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INTERESTING THEORIES,
WEDNESDAY,
OPILAL
SEPTEMBER 18r. 1920.
SMOKING.
EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN AND PHILIPPINES.
"AN UNUSUAL CASE. IMPROPER PICTURES ON GERMAN CIGARETTE CASES.
A most interesting paper.im opium smoking, was deliyored to a large attend-i ;ance by Mr. D. J. Galloway, the sunjeet | MEMORANDUM BY MANILA WEA).
Dutch.
favour.
,
As to the effects of opium smoking the Chinese, share with some Indian races aị
comparative immunity to opium. It has
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SPORT.
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CAPTAIN'S CUP COMPETITION
FANTING.
The Captain's Cup competition, played Fanling on September 5th, 34, ami 10th was waterly My F. R. J. Adam with a seer of 102-18=net,
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CHINA'S DEBTS.
radius of over 300 kilometres, although 1. Secured Domestic Loans.” 233,842,172” information revived so far appear to secured Foreign Loans,
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2.230,000 1,500,000
95,00. STAY
At the Congress of the Far Eastern j of the use of opinm as a habit of addie-
THER BUREAU EXPERT.
A charge of selling cigarette casis bear) Association of Tropical Medicine, at¦ tion, Dr. Calloway stated, is at the me-
ing pictures considered to be indecent was Singapors, last week. Dr. Malcolm ment à matter of international interest,"
Father Miguel Saderra Maso of the brought against a Chinese hawker at thể Watson rond & paper on the subject of It has been my fortatue to jass through Manila Weather Bureau issued the Magistrney, yesterday. Sergeant Neal Malari..
my hands of late you a large number following statemout last week:
Was' the prosecutar, The casis were statedl Dr. Watson opened by quoting are of opium suckers (and also those who In our previous statraent to the to he of German unke, am were impcrt" solutioi passed at a great conference on used it in other ways), The, history of Press regarding the earthquake in Japan, ed juth Hongking by a heat firm. OR sanitation held at Himla i 1914 the opium is lost in mutiquity. There is little uticat ng the two biggest "varth the application of the sergeant, & the doubt that the Arabs are responsible for quakes there that of 1855 in Tokyo and Magistrate (Mr. Melbourne) granted a most important tropical disse is nila- rin. After allowance is made for theit being conveyed into Asia, bath by the that of 1801 in Gitu. Although it would remand, as the Captain-saperintendent compare the recent of Police was stated to be eansideriná“ trudency to attribute fewer sleaths to land and,sch routes and the drug has interesting to
Fearthquake with that of Tokyo in 1835 certain peints enserrnings the seizure ofj Fimmalaria, malaria stands out ns-univer, hana knew in China for at least 1ines both took place in the saque capital] the woods.
Centuries. Opina was first smoked with ity, it is impossible to do so as Tokyo sally prevalent in" India and in many tracts is a scourge far greater than other cobarce as it is today in Eastern Europe before 1870 was far behind that i todas
and dates back to the middle, of the with the exception of localty. Beside, plagu or cholera. It mains as well as kills and મો entises more sickness, seventeenth century atul is ascribed to the Japan was not yet opened to torvigu einmerge and seience, the data available) To call opium sacking a; are very, mengre. nisery and dentie thun, any other single!
Nor were there mmlern disease. The speaker, taking a gora!! einl habit depends on the locality. Innerks which wirked the progress of the view, said that, Liveran found the an China and in many of the large business Toke of to-day Yokohama was a dis
trict of fishermen und Tokyo a vast town. that Manson and others satchel put the firms here the opium pipe and its accey-aith wooden, paper and straw structu
shies are always in evidener. “It is other. exurping the Imperial, buildings," forta furnnce. Ras built it and gave the metal, nd it was now. their duty to forge these autong the Stiits-bora Chinese same temples and bridge built of
strong material or well senamed we metal into weapons of attack, to test with whom the use of opium is not in No ay simil comfine curselves, la giving them, to feel, the strength of the enemy
andra of what the ea thqunke was of! find his weak spots, and to initiate u
1891 and of what the present might have! b023. campaign in alt countries that could go!
To begin with, it can sad timb the nature of the 1891 earthquake was LATEST CALCULATION A TOTAL forward' with certainty óf result, "present they could only talk of skirmishes marked on as beyond argument in different from that of the recent shore.
