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HONGKONG BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BOOKBINDING

DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,

The only office in China having European taught workmen. Equal to Home Work.

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BUILDERS

KANG ON.

Contractor; 34, D'Aguilar Street. Local und Coast Port Buildings, Timber, Brick

and Granita.

Mochanies engagel, Estimates given CHEMISTS DRUGGISTS, &c. THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

Chemists and Druggiets, High-class Aera tet Waters, Dealers in Photographic

Requisites, Queen's Road.

FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A CHEE & CO., Established 1859.

Every Household Requisite. Depot for Eastman's Kodak Files and Accessories;

17. Queen's Road Central.

JEWELLER

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS,

Diamond Marchants and Watchrankers, 40, Watson's Building, Queen's Rowl. Also at Shanghai, Manila, Paris and Hollo

PHOTOGRAPHERS

A FONG,

The largest and most completo Stadio in Views Hongkong. Established 1859.

Enlargements, Ivory Miniatures, Oil Paintmge, &c.; Ice House Street.

WEE CUEUNG,

Jeg leuse Street, Top Floor. Permanent Enlargements, Groups, Views, etc; Deve! orient Works, Awatours' Registrs

M. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.

Bromile and Crayon Enlargements and also colonting Photos and relief Photos. Views of China and Manila. Work done for Amateurs? No. Ba, Quern's

Road Central

PRINTING

"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.

Proofs real by EngHahmon.

STOREKEEPERS

F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,

Navy Contractors, Shipshandlers, Sail. makers. Provision and Coal Merchante Praya Contral, next Hongkong Hotel.

BISMARCK & CO.,

Chanilors,

Navy Contractors, Ship

Provision and Coal Merchant, Sail. makers, &c. Fresh Water supplied to

Vessels in the Harbour

KWONG BANG & CO.

Shipchandlers,

Sailmakers,

Hardware, Engineer Tools, Brass and Iron Mer

chanta, 144, Des Voeux Road.

MORE & SEIMUND,

und 45, Des Voeux Road. Shipchandlers, Sailmakers, Riggare, Commission Agents and General Storckcopera; Sole Agents

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE. AE Steamship

THE

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"LIGHTNING," having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be dulivored from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at onco..

Cargo remaining on hard after 2 r. M. on the 24th inst, will be landed at Consignees risk and expense into the Godowns of the Ilongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godom Company -Limited.

Consignos of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take M. MEDIATE delivery of their loods from alongside; such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignes risk and expense,

No Fire Insurance will be affected. Bill of Lading will be conntonigued by

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & CO.,

Afrente.

4308 Hongkong. 20th September, 1991,

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. YONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer

"AG MEMNON"

Optional Cargo will be landed unless notie has been given prior to stemer surrival.

Goods delivered after the 24th instant will be subjh. to went. All doanged Goods must be left in the Gadewus, wine they will b examined at 11 or on the 27thinghaut. No Fire Insurance has a ofertel.

(Continued from page 3.) the usual proportion would be about 80 per cent., so that there was no great excons of cases among the non-Chinese women.

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Age The total number of cases among Chinese children, under Afteen years of age, was 3:3, or 4 per cent. of the total Chinese cases. The percentage in 1000 was 25.9, and in 1998 it was 21 1 per cent. The proportion of children ander this age, among the Chinesa population, was found at the Census taken this yaar to be only 17.2 per cent, to that it is very evident tlint children are very liable to contract this disease.

Eight of the above named children appear to have recovered, giving a mortality of 97.8 por cent. which is practically the same as the mor tality among the adult Clineao.

[get up and walk about and make every effort

to appear in his ordinary health.

(2) The other people living in the house will conceal their sick, and an instance occurred this your of a sick woman and a dead body being concealed under the same bed, within a cubicle,

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6) When it is known that spocial house-tó- house visits are to be paid, the sick are conveyed from the unvisited to the recently visited THE houses.

(4.) The sick are also concealed on the flat roofs of the honsea.

(5.) If there is no other means of concealing them, they are turned out into the streets. to wader at large.

Burial of the Dead-This was carried ont

ter the superintendence of ons of the Board's the Kennedy Town Plague Cemetery, unless a special permit had been granted" for barial elsewhere.

COALS

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

(OR MITSUI & CO.)

