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THE STRAITS, CURRENCE.
With the pablication to-day of Mr. A. | Huttenbach's views on the report of the Straits Currency Committee, we have placed
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THE CLOSING OF CHINESE THEATRES.
In our issue last evening we gave a resumé of letter received by the Secretary of the Don't forget the chits for they will not go Sanitary Board from the Colonial Secretary regarding the proposed closing of the Chinese theatres daring the pi gee season, and also the result of the discussion at yesterday's meeting The following is the concluding portion of the report:-
Mr. Follock. With reference to this point, you will be that the reason the
FRENCH MAIL of the 5th May was delivered of tin Board. in London on the 4th inst.
IT is officially annonaged that President lastthe proceeds to London de 18th or zorb ni juty,
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A MR. W. R. Hurst returned to Marula and told a reporter tha, among the English speak ing residents of Hongkong, war talk is all the rage. Those poor Amèrican reporters!
THE New Acting Viceroy of the Two Kwangs ILE. Tên Chun-asuen, passed through Kuci choufo, Szechuan, on the 2 th of May and is expected to arrive at Iching, Hupeh, on ur about the Bth instant.
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sent to the overnment as your pool, sir, in your opinion the bord og on Glo ese together in Chinese eaters was likely in lead to the dissemination of plague. Priess, aur, you see any reason to modily that opus, it seems to ine that the recommenuation orijo maliy made by the Board must stand.
Col. Webb -- think that when the resolution was passed, there were a great many more ntague cases than now. If I am right in that I think we might modify the resolution of the Committee.
The President.- in reply to Col. Webb, I do not think that these is any marked difference in the number of cases between the date that we made this recommendation to the Govern ment and anw, and I still think that the Iterd- ing together of masses of the people such as of necessity occurs in Chinese theatres is in- The Universit Gazete gather that the disadvisable during the prevalence of an epidemic. The recommendation of the Board has been ea dispersed and the place has resumed its
practically the reply of the Government. They normal condition. This is due to the prompt have considered the matter fully, I prestave. and earnest action on the part of the Provincial and unless some member wishes to make a motion in reference in this letter, 1 propose to Lay it on the table.
1903.
the street and all clothing which he could lay! hold of. He was of the opinion, however, at much of the clothing was already beyond his reach. He stopped a marine-store hawker in the act of carrying away rags, etc, from the deserted ground floor of this building. The great delay which occurred in the completion of the sanitary measures under aken in con- nection with this house was due to the unsatis factory way in which the former limewashing contractor, On Kec, did his work. The cleansing operations were completed on the 30th of April. The brewashing was done on ile 6th of May. The work was, Lowever, badly one and was not passed by the inspector. On Kee was ordered to re-limewash Qic house and the work was not properly finished till the 13th of May.
feck's minute, the first of the bye-laws for the prev it on or mitigation of endemic, epidemic or contagious disesse left cleansing and disin. fecting to the decretion of the Medical Officer of Health.
Mr. Fang Wa Chun proposed that notice of the new procedure be given to the Chinese. It might encourage them to report cases of plague.
Me. Pollock seconded the proposal, which was adopted.
THE DISINFECTION OF SHIPS
AT HONGKONG.
An old subject was revived at yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board when a letter from the Colonial Secretary relative to a Clayton disinfecting machine was submitted, and the question of the advisability of acquiring one was discussed at length,
(6) This is very indefinite, but it is no doubt true that, owing to the very unantis factory way in which the former limewashing contractor attempted to carry out his duties pople were kept out of their houses for an The President said that the matter was con- Hoteasonable time. This has been remedied. sidered by the Board in 190x and a recom- The Board cancelled as contract on the 23rd mendation made to the Government to obtain of May A blacksmith at 42, Hollywood Roat one of these machines. The matter was then was kept out of his business for five days while referred to the Chamber of Commerce, which awaiting the limewashing of the shop by the body decided that it was impracticable to use contractor n Kee. He and his fal is were
the machine here because so few ships made however allowed to sleep every night on the thus their terminal port and it was only appli- ground floor whele so wading. In the case of cable to ships from which most of te cargo No. 44, Cochrane Street, the tenants found a had been removed. Professor impson first place to go to at once and remove-i there with suggested the advisability of having such an
her farmite. At 40, Cochrane Street the
apparatus in the Colony. It would undoubt." house except the top finor was found deserted.edly be useful, the President thought, in the At No 7, Hollywood Roid the people were case of ships arriving from infected pons. Only a few weeks ago an Indian on the Arrat on asked to be allowed to do the nuwashing Aper developed plague within 24 hours of the himself and would not do ut satisfactorily. Uli steamer's arrival, and the presumption was he The third day the Board's contractor was onlered must have contracted the disease elsewhere to do the work. This house was all deserted
than in langkong, except the ground floor.
