paulical Commitee to be associated with Dr. Doberck for the pa. porerfadopting some scheme for an improved system of Meteorological Reports and Weather Forecasts, together with the prompt and wide-spread publication of the same, The Government agreed to the suggestion, and the Committee was appolated; but it la to be regretted that, for reasons stated in the annexed correspondence, these gentlemen found them selves" under the necrislly to resign, as their practical experience would, no doubt, have enabledthem to makevalu¬ble suggestions in the matter of supplying the particular Information required without incuning any but a trifling addition to the expenditure of the Department.~ (Appendix L. Page 33).
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1894.
This is not the first time it hat occurred at Can. Itsed last night, containing the following pro- ton within my recollection. There aro ibiricen | clamation :- Cases now at the Tong Wah Hospital and four. bodies that have cied from this disease. We are gathering information so that all the houses from watch the cases cama may be looked after. They come from-Market Street, Tank Line, and Ladder Street, where there are old undrained houses, and these will, have to be thoroughly cleansed and whilewashed. The disease is one entirely of poverty and filth. It is a similar disease in Astatic counties to typhus in European countries, There is no necessity for getting up a scare about it. 'Dr. Lowson saw a largo number of cases at Canton, but there has bain no case amongst the altendants at the hospital there. Although there have been three or four hundred esses admitted there within the last week or ten days, not one of the attendants has been attacked." I thluk Dr. Lowson might explain for the laformation of the Board what he
BAW,
The Captain Superintendent of Police—I was informed the day before yesterday that no loss than forty people had died in Tank Lane. I made inquiries and I found the real number of deaths was five; two of them were children who died from convulsions and the other three were middle-aged people.
The Colonial Surgeon-It was stated that six- teen people had died in Tank Lane yesterday. You see how the thing becomes exaggerated.
Whereas by section ge of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887, ealitied An Ordinance for amending the Laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong. It irenacted as follows :—
"Whenever any part of the Colony appears to be threatened with, or is affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Connell, may, by proclamation from time to time; direct that the provisions contained in pections. 11 to 37 of this ordinance, both Inclusive, be put in force in the Colony, or. such part thereof as by such pro clamation may be speelfed, and may from time to time revake or renew any soch proclamation; and, subject to such revocation and renewal, every such proclamation shall be in force for such period as in such proclamation shall be expressed, and every such proclamation shall be pablished la the Government Gastle, and such publication shall be conclusive evidence ibersof.” And wherese the City of Victoria is affected by a disease within the meaning of the sald section 31.
from the town. I can never forget the extreme anxiety shown in the faces of friends of the sick who came to fetch ma; how the crowd kep paloful silence during the time I held the they heat, they evidently thinking it bad some power mometer lo position bile taking the body of charming the sickness away.
The sheets of this town are in an abomla able condition of filth, and no parallel with each other, the highest street being 20-30 feet above the sen, while the lowest la clore to the water's edge; consequen ly, in'a'day season, an enormous amount of excrementitious matter lies fermenting under the floor,—and it is only cleansed. In nearly every house where the when heavy rain comes that the place gets disease broke out, the rats had been coming out the opportualty of dret og several of the rats, of their holes and dying on the floors. I took selecting those that had just died. Opening the cheats first I could did nothing beyond slight congestion of the lungs. In the abdomen, all the Organs ware congested, the intestines much dis- tended with gas; the stomachs contilard noth- ing but a little sand, and it appeared as if some time had elapsed since food was digested; all were in more or less the same condition. In two the liver appeared enlarged the blood was dark in colour. Examination ander the micros- cope revealed nothing. No other animals were
attacked.
Out of all the cases I saw, only two recovered -two children. It is necessary to say that I only as a small proportion of the afficted. I symptoms and conditions of plague elsewhere be compared with them:
probably. One of the patient's beds prescated peculiarly pathetic scene. Bealde an elderly man, who was far gone, haya child, ab. ut 3 year of age, with one arm wound round the man's answer her. They were father and daughter acck valaly endeavouring to persuade him to The child, too, was stricken by the scourge, and b th were rapidly sinking.
in the lees of the latter, gave a life-sketch of the hand bot polite Frenchman, and so natural wis be that a low aumikulls in the suflenes hissed, which was both a credit to the actor's taleni Hongkong audience. and a reflection upon the intelligence of a Mr. Russell Crawford wrestled with the part of Gaston with a moderate
mmonst of success.
