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-TO-DAY'S-OPENING O trust also that wo shall be able to
CEREMONY.
The Dovernor's Welcome,
For the next weak the City Hall will be the scene of learned discussions on things medical, for the second biennial Congress in connection with the For Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine will be held, throughout the next seven days. That the Congress
sliew our distinguished guests somo Institutions, und objects of interests in this small Colony, during their hours of leisure, and to convince them of the cordiality of the welcome which we extend to them, Our thanks are due to the indefatigable secretary, Dr. Clark, who has spared no pains! in his arrangements both for the active work of the Congress and to provide relaxation and enter tainment.
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Of the Institutions liore (o which, as I see by the programine, your attention his boon sporially drawn, and your personal-in-poc- tion invited, there are two con cerning which I will say a brief
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has been suitably housed no one, who paid the City Hall a visit this morning, would question. The ontrance on the ground floor has been transformed into a general office, to which letters miny be addressed, with telephone, lock word. The first is the Tung Wa. room and money-changer's table Hospital, which is entirely inan and other contrivances conducive aged and controlled by an annually to the convonicuca of Hongkong's elceted Board of Chinese gentle- guests.
men, under the supervision of the The stairway, laid with red Registrar General, and with a carpet, has been choicely de- Cloverument Inspecting Medical corated with flags while on the Officer. Priniarily a hospital landing an ambulance and a which admits anmilly over 4,000 sanitary cart are on view. Not patients with an average in the the least interesting section ofwards of about 25, treated in the Congress, are the various equal proportion at their choiceThanks to you every layman is collections which are displayed in by Western, or by Eastern mo- now familiar with the bacterial the St. Andrew's Hall and thethods together with a clientele of origin of such diseases as Plague, other halls above the vestibule. 110,000 to £20,000 out-patients, Malaria, Sleeping Sickness, and In the former, besides many pro-it is in reality an institution with the agencies which transmit prietary articles of great ima much wider sphere of useful them. Ho knows the conditions portanco to the medical world, nese. It contains a refuge for the which favour their onslaught. stands a formidable array of ailing poor, und destitute, and and ronder him liable to attack, operating tables, indin-rubber special facilities for vaccination, both by these and by such gloves, instruments, microscopes it affords a temporary shelter for diseases as Blackwater Fever and and the hundred and ono ao destitulos ponding repatriation Beri-beri, He is furnished with cessories that strike-awo, if (generally at its own cost), and simple and practical instructions not terror into ho mind.free burial for those unable to us to what he should avoid and
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[21 D NARY MEETING of SHATE- besides a series of botanical speci- and destitution in China, end for towards prevention, is as it seems
HULDERS in this Company will be i mons, there is to be found a col-fother charitable purposes in or to me the first great victory in
the administrator have all borna hold tile Company's Officor, Victoria lection of Chinese drugs"the beyond the Colony by Chinese the conflict against these devast-Kingdom and the U.S.A. with their share in the regeneration Buldings, on THURSDAY, the 25th finert shown in Hongkong" as Dr. in all parts of the world who ating diseases of the Tropics by the Tropies was 44 per cont. of and uplifting of the races January, 19 9 at 11.45 o'cock 4. Clark said. Not only did it con- nre enger to employitas a medium the battalions of cientific their trade with the rest of the of the Tropics, but perhaps for the purpose of retal Inghe Reyni tain roots, leaves and scads but a to transmit their collections, trescard. In the case of some world How greatly that proportion to none of these-do-those-races of the Dico ors gather with Statu aut "Telegraph" representative fan administers an income of about diseases the second and final con- las augmented during the past own so deep a debt of gratitude Acorate for the year on 'ing it cied he saw some lizards, treated $100,000 per annum, of which quest-treatment and cure-as 10 years may be seen from-the as to the Modical man. very much as is a kipper at home, only $8,000 is subscribed by also been achieved by pro-following increases in the valuo
The distinguished author whom while a dish of what appoared to Government, and it is in charge longed scientific
and. or- of a few of the clefiimports into have quoted reaches the con- DAY, the 15 Janus ry, o.TBURS bo a species of cook roach did not of various charitable funds sm-parimental investigation. Not the UK. between the years 1896, clusion that the whole period of DAY, the 5th Janir, 1912 b thongknoz. 10th Jan. 1919. fail to rivet his attention. All munting to about $ 100,000. Itably in Malaria, Beri-beri, and (taken by Mr. Kidd) and 1910 human history, and modern ex-days inclusive), du ing w ich prizd not these were laid out en lang tables has just opened a branch in that most fatal disosso Blackwater which is the last for which statis-perience, go to prove that with Tarns or of She can lenghts od. and closely examined by the visi-Kowloon similarly managed and Fever, of which fortunately you tics are issue. Within that 'tors at the close of the opening capable of accomodating abrigt 701 havo but little in the Far East and period, the importe of rubber linya fout oxternal assistance the Tropics By o der fte Bond freeto
patients in its wards, as well as which in my recollection wanguce increased in value over 400%, of can never be developed by them- This moming the Congress was now small.pox hospital to carre-equivalent to a signed deathrar-guth nearly 200, per cent, of selves. We have progressed for from the original conception that formally opened in St. George's spond to the one of the Island. rant, treatment is now generally guns and resin by 50 per cont., Hall, before a large gathering The Chinese of Hongkong can successful. The ture of Plague of seeds mostly tropical nearly tropical areas were but n fold including quite a farge number point with pride to this excellent and sloping sickness still how-3 fold, of palm oil about 2.1-2 for onriching ourselves, regard. of ladies. The room was filled Justibition, and I doubt if there ever presente problems for which times, of coconut oil about 800 indigenous races, To-day we af completely, many having to be is any corresponding native we trust that you will ere long find per cent, of cotton oil about 800
