THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
AUCTOBER 29, 1936.
LOCAL TYPHOID MENACE GROWING
205 CASES AND 46"
DEATHS IN
PAST 3 MONTHS
LAST WEEK's figures wERE HIGHEST THIS YEAR
TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE notifications of persons suffering from typhoid fever in Hong- kong have beon received by the Medical Dopart- ment during the past three months.
Forty-six persons have died from typhoid, in the sʊme period.
The Medical Department,, in a recent statement, said that there was no reason to fear an epidemic.
But the disturbing fact remains that the notifications and number of deaths are undoubtedly increasing each week.
Last week, for instance, seventeen cases, with eight deaths, were notified by the Medical Department.
This is the highest number of deaths on record for any week this year.
"It represents, also a death rate that is almost fifty per cant.
of the cases notified.
The eight deaths from typhoid inst week means that one-sixth
"Some Day I'll Win The Really Big Prize," Said Mrs. Kella
MRS, FINNIE
of the total deaths that have occurred in Hongkong since July 1 look British
place during the week ending October 24,
So far, 21 typhoid fever deathay
have occurred this month. This
Navy
represents as many.. nu the Inta Embalmer Of Disarms!
deaths for the two previous months, and is over a third of the totali death for the whole of this year.
There is every indication, from the Agures contained in the weekly re- ports of the Medical
that the mortality rate will soon reach alarming proportions..
This is the way in which the offeinl statistics have shown an increased- percentage of deaths during the posi two months. Werk ending
Sept. 5
Cares Notified
10
Sept 12
Sept 19
15
Sept. 20 Oct.
20
3
18
19
20
17
Oct.. 10
Oct. 17
Oct. 24
King George
THROUGH HONGKONG ON. WORLD TOUR
THE abolition of the historie cut- lass has berg annoumerd by |the Admiralty in a fert order de
creeing it no longer, ta form part of the equipment of men landed for service, though it will be en- plowed in ceremonial parades and
Mpresident of the British funerals.
FR W. Oliver Nodes, a past
No. of Institute of Embalmers, has Deaths passed through Itongkong.
$
These figures indiente that the percentage of deaths to cases reported is now approaching 50 per cent. In effect, half the people who contract typhoid in Hongkong during the present stage are faced with death.
Precise figures of deaths in previ-! ous years from typhoid are not avail-
He is returning to London after A business tour of the world.
Mr. Nodes co-operated with Mr. LV. Weaving of Messrs, Garstin and Sons, Wigmore Street, London, in the work of embalming the body of King George,
This Royal act in recognising the propriety of the science of embalm- Fing-Willerto performed for rulers of the land by the King's doctors-Was greatly appreciated by the sion.
profes-
It was regarded as a gracious tribute to the years of effort of those
able, but it is believed that the figures who had striven for the more general for 1930 constitute a big increase. adoption of the science for the Hospital and mortuary returns for 1034 disclose that a total of 45 persons sanitary care of the dead.
died in the whole of that year. This
is exceeded this year by the figures
for the last three months,
and typhold-bacillus, which is taken
Typhoid is due to a specific germ.
into the system almost, if
variably by swallowing.
not in-
The gravest danger of couiracting.
typhold is by drinking Infected water. Water should never be taken into the system unless it has first been flered or boiled. The mere act of warming water will not kill the typhoid terms: the water
must be bolted.
AIR RAID CODE IN
EVERY HOME
Refuge Room for Five Without Ventilation
13 INCHES
THAT COST £10,000
IRISH SWEEPSTAKE HOPES DASHED
TWO Hongkong ladies,
thousands of miles apart, istened în to Daventry last aight and heard the an- aouncer blast their hopes of winning a sweepstakes prize that would have netted them the comparative fortune of $480,000.
The two ladies. Mesdames Ethel Kella and A. Finnic, had a two-thirds share in an Irish Free State Sweepstakes ticket which drew Finalist, top. weight and second favourite for the Cambridgeshire Handicap, run at Newmarket at 3.13 p.m.. G.M.T. (11.15 p.m. H.K.T.) yesterday.
First prize in the sweepstake
MRS. KELLA
E RADIO BROADCAST
was valued at £30,000 sterling Fred Carpio and His Banjo
second prize at £14,000 and third prize £10,000..
Contrary to expectations. a full commentary on the race was broad- east by Daventry in Empire Trans- mission No. 3.
The commentators were Mr. Tom Walls, the well known film and stage actor and owner of several well- known horses, and Bir. "Bob" Lyall, well-known B.B.C. sporting com-
Ships with complements exceed ing 500 will be allowed 20 cutlassnamentator. ships with fesser complements ten.
Macão To
Celebrate Anniversary
HISTORIC COLONY
"Telegraph" Reporter
Early next year Macao will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the treaty, confirming the cession of the colony to Portugal and at the same time the 380th anniversary of the actual ing of the colony.
Although the weather forecast had predicted gates and heavy rain. there was not a cloud in the sky when the raco started, and Tom. Walls described the day as "a per. fect October afternoon, the kind ihat shows racing at its best."
