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URBAN COUNCIL

MEETING

Combatting Spread Of Malaria

At the Urban Council meeting

Todd, they yesterday, Mr. R. R Chairman, in reply to questions by Dr: Li Shu-fan and Dr. S. N. Chan,

the prevalence of IL regarding malaria in the Colony and the alarming number of cases of tuber- culosis, explained that though there was an increase in the number of malaria cases this year compared with the last two years, this was no indication that the spread of IV. maiaria

assuming anything |

Con- like alarming proportions. sidering the population, the posi- tion did not appear to be much, if at all, different from what it v. had been.

With reference to tuberculosis, Mr. Todd said that he was not in

of admissions tobospitals of malaria cases daring (a) the latter half of 1934 and 1935 (b) the first half of 1935 and 1996?

the answer to L is in the affirmative, (a) to what causes is the increase of the prevalence ascribed, and (b) what special measures, if any, are being taken by Government to control and to minimize the spread of the dis- ease?

What

are the percentages of deaths to cases admitted to hos- pitals among European patients and Chinese patients during the periods mentioned in H?

As far as ascertainable, which are considered the worst infected, dis- tricts within the urban area?” Small Figures

The Chairman replied:

to

a position to say what steps would be taken in the future to combat The figures of admissions it, but a commission had beenGovernment institutions for the formed to enquire into the hous-months of May, June and July ing difficulties in Hong Kong and this year show an increase over Kowloon, with which the problem those of 1934 and 1935. These of tuberculosis was bound up.

Dr. Li Shu-fan

figures are, however, so small in comparison with those of the general population that they in in themselves are of little value

the malaria deciding whether

Dr. Li Shu-fan asked:- "With reference to the preval ence of malaria in the Colony. situation as a whole is better or will the chairman kindly furnish worse than it was. answers to the following ques- tions?

cases

malaria The number of admitted to hospital during the was 1,389, second half of 1934

af 1935

admissions

for the first half of 1936 the num-

screen

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THE FADED GLORIES OF SAMARKAND

(Continued from. Page 4)

they bolt with bad material. The with bare and blackened feet, clay must have begun crumbling whose Identity. I never discovered. las soon as the structure was com- There was also a lodger, the 70- Iplated:

year-old widow of a general, who, To-day, in spite of considerable like everybody else. walked ap- (sums: spent on restoration. the proximately six miles a day to and three great buildings which form from the bazaar to buy the odd- the back and two sides of the ments of food she required. famous square the Tillah Kari On every fifth day the bousehold Medersa, the Uing Beg Medersa went to the public baths (Tur-

built in. 1417 by the astronomer kish), where men and women. and scholar who was a grandson | cheerfully uncoricerned. washed |of Tamerlane, and the duplicate themselves. each other, and their

Shir Dah Medersa constructed 200 clothes. years later-look like` stage scen-

Everything Is Better

Little but the facades re

All these people, and the many main: One of the minarets of Ulag Beg leans at a crazy angle would be easier if there were more others. I met. agreed that life and two of the domes are gone.

Through the fog of dust which buses, but they added: "It's only shrouds the old town, and beyond matter of time. Everything is 30 much better these last two the cardboard effect of the Re- gistan, I could

see still from years." Tamerlane's roof-the ruins of |Bibi Khanoum.

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The housewife insisted: "This loaf of bread would have cost 25 roubles in 1934. Now it's only 5′′ Wife's Mausolet..

(for two kilos) “and there's plenty "This tomb of his favourite of everything. Two years ago wife. alternately described as prin-people died of starvation. To-day cess and dancing-girl. must have you see a beggar perhaps once a been the largest mausoleum in the week, and everybody gives to him world, but, although a little blue at once, because they remember jstill clings to the remains of the dome, the only unspoiled object in

Everybody remembers the fam- the 100-yard-long court the ine, which disposed of some- gigantic carved stone lecters thing like 3,000,000 people, and brought from Mongolia to hold are the more delighted with the the Koran of Caliph Oman, under easy conditions of to-day. which sterile women still crawl at the time of the morning prayers.

Below Bibi Khanoum there is huge market, thronged by peasants in knee-boots and embroidered!

is

The professor was "enthusiastic over education and health figures. in five years I believe we'll be the strongest nation in the world."

A Turkish doctor (with whom I

embowered în fruit blossom. which,

I. Is it a fact that there has been

quite an increase of malaris dar-during the second half

the answers to question (b) and skull caps, their gally striped cha- ing recent months?

(e). It is not as yet possible to pans belted with sheep-skin, inspected an admirable sanatorium II. What are the comparative figures the number of

2,072 During the first half of state what steps will be taken in their wives, invisible under knee includes among its staff vine fally 1935 the number of cases was 544, the future. The spread of the length veils of stiffened horsehair qualised teachers and a physical ber of admissions to Government disease is, ultimately, due to the for reeds, the embroidered parandja culture expert, and where there. hospitals was 280, the number of Poverty of a large part of the falling cloaklike from the bead, was a cinema performance every admissions to private hospitals and population and to the ignorance with the empty sleeves

Any loose. to the Chinese charity hospitals is inseparable from poverty.

action possible on the part of the not yet available.

