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The Hongkong Belegraph
IlONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1901,
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE CHINESE INDEMNITY.
LONDON, July 23rd.
.
It is announced at Washington that a plan for the payment of the Chinese indemnity bas licen definitely adopted.
Amortization bonds are to be issued under repayment beginning in 1902, the principal and interest to be entirely liquidated by 1940, It is expected that Cliina will be able to raise 23 millions of taels annually in addition to present revenue.
PROPOSED GRANT FOR LORD ROBERTS.
Mr. Balfour announced in the House of Commons that a grant will be proposed for Lord Roberts. The Times believes the grant will be £100,000 Sterling,
LATER,
VISCOUNT GROMER HONOURED. Viscount Cromer has been created an Earl.
PROGRESS OF COUNT VON WALDERSEE.
Count von Waldersee has arrived at Suez.
BARON MILNER IN LONDON, The freedom of the City of London has beca conferred upon Baron Milner of St. James and Capetown at the Guildhall.
TH police court proceedings in the Hong:. kong and Shanghai Bank Tonbury Bus at
journed for 2 week, pending the arrival of witnesses from India.
1894 when the plague first broke out-the terrible destruction it wrought was still fresh in
Singapore on the 18th inst. were aguin ad their mameries he was set to take charge
THE Mortality Statisties for the week ended 6b July show a death rate of 22.3 per spoo as against 22.8 for the corresponding period of 1900. For the week ended 13th July the death, rate was 27.8 as against 40 last year.
"
KINSHIU MARU" STRANDED.
The manager of the Hongkong Branch of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, courteously informs us, that a telegram Trom their Head Office in Tokio came to hand yesterday evening (24th inst.) reading as follows:
Kinshi Maru Stranded Quelpart Island, Korea, 20th July on the voyage from Moji to Shanghai Passengers and nails safe. We have no further particulars, are sending Wakanoura Mara' to-night from Moji for
assistance."
The Kinshiu Maru (American Line) left Seattle on the 24th June last for Hongkong via Japan Parts and Shanghai.
ARRIVAL OF PRINCE CHUN.
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of the Alice Memorial Branch Plague Hospital at Kennedy Town. He was there night and day throughout the whole time of the epidemic and, strange to say, he did not receive even a ward of recognition of his services during those terrible months, although a common Indian Constable was awarded with plague medal, In 1896, ho resigned his part in the Nether. sole Hospital, having received an appoint ment from H. E. Lue Kun Yi, Viceroy of of Liang Kiang, as surgeon-in-chief of all the Yangtze Forts under hi jurisdiction. In this capacity he served the Chinese Government three years, giving entire satisfaction to his superior officers, in 1899, in deference to his father's wishes, he resigned his post and re turned to Hongkong, where he had established himself as a local practitioner. sion he begged to express tegret at having unwittingly been the cause of so much conten- tion and dispute, and tendered his thanks
In conclu
to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire for the efforts they were making in support of a cause in which not only himself but all the graduates of the College of Medicine for Chinese were involved.
The following minutes by members of the Board were attached to the correspondence :—'
Licut Colonel Hughes, R.AM.C.-Thị Board should adhere to its decision firmly, and should refuse agree, that the matter be re- ferred to H.E. the Governor. There is no necessity for such a procedure. They should further refuse to be dictated to by Messrs. B. and S.:
Mr. E. Osborne. Under what powers did
the Board refuse Messrs. B. and S's, request? I think the majority of members in this matter consider the diguity of the Board more import- |ant than the welfare of the Public.
Dr. Bell, The Board should insist upon the
The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer Bayern arrived in Hongkong Harbour this morning at 5.30 and got alongside the Kowloon Wharf pier in fairly good style about 6 a.m. There was a large attendance of the principal local Clunese waiting to welcome His Highness Prince Chun who was on board. It was expected the 9.5. ̧ Bayern would reach Hongkong yesterday, but an unexpected delay compelled her arriving a day late. From the proceedings this morning the estra 24 hours had not been long eniugh 10 in any way perfect arrangements. His lighness was expected to land at Murray pier at an, this morning and escorted by a special body of the Hongkong police proceed on an official visit to (lis Exceller.cy the Governor, Sir Henry Blake, G.C.M.G. As a matter of fact the Prince landed at Blake Pier at toon.in., and in chairs, accompained by his suite, and a meb of running and shouting Chinese went his way. The police arrived some quarter of an hour afterwards and lined the pier and roadway. -
On arriving at Government House, he was received by His Excellency (who had beer On the 25th at 11.55 a.m. the baronicler has prepared to have a large circle of prominent lowing will play for V. R. C.'s "B" team:
people to meet him at luncheon, but circum stances would not allow) and after a short interview returned to Queen's Road on a visit to the Chinese Club.