OF 31.081-790,028,00 the report of the Philippine Conuission The fornier originated from a land dis and outpost actions. Different places called for different methods. The country
and other reports that on the Malay races!gation, whose direction was from south-
The "Peking Daily, 3eme say that east to north-east, rulonged through the according to runt investigation, the it gets to exert a most pernicious indistricts of Mind and Owari, while the total indebtexinets of China aucunts to -Dr. Watson indented the zones in)
ilu ne"."
mut it is be feared latter started from a submarine Finet $1,081,750,025, et including arrears "of Malayn--requiired different treatment;
#! The first, which caused 7,379 dead payment" and "public" bands which ar They might try mesquíto control, or at that, should it assume a position as tack the malarial parasite in the human mucin habit among them it would prou-and 1.175 injured, is known to have ex being issued. The following items auke
tended to a radius of 413 (kilometros, jup "the sum total of China's debts; being parasite control. The was the abse xterminative.
whereas the present mus. büve had a After dealing with the frets of opium Jalant zone, Casey Island, attacked with smoking Dr. Galloway stated that he had the greatest sucess by control of their sees a death from opium smoking be defective. To give an idea of what German Leans. water by, slater gates, etc. There was ]; n Chinese. The only death ascribed this, trans. it should be borne in mild { 4. "Austrian Löing the fat mastal swamp, dificult land to to opium sooking which he had met with that of the earthquakes that of Manila 5. Unsecured Domestic Loans free from malaria, hut in the end not was that of a young French tourist who in 1880 extended through a rading of Unsured Foreign Lonun 224.000.000
Snit unconquerabis, „The foot hills presented had been experimenting with the pipe in 236 kilometres, that of Cebu in Februanty, 7. Lang Secure
one of the smoking shops of the taww;| 1999, which had a prolonged and itre. wusther problem, with its jungle. Furtle wind scribe this death to simple gular aren, was felt as a distance of a ther inhind there is the dense jungh", and swallowing of the drug through inexpert little less than 200. The centre of dey. inction of the shock of Gifu, had a dia. malaria only occurred there if the jungle ence with the pipe.
Dealing with opium smoking's effects meter of a little over 100 kilometres while on women, Dr. Galloway stated that the that of the recent one exceeds that nu- As to control of the parasite, age at which most of them began smoker, according to magre reports roching It is true to a certain extent that les speaker hell that the usefulness oring correspondeů roughly to the age at herr.
sruption depealy much on the conditions" which they, married, most of them ac failure of quinine depended on, the den quiring the babit from the bustand. The as a point of comparison, we find that regard to land, so that according to the Taking both Philippine earthquakes already stated, and above all, that a sity of the mosquito, carrier population, daily average consumption per head in the greatest diameters of the arena of tast cables from Japan in Yokoham the and of the human population. Few his 1200 cases was 271 chi (ene chi equals damngs, not of destruction, in both enses vegion, exlied Bluff was saved a high | 3,78 grammes). Insurance companies ne- were very much extended and arrow table Innd where, the great part of for people and few mesipuitors, few people cepted smokers of two chi daily. There and did not go beyond 30 kilometres i igarts live while the art of the city and many mesquitoes. De many people seemed to be no tendency in the habit to 1520 and 20 in 1922. So that the most situated on the lowland was razed to th
shorten life. and for mosquitoes gave a striking!
intensy earthquake of the your 1880 pro ground. With regard to the contents of opium | ahly did not exceed one-fifth of the twro succes, in other words, where there was smoke Dr. Galloway stated that it seemed earthquakes of Japan, which we have has always been, especially in medeen? * all descriretive arthquakes fre. not intens malaria. But where there more likely that the oily and tarrz, matter referred to. That of Pangasinan in 1803 times, used by gas and electrics, the were many carriers of malaria, both in opruh was the cause of much mer had an intermediary area between those serrible elements which have increased th injury than could be ascribed to the of 1880 and of Cebu in 1992, although a lesses, a destruction twice or the human and insect, quinine appeared to morphine. Apart from the relief of pain greater extensity was felt within its times. The San Francisco fire is to b be almost useless, although, of course, it there were three conditions in which sphere.