Government or of charitable in-sd with rows of wooden

the circum-covered with carpets on which the) There being no proof that stitutions must, in

rolder peasants lie or sit while knowledged. "Enfin, these days be palliative and malaria has increased generally, stances,

bas arisen for ans medial; full success in preventive they drink green tea.

On the long benches in the special measures to control or methods is not to be expected inj

the open-fronted minimise the spread of this the Colony, which is this respect square, or in

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hanging week and earphones for every patient) assured me: "You cannot The bazaars are generally flank-think how it has changed here.

frames Now one can get anything."

Even the general's widow ac-

Value Of Rouble

The percentages of deaths to China. cases admitted were as follows:

There are no special facilities little more. 2nd. 2nd. 1st. Ist for the treatment of tuberculosis half, half, half half, in the Colony, that is to say there

1934 1935 1935 1936 is

sanitarium, до tuberculosis Europeans Nil Nil Nil Nil but palliative treatment is given value of a rouble, for Chinese... 0.29 6.41 6.62 1.07 in all hospitals.

(The 1.07 refers to Govern-

ment hospitals only).

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an

It is difficult to estimate the traej

whereas

car azd

2

one can make a life."

"The Soviet has won its fight with the Middle Ages" at Tash- kent, which is described in the next (and concluding) article.

PICNIC PARTY MISHAP

Two Ladies Thrown Into Water

NO SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES

A pienic party, consisting of

accident

eight days' journey first class in

international sleeping across the length of Russia Under the peculiar conditions Central Asia costs only 250 roubles, The figures available appear to existing in Hong Kong it is ex-Le. $10, four times that indicate that no district in thetremely difficult to prevent over-would have to be expended on a Urban area can truthfully be call-crowding in tenement houses. Such well-cut woollen overcoat ed malarious at present time. cases of gross overcrowding as Moscow store. The most potential carriers of come to the notice of the Sanitary! After a night in the Samarkand some 80 members of the Portu- malaria being bill breeding ano- Department are dealt with under hotel. I moved to the house of a guese community, to Clear Water pheles the areas most likely to the Public Health (Sanitation) professor earning-about 2,500 roub Bay was marred by an

not at- Ordinance. A Commission has les a month at the university. His which, fortunately, was been appointed to enquire into wife and I slept in his study. The tended by serious consequences.

Arriving at Clear Water Bay, the housing difficulties in Victoria professor and his son who was

some members of the party pro- electrical engineering, and Kowloon with special refer-studying

ceeded to the shore on Simpana ence to overcrowding and its ef-jalept in the living-room. Dr. S. N. Chau then asked-

fect on tuberculosis. This Com- In the kitchen slept an elderly "In view of the alarming num-mission is at present engaged in maid, who earned 50 roubles (£2) ber of tuberculosis cases return the preliminary examination of a month in addition to her keep ed each week as compared with the issues involved. other notifiable cases, will the Goverment statė:--

become affected are those within Hying distance of the breeding grounds of such anopheles.

Overcrowded Tenements

It is not considered practicable

to attempt to prevent spitting in!

(s) What steps have been taken,

will be taken, to combat disease;

of

this

(b) What facilities are there for the

treatment of soch disease;

and clothes, and a tattered man

which were rowed by two men.

The third trip was about to be-

in when some of the party, in get- ting on board the sampar, step- ped on to the side and

80-pre- cipitated those already on board, into the water.

public places by legislation. The palation

Two of the ladies were injured. Applications and regular re slightly but suffered mainly from only means by which this habit will be eliminated is the gradual turns were also tabled by Mr. shock. Miss Alda Noronha was education of the public. Anti-spit-Todd

hit by one of the male members ing notices are issued free of Those present were: Chairman of the party in the fall. She was (e) Whether it is proposed to pre-charge to all premises licensed by Mr. E. R. Todd; Vice-Chairman quickly dragged from the

vent overcrowding in tenement the Urban Council and spitting in Hon. Dr. A. B. Wellington, CMG and was given medical assistance. houses; and

these premises elsewhere than Hon. Mr. A. G. W. Tickle, Hon The shock and sudden immersion

water

(d) Whether steps will be taken to into spittoons is prohibited by by Mr. W. J. Carrie, Mr. F. C. Hall, incapacitated Miss Noronha for

prohibit the filthy habit of spit-

laws. Hygiene instruction given Dr. Li Shu-fan, Mr. A. el Arculli, about half-an-hour ting in public places.”

Chairman's Reply

Mr. Todd in reply stated: For the steps that have been taken to combat tuberculosis see

in all schools in the Colony ex- Dr. S. N. Chau, Mr. W. N. L. Tam, Miss M. Remedios was struck a plains the danger of the habit and Mr. B. Wong Tape, Mr. C. Champ-glancing blow by the overturning gives warning against it; but it is kin, Mr. C. J. Roe (Secretary) and boat. She soon recovered, how- to be feared that the warning Mr. Im Ping-tseng (Assistantlever and was none the worse for

the mishap. reaches only a minority of the po-Secretary).

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