RABIES. IN THE COLONY
Increase is "Possible'
NO ALTERNATIVE TO PRESENT POLICY
At the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin and Dr. Li Shu Fan asked several questions with regard to the reported outbreak of rabies in the Clony. Apart from that, however, there was no dia- eussion of public interest, the rest of the business being of a routine mature.
Thote preynt at the meeting were:--
Mr. T. Megarry (chairman), the Hon. Mr. A. G..W. Tickle, Dr. G. W. Pope, Mesars, Wong Kwong Tin, M. K. Lo, F. C. Hall, Dr. Li Shu Fun. Messrs. C. Chumpkin, CJ: Roe (Secretary), nad Ng Mui Kai (Assistant Secretary).
Possible Increase.
Mr. Wong Kwong Tie asked the following questions, to which the
answers are appended.
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$39,000 for Public Works, etc.
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At to-morrows meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legisla- tive Council, No. 6 supplementary estimates totalling 830,013 will be presented
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The items are as follow:-- Contribution towards ex- penses of Radio Tele graph Puplic Works Extraor dinary Hong Kong, Miscellaneous 30. Ex- lension to Building Or-
linance Office Public Works Depant- ment Special Expen diture. Addressograph Equipment
6,400.00 Now that the Addressograph has been installed in the Treasury, ad vantage can be taken of this ma- chine for printing addresses For the Water Authority instead of in-
Q. Is it the opinion of the, Coloni- al Veterinary Surgeon that an installing another unit. -crease in the number of cases of
rabies is imminent?
A. In the opinion of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon an increase in the number of cases is possible, but it is hoped that the measures that: have already iven' taken will pre- vent it.
Q. Cau rabies be prevented by inoculation If so, is the 'Clovern ment contemplating the provision of facilities for inoculation as is done in many countriest
A. Babies in dogs can be prevent- ed the inoculation of a strain of vaccine, which has been proved to protect against infecting by the street virus concerned. I un- derstand that the provision of facilities by Government for such inoculation would be unnecessary, as private veterinary practitioners and supplies of the vaccine are available for the work in the Colony.
Q. Would it be feasible for dogs so inoculated to be provided with distinctive badges, rendering them. immune from (1) shooting (ii) muzzling?"
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HUSBAND FOUND
'GUILTY"
Attacked Wife's Para- mour with Choppers.
THREE MONTHS SENTENCE
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Prisoner, the jury has, in my opinion, very rightly, found you guilt of the second and lesser charge. I am quite satisfied that you had very great provocation in that you had good cause to believe, that your wife and third witness we're committing adultery together. That, however, does not altogether justify you in the eyes of the law in the netion which you took. You had assistance ready to hand and you might have fetched assistance,
HOMEWARD BOUND
III.-MEMORIES OF LONDON AND THE COUNTRYSIDE
KEW GARDENS AND HAMPTON COURT
[BY A DISILLUSIONED TRAVELLER]
The nearer 1 approach familiar things the longer my pen hovers poised above the page.
Lately the newspapers have been severe about Kew's 'pagoda, calling it incongruous and altogether ugly. For the benefit of absentees I this is too severe. True the design got down these dates, March 21 lacks all the vivacity of tip tilted croes; March 25 Lent lies, roofs and shining enamel tiles and swinging bells which we associate April 1 byacinths and daffodils, with the genuine article, and, in May 1 tulips, May 13 rhododen-consequence, the pagoda looks duli drous.
The Loudoner can follow the and ponderous in the broad light whole delightful sequence in his of day; but the proportions are own suburban gardens, at Hampton good enough, and at dark against a clear sky its silhouette is a thing instead of which you lost control Court or Kew; and even in his own of real beauty. of yourself, which you should have metropolitan front garden at St. kept, and made this attack on the James.
paramour.
The sentence of the Court, there- fore, is that you go to prison with hard labour for 3 months. You have already been detained two months and I will date your period of imprisonment from April 22, the day of the offence."
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London Pride,
I single out St. James as perhaps of Londoners and the determina- The general improvement in taste the most charming of all central London gardens; though the little, tion to preserve the beauty spots of the town is very marked. The pro- embankment gardens, which pro- vided a country seat for Eros while posal to erect a tall block of offices near the Abbey has produced a his official perch at Piccadilly sheaf of letters to the Times," and undergoing reconstruction, runs it the threat to demolish Adelphi
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Terraces-the "chef-d'oeuvre" of
▸ Adnan bothers-produced debate in the Lords. The protest- ants should be careful not to protest In the same improved thrown up a greatly improved stan- too much.
taste which throws them up' bas uard of architecture and we can be tolerably sure, though some fami liar thing of beauty be lost, that
At St. James a particularly fat The above remarks were made by the Paisne Judge at the conclusion and friendly cock pheasant greets The following equipment is how of the Criminal Sessione trial yes the pedestrian striking across the ever necessary and a vote is reterday when Lam Tai Yuag, aliar park from Queen Annes's gate and quested.
