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LOCAL AND GENERAL.LIMBWASHING-AND CULTURES
E. the Governor will be "At Home" i on Tursday, July 3rd, "Mountain Lodge." from 4 to 6.30 pm.
INCLUDED among the five cases of plague ro ported to-day was a Filipino; the other four were Chinese, two of whom died, and the other
two are under treatment.
FOR BACTERIA.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS BY MR. HENRY HUMPHREYS,
At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board this afternoon, Mr. Henry Humphreys submitted the following very sug gostiva questions:-
plague ara prosent. If yes, state results for the information of the Board. If not, why not.
1. Has the distemper (i.e., limewath) from the interior walls of infected. Chinees houses We understand that it is thought very probabla
ever been bacteriologically examined with a that the U. S. transport Ingalls will leave view to ascertaining the percentage of organic Manila in a very short time for Hongkong matter therein or with a view to finding out The rates per quarter and per se, pritional where she will be docked for repairs, prepara-whether the bacills of tuberculosis, enteric or The daily imun la deliverad free when the addros istory to her return. voyage via the Suez.
accella is inosenger. Un copies sont by pons KO edilitional $1.80 per quarter is charged for pistage. MR. H. H. J. Gompertz convicted a lighter In the manufacture of High Class Mineral The postage on the weekly home to any part of the coolie this morning, at the Magistracy, and sentenced him to three months' hard labour and Waters the following are essential
Single Coples. Distly, ten cents: Weekly, twenty-six. hours stocks for stealing from a lighter
three pumps and an umbrells, yesterday. We have to acknowledge, with thanks, from On the 19th June, at Shanghai, the wife of the Japanese Consulate, the receipt of a copy of The Sixth Financial and Economic S. GOLDSTEIN, of a son.
Annual of Japan," forwarded by His Ex cellency Y. sakatani, Minister of Finance of the Imperial Government.
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Absolute Purity. Repeated analytes both locally and at home guarantee this.
Up-to-date Plaut. Our policy is lo continually introduce every modern provement in machinery and appliances and although such changes are invariably costly in the first instance the results attained in Perfect Aeration and economies in working justify them.
The Finest Materials only are used. English Experts manage our factories, and our Waters are acknowledged by lead- ing English Makers to be equal to those of their own manufacture.
These results have only been obtained. through constant experiment; the adverse climatic conditions of Tropical Climates for the successful manufacture of high Class Acrated Waters, necessitating special study.
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HONGKONG, Tuesday, June 26, 1906.
THE FORMOSAN LOTTERY.
Quite recently a campaign, which is still vigorously waged, was started in the Philip. pines against the evils of public gambling. and in dealing with the question a Manila contemporary cited the Macao lottery, con- ducted at some distance from the Philip. pines, as one of the worst factors contribut
SANITARY BOARD.
The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sanit ary Board. was hold this afternoon,' when, among others, the following business, was transacted :-
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- AKTHRAX. The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon 'submitted a report that on Sunday morning, the 17th insi," n bullock which had died: from anthraxX WIL brought to Kennedy Town Calls Depot. The animal was one of 43 which were brought from Canton, and which were the property of Kung Wing, Butcher, Stall No. 1 Central Marke the animal dying on board the ship. It was immediately cremated and the other animals were placed in the segregation, shed under The President replied as follows: Answer 1. observation. One call died of a ruptured siom. On the 8th-iast. I obtained a sample of each due to an over-feed of wet grass; the rest wash in actual use in a Chineze house, in were healthy, and had been released from Queen's Road West, and submitted it to the quarantine and taken back into the depût, Bacteriologist for examination. He reports that it contained no micro-organisms, that it was unable to support the life of the micro. organisms of plague, typhoid, cholera, and several others with which he experimented; that one part of limewash added to five parts of a culture liquid containing act.vely growing ON inquiry at the Government Civil Hospital organisms of the above diseases killed the this forcaoon as to the condition of Mrs. Anki,rganisms within twelve hours; and that the limewash, when dry, did not appear to favour wife of Captain Aoki, who was stabbed by robbers at her residence, 4, Leighton Hill the growth of these organisms. Further experi- ments are being conducted in regard to dry Road on Saturday last, we were informed that the lady's condition is still serious.
SEVEN meo, employed at a quarry at Chu Kwo Ling, Kowlods City, were placed before Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, at the Police Court this morning, charged with keeping a gaming house and gambling. The first three men were fined $10 each, or one month's gadl, the others having to pay $1 each for gambling in the shed.
limewash.
