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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1918.

STRONG PLEA FOR ACTION.

› INTERESTING” SPEECH BY MR. F. B. LA BOWLEL

and, uftes pointing out the work in. volved and expenditure entailed in dealing with this question, he said

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MR HALLIFAX OPPOSES:

RUSSIA'S EXECUTIONE

LIFE IN LONDON.

HOONDIDITTE MURDERS.

OVERCROWDING IN Imperial Government, and I do ros. In addition to the internal over on the recommendation of this plague, small-par, meningitis and fo

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propose to suggon any expenditure crowding, we have in Hongkong sur-Board, to undertake the demolition of duenas engendered by that evercrowd- which would encroach on such a face overcrowding of the very want the upper storeys of every third housing, call for prompt and drastic action laulable wish. But we hope that kind. In 1900 the led cuf Officer in an insanitary block, and to recover by the Government, next year it will be unnecessary so of Houlth pointed out that the aver the case of the work from the adjoining to dispose of our surplus revenue,age density of the whole City of owners whoan houana will be enhanced and the question then arises how Victoria was more than double of value by the additional light and is The Hon. Me Hallifar Without In such revenue can best be applied in Glasgow, the must densely crowded andered accessible. This principle any way at all trying to create any sort the interests of the Colony

town in the United Kingdom, and might easily be extended to cover all of fealing against Mr. Bawley's motion, At the usual fortnightly meeting Lieut. Disky has enrreberite in fuent in the poorest districts sineen Lauds Resumption Ordinance been very strongly represented to the The recently published report of there has been very little improve emptione by an amendment of the it seems to me that as the matter has of the Hongkong Sanitary Bourdande va the 6th Anglet with Lieutenant plitsky also refers to the City have been undertaken in recent and, as Mr. Alabaster has mid, the

the most striking nunue the rs that date

So far as I am aware, no considerable Government, and very fully reporteck yesterday, Mr. F. B. L. Bowley regard to the danger of overemed the fies that Canten is far less crowd-Fears, nor are any contemplated by the matter has been gone into, very property resumptions of insanitary property in and commented on by Lieut. Qlitaky ; moved the following resolutions:ing in the Colony. His Exellency edunt, consequently, is (1) That in order to relieve the con- the Officer. Adustering the Gov healthy than Hongkong. This fact The reason put forward for inaction in the Government to appoint a Commis more Government in the immediate future, by a public meeting, which has requested gestion of the overcrowded dis-ernment in laying this report on the has long been known to it, but it the past bas usually been want of money,sion; and as we know that the matter tricts of the City of Victorin and Council Table on October 17th dew is none the less a starling disgrace and the Government had poluted out has the very earnest consideration of Kowloon, which constitutes a forcible attention to passages in the to this outpost of Western civilisa-the enormous sunte which have bean the Government the resolution that serious danger to the public report dealing with veresowding. tion. health, the Board recommends

expanded, and very necessarily and new ia quite unnecessary and I opposin the Government:--

advantageously expended, frat on the Both resolations on being put to the THE PRESENT LAW," Railway, then on the Typhoon Shelter, coting were carried. (a) To take steps by levelling

It in true that in 1903 the Govern, and last but not least on Water-works, nadeveloped Crown Las at

The task of correcting the introduced a new Public Health mocssfully accomplished, the Govern These great works having been Kowlcon and elsewhere an

and Buildings Ordinance, drafted by Pro constructing and lying out

errors of the pass will, howevat festor Simpton, and Mr. Osbert Chad now turning its attention to have to be fail, if the communitywick, which effected an sultable ronds, and by all

to be poterte against epide improvement in the law on the subject.programme of Public Works Ex- roads and communications and quarters, other means fa its power.

for Goverunieat servants. Next year's mies of schis din use." to experlite and encourge The problem of overcrowding is saquiry, further extensive amendments over millions on these and other Again in 1998, as the result of another traordinary shows an expenditure of the provision of healthy and not a new problem for Hongkong:re made in the law with a view to important worksh cheap houses for the work overcrowling has probably existed improving the sanitary condition of the ing classes, to which the in a greater er less degree from the Colony, and, although the law as it surplus population of the earliest days of the Colony-wing promise between the clashing interests sted districts should partly, to the configuration of the of the landowner and the tenant than 44 stands must be regarded more as a com be transferret.