On Saturday evaning She Stoopa to Con quer" will be given, and as some of the local amateurs are to take part a friendly and hospit- able audience is already booked.
Upon inqalry it was ascertained that the patients are as a rule already too ('r gone before they are taken to the Tung Wab, so that it is clear the Sandiary Board should put forth strenuous efforts to detect cases in their early
ages to prevent the infection spreiding. only, a man, has been treated; and he is willi
At the Government Civil Hospital one patient 4 NINETEENTH CENTURY VENUS.
alive.
A "BULLETIN" STUDY IN MAORILAND).
Her face a temple seems to love,
Her pa-lis raby portal; She twines her bair in many a FEATU
but the Chinese physician-in-charge told car The Allca Memorial has not had any cases reporter that should any te brought to him he would endeavour to effect a cure by lancing one or more of the awollings, with a view to reducing the fever and so forth.
At present, then, the plague statistics stand hu
5th to 10th May :-55 cases reported
14 -38 death,
or 7.3 per diem slace the outbreak.
"CAMILLE" AT THE THEATRE ROYAL
It was Gautler who said there was an excuse
and silver-using countries, and further evi | what we are to do now we have this plague in | advice of the Executive Council, do hereby have tried to gather information concerning the tor telling a tale of bamas pasilon so long as
The revolutionary proposals to close the Mints of India to free coinage and to Impore s daly on Silver Imported into that country had such an Important direct bearing on the hitherto large and giewing trade between the great Indian Empire and the Far Easitin allver-using coun tries, that they necessarily have closely occupied the attention and consideration of the members of your Committee. Throughout they have been' unanimously of opinion that it would bet grave mistake either to close the Mints, or to Impose an import duty on Silver, and they hava protested against such a course being followed, The China Association and its branches bave rendered good service in connection with the subject, but so far also unsuccessfully. The consequences of the closing of the Mints have been disastrous to Indian trade with Hongkong results are likely to follow. (Appendix Q, Page 41).
The report also deals with the following:- Sunday Cargo-working Ordinance; Telegraph Convention; China Association; Interview with Herr VOR -Brandt, Minister Pleni patentlary from Germany to Chink, &c; action of the Shanybai Chinese abareboldera ip the Bank of China, Japan, and the Straits, Limited; suggested alterations le Bill-of-Lading Clauses} | proposed exribition for Hongkong; signalling commission; permanent committee to act with the Harbour Master; committee on erection of plors and wharves; obstructions to the importa tion of machinery Into Chlos; the Japanese silver yen, and the coinage ol a British dollary pro posed Public Holidays; tea export from China and Japan, 1873-92 | Chicago Exposition; com mittee; new members; and finances of the Chamber.
THE THREATENED EPIDEMIC.
MEITING OF THR SANITARY BOARD,"
The following reports and discussion were omired kom our record of the Sanitary Board's proceedings yesterday on account of the late hour at wilch the meeting concluded —
The Secretary's misate, appended to decu ments previously published, suggested :-
A cleansing of the whole of the city (paying special attention to the poorer parts of the town from all street refuse as suggested by the Colonial Surgeon.
A cleaning of the mouths of all storm-water drains along the Praya frontage and of the fore shore surrounding them.
A thorough cleansing with sea-water of the surfaces of all channels, open drains, alleys, lanes, back yards, elc., throughout the city.
A very important part of a general cleansing should consist in household cleansing. In past times, when the colony bad to rely upon Pok- folam for its water; it was usual, I believe, to provide water boats along the Fraya apas these occasions. Perhaps it would be useful to return to this in the present scarcity of water, always providing that the water can be obtained from the mainland, as to which I am making inquiry. If this is adopted it might be well for the Sanitary Inspectors to distribute slips among the inhabitants of the very poor and unsanitary parts entitling them to receive say 12 gallons free of charge for household cleansing. Of course all this would be unnecessary if the Water Authoilly feels justified in granting a larger supply for the re betag..