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closely but one manclusion can be'arrived at. That conclusion is that, in spite of the for midable array of arguments and figures in favour of the retention of the present unsta ble and unsatisfactory currency, the weight of evidence and the collective opinion of those must competent to judge have been thrown in the scale for a change. The reform in the system provides for a new sil. ver dollar which would eventually become sole legal tender on a gold basis to be fixed later on. Of all the speakers in the Singa pore Legislative: Comcil there was only one who voted against the official motion for the adoption of the Committee's recommenda
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scheme to which he is opposed. As ló one point he would like to have some idea; it is what aspiration the Government had as to the ultimate ratio of the dollar. When the Indian Government decided to make the change they had a 2 rupee in their minds, And he desired to know whether they were to go a a · dollar or 35, Sir. Frank Swetten- ham replied that they were not going to have a the shillings fixity. Whatever the basis of the lixity, it may be too early yet to decide. in. Hongkong the cry has been not so much to give the dollar an artificial enhanced value, liut to establish a fixed value Jictween
the dollar and gold, instead of as now that merchants and traders be placed at the mercy of exchange fluctuations. Fluctua tion in exchange is admitted by the Com- mitter in their own words to be a disability to the community, and it introduces an efe
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We are informed that the uniform of the Police force is shortly to be changed, whilst the uni- form worn by the Inspectors of Pulice will be something after the style of that worn by Royal
Marines ward room officers, with the exception that the shoulder straps will bear the letters
B.K.P. attached
LATE yesterday afternoon, a coolie matsheil, on
by fire, and a small quantity of timber stacked the side of a hill in Quarry Bay, was destroyed alongside of the building was burned. The
outbreak was due to a coolie accidentally sett ing fire to the matting. Damage to the extent of $100 was done. The Quarry Bay Ship
Building Yard fire brigade put out the fire.
LeMunyon will have another grand opening Day and a Souvenir day as well; watch the date, --Ador.
FOR same time the police have had reports from various sources that the telegraph cables bad been tempered with and the miscreants have never been discovered, until yesterday when F.C. Boole, in charge of a steam pinnance, observed a junk anchoring directly above the cables. He was brought up before M. F. A. Haz land, and was fined $25 or one anonth.
AT the police compound this morning, Mr. Hough, the Government Auctioneer, sold by public auction a large quantity of jewellery, consisting of native gold rings, silver watches, jade stone bangles, earrings, e-garette holders, leather hand bags, etc. The articles were chictly confiscated or unchimed property. | Quite a 'large business was done, the natives
bidding very keenly.
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THE case in which eight Japanese women were charged on remand with being stowaways on the s.s. Aki Maru, and who were autered by | Mr. F. A. Hazeland to reconsider their decision acquaintance with the poor and ignorant as to whether they had any intention of return native was that, in the Straits, at any rate,
ing to Japan or not, came up for hearing before he was extremely well able to look after him.
the same Magistrate this morning. As they self, and that when it comes to a question of elected to stay in this Colony, they were each money or trade dealings between the native fined $50 or one month. and European, it was generally found that the native could more than hold his own.
I'ROBABLY never before were there so many Mexicans passing from hand to hand in Singa- Curiously enough, the Chinese merchants and others who petitioned against any change pore, says the local Free Press, Bank notes are hard to get ånd nearly all payments are accept the inevitable with a certain amoun!
made in Mexicans. We hear that the Munici. of grace.
They mentioned, through Mr.
pal and Government monthly pay-cheques yes- Tan Jiak Kim, that they had protested-terday were paid over the counter in hard cash. powerfully protested-against the coming There is something amusing in this issuance change, but were fain to accept the report. of the inconvenience of metallic legal tender Furthermore, he fell sure he was expressing in bulk. the feeling of the Chinese when he said they had the greatest confidence in the Committee and Government, and they would do all they |could to support the carrying out of the PHOTOGRAPHIC scheme. One result of the Council's dis cussion, reports the Straits Times of the DEPARTMENT.