hand, nud, partly, to the innate an ideal Code of Sanitation, it is a long (b) To mndertake the systems dency of the peerer classes of the way in advance of pre-existing legisla tie resumption and re-con- Chinese to herd together, believing. tion, and would, if its provisions were struction of the most inno doubt, But there is subty in more fully availed of, enable the Colony santary portions of the, nubes, The natives also fint to wipe out the dark stains of the City

warath is ombers, and this mural insanitary areas. C.). Thus the Bourd, "apprehending desire for wreaths tem to aggravate

the possibility of a serious overcrowding in cold weather. epidemic necurring in the Friquiry after enquiry has been Colony requests the Gocem, held, resort altisport published, quent to restore the Sanitary and Ordinance after Onlinanes pass. Stuff to its full complement, as ed," with the cistest of curing this soon as possible by the temper sense of the holy politic, but, in bry engagement of antable per. Spite of all the endeavour the Bons from outside the Gil Soy pupulation e urinuss to overtake the vice, in order to prevent available roundation, and the routine work of the Department density of the "stride crowding falling into arreurs,**

sects to be wore than ever, Mr. Bower delivered

CONDITIONS WORSE THAN speech on the subject in the consej of whely be "said: Although the b-|

EVER: separable questions, of Housing and, In 1902 Mr. Osbert Chadwick, the Overcrowding have been very freely Danitary Expert, had no hesitation think you will agree with me that it Victoria we as leggeds oveftrowd disced in the Colony, recently. I. in saying that the that conditous if is destable for this Baird, which is ing. rather worse than betet than charged with the duty of satequeat, they had been in 1892, and in 1989 ing to the best of it ability th, I think that it may be safely saki Public traits of the Coiny, to that in the respect the 'ty of Vic have an opportunity of expressing an tora is ing wese conditions that opinion and making meniti ever was g tions in these all-important subjects.

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still, for the first time for many years, and unless this Bourd claims with no

But as I have pointed out, there is CHARGED WITH COMPLICITY IT TUR

uncertain voice a considerable share in sending hundreds of men and women to an available surplus of over two millions,

that surplus for the resumption of fu-execution in Moscow a couple of months sanitary property and the rehousing of sgn is the man who was suspected of Jacob Peters, who is responsible for

the displaced working classes the spare having been concerned in the Rounds. dollars are likely to be diverted to some ditch murders in December 1910, and with the Sydney-street afif i'vanustý 1911

other purpose.

SUGGESTIONS,

He was born in 1888 in Couxland and came to this country in 1908 when he secured employment as presser with a firm of wholesale second hand clothes dealers in North London, now, carrying on business in Whitechapel

By my resolutions. I only ask the Board to assert the general principle, and, in view of the possibility of a Commission being appointed to consider the whole question, I do not wish to tie Un December 2, 191 Peters was should like to suggest that a sum of officers by shooting them at Houndsditch the Board to say detailed scheme, but concerned in the murder of three police arrested on suspicion of having been

aside for the purpose of resumption of was committed for trial as the Central not less than half-a-million should be set on December 16, and, with others, be insanitary property, 1919, and that such Criminal Court in April 1981 The resumption be undertaken forthwith in evidence against him was that he the worst districts, which the Medical George Gardstein, one of the principals a systematic manner, commencing with seen, with a man named Luboff, assisting Officer of Health and Building Authority accidentally, shot by an accomplice. engaged in the murders, who had been can no doubt indicate without any There was evidence that he bad been int difficulty.

the company of some angaged in the murders before and after of the persons the committal of the crime:

if

was

Under the present law there are three classes of bouses (a) those existing on 21st February, 1903; (b) those erected since that data on Crown Land leased before that date: and (e) those erected since that date on Crown Land lansed

(c), as such houses must not exceed in There is little to complain of iu Class haight the width of the street on which they frout, and must be provided with an open space equal to at least half the buft-over ares and a scavenging lane; such houses cannot prodines excessive surface over-crowding.

Houses in Claas (b) are not satisfac the older type: the height in Class (b) toly, but they are an improvement on may be 13 times the width of the street

I should further hike to suggest that least one-third of the built-over area, it is not accepted, the matter should cousin Fritz Svaar, his double, whe and the open space provided must be at negotiatious should be rapid, that a fair and a scavenging lane is generally re-be referred without delay to the Board was undoubterly engaged in the mur- offer should be made in each case, and suggested that Peters was mistaken for The defence was an alibi, and it was

quired. vile rockeries of 3 ori storegs, fronting which, no more impartial tribunal arists, 1911.

