·SANITARY BOARD.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29, 1901.
THE SHUN TAK MAGISTRATE, A change of magistrates in the Shun Tak At a meeting of the Sanitary Board held district is to take place after all Magistrate last Thursday afternoon, there were present the Wong has put out a notice that he has been President Dr. J. M. Atkinson, (Principal Civil transferred to Tak Hing and that Li Ka Cheuk Medical Officer), Dr. Clark (Medical Officer will succeed him. It is not certain that Shun of Health), Hon. W. Chatham (Director Tak will be benefitted by the change. Li Ka of Public Works), Mr. F. J. Badely (Acting Cheuk was Wong's immediate predecessor and Captain Superintendent of Police), Hon. A. W the people were glad enough to git rid of him. Brewin (Registrar General), Dr. J. W. Clark However the people of Shun Tak console (Medical Officer of Health,) Mr. Edward Osthemselves by saying that Li cannot be worse borne, Mr. Fung Wa Chun, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, than Wong. and Mr. G. A. Woodcock, (Secretary to the Board),
NEW LATRINE AT HUNGHOM. Correspondence relative to the erection of a public latrine at the north-west end of the Crown Lot to the South of Hunghom Inland Lot No. 233 was kid on the table.
Dr. Clark stated that some time ago the Board selected a site at Hunghom. It was advertised in the Gazette, and objection was forwarded by the Land Investment Co., the reasons for that objection being that the erec- tion was to be on the highway from the landing stage to the village of Hunghom and that it was in the immediate neighbourhood of their property. The Board reconsidered the question of a site and recommended that it be removed to a position where it would not be on the
highway from the landing stage to the village. As regarded the second objection, the Land Investment Company wore informed that i was not proposed to erect the latring, at once, and that if in the meantime latrines on their were provided for the houses property there would be no necessity for pro. ceeding with the erection of a public latrine. To that the Company replied that they still object to the site and that they do not consider that the houses which they propose to erect should have latrines built in them. In other words, they abjected to the provision by the "Government of a public latrine and yet did not propose to provide latrines for their own tenants. It was for the Beard to consider whether that objection was a reasonable one. Personally, it seemed to him unreasonable, and he was now prepared to move that the -Board inform the Government that the site moto recently selected should be adhered to.
Hon. W. Chatham seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
BACKYARDS IN WEST STREET. Correspondence relative to the provision of backyards for Nos. 26 and 28, West Street was laid on the table. It showed that the proprietors asked for three months delay in making the alterations.
Hon. A. W. Brewis remarked that it might be argued that these people ought to have known the law which came into force in 1899, and that the altemtions should have been made long ago. Of course there was such a large sanitary staff that he thought the Chinese were accustomed to wait until an inspector entered their house and pointed out what was required to be done, if he thought it necessary to do any. thing. That was not an unreasonable attitude and might be excused. In this building, which
has been used as a restaurant, there were ten people living, so any delay in making the back yards would hardly be injurious to health. The next thing was that these were business people asking for a little consideration because of the serious interference that would be caused if the alterations were to be carried out at once. The delay in this case would not cause any serious dalay in the general improvement of the Banitary condition of the Colony. He moved that the application be granted.
Hon. W. Chatham seconded, remarking that he thought the Board would be justified in granting an extension of time in carrying out the structural alterations.
THE 'NAM HOI,
The younger son of the 'Nam Hoi died a short time ago and the Nam Hoi, to impress "pon the people how deeply be felt his loss, hás set at liberty upwards of fifty prisoners.
of some culinary effort equivalent to the bug of modern commerce.
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But, nowadays a fact for modified raptre many buns there be, both mongrel, puppy whelp, and cur (that is, the common or garden penny and halfpenny ones), and bens of high degree, such as the richly-spiced Cornish crea- tion, gorgeous with safiron, which is only ex-TSUMED CHARGE of the above
EDWARD OSBORNE, tant at Eastertide, and the twopenny sugary.Company's business.
Secretary, Bath-bun, desired of the Reverened. Robert
Hongkong, 27th November, 1901. Spalding. Moreover, there are now veritable temples erected to the bun. It has reach ed its meridian of honour, its utmost limit of votasies, upon the counters of innumerable A.B.C. shops. A steam of grateful tea-incense rises around it, and the worshippers are mostly young and fair. Once a year there is a bun festival, assuming such proportions that the bakers lose heart, and abandon all hope of
regaining a clear intellect; when the bun, multiplying by millions, bursting the bounds of its wonted paper bags, knocks at the house holder's door on Good Friday morning before the very milkman shall arrive.
