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TELEGRAMS.

DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD"

SERVICE

CHINA SERVICE.

HONGKONG SANITARY

BOARD:

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 92sD, 1914.

THE FIGHT AGAINST PLAGUE,

The present

OF MILLIONAIRES.”

ECONOMICS AND THE HONGKONG

UNIVERSITY.

The MEDICAL OFFICER suggested that he "A SCHOOL FOR THE MAKING should be authorised to draw up a some- what simpler memorandum, and that it be translated into Chinese. inuerandum was a reasoned argument showing that spasmodic effort was worse than useless. If in any kind of memo- randum he could show to the Chines householder that it was the duty of each individual to keep his own house free of rats, not considering anything at all Economies

THE CINEMATOGRAPH AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.

Mus desumanus or Norwegian rat, grayish- brown in colour, with small ears and short thick tail; and many gradations

A more satisfactory audience was pre......... between the two. In the presence of AD ample food supply, rate will commence

sont at the Theatre Royal last breeding when they are about 6 months

aight to witness the remarkable film The usual fortnightly meeting of this old, will have three to five littera a year

depicting The Undying Story of authority was held at the offers of the and each littor will average 8 or 10 Jon

It is not surprising therefore that within

Such was the phrase used by an Captain Scott" and Animal Life in the Department yesterday, the President (Mr.

a very few months after a general slaughter D. W. Tratman) presiding There were the rats are found to be as numerous as

American visitor to Hongkong who was Antarctic. It is a pictorial record of the striking features of the daily EXTENSION OF HANKOW FOREIGN also present The Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, over gonorat slaughters cannot, moreover,

told of the founding of a department of the most stringenturer of the party, C.M.G., Col. Irwin, Dr. Fitzwilliams be repeated indefinitely, for rats become so

Such general slaughters cannot,

and Political Science at together with features of the animal king Messrs. Chan Kai Ming and Ng Hon Tse, wary that they avold the poison laid for about his neighbours if they could the University. Like all such phrases, dom of the South Polar Continent. Dr. Francis Clark (Medie) Officer of them, and a glanon at the table I append Health), Dr. W. W. Penrise (Assistant heretes will show that the effects of past press that upon each individual house- it was an exaggeration; but nevertheless. There is laughable, comedy, induced by

weekly figures show an increase of a few towards eradicating the plague. That The Science of Economics, or, as a great tures hundreds of extra deaths, as the result of (Secretary to the Board).

thariotion of or 350,000 at pills; would be much better than & translation banker has defined it, The Science which and occidionally a falling off is number for of a paper such as the one before the treats of the principles and mechanism the following wook or two, but then the Board.

of Commerce in all its forms," was a long numbers resume their normal range and the

SETTLEMENT.

Pexi, April 21st.

principle agreed to the wish of the Medical Officer), and Mr. E. W. IInimiltonigus have beer insignificant the holder-they would, he thought, do much it contained a certain amount of truth. Į tuical little Ponguins, exciting, advon-

The Chinese Foreign Office has in

Furnign Ministers for an extension of the Foreign Settlement area at Hankow, but objects to the inclusion of Tachinn,

VACANCIES ON THE SELECT COMMITTEE. The PRESIDENT Announced that the Ban, Mr. Hewett had informed him that he

with the

ferocious Killer whales, and lastly, Captain Scott and his four intrepid comrades taking leave, 12 degrees from the Polo, of

which is regarded as strategically an was willing to serves on the Select Com. effects of the campaign, so far as total rats The PRESIDENT ILoved the adoption of time before it renched its present supporting party of which Mr.

important point.

CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF THE

REVOLUTION,

PERING, April 21st, China is willing to satisfy at once 300 out of a total of 2,000 claims raised in

mittee for dealing with Cemeteries and Cattle Diseases during the absence of Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, and he proposed that the Hon. Mr. Hewett be elected to serve

Mr. No Hor Taz seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.

EATH AND PLAQUE,

The following minute by Dr. Francis

song the members:

Dr. FITZWILLIAMS thought the Medical.

