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THE HONGKONG BAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MA
THE JAPANESE ARMY,
FAILURE TO NOTIFY SMALL POX.INTERESTING INSTRUCTIONS TO İCASE TAKEN TO HOSPITS), BY TRAM.
rash appeared on the 12th.
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DIRECTIONS TOʻSOLDIKAS,
N6TH. 1991.
GYMKHANA ENTRIES.
SANITARY BOARD, AND THE HOW DISEASE IS SPREAD.
LADY'S STATISTICS.”
The following are the entries in the MEDICAL OFFICER'S STATEMENT.
AN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
various events for the Gymkhana on June 4th:-o MORE FACTS ABOUT MOSQUITOES.
HALF MILE HACE roa Sub-Carpenter, There was a great deal of criticism last A meeting of the Sanitary Board was
The reluctance of the poorer class of year by foreign missionaries of the ope Workshop, Miserrimus Doleful. Night bold yesterday, the Director of Public Chinese to report cases of infectious and rations of Japanese force which was mare (Meadow Mouse), Glad Eve (East), Works (the Hon. Mr. T. L. Perkins) contagious disease, which in the case of sent into the Chinese territory of Chien-Shooting Star, By Jingo, Frampton, Per-
There were also present Dr. small-pox resulta, in many avoidable tao, adjacent to Korea, which Korean adventure, King Harry, Givenchy
CALSS HANDICAP, ONCE ROUND-Merry- V Koch. Mr. 0. G. Alabaster, death-was illustrated in the course of insurrectionaries had made base of their Mr. W. sand, Bolshevic, Birdshop, Merry Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Www.before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, yesterday, tration in Korea. In a pamphlet we Siamese Cat, Dandy Child, Forest Child, Forse) and the Secretary (Mr.
Sanitary Inspector Brewer summoned have just received embodying a number Goal King, Scamperdale, Jawleyford, V. Heynolds)..
the principal tenant of the second floor of articles in refutation of the criticisms Tiddleywinks, Miserrimus Doleful, Quo Dr. Koen asked the following quen of a house in McGregor Street, Wanchai, we find the following translation of the Yadis, Stanley Chief, Repulse Bay Chief, tion, of which he had given notice:— for having failed to report a case of written directions supplied to every Ardelan, Speilt Child, Savernake, Fly- With reference to the following cable- smallpox between May 18th and 18th member of the Expedition Force, num-wheel, Harlequin, Beggar King, Light #ram published by Router :-----
The Inspector said that he visited the bering some 0,000 in all
ing, Shooting Star, Danspos (Aspirin), At a meeting of the National Cour house on the 17th to disinfect the pre-
September Mern, St. Anthony, By Jingo, eil on Venereal Diseases, to which the mises, and questioned the defendant in
Some unenlightened Koreans in Chien-Neston, Mystic Dahlia, Redbird, Strome. Tweedledum, King Harry Leighton, Mission to the For East presented it the usual way, and was informed that report, fra Neville Rolf declared that the deceased had suffered from fever, to have already behared themselves GYMKHANA STAKES. Bolshevic, Pawo- she was never so ashamed of being an He also learned that no doctor had been unruly for a long time and have not in shop, Siamese Cat, Halton, Scamperdale, Englishwoman as she was in Hong called in to attend the deceased. Further frequently gone the length of attempting Jawloyford, Quo Vadis, Hongkong Chief, kong, where the registered infant death rate was eight hundred higher than the examination elicited the information that to injure the prestige of the Empire a Repulse Bay Jaief, Partan, Spynie, Has birth rate, despite British occupation
consequence Japan approached China for righty years":
The defendant admitted these state. with a proposal for a joint expeditionquin, Beggar King, Speckled Mouse.