(acting Bapt, Government Civil Hospital) went Dr. Ayres (Colonial Surgeon) and Dr. Lowson in the following joint report:--
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Now, therefore, I. George Digby Barker, Officer Administering the Gavemment and Commander- In-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same in pursuance of the said section and with the under my hand direct that the provisions con. both inclusive, be put in force in the Colony for a period of one month from the date of this proclamation,
By Command,
it is possible for the Governor in Council to tained in sections 32 10 37 of the sald Ordfqacce, / so that what has been observed in China may. And thus it might be sald of Domas'
The President-It seems to me what we ought to da now is not to discuss what is past, hut our midst. Under the Public Health Ordinance declare any part of the colony affected with an epidemic, and I thick perhaps that would be the most effective way of dealing with this, to declare the city of Victoria affected. The publication of this proclamation empower the Board to | makebye-laws; and I think the recommendations of Dr. Ayres and Dr. Lawson, just read, seem to meet the case.
After a little further discussion Dr. Lowson was asked to state bis views as the result of his visit to Canton. He said:-Last Sanday I went with Dr. Rennle to the affected districts and to the Chinese hospital, which is very well conducted. I saw between seventy and a hundred cases, including the dead bodies; I took careful note of the symptoms, and got a few hints from the manager. Not one of the attendants had been affected. At first, I was told, the mortality in the district was 80 per cent. of the persons affected; it afterwards fell to 30, but when I was there it had gone up again, to 55 or 60 per cent. At this hospital from the previous evening there had been 36 cases, of which za had died. While there the doctor said to me "Oh, I hear you have just got some cases in Hongkong. Oh, no," I said, "I think you are mistaken.", Bat when I came back on Monday I asked My/Ram and Mr. Sercombe Smith If any cases bad been heard of, and Mr. Ram then told me what had been done by Dr. Ayres and blmselt about sending an Inspector. About mid-day on Mon- day the sisters asked me to see a man who was til. His appearance struck me at once, and I had no doubt it was plague. I went with Dr. Ayres to-day to see the case. Dr. Ayres was a little doubtful at first, but after seeing the other cases at the Tung Wah there is no doubt about it. I went to the Tang Wah and saw more cases than there are now; same have died or the cases have been removed. I was also struck with the bodies being removed from the dead house at the Tung Wab, and the great probability was they had died from that disease, as they had the same appearance as those I saw at Canton,
That is about as far as the facts go.
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J. G. T. BUCKLE, Actinglerk of Councils. God Save the Queen. "Given at Government House, Hongkong, this roth day of May, 1894,
The following is a synopsis of a special report drawn up by Dr. J. H. Lowry of the disease which attacked the people of Fakhol in 1882, and to which reference was made in Dr. Alex. Rennie's description of the "plague" now existing in Canton and, to a limited extant, in Hongkong, read at the meeting of the Sauftury
Mr. Rocher, of the Costoms Service, published In bla Province Chinoise du Finnan à descrip- tion of it and its effects.
The disease which Mr. Rocher saw, writes
THE CAUSES.
anything was to be gained by It or learned from Camille; so much has been told the world, sa much of truth, of suffering, of sacrifice and of emorse that the great author did an undefirable and Immeasurable good, when he gave us bis world, Camille is harsh, harrowing, and, as i wanderful masterpiece. To the conventional has been put "a dramatic incident which doubt less happened in real life but which is not likely to take place more than once in a century." But this is conventional talk and not truth. Camille
really existed. She is said to have been Dumas' one love, and every picture in the play is drawn from tactdents in real life which took place beneath his own eyes. Marguerite Gamlet's
To trap some hapless mortal, She fires her eyes of opaling
With mes of charging splendour; Her brows of snow, she bids them głow With blurbes soft and teader. Swanlike she sweeps her lissama form
With sub'est grace enwreathing; And listou lol with dulcet dsw
A sllv'ry song sha', breathing. "Give me," (she sings) "nor gems nor gold,
Nor wealth my soal beseeches; Give-give to me that emblem free-
The breeches-0, the breeches!"
"NORTH FORMOSA.
