SANITARY BOARD..
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday afternoon in the Board, Room! The President (Dr.Alkinson, I'rincipal Civil Medical Officer) occupied the chair, and there were alss present:-Hoo, W. Brewin, Registrar- General (Vice President), Hon. W. Chatham (Acting Director of Public Works), Dr. Clark (Medical Officer of Health), Mr. Fung WA Chan, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, and Mr. J. Jiran (Sanitary Surveyor), Secretary pro, tam.
A NEW LATRINE Correspondenco relative to the erection of Tatrine on the west side of Gill's Avenue, Hanghon, was laid on the table.
Dr. Clark moved that the latrine be removed to the north-west end of the same lot, as an objection had been raised that the latrine, where it was proposed to place it, would be situated on the high road between the landing. stage and the village. By putting the latrine on the north-west end of the same lot that bbiection would be overcome.
Chatham said, he had no objection to seconding the motion, but he was afraid it would not overcome the real objection, because the latrine, on the new site proposed, would be in equally close proximity to the houses in regard to which the objection had been raised.
The motion was agreed to.
RATS AND PLAGUE, Corespondence was laid on the table relative to the examination of the rats found dead and seni to the myrtuary. It emb died a report by Dr. J. Bell, who stated that he had, in accor dance with instructions, examined the spleen and-hanh-blood of in rats found dead. -Of this number only two were found to have diert of plague. The two plague-infected rats came from Praya East and Des Vox Road Central.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1901.
Igor, was lid on the table." The report dealt with the results of visits to houses, latrines, etc., in Health Districts 7 and 8.
A minute by Dr. Clark, showing what steps hatt been taken to carry out the recommenda- tions of the Committee, was attached.
Hon. A. W. Brewin minuted-The MO. H. has stated what action he has taken on the Inspection Committee's report, but I should like to see some explanation of the condition of affairs found by the Committee."
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regulations, and to the Board approving of the proposed modifications in the case of arriving. vessels. As, however, it is Impossible to destroy all rats on a loaded vessel, and not a difficult matter to do-se on an empty vessel, modification of rules relating rather to depart ing vessels at infected ports is what is obvious GRAND PUCILISTIC CONTEST ly more desirable. Important additional pro- tection would be gained were such modificatioLIGHT-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF to take the form of supplementing existing
THE FAR EAST, measures by thoroughly fumigating, vessela at
DETWEEN ports of departure, a method which was boldly adopted in Australia under inter-colonial hgrea- BAM B.NTLEY and THOMAS PHILLIPS
to be preceded by n ment, during and after the Sydney outbreak of 1000, and with conspicuous success. - Times of India.
Dr. Clark minuted in reply: The district inspectors visit each house in their districts at least once in two months, and deal with such illegalities as they then find. There is ample time between one visit and the next for such illegal structures as cobicles to be put again, and the fact that between two and three thou- SOME AMERICAN WOMEN FOLK. sahd summonses a year are applied for shows that this is constantly done. It is rarely that a summons is applied for until after at least one warning in writing has been issued,"
Hon. W. Chatham remarked that the con
creling of houses in Victoria must have been going on for some years now in Hongkong, yet ke noticed they were still at work in Wyndham Street. He would like to know when this con- creting of houses was to be completed.
Dr Clark explained that the work had been delayed owing to the conditions under which it had to be carried out. Before taking up a for they had to serve a notice on the tenant and also on the owner. Where it was concrete the flooring had to be replaced. All this took up a considerable amount of time.
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BY MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE. There is no denying the fact that American women are perfectly charming. They are bright, clever, smart, and cheery.
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The American woman one meets in the United States is generally tall, and well buik,, she dresses to perfection, and usually suitably. Her best gowns.come from Paris-she willingly pays on per cent. duty on their carriage-and her tailor-made ones are built on her side of the herring pond-there are no better tailors anywhere than can be found in the States. She is a fine make of woman, and her cloth gowns suit her it is the style of garment she generally dons, and the only practical kind for everyday bst in a land where life is spent in and out of MORTALITY STATISTIC FOR THE COLONY tramcars or elevated railways. In muddy the The mortality stalinics for the week ended weather she is practical, and has her skirt cut
On the motion of the President, it was agreed to forward the report to the Governor for His Excellency's information.
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Secretary for the information of H. E. the Governor, Dr Atkinson stated that this resul: was important, showing as it did a diminution of plague-infected rats coincident with a de- crease in cases amongst human beings. An- other fact wonhy of note was that it was from Des Yauk Road Central that some of the last notified cases had eine. It was a pity they could not ascertain the houses from which these
rats had come. They had been thrown out into the streets by the inhabits and picked up by
the rat collectors.
