HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
NEW NIGHTSOIL
REMOVAL
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940-PAGE IT!
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PRESIDENT
LINER
SAILIN
TO SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES
via - SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU
S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT".
SS. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND”.
8.S. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"
Sept. 17 Oct. Oct. 25
To NEW YORK and BOSTON
via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO.
BOMBAY and CAPETOWN ..
SS. "PRESIDENT POLK” -
6.5. "PRESIDENT GARFIELD"
Sopt. 30 Oct. 17
To SINGAPORE & PENANG
8.5. "CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS"
Sept. 25
SS. "CITY OF NORFOLK"
Oct. 27
To SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES
DIRECT
„S.8. "CITY OF LOS ANGELES”
8.S, "CITY OF NEWPORTNEWS".
via Yokohama.
Sept. 18 Oct. 14
AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES
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AND UNITED AIR LINES
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TEL 28171.
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ASAMA MARI! (Starts from Kobe) NITTA MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER
HIE MARU
NEW YORK via Panama.
:* SANUKI MARU
Wednesday, 2nd Oct.. Friday, 11th Oct. (Starts" from Kobe)
Monday, 23rd Sept.
Tuesday, 8th Oct..
SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Japan & San
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Francisco.
HEIYO MARU
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila.
Thursday, 19th Sept.
ATUTA MARU
Saturday, 28th Sept.
** GENOA MARU
Begizning of Oct
BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo.
SAIGON & MADRAS
• ATAGO MARU (also calls Saigon) Monday, 18th Sept. Saturday, 28th Sept.
KASIMA MARU
RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore
* TOTTORI MARU
KOBE
& YOKOHAMA
HEIYO MARU
KITANO MARU
Carga only.
Wednesday, 25th Sept.
Thursday, 13th Sept. Thursday, 19th Sept.
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NEXT SAILING
METHODS IN HONGKONG
Combating The Cholera Menace In The Colony
Drastic changes in the present "method of removing nightsol are foreshadowed in a new scheme now being prepared for the more anitary and efficient method of removing nightsolf in Hongkong. It is reliably understood. The new scheme is designed to play, a vital, part in the control of infectious diseases such as cholers and dysentery,
Under present arrangements nightsoll is removed by coolles. Householders are allowed to use any sort of buckets. The coolles empty the buckets into containers.and then sluice round the buckets with a dash of water which is often poured into the drain, and the empty buckets are returned to the household.
The first phase of the new; Each morning, trucks will travel scheme calls for standard, around, picking up one of the covered containers in each house- covered containers and leaving hold, mechanical transference, of the fresh one in its place. The the contents, and mechanical containers with night-soil in them washing in a "tank truck,” will be atted into the collecting
TANK · TRUCK
trucks in such 3 manner that This "tank truck" is an im- they cannot roll around and their portant part of the scheme, It covers will be strongly clamped will follow the collecting trucks
and as each container is emptied, it is passed on to the "tank truck," inside which there will be means for cleaning the containers out with a strong jet of water before they are returned, bright and shining, as it were, to the house holders."
The collecting truck will, in turn, transfer its own contents on the water-front to the boats.
down,
EMPTIED INTO BOATS They will be taken away. their contents emptied into the boats, and the containers will then be washed properly In a shed atted out for the purpose, to be returned the following morning when the other of the two containers supplied to each householder is picked up.
Under this scheme, there will be no smell, no early-morning noise of churning brushes, no spilling and no files.
CHINA HAND
PASSES
The funeral of Capt. Andrew Henry Brown took place at the Colonial Cemetery yesterday with Rev. Cyril Brown, Chaplain to the Mission for Seamen, officiating at the graveside.
The deceased, who was 64 years of age, died at the Matilda Hospi-
tal on Saturday after a long t ness. Deceased was suffering from Bright's disease.
He was formerly Chief Officer on board the river steamer s.8. Kautung, of the Tai Sang Steam- ship Co.
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Wreaths were sent by deceased's colleagues and friends.