The Nam Hoi has one son still living, but he is a paralytic. One side, is completely par alized and his mind is weak. This fact makes the death of the younger son all the more keenly felt. It is reported among the Chinese that just after the cages for the "punishment of criminals had been made, about a year ago,
How the average girl would live without this weak-minded son of the Nam Hoi seeing his grandfather asleep on an opium couch and,buns, let alone the average boy and the lower refusing to answer when called, took up the caste baby, is a social problem incapable of pipe and struck the grandfather. For this solution. The shop-assistant, the typewriter offence his father, the Nam Hoi, had the son girl, the female ejerk are all daily planting the caged, but almost immediately released him by seeds of a lifelong dyspepsia in the shape of order of the wounded grandfather.
THE NEW DUTY
The foreigners have been contributing to wards the indemnity fund since the 1st. of this Chinese month, The Chinese must take a good deal of satisfaction in seeing this duty collected. Last year they had to pay the piper. Now the foreigner has to make his voluntary contribution.
THE BOER CONCENTRATION
CAMPS.
THE LESSON OF MAFEKING'S PLAQUE
TRENCH,
[By J. EMERSON NEILLY.] Anybody with an ounce of homan nature must deplore the fact that the refugee children of Boers in the concentration camps are dying in numbers, but it seems to be easier to Hob- house a large section of the British public into believing that the mortality is due to "brutal methods than to force it into their heads that the lamentable state of things is largely due to the filthy habits of the Boer
women themselves.
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The majority of the Boer families-I mean the veld Boers-always lived a swinish life. They seldom washed; a bath was a thing un- known to them; they mostly slept in their clothes, often in their boats; and all around their habits were in the last degree filthy. Therefore, to start with, we may jassume that the constitutions of an appreciable proportion of the children brought in from the veld are not of the best.
19 CHANGE OF FOOD AT PAULT? It seems to be considered a crime that the authorities do not give the refugees hotel dinners. Personally, I am of opinion that if the food is at fault at all, it is on the side of shall I say?-richness.. The women and children who are so much discussed were always used to mealie-porridge and the coarsest of bread, and meat days" were very rare. Now they get biscuits, vegetables, tigned and fresh. meats alternately, and soup. Perhaps some medical expert will say how far the change of diet after generations of practical vegetarianism is likely to have contributed to the death roll.
THE HORRORS OF A WOMEN'S LAAGER.'
I have never been in a concentration camp. These laagers were formed after I left the field: But some time ago I received a letter from
these innocuous-looking dealinesses. Some years ago, when the Abrated places were much fewer and smaller than now, it was sug- gested among the girl students of the Royal Academy of Music that one should be deputed to fetch and carry lunch under the title of a Bunster; but the office would have been no sinecure. Beside the aristocratic Bath. bun, and the plebeian ordinary peony currant- bun, there is the halfpenny bun, chiefly designed for economic ovenures of friendship to the bunivorous beasts, such as bears and elephants. Where these acquired their well known proclivities it would be hard to say, Certain it is that the bun does not grow with any profusion in their native jungles. Be- sides, though bans may be "werry fillin' at the price" to the human biped, they can not go far in assuaging the pangs of ele- phantine hunger. It only shows what nice refined tastes the vegetarian wild beasts midst really have; for one does not usually see buns tried on tigers. The halfpenny bun is also much in request for suburban tea-tables, and,
is a cheap and orthodox method of entertain- by reason of its unimpeachable conventionality, ment. It is considered probable that the late lamented Mrs. Grunady died of a surfeit of those dainties. I once found, in a crowded. street, a paper-bag lying on the kerb, which contained no fewer than twenty-six halfpenny buns-clean, new, shiny, stodgy. Had the soul of the messenger-the Bunster-recoiled from the thought of the impending debauch? The halfpenny bun was also used by the child- ren of a family of my acquaintance for making bets on the University Boat Race. It was a compromise between teaching and tradition. They backed their respective champions in buns, to an amount not exceeding threepenco each; and then they squared their consciences (betting. being strictly prohibited) by navor paying up. This was considered quite satis factory all round
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The farthing bun is exploited by some enter- prising baker in South Kensington. At least, there, and there alone, I have encountered it at afternoon tea. It is very small and eminently TWO AMAHS for HOSPITAL for Soldier's ladylike, lacking alike the gross proportions of the penny bun (which, indeed, is only suitable for school treats), and the Zoological sugges tiveness of the halfpenny one. On the whole, the farthing bun should be encouraged. There are also many local buns of great parochial
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MORE RAT-CATCHERS.
