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Played on the H.K.C.O ground yes terday. Wood's side, composed of only 10 players, batted first, and were all out for 911. Ramsay made a beautiful 88, his hooking and leg glancing being very good. He was only at the wickets for one hour. The bowling was not particularly good.
FIRE-FIGHTING DISPLAY. HONGKONG STATIONS VIE WITH EACH OTHER
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Tho manual drill display of the Hong kong Fire Brigade, to which the general public were invited, was held parade ground at Central Police Head quarters yesterday afternoon.
Many of the events were in the nature of competitions, in which Fire Brigade sections from various stations in the Colony strove whole-heartedly against one another.
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The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolle 'was in charge of the parade.
When Hancock's side went in to bat,
The display was singularly interesting Powell and Reed bowled very well against them. Webster alone made much | throughout, and the almost lightning-like of a stand. Quick was batting well, speed of all competitors in carrying out when he had the misfortune to be hit in the latest ideas în fire-fighting and life the face by a rising ball from Powell. „ saving methods was a notable tributs to
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the thoroughness of the instruction and training they have received from Superin- tendent H. T. Brooks.
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E. F. Stewart, e Hargreaves,
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A. W. Ramsay, b Quick
E. J. R. Mitchell, b Quick
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U. M. Omar, b Young.......
T. E. Yeoh, b Young
A. E. Wood, st. Stripp, b. Quick... 15
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E. W. Hamilton, b Webster Rev. T. B. Powell, b Young******* E. B. Reed, not out
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Q.M.S. Jacob, not out
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Total (for 8 wkts., dec.)...201
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R. E. A. Webstor, e Jacob, b Reed 37
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Rev. E. K. Quick, retired
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Lt.Cdr. Hargreaves, e 6tewart,
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Q.M.S. Stripp, b Powell.
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1. E. Pearce, not out ..................................
F. N. Young, Powell, b Jacob...
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1. Hancock did not bat.
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Jacob
Total (for 9 wkts.) ....... 88
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C.R.C. CIVIL SERVICE
The following will represent the Chinese in a friendly match against the Civil Ser- vice on Saturday, as 2 p.m., on the latter's ground at Happy Valley:-Ng Se Kwong (captain), Ng Sze Cheung, H. C. Hung, W. Hung C. Chon, Yung Hin Lun, H. Ching, Wong Po Keung, Chow Kwan Iam, S. Y. Shi, and C. E. Wong-
CINEMA NOTES.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF
THE COLONY. EXTRACTS FROM MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH'S REPORT.
The Medical Officer of Health (Dr. W. W. Pearse), in his report for 1023, says: The estimated population of the Colony at the middle of 1993 was as follows :- Non-Chinese Civil population ... 13,500) Chinese civil population:-
330,000
City of Victoria (includ ing the Peak...... Villages of Hongkong *** 26,000 Kowloon (including New.
Kowloca)...
............... New Territorios (land) .... Population adoat ............................. €3,500
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140,000 81,300
*** 666,300
681,800
Total Chinese population
Total Civil population This figure shows an increase over the last censuá (1991) of 56,634...
The Chinese population is able to
The various competitions and their much fluctuation owing to variations in winners were as under:
the political conditions in the neighbour. Picking up insensible person; Centraling provinces of China. Station.
Despatch box drill; Central Station. Smoke helmet drill; 'Kennedy Town. Motor escape drill; Central Station. Motor pump drill; Central Station. The motor escape drill competition pro- 'vided a very narrow win. Two persons had to be rescued" from the second floor of the tall police building, and car ried down the fire escape by fremen, while others played a hose on the first door. The time was taken from the sound of the whistle until the man carry. ing the second "rescued" person reach- ed the ground. The winners' time was tmin. 111-5secs.. beating the runners-up (who also hailed from the Central Station) by only 1-5sec.
There is always a great flow of people to and from Hongkong and Canton by rail and ships.
During 1923 the following numbers of passengers came and went between Hong. kong and Chinese Territory by the Eow loon Canton Railway and the numerous river steamers.
Immigrants. Emigrants. Railway..... 249,152 950,7I0 577,368 Steamships...... 350,330
Totals .799,512 808,257
CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER. The cause of this disease were more numerous than during 1999 but less than in any previous year since the disease was first recognised in this Colony. The total was 107.
"PLAGUE,
The incidence of. Plague during 1993 was slight. Only 148 cases were notified (1,181 in 1099).
SMALL-POX.
During the last six months of 10 there were only 12 cases of Small-pox and dur ing the first two months of 1923 only 11 casos. This disease generally diminishes greatly with the advent of hot weather but in 1923 the disense was unusually pre- valent in the months of March, to July, inclusive. This was thought to pressge
severe epidemic in the following cool" season and in October it was clear that
auch would happen. The number of cases for the year (1,390) was the greatest for over ten years. At the beginning of November a free vaccination campaign was begut and was continued with great success throughout the ensuing coot
season.
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TYPHOID.