Lam Kan, of. 3, Gilman's Bazaar, gets him
with wounding across the lake, while an equally as far as the bridge TY018 charged with intent to do grievous plump hea browses among the poly- bodily harm, Li Kwok Hong, anthus beds. And at St. James, & triangle" of ducks (two male and Hung, of 154, known As Li Des Voeux Road Central, at the one female) spend the morning (and former address. on April 29. He daresay the afternoon too), tak also entered a similar plea on aing wide swoops over the Foreign charge of malicious and unlawful Office and Buckingham Palace and then cutting off their engines and Mr. R. C. H. Lin, appeared for gliding downward to the water like accused, and Mr. H. K. Holmes, veritable seaplanes. Crown Solicitor, prosecuted. parts, too, of St. James where a The Jury consisted of Messrs.little mild cricket is legitimate F. F. Duckworth, A. H. Harbord, within certain age limits; and parts own the door; and not only will all the Adelphi Terraces be G. Duncan, jar, G. R. Payne, S. where a man, if he is tired, can Feldman, Yeung Kwong Chui, B. atop quietly on the grass and fling ruthlessly swept away but some himself down at full length, with long-lived atrocity erected in their C. Field.
out let or hindrance and even sur-places. London has many examplee
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2,500.00
300.00 5,800.00
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Hampton Court and Kew.
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mo beautiful new thing will be For example the given in return. great white Shell-Mex, building, though modern of the modern, 13 at least as beautiful as the elegant old Adelphi above which it towers to-day. The danger is that, when Prosperity returns, the arts will be
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Memories.
A hurried cast to the north-west
stone: turrets of Evesham Church
Opening the Crown case, Mr. Holmes said the three persons chiefly concerned were the accused, the wounded man, and the former's I have named Hampton Court! wife, who was the "woman in the and Kew as though they were alter-of England leaves on the net of case." By this phrase he did not native: of course they are not. memory the following things: Three wish to make insinuatione against The difference is broadly that at gems among English villages, Bur-
"ford,
plodding quietly uphill, the woman, but she was involved, Kow you will find "antirrhinums and how far she was involved would but at Hampton Court only soap- Nuncham symmetrically and pre- 5,250.00 be a matter for the jury to deter-dragons." Kew in the happy hunt cisely spaced, Broadway a casua The goods traffic at Taipo Mar- mine.
ing ground of the expert in botany succession of mellow grey A. The department concerned con- ket Station has increased to a far Li Hing and accused were and horticulture; but Hampton siders such provision would not greater extent during the last half formerly fakis together in an opium Court of the lover of English gar tower; the chapter house of Wor suffice to effect the desired objects. year then was anticipated, and it business which The maximum period for which has become necessary
was apparently deus. Kew has its great glass-cester the battered reredos of to provide illicit because it was raided at the house: but Hampton Court has the Gloucester; daffodils in Gloucester inoculation gives immunity is better facilities for the handling beginning of this year. The two essential background of an English fields and daffodils, professedly a twelve months; certificates of re-in-of goods at this Station as soon eculation and renewal of badges as possible.
men remained acquainted however, garden in the mellow red-brick of penny a bunch, in sunny Gloucester lanes; and this for the mantle piece after their business relations the palace. . would thus be required at the end Kowloon: Improvements to
ceased. Accused, his wife, and a I must have written the above of a commercial room in a Worces of each twelve months; badges,
Buildings however distinctive, could easily be
750.00 small boy who was related to them, shortly after a visit to Hampton ter hotel, "What is the use of hay. Storage Tanks for the operation | lived in a front cubicle at 3, Gil-Court, and now, after visit to ing Rolls Royce ideas on a push- of Bush closets in many Govern man's Bazaar, and on April 21, the Kew, in rhododendron time, I take bike income!" ment Buildings is considered very husband returned by the night boat it all back. There are parts of lay down my pen on this senti- désirable and the following build- from Macus where he had spent Kew, down along the river side, ment: and on another found hy ings in Kowloon have been selected some days. He visited friends on where the ground beneath the beach chance in a casual razble. as requiring immediate install his arrival in Hong Kong and it trees is a carpet of blus bells, and tion of tanks; The Central British was not until a a.m. that he return azaleas flame out, in unexpected School, Kowloon Junior School, ed home.
dumps, and great banks of rhodo- and the Yaumati Government School.
dendrone blaze into colour like huge crimson cumulus clouds. This is no place of experts but the very home of Pan and Faunus.
counterfeited, and the stray dog, which is the source of danger, would be difficult to approach for close examination.