"The going is absolutely perfect," he said. "There is no excuse for a good horse not to win."
Finalist drew No. 5 position, and appeared in Ane form going past the grand stand to the starúng pust.
The race started promptly at 3.15 p.m. to an excellent send off.
FINALIST SLOW STARTER
Tom Walls explained that Finalist;
was likely to be a slow starter; but at the teffes of his jockey, Clem. Wragge, would be to ride a stendy race.
Pegamist leapt to the front as the horses got away, but almost im- found-mediately afterwards Princess Itero-
dene went out inlo good lead.
At the six furlong post Princess Heradene war out clear in-frunt, with Wragge sitting quietly on Finalist.
At the three furlong post Finalist and Tempest the Second were racing neck to neck out in front, with. Finalist well out into the middle of
track.
“Plans are believed to be already under way to suitably celebrate the occasion. It is probable that some announcement will be made when the newly appointed Gov- crnor, Senhor Barbosa, takes over the reins of Government.
the
Two furlongs from the Antshing post Finalist and Tempest II com- menced to drop back, Laureate the Second taking the lead.
Macao was founded in 1557, the cession of the colony being confirmed by China in the treaty of 1887.
Portugal was the Drst of the west- ern maritime powers to open direct Just at the finishing posi Dan relations with China, and they re- Bulger, the 7/1 favourite, shot ahead, ceived Macao as a reward for helping with Daytona a close. second the Chinese authorities to clear the Laureate the Second third. district of pirates.
Then casued a neck to neck strug-| Ale between Dan Bulger, Laureate the Second and Finalist.
"IN the protection of your home lies the security of your
colony," is the motto of a booklet on air raid pre-famous voyage to China, the first cautions which will soon find its way to every home in Hongkong.
It is being issued by the Home Office in England in millions and is intended to do in air raid precautions throughout the British Empire what "Safety First" week is expected to do for road safety..
It will contain particulars relat-| ing to the choosing of a refuge | room—a room from which gases are excluded.
FIVE TO A ROOM
"For rooms (8-9 feet)," says the handbook, "an allowance of 20 square feet, of floor ares for each person will enable those persons to remain in the room with complete safety for a continuous period of 12 hours without ventila.. tion.**
of normal height
A room 10 feet long and 10 feet wide will therefore be adequate, according to the instructions, to hold five people for 12 hours.
mattress or mattresses, elderdowns, wireless set, gramophone.
"SEND FOR FIRE BRIGADE"
"Never pour water on an incen-| diary bomb," says the guide to air ruids.
If there is an outbreak of fire, your course is simple, "Send for the fire brigade or inform the nearest pollee- man.”
MALAYAN TEACHERS TO VISIT H.K.
NANKING TO MEET EXPENSES
It is understood that the Nanking
ONLY. FEW INCHES
and
This year was celebrated the 420th anniversary of Rafael Perestrelo's)
Finalist was defeated for a place by less than half a head!' TUO Western mariner to officially do so.
position was so obscure that na re- In 1517, a year later. Fernao Perez
sult could be given until the figures de Andrade came to St. John's Island.
were put up on the board. In 1521 the Portuguese were expelled from this island, and went to Llung- The few inches that separated Po, where in 1542 trade with Japan Laureate the Second and Finalist at was Inaugurated. trading station was destroyed, and the winning post cost the Hongkong eventually the Portuguese set up the holders of the Sweepstakes: ticket Colony of Macno, which is considered £10,000, which would have been the
value of third prize. to have been founded in 1557.
In 1545
From 1581 to 1649, while Portu- gal was under Spanish rule, Macao was the only colonial possession In which the Portuguese flag was not hauled down and replaced with the Spanish flag.
As a result of Fistalist bebe un- placed in the Cambridgeshire, the three holders of the ticket will divide only £597, pe Just under $10,000 ., currency.
The Cambridgeshire is the last Im
From the Studio
Z.E.K. PROGRAMME
From 2.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845, kllocycles);
12.30-2.15 p.m. European Record- ed Music. 12.30
Oldham Derck (Tenor) with Alfredo Campoli and His Orchestra.
p.m.
1 p.m. Local: Time and Weather Report.
1.03 p..
1.30 p.m.
A Variety Concert.
Renter Press, Rugby
Press, Local Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.
1.40 .. Dand Selections.
2.15 p.m.
5-8 p.nl
Close Down,
European Programme. 5-0 p.m.
A Relay of Dance Music from the
Roof Hongkong Hotel Garden.
6-0.30 p.m. Children's Studio Con- cert.
6.30 p.m. Light Concert Music. Pianoforte Solo-Forgotten Waltz. (Liszt)... Vladimir Horowitz, Song -My Hero (O. Strous)....Ina Soucz Orchestra Wedding (Soprano); Dance Waltz (Lincke); Orchestra- Magyar Melodies (Vilmos); Song Father O'Flynn (Graves), ..Norman Ailin (Bass); Organ Solo Serenade (Toselli). ..Sydney Gustard;"Song-- Under the Lilac Bough (Ross), Derek Oldham; Orchestra-My lips are made for kissing, Stay with me for-ever-Echar).