The Report gives a table showing the Prevalence of typhoid and para-typhoid fever in the Colony during the years 1914 to 1923. The figures are commented upon
as follows:-
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It will be noticed that the total of these cases is the highest recorded for the last ten years namely 302 cases; the next highest figure being 249 in the year 1918.
The estimated population (excluding that of the New Territories) for 1913 was 468,100 while for 1943 it was 507,300.
BIRTH AND DEATH RATES. The birth rate among non-Chinese is given as 23.03, and among Chinese (cal culated from the registered births), 0.97 per 1,000. Amongst the Chinese there were 168 male births to every 100 female The proceedings concluded with the births, whilst among the non-Chinese the para-typhoid cases for the same year is
presentation of prizes to the successful competitors by Mrs. Wolfe, for whom loud cheers were finally given."
figures for 123 were 107 males to every 100, females.
The factor of increase of population for 1923 on that of 1019 is thus 1.27. The factor of increase of the typhoid and
less namely 1.24-
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There are many ways in which in- fection of these diseases may be acquired. In the first place it is noteworthy that the water-flush system. of disposal of
The total number of deaths in the Colony during 1993 was 15,536 (14,509 in 1802). The general Civil death rate was 25.08 per 1,000 (95:16 in 1929). The Chi-night soil is adopted in few buildings in the Colony. There are thousands of nese deaths numbered 13.290 and non-privies and commodes in the Colony it Chinese deaths 247 including 17 from the which night soil is exposed and which
CONSPIRACY. CHARGE.
SOLICITORS CLERKS CASE"
RESUMED. Yesterday afternoon, before Mr. R. E.Navy and Army, The Chinese death rate was 26.27, and the rate for the non- Lindsell at the Central Magistracy, the Chinese Ciril Community 14.83 per 1,000 case in which Cheang Pui Cauen,' alias (20.40" in 1999). Charles Kent, and Lo Shu Fan, two clerks in the employ of Messrs. Hastings and Hastings and Dennys and Bowley, are charged or three counts, was resum ed.
It is alleged that they conspired together to defraud Wong Tak Yia of her property by false representations that Lo Shu Fan was owner of certain lands in the New Territories and had
The number of deaths of children under one year of age was 4,585 of which 4,356" were Chinese and 29 non-Chinese. Of these 1,137 Chinese and 13 non-Chinese were under one month of age.
The ratio of infant deaths to the total deaths registered was 20.5 per cent (99.8 per cent, in 1029). For Chinese deaths alone the ratio was 29.08 per cent, while for the non-Chinese it was 11.7 per cent.
may be visited by flies. Fortunately flies are not in this Colony, so plentiful as in some Eastern cities but they may un doubtedly be a factor in the contamina tion of food by typhoid bacilli,
The Chinese method of manuring veget- Lables with human excreta is also a poesi- ble source of infection. To what extent carriers of typhoid exist here is un-
known.
An attempt was made several years ago, to estimate the number of probable
carriers by the examination of a few hundred Chinese employed in the pre-
transferred the same into the name of A true infantile mortality can not beparation and handling of food, but by calculated owing to the Chinese custom the time somewhat less than one hun- of pot registering births unless a child dred preliminary blood tests had been has lived for at least one month and often made the passive resistance of these em- ployees. caused the experiment to be apparently not registering, at any time.
abandoned.
the said Wong Tak Yin and desired to mortgage the same. The other two counts alleged that the defendants couspired together to induce the complainant by false. representations to sign two deads of sale.
In the last two counts, the defendants are alleged to have acted in conjunction with Au Hon Fu and Ho Sai Lok, son of the complainant.
Bulldogs are invading the movie comedy field! But if they have the ability Dorothy Gish's bulldog, Mike. displays in her new Paramount comedy "The Ghost in the Garret" which will be the feature attraction at the Queen's Thentre to-day, then the, invasion is to be welcomed. In this picture, the bull dog is the companion of the heroine, im- personated by Mi Gish. He disperses a fashionable parlour party and when his mistress is about to be captured by thieves in a haunted house, he permite himself to be lowered from the window of the third by Messrs. Lee and Russ, watched the story to the ground, holding the end of proceedings on behalf of Lo Shun Chau,
The deaths of children between one and five years of age wore 2,859 of which 24 were non-Chinese and 2,835 Chinese..
RESPIRATORY DISEASES. The number of deaths from these causes excluding pulmonary tuberculosis was
Mr. M. K. Lo prosecuted and Mr. E. Davidson appeared on behalf of the de-4,317 of which 25 were non-Chinese...
Palmonary tubercolosis caused 1,300 fendants) Mr. H. S. Fitzroy, instructed deaths of which 31 were non-Chinese' and
1.472 Chinese.
a rope made of bedsheets in his teeth the purchased of certain property in- He brings help to his mistress and when volved in the case.
the thieves are being pursued, the bulldog
throne is one of the curiosities of modern
Some few decades ago there prevailed In this Colony an opinion that Chinese, at any rate those of this Colony and the near Province of China, were generally immune to typhoid.
It is probable therefore that many cases of this disease and of para-typhoid were not diagnosed as such.