Houses in Class (a) are many of them of Arbitration provided by the Crown dels van lest his life is resisting

Lands Resumption Ordinance, than rest at on unrrow lanes, and provided with no consisting as it does of a Judge of the

Sydney-street on January 2,

open space except a narrow funnel of a There is muhing new to the fietsbeck-yard, 7 feet square, into which Supreme Court, as chairman, and two On the 8th August, in speaking a to which lent Olitsky dawlittle air and less light can penetrate, members nominated by the Government the testifiates for was year then attention vi vividly. All in us who and which has no direct communication and the landowner respectively. before the Board, I drew attention have any agitace with the pro- becomes the receptacle of all kinds placed population, I suggest that, in the

with the streets. This back-yard naturally

With regard to rehousing the dis to the "subject of overcrowding, und blem were vure of its danger: but of refuse mirde various suggestions towards its the report his added at least one only arehoved about once a year when should be rented by the Government Russiz

and Altb, which

Srst place, all suitable vacant Bate kditional-to-tre if in "proying the sanitary cleansing gang reach it on to remove to those fists, which should be becce & Bolshevik After the Novem Since that date the whole wepest conclusively that

and the displaced individuals induced Soon after Feters arr

Carrival in Russia he arcrowding, their rounda. Houses of this class hasublet to them on easy terms. The came to power, he occupied a post in the of the world has changed. We were which encourages and aggravates en condemned over and over again by Return produced in reply to my ques-Foreign Offico. but it was poly thez overshadowed by the blackest the spread and intersity, of so many sanitary experts, medical officers, and tion at the last meeting shows that that bo sobieved world notoriety as the ber Revolution, when the Leninists war-clouds, and the war monopolised of the well-known discuser, is many others, and it is this houses there are at present about 500 vacant President of the Committee for Combet our attention any exhausted our primary cause in the cultivation and which must be reconstructed if the floors in the City alone, which might ing Counter Revolation and Sabotage energies; we are now basking in the spread of this bumilar disease Colony is ever to be healthy. sunshine of an assured and victori- known as cerebrospinal fever; und os peace, The period of destruc, since the report was published we tion has ceased, and a new era of have beer told on very good author reconstruction has dawned. ་ཤ its that overcrowding is

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At the trial the Judge said that there was an element of doubt in the evidence, And Peters was acquitted Afterwards

1 of the same year the London Russian he remained until April, 1917. On May be returned to his old firm, with whoa.

Delegate: Committee sent. Peters to

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has unlimited Mr. Bowley went on to offer a num powers for dealing summarily with all Now, the Government has drasticber of suggestions for the development

who

oppose the Soviet authority, and HM the King rended the Im- dangerous factor in the threatening use these powers partly out of con second motion, with reference to the lives of innocent people, said that he had powers of resumption of these insanitary of outlying districts with a view to Peters in his position, has power of His buildings, but has hitherto hesitated to and then said a few words on his number of occasions to plead for the

remedying the overcrowding evil neutral who visited him lately on

and death over anybody in Russia. -peri House of Parliament last week epidemie di fluenza. that all classes of his people now. Dr. T. Woo. of Edinburgh, in the ground of expense. I have no of the City, the abnormally high death death warrants all day, often without sideration for the owners, and partly on Sanitary Staff. The overcrowded state become a mere furious animal, signing have an opportunity of inspiring and ery interesting and concise lecture quarrel, gentlemen, with landlords a' guiling the beneficent undertaking on the Prevention of Tuberculosis class; as in all other walks of life, there rate, the prevalance of tuberculosis, and looking to see what he was signing, of reconstruction. Mr. Lloyil Georgs recently delivered at the Chinese are good landlords and bad landlords, the threatening epidemics of infuenzs girl, and since his departure: for Russia In 1914 Peters married an English End Mr. Bonar Law include exten Y.M.C.A. lecture which I think so are there good tenants and bad and cerebrospinal fever, small-pox and she has received several letters from him, ive reclamation seliemes and com that public-spirited body should print tenants. That landlord who constructs plague, were surely sufficient arguments the list being at the end of the year. She prehensive housing schernes in their and distriate broadest), said that or maintains healthy houses takes au far the immediate restoration of the had also heard of him indirectly through tout programme, and, although this inhaling the germs through the interest in the welfare of his teaants, staff to its fill complement by engaging friends who had returned from Russis guide our local Government, we can, mon way of infection of tuberculosi buman race, and is as necessary to our the remainder no doubt did their best chose, but she refused: Boal would not presume to seek to anauth is certainly the must con- and is content with a fair remuneration men locally peuding the return of the Before Litvinaff left England on Septem- on his capital le a benefactor of the inspectors ou military service. Weber 25 he sent his secretary to Mrs. and I think we should, endeavour to and it is well-known that tuber-existence as the farmer who feeds us.

