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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGEBIES
MARITIMES.
NOTICE.
FRENCH DEATH RATE. THE PROPOSED SOUTH POLE FALMOUTH'S NEW DOCK.
INFANTILE WELFARE.
WHAT THE STATISTICS SHOW,
FLIGHT:
SIR D. MAWSON'S VIEWS.
DEVELOPMENTS AND EXTENSIONS FORECASTED.
FORT.
Sir Douglas Mawson, the Antarctia NEW LIFE OF THE WESTERNMOST explorer, commenting on Lieutenant- Commander Byrd's projected flight to the
The prospect of developmenta in
The provisional statistics derived from
MIDDLES to show that there are fewer Freuch BROUGH, LONDON, &, in connection with above Neamer are hereby informed people in the world than there were five
with: the Good that their
CONSIGNEES of Cargo from DUNKER. the census taken in France in March.go South Pole, says such an attempt wiFalmouth with the intention of offering
CONQUE ANTWERP,
The total population of
exoption years ago. of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being Frazee has increased by about 1,200,000
stored at their risk into landed and the Gedowns of the Hongkong nud Row since 1921, but this increase is more than loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, Kow accounted for by the foreigners, of whom whence Delivery may be obtained in- there are at least 1,800,000 more than suediatly after landing.
The French race itself has therefore declined in numbers.
Durga will be forwarded on unleertbure were.
racuived from the Consignees before is Noor, To-day, requesting it to be landed bare.
Bill of Lading will be conntersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after Monday, the 8th instant, at Noon. will to
rabject to Bestand Lauding Charges.
All Claims must be sent in tamen or before
Wednesday, the 30th Jane, 1926, or they will not be recognized.
All damaged Protages will be ramiosd on
better opportunities for the shipping
the farthcat South-Western port is fore community to effect repairs and rests in
the Antarctic than in the Arctic, although,' aeroplanes would be far more difficult in
machines, anything now acomed possible. with the enormous improvements in flying
Whereas, and Sir Douglas Mawson, in shadowed in a Bill promoted by the Commenting on this a Cornish journal. the Arctio the country is flat, in the Falmouth Docks and Engineering Co. South there is land 10,000ft. above sea lovel, with extremely windy conditions circulating in West Cornwall ates, days -- Parliament will receive a Bill thia and poor viability. If the aeroplanes ware damaged and the explorers forced Session, following the necessary statutory to attempt to return to their base no food notice having been given, to authorise the would be available en rotite, as there Falmouth Docks and Engineering Com- were no seals, bears, or such like animals. Pany to construct now works and to in- Lieutenant-Commander Byrd was wise increase their borrowing powers. It is in- Still, the decade which covered the war choosing the Frankheim base, where the teaded to construct a new dry dock with! help of whaleboats could be had, and the all necessary equipment immediately ad-
The 1021 census showed a falling off of roughly 400,000 from the 1911 figures in spite of the accession of Alsace Lorraine,
the population of which more than made
up for the losses sustained in the war.
can hardly be called 'a normal period.
the 26th instant, at 10:00a.m., by The list üvo years, on the other hand, Ross Sea was one of the calmest in the joining Dock No. 3, which was made in.f
Saturdaddard & Douglas.
Mesars
No Tire Insurance has been offocial.
J. LIMAGE
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Agent.
Hongkong, 20th June, 1926.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE,
FROM NEW YORK.
have seen a spell of unusual prosperity
in France. The new census will be the most serious reminder the French have yet had of their failure to increase and multiply ke other races.
the
1921, and which has proved to beneficin!
Antarctic regions. But one unfortunate
to the undertaking that. a further one is fexture in selecting Frankheim as jumping-off place for a flight to the South now required to meet increasing business. Pola was that Lieutenant-Commander The dimensions of the existing docks are Byrd would traverse an already known 50, 537, and 350 fest respectively, and route anu scientifically there would be considerable improvements have been little of value in the fight. The Waddell effected at the two latter, which, how. Sea areas, however, offered great op-ever, do not lend themselves to deepen ing and lengthening sufficiently to accom. portunities for exploration
medato steamers of the size now Iro- quanting the port.