Dr. Li Shu Fan's questions and the answers were:--
Q. In how many years during the last ten have case of canine rabies been known, entailing the enforce ment of the Order for the restric- tion of dogs?
Hong Kong. Buildings. Item 2. Improvements to Buildings *........
(Continued from page 6.)
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According to his own statement, accused discovered Li Hung in bed with his wife, the small boy also being in the gubicle. Li Hung A. During the ten years 1923 to
4,500.00 would seek to give an innocent ex- 1932 inclusive, a period of one hun Storage Tanks for the operation|planation of his presence there and sixty-four months. Such special of Bush, closets in many Govern- | would say that the woman had sent restrictions of varying degrees of ment Buildings is considered vory for him because he was going back: severity on the movement of dogs desirable and the following build to the country and she wanted him between various places within the ings in Hong Kong have been select- to take a message to her mother. Colony were in force for periodsed as requiring immediate instal Without doubt, Lam Kan was totalling approximately sixty-fivelation of tanks: The Central Ma jealous of his wife and suspected months. During the same period gistracy, Queen's College, Wanchai her, and his account of what follow- of one hundred and twenty months School Gap Road School, Peak ed was probably an honest account.tricts, furnishing the needs of the A muzzling order was in force for School Sieters Quarters Govern- He would say that he heard his population and revenue for the periods totalling approximately meat Civil Hospital and Sisters wife telling Li Hung that her hus-Government. Yunnan's demands; sixty-four months. Such special Quarters Kennedy Town and Co- band had not returned from the are met by import of cotton yarn, restrictions on the movement of lonial Becretariat,
country, and that she added a dis- four, leather, iron for construction dogs were in force for part or Medical Department-
paraging" nickname. Accused be- work, cement, and endless mis- whole of each of nine years of the
Upkeep of Travelling came very angry and, going quietly cellaneous manufactured articles period of ten years mentioned, and
Dispensary
down to the kitchen, he obtained two choppers and returned to the cubicle. After an unsuccessful at tempt to scale the partition he forced open the door and attacked Li Hung with a chopper in each hand, inflicting several wounds on his head. The wife intervened and managed to hold her husband while the wounded man ran into the street but accused broke, away, and continued the pursuit until he was stopped and arrested by a police re-
a muzzling order was in force for part or whole of each of seven years of these ten.
Q. In view of records, is it nat a reasonable conclusion that the anti-rabies measures as at present adopted are at best only likely to temporarily control the spread of the disease, and cannot possibly stamp it out permanently, or even for any lengthy period?
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New launch to re- place No. 11 Police
633.00 The final payment for the con- struction of the new launch "Police 11" is now due amounting to 80,003 and the sum of 88,000 only has been provided in current Estimates.
The launch has now been taken over by Government and a pote for $653 is requested.
180, will you
where !
Total
.830.618.00
A. This inference would not ap- pear to be justified. Intermissions pf some duration occur between out, reaks, tending to show that the isease is not continuously endemic, ut is stamped-out periodically by he restrictions, which, of course, ontinue or rebain würescinded for me time after the worst of the out- Feak till it is quite certain that A. Saoh vaccination with 'stock has ceased. Fresh outbreaks are vaccine is performed by veterinary Atributed to surreptitious re-intro practitioners in the Colony at pre
action of the disease into the sent olony from outside and its spread
thin the Colony in periods ofQ Have there been any instances n-restriction.
in the Colony of cases of rabies during the last ten years? If so, occurring among horses and cats
how many!
Q. Apart from the present, rigid asures of muzzling, restriction of Avement, capture or destruction unmuzzled doge, notification and arantine, are no other effective known of combating the kans
read of the disease)» ·
serviat.
It is a strange thing that on sea voyages, when there is nothing to be seen but sky and sen, men should make diaries; but in land travel where so ranch is to be ob served, for the most part they emit
it."