THE ACCESSION DECLARATION. In the House of Lords, the Bill modify [791eing the Accession declaration has passed the
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WEATHER REPORT..
The Observatory report says:- fallen on the China coast. The depression in the North is moving into the Sea of Japan. Pressure is also relatively low over the N.W. part of the China Sea. Gradients slight for S.E. winds in S. China Forecast:-Moderate E. to S.E winds; showery, squally,
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
Or three samples of well water, taken from three wells in Hungham, the Government Analyst reported to the Sanitary Board hat two were fit for potable purposes.
A RECENT Bangkok Times says over one thousand rice-boats are stuck in the canals of the out-lying districts, waiting for the rains to make it possible for them to proceed to Bangkok.
THE steamers Singapore and Washington, chartered to take back to Europe the Italian troops from the North, have left Singapore, and will sail direct for Shanghai to coal, at the request of the Italian Consul, M. Nerazzini, in order to avoid Hongkong, infected by plague. -Echo de Chin
A CORRESPONDENT is anxious to know if whilst the French troops have had their little differences of opinion with the Chinese in the North, the Foochow arsenal, under the super. vision of Frenchmen, has been turning out ammunition etc, for the Chinese. Perhaps the Echo can inform our enquirer.
MARQUIS Ito, the President of the Setyakwai, and his suites arted on the 11th inst. for their political tour to the west. The zeal and energy of this veteran statesman are indeed worthy of admiration, and we hope, says the Kokumin Shimbun, that his untiring efforts will prove greatly helpful, as they undoubtedly with, to |the political training of our people.
THE French Mail of the 17th June and the, A. S. WATSON & Co., English Mait of the 22nd tune were both delivered in London on the 22nd instant. Truly the Messageries Maritimes might hurry up their boats a little. Running at the present rate it is just as quick to wait for the English Mail, for if the French arrives in London on the same day there is nothing to be gained by posting by. it.
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His Highness was received by a.committee who conducted him to the upstairs room, where a table of light refreshments had been spread. He was supported on his right by General Cheung Yin Man and on his left by General Richter, and Sir Liang Cheng,K.C.M.G. (who was decorated by the late Queen of Eng land in 1897) was also present in attendance. After sitting quietly for about twenty minutes the party adjourned, the Prince having ac- cepted an invitation to visit His Excellency al his private residence at the Peak. The return journey will be made about 5 p.m. when Sir Henry Blake will pay a return visit to the Prince on board the Bayern, which is timed to leave about 6 p.m.
The Prince is a young man, of about twenty years of age, and is, we are told, determined that, as he is travelling on a mission of apology, he will have no undue pomp or ceremony observed: This was probably the reason that to receive him. Those who have come in con- he landed early and so escaped the guard sent ast with him remark ones or me ne
as compared wiûr
firm providing an European to supervise the diagnosis and disinfection. We cannot refer the matter to any one, as we are responsible.
Mr. May. This is an attempt to get behind the Board which should be resolutely opposed.
WATER POLO.
R. W. F., will pìae V. R«C%ADY peatus in the first round of the Hongkong Water Polo Shield Competition at VR. C, Kow- non, to-day, at: 5.45 p.m. sharp. The fol- Gaol--L, E. Latimert. Backs-W. A. Stopani (Capt.), E. W. Carpenter. Halfback-F. M. Roza Pereira. Forwards-R. Henderson, J
·Mellar, and C, E. Humphreys, **,
The
The and round of the Water Polo, Shield Competition will be held to-morrow afternoon. at the V.R.C., Kowloon, at 5-45 p.m. between V.R.C. A Team" H.M.S. Janus. following will play for the "A Team"-H. A. Lammert, A. Loureiro, A. J. Mackie, A. A.^. Alves. F. K. Tata, C.. M. Alves and H. B. Kennett.