POLO SCURRY.-Silva, Talisman, Jor- Will the end of the Sanitary Departments to the inspector, but said that against those Korenas but to no result; rocks, Chow, Punch, Ginger, After Dark, ment state for the information of the be did not know that the deceased had though China, in refusing the overture Wee Mouse, Miserrimus Doleful, Moon- Board :--
suffered from amall-pox:
promised to undertake the suppression of shine, Mouse, Consternation, Brown (Whether thers figures were sup- Dr. H. H. Scott, medical officer in them by herself.
These Koreans bare Paper, Fighting Tight, Redcoat, Not plied from an official or other charge of Victoria Mortuary, said that he since continued to act more and more withstanding Authorised source, or whether it examined the dead body of a small-pox violently until in conspiracy with Chin- FIVE FURLONGS RACE.Merrysand, is known how they were ob- patient at the mortuary on May 18these mounted bandits and Russian Bol Workshop, Pawnshop, Tuckshop. Charing -tained?
The man was covered with a amall-pox sheviks, they recently attacked and buro- Cross, Hatton, Moulds, Coni King, Moor- -Whether the Infantile Mortality rash, which was confluent all over the ed the Japanese Consulate in Eunchu land King, Scamperdale, Tiddleywinks, rate of the Colony has been cal face. The rash must have been out some and massacred many Japanese residents. Miserrimus Doleful, Ardelar, By Jingo, culated and if so what are the days, as it became confinent about the The outrage was, indeed, a replica of the Strome Repulse Bay Chiel, Stanley intest 'figures available?
inte Vikolaevsk tragedy. It is thus no Chief, Spoilt Child, Spynie, Harlequin, 8th or 9th day. He thought even an (If such rate has not beek caluninitated person should recognise it, longer possible for Japan to rely on Beggar King, Tweedledum, Mystic Dah- enintel what are the difficulties The defondant said that the deceased Chint alone for the protection of her lia, Lighting, Shooting Star, Pantile, which would tend to invalidate was always covered up, and he could not subjects in the districts; so, urged the Louza, such culculation!"
Stream Dunspot, Dr. W. W. PEARSE, Medical Officer of see, therefore, if he had any rash or not, the necessity of preserving peace and Cranby, Redbird.
1 MILE HANDICAP.-Carpenter, Bol-. Benith gave the following replies--
The Magistrate pointed out to Inspec-security in her domains and of Baving ()-Vital Statistics in the Colony tor Brewer that so far he had not legally her national prestige, Japan has been shevic, Tuckshop, Forest Chill, Siamese are oficially the affair of the proved his case, and the hearing was obliged to mobilize her army. The art Cat, Jawleyford, Tiddley winks, Miseeri- Medien Officer of Health. No adjourned in order to get evidence to in Chientao, however, must act quite
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infant show that the body examined by Dr. differently from the way it would act us Dolciul, Quo Vadis, Spoilt Child. Hongkong Chief, Kandy Chief, The mortality was asked from my Scott was the one removed from the in the country or territory of an enemy. Ameer, Savermke Flywheel, Harlequin, I should always be mindful to respect Beggar King, Lighting, St. Anthony, by Mrs. Neville Rolf and I do house. not know how she obtained her The father of a three years old child, the sovereignty of China, and act mort Leighton, Neser. figures
who died of small-pox, was also summon kindly and politely towards its people. (No Infantile Mortality Rate hased for failing to report the case. The As regards the Koreans, all law-abiding: defendant told the sanitary inspector people must be treated with love and that the child died of fever, and that no friesdship, and regarded as new bro- doctor attended it. Raah appeared on thers. If the army act to the contrary, the child on the 10th, Inspector Brewer it will only serve to stimulate the anti- said the defendant told him that the pathy of the inhabitauts of the district child was removed to the Tung Wah and thus drive them into the camp of Hospital in a tram car on the 18th. It mati-Japanese agitators. The expedition- died a couple of hours later.
any force, to the very last private, is re- quired to be thoroughly cognizant of its Further interesting information with present duty, and every member of it reference to the activity of German mer- should study carefully the instructions chants in Shanghai is given in an article given below and put forth endeavours in the Siure pao. According to this to vindicate the honour of the Japane journal, the commercial treaty with soldier by acting up to them to the vory Germany has not yet been drafted, but letter, unless his superior in rank, should German merchants in Shanghai are very
information
been calculated.