fremembered in this conuection. Wing not actually useless. Personally be opium was believed to exert a specific intensity of the earthquake "of **This last Earthquake had another ways used quinine in conjunction, with action-Phthisis Glycosura and Malaria, Gifa was rasured by the acceration frightful complement "The" destructive other measures as long as maturia was continued Dr. Galloway, There is one millimetres per second in some parts marine earthquakes due to the vertien! In undertaking the eure of the habit," of movement and turned out to be 1,000 waves which are always produced by sub- present cu an' estate, Large numbers of {lives had been saved in Malayn in the stipulation 1 invariably.make, that the mostly affected, and 2,000 milimetres in Increment of the bottom or the permanent
person.comes entirely" of his own free past 25 years and so they were encourage will,
the mrsosienic Arta which had Given the free co-operation ed to continue the work. Charts mark of the person himself there are two con- maximum diameter of 110 kilometres. At quake. The earthquake at Gifu was not ing the incidence of malaria were shown. ditions which are invariably instituti; an acceleration of 4,000 millimetres, there accompanied by any tremor on sea be One showed the great rise of the death Immediate al final discarding of the hardly a modern structure that can cause it originated on land, us also lid rate in the month of May. Since anti pipe and complete neutralisation of the withstand the shock, it being, still un the earthquake in San Francisco, but the malarial work was begun in 1913 the effces of such discarding...
known to what extent the present conearthquakes to Chile and Peru and otheryTM height of the wave had been reduced and present the opium smokers among the rete buildings can stand. Thus it is ox of lesintensity along the coast of Japan. it was calculated that 30,000 lives Trail Straits-born Chinese are few and it may alain how the best engineering works were accompanied by tremor on sea. In been saved in this city by the health be confidently expected that when the stations, likes, etc., have been swept earthquakes along the south and south-
have been destroyed; how railways, the Philippines there ccc submarin officers and engineers. What hindered:
present generation have d'iminated them. progress The absence of knowledge. We selves in smoking will be extinet this being ene of the most areient leccarred on the coast of Zamboanga, Jolo ady. Even the Nagoya castle suffered, eastern const of Mindanao. That which did not know why one species was 1 carrier and another, bardly to be dis- the immigrant Chinese.
among them. The crux of the matter is abuest cyclopean xnstruction, with its inand Basilan in 1897 is famous, and that "
Their habits) tinguished from it, was not. We did they bring them and thus they dominate ferior walls curved and the superior walls on the coast of Cotabato in August, 1915. not know why one species lived in be the opium position in this country. Deal structure ensidered to be of exceptional with a velocity of 800 kilometres per hour į supported by quid framework of wood, a * The waves of an earthquake travel place and one in another. We suspected ing with the means relied on by the local solidity. The modern structures of file, over an enormous. distance. The earth that the same speers was not of equal Government to effect a reduction in the which existed profusely in the region to quake in Chile was registered hours later danger in different countries. Then wens of opium, Dr. Galloway said the used for industries, education, ad in seismograph at Zamboanga. wanted greater organisation in every steady pharement of the price of ministration and commerce, have all heen country. It was work on new ideas. We chandu, lel to the compromise
Seismic waves across the earth pre wantel scientists to investigate and ad- of partly swallowing and partly smacking however good, in exceeding a certain kilometres a inteso that our sismo- methot destroyed. This class of ecstruction, gate with greater velocity-about 300 ministrators to carry out; We had not and many have stopped the smoking the height can hardly resist an acceleration graphs her registered the tremors in enough health officers. The medical prae- chandu entirely and swallow only, either of 200 milimetres per second. titioner must realise that far the pre-chanda or dross, As a continuous policy
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Japa about a minute after the earth- vention of disease special knowledge was for the suppression of opium smoking he The number of houses destroyed a quake, while the tremors on sea were re- required. The future-In Malaya over a maintained that the enhancement of the otherwise damaged reached 222,501, of gistered about. 4 hours later. hundred thousand lives had been saved in price had long sine passed its limit of bridges 10,302 and there destroyed on the To the immense destruction" and, in- the last 25 years, yet the work had utility, and that now it was re-acting in hills 10.223. In two earthquakes in the umerable victims of the last earthquake, hardly begun. The future would give an injurious manner on the public health, Philippines an effort was made to calcu the following elements have contributed: them better organisation for the control especially that of the Chinese imthigrant, late the intensity but it was given up 1. A maximum density of populatiou," of the discate, Leonomising the assets of by forcing him to adopt methods in com because of the special defects on the say more than 2,000,000 people, in a few kilo- the State more than by any other single parison to which the smoking of opium fac and the buildings themselves. Mr. metres of land, living in very unsafe
was comparatively harmless. The obvious Abelli was the first to try it in the. Paudwellings. MALARIA. CONTROL AT GEMAN.
