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INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN

HONGKONG

THE ANNUAL MEDICAL REPORT.

In his manual medical report for the

year 11 Dr. J. T. C. Johnson, Principal Civil Mèdies) Officer, makes the following general remarks:---

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16TH,

AMERICA'S “DARK DAYS." "SPEECH AT MANILA BY MR.

SECRETARY DENBY.

JAPANESE ARMY

REDUCTION.

SCHEME OF

THE SWATOW TYPHOON

DISASTER, CONSIGNMENTS OF RICE BRING- SENT FROM HONGKONG:

The British Chamber of Commerce t Swarow has formed a small Committee

The Japanese Embassy in Loudon last This is a little bit of America plauted month communicated to the Press that the over here in the Orient," said Secretary following additional information regard- of the Navy Denby at the Rotary Club ng Japanese military retrenchment has lancheon given in his honour at the been received by cable from Tokyo..

As the result of minute, and elnbernte Manila Hotel recently.Any American investigation which has been conducted for the purpose of administering the who comes over here and sees what the by the War Office, the General Staff, and funds being collected by the Chamber of Americans and Filipinos have done toge, also by Government Departments concern Commerce in Hongkong This Comunita

The reduction of the personnel of tities of rice and other necessities. The

Swatow Chamber has secured "the servids, -Annual expenditure on the any of a steamr launch which is going alo to the reducul by about 200,000 3. the coast to the small towns and villag-

A readjustment of the present army administration wherehy 2500,000 yen will devastated by the tidal wave, distribatur be saved annually,

4.The period of military service to be reduced by forty-five days.

1.The aucber of army-hers to belong to relieve she people of the whole

area affected. reduced by 12,000.

food and medical supplies to the need) In this way everything possible is belme,

In comparing the prevalence of certain of the infectious diseases in the last twother, many well feel proud of the flag, and ed, measures for retrenchment in the is - -distributing relief in kind, not ju years malaria, enteric fever, and all proud of the work it has conducted so Inpanese army were approved by the

well. I reviewed companies of Filipino Cabiner on Jung 30th. The Japanese money, and ut ita request the Hongkong pox seem to have been more front thun soldiers this morning. They are splendid. Press publishes the folving detail of Chamber has already shipped large quan- they were the year before." The increase They look lika moldiers, and Fam pirnud the measures in question in the cases of malaria is reported from that America made then, I saw your

ronds and visited your schools. It is my the Army by 58,000 mun. the Civil Hospital only. The unmber of people who did it. And my people will typhoid cases is almost the same, 115, as be blessed for ever, no matter what the out cong of present agitations may be. I am that for the previous year: the increas not going to talk about politics in the in cases of para-typhoid reported being a Philippines, but I do not believe that you definite one, possibly due to the fact that need feel alarm for your business inter- it is because of a more accurate diagnosis ests. Your little troubles are like aephyrs

to the typhoons blowing elsewhere.” of the condition, rather than to any posi *You are, it seems to me," said the tive increase in the number of cases, secretary, dwelling pretty close to the portals of paradise here. I should like Plague, cerebrospinal fever. diptheria,

to stay here for years, and my life here.. addysentery have not been more'in evi- You are all so infernally healthy that it dence than they were in the earlier period. makes me mad. I am going to waste na Influenza had been for many years before sympathy on you. You have been trans planted. it is true, but you wem to be

A further scheme is to expend a sum of 1018 a comparatively slight cans of sick-doing well in the new soil. 1 see nothing ness, but since that year it has been a but lovely wonen, strong men and healthy about 100,000,000 y en supplying the army with new weapons, "this expenditure regular visitor. frequently in epidemic children.

"Conditions, have been terrible, in the to extend over thirteen fiscal years.

Effect will be immediately given to form, and affecting all nationalities. It United States for the past two year cccurs at all times of the year and seems Had business men not stood together, held those measures which do not require the to be independent of the condition of the up the weak, and supported the stagger-consent of the Diet. These which eatail weather. The number of cases reported ing (I am talking purely financially-they curtailment of, or addition to, expendi from the different institutions was 979 for don't stagger any more in the United ture, will be introduced in the next ses the year. There were 1,388 in 1920 The States) we would have been involved in sion of the Imperial Diet, before the end number of deaths reported as due to in-one of the worst panics of our history. fluenia, was 512 and 303, for the last two years respectively. Except in the case of smallpox and paratyphoid fever, the amount of infectious diseases in the year under "review compares favourably with the years preceding, this is shown in

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Typhoid.

Diptheria.

188

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Bat kindness and altruism proved a whole. some business policy I hope those dark days are definitely behind us, but whether they are or not, there stands still they American spirit as President Garfield said, 'God reigns and the Government at Washington still lives'

"Many people have a grouch on the Government. But the Government is doing its darndest. We are going to have a lot of trouble this fall, I am afraid. The election is coming. Although I am certain that the Bepublicans will retain a majority in congress, I fear I shall miss many familiar faces that I have grown to love. I wish all of you could go to the United States to vote.

"We have elected a President who de serves the earnest and affectionate regard of every American in the world."