2. Has the mortar from internal limewashed walls in infected Chinese houses ever been examined as above? If yes, state results. If not, why not?
which had bean.disinfected.
INSPECTION OF FOOD.
A minute by the Medical Officer of Health, requesting that the Senior Inspectors be authorized to enter and inspect food in accord- ance with sec. 83 of the Fublic Health and Buildings Ordinance of 1903, was submitted.
The Hon. the President minuted: On july "That the th, 1905, the Board resolved: Board hereby authorize Dr, W. D. Pearse, Dr. H. Macfarlane, Dr. W. Moore, and Mr. A. Gibson to enter any shop or premises used for the sale or preparation for sale or for siomge of food, to inspect and examine any food found therein which he shall have reason to believe la intended to be used as human food, and in Answer z. Numerous experiments have case any such food appears to be unfit for such been made in various parts of the world, in use, to seize the same, in accordance with sec. regard to viability of the bacillus of plague-83 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordin- infected houses; the results have shown that ance of 1953" It is proposed to extend the the bacillus does not survive these conditions power to the Senior Inspectors whose names climates, and for a much less period in tropical Ewen, F. Fisher, P. Lamble, T: P. Conolly,
and J. A. Lyon. countries.
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MARQUIS 110 STONED.
ON THE WAY TO SEOUL..
POLITICAL MOTIVES SUSPECTED.
[From Our Own Correspondent.}
Shanghai, 26th June,
2.30 p.m.
While journeying to Scoal, stones were thrown by Koreans at the train occupied by Marquis Ito.
Marquis Ito was not hurt. It is suspected that political mo tives prompted the act of hostility..
SUBURBAN BUILDINGS.
"DISGUSTINGLY DIRTY AND INSANITARY."
The following letter from Mr. Shelton Hooper was read and laid upon the table at the Sanitary Board meeting this afternoon :-
Hongkong, June 18th, 1906, Sir- desire to bring to the notice of the Board the disgustingly dirty and insanitary state of the building and land at Tai lang and Wong.nei-chong.
The floors of the licensed pig-sties are in a
joints between the rough granite stones form- very bad condition, wide gaps existing in the
ng to the gambling mania. The journal THE action brought by Mr. F. Maitland against for longer than seven days in temperate are as follows: L. E. Brett, R. G. Mc-ing the floors.
referred to in its strictures condemns the lottery as being the means of taking away from the Philippines da estimated sum of {WD to three hundred thousand pesos annually.
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Mr. George Collingwood, late editor of the Shanghai Timer and Sport and Gossip, which should have come on for hiring in the Shang-. hai American Consular Court on the zoth inst.," was adjourned, peoding the arrival from What the Manila imes will America of the depositions of Mr. Willis E. have to say on the lottery promulgated Gray, of which informatiur had been received, by the insular Government of Formosatto So Min, shop confie, of No. 25. Des Voeux will be worth listening to.
may Road Central, was charged at the Police Court not be generally known that the long this morning, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, with talked of lottery scheme in question has attempting to smuggle a quantity of opium into On the 13th the Victoria Gaol, yesterday afternoon. The last been published. instant the following-law relating to the drug was hidden in some food which was to be taken to a certain prisoner His Worship lottery was promulgated by the Governor imposed's fac of $25, or in default, to join his General of the island-" Anicle 1.—The, comrade for six weeks. Government of Formosa is authorised to issue lottery tickets for the construction of A. S. WATSON & CO., public works in connection with charity
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health, and the maintenance of shrines. The regulations necessary for the issue of the lottery tickets shall be determined by the Governor-General of Formosa." "Article -The Governor-General of Formosa is
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conformity with the provisions of the pre- ceding article." That the recourse to 'such a measure for the raising of public funds
■ should enlist but little sympathy.goes with- uut saying, and, in giving the proclamation publicity in a recent issue of the Japan Chronicle, the editor observes: "While this method of raising revenue may be considered 19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, advisable on account of its simplicity from the Japanese point of view, it cannot be said to be good policy for a State to gamble with ka subjects, It will also be seen that a State monopoly is created in Formosan lotteries by the second article of the pro- clamation printed above. Such a mode of raising funds for public works is certainly not conducive to morality, and may lead to the spread of a custom which is capable of in- flicting great harm upon the people as a whold" It has since been learnt from a tokio dispatch that the money raised from the lot tery will be devoted to the construction of water-works and drainage-systems in various cities in Formosa, for the relief and educa- tion of orphans and other destitute children, FROM U FAZZINI, FLORENCE. and the formation of a school for the blind
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DURING a debate at Singapore on the ques
left alone by the Christian ?" it was aueried tin: "What Indoor ainusements should be that cards, billiards, dancing, smoking, and theatre-going should be avoided by those pro fessing the faith. Why dominoes, pulf and dart, hual-the-slipper, kiss-in-the-ring, and other popular but objectionable 'amusemeals
mot includedð uma suunab per YESTERDAY alternoon, about four o'clock, a Chinaman named Tong Po left his house at No. 193, Third Street to go to an opium divan at No. 332, Queen's Road West for a smoke, When the mau arrived outside the building be was seen to stagger and fall. When he was examined it was discovered that he was dead, due to heart failure. His body was removed to the mollvary by the police.