(Continued on page 8.)" sides, when H. E. the Governor in any other British Colony. It livesinthe battleofscience gainst of nut oila about 11 times and of enteret, escorted by the Presi-is well worthy of your inspection the diseases of the Tropics, and cane sugar and products nearly dent, Dr., Mitford Atkinson, and The other Institution of which history will assign to them the double. Thore are some of the the Secretary, Dr. FClark, I will make brief mention, is still foremost place in the list of items of the largest value. “With The following delegates were in embryo-viz, the Hongkongheroes in the cause of humanity, the filling up of the temperate present-Professor Cheng Liao, University which we hope to open Speaking, gentlemen, on behalf regions, and the continued THE KOWLOON LAND AND Dr. G. A. Finlayson; Dr. Paul Chortly. The first Faculty will of those residents in the Tropics development of industrialism Freer. Dr. 11. Fraser. Dr. Furtho that of Medicine, gines we who are not workers in this throughout the civilized world," Stoff Surgeon, Dr. A. Gauduchou, incorporate the College of Medi-grand task, I welcome you Mr. Kidd writes the develop-NOTICE is hereby given that the Dr. Victor G. Hoiser, Major S. cine which for over 20 years has here with gratitudo for what you ment of the Trofice will beyond TWENTY-THIRD ORDIN James; IM.S. Dr. M. L. R. Mor-dono admirable work in training have done already, and I express doubt, be the permanent under. ABY MEETING A SUARE ALWAYS, IN STOCK. tel, Captain H. M. Neel, Jr. de students, chiefly Chiuese, up to on their behalf the huge that tying fact in the 20th century." Moraes Palha, Sir Allan Forry, the standard of its "Licentinte." God may speal you in the But thought this development a Buildings, on MONDAY, Dr. C. L. Sansom, Professor Y: certificate. In the new University work which lies before you. For of Trade in Tropica, la os IFbrary, 1912, at Nova, for the par- Toruuchi, Dr. Uilermann, Fleet they will be able to take a full upon your labours depend vast have shown, a necessity thrusts of receiving the Depot of this Surgeon, Dr. de Vagel, Dr. J. P. Medical Degree, of the standardines The pingress of the A. Wilson, Straits Settlemente, required by the British Medical world, of, vilization, and, of all upon the races of the temporale ineos togeler with Staterent of zones, by the law of self-pieser Acounts for the year ending 814 Philippine Islands, Federated Council, without (in the ease of hat ennobles the human race, vation, and by the faw of pro- lær, 1911. Malay States, Kioutschou, Fronch Chinese) having to reside for alies chiefly in the hands and the gress, it can be raised above the The Registerf Blar of the Can Indo-Chinh, Philippine Islands, long series of yours in a foreign energies of the maces which in sordid level of material benefit pany wil to CLOSEU from MION- India, French Indo-China, Nether country, away father own hahit the Temperate Zones, whe-hy the recognition of responsibi-TAX, the 22 July lands-India, Macau, Ceylon, Feeople. and at a fraction of the ther in Europe, Asia or America.ity towards the peoples of the DAY, the 5th Fals 102 derated Malay States, Japan, cost. We trust that this Insti But it is perhaps insufliciently Tropies, to whom, in return for days is cus re), during which i Kinutschou, Netherlands-India, tution will achieve invaluable realised how dependent those mastorin products we should Transfer of Ears can be egiten, Odor of the Board of Director, results for China, and I hope that progressive racen are upon the bring higher standlords of mate A: SHFLON HOOPEĘ, when next this Congress honours products of the Tropics alike for rial comfort; and above all higher Ferry to the Hig og Lani- Hongkong with its presenco, it many stoples of food, and for standards of morality, and the incut & Agrney Company, will meet in the great Hall of the most of the raw materials of the henefits which science has con- Ld., Agents for ti efkow- University, and find it a pros industries on which, civilization ferred on Humanity.
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The proceedings commenced with the President moving the adoption of the report of the work done at the last congress.
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Dr. Freer, seconded and the resolution was passed.
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Your President, Dr Atkinson, coops, tea, con sugar, tobacco, These, Gentlemen, are the has fet himself . colossal task in and a vast number of other larger issues" of which I spoke, the endeavour to sketch the pro- food supplies are wholly or and they are the outcome of the greas of tropical
medicine chiefly the product, of the progress of Tropical Medicine and during the past quarter of a tropics. Among the lattor pala Research. In the first place you The Far Eastern Association of century in his inaugural ad- oil, ground nut and coconut promote the possibility of that! Tropical Medicine was founded dress. I will not, as a more lay oil and many others are development of the Tropics, which
310) on the initiative of the man, venture in however humble used for lubricants in machinery, is essential to the progress of the T, BLE Show will be held on Bureau of Science in the Philipa way to encroach on his domain. for soap and for piniments htc., world, by making it more possible the fet ard. Sad Merd, on the wart pines, and it naturally held its My own task is a far simpler endless kinds of fibre for rope, for the non-Tropical races to live. ground opposite the Hongkong Club. first session at Manila, the place one-to-bid you all a most paper and other industries, rub-in the Tropics, and exploit their latenting Exhibitora shuld and of its birth. The Congress is hearty welcome. Biennial, and we are proud to welcome would be incomplete or whose consumption daily in material woolth, to which more their Entries to the Hon. Fecretary not
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