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The death occurred in Shanghai on November 13, of Mrs. McIntosh, wife of Captain William Me Intosh, commander of the ss. "Tungchow."

GETTING IN FIRST.

MURDER CHARGE FAILS.

A unanimous verdict of "not gullty" was returned yesterday by the jury investigating the case At the Sanitary Board Meeting.

in which a Chinese named lu was charged at the Criminal Sessions held yesterday afternoon, there,

Mrs. McIntosh arrived in Shang-with murder. The accused was were present Mr. G. R. Sayer hai in 1901 from Australia and was defended by Mr. N. I Brewer and in opening a JOHN

(Chairman), Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, well known in the northern part as the Crown case was conducted by ~~~TANN--Thief-reolata.Dr. Koch, Dr. Ozoris, Mr. Wong the possessor of a beautiful voice the Attorney General (the Hon.

Kwong-tin, Dr. Pearse (Medical Ing SAFE.

Officer) and Mr. J. A. Fraser and as an artist well above the Mr. J. H. Kemp, KC.)

average.. She was for a long time By the Crown it was alleged that (Secretary),

The Medical Officer of Health the leading soprano at St. Francis Lam killed a man named Wan (Dr. W. W. Pearse) reviewed the Xavier's Cathedral, Adelaide, South Leung with an axe in a lano at The prisoner small-pox situation and the mea-Australia, and for several years she Shauki wan West. eures taken with the view to dea- delighted many in Shanghai with admitted this when he was charged ling with the disease. He said that her singing and playing. Un with murder but said that Wan had fortunately she had been very ill assaulted him several times be- the total number of cases of small-for the last four or five years and cause he had refused to join a triad pox notified during the seven weeks ended the 17th of this month

society-Later on, at the Police Court, - he alleged that the dead was 363 with 296 deaths. This gave

man had tried to "squeeze" him a case mortality of 81.54 per cent.

for $30 and had threatened to shoot During the fourteen days ended

him. Lam asserted that if he had November 17, there were 178 cases. of small-pox and 146 deaths, giving

not killed the deceased that night a case mortality of 82 per cent. For the fortnight ended the 17th there were in the first week 88

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cases and 40 deaths and in the second 90 cases and 106 deaths: The case mortality would seem to be very, very high, but that was not to be wondered at when it was considered that they were dealing with small-pox on what was prac tically an unvaccinated, or at the very best a poorly vaccinated com- munity. During the last seven years some 500,000 vaccinations had been done in campaigns undertaken by the Board, but the interchange of population between Hongkong and Canton was so great that this number was very small compared with the enormous. number of people they were trying to deal with. They were, in fact, trying to vaccinate a very large proportion of the population of South China and they could only tackle it in this small corner-the Colony of Hongkong.

WESTERN DISTRICTS WORST,

Dr. Pearse said that most of the small-pox cases had been occurring in the Western district, the No.. 9. health district chiefly. For-ex- ample, in October, there were 165 cases notified in the Colony, and of these 107 came from health districts 8, 9 and 10. In November, up to Saturday last, 198 cases were notified, and of these 118 came from those three districts. There was small-pox, of course, in other districts, but not nearly to the same extent. In carrying out the present vaccination campaign regard had been had to the special needs of the Western districts and it was there that they had placed a larger proportion of the vaccinators than they had in any other of their districts. At the same time they had not neglected to deal with bther districts with the idea of putting up a barrage between the badly-infected districts and the other parts of the city. For example, the mumber of cases which had occurred this year in health district No. 8 was 57, in health district No. 7 they had only. four cases notified, in, No. 6A and 7 A there had been 24, in No. 6 only 12 cases, in No. 5 25 cases, in No. 4 21 cases, in No. 3 13 cases in and 2, and IA and 2A 23 cases. This showed that the small-pox was to a very large extent confined to health districts 8, 9 and 10 in the city, and it was hoped that by a continuation of the vaccination campaign they might to a very large extent prevent it from spread- ing into the very much overcrowd- ed health districts of 4, 5, 6 and 7.

VACCINATIONS.

during that time had to give up all

concert work.

The deceased lady was one of the earliest members of the Shanghai Ladies' Golf Club, with which she had been associated for something liko 17 years.

The funeral took place on November 15, at the Bubbling well Cemetery, after a service at the St. Joseph's Church. Father Mace Donald S. J. conducted the service, which was largely attended,

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doubt that cases are imported not actually when they have the rish but immediately after they have contracted the disease, It is im- possible to say when they come here whether they have got the infection.or not.

Dr. Ozorio wanted to know whether vaccination marks were looked for in all cases of small pox.

the latter would have killed him.

The prisoner in the box said that the deceased pressed him to join a Trind Society and demanded $30, threatening him. He knew the de ceased had a revolver and was afraid of him. On the night of the 22nd October, six men, including the deceased, stopped him and de- manded money. One drew a revolver and threatened to kill him. He fled and three chased him. He ran up small lane, but the deceased gain cd on him and fired a shot. Afraid, he picked up an axe in a builder's yard and struck him a blow..

tious account.

Mr. Brewer, defending, charact- crised the deceased as a bully and a terrorist. The prisoner had been terrorised by this unscrupulous blackguard and had lived in fear. NO SATISFACTORY FIGURES. The Medical Officer replied that of his life. It was only, as a last he was qutie unable to give satis-hope to save his life that he struck factory figures of the number of the man. No evidence had been vaccinated persons who had had odduced which disproved prison- small-pox. There had been a fewer's straightforward and conscien- cases of persons who had been done.

The Attorney General' said the too late perhaps two or three days damning fact against the prisoner before the patient had gone sick. was that neither at the police stat- It was quite impossible to say, gen erally speaking, in dealing with ion on the afternoon following the cases of smallpox, whether the Police Court did he say a single murder nor at the hearing at the patient had or had not been vacword about the story of the mur cinated before.

Dr. Koch asked whether it was derous attack upon him with a possible for the Board to call for a izturn from all Medical practi- tioners of the number of vaccina- tions they had done.

The Chairman: I certainly should be delighted if private practitioners would be prepared to supply the information,

Dr. Koch: Of course the request would have to come from you in the first place.

The Chairman: If you think they would be willing to do so, certainly.

Dr. Koch It would give us better idea of the total number vaccinated.

The Chairman : The results seem to be fairly satisfactory. People are coming along quite willingly to be vaccinated.

VACCINATION OF PASSENGERS.

Dr. Kock remarked upon the great interchange of population between Hongkong and Canton and said they could never be sure how many cases there were here. The Medical Officer of Health of Canton had informed him that any epidemics in Hongkong got about three of four times as bad in Can- ton. He had wondered whether it would not be possible to arrange for the people coming to Hongkong to get vaccinated on the steamers. At any rate he thought they ought

revolver. *

The Puisne Judgė (Mr. Justice Gompertz), in summing up, said there was no doubt but that the deceased. prisoner killed the

case of murder or This was a nothing. The jury could not bring in a verdict of manslaughter. If the jury accepted the story for the Crown then it was undoubtedly murder, but if they believed the prisoner's version it was justifiable homicide. If the deceased was a bad man, what, he supposed they called in America a "tough."- that did not justify the prisoner in murdering him in cold blood.. The Judge added that it was open to the jury in giving their verdict to make any recommendation they wished and he would see that it was forwarded to the proper quarter.

The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Justice Gompertz made no comment in discharging the accused.

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What right has the cynic to shat- to vaccinate all third-class paster the ideals of humanity with his sengers before landing and make sarcastic nigrams? it a condition upon their being allowed to enter Hongkong...

The number of cases of vaccina- tions was 110,000, all done, of course free of charge.. The rate at which The Chairman said the idea had vaccination had been carried on was occurred to him, but there was the still under 5,000 a day in Hongkong difficulty of supervision. They and under 1,000 a day in Kowloon, had thought of establishing stations They could carry out more vaccina at the wharves. He believed the tions with their present staff if the best plan was gradually working people would only come forward. | from house to house. They had men at vaccination sta The Medical Officer of Health tions who had not enough to said he was quite prepared to adopt occupy their time; nevertheless the suggestion. The question of they were obliged to keep them supervision, with so many ships there for the vaccination of those arriving late at night, was a people who came along. In addi- difficult one, and the conditions tion to the voluntary helpers the which obtained when the people Chairman referred to at the last were landing were not very suit meeting Dr. Pearse.said they hadable for carrying out vaccination.

Critics in the literary field have held that a writer who is a cynic purifies life by exposing its evils with his mockery and ridicule. The established critics of life itself, the church authorities, benevolent essayists and constructive philo sophers, hold that the cynic who destroys good by his cutting satire and carelessly heartless remarks, is an enemy to mankind and to all that will help the world get better and better in every way."

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Coué, the French philosopher who has startled the world with his *Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better," had nothing at all on the optimist íò.

to acknowledge, the assistance Then they had to remember that "The Midnight Guest," the given by the Boy Scouts Associa many people came by railway. Universal all star photoplay which tion. The work was naturally sub- The number of people coming by shows for the last time at the World jected to such supervision or rail was approximately equal to Theatre and which analyzes control of that department, as was those arriving by steamer.

humanity's faults and virtues The Chairman: I have no objecthrough the peculiarisins of three considered desirable in the general interests of the campaign and tion to trying it,"

extreme types. under those conditions they were, of course, quite glad to supply whatever stores of lymphe, cotton wool, etc, might be necessary,

In reply to the Chairman (Me G. R. Sayer) the Medical Officer of Health said he had not worked out the mortality according to age, but If the Board desired the figures he gradual-working-from-house, in fversalichoes: Grace Dirmond, could supply them at the next meetings

The Chairman said it was very noticeable that something like,50 per cent of the deaths from small pos were of children under five years of age,

Dr. W. V. M. Koch asked how many cases bad" been'«imported. and how many had developed.

The Medical Officer thought that they might try vaccination stations at the wharves and see what they could do. If a considerable pumber of people came down by train they might have a vaccination station at the railway station also,

The Chairmăng” I think the

The three distinct types are: the. cynic, the optimist, and the world's unfortunate woman. Through the misfortunes and weaknesses of the woman, the opposite matures of the cynic and optimist are illustrated and their ideals.compared.

For the three chief, rôles Un

Mahlon Hamilton and lyde Fill- Mr. Wong Kwong tin said that more some people might object to going Rite to the stains and suggested that the Board should apprai practitioners to victi who went to them, re the Governm

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