HEAD OFFICE:43, SAKAMOTO-CHO, Tokyo, LONDON OFFICE - 34. LIME STREET, E.C. HONGKONG OFFICE:6, Ier House STEFE1.

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BRANCH OFFICES:

York. San Francisco, Hamburg. Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, ShanghLi, Haukow, Chefoo, Tientsin, Nowchwang, Port Arthur, Seoul, Chemulpo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Ture, Shimonoseki, Moji, Wakamatsu, Karaton, Nagasaki, Kuchinotan, Sasebo, Miike, Hakodate, Tripeh, &o.

Telegraphic Address for all the Offices: "MITSUI,"

A.B.C. and A 1 Cados nɛed.

CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japaness Navy, Arsenals and Railway Bureau

Principal Railway Companies and Industrial. Works; Homs and Forsign Mail and Freight Stoners. SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Miike, Tagawa. Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENTS for Fukumo, Hokoku, Tobiura. Kanada, Kishima, Mannoura, Ondara, Otsuji, Tohmiyama, Tsubakure, Yoshinotasi, Yoshio, Yunokibara, and other Coal Mines.

N. INUZUKA, Manngor.

(1331 Hongkong, 1st August, 1901.

Removal of the Sick and Dead --Considerable of conveyance of the sick, an improved type of New improvements have been effected. in the means Dead Bodies in the Street. No less than 308 ambulance purchased and a permanent stall of of the Chinese cases were dead bodies for coolies arranged for to convey these ambulances lying in the street or floating in the harbour.to the Hospitals. A stem-launch for the con- veyancu of the sick from the Wanchai districts This represents 217 por sent, of the total cases; it shore, however, a considerable reduction when to the Hospital at West Point was also eu- compared with previous years, as in 100 the played during the later period of the epidemic, percentage of unclaimed bodies found as 37.1 Dead bodies are conveyed in what are termed "and I would suggest that soine per cont, in 1299 it was 40 per cent, and in 1999 dead-boxo-," it was 36 per cent. On the other hand Tourismiall covered-in-Land carte, capable of carrying sick people, including even quite young children. two or this dead-bores should be obtained, as have been found wandering short the streets, complaints have been made that the dead-boxes are not always securely closed while being con than in former yours, having apparently been

streets and that the Larned out of their houses by the other occupants. veyed through tho

such enos occurring, quins If to the box down in some very public place, while reating. When without known addresses, coupled with the number of sick persons who leave the Colony the disease rame rife in Wanchoi the dead cargo-boat hired in the early stages of thy disease, afford a ready dies were placed on board a explanation of its annual 'recurrence, for many for the purpose and towed round by a lannel infected houses must of necessity romain to the Mortuary at West Point. are hereby rotilied that the Cars is being dis-

undisinfected, and the only possible remedy that charged hits Craft, and/or landed at the to see for this is a thorough house-to-house downs of Um Hongkong and Hewison Where cleansing and disinfection after tas spidemic inud Godown Co:pany," L, in both ensas is at an em, so that we may prepare for the ropean Officers, all bodies being buried i

will li

Consignous risk. The Cargo will bepidemic of next year by dustrering before ready for divery from Craft Gołown on

hand as many as possible of the germs which

Divifcction of Infected Premises.—This work most certainly exist at present in the hours antifter the 21st instant.

whence these natraemi mares rame. This has been under the personal control of Inspector redare cannot however be udopted unil further Reidio, who spent the greater part of his leave powers are obtained by the Board, and Bye-in Eupe last year in studying the different laws have accordingly been made, which wil methods of disinfection in vegas in Glasgow innish the necessary powers, and kavo be especially during the outberak of Imbonie forded to the Government for the approval fever in that city), in Edinburgh, and in Paris, and in examining the various forms of ap- of the Legislative Council.

Tenperature-It will be seen that, as in former paretus for this purpose which were exhibitail at the Paris Exhibition. Inspeetor Heidlic Tyears, the disease declined as soon as the mean

was assisted by three European officers, eight weekly temperature exceeded 80; deg. F. Thus