The Infantile Mortality Rata in a given locality is the ratio of the deaths of infants under year of age in that place dur ing one year to the number of children born in that place dur ing the same period.
In Hongkong we do not know:-- (1.)-How many children are born, here
in any given year, nor.
(2)How many children who did here am brought to the Colony, in bad health and therefore cannot cal- culate a corrected Death Rate. All deaths are registered in order that burial ay taks place, but it is not the custom of the majority of Chinese to register births Birth Rates are calculated at so many births per thousand of the population per annam and are therefore not compar able with Infant Mortality Rates.
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Such births as nru registered here are chiefly those of males, ep. of 400 births registered during the first quarter of
Dr. G. H. Thomas, resident medical officer of the Tung Wah Hospital, said that at about 1.60 p.m. on May 16th he examined the child and found its body covered with rash.
The Magistrate What was it suffering
from!
Dr. Thomas: In my opinion, small pox-order otherwise. The Magistrate: Surely there can be no two opinions whether the case is one of smallpox or not?
THE ARMY HEADQUARTERA. (ENCLOSURE.]
Mountain
GERMAN TRADE IN SHANGHAI
A CHINESE VIEW OF THE":
SITUATION.
ACTIVITY AMONG THE OLD FIRMS:
active and “their former commercial standing is gradually being restored. Although the Allied nations have made a Dr. Thomas; I am giving my opinion. The practising of that chivalry of rule that all German exports must pay Do you mean to say another doctor warrior peculiar to Japan will not fail on export duty amounting to one-tenth might give another opinion 7-I think it to produce a very good effect on the of their value, the quantity of indigo, vory unlikely.
Was there a rash 1-Yes, thickly, on the feding of Koreans and Chinese with re: anils and other merchandize arriving in gard to the Empire, and the effect will Shanghai is very large. Substantial face and hands. W
In your experience, do you think an be far beyond that induced by the kind quantities are arriving each week,
Most of the men who were formerly only 90 are of females.3 per ordinary Chiness would recognise that Such chivalry will incidentally contri- managers of German export firms have
nea of an ordinary local inhabitant. cent, while 1,156 births, attended by rash -- think, at the particular stage bute to the amelioration of national re-returned to shanghai, among them the registered midwives during the first 4 at whieh I saw it, practically everyone months of this year, show a percentage would recognise it..
lationship. It will cause Korean malcon- managers of Siemusens and Melchers, of 25.7 females.
How long previously would it be tents to throw aside their independence while other" well known companies are Dr. Kock said he did not want to recognisable About three days. Dr. dream and anti-Jannese Chinese to re- now represented. They are endeavour ing to resume business, with the assist- any
lengthy comment but the lady Thomas added that the child was pent of their conduct. mentioned in the cable seemed to have moribund when it was brought in and As the present expedition is a nee of their old compradores. "The been speaking rather at random. He died within two hours.
joint work with the Chinese army, Pootung wharf of Melchers & Co. is intended to send Dr. Pearse's answers
mutual friendship should exist between under the control of the Ministry of to the medical papers in England.
Chinese and Japanese troops. Any act Communications and is at prese ut Leased of insolence tending to injure the feel by Japanese Arm. The lease expires ings of Chinese will not only be likely in August or September next and a Ger- to end in a quarrel between the troops man representative of Messrs. Melchers; concerned but may even occasion an in accompanied by a Chinese, has left for teraational difficulty as was often the Peking in the hope of securing the lease case in the past. The greatest care must from the Ministry of Communications, be taken against showing insolence, hut. sons to be able to use the wharf for nevertheless, none should demean him- German vessels..... self in such a way as to compromise the honour of the Imperial Army:
make
The CHAIRMAN said it seemed a good thing that the question had breri asked, in view of the fact that the statement was apparently not based on inquiries from official sources and was apparently
inaccurate.