YUNNAN: PROGRESS ANDceived by radio so that it is up. to-date. The local radio adminis- DEVELOPMENT
tration have been demonstrated broadcasting of news, and local musical talent, through loud speak- ers on the streets, much to the interest of the people. There are two cinemas, one of which is just now negotiating for sound pictures. apparatus. It is reported that un ice plant is soon to be installed There is also an effort being made to start a cement plant. If this can be consumated, it will · Bereni a great need indeed as one barrel of cement costs at Yunnanfu about $22 or #23 Mex. and weaving establishments are working regularly and apparently fairly prosperously. Branches of the Commercial Press, Chung Hwa Book Company, and World Book Company seem to be thriving...
Yuznaniu,
Yunnanfu itself is fast becoming modernized. An inadequate elee trie supply is now being improved to meet the growing demand. This is from water power and is being cared for by the German Siemans Co. Wholesale widening of more than a mile of business streets has relieved traffic in the busy sections immeasurably. A gradual viden- ing was already going on but two years ago it was decided that it must be done with greater des patch. Part of the same scheme
Small factoTIES
All in all, Yunnanfu and with it Yunnan Province, is on the move. Given reasonable peace and time, the Yunnan of the future ought to take ita destined place na an increasingly useful province of the Chinese Republic (Applause.) A vote of thanks on behalf of the Club was proposed by Mr. J. D.
Impending Departure of Mr. "Maynard,
Buch.
Accused in a statement to the police said that he had been mar ried for several years and had come to Hong Kong the previous has been the dismantling of a short year. Describing the events of the section of the old wall and the indicate how and early morning he had said: I dity establishment of an entirely walked up the stairs quietly and new business street on the ground. half an hour. I heard voices and stood listening on the stairs for A water system installed years laughing." He added that he had needs of the people but it is pow ago das fairly adequately met the persuaded a man who wore wooden evidence that a larger supply must Mr. M. F. Roy, referring to the shoes to walk up the stairs with
'be sought, Several daily papers in inear departure of Messrs. Maynard him so that his wife would be-un- able to recognise his tread. After Chinese are issued. News is re- and Barringer, of the office of the, American Trade Commissioner, the attack and the chase, he return:
said that no doubt members of the "Club would like to thank Mr. May
nard for the hard work he had put in as secretary of the Club
A. There is no such case on re- cord during the last ten years.
Q. If the answer to Question (b)
ed to the house with the policeman casion, he had beaten his wife. and saw Li Hung coming out of-
The wife was called as a witness the house with some clothing un-. der his arm. The injured man fell for the defence and she said that down with a cry that he was dying, at all material times during the Dr. G. H. Thomas, of the Govern-alleged incident, she was asleep. is in the affirmative, would Government Civil Hospital, said Li Hung She only remembered sanding her A. No other practicable methods ment be willing to consider the had extensive though not very brother-in-law for Li Hung asking
available.
desirability of experimenting witherious wounds on his head when him to visit her at 6. p.: Li Hung Do you consider anti-rabida view to producing a local strain admitted to the hospital, did not come until 3 a.. when she of the rabies virus which will serve At the conclusion of the Crown ddmitted hip into the cubicle, and bcination in dogs effective?
as an effective vaccination against case, the defendant went into the after a few commonplace observa I am advised that provided the disease, also bearing in mind witness box and re-affirmed his Lions she went to sleep She knew pecific vaccine is used the the necessity of adequate supply previous statement in which he had nothing more until she was awaken
ion is as effective as other and low cost of production, in said that he lost control of himself ed by the fighting ations where a stock vac arder to bring it within reach of and struck Li Hung with two chop After Mr. Lim had addressed the
sed there in an additional
the General Publio?"
pers. He added that he had pre-jury the Judge summoned up and Quncertaintyproc A. In view of the answer to Ques-viously seen his wife and Li Hung the jury returned a verdict of
Auch procur-" abin Colony at present? If tion (b), this question does not in the same bed and on that of Guilty on the charge of unlaw
Wonthed on nesi Column); arise.
Continued at foot of next column) ful wounding only
Using
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The Hon. Dr. Too, speaking as Chairman, thanked Mr. Maynard
for the strong support the latter had given the Club a Secretary.
Mr. Maynard said he was sorry he whe leaving the Colony and particularly sorry as he was leav ing so suddenly. He had enjoyed his contact with Botary more than with any Club to which he belong ed He thought that the Botury Club in Hong Kong filled a much- needed want and that the Club
was well worth while
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