7 p.in, Beatrice Harrison (Vio- Ioncello).
Melody-(Dawos); Serenade-(De- llus); Elegie(Delius); Coprice-- (Dolius). 7.13
"Escales" (lbert) p.m. played by Orchestre Des Concerts Siraram..
7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
7.35 p.m. Tunes of not-so-long- ngo.
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8 p.. Local: Time, Weather Re.. port and Announcements.
&.05 p.m. From the Studio.
A Chinese Concert. 11 p.m.
Close Down.
p.m. European 8.05-11 gramme from Z.E.K. on a fre- quency of 610 kilocycles,
8.05 p.m. Grand Opera.
Artas "Afrlenna" (Meyerbeer) -Oh Paradise! "Madame. Butterfly" (Puccini) Farewell, ob happy home Alessandro Valente, (Tenor);
Macao became the principal entre-portant flat race of the season. Its all Ernani! Flee with
pot of the trade
with China and broadcast by the B.B.C, this year was Japan, as well as the headquarters an Innovation, as hitherto Brit of the Catholic missions. Several has never been broadcast in Britain, colleges and convents were built and even through the Regional stallons. Christian converts were made, and J NEWMARKETS HISTORY the Catholle falth was soon carried
Newmarket, where the raee all over China and the Far East.
was Flants of ships were built and run, has a sporting history that dates fortunes made, and as the population back many centuries. Fifteen grew in wealth and numbers, forts hundred and fifty, yours after fumed and churches, were built, among the Boadicon raced her chariot along the first of which was the famous Church Raman ditch where Tom Walls stood of St. Paul, the ruins of which may to make his commentary on the race, still be seen against the skyline King James I popularized New-
market as a sporting centre,
It was not until the reign of DUTCH ATTACKS.
Charles I, however, that horse racing room with them, in the event-of-an to study educational systems in Hong- The Dutch coveted the prosperous started there. King Charles 11 Is air raid warning:
elty, and attacked Macao in 1883, reputed to have rode the winners of The suggestion was put to Mr. 1004, 1007. und 1822. One of the Beveral. Piate races at the famous Candles, matches, hammer and nails, pieces of string, clean rage, Chen Choch-poh, a prominent mum- most famous events in the history of course founded by his father. The scissors, electric torch, thick brown ber of the Bureau who visited Malaya, the city is the Defent of the Dutch residence of Charics II in High Street, 13 miles from The course is paper, a few tins or jars with air last May to study local teaching on St. John's Day (24th June) in Newmarket, still stands,
1022. tight lids for storing food, a bottle methods.
Cambridge. During the curly nineteenth cen-. Mr. Huang Yen-kai, Chinese Con- of disinfectant, table and chair;
sul, Penang, states that this offer is tury, before Ilongkong came into the
"THEY WIN 1199 EACH Portable washstand, a screen for a typical indication of Nanking's possession of Great Britain, the privacy, sonitary conveniences, interest in the welfare of Chinese British residents driven from Cantan Both Mrs. Finnie and Mrs. Kelta. water for drinking, linged foods, domiciled abroad.
sought refuge in Maeno, and for who, held Finalist in the Cambridge- writing plates, cups, books,
He suggests that Straits-born Chin- many years conducted their business shire Sweepstakes, are well-known materials;
ese should be selected for the trip, from the Portuguese Colony.
In Kowloon and Conton. as they would be able to study not Senhor Barbosa has twice before Mrs. Finnie recently, left for Eng- A bucket or box of sand with a only educational policy, but
also been
Governor of Mocao, and is Innd with her husband, an officer In shovel or are extinguisher, a dark customs, religioni and social activities extremely popular with all sections of the China Navigation Company. She heavy curtain, spare, blankets, alas they exist in China to-day.
the community and with Hongkong. | arrived in Marseilles, en route to
In addition to these five people, Oversea-Chinese Affairs Durcou is in Macao.. however, the booldet recommend that willing to contribute $40,000 to en- householders should take into this able Mainyon Chinese schoolteachers
kong and China.
Acus-"La Forza del Destino" (Ver- peace, O God!· "Ernani"
me....Rosa Ponselle (Soprano); (Continued on Page 4.)
England, by the Blue Funnel Uter Agamemnon yesterday. Morried three years ago, Mrs. Finnle is ex- pecting, an addition to her family within the next few weeks.
Mrs. Kella, who came to the Far Enst from Australia over 15 years ago, has resided in Shanghal, Canton and Hongkong. She is the proprie- tress, of Medy House, a well-known guest house in Mody Road, Kowloon. Mrs. Interviewed this morning,
Kella accepted the defeat of Finalist philosophically,
"I've got £199 for my ten shill- Ings, so I cau't-grumble," she said, with a smile. "Some day I'll win the really big.prize?”.
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