7.The discharge of superannuated oficers, especially those of field, rk, consequent upon the adoption of the re trenchment plan.

8.A reorganisation of the infantry,

Yesterday's local contribution list in- cavalry artillery, engineers, and transcluded donations of $2,000 from the Great Northern Telegraph Co., Ltd., $300 Trom port-corps.

the Java China Japan Lija, $500 from the Vacuum Oil Co., 80 each from Messrs. and Davis, 800 from the Parsee Charity Moxon and Taylor and Messrs. Linstead Fund, and 850 from the Indian Parses Community (frotu balance of Prince of Wales Fund). The total has now reached. 800,410 About $13,000 has so far breni acknowledged in the Chinese Treas as the result of the combined efforts of the Tung Wah Hospital and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

of the Escal year,

POKER AT MANILA.

FOUR AMERICANS FINED. J. W. Hopkins, Harold Felton, John J. Hughes and Arthur F. Skiles who, with Louis Dingmao, former chief of the Manila Fire Department, were found guilty in the Municipal Court of playing draw poker and fined P.200 each, were on Monday afternoon, August 8tb, sen- tenced to pay a fine of P.25 each by Jadge Imperial of the Court of First Instance, says the Manila Time Mr. Dingman was not included in the sentence, having been granted a separate trial.

The four men sentenced by Judge Imperial paid their ines and were ap- parently satisfied, but not so with their attorney, Hamon Sotelo. Attorney Sotelo still believes that draw poker is not game of chance and those playing it should not be liable to any punishment. Hence, "THE SIGN ON THE DOOR."

he plans to make a test case and take it to the Supreme Court to settle the Hunning its course between romance argument once and for all time. It was and tragedy, with a relieving tinge of learned at the Court of First Lostanco this bright humour, the story of The Sign morning that Attorney Sotelo plans to get on the Door," the Norma Talmadge up a poker party and play draw poker Picture that is being creeped at the openly. If those playing are arrested. Coronet to-day, works up to the poigrant and taken to court he intends to fight the moment when the young wife, us the case up to the Supreme Court with a Bequel to an innocent pre-matrimonial view to getting the superior court's escapado, finds herself in the tragic situ opinion and ruling on the playing of draw ation of having to watch her husband kill poker. the son of her erstwhile employer. He goes away alter tacking a Not to be disturbed placard on the door, little. dreaming that behind it is his wife."

TUBERCULOSIS

CHINA'S NATIONAL DEBT.

B.-I. STEAMER "GONDIA.

NO NEWS?

British-India The sa Gondia, freighter, engaged in the rice trade between Rangoon and Shanghai, is now ten days overdue at Shanghai. A call at Messrs. Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.'s offices, yesterday afternoon, elicited that nothing farther has been heard of the missing steamer. On August End the Gondia wirelessed her position at 100 miles south of Swatow. Since then no thing has been heard of her. On the night following the receipt of the message the terrible typhoop swept over, the district of Swatow."

The Gondia is practically a new vessel, having been buut during the war on standardised lines. She has a gross tonnage of 5,280 tons, and carried about a. dozen European officers.

AN IMPOSING FUNERAL.

THE MURDERED RESTAURANT

PROPRIETOR.

The funeral of Mr. Fung Tsun Un, who was shot in the Old Bailey, outside, the Central Police Station, on Sunday night, took place yesterday afternoon. He was.. 61 years of age. The procession, headed by the Chinese E.M.CIA. Band, left the deceased's residence in Chancey Lane and passed through the principal Chinese The Chinese Bureau of Economic Infor-sweets on its way to the Tai Hai Wan mation publishes the following corrected Cemetery where the remains will be figures:-

General foreign loans interred. In the funeral prom, will be the late gentlemen's wife, concubines and $269,979,252,34 Foreign railway loans.... 334,802,631.00 children, a number of relatives and soms Foreign indemnities 483,841,744.00 confrères in the restaurant business. They- Internal long term loans... 375,226,738.00 were under the protection of an armed Internal short term loans. 69,101,978.54 escort of European sergeants and plain- Treasury notes, etc.

18,040,000.00 clothes district watchmen Silk scroil

tributes were sent by the various restaur $1,419,592, 243.88 ants at West Point, the Sai Hing Tong, the Building Contractors Association, and

"Total

THE CRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE.

assembled at the "Yat Bert Ting," Kennedy Town, to pay their last res pects. O

This disease appeared in epidemic form in 1918; the number of deaths causd by it in each of the four years 1818021, being 968, 204, 103 and 73, respectfely. As usually happens where the exactoon- ditions in which a disease originate are Dr. FL. Scctt, the Government Bacterio- unknown, overcrowding and defect in logist concluded an investigation into sanitation are assumed to be the cuses. tuberculosis as a cause of death" in Hong- But certain peculiarities in the distibu-kong, especially with regard to the pre- tion and extension of this disease me to valence and character of the disease in He summarises the enquiry imply that although indifferent sanittion children. may be one of the factors concerned it is thus: "A very brief experience as medi-