coloured foremen. thren Chiness foromeu, a on the 1st weeks touting May 25th), the menu weekly temperature rose to 50.1deg. F, with the staff of thirty trained coolies, and a carying result that the total number of cases fell from number of other conties for carrying purposes. 215 on the week ending June 1st to 161 on the The processos of disinfection consis.ed in the week ending June 8th, the effect of the rise of removal, of all bedding, clothing, curtains, temperature not being apparent, of course, carpets and mats to the Stoam Disinfecting until after the lapse of the period of incubation Station, these articles being first tied up into (which varies usually from four to ten days) bundles with large sheets of nubleached calico, plus, in most of our cases, the period of dural then put into baskets which are curried by tion of the disease, since the casts are suidem coolics, Government clothing being supplied to discovered urported until they are temporarily replace the personal clothing of the either deat or moribund. A fall in the weaz ocenjunts of the infected houses. The wails and weekly temperature to 78.5 deg. F. during the floors of the promises are then sprayed with a land 3rd week will bo on from the one-ia-a-thonsand solation of perchloride of chart to have resulted in a very slight recruteronry, and the building then thoroughly scentre of the disease in the 25th week, but fumigated with chlerius obtained by the addi after this the temperature rau rapidly to Mition of dilute sulphuric acid to chloride of lime deg, and the number of cases of the disease tell the pots being placed as high up as possible, on a trestle or shelf, on recount of the weight with even greater rapidity,

Kats-The outbreak this year has been of this gas. Finally the floors are scrubbed PRICE RA, i per aut.specially marked, so far at least as the European with a solution of one of the coal tar prepera- cases were concerned. by the finding of dond tions, the drains flushed, and the walls line- wasbed, chloride of lime being added to the rats in the dwellings in which such cases oc- arro. The rats were found generally dar fimewa h in the proportion of 1 lb. to the gallon. The people displaced from their homes ing the few weeks preeding the occurrence of the ease, but, as I have alady statel, many during the above processes, which occupy-about-

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H. F. CARMICHAEL

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Of three in which the disease did out getur. rata moroozer which were eight alive in infected konses, and were kept in cages at the died, and this disinfecting station, only che was apparently from an injury incurred in the chart at the time it was can. t. showing bubonic fever and general rut mor tality. I have given the curves for the last quarter of 19 as well as for the half-year ending Jang 9th, 1901, as they show that a very rapid rise in the general rat mortality antedated the epidemie broak of bubonic fever by several weeks, for the disease can hardly be said to have become ideie until the 17th werk (ending Aprit 7in), while by that time, the rat mortality had almost reached its maximum, having risen frban an average of between four and five hundred per week, to as many as 2,770 It is interesting to note also that the maximum rat mortality was reached on the 20th and 21st necks, when it stood at just over 3,160, while the number of cases of bubenic fever reached its maximum in the following i have noted on the ebert week (the 2nd). that the price paid per head for rata was in crossed from 2nts to 3 cents on January 24th, and it might perhaps be thought that the rapid increase in the aber of rats brought in could be accounted for in this way. This suggestion is, however, discounted by the fact of the equally rapid fall in the rat mortality after the 1st week, corresponding as it does to the fail in the number of cases of bubonic fever reportal.

There were about thirty men who made a business of collecting these rats, and I had that no less than seven of them died of babonic ferer during the period under report, while five others left the Colony because they were diel of this disease on the mainland.

N.B-A special charge is made for lines as sick, and two of these latter are said to have more than average" length.

ELECTRIC SUPPLIES OF HEVERY DESCRIPTION IN STOCK,

Including

CHEMICALS,

PATTERIES,"

ELECTRIC BELLS,

INSULATORS,

LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS,

SWITCHES,

M. SCHMIDT & CO.,

Gunsmiths. Hongkong. Ord Jnanary, 1901,

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WING CHEONG,

Dealers in JEWELRY, PEARLS DIAMONDS, CURIOS, JADESTONE ORNAMENTS, BRONZES andĊARVED (VORY WARE, FINE SILKS and GRASSCLOTHS ***General Exporters of play ANISERD and CASSIA. OILS, &c., &c., Stock always on Hand: AFINSPECTION IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. Note. We beg to annoirca that we also Bay all kinds of Curios at Moderate Prices.

1 & 3, AQUILAR STREETARA Behind Hongkong Dispensary). Hongkong, 18th April, 1901.

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The total number of rats paid for during the half-year, in the city of Visterin alone, was just 18,000 the number obtained during the corresponding half of last year was 2009, while during the second half of heat year we only obtained 19,70. A small percentage of these rats was examined systematicuity at the Government Mortuary, and some of them were found to have died of bubonic fever.

There has been no evidence of any other animals (than rats and mice) dying of this disease during the year.