(FRM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
TAHSUL, 1st May, 1894. There is every prospect of this tea season leat is concerned. Large quantitles are already being a good one; at least, so far as quantity of in the hands of are tea-men, and the market may open any day.
community by sa atcident that sccurred here wards, in the death of Mr. P. W. Petersen, the on the 28th nito, résulting, a few hours after British Consular constable at this port. It seems Malcampo & Co.'s house and sustained such
clousness. Mr. Petersen was by far the oldest foreign resident in this part of the Island, having *** been here for 26 years, and was highly respected, 30th it. ner He was buried in the cemetery it Hobd on the
General gloom has been cast-over our small
Beginning with the causation of the disease, I hold-1st, that macerating filth musthave muco to do with it; and the remarks I bare already made as to the condition of the town and houses warrant my statement, and, want of sufficient ventilation, considering the number of human telags that are crowded to sleep in one house's and from fear of thierer the houses are carefully shut up, even on the hottest nights. As for the specific cause, am not at present prepared to say what the contagium is; but whatever ft be, I am inclined to think it is one that requires a certain high temperature to bring it lato activity. I have already spoken of the dry winter, and bow story is pitilal one. A young, beautiful, the deceased fell from the verandah of Messrs. the floors of the houses must have got sodden sensitive girl, who cams her living by beca kaowa to foreigners of thit disease until the temperature began to rise that the disease beings France turns looid upon the streets some three hours, without having regalaed con. Board yesterday afternoon. Little seems to have with excrementstlaus maiter ; but it was not 1517 / embroidery, one of the many thousands of human Injurks that, as already stated, he only red manllested Itself, continuing Its march i!ll we had of her cities, for girls to France who have degree of contagiousness of the disease seems shame. This young girl is visiting summer not dowries have either to support them a bigbertemperature and rain began to fall. The
selves by penny-an-hour employments,
by variable, for in the houses where I was it did not hotel. She is the image of a Duke's daughter, Dr. Lowry, was undoubtably plague locally appear is attack all the members in the sweeping who is also a guest of the same hostelry. The called yang-ts," He tells us that doring the
manner we should expect. At the same time it yor 1871-73 Its ravages were great through must not be forgotten that many, from test of D, so much alike, become fast friends; the
So far this year has been an exceptionally dry Yunnas; he also learned that the disease was contracting the disease, removed, that is, they
Duke's daughter dles and Marguerite is adopted, no rain to speak of having fallen since imported from Burma, but there appears to be
did not sleep in the broses with the sick. She is lotroduced into society, courted and ad-
Chrismus, The Chinese say it is long aloce no reliable information as to the exact date of its Frequently some and had died before I came to mired until one unfortunate day, when the story BD lengthy a drought has been known bero, introduction. There is, however, sufficient
the house, and o'bers may have been taken sick of her youth is told; her friends shun her like a. There is nothing of much interest in the evidence that It has existed in the province since
after my attendance ceased. In the case of a boy leper and she rejoins the ranks of the demi shipping or any other line to report, things the Reballion. Mr. Rocher speaks of the who arrived from a dista: ce, look sick, and died monde. Here she spends her hours in remores, other than ten being decitedly quiet. The moriality among the rats, they being first to 48 hours, no one else had been ill in the house, la reckless dissipation, in raining men and steamship Cass, after having made a trip to attacked; buffaloes, oxen, sheep, deer, pigs, and and no one took sick there afterwards. There spending fortunes. She is again Camille.Shanghal In place of the Smilk (the latter dogs also suffered,the latter, he says, less were not many persons in this house, and none She meets Armond Duval and seeing in him for having been docked there), is gain on the severely. The symptoms in man are slight wern young. The inference 1 draw is that the the first time a man who really loves her, for Tamaul-Amor run, wasting much good coal and lever, rapidly increasing; latense thirst; then boy contracted the disease elsewhere, as he herself alene, she determines to reform and to Nve energy in attempting to make things warm for dark red swellings show themselves la the axm
became stk about eight hours after bio
up to those higher thoughts which have ever the Dongle Co.'s boats, pitt, groias or neck; fever contiraing to increase, | arrival in Pakhol. From what I have scen
formed her best resolutions. She sells all her pallent becomes unconscious; bube increasing I believe the incubation of the disease to be property and with it buys a home to the country. till second day, after which remains stationary; short, but I regret not having any conclusive There she retires to think and grow better, to goose's egg; then consciousness returns, but as a specific contagious fever, at short ille of which she has hitherto been part. No when full size, about a large as a hen's or proof. The disease may, I think, be defined love Armond and be away from the tempestuous still great danger, for if the swelling up to this duration, accompanied by glandular swells; the form of lover's father overtakes her and sooner does the get settled, however, than fate in point has been hard, and becomes soft, the fever and very fatal. "There certainly appear slight canticuing, the care is considered hopeless. If differences between what I have observed and reproaches her for raining not only Armond bat the lamour open externally, there is a chance of the descriptions given of plague elsewhere, but sise the prospects and reputation of his sister, recovery. Some Chinese physicians bavesttempt in the main they agree. Ili e ident that the of the brother's resolve
whose engagement is to be broken off an account ed to cut these tumours, bút few survived the cares differ; in my own there were differences, Camille at fint shrieks from thus giving up marry a fallen woman. treatment; as a last resource they give large doses though not very material. of mask. Such is the informallon Mr. Rocher
every chance ofsaving her happiness and her sool, obtained in Yunnan, Subsequently, Mr. Colborne
but finally her love for him breaks all her Haber, of H.B.M.'s Consular Service, in his
senin into atoms and she gives her word to Notes on Route of afr. Grewenor's Mission
Dural Pere to tell the son she has returned to through Wastern Vinnan, apesics of plague.