Officer had been making too much of the failure of spasmodic effort. Even

spasmodic effort was better than none.

the cinematographer, was a

consequence of the late 'revolution, the Clark (Medical Officer) vas circulated failure. No doubt in time and after many The plague season was only spasmodic, in Manchester and Birmingham Univer- the morning of November this.

French Minister being the only one objecting

NA TUNG.

PERINO, April 21st. Na Tung, former Grand Secretary, has docited to settle down at Peking again, for good.

EUROPEAN SERVICE.

UNFOUNDED RUMOUR

aspasmodic seasoll.

and infected rats are concerned, cease the report by the Medical Officer and importance. Now it is a subject of There is another danger, however, connected and he might usefully add a rider that paramount importance, especially in the | with these attempts at wholesale slaughter,

when the limitation in numbers is not steps should be taken to increase the universities of America and Germany Little did these happy-hearted fellows permanently maintained, and that is that rapidity of carrying out a general house and it is significant that these are think, when they bade good-bye to their considerable proportion of the rats so killed cleansing-

nations which are rapidly going ahead

fellow travellers on the brink of the Great... off hare required immunity to niagio ns the result of having an attack of the discuss,

macy. There are signs also that England that bourne whence no man returns. in the struggle for commercial suppre loo Barrier, that they were hound for or are naturally immune; these are rapidly replaced by young susceptible rats, and

is realizing the importance of the subject, Just before this scene was filmed by the consequently the attempt at eradication is

there being now a Faculty of Commerce light of the Midnight Sun at 2 a.m. un generations the immune rats will be able to produce comparatively immung progeny, and and spasmodic effort corresponded with sities and School of Economics in Captain Scott and his companions, who To the President of the Sanitary Board. this phenomenon accounts for the gradual;

Some good was London. It is therefore good to find in made the dash to the Polo, were cine- St-In the spring of 1909 a wholesale dying out of many diseases which formerly rat poisoning campaign, Insting about avere rampant, a matter which is referred to being done, He did not think it the newest of all the universities, but onematographed in the very beat that was fortnight, was instituted in Kowloon within a recent article in The Times on rata and was a good thing to remove all the whose future can scarcely be foretold in destined to become their tomb, and while a view to seeing what effect it would have plague and was reprinted in the Hongkong health staffs from the house-cleansing coo brilliant terms, a growing Depart wriggling into the frozen sleeping bags on the incideries of plague and in the Daily Press of the 8th instr

To sum up, therefore, I strongly advise operations, For poisoning they should

ment of Economics

which were later to serve as their. spring of 1910 the same scheme was extended to the City of Victorii.

that all our efforts, and all the efforts of engage a special staff, and he suggested

It is as it should be that this newest shrouds, Without doubt this is one of the community, should be concentrated that they should be engaged during the outpost of Empire, this newest resouren this must soul-stirring pictures ever shown kinds from the precincts of dwellings and plague season, and especially during of the great nation of China, this newest upon a screen. upon the speedy removal of refuse of all offices, and that no measure which will help year like the present. The adoption of acquisition to the great city of Hong- The exhibition continues each night. to exclude its from, these premises should the report, he took it, endorsed the idea kong, should provide the means for the during the weet, and the opportunity of that this spasmodic effort was entirely a study of the life blood of nations--their witnessing the pictures ought not to be failure, and he would refrain from voting commercial development, It is significant missed. because of that.

to note that such courses have been expressly added at the request of the Chinese themselves, but it would be nonsense to say that such work is going

Early last year and again this year very inaderiuate resalts of this method of disoussed with Dr. Pearse and yourself the procedure, and pointed out that it involve taking the stall away from house donning

FRANCIR CLABE,

Medical Officer of Health. Hongkong, April 15th, 1914. Mr. CHAN KAI MING minuted-Very interesting. I would suggest that it be translated and printed in pamphlet form

at a time when their services that be neglected. direction were of mess value. 1 had provi ously organized a system of dealing with infected blocks and areas, for as soon as a BERLIN, April 20th.

plague cat is discovered the Inspector f instructed to distribute ras Press reports from St, Petersburg stat the district

poison in the vicinity, inspect all neighbour ing that the German Ambassador, Counting houses, fill up rat runs, attend to Pourtales, will resign and be replaced by missing gratings and generally to see to tie and distributed amongst the Chinese in the poisoned off a breed that was not to oust the white man from the East.

protection of the people in that infected "Baron V Mumm are contradicted; aaren, and this method of procedure has been change of Ambassadors has not been pushed as fur as the limited staff of tho

Department will allow.. thought of

EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

INDISPOSED.