The matter in generally thought of in England as if it were exclusively due the unwillingness of the French to rear children. This is a mistake. It is not so much that the French will not have babies as that they let them die when born. The birth-rate in France in Ims donc its best to prevent this by estab- 18.7 per 1,000), as compared with 22.8 lishing two homes for unmarried giris, in the United Kingdom, but the death whose lovers will not accept the respon rate is 18.4 per 1,000 as against 13.9. Insibility of parentage.. The Srst takes France us out of every 1,000 children them in during their poriod of preg. one year old; in nancy and persuades them not to forge die before they are Eagland only 60. This is chiefly due to the duties of motherhood; the second the ignorance, carelessness, and lack of cares for them after the child is born. hygiene of the French peasantry. It is ben practice among French working girls in the towns to put their babies out to
THE SteamIRBANK having arrived, Consignees of Cougar and being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd whence Delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have
ave left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after 25th June, 1920, will be subject to Bent
All Claims against the Steamer must be to the Undersigned on or before preamted
nd July, 1920, or they will not recognized.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, whers they will bourse with peasant women, in the coun- examined on 15th Jons, 1926, st 10 m
No Fire Insuranos has been ellested. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
THE BANK LINE, LTD., General Agents. Hongkong, 19th June, 1928.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEEX. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'8 STEAMER "ALIPORE."
try. It has been estimated that 50 per cent of these nurslings die,
The problem which the French nation
FREE MEDICAL ADVICE. So much for the cases in which the parents are disinclined to have children Where the parents are willing, the task is to prevent them from spoiling their infants' chances of living through
The new dock will be over 800 feet in
length, with a width of 80 feet, and depth of 35 feet, and situated on what was formerly a little creek of the harbour. The plan of the docks engineer, Mr. H. W. Bartlett, shows that the entrance will
and some old buildings on the site will be be where the old Coastguard beach was,
removed and the railway diverted.
The Western Wharf and Northern Arm are being reconstructed and completed on the original lines, but far more substan- tially and effectively than the incomplete structure which stood for many years de- The engineering caying and useless.
has to face is how to keep its babiesiguorance or poverty. With this object works and foundry have been entirely
Meurthe-et-Moselle provides three medi- alive. It is attempting to do so by n teries of laws for the endowment and cal consultations gratis for any ex- pectant mother who cares to take them. All she has to do is to apply to the Mayor,
rebuilt, and are being still further extend- ed. Falmouth, from a commercial point of view, entered on a new life when the present proprietors purchased the docks,
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DEPARTURES.
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VESSELS IN DOJE.
The following vessels aro in Dock:- Kowloon Dock:-Paseat, Turbo, Em President MoKinley, fori preas of Aria. Seattle vid ports, on June 21st:-Mr. Taiko Dock:-Seang Bec, Soothow,
McBreen, Mr. Chan Yet Soo, Mr. Leo Akera, Taishan, Anhui, Snik Siang, Mrs. L. N. Lopez, Mr. O.
fostering of motherhood, which provide for the assistance and care of poor or working women at public cost both before of her commune, who gives her three and there are numerous signs that the K Chan, Mr. A. Brostedt, Miss F.-F.
and after their children are horn.
The
coupons. Armed with theso she can visit
the
progress is
than increasing, rather
Pike, Miss C. W. McBreen, Miss John- stone, Mr. Poù Dat Min, Mr. J. T.. Chu,
laws, however, merely enunciate the rules any doctor or certificated midwife for diminishing. The new dock will not only Mrs. H. Haing, Mr.8. S. Wong, Mr nothing. Meurthe-et-Mosolle was give much employment during construc first Departinent in France to introducetion, bat will also provide work for this system. It has been in force now skilled artisans when complete, and the for more than two years, and has proved Corporation. are wise in promoting a fur- a great success. In 1923 there were 802 ther housing scheme, as already large infants stillborn in the Department outnumbers of men have to seek houses out- of 12,178 births; in the following year, side Falmouth. the first in which the experiment was tried, there were only 479 stillborn out
In
and principles. Their application is left for the local authorities. Some of ARMITED HONGxosa on 19th June, 1928.
these interpret and, apply them with THOM BOMBAT, COLOMBO AND
great effect, and where this is done the STRAITS. JONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-population is steadily increasing.
named Vessol are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed ar riars Isk in the longkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godown at Kowloon, where osch Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.