The motion was agreed to. Dr. Clark recommended that the Board obtain the sanction of the Government to engage ten other rat-catchers and a foreman from 1st prox. They had to at prescat, who were being paid at the rate of 3 cents per rat.
quarters in Mafeking." Then they must be foul indeed. In Mafeking, as is perhaps well known, we laagered the women at a distance from the town, and for protection against the enemy's fire they were quartered in a huge
covered-in trench. Among the occupants were many Dutch women, whose habits kept the Hon. A. W. Brewin-Does the number of women's laager in a condition of mild mutiny,
rate caught increase with the number of men employed?
Dr. Clark-We hope it will. Hon. A. W. Brewin-We had an increase a
The Englishwoman was cleanly. She looked after herself and her children as well as the circumstances of the siege permitted, and kept in the fresh air as much as possible. The Dutch women and children, on the con- exception. They never washed themselves or had so many as that before, except during the cleased their portions of the trench; they lived, slept, and ate there, and it would be an offence
bun, which resembles a small-sized warming- pan, and the Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) bun, about as big ass dinner-plate. These must be caten hot and buttered; they are threepenny arti- cles, and can be had either spiced or plummed.
They are admirably adapted for country "at home" days, where people come long distances and are more hungry than exigent. You go to the vicarage, and are given hot bus and bread-FR and-butter; you visit the doctor's wife, and are may be lured to the squire's by a third dellcacy, regaled on bread-and-butter and hot bus. You such as the simple sandwich in some rudi Then you go home and have bus there. Any We have all heard of the old Chelsea Bun deviation would tend towards Anarchism.
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few months ago. How many are we getting | trary, were unspeakably filthy, almost without mentary form; but bun is still de rigueur. Lai-chi-kok, and on the East by a line drawn
Dow?
Dr. Clark-Aabout 1,000 a week we never
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ROM the 1st December, 19oi, until about the end of February, 1902, floating obstructions will be laid, from time to time, to The obstructed area will be bounded on the West by a line drawn from the most Northern. the North of Stonecutters Island. point of the island to the Watering Pier at from the Government Pier, on the North shore near the Magazines, in a N.N.E. direction to the mainland.
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area Airway, about 300 yards wide, will be height of the plague epidemic. The number against deceny if I described the state of things House, but the present day Chelsea bun seems / choring in the obstructed i caught has ranged of lata from 700 to 1,000,
they promoted. The trench was not cleaned or to be that curiously convoluted cello so much buoyed through the obstructed are being THE Mr.. Osborne-They are paying the rat ventilated for months, and the natural thing on sale at seaside places-scientifically interest marked on the North by a red buoys, and on catchers 5 cents per sat in Japan. If they are
happened. There was an outbreak of diphtheria, ing, and otherwise of doubtful attractions the South by a small back buoys carrying white fairway, but vessels and junks are prohibited doing that there we ought, I think, to do itaud of some kind of filth disease that the doctors Scotch bun, to be found at every pastrycook's days. No obstructions will be laid within this
could not exactly diagnose. Children-died at a is a dark, minister-locking compound, hidden from anchoring therein, rapid rate, and very few kept healthy. Towards behind curtains off puff-paste with the lair of At night the red buoys marking the North the end many of the English-women moved heavy villain mufling his mouth in bis cloak. side of the fairway channel will carry red lights Steam vessels must always use the fairway; The President-I move that the Board peti- from the laager, preferring the risks of shellfire You can almost hear it hiss "I must dissem. whenever any obstructions are Jaid.
in their own houses to the horrors of the filthy bla 1" It has the repute of being constructed | sailing vessels and sunks may sail across the All abstractions will be floating on the ment to engage other to rat-catchers, as re- commended by the Medical Officer, from the and falld trench. We get the statistics of deaths out of all the unsold atale etceteras of the cons obstructed Area in day time at their own risk.
B. MURRAY RUMSEY, in the camps, and naturally everybody with any fectioner's window. They are, it fin said,
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- Mr. Fung Wa Chun-But we are 100 near the Chineso territory for that.
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plague measures, and now is the time.
Mr. E. Osborne seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
THE DEATH RATE. The mortality statistics showed that the death rate for the week ended 2nd November was 19'5 per 1,000 per annum of the population, as compared with 2,50 in the previous week and 47.7 in the corresponding week of the previous year...
This was all the public business.
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CANTON, November 28th..
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