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3. Itas the distemper. (i. e, linewash) or mortar from European dwellings such "leaconsfield Arcade," where plague has been recurrent, ever been bacteriologically.
If yes, state results. examined as in 1 and 2 ? If not, why not.
Answer 3. No. The reply to Question 2 shows that the subject has been thoroughly investigated, though not in connection with "Beaconsfield Arcade.",
4. 1s old timewash or distemper scraped off before new is put on? (There is nothing in the regulations to enforce this and in the case
of Chinese dwellingh it is not done as far as my own knowledge fats.)
Aniwer 4-
I understand that the walls are
usually brushed and not scraped
5. Does not site, which is analogous to gelatine, make one of the finest cultures for bacteria i
Answer 5. No.
6 Assuming that the mortar ofinternal walls in infected houses contained bacilli harmful to innocuous substance like staked lime mixed with a good germ cultura like size increase the percentage of germs and organic master by giving then more to feed on?
Answer 6. No; the reply to question shows that the limewash has the opposite ¿ffect,
No answer.
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TRADE COMPETITION.
WOMEN FIGHT AT SAM-SHU!•PO...... +
Mr. Humphreys minuted: I am not in favour of increasing the powers of Senior Inspectors,
Mr. Shelton Hooper minuled: I agree with Mr. Humphreys. Surely, three doctors and a veterinary surgeon are sufficient.
Hon. Mr. B. A. Hewett minuted: Nor 1, unless some very good reason can be advanced. Mr. Lau Chu Pak minúted; The Medical Officer of Health has not given any reason why this power should be extended to Senior Inspectors. Are they qualified to pronounce that any food is unwholesome,?
Hon, the Registrar General: Some reason is called for.
SIZE OF GRAVES.
The Sanitary Surveyor submitted a minute relative to the size of graves in which he said that the regulations governing the size of graves in Chinese cemeteries had not been signed; any way they were not adhered to, and he suggested that new regulations be issued by the Board and a copy furnished to teries must first be terraced before the graves are dug, and to save unnecessary waste of ground, he suggested that the length be re- duced from 9 feet to 7 feet, which would allow of increased paths.
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The sumpe are in a filthy condition and seem never to be cleared or emptied.
The hydrant in the pathway is surrounded by water, the pathway between washed away in 12 or 18 lower than the curb in Shepherd Street.
Matsheds with floors in a wet and filthy con dition are used as domestic dwellings,
Clothes, which have been washed in the nallah, are stored in these matsheds before being delivered in town.
A malshed in which bean curd is mada and which a little while ago was burnt down is now re-erected, and full of flies,
The refuse of the matcheds is dumped in the mullah where the clothed are washed and licensed pig-sties are now used as domestic buildings.
All the above refer to Tai liang and an
ozi-chong, equally bad state of affairs existed at Wong.
"The largo trained nullak on the east side of the village, which is occasionally dammed, causes the houses to be flooded.
The hydrant is barely approached on ac count of the broken slate of the road and the whiti fura slim Lydnáms).awan 1:ħa thick milk.
There is no public latras but an improvised one in a very bad condition.
Several licensed pig-sties are used as domestic buildings, and the general state of the path. ways around the dwellings is in a filthy con- dition, having no properly constructed surface drains, but which the sewage water has made
for itself.
I have been informed that there have been
Mr. Lau Chu Pak: The regulation sizes as mentioned in the list might not have been ad- hered to in, recent years, but certainly they were adhered to formerly, as I have a distinct recollection of seeing accounts with the sizes clearly noted in them, and the charges made unreported cases of small-pox, sad there is a accordingly. I should like in know in what re- spect the regulationsızan have not been adhered to, as admitted by the Surveyor, and whose duty it is to see that they are adhered to. 5y a grave 12 feet by 14 feet in Sections D. and E, how is the account to be made out for ceme- tery fees?
PRIVATE COFFINS. Correspondence was submitted relative to nuisances caused by badly made private coffins. Inspector McKenzie reported that the cause of the nuisance was the fact that some of the poorer Chinese would rather pay for their coffins than accept the charity of the Tung Wa, and the reault was that, instead of the ordinary Chinese coffin being used, one roughly puffogether, with very large joints, is used on account of cheapness. He thought a stop should be put to the use of this form of coffin, which should be made as air and water-tight as possible.
7. Assuming the answer to 6 to be "yes," is not the very large annual tax on the com munity which the limewashing regulation SAMUEL, Martia Payac, alias Bantiago, an entail not only money wasted but money spent overseer in the Kowloon Godowns, and residin fostering disease? ing at 335. Des Vux Road West, arraigned before Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, at the Magistracy today, by Inspector Gourlay, charged with criminally assaulting his daughter, Noeme Payne, aged six years of age, on the 25th_instant. The defendant pleaded "not
Two old Chinese women came before Mr. guilty." Inspector Gourlay applied for a H. A. J.. Gompertz, at the Police Court this The Hon. the Principal Medical Officer of remand, which was granted until next week.
morning, charged by Sergeant Sims, with fight Health Crave sites in D, and E. measure 80 "ARE you going to stick to the 40 slabs of iug in the Samshui-po market place last square feet. Extensions it the case of section stone, without paying for them?" asked his night. There were hundreds of people gather E. are charged at the rate of Si per square foot ed round the market last night owing to a
in excess of the So square feet. Extensions in donour the Puisne Judge in the Summary
certain festival and when these women de the case of section D. have not hitherto been Court, this morning. "We never had the
clared war, the crowd were not backward is granted. from the plaintiff, my Lord,” replied the de- fendant's solicitor." you had them from shasing their appreciation of a fistical ex somebody," said his Honour. "Yes, my Lord,hibition and would have allowed the women 10 but not from the plaintiff; and we are ready to
brune each other until next morning bad net pay the proper owner. This is a wrong action. a sergeant's interpreter, who was among the crowd "accing things," intervened and had the His Honour:-"I don't want to hear any
women taken to the Station. Both women are more; I think you bad better settle it outside."
rice-pudding hawkers at Sam-shui-po and have and dumb. Water-works, it is stated, will A Tokio dispatch states that the 'Chinese'
been doing business there for some time. B. be first constructed in Taipeh. The lottery Government has re-opened the Camphor Mofore the rise in the price of rice the defendants tickets will be sold exclusively in Formosa, nopoly Office in Fukien Province, which had. were able to sell their puddings at five cents
been closed on account of the protests made each. Amoy, Foochow, and other places in South
owever, the first defendant found that China nearest Formosa. The principal aim
by the Batish and Fresch Governments, and notwithstanding the high price for rice she was the Comuls of those Powers have lodged able to sell her paddings at the same price as of the lottery, continues the dispatch, is to
strong protests. The re-opening of the office before, while the second defendant could cot, provest the exodus of money from Formosa will, it is believed, seriously affect commerce and consequently raised her price to six ceais. Lo South China to be invested in lottery is Formoso, and the Formosan authorities are They met last night at the market place and tickets sold there, and at the same time to Investigating the matter with a view to taking the first defendant was seen to be doing a absorb money from Soul China. The necessary measures to oppose the re-opening. roating trade with her five-cent cakes, while the other woman could not 'manage to dispose of tickets are not to be issued in Japan. By A PORTUGUESE, residing at No. 48, Caine her ware. This led to the second defendant "places in South China" wherefrom money Road, was charged this morning, at the Magis criticising her 'successful rivals product, and is to be absorbed for the benefit of the Go.. tracy, with stealing four chickens, valued at the fight started. They tugged and scratched vernment of Formosa, it may be presumed sixteen cents, from a house at No. 7, Tung Wo
at each other and bore each otherto the ground that Hongkong will be found a prolific field
Lane. Inspector Collelt prosecuted, and Mr. alternately by the hair, while the crowd were G. A. Woodcock, secretary of the Sanitary helping themselves to the pudding that was to exploit, and by the activity and enterprise, Board, watched the case for his department. it left on the side of the road, regardless of cost. illegitimate though it be, of the numerous
was stated that on the 22nd instant defendant When placed before his Worship the second sub-agencies which are bound to arise in the went to the complainant's house and said he defendant admined the charge, saying that the Colony and probably also in the Philippines, was sent by the secretary of the Sanitary Board: first defendant was trying to rus her out. The shops licensed? If so, I think a condition la- the Formosan lottery is sure to find a much to inspect the drains. After his alle ed ex first defendant was fined $r, and the second 5 serted in their licences requiring the coffins more extended held wherein, to Bourish amination was over he waited a while to see if while both had to eater bonds in the sum of they sell to be made air and water-tight will
any cumika was forthcoming and as there were beyond the circumscribed limits defined by so signs of any he picked up two thickens/$25 each to be of good conduct for one year.