one of her old "lovers" the Count de Vanille. He says its approach is Indicated by the eruption
To this end she fabricaten a letter and leaves of one or more mlaste red pustules, generally in
the country house for the whirl of the city. Paris she meets Armond at regions. If several pustules appear, the disease
her treachery. Although dying to undeceive the armpits, but occasionally in other glandular
After a few days 4 gambling house and is confronted by him for
few. The sufferer is soon seized with extreme weakness, followed in a few hours by agonising
and keep her word to his father. Armond to aches in every part of the body, delirium shortly
consequence showers on herondeserved and bitter enines, and in alse cases out of ten the results
reproaches. Twelve months after seen her on her death-bed, hugging a letter from fatal. It often happens that the patient anddenly, to all appearance, recovers, leares his bed, and
Daval Pere saying that he has relented and told affirms that, beyond a slight sensation of weak-
Armond everybles, Camille dies shortly after ness, he feels thoroughly convalescent. This is
the receipt of tale epistle in Armand's arms. invariably a fstal tign; in about two hours the aches seture, and the sufferer dies, He also refers to the mortality among rats; and poultry, pigs, goals, ponies, and oren have died. Mr. Baber seems to have obtained most of his information from a French priest, who, being an old resident in the stricken districts, should have ample opportunity of noting the character of the discase, and it is likely his general observations HID correct, Mr. Baber was fortunate in meeting a native-Governor The had been twice attacked by the disease his send attack was mider than the first. The disease which appears In Pakhol does not seem to spread any great distance, as I have been unable to find evidence
THE TREATMENT.
In concluding my remarks, I have only to add ibat my treatment was varlour. In most of the cases there was little time for anything to act, I gave nitro-hydrochloric acid, qalpine, large doses of aromatic spirits of ammonia chlorate of potash, etc. To the buboes I tried using the knife. For the excessive temperature, popitices and lotions, but never felt justified in
to urge upon the people the absolute uccessity of giving plenty of nourishment; how far that was carried out is very doubtful, as it would be alien to all Chinese therapeutics. The Chinese treat ment appears to have been chiefly the admin- Istration of one of their "cold medicines. A brown paste was put on the buboer, but the physicians acknowledged their treatment to be falle. Had all these unfortunate sick been at once removed to healthy ground, with free ventilation, and with systematic administration of both courishment and medicine, it is possible I might not have to record so many deaths. I saw them in their wretched houses, unsurrounded with the care and numing to which we are accustomed. It la possible they attempt to carry out my directions, which to them must have appeared singular, none having come much into contact with foreigners, much less foreign therapeutics. Recently I have learned that turpentine and camphor were given with some success in the two Malis plagues's seither drug was tried by me here. I much regret not having of its existing in any other part of the Kwang-secured a post-mortem, but it could hardly be tung province, or in the neighbourleg province expected, dealing with people who have such of Kwangul. The existence or extinction of the strange superstitions about their dead. dlacase commonly called plagco la of Interest not only to epidemiologists, but to the members of every community,
The President-And your views ? Dr. Lowson-The poison is probably deve- Toped from atmospheric conditions involving the houses in a certals district, and is caused by poverty and dirt. Under ordinary conditions the disease is not contagious, but if healthy per- sons remain in the same atmosphere there is a good probability of their catching the disease. The hospital at Canton was very dicely arranged, with plenty of fresh air, and the attendants took care to smell something in a bag-sandalwood and aromatic substances—and they would not It might do no harm also to think of a site let these things go all the time I was with them, where a matched hospital might be run up if the so that there is no doubt they are frightened disease roade its appearance here.