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from certain local banks. It was stated by one bank that the Government has been chary in the matter of its note issue of late,
and that this conservatism has rendered it necessary to pay in specie today. At the
We shall have a Souvenir Day soon, but you will have to pay us a personal visit as no chits will go. LeMunyon --Advi,
T the instance of Inspector Fisher, of the Sanitary Board, a sanitary coolie was charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland this morning with stealing $37.70 in cash from house No. 49, Des Voeux Road Central, which was being fumigated and cleansed. The money was re- covered, and the culprit sentenced to six months' hard labour. The Magistrate drdered the money to be handed over to the police,
until claimed by the owner.
end of a month, as this happens to be, the
THE sixty-seventh annual report of the Liver payment of all cheques for salaries, etc., in pool and London and Globe, fasurance Co. shows that the assets of this great company specie, is a great inconvenience. No doubt, exceed ten millions sterling. The profit and however, the nuisance of to-day is the harass account with the addition of the interest binger of many happy to-morrows, and while earned on the funds other than those of the life fumbling with the clumsy 'cartwheel' dollars department, afer deducting the amount paid which are now the staples of our currency,
for the 6% perpetual annuities lór 1902, left a we can rest comforted in the assurance that balance of £83,404. It was proposed, out of we will shortly see the dawn of a new finan- this amount, to pay on account of the fire de cial era, and that then we will bave convenient partment a dividend of 338. per share, and our
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Mr. Pollock I beg to move, sir, that this Bord adhere to the recommendation they anginally mule to the Government--that these theatres he closed daring the plague season.
Col. Webb --As pligne appens to be a disease which is spread by hard àr, had ventila han, and overcrowding, i beg to second the proposal.
The motion was put to the meeting with the following result:--
F:The President. Col. Webb, Mr. Messer, and Mr. Pollock. Against: Ilon. Chatham, Messrs. Fung Wa Chun, Lau Chu Pak and Rumjahn. sir, you have a casting vote.
Mr. Pollock (to the President): I think,
Mr. Fung Wa Chub. It isn't necessary for you to exercise your casting vote. (Laughter. The President.--f will give my casting vote in favour of the resolution,
THE DUMPING OF PLAGUE
BODIES.
la continuation of our report of yesterday. the other replies given to Mr. Pollock's ques tims by the Acting Medical Officer of Health were as follows:-
4. 6. Those turned out of infected houses are offered shelter in the oard's observation blacks cast and west, A further block has just heen taken for this purpose in Bridges Street in the Central District. This block would have
been undoubtedly abiained earlier if it had not been for the fact that the houses though looked
for could not be found.
All care is taken to avoid damage to furniture and property during disinfection bet if the people will not, as is generally the case,
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the observa ion locks, the Board has Theans of housing furniture turned out from any premises in this connection I say men. tion that it is quite a common occurrence to find that people have begun to move their furnitine before the Board's officers arrive at the premises. With a view to providing to tection of furniture it would no doubt be pos- sible though expensive number of housus than the Board does at pre- tent a much larger
sent for sheltering people and their property. If space can be found masheds might be built for this purpose but the accommodation would have to be provided for twice as many families each day, as there are cases of plague, as the cleansing and limewashing operations take as a rule over 24 hours.
5. I am informed, and I believe rightly, but I do not know for a fact, that in 1900 the fa where a plague case occurred only was disin ected ; also that this was done because the dis nfecting apparates in Taipingshan was out of order and could not therefore deal with a larger amount of clothing. Presumably this practice was discontinued on the disinfection plant being put in order. As I was not in the Colony at the time I can give no date. The disinfection now carried nut, as far as clothing is concerned, is on the same lines as it has always been during my stay in the Colony.
6. It is impossible in any particular case to say whether the winter clothing locked in a box may or may not be infectes. Rats suffer from plague all the year round, and human plague may begin before winter clathing is left of Winter clothing is not sharply demarcated from other clothing. Each case is treated on its merits and always has been as far as I know.
"Anti-dumping's" letter-
(1) A policeman is telephoned for by a M.O.H. or sanitary inspector when he hears of an uncertified death. The inspector or M.O.H. views the body, and if he decides that the bdy should be removed, to the mortuary for examination the policeman remains on guard over the house till the cause of death is made known. This may be over 24 according to which time the body may be re-
the hours, but
length of time
varies moved. If the body be moved about 9 a m it is likely that the pulic inau will remain on dwy till about 10 am. next day. If the body be removed at to p.m. the time would be
halved.
(2) This is correct in the main. The shelter of the observation blocks is however offered. With regard to clothing my answer to question 6 applies here.
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Mr. Pollock.i don't understand, sir, what was the ex et nature of the Chamber of Com- merce objection i
The President. The necessary detention of steamers while the cargo is being taken out of the ship
Mr. Pollock.-Te curgo would have to be taken out altogether?