This vessal brings on Caro from Persian Gulf or BLS.N. and B. & P.S.N. Coca Staamers.
Optional Goods will be landed here unless Instructions have been given to the contrary 6 hours before arrival of the Beamer.
Goods not cleared within 8 days, including iste of arrival will be subject to Bent
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in say case whatever.
other districts they remain practically a dead letter, and it is to this neglect that the decline of the population is duc.
of 12,331. In 1995 the proportion was PRINCE OF WALES AND ROSS lower still.
INSTITUTE.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET I
HONGKONG...
FOR JUNE, 1
Dale. June 22nd.
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J. F. Forbes, Mr. B. A. Padon, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Young Tze Hum, Mr. J. A. Remedios, (STANDARD TIME OF THE 12011 MERIDIAN, K. Shidahara, Mrs. M. D'Alamada E. Castra, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Graybill and Nan, Mr. J. Barrow, Mr. Les Fong, Mr. three children, Mr. and Mrs. Ling Teui Vander Hulah, Mr and Mrs. A. 8. Rindet, Mr. Wm. Horne, Misa Little- john, Mrs. Chin Cue and four children, Mr. F. B. Baldwin, Mr. E. Levy, and Mr. Cao Hoa,
Per as. President Cleveland, for Sanj Francisco, on June 20th:-Mr. T. G. Kiff, Hr. A. O. Kuiper and family, Mr. The Prince of Wales has consented to E. A. Campbell, Mr. D. G. Bernard, Mr. Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Putney Sterns, Miss L. E. Stearns, Mr. S. open formally the Ross Institute and Barry Klyhn, Mr. P. Wood, Mrs. H. E. Heath, London, on July 18th. The Gov. George, Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Chiu, Mr. crament of Nigeria, as a mark of its T. Bescherer, Mr. M. Koyre. Mr. Choy Sir Ronald Ross to residents in the Barnes, Miss G. B. Edge, Mrs. Flora L. Fick, Mr. and Mrs. Augusia Jereza, Chong, Mrs. Marion Budd, Mr. Maxwell tropics by his resenrebes into the causa- . . M. Jones, Mr. J. W. Joyes, tion of malarial fever, has made a grant Master B. Martague, Mrs. A. Montague, of £1,000 to the funds of the institute..
A SUCCESSFUL DEPARTMENT. By far the most striking results have
The percentage of deaths among chil been achieved in the Departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle, where an intelligent dren of less than two years of age from policy of public relief, backed by careful congenital debility and similar affections medical control and education, has been has decreased in something like the same applied during the past four years by degree since the free consultations were the Prefect, M. Magre, and the Depart Introduced. To supplement the salutary appreciation of the services rendered by mental Inspector of Public Welfare effect of the consultations, the Departe Damaged Packages must be left in the Assistance-Publique), M. Edmond Perment has recently established at Nancy Godowns for examination by the Consignese, and the Company's surveyors Messrs. GODDARD riere. Meurthe-et Moselle is one of the venereological laboratory, by which & Douglas at 10 am. on Mondays and eastern frontier Departments, and the doctors in the country are assisted in Thursdaye, within the Free Storage
All Daims against the Steamer must be battiu line, ran through it from the very diagnosing and treating venereal diseases prosented to the Undermined on or before beginning to the end of the war. It was in women who come to consult them, and 10th July, 1926, or they will not be recognized. have left the Godman,
period.
Mrs. 8. E. Muzzell, Mr. M. G.. Hiller, Mies R. Pona. Misses F. and G. Ray- mundo, Mrs. E. Rydoll, Mr. C. Rydell, Mrs. Joan Seiffert, Mrs. J. G. Bymons, Miss P. W. Symons, General J. G.