Printed slips might be distributed among the of the disease, although they said no attendant is not considered so hopeless at when these are tepid sponging was ordered, and I did my utmost him, the gül still continues to sacrifice herself
had caught it. There is no doubt that by Chiese loviting individual co-operation in the allowing the cases to stop dows in Taiping-sban observance of sanitary laws.
and allowing them to accumulate there must be here it would probably be wise to make regulations suggest the Flygsta should be brought ever at After the first appearance of cases of the diseassa danger to the community, and that is why I (1) for the speedy sepoltore of the dead and once and all possible danger removed. If all the disinfection of the infected premises; (2) possible danger faremored noonecan be blamed for house-to-house visitations by the Sanitary if the thing goes on. If the measures I have Inspectors in certain districts. S
suggested are not caried out you may have belleve a few days' good rain, which would wash more of the disease, unless the rain comes. I
out the filth, would also wash out the poison. It Government Civil Hospital, is, 1 bellave, more chemical than bacteriological. 1.30 p.m., May 10th, 1894. Mr. Francia-What do you thick should be Sir, In accordance with your letter to-day done under section 33 of the Health Ordinance ? we have the honour to report that we have Do you think any special measures should be visited the Tang Wah Hospital and found taken with reference to the disposal of the dead? there about twenty caser In one ward of the same disease which is now prevalent in Canton, the director of the hospital where he buried bis Dr. Lowson-Yes, I do. In Canton I asked namely, plague, There have been several bodles, and he said a few had been taken away, deaths from the same disease, and there will be but that he had bought a piece of ground outside more within the next 24 hours, as several of the city for burying them. If the disease goes these cases were very ill. Briefly the symptoms much further here a piece of ground ought cer- STC-fert, comatimes very high, swelling of the rainly to be set aside for barying the bodies, if it glands in the groft, arm-plts or neck, extreme can be done. That would put you on the safe nervons prostration, delirium, coms, and death side. Then as regards a house-to-house visita These are the common symptoms, but some tion, that is absolutely necessary, but the worst times there are others, such as hemorrhagic spots, of it is we have not doctors to go round and ses &c., which are, however, only occasional. There really who is suffering, but I think the Inspectors is not the slightest doubt as to the character of might go round, and I am sure Dr. Ayres and the discate. It is exactly the same as Dr myself will be only too gind to go when reports Lowcos saw at Canton on Sunday with Dr are made and tee if the people are suffering and Rennie. At present we have no time to write have them removed if they are. Eection 29 pro- full medical report, but we may mention that on vides for compulsory removal. Monday evening, Dr. Lowson diagnosed a cate to the Government Civil Hospital as plages, and Immediately laolated it.
be disinfected.
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We have to recommend -- (1)--That all house drains and main drains in the affected district be fushed at once and regularly flushed afterwards. They must also (3) Houses in which cases have occurred must be disinfected in the usual way for other infections or contagious disease.
(3)The clothing of all infected persons and their attend its should be taken charge of and thoroughly disinfected,
(4)On po account mort an accumulation of patients be allowed in the Tang Wah Hospital As this would inevitably cause a spread of the disease.
