are good for is to mask cne disagreeable. odour by producing another which is less offensive.
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THE LATE COMMODORE SUENSON.
A NEW INDIAN FEVER. TYPHUS-LIKE QUALITIES. HIS WORK IN THE EAST
PROBABLY TRANSMITTED BY TICKS, Commodore Edouard Sucasou, who died at Copenhagen on September 21st, was
Lieut-Colonel J. W. D, Megaw, I.M.S., born on July 26th, 1842, and was a son
who is on special duty as Director, of the inte Admiral Suenson, known to
Calcutta Schood of Tropical Medicine the outside world through his skilful contributes to the Indian Medical Gasette handling of the Danish deet in the naval article on a typhus-like fever in battle of Heligoland during the war of India which in his view is possibly trans 1964 between Danmark and Germitted by ticks Ho says the investiga After having attained the rank of Lieut-tions of Lieut. Col. MoKechmis, I.M.S.. enant in the Danish Navy Suenson served have shown that fever clinically similar three years in the French Navy, taking Tal. He found it hard to reconcile the to typhus exista in Sat Tal and Bhim part in the French expedition to the Far concurrence of typhts in these places East against Koren, sfter which he was with what is known of the epidemiology on his return to Denmark, appointed Attache to the First Sea Lord of the of typhus, but he was forced to the con- Danish Admiralty; but when, in 1870, the clusion that the disease was really no- Great Northern China and Japan Exten- thing but typhus. He goes on: My per sion Telegraph Co. wis formed later on experience and a cons.deration of amalgamated with the present company the available evidence have led me to under the name of Great Northern Tele-form a strong suspicion that the disease graph Co-with a view of laying sub-is ons affecting the animals of the jungle marino cables in the Far East, Lieut. and that it is conveyed to man by a tick, Suenson, as he was then, was asked to and that the disease is either the same na join the company for the purpose of pro- Rocky Mountain fever or at any rate ceeding to the Far East as the company's closely related to it. general manager there, to make the acces sary arrangements for the landing and laying of the first telegraph cables be tween Hongkong, Shanghai, Nagasaki and Vladivostock...
The disease is probably widely dis tributed in India and other parts of the world, but remains unrecognised because of its superficial resemblance to typhoid
faver.
In the meantime it would appear to be worth while to take precautions-against- tick bits in the affected localties on the lines that have proved successful in the Rocky Mountains.
On his arrival at Hongkong Lichtenant Suenson arranged
Systematic research by a medical with the British Colonial Government for a suitable land- needed to clear up the doubtful points in entomologist and pathologist is argently ing-place for the first cable at Deep connection with the disease, which will Water Bay, with right connect it by probably be easily preventible when the aland-line, suspended on the Govern-source of infection is demonstrated. ment's own telegraph poles, to an office at Victoria. At Shanghai he met with the greatest difficulties from the very beginning European merchants of all nationalitica established there were any. thing but delighted at the thought of get ing the telegraph introduced in China. as this would put an end to, or at all events limit, the large speculation going on there, and would also deprive the richer merchants of the advantage they, had over their poorer confreres by des patching their quick-sailing steamers to Singapore for the latest news of the state of the European markets.
The methods of prevention that have already proved successful in controlling the fever of the Rocky Mountains are Avoidance of the tick bite.
exposure to the risk of tick bites. If the Careful examination of the body after tick is removed within two hours, there is little risk of infection being conveyed,
Thorough removal of ticks from dogs. cattle and other domestic animals at frequent intervals, either by hand-picking or by dipping"
Avoidance of the places known to be foci of the disease.
jungle, as these are likely to be the re Poisoning the small mammals of the servoirs of the disease.
The disease seems at present to be most prevalent in the vicinity of Bhim Tal and Sat Tai.