CONCERT FOR
THE TROOPS
1/4
A number of local amateur artistes, some of whom will make their bow before local audiences for the first time, have been brought together for a concert being arranged for the troops, to, be given at the Cheero Club'on Friday evening, Sept. 27,
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Among those who have agreed to take part are Messrs. John Gilchrist, Jack Fountain, William Knight, Less Gibson, Vic Labrum, PRELIMINARY PART
Rev. Cyril Brown, Norman Binney,
and This, however, is only the pre
Harrison
Richmond, liminary part of the scheme, and
Wimsett and David Kossick, although it marks a great im-
Arrangements are in the hands provement on present methods. It
The scheme goes even further of Mr. David Kossick, is not the ideal finally aimed at than this, however. At the pre- This ideal calls for the provision sent moment, once the night-soll of two covered containers to each is loaded into the boats, it is up householder. A different system to the contractor to get rid of it will then be used,
as best he may. He sells as much as he can to farmers and so on
Hongkong Royal Observatory 、
1 a.m.. Sept. 15. Batometer (at sea level), 29.86
...ins
Temperature, 86 F.
Humidity, 77 per cent. Wind Direction, ES, Wind Force (Beanfort), 4
Temperature: Maximum yesterday.
sea.
Health Bulletin Of
Eastern Ports
The following is the Health WEATHER REPORT n the New Territories, charging Bulletin of Eastern Forts for the
them as much as he can get; the week ending September 7; unsold portion is dumped into the CHOLERA: Bimlipatam, four Cal- cases: Cawnpore, 26 cases, This is not satisfactory as, apart cutta, 17 cases; Delhi, three cases; from other considerations, farmers Macão. 39 cases; "Hongkong 76 In the New Territories who need cases; Shanghai, 45 cases; the night-soil for manure are un-SMALL-POX:-Port Sudan, one able in many cases to pay the case: Allahabad, one case: Bom- st prices demanded by the contrac-bay, eight cases; Calcutta, tors, with the result that available cases; Cochin, 23 cases: Madras, land in the Territories is not be one case; Bangkok, three cases. ing used to its full extent, with a
69 CHOLERA CASES consequent rise in unemployment. The following is the Return of
diseases It is suggested by the sponsors notifiable
notified 35 of the scheme that Government having vecurred in the Colony might do well to take this question during the 24 hours ended at of disposing of the night-soll off midnignt, September 13:-Cholera, the contractors' hands by build. 69 cases: Enter'c Fever, one' case: ing in the New Territories large, Dysentery. 17 cases: Tuberculosis, concrete tanks for its reception. 34 cases
87 F
Temperature: minimum last night
79 F.
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Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th
today, 0.00 Ins.
Total rainfall since January 1st.
111.42 bas. Against an average of. 7249 ing. Subset tonight, 6.27 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow. 6.10 a.m.
4 p.m., Sept. 15. Barometer (at sea level), 29.78 ins. Temperature, 85 F. Humidity, 77 per cent. Wind Direction, E/S. Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Maximum temperature, 88' F. Minimum temperature. 70 F.. Rainfall, n...
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 16 to 22 Sept. 1940
HIGH WATEE,
Hong
a Boog
Dayh
Dats of
Month.
Standar
Time.
Height
Low WATER.
Hong Kong
Standard
Height
Time
h. m. j, la
b. m
La.
Mou, 16. 09 14 6 9
02:37
3 1
Tues 17
21 49 03 49
59
16 15
80
(3 18
29
„22 11
@ 1
1544 21
Wed. 18
1024
6 4
03 55 **
2227
1814 24
Thur 19
10 04
e 1
0438
20
92 44
8 4
'MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER, 1940,
Fri.
20
17 24
15 6
QB 14
12 5
23 04
€ 6
1700 30
Sat.
21
11708
5 41.
00 58. (2 6
For Freight or Passage apply to:-
93 27
6 8
J7 27
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Sap.
22
06 42 28
12 37 14 0
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1842 2 6
1742 13.7
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