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MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1901.

THE SANITARY STATE OF HONGKONG.

muliphs were sometimes dry and that" water was therefore not always avail- |able, and that it was especially liabler. The Opinion of a Medical Journal, to be deficient in quantity when it was We hear from more than one source most requirod-that is to say, during that the present sanitary state of Hong the hot season. But it must be said G. 6. ANDERSON,

kong is most unsatisfactory, nad there that De Clark did not propose to rely 20, Des Voeux Rond.

1261 is much evidence to show that for many solely on this source, and his next reso- Hongkong, June 14, 1901.

years paat very little has been done in fation (as he pointed out, the necesary

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the way of improving the state of affairs. corollary of the tira!) was that a supple- On the contrary, in some directions mentary supply of sun-water should he DACING YACHT KRICA, designed by

DENISON. Champion changes have taken place for the worse. pumped to make good the deficiency: Mr. A. Bont in as Season 98-29 and winner of It seems that as long ago as the year The resolution was ns follows :— many prizes. Price complete with Sails

Can be seen on 1875 the late Dr Ayres reported on tho new last year $300. 3nplication to Sec., RE,Y.O., RE, Mes.sanitary condition of the colony in a

Hongkong, August 8, 1901)

1044 most unfavourable sense, but finding

tat no improvensent resulted from endeavours in that direction he was led

Auctions.

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FR. GEORGE P. LAMMERT will MS FULLH: ATON, at his

Offices, Duddill Street, on

to give up a hopeless struggle. A few

That the Government be requested to again consider the question of the flushing of the rowers and storm-water drains of the city with sea-water pumped from the harbour to suitablo storage tanks.'

Both these recommandations were pusseil, and the Boxed then discussed a third motion, lasing regard to storm water drains. Dr. Clark moved

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES. years later, in 1882, Me-Osbert Ghad- 128

wick made another report, which was in due courss printed and presented to both houses of Parliament. Mr Chad wiek recommended amongst other things

That the Government be requested that 600 cubic feet of air space per head to consider the advisability of trapping should be provided in all rooms which all inlets to the storm-water, in view of were sub divided into cubicles and that the fact that the "report on the latrine the ground surface of buildings should and urinal accommodation of the city be covered with concrete. The latter and its connexion with the fouling of

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SHAUKIWAN, IN THE ÍSLAND OF HON recoinmcrulation was enforced alter the the storm-water denins," forwarded to plugue epidemic of 1894, but the former the Government in 1899, showed that recommendation has not even yet been the contents of the storm-water denius. adopted, and the amount of air-spaces as foul and in some cases even fouler insisted upon is at the present time only than the contents of the sewers." 400 cubic feet per individual. Many

The fact that such advice on the other alterations were advised by Mr

elements of sanitation has to be forced Chadwick, but they have not been car-

on the attention of the Government of ried out. Some of the most important

Hongkong year after year clearly showr of the improvements which he recom.the existence of a state of things which mended had reference to the wells discreditable to the authority respon- of the poorer classes-that, for example,sible and dangerous to the community. the houses should be provided with continuous back alleys, and that ins sanitary properies should be purchased and demolished. Mr Chadwick conclud- ed his report" with these words: !I trust that even should the suggestions

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MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT,

The Auctioneer. Hoogkong, August 8, 1900.

To Let.

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1660

KOWLOON HOTEL NOAD,

768. 1 to 8; WILD DELL, WA be found undesirable or impracticable,

THIS HOTEL is situated in a quiet 1 locality, away from the din sud disturbance of the City, and surrounded by a delightful Garden it is an ideal place of Residence. The building stands on an eminence, giving a

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my report will show the necessity for strong and complete measures of sanita tion, and 7 test that they will be undertaken for the immediate benefit of the public health without waiting for NO. 1. STEWART TERRACE, The the necessity to be demonstrated by the

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irresistible logic of a severe epidemic, Twelve years later, on the outbreak of an epidemie of plague, the necessity which existed for the reforms was abundantly proved.