The last items do not contain all the way relatives, and friends. The number not to be the governing factor in its cuscal officer in charge of the mortuary short term loans and treasury note issues, of monrners was in the neighbourhood tion. For cerebro-spinal meningitis sufficed to shows that tuberculosis is a often distributed irregularly even mid frequent cause of death in Hongkong, and the nigouts of some of which cannot be of $500, and many prominent Chiness conditions of overcrowding and squlor; I deemed it an investigation well worth definitely ascertained. and, it has broken out not infrequptly undertaking, to determine the varieties of among townspeople and soldiers, petithe disease as met with here, the portals. cularly in barracks, under circumstaces of entry, the mode of shread, and, it in which insanitary conditions coul be possible, to determine the primal cause. excluded, or," at all events, were notfis- or causes responsible for the condition and coverable. Or it may be confined whin those aiding its dissemination, with a narrow limits, although the defos of view to elucidating ensures for its hygiene may be as grant round abot as prevention."

He is of opinion that the prevalence oftion to Central Asia, has written to in the areas affected. Epidemics ave occurred which were confined to thin the disease is closely connected with social Science (America) for June as follows: mission to carry arms, mates of one institution, to one regient and economic conditions; that the inges. It is the consensus of Scientific in a garrison, even to one block of histion of tuberculous milk, has no inluce Overcrowding then seems to har no here, for Chinese children do not drink special significance in causing thedisit, nor does it arise from the use of tuber ense, but only a general one of the me culous ment; that the chief predisposing value that it has for many other infive causes of the prevalence of tuberculosis are

but WES also the so-called Another murder which has been attri diseases by providing suitable cundions overcrowding and absence of sunlight tic

from the living room but the slicet cause Cradle of the human race. Although bated to labour disputes, was perpetrated for their developmentis p

As to its contagiousness, the observion of this prevalence is the Chinees babit of its important relation to human ancestry on Monday. This time the murdered man is commonly made that attendants the expectorating at all times and places. kick, even those in close or contious As to the portals of entry and mode of has long been recognised, no co-ordinated was a rattan worker, living at Sham Shui

scientiae investigation has ever been com Po contact, with the sick, are seldom atted. spread of tuberculosis, in a series of 400 ducted on a large scale. Ita zoologyAt the time of the murder he was On the other hand it has often been ths examinations Dr. Scott estimates that in paleontology and botany bear the most sitting outside his shop at No. 43, Yeo ported from one place to another beo-72 per cent, the portal of entry appeared intimate relations to the ancestry of man Chow Street when a number of shots were ple, soldiers, for example, moving put to be by the respiratory tract, and a little had it is with reference to this problem fired at him by an unknown assailant If these chservations be accurate, idoes more than 12 per cent was of alimentary which is of World-wide interest that the The wounded man staggered into the shop not seem too far-fetched a notion, th wengin; in the remainder of the eases the expedition will conduct its work have to deal with a disease, whose ginprintary portal was not certainly acr and dissemination appear to agrin tained but cases of isolated primary many respects with those of typhuand tuberculosis of the intestine very rately like typhus, many of its special chaiters ecur in Hongkong in his experience, may be best explained by supposi an insect to be the car of the orgiam which causes cerebrummatiever

In connection with the murder of the deceased. we understand that he was one of-three restaurant proprietors who According to the July, 1922, Number of received anonymous threatening letters. the American Review of "Reviews, Mr during the strike but apparently Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the Fung did not pay much heed to the threat. American Museum's third Asiatic Expedi The restaurant: proprietors have since applied to the Police authorities for per

VENEREAL DISEASES

The general civil birth rate, is 61, and the Chinese birth rate, 668 per 1,000

The total number of deaths wus 11,880 and the general death rate was 20 27 per

opinion that the Central Asian platean,

STILL ANOTHER MURDER. including Thibet, Chinese Turkestan and Mongolia, was not only the point of origin and distribution for any forms. of animal hfe which exist to-day in RATTAN WORKER DONE TO DEATH. America, Europe and many parts of the

where he died in his wife's arms a few. minutes later, without making a Klate? unentAUKU

This supports Mr. Tse Tsan Tai's und- ing that Chinese Turkestan is the

Cradle of the Human Race, which he The murdered man, who is namel published to the World in a book and Cheung Ta vas wounded in thres set of eight supplementary pamphlets, so places, ones in the chest and twice in the far back as the year 1914,

back, below the right shoulder blade.

The alarm was raised and the police in the neighbourhood scoured the district. but up to the present no arrests have

FIT-U PINCE-NEZ 1,000. Of these there were 11,804 Chinese is the latest of the anger operated eyes The evidence arailable goes to shethat and 276 non-Chinese civilians, and the there has been an increase in the fiber death rate was respectively 20-20 and glass mounting and has been designed to of persons who apply for treatment had 18:09, avoid all the objectionable features of there has been a real increase the

INFANTILE MORTALITY this type of mounting. The long coil amount of venereal disuso is uncnín. – 15 non-Chinese and 1,005. Chinese in springs of the Fit-U prevent spring It seems to me probable that therger fasts died who were less than a month breakage and can be instantly adjusted number of cases returned is due the old, and 23 non Chinese and 2,663 Chinese

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