1,000 perinnung of the popolation as compared With or in the previous week and 26,9 in the corresponding week of last year,
The following minutes were appended - Hon. A. W. Brewin Is the mortality from mania above mortal?"
The President - Yes, apparently; and more or less evenly distributed."
The President stated that this increased mortality was der in bronchitis and pneumonia consequent upon the setting-in of the north east monsoon, which principally affected elderly people.
There was no further business of public in-
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short skirt, but the real thing, short enough to clear her shoes or her boots. Dozens of such garments are visible on a wet day in New York City...
She is an extravagant person, this American woman, for she spends twice, if not three times, as much on her dress as her English sister, and she certainly knows how to make money fly in every direction. Is this not a little hard on the poor husbands? They have developed into mere money-making machines, and yet it is their own fault; they are utterly unselfish as far as their women folk are can- cerned. They want their wives to be smarter than anyone else, their houses to be in the most fashiorable quarter, and, above all, their dinhers to be described in the, papers! For this they are willing to pay Up early, a hurried breakfast, and off to the office they go, rushing for steamboals to cross from New Jersey, tearing for, tramcars to get over Brooklyn Bridge, or flying for the overhead to convey them from Haarlem
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To these remarks of Dr. Atkinson H.E, the Governor replied as follows:-"This is valu- able and interesting. What is now being done"Herest-before-the Board by the rat-cafchers? I think it may be well to try the experiment of getting professional rat- catchers from home to supervise operations. If rats are to be tackled we must not make two bites of a cherry, The question of rat-proof houses ought again be the brought before the Sanitary authorities. With soli floors and no ceilings, rats would find no resting place, and possible communication with drains could be taken up by the Public Works Department," Dr. Atkinson, in answer to the foregoing minute of His Excellency, reported that the rat catchers were obtaining about 4,000 rats per month now and the numbers were increasing each week as they got more thoroughly into their work.. A professional rat-catcher from England would have no knowledge of the Chinese language or habits and it was doubtful therefore whether he would be of much. use. The question of the prevention of the access of rats to dwellings had been already considered by the Board and they had recommended (1) traps for storm-drains and gullies; (2) the prohibition of all ceilings and lath and plaster partitions in In June, the British Chamber of Commerce, House, the Waldorf, Sherry's, or Delmonico's Shares in respect of which the Call has been
The view adopted at the Annual Congress of the Brit sly Medical Association, that plague in man is a secondary event, dependent on previous plague in animals, and which led that body to decide to approach Government within their wild rush for Wall street. They a view to an international agreement to ensure
work hard all day in a pandemonium, measures for preventing infection by ship luncheon is a scrappy entertainment, afterapon borne rats, is shared by no less an authority tea is unknown, and they arrive home for theim than Professor Koch, who, in the course of a seven o'clock dinner dead beat and thoroughly most remarkable address, recently delivered played out. My heart often ached for those before the British Congress of Tuberculosis, poor husbands; they seemed to have so little affirined that it was high time that this enlarged relaxation in their strife for wealth. "Tis a knowledge of the etiology of plague should be hard life, that of the well-to-do American utilised in international, as well as in other irafcitizen, but he never complains, and goes on fic. Professor Koch added that if measures now week after week with punctilions regularity in force against the plague have not been suc cessful, no blame attaches to these who devised aking in dellars for his wife to spend. them as this connection between the human and the rat plague had been totally unknown before.
THEIR ABILITY TO SPEND MONEY.
American women do spend; there is no mis- take about that. One drops into the Holland
and finds these good ladies lunching or dining together in twos or in dozens. It is quite sur prising to the Britisher to see the way women
having obtained extensive information from other important shipping centres in England bearing on this subject, unanimously adopted resolution, to be included in the programme
in the States constantly lunch and dine alone of resolutions for the autumnal meeting of the together, their men being either too tired or too Associated Chambers of Commerce, recom-busy to join them. These good ladies order the mending measures directed towards minimising the chances of the introduction of the disease by ship-borne rate: In view of such opinions and evidence, the question naturally arises asto whe ther measures for the prevention of the spread of plague beyond the seas, which are practically a transcript of those directed against cholera and other purely human diseases, are sufficient. In the absence of any scientific evidence to the contrary, the fact that plague has spread and continues to spread, In spite of the most strenuous efforts to give effect to such regula. tions, readily suggests a negative reply.