Mr. Pullock-What is the disinfectant used? With regard to question 3. Dr. Pearse said The President.It is an apparatus for gune- the reply had been furnished by the Police rating sulphur dioxide gas. It is a somewhat Magistrite and gave the full repur number of prosecutions from lys, dates expensive apparatus casting about 800, and it would have to be employed on a lighter. The was laid on the table.
gas is pumped into the holds of ships and kills Str. Pollock thought it had been the policy the rats. It has been in operation in the port of the Board to enforce amongst the Chinese of London and has been found most successful community such Jaws with regard to sanitation in destroying rats, here is no doubt that by as were deemed necessary in order to prevent scientific experts it is agreed there is conne, tion the spread of plague and other infectious between rat plague and human, plague, and I diseases. No doubt in some respects some of think it advisable as a means of protection to those measures might have seemed rather hard ourselves to recommend the Government to to the Chinese, but no doubt from the point of obtain the apparatus, view of health the enforcement of those measures had been strictly necessary. But while it became imperatively necessary for the Hoard to impose upon the whole population, Europears and Chinese alike. such measures as they considered necessary for the general safety of the community, he considered that it was equally their duty to see that in the enfor- cement of these measures no unnecessary hardship was caused to any individuat, it was with a view to the prevention of the continuance of such hardships that he had asked for the information referred to in his notice of motion. He hoped it would be found practicable, when the information he had asked for bad been supplied, to take such measures as migh ensure as far as possible the uninimum of firdship to the Chinese community. Mr. Lan Che Pak bis ante annexed to the motion confirmed in some respects the complintsunade by "Anti- dumping in his letter in the Hongkong Daily Press; he shower that people were turned out practically in the streets with their furniture, and he thought that with their knowledge of the torrential rains which sometimes occurred in this Colony at this season of the year one must recognise it was a very great li rdship and that sue provision should be made in order to prevent a repetition. Such rains were not only prejudicial in the people who were turned out but destructive to the belongings which were turned out into the stree 5.
The President said he was personally very glad that Mr. Pollock had brought forward this
morion, because it gave the officers of the Board an opportunity to reply to the anonymous letters which had recently appeared in th Press, They would agree with him that it was the object of one and all of them to carry out these measures with as little discomfort as possible to the inhabitants, and he thought, the Acting Medical Officer of Health would be able conclusively to show to the members that many of those statements in the letter referred were, to say the least of it, exaggerated in many cases and others grossly untrue.
Mr. Pollock moved that a sub-committee be appointed to go into this matter and that Dr. Pearse's report be printed and circu- lated. It was a very important question, in deed, and it seemed to him that from what had been read by 1. Pearse that possibly-he might say probably a great many of those people who were turned out and living in the streets in the rain and bad weather were not aware of the fact that they had the privilege if they chose of going into these observation blcks.
The President said they were always inform e of that fact by the sanitary inspectors. Mr. Fung Wa Chun-1 do not think so. The President asked the Acting Medical Officer of Health whether the Inspectors did not invariably make this offer to the people.
The Acting Medical Officer of Health--Yes,
that is so.
Mr. Pollock added that it was hard to suppose that people would voluntarily live in the streets during heavy rains. He moved that a sub- committee be appointed,
Mr. Lau Chu Pak seconded. It was high time, he said, that the Board should inquire into all the complaints which were dealt with in the report. The suffering inflicted upon the Chinese must be very severe or they would not go to such an extreme that a wife should allow the body of her husband to be thrown away or a mother the body of her child.
The motion was agreed to.
The President propo:ed that Messrs. Pollock, Lau. Chu Pak, Dr. Pearse nd himself be appointed as the sub-committee.
Captain Lyons seconded,
Mr. Lau Chu Pak proposed that Mr. Fung Wa Chon be added to the committee.
Mr. Pollock seconded and the motion was
(3) Fumigation is not as a rule done. Only one Chinese shop in Victoria has been fumigat- | agreed to. ed this year. After the cleansing is over and while the house is awaiting the limewashers,
the doors are shut and nailed up as a protection against thieves. Sometimes the limewashing is finished the same day as the cleansing, and if so the tenants can return. If this cannot be done the people have still the option of going one of the observation blacks. Alf plague inspectors offer to allow he tenants to go back to their house after the cleansing oper lions are over and while awaiting the limewashing. In a very large number of ases the houses are found deserted by every one and the furniture
removed.
(4) It is possible that damage may be dune sometimes to articles such as are here men. I can call to mind, however, only one tioned case where a complain: has been made. The Board by their Commitee offer reasonable compensation.