The Magistrate: Why did you not call in a doctor.
Defendant: I am a new comer. I did not know where to get one.
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The Magistrate imposed a fine of 825 The defendant made, an appeal to be let off, but the Magistrate said "Your child was desperately ill, but you called no doctor, and allowed it to die.
MAGISTRACY.
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An incident at the Star Ferry Wharf in Connaught Road Central was mentioned before Mr. H. E. Lindsell, at the Magis
3.-When at Rome, do an Romans do is a well-known saying. So a stranger must respect the castorns and morals of
HABITS OF MOSQUITOES. With reference to the survey being
The Board of Directors of the Deutsche made of possible breeding places of mos MOTOR CAR CASES AT THE
Asiatische Bank at Berlin has appointed quitoes, Dr. Pearse said that, owing to the illness of the Senior Inspector, the re
a Chinese representative at Shanghai in port was not quite completed, but he was
connexion with the opening of a branch in a position to give the Board some
office, and temporary accommodation has information. On Crown Lands, actual
a country in which he finds himself. Je been secured at No. 51, Kiaugse Boad, breeding places had been found; e. in
who behaves himself contrary to the The former compradore of the Bank i four aullahs; in tanks left by continc | tracy, yesterday, when the Chinese customs of the land in which be happens panisting in strangements for the re tors (since removed); in swamps, parti- driver of motor car 396 was summoned to be will make a very bad impression sumption of business, but this cannot be cularly one in King's Park, Kowloon for reckless driving Inspector Garrod on its inhabitants, trifle may pre done until the commercial treaty has A very large number of potential breed said that two Europeans were standing judice the position of the Empire in the been signed. It is learned that the Wai- ing places had been found on Crown under the lamp, in the centre of the road world. So it is imperative that troops chaipou will not sign the treaty until the Land in bamboo fences; in a few un- trained nullahs; in numerous
and the car knocked down one of them, take particular heed of the following question of reparations has been deter- places a Portuguese clerk in the Chartered Bank, paints
mined.--NG, Daily News. where the surface channels on the upper The Inspector asked for an adjournment levels on the Peak, especially drained until next Tuesday, as this witness was
(a) Don't enter the room of, or talk to, a woman unwarrantably', ami over the hillside, allowing pools to form understood to be away at Macao, and this
On privato land no fewer than 1
(b) Don't disrobe, even in part, in the actual breeding places had been found the European said he was all right" was granted. The defendant asserted that
presence of Koreans and Chinese. in Hongkong, in spite of the he and was not much burt.
(c) Don't enter a Korean or Chinese rains which, no doubt, had washed away many deposits of mosquito larvae. Kowloon,.
Dr. Woodman reported that per cent of the private premises showed signs of mosquito breeding. Fortunately, none of the specimens were anopheles but enticings, the domestic type. Broadly speaking, domestic mos quitoes were all culicines, and unopheles were the silvan or rural type.
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Dr. Chow was fined 85 for driving a mater car in Kennedy Bend without a permit. Dr. Chow seat message that he was called to an urgent case by some ladies who had come for him personally This appeared to be an answer to the police suggestion that it was a
joy-ride and not a professional visit. Inspector Garrer made the further suggestion that soon as his need of them is over. Provincial Educational Association. The
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A CANTON UNIVERSITY.