In the cocria of further discussion, mainly In reply to a series of questions from Mr. Francis, Di, Lowson said that the distribution of medicines time of cholers) would be useless in this case s among healthy persons (the usual precaution In the only thing was to thoroughly clear out the filiby dens when the disease had its origin, and all the sick mut be at once removed from the locality where the cause lay. The Bygets would 53 far the best pisce for pallenta; wholesale disinfection must be carried out thoroughly by the Government medical staff, with the assistance of the Sanitary Board staff and district watch state of the low Chinese quarters to Hongkong, not men. The disease was probably born of the filthy imported from Canton; la both diles it was due to poverty, fith, and want of water. It was not
detected at sight, and the boats (steam and sall) but any plague-stricken person could easily be should all be watched, and cases isolated:
Mr. Francia-Can you say that the colony is threatened by any formidable epidemic, endemle, or coctagious disease"}
Your
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be held at the RIGTERED OFFICES of the
(5)~The Hygota must be removed and brough much use trying to prevent cases being imported, but my short residence has not yet gåven me an mention was made at yesterday's meeting, ax | case ; Indoed struggled, against all these forces.
breathing woman, who might be living today and working out ber fale in a similar way. Eleanor Duse has grasped a more intellectual conception, and she adds to Uernhardt's version the capacity of much intelligence. She gives a melancholy grace and morbid sensitiveness to ray act and thought, which rarely falls to wring the hearts of her heaters and to set them these conceptions very careful study, for in thie King. Mrs. Potter has evidently given all Instances she has affesh of Bernhardt's fiveliness, With a view to placing before our readers end of Duse's moody thought, a gesture after appeared for many years. In Slad its ravages Taiping-shan district and the effects of the worthy of a Clara Morris. It was quite certain In India it has not some facts relative to the present condition of the style of Banks and in the bird act a make op were great from 1815 to 1819) in Narwar, la plague to the Colony, a member of our report realised all the hidden powers Mrs. Patter that the majority of last night's audience had 1836; Kumaon, 1846, and again in 1852. Therefortal staff visited China-town sad the Tung possesses, for in the third act she was to them it appeared as a fever of a typhins character, Wah and Alice Memorial Hospitals this fore- accompanied by external glandular tumours; it noon and, as anticipated, the results of his something of a revelation. It has never been was very fatal, death taking place in three or mission are well worthy of nots. The state in possible to our way of thinking to find an It was not contagious, but infections; of Taiping.ahan district, whence the cases Me-Not and in Camille as well. One character is actress who could play the leading paris Forget the swellinga were la
state of Incomplets already treated bave come, is in the highest diametrically opposed to the other. But the In many cases degree discreditable to the sanitary authorities, third act of Camille, to which Mrs. Potter excelled fever or other exdilement. It was preceded or conceivable descriptions Poyang Street, Square ne plecs of infobed, artistic acting. In the death took place in 24-36 hours; there was little for its simply reeks with Street, every herself and fairly won the tributes paid her, was NOTICE is hereby given that the ORDI accompanied by a great mortally among rate; Sheet and Tank Lane presenting the appear fearth act, she should possible study repression SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will no other animals were affected. It occurred as ance of a Chicago bog-razche rather than and intensity rather than forceful outward show, high as to,coo fest above the ses level, and with crowded thoroughfares la the heart ofa populous voice and gesture, but perhaps she, like the Compsay, 38 and 40, Queen's Raid Central, on low temperature; and again in the villages, civilizedcity. Found Lane, too, is especially duty, realists of Paris, may reason that women of TUESDAY, the 22nd fustant, at NOON, for the during May, with shouse temperature of of and at the back of the temple of the Goddess of Camille's class do not repress their feelfegs. purpose of socering the Report of the Governing
The epidemic which I have observed in this Mercy there are number of temporary and district does not seem to be an old disease, as it insanitary bamboo structures of the squatter The dying scene was rather a disappointment, Directors, together with Statement of Account and since then has occursed at certain latervala, on down the street, the gutters are choked with went quietly off to sheep, while the real Camille will be CLOSED from the rgth to the and occurred for the first ilme about 15 years ago, order, fahabited by Chinese beggars. Further and was not quite up to the standard of the for the year ending ist December, 1893.
alber great actresses of the day, Mrs. Patter The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company the last severe outbreak being in 1877. Imm Bith which beggars description; the army of told, however, that a fow cases occur every year, Sanitary Board special reavangers of which struggled to live, longing to be with her lover, instant, both days inclusive,
stroggled against fele and the ravages of die
By Order, opportunity of verliying this statement.