Mr Cunningham's articles, to which

a brief allusion has already been made, are vigorously writton. They display in soute places a warmth of feeling which it is not necessary or desirablethat we should imitate, but which is doubtless. quite excusable in one compelled to live

under such uncomfortable conditions and suffering daily and hourly from the neglect of the governing authorities to It can- res out their obvious duties.

be pleaded that the colony is too poor to be able to afford to pay the ex pense necessary to ensure efficient sanit

in. Sir Henry Blake, in his report on the financial condition of Hongkong, lately pointed out that the condition of the colony was most dourishing, that The attention of the inhabitants of its futura promised to be bright, and Hongkong has lately been strongly that there was a large excess of revenue dircoted to a consideration of the condi

over expenditure. But in almost every. tions under which they have long been respect the general management of the and still are living. The presence of colony appears to be open to improve 1490 bubonic plague has impressed them, ment. The deficiency of the water sup and a series of trenchinnt articles writ-ply has been mentioned, but in addition ten by Mr Alfred Cunningham has to this the inhabitants have other causes apparently for the moment caused their of complaint. The roads are bad, the chronic apathy to be replaced by a town is overcrowded, and the sanitary feeling of excitement approaching panic staff is undermanned. The sanitary

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HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.-

BLUE BUILDINGS, No. 3, 285

The articles have been republished in stait," says Mr Cunningham, consists of the form of a pamphlet which contains, a doctor and about. 20 inspectors why also, a reprint of leading artico bear are not paid sufliciently well to induce a

FIRST FLOORS, in WYNDHAM 2 STREET, Opposite Club Germanising upon the subject which have opan with sanitary training and ex- Suitable for Offices. Fing position. peared in the Hongkong Daily Press perience to crept such a posté and the Ching Mail, and same letters single sanitary officer is certainly not which have appeared in the former enough; it is necessary that he shall oc paper. There appears to be no shadowcasionally be away on leave, and it is of a doubt that the drainage of Hong stated that it happened

that he was kong is inadequate, that there is not away hitely on the cutbreak vi an enough water to flush the sewers, and epidemic of plague The condition of that the soil is saturated with decom the dwellings of the poor in Hongkong posing focal matter. A Sanitary Board forms a constant source of danger to exists, but this Board has no adminis the whole town. The houses are great ly overcrowded; they aro illighted and THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-trative functions, and the recommenda insufficiently ventilated. Vested inter-

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tions of the Board are sometimes wholly usts are treated tenderly in Hongkong. 1391 Hongkong, August 1, 1901.

ignored. The responsibility for the sind Mr Cunninghaw does not darkly present state of things therefore asts hint--he plainly says: "The unoffein)

representatives.in the Legislative Coun with the Executice Government-that | eil are concomed in these vested inter TONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAM EUROPEAN HOUSES Nos. 18 and is to say, with the Colonial Ofice. De ests. Sueli an accusation cannot he

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and the morbility. It is said that the overcrowding is actually encouraged by That the board recommend the Go-the action of the unofficial represents.

[vernment to utilise all the fresh water tivos of the Executive Council. Such statement publicly made, widely which now runs to waste in the trained

spread and uncontradicted, certainly and untrained nuljabs of the city by deserves the attention of the Colonial building dams and forming tanks for Secretary the automatic flushing of the sewers and storm water drains."

The resolation is so obviously sensible that it seems at first sight curions that PARTNERSHIP REGISTRATION AN> [ Dr Clark should have had any tulegir

BANKRUPTCY LAS IN

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ING CHINESE;

THE

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HONGKONG.

Repainted from the Ching Mal.)

For Salo at the China Mall Ofter,

Price

chegou

TO cents,

三樂事

4. THE TRI-METRICAL CLASSIC

千字文 NEITHER the Cuplain the Age 2 - THE THOUSAND WORDS' POEM.

Translated from the Chinese

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will be Responsible for any Debt contructed by the Officers or Dres in the following Vessel, during is gay of Hongkong Harbour

LAVSBERGA, British barque, Capt. J. C. 60 Cants. McDougall AG Morris..

Street.

This alleged scandal forms but our part of subject. Whatever the trata: may be about this particular necusatoia we are more concerned to show that there is no doubt that the whole question of the sanitation of Hongkong reques a thorough and impartial investigation ing as to the effect of such a recommend and prompt actice that the place y

ation passed by the Sanitary Board, be put into a sanitary and civilized state with the least possible loss of time. It is in this connexion that we go into Dr Clark, the Medical Officer of Health,

detail in regard to the matter. Dr has apparently done and is doing the Clark in the course of his speech said best he can under the most trying. conditione. He requires support and that the position of the Board recalled help. Nothing is more discouraging to the parable of the importunate widow, a nian whose heart is in his work than and the resolation was strongly critia knowledge that he has not the power cised by the president of the Board, the shall be done, and done quickly. The to ensure that what ought to be done

Hoa. W. Chathair, who presumably persistemos of the importunate widow

represented the Government as an off-was not an unfemurine chartoteristic,

but a Sanitary Board should be invested cal member. The ground of opposition with some pose mors inmediately of the offical nominee was that the effective than importaits The Lance