were 9 inspoctors short and although Peters, with an offer that she might accompany the Bolshevik party if she the best of our ability to inspire the culosis is widely, prevalent in the Government with reasonable sugges city, and that overcrowding is the owner of insanitary buildings, still less strenuous duties, it would be quite Bat I have no sympathy with the to cope with their most unpleasant and tions towards the tnprovement of best, means of cultivating every when that owner is either an absentee impossible for them to carry out housing of the population of the variety of that disease. Colony.

or a corporation (with no soul to to efficiently the work of safeguarding the AIR ROUTE COMPANIES. Every school-boy and every school damned), least of all when the insanitary public health of our large population That there is urgent need for some girl in Hongkong knows, or should houses are farmed out in blocks, and even in normal times, and if a serious PIONEERS WHO HOPE TO BECOME improvement in the Public Health is now, of the danger of overcrowding, neither landlord, lessee, nor sub-lasses epidemic occured there most be a break- shown by the significant fact that, as the text-book on Hygienne issued has any interest whatever in the pro-

down. although the Colony bas escaped any by the Government for the use of perty except to squeeze the last cent out

Even with a full staff the department serious epidemic this year (except Hongkong schools explains this of the long-suffering tenant and evade oriously undermanned. It was the Anglo-Continental Care and Eastern the cerebro-spiral fever, which, clearly. In that text book it is laid the vigilance of Building Overseer and stated in 1901 that in Liverpool, with States Air Routes, Ltd, “have been though alarming; did not affect the down that every adult requires 1,000 Sanitary Inspector. During the last 5 Population then of 660,000, there registered at Somerset Home The death-rate very materially), the aver- cubic feet of fresh air every 20 few years, these landlorda, have reaped a were no less than 57 Sanitary Inspectors, capital in each case is E100 in 21 shares age mortality for the first ten months minutes, and that the amount of rich harvest from their long-suffering and there were also, no doubt; a large and this stall scuount, 63 veli ga of this year is about 30 per thousand cubic space required for each adult atford to reconstruct their houses on in addition. In Hongkong with mercial air services; during the wa

tenants, out of which they can well number of Factory and other, inspectors impossibility of establishing per annan a rate which has been in a house is 1,000 cubic feet. well maintained during the current Tet the law allows, houses contain Government proceed with the atmost only 23 Sanitary Inspectores and no

baalthy lines. Against this class let the larger population, we have at present object is to secure the title,

suggests that the principal immediate

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The cbjecta a defined in the memo ing cubicles, in which the air can rigour of the law, and the great meas of Factory Inspectors. Of these 23 Ins andyan of association are to establish On the 6th August I pointed out never be caled really fresh, to be public opinion will support their action pectors only 11 are District Inspectors, maintain and work lines of serial con "that the estimates for 1910 were occupied in the proportion of one The machinery exists, and there are the remainder being fully occupied with veyances between the United Kingdom

yidently framed with the strictest adult to every 500 cubic feet, or, if experienced officers in charge, the only special duties in connection with the and European countries and Egypt and economy with a view to another year there are of war, and I refrained for that rea cubic feet.

no cubicles, every 330 difficulty is the Treasury, food anpply scavenging cemeteries, the Eastern Blates, or between other I do not hesitate to say that, if the ate Mr. Fowley did not think any craft to not de tourist agents and con- places, to manufacture and deal in mir eon from pressing for tiny improve. Such is the minimum requirement Medical Officer of Health and the officer one would claim that the population of tractors de ments which this Colony sorely of the law, and, although, it is barely in charge of the Building Ordinance ongkong was more sanitary in The first directors are Lionel Phillips,

one third of the quantity of air kid were allowed a freer band to put the habits than that of Liverpool, and the Wm. H. Lewis and Lient: A Mon Now we can look forward with down is essential to health, we sanitary areas would soon čegin to melt more trying for the Inspectors. Then Charing Cross coada, W.

law in operation in this City, the in-climatic conditions here were certainly Willizce ASCO. Registered office considerable confidence to a year of now that fices which might legally away peace, and consequently although accommodate from 7 to 9 persons Bat however insanitary the property already overworked. Folice, who were it is most desirable that economy are habitually occupied by from 18 is, resumption requires money, and expected to add sanitation to their MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN OF should be observed, we hope not to: to 20 persons be any longer under the grinding Not only in each cubicle munlly this Board should urge the Gossament that it outlying districts anitation was think that stage has been rescked when multifarious duties. The result was necesity of scrutinising every cent lled with bed-boards, but even the to devote large sums yearly to this vital conspicuous by its absence spent on publie improvements. passages and gangways are blocked object Money so spent is not lost

The local Budget debate revealed with bed boards each fat is a see

ME ALABASTER SECONDS that this Colony the fortunate thin maes of humanity, inhal rig

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