With the introduction of more careful pathological and bacteriological methods this opinion has been greatly modiñed. The deaths from malaria were 674 (454). The great increase of Chinese medical
MALARIA.
probably been a factor in bringing to Wight the existence of much more, typhoid amongst the Chinese than was formerly supposed.
Immunity is not absolute but relative and it may be that the Chinese do have generally a somewhat higher degree of
is constantly in action. "The Ghost i Ho Sai Lok was under cross-examina in 1822). Of these 7 were non-Chinese men trained in Western medicine has also the Garret" is one of the best comedies tion by Mr. Davidson when the hearing (8 in 1929) and 667 Chinese. This num- in which Miss Gish has been seen this commenced yesterday. He seemed hardly ber of deaths is a percentage of 4.33 of season: F. Richard Jones directed and William E. Park beads an unusually at his case under the keen questioning the total registered deaths. The deaths from malaria in the City of Victoria num clever supporting company,
of his interlocutor, who, from the outset,
THE CORONET.
made a direct attack on the witnessbered 260 (116 in 1929) in an estimated population of 350,000 giving a rate of 0.74 That a boy of eight should have, bis evidence in chief.: arrival in London chronicled in the Witness said that when he first became per 1,000. In 1929 there were 118 deaths Press as if he were at least heir to asociated with the transactions leading in an estimated population of 340,000 immunity to typhoid than do Europeans. life. Three years ago no one had heard up to the present case, he was not in giving a rate of 0.34 per 1,000. The deaths If this be so, the idea suggests itself that of Jackie Coogan, yet he arrived in Eng reed of money, His object was to make from malaria for this year show a con- carriers may possibly be more common
siderable increase, their percentage of the amongst the Chinese than Europeans, land accompanied by two secretaries, valet, his parents, and a nurse. Jackie money. Everybody, he said, like money total deaths being the highest on record During the earlier months of 1923 the Colony was suffering from a shortage of Coogan is a little boy of importance Questioned later as to whether he went for the last ten years. To what extent water and the supply to the greater part judged by the dollar standard. He cazas to Mr. Webster and asked him to pre this means an increase in local infection of the Chinese community was inter- an enormous sum each year, and it is put into 3-trust fund. When he grows pare a document re loss of deeds, the it is not possible to say. That there has mittent. The people were therefore cam- polled to store water. To do this they ap. and from all accounts he is quite witness said that he did not, and that been such increase is, however, most pro- used a varied lot of buckets, kerosine d normal little boy, he will be a wealthy if Mr. Webster said he did, he would be bable. Building operations have extend- tins, jars, etc. which they brought to man. Yet barely three years ago he was sitting solemnly in the lounge of a Los Angeles hotel where he attracted the
mistaken.
attention of Charlie Chaplain, who was was told the documents were in Shangpurely rural districts and it has been quite that more typhoid cases occurr
theso circumstances it is not sur Mr. Davidson Mr. Webster says ha ed urban districts into what were formerly tape and street hydrants to be filled.
in previous years. There was permanent character to be completed in over, nothing in the incidence of the so struck by the child's: quaintness that haiSomeone else may have told him impossible for anti-malarial measures of be decided to build a film round him that I did not. The result was "The Kid" which is now Continuing his gross-examination, Mr. anticipation of the building and occupa disease to suggest that the water as sup plied to people at house taps or street BERI-BERL
hydrants was the cause of the disease." showing at the Coronet. In this film Davidson pressed the witness with retion of new houses in rural districts. Charlie Chaplin broke from his old fartes gard to an interview which took place.
In the year 1909 a shortage of water The deaths from this disease were 1,270 was accompanied by a severe outbreak of and gave full scopo to his powers af ex-between him (Mr. Davidson) and the wit- pressing pathos Jackie Coogan, in his mess, in the former's room at Messrs or a percentage of 8.17 of the total regis- cholera, another so-called water-borne baggy trousers buttoning under his arms, Hastings office. There were two storiet, tered deaths. These total deaths exceed disease, and until the time when it will was worthy to work with the celebrated totally different, said Mr. Davidson by over 50 per ocut the highest number be possible to give every portion of the bim genius. The five-year old boy was one his own, and the other the story which a miniature Charlie Chaplin, and cooked witness was preferring in the witness pancakes and assisted his father's box. Which of these stories, ho asked, profession of glazier by breaking windows was true? The witness moved uncam with all Charlie's quaint solemnity. And fortably in the box, and returned no all this ho doce, and more, as those who answer. are thronging the Coronet are finding out The hearing was again adjourned until to their great content:
of deaths from this disease during the past Colony a full and constant ten years. It is impossible to say whether
upply
of
this increased incidence is all read and die water throughout the year and conse quently to prevent the storage of water to a lowered standard of living or is at in Chinese houses and its collection any rate in part due to the presence of a much greater population than that este eto, of doubtful gleanliness; there be a risk of. water-borne, discuses mated and therefore partly at least an prevailing during times of intermittent apparent increase.
supply