(5) This is quite correct. The house was arrived. The old man spoken of died of plague on the 6 h of May. Un the arrival of furniture and clothing removed into the streets the inspector at this house he found all the by the tenants. He disinfected the furniture in
DISINFECTION AND INCONVENIENCE.
In our issue last evening we referred to a recommendation of the Acting Medici Officer of Ilealth regarding disinfection operations.
The resident. Yes. There is another point with reference to this, ned that is the advisa. bility of using this apparatus on ships leaving Hokong during plague periods, in order that we might not contaminate any neighbouring ports. This point was raised by Dr. Clark in the Board in the original discussion, I move that the Board recommend that one of these machines for the purpose of disinfecting ships be obtained from England.
Col. Webb-1 beg to second..
The Hon. Chatham thought one apparatus woull be inadequate for the shipping that frequents this port; at least two or three would probably be required. The expenses, loo, were not confined merely to having the appiritus on board the lighter, there must be some motive power to take the lighter to the ships, which could not he expected to be brought to the apparatus. The expense attaching to the scheme was very high, and the matter required very careful consideration before the Board decided to take any definite step.
The President-The Board can only recom- mend it.
Mr. Pollock asked if the fumes of the disin-
fecting gas were rapidly get rid of or hung about the ship for long afterwards, delaying the receiving of cargo.
The President replied that he anticipated the gas, like any other gas, would rapidly diffuse itself if the ship was opened up.
The motion was put to the meeting and carried by the casting vote of the President.
BRANCH HOSPITALS.
At the meeting of the Sanitary Board fast evening the President moved That with a view to encouraging inhabitants to report cases of plague and submit them for treatment, the Board recommend that arrangements be made for opening tempo ary hospitals in vari nas districts of the City and Kowloon, suitable premises being hired or temporary structures erected, where practicable, for the purpose. The hospitals to he under proper supervision and the arrangements to be completed in readi- ness for next spring, when cases of plague may he expected to recur,
Branch Hospitals in connection with the Gad
The Hon. Chatham referred to the success of
own Co. at Kowloon, Messrs. Butterfield and Swife at Quarry Bay, and the Cotton Mills, and thought they might well adopt it as a general method in connection with the City and Kowloon generally.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak seconded.
Mr. Pollock said he presumed that if the recommendation was adopted by the Gwein- ment an addition to the medical staff would be necessary.
The President--That is so; that would be the natural result.
The motion was agreed to.
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THE PLAGUE.
During the twenty-four hours ended at anon to-day 14 further cases of bubonic plague, making 1028 since January 1st, were re- ported. Of these nine were fatal cases, all Chi- One Chinese (non-fatal) case is returned a from the General Post Office.
nese.
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MAILS DUE.
Australian (Chingtu) 7th, inst. Indian (Gregory Apear) 8th inst. American (Nippon Aluru) 13th inst. German (Preussen) 14th jost. Indian (Susang) 16th inst. Australian (Taiyuan) 2181 inst. American (Siberia) 220d inst. Canadian (Empress of India) azad inst.
The matter was considered by the Sanitary Board yesterday, and the 'res dent said the suggestion was practically the outcome of se veral meeting that e Medical Officer of Health and he had had with the plague in- spectors, and after discussing the matter more than ace they came to the conclusion that they would be acting wisely if they confined the disinfection of closing and effects to the same floor as that on which a plague case nc- curred. Knowing as they did the way in which bubonic plague was spread, it was very unlikely that, presuming a case occurred on the first would be contaminated. The object of the re-'! commendation was to cause the least inconve nience to the Chinese. This would not apply to a case of pneumonic plague which was dis- tinctly contagious. With reference to Mr. Pol- 4th inst, THE Beer so drink in the tropics is the Beer THE Bear to drink in the tropics is the Bear
made in the tropics÷SAN MIGUEL. 1 made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL,
notes, and that dollars which will really be making in all 36s. per share, free of income tax. deserted by the inmates before the inspector floor of a house, the people on the third floor. but tokens-but which will be worth a fixed and certain number of shilling and pence withal-will supplant our present unhandy and debased silver currency."
Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropics--SAN MIGUEL,
of the life profits, a dividend of 35. per share in the 22nd November last an interim payment of 145. per share was made on account, and it was proposed to issue warrants for the balance, viz., 225. per share, payable on the 22nd ult.
THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer
made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL.
Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL.
The P. M. S. 5. Co/s 5.s. Doric with mails, &c., leaves Manila for this port to-morrow at
noon.
The N.-P. S. Co.'s as. Victoria sailed from Yokohama for Victoria, B.C., and Tacoma on: