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KWAN TI-MARCH 16TH FIRST RACE 3 p.m.

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have had any decoration confer- HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB. red upon them by His Majesty the King, please inform the Chief Clerk. Colonial Secretarlat if this has not already been done within 14 days from 7th March, 1930.

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ander which they then lived, the speaker went on to refer to the Great Plague of 1665 in Europe. This was followed by the Great Fire of London, which, however, did not do away entirely with the plague, which lingered in our great cities. Nearly 80,000 hud died in the City of London.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there were two great dis- cases, scurvy, and the gaol fever. Scurvy was produced by nothing

insufficient or improper else than diet and was chiefly a disease of the sen.

The Decisive Influence of Disease

AN ABSORBING LECTURE

Speaking on February 27 to PECIAL TRAIN leaves KOW-members of the Kuala Lumpur LOON 1.50 pm. returning Rotary Club on "The Influence of IN ORDER that a COMPLETE O

Fare $2 sickness on history," Professor A. LIST may be maintained for from Fanling 6.55 p.m.

that in his- record purposes, will those Ladies for Round Trip, including Admis- Bostock-HI said

tory no factor perhaps had and Gentlemen resident in Hongylon to the Races.

been

potent more

and Kung, other than those now serv-

little understood

sickness ing in His Majesty's Forces, who

particularly in the form of epidemic and plague. From early ages, periods of time had been bounded by epidemics, plagues and pestilences. If they went back to man in the earliest ages, living as he did in caves or trees, fighting not only for

When Lord Anson made his his food but with his fellowmen, nothing in the way of epidemics was journey round the world he started out with three ships and 920 men. possible, but when he began to col .$1.00 lert into communities and built his He returned with one ship and .30 cts. first early settlements, which later About 200 men, in nine mouths' time, ..30 ets.." developed into towns, then condi- Everyone else had been lost by W. PRYDE,

tions began to arise which they now acurvy. When Captain Cook took Hon. Secretary.knew were practically essential for four years to go round the world he the production of disease lost only seven men and not one of epidemic form. The first known them from scurvy. Why? Because NOTICE OF REMOVAL "China 1980, from c/o

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case of sanitation was in the reign in the meantime it had been found supplying Beef, Mutton, Fowls,

HEREBY ANNOUNCE that of Men, when the Nile was deviated that an essential of our dietary, Fork, Brend, Cheese, Pure Cow's

absent from have removed to Fedder Build-to prevent floods. Probably the what they knew as "Vitamins," was the food on which Milk, Ice, and other provisions and necessaries for the year ending, 6th floor, from the 8th March. earliest accounts of plague interfer

seamen had to subsist. With this ing with history and family life T. YAMASAKI,

were the ten plagues of Egypt. one thing and a ration of lime- in 31st March, 1931.

Japanese Dentist, Some of those could not any way juice, still supplied to-day, scurvy No 34, Queen's Rd. C. be judged to be connected with had ceased to exist,

but two work

Gaol fever was

and a very low sanitary Hong Kong, 10th March. 1930.

them could. Later 01, they virulent type of typhus, propagated, by over- had the great

of as typhus always was. plague Athens about 444 B.C., which crowding, filth and starvation; it so-called because It was altered completely the whole scope was and work of the people. They knew originally induced in the prisons of that Rome was decimated by plagues the world. It might be said that and there was little reason to doubt this mattered but little, but did it? that

of the most potent Those were the days of the press. factors in its decline and gang. When a fleet had to go to fall were not only the break sea if crews could not be got by of the morale and char ordinary means the press gang went ing

out to press all the able-bodied it could and as a icat resort a sweep was made of the prisons and able- taken. They brought bodied men the infection of the gaol to the ships and in many instances this incapacitated crews when victory seemed certain.

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One of the most interesting items he might recall was the victory of Lord Howe on "The Glorious First of June." In that fray the forces were of the French and British nearly equal. We had 17,000 and the French 18,000. A Dr. Trotter had been appointed surgeon of the fleet and he was one of the very first sanitarlans of modern times. He determined that the one great thing for victory was for the ships to be as healthy as they could. By cleansing the vessels, which were horribly filthy, and seeing to the ventilation

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The speaker then went on to refer to "The Black Assizes" at Oxford, when nearly the whole of the court, Including the Lord Chief Justice and most of the jury and counsel, died of typhus fever. The infection was brought from the gaol by the pri soners and owing to the Intense Infectivity of typhus it spread to the civil population. It had an ex- traordinary effect in reducing the capacity of the law to perform ita functions. People were afraid to go as witnesses, or serve on jurles,

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Peking on March 10, states that he fa leaving today for Tientsin to book a berth for Yen Hai-shan, who has definitely décided to go to Japan. Yen Hal-shan decided to return on March 12 to Young Loh-teung, to attend to his private affairs prior

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A new French five-frane stamp bearing a view of Mont St. Michel has just been issued.