BERLIN, April 30th. A Bulletin has been issued at Vienna. stating that H.M. the Emperor Franz Josef has been suffering from Catarrhal affection of the throat for the last fortnight, but is still able to dis charge his duties.

LATER,

Q

habitants.

The PRESIDENT said there was a more or less specific issue before the Board; that I stated at a recent meeting of the Board- was as to whether they should or should that there had been in my opinion a very

not continue the policy they had previous large increase, of Inte years, in the rat population of the City of Victoris, and Fly adopted of instituting in the early

INTIMATIONS

The PRESIDENT said he could not say it was an entire failure. On the other hand, if carried out, it must be successful. If susceptible, in -ă- certain block of This was the attitude of those who opposed CHS. J. GAUPP

buildings, and did not. carry out the introduction of machinery because it at the same time such measures as would mean less work. Anything which would ensure the removal of opportuni- makes for the commercial development, in for the breeding of a fresh lot of rats, of the world is for the benefit soonent

& CO.,

Lased this opinion on the increasing return,|, part of the Spring a wholesale rat poison. the they were inviting susceptible rats.lator of all the nations of the world. A WATCHMAKERS

are as follows:

CITY OF VICTORÍA. Ruts collected and examined.

1910.

1911

1912

1913

50,001

65.027

70,839 86,933

It might be argued, of course, that then merely indicate more thorough and efficient methods of rat extermination, but I am

You

of rate collected and examined. The figuressing campaign throughout the Colony, or to take up their habitation in that huge country of possibilities like a whether they should devote the time that particular block. Nothing short of their developed China means a great expansion that campaign would occupy; in obtaining present house cleansing arrangements of the markets of the world, with open- a thorough house-cleansing, and confine would ensure that opportunities were not ings for labour of all kinds, and the best their attention to a systematic and con- given for the breeding of fresh rats, and men here now will go still higher, bene- centrated effort at house cleansing in that was what he meant when he said fiting by this expansion.

ress known to contain infected rate that the steps for carising out the whole He would be laying before the Board sale poisoning should be carried out certain proposals which would, he hoped, simultaneously with the present house enable them to get round the whole of the cleansing. He added, that the staff for 1 bava statel elsewhere that this rapid

that I cannot accept this explanation. increase in the rat population is the natural ty more than twice a year, which was carrying out the wholesale poisoning result of the large augmentations of the very difficult under the present system. would have to be enormous in order that

COLONEL IRWIN-I think that the Medi-it should be satisfactory. native population during 1911, when some forty to fifty thousand Chinese poured into. the Colony, and in 1913, when an even larger cal Offer of Health, in his memorandum, The report was adopted. number sought refuge here. Apart from shows very well that there was not much! the question of migrations en masse and of object in this wholesale poisoning, It is announced that daily bulletins will devastating epizootics, the number of rats appears to have been carried out very

in any aron is almost wholly dependent upon be issued.

the available food supply for these animal thoroughly last year without any very at the most obvions result of human over great results. I do not remember it being crowding when carried to excuss is a marked carried out twice a year before, but is to increase in the amount of waste food both the husses and in the yards and fanes the remark he makes about the rats com

H.M. Emperor Franz Josef is sufferings with bronchitis and loss of appetite, The Heir to the Throne, H.I.H. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, has gone to Schönbrun by His Majesty's wish

GERMANS IN MEXICO.

BERLIN, April 20th.