The Hon. the Registrar-General: I agres the proclamation creating the latest mono-belonging to the house and walked away it is reported in Tokio that the Russian Gor with Mr. Lau that action should be taken poly for the Government of Formosa. He returned to the house yesterday and
through the coffin shops. .' again asked to view the drain. Afterwards he FOR a feat of dexterity and nerve it would be picked up two more chickens, and at the old woman offered him nothing for the return of difficult to surpass that of the Bosjestien of her chickens, he was about to carry the ground that the smount claimed in excessive, South Africa, who walks quietly up to a puffaway, when a policeman was called in and the An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of adderand deliberetely sets his bare foot on it.
ja man given in charge. defence, accused neck. - In its simiggles to escape and attempts said it was all a joke. The chickens were the Hotel des Colonies Co., Ld, has been con to bits its assailant, the poison gland secretes a
given him by the complainant. Mr. Woodvered for Friday, the 6th July, for the purpose cock said thrt defendant was not cospected, of discussing the question of reducing the large amount of the venom. This is just what nor was be known, to the Sanitary department capital of the company. The present capital the Bosjesman wants. Killing the snake, he eats
His Wonbip sentenced defendant to twenty is Tis. 215,000, and is composed of 9,000 [36 the body and usas the poison for his arrows, sight days' bard Inboun
sharos at Tim, 25.
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Hongkong, 26th June, 1906,
erament has refused to accept the Japanese estimate for compensation in respect of the maintenance of the Russian prisoners, on the
The Assistaut Medical Officer of Health
said this practice was unfortunately causing a nuisance. He had had several complaints re- garding the smells which came from the coffins on their way to the cemetery. The coffins are badly put together, leak, and give out noxious gates. This could be prevented by better made coffins and the use of saw dust or some such absorbent to take up liquid, and he aug gested that the Board frame regulations.
The Hon, the Principal Medical Officer said the Board lad power to make the necessary bye-laws.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak: Are the Chiness coffin
meet the case.
· THE TAIKOD SUGAR REFINERY,
An application was submitted on behalf of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery Co., for permission to make certain, additions to their promises, and to erect water closets in their offices.
Mr. Shellou Hooper minuted: Should cer tainly be granted.
Mr. H. Humphreys: Grant
Hon. Mr. E, A. Hewatt; Grant, subject to the usual conditions regarding water supply.
case of a man believed to be a leper, whom I saw. He said he had been sent to Canton twice as a leper, but they say at Canton it was not leprosy. However, I think the cas should be investigated.
1 fail to understand why such a state of affairs should have been allowed to exist for so long and I think the Board should take im mediate action.
I desire that this may be circulated as soon as possible.-Yours faithfully,
(54), A. SHELTON HOOPER.
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Legislative Council will be held on Thursday next, at 2.30 p.m., when tha following business will be transacted :—
1. Financial Minutes. (Nos. 47 and 43),
Report of the Finance Committee. (No. 6). 1. Report of the Law Committee. (No. 1), 4. Report of the Public Works Committee. (No. 1),
ORDERS OF THE DAY, Second reading of the Bill entitled an Or dinance to empower the Governor to grant.. licences to search for and prove minerals and to grant licences and leases of land for the purpose of working mince and winerals,
Committee of the whole Council to consider the Bill entitled An Ordinance to regulate the qualifications and to provide for the Registras. tion of Dentists.
Or
Third reading of the Bill.entitled ap disance to authorize the construction and maintenance of certain Ñaval 'and 'Military Works, upon, and over certain portions of the
Crown foreshors and sea bed situate upon the Harbour frontage of the City of Victoria, in this Cology.
A meeting of the Finance Committen will ba held immediately after the Council,
go
RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library
Library, con-Chinese 175, Chinese 155. and Museum for the week ending the 24th Juce, Total 430. Muscum, non-Chinees 124, Chinese 2,507. Total 2,601.
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