TEMPORARY SITE SECURED.
dwelling without permission of its Mesars. Wang Ching-wai and Wo Chi- inmates, or peep into their rooms, fei, two prominent educationalists, and 4.A soldier should not make use of ex-Governor Hu Han-stia, an able Chi- anything belonging to the people with nese scholar, have been entrusted with ont permission. When, ander unavail the important task of founding a univer able circumstances, he uses them with hity to be called the University of the permission of the owner, he must Kwangtung The establishment of the be careful in their use and return' them University is under the direction of the 5. Don't take bay or fuel piled in the temporary site of the proposed university fields without the consent of the owner. will be situnted at the Yuk Chi Kong The violation of this injunction is pillage near the East Gate until a suitable pise itself, and nothing will bring a greater of ground has been selected for the per- stain on the honour of the imperial army manent buildings of the University. En trance examination for admission to the Preparatory Course will be held on July
the ear, when the ladies were in it, was proceeding away from No. 24 where the patient was, but, as Dr. Chow was not able to be in Court that point was not cleared up. The Magistrato aid the than pillage defendant had only to apply for a per 6-He who has little or no intention fessional purposes.**** manent permit to obtain one for proof purchasing must not loiter for long in 1st at the former Language School...
A CHINESE COLD CURE.
Chinesa or Korea store, or wasto the General Li Fook-jum whose headquar keeper's time in asking the price of ters are at present located at the Langu articles. Nor should he insist on being age School, heartily approves the found- allowed to buy un article de an unreasoning of this University and has volunteer-
It used to be thought that mosquitoes would not travel, more than a quarter of a mile but it had been found, recently, by experiments in Netherlands India, that they would travel many miles in search of blood. In Java, mosquitous by means of nets, thousands were colour were caught as they came out of a pool, ed artificially and released. They were recognised 7,000 metres distant from the place where they were caught..
That must alter ideas held heretofore as to mosquito prevention. It was not suffiA Chinese made a quaint statement ably low price for such not is one of ed to more his headquarters elsewhere so cient to eat undergrowth near at hand, at the Magistracy, yesterday. It was extortion He must always pay a fair that the examination of students can be although it would be of some use sinco alleged that he had five pigeons and was price for the articles bought by him, conducted on July 1st.-Canton Times. it would deprive mosquitoes of shelter hawking them without & license. He 7-Never be carried away by sudden from the sun by day. Without that pro denied the charge and said he bought the impulse. Japanese are generally quick tection they would die. He would like pigeons to boil them with Chinese tempered and not infrequently compro to remind the public of the mosquito's medicine.
miss themselves through this very short hibernating habite. Cold weather killed
coming. He who is the soldier of them, but some hibernated under favour
great Power ought to to act must pr able conditions and lived right through
dently, wireling the winter available to get rid of mosquitoes from houses. Pastilles could bo supplied, composed of sulphur, salt petre and, charcoal by means of which dark cupboards, Cellars, and other dark places could be fumigated. These were available to any who wished for them and instructions were supplied with the pastilles
The remainder of the business was formal
were
Korean
The Magistrate (Mr. Lindsell) said he would like to know the recipe. Would the pigeons be boiled whole 1
The defendant replied affirmatively 8-Beware and said he had been cured of a cold Chinese, or other foreigner by alighting namen or of acting in an insulting before by similar means
The Magistrate: Well, it is a good manner. For instance, never call excuse, I will discharge you, though. I Korean yalo don't know if it is true or not.
9.-In speaking to a Korean or China-
10-Always be on guard, while on duty in camp or in the street, against Koread, Chinese, or other foreign strangers, so as not to be caught napping, for there may be found among them military spies, Bolsheviks armed with bombe, or would-be assassins.
11-Bravery alone is not enough in dealing with people general, but love to must be shown: Efforts should be
endear Koreans to him and inspire, in Put forth by each and every private to them the conviction of how precious in the nationality of Japan and how happy
voluntarily return to the bosom of the |-- (Continued at foot of nest column.)⠀⠀⠀⠀| Empire.”
The Inspector in charge of the case mau, the greatest care must taken to be
exceeding sorrowful. There is a polite in expression, especially if on previous conviction," he told the Magie has paly an imperpect knowledge of the are her subjects, so that they may trate. But it was too late the defend language he is using. ant had gone.
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