In order to take on board the German refugees, if the circumstances render it necessary, steamers of the Hamburg- Amerika Linie have been sent to Yera Cruz, Puerto Mexico and Tampico.

INTERNATIONAL AMENITIES.

BERLIN, April 20th. Cordial telegrams have been exchanged Bethmann-Hollweg, Herr between Count Berchtold and Marquis di San

Giuliano.

KAISER TO VISIT NORWAY. -

-BEILIN, April soth.. 11.M. the Kaiser will visit Norway towards the end of June.

in

It

adjacent thereto, and the crowding of much ing in June, I think possible, like this, unnecessary furniture and baggago into the doing damage in destroying rats lowes, thus providing hiding places for raty and breed others that are plague carriers. The problems which have to be met are: If we can hit upon any method by which (1.)---The Umitation in the number of rats,

we can get rid of the food and the places and

CHINA'S MINING TAXES:

We recently reproduced from the Daily News a letter criticising the new Mining Laws of China, The following reply to one point has been made

SIR-Concerning & letterMining

Laws, in China," by Foreign Fyrile." in which the new Chinese Mining thong is my orals is compared with the Japanese tax on similar minerals, the only argument he uses is based upon an

AND

JEWELLERS.

BY

Now this expansion and the prepara | SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS tion for it must not be all on the purely

Some people seem to THEODOLITES AND LEVELS. technical side. forget this. can produce your men, you may have your technical resources, but you must have the then trained to combine these factors, trained. in the Science of Commerce of which Banking forms no small part. The pro- duction of engineers is a great thing, well, provided for by the University, but we must be careful to see that the engineer is used. A backward ccmmercial State. untrained in the ways of Commerce, will

provids nu scope for technical men. This correlation is recognized by the Hong

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The Department of Economics at Hong- kong is under the direction of Profesor

(2) The exclusion of rats from dwellings where these rats reside, we should be erroneous measurement, viz., 000 sq: Hinton, who is assisted by a newly!

and workshops.

The only feasible method of limiting their ashers is to limit the food supply available for them; this consists mainly of the waste food from dwellings, markets, factories, ete.. and rats will enter houses at night to search for food and will nk feed in the yards and lanes surrounding them, if garbage is to be

found there.

The Board hars recently organized an evening collection of rubbish in order to

doing a great deal towards stopping the plague.

Dr. FITZWILLIAMS remarked that the outbreak of plague was very serious, and urged that special men should be engaged to go on with the general policy, and in the meantime they could get out some

scheme,

Tax..

to the now.

The mow mentioned in the new regula appointed Lecturer Mr. W. P. C. tiong is 6,000 sq. ft. or about 6,600 | Trafford. Lectures in Accounting and English sq. It a very usual mou in Business Organisation are given by a China And this gives the following correct comparison between Chinese and well-known local accountant, Mr. Wil

liams, and a new Lecturer in Law is to Japanese mining taxation:

***Chinese Japanese

Ee appointed. The rapid expansion has Tax Tax, Prospecting

1,000 tsubo 36,000 sqft. $0.80 Y.0.0.30 teen due to the generosity of Mr. Chang Working Tas.

Pat. Sze and his partners, and the follow. 1,000 tsubo 86,000 sq. ft.... $1.60 Y. 0.6ing new Final Courses have been added: the Japanese tax being a little Economics and Statistics, Economic and

Constitutional calculated by Foreign Pyrite."

History, Descriptive than of the Chinese instead of 1730 as

Certainly the output tax, is 1.5 per centy | Economics (Agriculture. Transport, of local valuation in China, us comprred-

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

CHATER ROAD.

CALDBECK,

The PRESIDENT said he had better make Fee is much as possible of this refuse it clear that the point was that not only before the rats venture out from their runs did the poisoning campaign occupy the and hiding places, and householders are required to keep the day's waste in covered time of those who would otherwise he metal bins, until it is carted away by this employed, but it was largely not efficaci Department.