OVERCROWDING AND PLAQUE,
A letter from the Colonial Secretary having been received by the Sanitary Board stating that H.E. is by no picans satisfied that the height of buildings is proved to be the cause of plague or of any other zymotic disease, the following minutes were atmched:
M.O.H.I have the honour to report that the zymotic death rate was made up last year almost entirely by Bubonic Plague and Diarr hoca and that 39.5 per cent, of the deaths from this latter disease occurred in infants under one* great modesty che
-year of age,, so that it can hardly be said that sha difficulty of the infant mortality. There are no doubt special reasons-entirely unconnected with bubonic plague share crowding-why should be
prevalent year after and than
The Chinese were all agog to get a view of the Prince and wherever his chair went it was
followed by large crowds and people rushed from houses, lanes and side streets to catch a glimpse of him as he passed. When it was seen that he had gone to the Peak a crowd at to await his return and points of vantage such ance commenced to collect at the Tram Station as Bowen and Kennedy Road bridges were taken full advantage of.
it
a
more
year in Health Districts 2 in the rest of the City, and one of these reasons may possibly be found in the nature of the Chi-
and less cleanly in its habits than the popula nese population, which resides therein, the bulk of which is said to be of a lower social grade tion of the more central districts.
Taking the general consensus of opinion would appear that Prince Chun has created a
It will be seen from the tabular statements good impression in Hongkong from the fact
that the two most densely crowded Health Dis- that he did not come in state. He landed in
tricts (5 and 6) each of which has a population simple and unostentatious manner and left in
of over 800 persons to the acre, show the lowest. the same style. The good taste shown by him zymotic death rate, and I may add that the to- in this respect, considering the nature of the tal death rate per district gives the same result." mission which he is engaged in, should create No greater argument, cquid I think, be adduced a good impression wherever he goes. One to prove how absolutely unreliable are the dis point much remarked upon by the Chinese istrict death rates for purposes of deduction (as the fact that the Prince did not travel in a already stated in my minutes of March 12th yellow chair, as his rank entitles him to, and and May 17th). They show in my opinion, that we must go to other sources for information as this also is put down to his sense of the
to the evil effects of surface crowding, and tlie gravity of his mission.
information furnished by every civilized city that has a resident and not a shifting popula tion such as ours. It can hardly be seriously. argued that, in Hongkong, surface crowding is beneficial to the community and yet this is the only deduction that can be drawn from such figures as are at our disposal.
MESSRS. BUTTERFILLD AND SWIRE'S PLAGUE HOSPITAL,
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Is their Quarterly Inspection report for the 2nd Quarter, 1901, laid on the table at to-day's meeting of the Sanitary Board, Messrs. E. Osborne and Fung Wa Chun say in reference to Sheung Fang Lane:-There are too many
FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE. inhabitants in this narrow lane. It is like an overcrowded rabbit warren. We found illegal The Sanitary Board at its meeting to-day had
It is estimated that nearly 3,000 Chinese partitions of wood in the ground floors of Nos. under discussion further correspondence with leave this Colony daily for the mainland of
17 and 30."
reference to the private plague hospital pro- China and that rather more than that number THE Chinese have an explanation, says the posed to be established at Quarry Bay hy return each day, so that there is ample oppor
Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.
tunity for the vitiation of our statistics of sick- Shanghai Mercury, which accounts for the
The firm in a letter dated 28th June, ex-ness and deaths, while at the same time the miserable weather with which we are at pre-pressed surprise at the positions taken up by districts in which the inhabitants are poorest sent being afflicted. It appears that the pari the Board, inasmuch as Dr. Kwan's diploma will probably be the least affected by this daily 12.00 cular joss who is charged with the supervision and qualifications should be sufficient guarantee
exodus. of the weather very much disapproves of Prince
for the correctness of his certificates and Chun leaving this Flowery Land," especially their acceptance by the Board. They regretted on such a mission, and he is showing his that they were unable to accede to the august displeasure by the torrential rains which
request that European supervision should be he has sent us during the past, couple of
provided by them. They had already gone 12.00 months,
expense in their desire to assist the authorities to combat the plague at Quarry Bay, and this very considerable outlay was one which they felt they should not be called upon to incur.. They learned from. Dr. Kwan that his certifi- cates had been accepted on previous occasions when no European initialling was deemed necessary, and in view of this, the condition- which was now sought to be attached to acceptance of his, professional services seemed hardly justifiable.