consplessis In the neighbourhood by reason of
HART BUCK, The outbreak of last spring commenced at their whance and altogether the quarter of the But altogether her performance was a treat the end of March, and continued its ravages city inspected in in a most disgraceful state, and such a tiongkong may have to walt many s
Secretary Hongkong, 11th May, 1894. with lessening sovetlly till the end of June, should at once he thoroughly cleansed by the long day to ses equalled,
(572 when it entirely disappeared; while at Lica: from use of sea-water to flash the drains and
Mr. Bellew made a fine Armond. The quiet,
SPECIAL NOTICE. chou, a city 12 miles distant from this, it saged disinfectants to modify the revolting odours in simple grace and digalty of the devoted mau was well sustained in the first and accond acts, winter here had been a very day one, with many population, strong blows from the north. The disesse proved Pasilog on to the hospitals, the first visitad | ihn zavings of the disappointed Idealist in the to be mest fatal and most severe from the middle was the Tang Wah, at the foot of Taiping shan, fourth. And here Mt. Bellew proved his study Hotels, omposite the Hongkong Cink, and at of April to the middle of Mar. To form anywhere 14 plague-pulcken patients have been and practice, for though he had a most dramatic Fodder's Wharf, EVERY Exame from 5.30 to defaite estimate of the mortality is no easy admitted since the ith instant, of whom 38 scene to onset, he held his feelings so well under 7:30 o'clock. matter, since no official record is kept but ↑ kavo died, leaving to now in the Infectious control that the quietude was wonderfully telling roughly estimate that between 400 and 500 per diseases ward. Of those in the ward several upon the audience. In the last act he was
PRICE..............................TEN CENTS. son died, and the population of the town and were found to be in a state of come, and on squally effective,
Coples ordered from the Offias will be charged my eximate from what I saw and noted at the early tala morning. Almost all of them had the sustained. Min. Crofton doubled the parts Junk community is put down at 15,000.. I make the verge of death, whilanthen had been admitted The whole east was well and evenly the usual rates onts, e- time. Dusing the worst weeks of the epidemic, tender swellings which the patient invariably of Madawy, Prudence and Nichettes Telgyosh has by far the largest dreniation of Advertisers are reminded that the Hongkong the average deaths were to a day. At the pom developer) others had high fever and swallings Wantes Mas. Sallie Booth scored a decided hit. say Marish newspaper published in the Fat mencement of the outbreak the people were in the neck. All were prostrate had a liberal Mr. Bawires made the most of Gustove, and Mr. Kat.HIS IS GUARANTEED. TeLLE MEL almost panio-stricken ♬ many quittedthelf supply of hot tes to drink, and appeared par- | Edgar Smart' hisa doubled. Comte de Varelize || application, AT PEN I komen and sought refuge in the villagos away ↑ Spctly resigned to their jobandeath in s'iew honey and Davat Purs, and, save for a few promptings Hongkong: 14th Orcher, #891z"||
Dr. Lowson-Ifproper measures are not taken with mora or less severity til August, The Fthe reeking hovels, tenanted by the teeming the passion of the jealous lover is the third and be on sale at the Hongkong and Victoria ·
you may have a large number of cases. If proper measures are taken it will probably be stamped out in no time.
over into the middle of the harbour, an near the shore as possible, and at once. We feel sete that if a deputation of the leading Chinese be taken to the Hygsta and the situation fo explained to them, and also the fact that the patients will be in the charge of their own countrymen. difficulty will be found in getting the affected people to go to the ship. These cases as a told are too its object themselves, and If any difficulty is caused, then it must be met by the Government. Mr. Francis-Teen the colony is threatened?
In reply to a series of questions by Ma Dr. Lowson-Ya', it is threatened. Francis, the Chairman sald", there had not
Mr. Francis-Then I beg to move that the appeared any noticeable increase the deaths Government be addressed with a view to the registered, nor any note of unusual causes use of proclamation under Section 31 of the teath ; but from the Tung Wah Hospital it was | Health Ordinance, lound that seven deaths had occurred class. This was carried nem con, and Mr. Francis, logocher la Bonham Strand, and inquiries went and Mr. May were asked to jointly draw up at once made, resulting in the discovery that special bye-lawi, they wis really from plague.
Dr. As stated:The Chinese know the diccaso toy well and would not mistake in
This concluded the business of the meeting.
A Government Garcile extraordinary was
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