In addition to this, we have various ous, because it could not be accompanied regulations aimed at securing the exchtsion by other measures to deal with the re- of rats from dwellings, such as the guarding moval of foodstuffs and breeding places

the output taxes from 3 per cent. to 20 course in Economies includes Commercial of all openings by iron grating, the pro- If the wholesale poisoning would be accom

per cent of the mineral value. Undoubt Geography and Descriptional Economies, all' hibition of ceilings and hollow walls in new buildings and their removal from panied at the same time throughout the edly the new Chinese Mining Regulations with special roference to local conditions, infected blocks, the concreting of ground city with a general policy, the effect would are open to considerable criticism but thus making, the course of practical use

Foreign Pyrite has surfaces and so or, but at these matters be reflected in the plague returns. The unfortunately The Pisang Gazette of the 11th inst. require the active co-operation of the members must see that it was only possibl. I picked upon the one of the new regula- from the start. Future provision will be

judividual householders if they are to prove

interesting to note, however, that Japan. Adminstration, and International Law MACGREGOR&C.. with 3 per cent, in Japan, It might he Banking, etc.), Public Finance and ese taxes in the early seventies were and Jurisprudence. The intermediate nearly four times their present rate, and

FORMER HONGKONG RESIDENTS- MARRIED IN PENANG.

DARBY PARK,

says:-

A pretty wedding was solemnized at the Presbyterian Church by the Rev. W. Cross, M.A., on Thursday noon, the con- tracting parties beino Mr. A. J. Darby. Government Surveyor, Batu Gajah. Perak, and Miss Jane Park of Sonthe Shields, England, who arrived from Hone by the P&O Sunda. Mr. James Stark, of Messrs. Stark & McNeill, was

best-man.

A reception was bold at Babington." Barrack Road, the residence of Mr. MoNeill, where the customary toast were duly honoured. Later M. and Mrs. Darby left for Woodward's Bungalow, Tanjung Bungah, where the honeymoon is being apeut.

Mr. Darby was for some few years in the service of the Hongkong Government, and his bride was formerly one of the nursing sisters of the Government Civil and Victoria Hospitals.

ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

the Alice The Hon. Treasurer of Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the lands of the Hospitals :- Promoters of The Idel's Eve100

effective, and I are sorry to say that there with their present staff to go round the are many tenants in the City European a city twice a year. To go round the city

attempt what well as Chinese, who make ever to render or maintain their premises once or twice in a few weeks would mean

There are ten in a rat-proof condition.

по

(ESTABLISHED 1864),

SOLE AGENTS FOR

FALCON

tions which showed some improvement; made for the study of actual methods of. and which would certainly not stifle any busine legitimate venture.

Thus the BA degree taken by an The new Chinese tax of thirty-cents. a very serious increase of staff. He might per nor is just about equal to one gold Eecnomics student will prove a sound dollar per acre, which is very ustal

student wishes to preparation, whether Canada. Congratulating thousand houses in the City alone, and the say, for the information of members, that rate in

on his singularly enter business life or the Chinese Civil Foreign Pyrite" happy business relations with the Service. It will do away with the

will de Present staff is only able to visit and cleanse.ince the date the plagus had become so

serious, the cleansing gangs had been in-Japanese-I am. etc..

taunt which has been urged by business PILSENER BEER each house shut once in six months, st

aro Gilled in and creased by several men, these visits tons of rubbish are collected and carted away, rat runs defects are rated for notice on the owner or tenant. us the case may be, but without greater assistance from the community a A whole we cannot hope to secure the eradication of plague.

plague Wholesale rat poisoning as a preventive measure has failed, not only in Hongkong hut in many other infected districts, owing to the enormous fortility of the rat in the presence of an ample food supp

and rocent officiel pronouncement ed i One of the reports of the States Public Health Service reads:" We stization is a general measure is not ratkata. The warfare against rats should le by improvement of housing cardi- tion Habitations should be kept free of garrigo unt offal which attract" rate and sure for their nourishment." In this opman I entirely concur,

...

We have in Hongkong us rattus, com- only known as the English black rat, with large cars, a sharp muzzle and a tail longer than the head and body combined; also the

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