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THE case finished to-day in the Supreme Court, one, of alleged forgery and unering, was delightfully simple except in one or two particulars. After listening carefully for a day or two, the writer was not quite sure if the adopted son was the brother of the deceased or whether the widow had been married, also there were doubts as to the deceased being dead be cause (showing the silliness of putting off things to the last moment) he seems to have got up and made a will some meaths after he was buried. The jury heaved a big, comprehensive sigh 20.40 | when the charge was dismissed, and will only
haye to explain the sudden inclination to bald ness or white hair when they reach home. THE following notes are from the Foochow Echo of the 20th inst. :-
The newly appointed Grain Tantai arrived on the 13th Just per a. s. arstin.
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This last statement is blue-pencilled 'untrue' by Dr Clark, Medical Officer of Health.
Every professional man who has made a study of tymotic diseases (and especially of Bubonic Plague) agrees that their diffusion is greatly encouraged by the absence of light and air in dwellings, and take this opportunity of giving the following quotations from some of the most modern standard works on the sub- ject of Bubonic Plague:
Here follow quotations from Whitelegge, Manson and Nottar.
of
The principal results of the excessive heights buildings in the nanow streets are:-
(1) The exclusion of light and air from the.
dwelling, and, (2.) the encouragement of ex- cessive surface crowding, and it is on these. well established grounds that the Sanitary Board has urged for the past three years a reduction of the present scale, irrespective of any statis tics as to the present distribution of such diseases in the Colony of Hongkong.
On July 18, Messrs Butterfield and Svite again wrote to the Board. They enclosed a letter from Dr Kwan and said that the result It is, I believe,, an admitted fact that when of the Board's voting must be as unsatisfactory Bubonic Plague was first introduced into this. to the members as it was to themselves, They Colony, it raged in the dirtiest and most over. therefore, suggested that the matter be referred crowded district'of the City, namely Tai-ping.. to His Excellency the Governor for his decision.
shan, which was in consequence demolished. Dr. Kwan's letter described the decision of Now that the disease has become endemic, its It is stated that the procession which started the Sanitary Board in refusing to recognise incidence is governed by other factors, of which from Nastai and marched to the city and back bim as a medical practitioner qualified to take the social grade of the native residents in the on the night of the 13th inst. was made up of charge of the hospital at Quarry Bay as a great several districts may possibly (as I have no less than 8,00g, men and boys.
injustice, not'so much to his professional stand-already suggested) be one, while dissemination The present fine settled weather is a great ing as to the institution which every well of the disease by rats will probably be another. thing for the farmers no è their harvest time is wisher of science hailed with delight as a har- The Capt. S. of P. minuted : It has been on, and the work is going on apace. Under binger of a new era in the Far East and of proved, I believe, that the plague bacillus is the weather's influence, too, the sickness which he had the lionour to be one of the first rendered innocuous, after twelve hours, ex- amongst the natives in the city is steadily graduates. In support of his qualifications posure in a strong light or four hours, in diminishing,
Dr. Kwan offered a resume of his past career the sun, and that it cannot live for more than and the posts, he bad held. In 1867, when four days if exposed to fresh air. It follows the college of medicine for Chinese was that the best natural prevention of plague is inaugurated, he became one of the students light and air, and that such is the case was of the first class. Having passed all the demonstrated in 1894 when over 4000 Chinese were removed from Tai-ping-shan, which was necessary requirements prescribed in the curri calum, he matriculated in the year 1893, and yielding 50 cases a day at the time, to well-lit obtained a diploma, signed by the members of and airy houses at West Point (where they the faculty, some of whom had been and now were closely watched), with the result that only were members of the Sanitary Board. Ime cases of Plague developed amongst them. mediately, to was called to take charge of the This was in the first week in June, in the Nethersolo Hospital as House Surgeon Inhalght of the epidemic
Business in the tea market, is very slow as compared with previous years at this time, The Export to Eumpe is 4.753.790 lbs. against 6,905,936 lbs. last year.
On Monday morning last a fire broke out in the suburbs not far distant from the north bank of the river opposite the U.S. Consulate and the conflagation continued until 6 p.m. It is unnecessary to state that, the destruction of property was very great, but fortunately no lives were lost....