tenement dwellings, outside the European re- servation atta. The ground surfaces of all dwellings hnd now to be concreted, and he thought that in all ground floors a single a layer of tiles on the top of the concrete might also be required in dwelling rooms, as much of the so-called concrete laid down in the Colony was of very poor quality. Wooden upper floors would suffice if there were no ceilings, as the absence of a ceiling would prevent the rats having any hiding places on the fours-ather than the hollow walls-wHere such exist. RATS AND THE DISSEMINATION OF FLAGUE. Correspondence was laid on the table relative to the Memorandum on the Influence of Rais in the Dissemination of Plague. This Memor andum, which is printed for the use of the Colonial Office, is the work of Professor W. J. Simpson, M.D., F.R.C.P., Lecturer on the Hygiene of the Tropics, London School of Tropical Medicine,
Referring to the Memorandum, H.E. the Governor minuted :-"I find in a note on p. 9 that an investigator, Danys, of Paris, had ob tained excellent results in destroying rats in Paris by inoculation. If any further report has been made upon this subject, I shall be glad if the Crown Agents will kindly let me have it and, if necessary, obtain for this Colony some of the inoculating medicine, so that the experi- ment may be tried here before next February, at the end of which month, or the beginning of March, plague usually reappears."
most recherche little repasts; they rarely drink anything but iced water, and they seldom smoke-that is a vice, or virtue, pertaining to European shores. Occasionally an American woman takes a cocktail before dinner, "com- pozed of one or more spirits, in which an olive or a cherry reposes; but she never orders wine or spirit at the meal itself. At table America appears a land of teetotalers.
to the Company at their Bankers, THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI, BANKING CORPORATION, at their Promises, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on or before the 15th day of NOVEMаIR, 1901. And Notice is also given that in accordance with Anicle z of the Company's Articles of -Association, Interest will be charged as from the said 15th day of NOVEMBER, 1901, at the Rate of $10 per centum per annum, upon all Calls remaining unpaid after the said 15th day of NOVEMHER, 1901, up to the actual dates of Payment of the same.
Shareholders are particularly requested to note that upon presentation at the Office of the Company of the Banker's receipt for payment of the Call together with the Certificate of the paid, an endorsement to that effect will be made upon the certificate.
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"OLD CHELTONIANS, The existing regulations, while they include a World-or darkies. The 'datkies make excell- very thorough inspection of individuals, coment butlers and cooks, and seem börn for_those_
attend a MEETING to be held at No bined with the disinfection of their clothing, do positions. In consequence of these domestic D. CHELTONIANS are invited to not provide against the danger of droves of difficulties the/women themselves add to their Dr. Clark replied to this minute as follows:-infected animals being carried from port 10 other charms house-wifely instincts. They not "Professor Danyes's virus has proved a failure, port. As long as a vossel arrives with a only know how to run a house, but are general- I submitted, on account of some experiments I history of no illness on the voyage, and isly able to do the work themselves should had conducted on the subject in another C.S.O. therefore classified under the regulations as necessity arise. Everything is, of course, FB August last. Since that report was presented not "infected" this danger is not obvious to reduced to a minimum in the way of labour;; there have been reports in the medical journals the public. But in must be borne in mind electric light has taken the place of lamps, showing the instility of the virus, and the that crews have little to do with the load. baths adjoin every bed-room, which does away Director of the Hygienic Laboratory at Washing and unloading of cargoes and therefore with the necessity of carrying water, while. run but little risk of being infected by plague basins with hot and cold water laid on are ington has reported similarly. Rat-runs have been treated here with crude carbolic acid in rate in the hold. It is the quay labourer, upon-universa). houses that have been disinfected, since the whom the largest share of loading and unload
ing (Land), Drawing, Estimating, Measuring puggestion was made by Professor Simpson."
ing cargo falls, who runs that risk. Thirteen States I am not in the least surprised cient in all Branches of Construction, Survey BILIOUS AND NERVOUS DISORDERS The President, remarking upon the report dead rats were found in the fore-hold of a ship that Englishman should marry American and General Office and Outside Work, Locality
their good taste-Ino object. from Washington showing the inutility of this fifteen days out from Smyrnn, which arrived at women. They show the virus in killing off rats, said he thought they Bristol in January Inst. Professor Klein con- should do the same were I & run! Nor might conclude that the scheme was not worth firmed the death of certain of these from plague, as I surprised that American women should frying in Hongkong.
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