The last thing a wise man will do is to judge any company by the dividend it No Claims will be admitted after the Goods terribly devastated, and the population thus increase the chances of their infants' pays, observes Sir Miles Mattinson, K.C. Symons
MACKINNON, MAUKENZIE & Co.,
Agoats. Hongkong, 19th June, 1926.
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THE BEN LINE STEAMERS. LIMITED.
FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LON. DON, STBAITS AND PHILIPPINES.
The Steamship "BENLEDI." VONBIGNÉES of Cargo are hereby inform
WAT.
surviving.
In 1013 there were fell by about 00,000.
The decline in the rate of mortality 13,493 births and 10,607 deaths in the Department, leaving a balance of 2,585 in the Department is due in no small haman lives gained. In 1922, in spits of the revival of the birth-rate which oc- degree to the rigorous medical inspee- curred immediately after the war, the tion exercised over children put out to number of births had fallen as low as nurse, and those of mothers who are in 10,601, and the net increase in the no-receipt of public relief. The effect of pulation to 2,554. In 1923 the authorities the inspectors services is to spread a initiated their programme of counter-knowledge of the proper care and hygiene" measures. The results were immedinte, due in the treatment of babies among By 1826 the number of births had risen the women of the lower classes. This to 13,070, and the lives gained numbered is most important in the case of the 3748. Thus the population is now, grow-peasant girls who make part of their ing 25 per cent. faster than before the living by looking after other women's babies. The result of the training given The authorities of the Department have by the medical authorities of the Depart obtained this rearkable result by two ment to these acmi-professional nurses is In the first place, that the mortality among very young they have aimed at encouraging people babies is now actually lower among those to have children; secondly, they have who are parted from their mothers than endeavoured to prevent the babies from among those who are not.
The laws passed of recent years in No Claims will be admitted after the Goods being stillborn, and to ensure them the have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining best chance of living after birth. In the Franco make all sorts of provisions for undelivered after the 25th instant, will be first category of measures figures a scale relief to be given to poor mothers, to subject to Bont,
All Claims against the Steamer must be of bounties, offered by the Department encourage them both to have children parents for every child born above and to refrain from abandoning or neg presented to the Undersigned on or before the the number of two. Two hundred francs lecting them when they are born. In 9th July, 1926, or they will not be recognised.
All broken, oksfod and damaged Goods are to are given for the third child, 250 frauca practice the efficacy of the law depends be loft in the Godowns, where they will be for the fourth, 200 for the fifth, and so on the zeal of the local authorities. In. eramined on the 25th instant, pt 10 a
Cod that all Goods are being landed at their
risk into the hazardons, and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon What and Godown Co., Ltd, whoses, and/or from the
ver, Delivery may be phisined.
wharvey,
No Fire Insurance has been effectod Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBD, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD.,
Agents Hongkong, 18th June, 1528,
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op. The money is only paid if the child Meurthe-et-Mosello the laws have been lives, the first half eight daye, the second applied in the most assiduous and in- half six months after its birth. Most telligent way, and the local officials have communes in the Department have adopt been wisely backed by the General Coun-1 ed the practice of adding another 100f. cil of the Department, with which it or so to the country. It is not much, rests to grant fuude for public relief.
It has been suggested more than onoo but it means something to a man who Fearne less than 1,0001. a month.
in this correspondence that the decline
The second means adopted to encourage in the population of France is not due the birth-rate is to care for unmarried morely to economic causes or social tradi- girls who are faced with the prospect of tion, but is a casual phenomenon, which having a baby. The French law does not can be overcome just as easily na An The example of compel a man to recognize or provide for epidemic of disease. his illegitimate offspring. The result is Meurthe-et-Mosells clearly confirms this. that thousands of French girls of the The methods and principles for curing, poorer classes deliberately provoke mis the ill have now been established; it only. carriages, and so, deprive the State of remains for the Government and the potential citizene, Meurthe-et-Moselle local authorities in the rest of -Franco
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