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The natives in and round Shanghai were also strongly prejudiced against the telegraph, having only a few years be foro testroyed-a-private-telegraph time almost before it was finished, owing to their belief that "Fengshui" was quite against any article protruding into the air. This superstition had just then been one of the causes of the severe riot at "Tientsin, where the French fathers had erected a cathedral with a high spire. The Chinese Government and the local authorities were equally opposed to the telegraph, and had, only a short time before refused an application from an English company for the landing of a cable. Nothing discouraged, Lieutenant Suenson, whose clear insight of human nature and great resourcefulness stood him in good stead, and having "obtained the support of some of the more influes effected a drastic reduction of its per The United States Shipping Board has tial Europeans, he worked out a plan as to how and where the cables sonnel, adjustment in its services, and should be landed, the Roundness of decrease in its agencies, in order to tide after fifty years the cables are still landing to dispatches received by Japanese GUARANTEES, EMPLOYEES BENEFIT, BURGLARY, LIFT, GENERAL THIRD which a been proved by the fact that the present dificult situation, accord.& Commernal), MOTOR OYOLE, PERSONAL AUJIDENT & SICKNESS, FIDELITY
shipping companies. As the result of PARTY, FLIGHT RISK, etc. numbers 6,358, the amount of salaries to these retrenchments, its personnel now. be paid them being 812,050,000, which is a decrease of 1,068 in the number of personnel and 9,040.000 in salaries. The reason why the ratio of decrease in salaries is smaller than that in the nura- ber of personnel is due to the fact that the Board authorities have kept on the pay roll able and efficient men who are drawing large salaries.
THE OCEAN ACCIDENT & GUARANTEE CORPORA-- TION, LTD. of London, England, beg to announes that they have appointed the Corporation in Hongkong. Mesars, DODWELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, 3, Queen's Buildings, as Principal Agents to
ed at the enme place on Gatzlaff and at Woosung, near Shanghai. After having made the necessary arrangements for land- ing of the cables in Japan, where in con trast to Chine, no opposition was met with, and atter the service had been thoroughly organised, Lieut. Suenson re- turned to Denmark for the purpose of resuming his career in the Navy. He was, however, prevailed upon to remain in the company, and after finally resign ing his commission with the rank of Cap tain-subsequently raised to Commodore -be became managing-director of the company in 1874, a post which he held without interruption until 1908, when he was elected chairman of the board of directors, having already had a seat on the board since 1890. In 1918 tailing health compelled Commodore Suenson to give up the active leadership of the com- pany, and he was elected hon. chairman of the board of directors.
Although Comodore Sueason never re- visited Chins, he was later on instru mental in the opening up of this vast country by constantly impressing upon the Chinese Government the necessity of erceting land-lines between larger towns, and, although several attempts met with disappointment, his efforts were at last rewarded by the company being entrusted by the late Viceroy, Li Hung-chang, with building a whole net of land-lines from 1881 and onwards,
Board's services abroad, branch lines in With reference to adjustment of the the services to South America and in the Pacific which return but a small proft to the Beard have been discontinued. Re garding agencies, they have been limited Board to cut down its expenses in hand- to one in & port, which has enabled the king cargoes to one third of those hitherto incurred therefor.
GERMAN FREEMASONS. EFFORT TO REOPEN A LODGE IN LONDON,
Until the outbreak of war there were under the Grand Lodge of England two German lodges meeting in London. The edict of Grand Lodge in the carly days. of the wan prohibiting enemy alien Free- Commodore Suenson was known to masons from entry into any lodge work- practically all the cable companies and ing under the English Constitution caus telegraph administrations of the world, ed these lodges, however, to suspend TABAQUERIA having attended all the Telegraph Con- working
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ferences up to 1903 held from to time in An effort, is now to be made by the the large capitals of Europe. On account members of the Pilgrim Lodge No. 238 of. his great personality, and as he was the older of the two lodges, which was able to express himself fluently whether established in 1709 to effect a resuscita in England, French, or German, he soon tion. The Friemaurer Zeitung, of Vienna, gained a leading position amongst the states that the brethren remaining in representatives present at the conferences London are now planning the building where he was always listened to with up of the lodge again, great attention. Since his earliest days success, although they are facing great and hope for in the company, and until he retired as difficulties." This step cannot, of course, chairman of the board of directors in be effected while the inhibition remaing 1016, the history of Commodore Suenson on the statutes of the Grand Lodge of is that of the Great Northorn Telegraph England.
Co., of which he was the guiding spirit. His death means the loss not only of the maker of a great cable company, but of one of the best-known pioneers of cable telegraphy.
ME, ASQUITH AT 70. "Few even of those who know that Mr. Asquith has been 'in politics for over a third of a century realise that to-day the
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