way and that offering the greatest, if not asinan earthquake in 1893. The under. The story of how a fever-stricken
the only, promise of sucess would be to signed proposed to estimate the intensity more populated districts like the south, swap as couserted into a healthy are an intimate rapprochement with in the ruins of Ibaan, but in examine cast and north-east of Tokyo and the station was told by Dr. A. R. Wellington, Chiu and to closely support and following them, be found, for example, that the ewer and eciamercial portion of Yoke- ler, or even to anticipate her, in an church tower which was apparently of Senior Health Officer. F.M.S., who gave agreed programme of opium suppres good adobe stones, had at a certain alti A dynamic intensity never before an "account of the fight against malaria
Bion." at Gemas, the station at which is the
tudo certain signs of disintegration like Bren. if the shocks baye not spared the
mest modern construction, In reply to question by Dr. Samuels, those of Guadalupe, being unable to sup junction for the Pahang Railway: Gemas Dr. Galloway stated that the increasing port the weight above, and a few tiles 4. The terrible fire which could spread
·laa had's goed many ups and downs, and the amount of fever seemed to have sono ver indulgence in alcohol in the country which were beginning to loosen, Similar in Japanese buildings as fly as it can connection" with the opening of new
was due to the giving up of opium smc-defrets existed in all other edifices des in cur buildings of light and mixed
troyed. However, to give a comparative materials ing. ground, the effect from which disappents| after a while, Dr. Wellington showed, in his paper "that the true explanation whe
KRYPTOR LENSES an increase in the ma'aria carrying anopheline, consequent on the creation of are conceded to be one of the very best ronditions favourable for the propaga ition of the species. Recommendations forms of bifocal lenses. The bifocal seg- made by the Government cultumologist to ment is ground and fused into the glistant control maltin in the district were not legs making the product practically one followed, nad in 1920 the situation wos piece of glass. The seguents are totally
farming. The senior health officer was called in and rigorous mesures were car invisible and the lens has a beautiful may be true in the Philippines where the ried out under his instructions by the appearance. Kryptok longes of any pres destruction and secretly destroy the prin humanity.
white ant and the rain cause such visible sary to record the last catastrophe as the greatest of its kind in the history of engineers. The operative scherte was cription in either regular or Toric form cipal parts of the buildings, preparing a success Draibage and oiling carried"
"Lastly it is well to bear in mil that put on scientific principles and checked by arq manufactured by the Hongkong them for certain ruin when an earthquake a big earthquakes are always followed frequent mesquito surveys brought about Optical Co., Successors to Clark & Co all the ruing caused by earthquakes in ber seems to be in proportion to the depth
of even ordinary intensity comes, Almost by numerous smaller quakes whose num a marked abatement in the incidence of Manufacturing and Refracting Opticians, different parts of the Philippines during of their origin. Such smaller gunkry re malaria and converted fiemas into n healthy station. They effected a saving of the most competent optical manufacthe last thirty years are due to such presat the readjustment of those, parte $30,000 per annum by reducing the most turing establishment in South China-causes, for in populated, regions there of the earth's crust which agra result of of oil and making the bonus unnecessary, located in 63, Queen's Road Central. tankily Vli-or an acceleration of about of equilbrium, It therefore, follows that has scarcely been an earthquake over in the earthquake assumed a different state: as well as avoiding the costly change of officials and the lack of officierey in those Fitting glasses and testing the sight is 1,000 millimetresedag
they never mean that the ratnetrophe will. who had been subject to the disonso their speciality --ADET.
(Vontinued, at fool, of meri) polumn.). be repeated within a brief period of time
idea, according to the American Commis 43. The frightful and big wares ̈nt sion which studied the San Francisco a enraged Bo carthquake of 1906, the maximum inten- Let us all hope that when the stais.
millimetres. sity or acceleration was not more 3,000 where attending the first sensational r
ports clears jury, the catastrophe will he The defective construction, the age of is probable that the percentage of victinis reduced to more modern proportions. It the edifices and their foundations on loose and the relative value of the losses will recent alluvials, are the cause, in a great during the earthquake of Gifa. If this ground, comprehensible as all filing and not be much greater than those suffered measure, of the ruins. The same thing does not come true, then it will be neces