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Board's matshed shelters, but the men usedly prefer to proced with their ordinary work, while the women romain in the street to watch their household goods, or seek shelter with a neighbour.

hours, are at liberty to make use of the

Closure of Premises. In consequence of the occurrence of a number of chess (European and native) in a block of buildings known as Beacousteid Arcade und consisting of fourteen three-story buildings, used as shoja, offices and dwellings, I recoin.ounded the Board, on 24:h May, to close the entire block as unfit for human habitation. The closing order was mala on the following day and the entire premises were then thoroughly disinfected by the Officers of the Board. The walls were sprayed with a one- in-a-thousand solution of corrosive sublimate, all the rooms and passages were fumigated with free hirine; floor-boards were taken up and the ra-runs traced and treated with crude carbolic aed, all rat-holes being stopped with cement soft wooden partitions and all rotten woodwork were removed and destroyed, and the door- beards then saturated with the crude carbolic acid, while the drains and traps were treated with the sume disinfectant; all illegal obstruc ticas to light al ventilation were removed from the backyards and the whole block In addition, then thoroughly limewashed. the owner, at my suggestion, removed bar of train-inlets, which, were within the bailding, to the ontside, and also removed mest of the ceilings, learing exposed the floor-joists which were then painted-the object of these alterations being to provide as few facilities us possible for the entry of rats into the building. The permises were finally released from the closing order on the 27th day of June.

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On the same date (May 25th) the Board declared the premises known as Nos. 15, 17. and 19, Peel Street and also No. 63, Wellington Street, unfit for human habitatisu, in conse quaco of the occurrence of several cases of Sabonio fever in each of them, and the same pro- essas of disinfection and cleansing were adoptet, the premises being released on the 11th of July. On the 27th day of June another building known as "Wild Dell" which is divided up into by a number of sets of apartments, occupied for similar reasons, and was then thoroughly Europeans, was closed by order of the Board, cleared and disinfested; as the time of writing these premises have not been released from that order."

House-to-House Visits. In addition to the

General Sanitary Precautions.-Chloride of vists of the District Inspectors, à gang co- sisting of seven specially selected Sappers and he was supplied to all the public latrines for an European Police Constable was appointed use in the buckets, and the District Inspectors oatly in March to make systematic house-to-were instructed to see that it was freely usett honso visits in No. 9 Health District; theas The Howers on the lower levels were also finshed mon worked in pairs, and each pair was sup- with sea-water, by means of the, Fire Brigade pic with a native interpreter. During the engines. twee months from 23rd March to 25th May Staff-The arduous duties connected with fourteen enfes of bubonic fever, one case of

the disinfection of all infected praises, and the control of the Disinfecting Station, were small-pox, and two dead bodice were discovered by, or reported 16 them, and during the same period twenty-fire dead bodies were found by carried out by Inspector Reidis in the most to know that he worked from early morning the Police, mostly at night, in the streets and efficient manter, and I-her-very good mason lanes of the District in which the search-parties till late at night during the height of the were at work. On the 27th of May these men were transferred to Wanchai where they dis-epidemio to secure the efficiency of this sorvice. covered fifteen cases between that dato and the It will be remembered that inspector Raidie execution of similar duties, and he has therefore end of June, five of these cases being discovered contracted bubenic fever in 1800 while in the Estimates given for all kinds of Electrica y t. muu the first day before, that is to say,cod reason to claim a special knowledge of the the 3 ives were aware that they were at work isease: I consider that this officer deserves in t. District. :

The synom of house-to-house visiting appears the special thanks of the Board for the manner, other officers who deserve special motion in to me to be of the greatest value before the d in which he has performed these duties. The case bec mes splenic, and while the few spor adic cases are occurring within a cirquimscribed connection with this year's outbreak aro Ia- ur, as the natives resort to every possible spectors Rogers and W. Brott who are dasics to conceal their sich. I may mention oploved in Kowloon: Inspectors Hoggarth and Fincher in Wanchai; Inspecter Knight the following as some of the difficulties with who superintended the removal af all infected which we have to content in this respect-

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Trained Mechanicias sent to Out Ports it up Installations if required.

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(8559 Hongkong, 18th January, 1898.

corpses from the Govorament Mertuary and (1.) A Chinaman of the poorer class, when be their interment at the Kounely Town Ume- is sick or retires to bed, makes ao change off

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