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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1924

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

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PREVENTION OF MALARIA.

GOOD PROGRESS

MALAYA.

BRITISH

TIN AND TINFOIL,

THE INDUSTRY IN CHINA.

The making of tinfoil is an industry. which employs many thousands of people in China, saya the Chiness Economic Bullecin. The bend of a Chinese firm At the recent meeting of the Interna- estimates that in Chekiang province alone, tional Conference on Sanitary Engineer notably about Ningpo, Hangchow and ing. says the China Express, several Shaching, there are more than 100,000 papers were read on prevention of mala adults and children making tinfoil. Ilaria. One of these denit with sanitary chief use is for sacrificial purposes. Age problema" in the Malay Peninsula, and old methods of beating are still employed was by Sir Malcolm Watson, who re in reducing small cubes of this materials rently received the well-earned knight- to a paper like thinness. In Chinn tin-hood bestowed on the pecasion of the foil is actually made of tin, a manufactur King's Birthday. ing practice contrary to that followed in

Sir Malcolm told what had been done Western countries, where lead is com

in British Malaya daring recent years. monly the foundation of tinfoil Tin is Over thousands of square miles in the purchased in slabs from 30 to 100 pounds Malay Peninsula, the control of malaria each. Provincial dealers in Kiangsu and Chekiang provinces usually get their sup

is today as much a part of the routine, plies from wholesalers in Shanghai, Theanitary work as the supply of water or large slabs

the removal of refuse; indeed, in many to workshops in or neaplers it is regarded as the most ju- go Ningno where they are melted and ed into moulds containing many holes portant sanitary measures, and is super- about an inch square. The one-inch vised accordingly. Drainnge and oiling Jogots are taken out from the moulds are the two chief methods in use-apart, when they are could and beaten into a of course, from mosquito nets, which are Anished paper of about 2 feet square used by Europeans, Malays, and "Chinese Tremendous pounding is required to but rarely, if ever, by the lower-class transform the square slab, hammer and Indians. Tens of thousands of lives have steel plates being the utensils employed. been saved. In the city of Singapore As soon as the foil has reached the desir-alone, nearly 40,000 lives have been saved ed thinness, the paper is attached to it in the last eleven years by sanitary by moisture.. The paper and metal are

measures, of which the most important then baked together over a fire. The has been malaria control. For twenty next process is to trim the edges and to

years before the anti-malarial work wAS cut the material into four sheets, after began in 191- wave of malarin sub- which these are made into backs of 1000 merged the city annually-so, grent, in- sheets each. They are again cut and then deed, that it raised the death-rate on an marked. When the foil reaches the

average in the month of May to a greater retail dealers it is again divided into height than even the appalling influenzu pieces about the size of a post card, which size it is sold to the consumers in "pidemie of 1978 could do. Today the dealers estimate that 70.000 large slabs annual malarial wave has been so su of tin -ars used yearly by tin beating terror. We can only wish more power to stantially reduced that it has lost its hongs at Ningpo, Hanghow, and Shao- hing alone. The total tin imported last the work, and to the noble hand whose labours have fobbed life in the tropics year was 58,511 pitula, valued at Hk. Tls. 3.401,615 With the exception of Hongkong of one of its greatest' terrors. the largest exporter countries figuring in exports of tin to China are the Straits Settlements. Dutch East Indies. British India, Germany," Russin, Korea and Japan, For many years, tin imports from

HEATING OF HOUSES.

Hongkong maintained a standard quality ROMAN EXAMPLE FOR MODERN

of 533 per cent. of tin. The standard

to

has tin The

A

ARCHITECTS.

The correspondent' writing th. The

The opening up recently of several Roman dwellings in this country has brought vividly before, some of us the lost art of heating, a house.

ingot size was 06 pounds. Recent arrivals: of tin in Chian have not maintained the standard long depended upon, according Times, says: to the tin dealers, and uncertainty as to the quality now purchased is being felt The present price of tin in Soanghai is between Tls. 90 and Tis. 83 per piciul, (123-1 lb.). Alloy of $3 per cent pure tin sells at about Tls, 4 cheaper than pure

The Romans wuruted their houses by metal. So far, it is said, no

the pleasantest and most scientific method devoted its entire attention

-namely, that of heating the floors of melting for tinfoil manufacture. Shanghai Tin Company has recently been the rooms by means of hot air which started to malt and market metal of

passed continually below them. The bot standard alloy which will contain 93-5 per air of the hypocaust, besides warming cent puro tin. Leading merchants in the floors of the rooms of these one- this trade at Ningpo, Hangchow, and storeyed Roman villas, also heated the Shaobing are the promoters, and a capital water for bath. Medieval Europe lost of Tis. 100.000 has been raised.

this art it' forgot how to beat houses and it neglected to provide baths. On the cold carthen floors, of the gloomy ensties rushes were spread presumably to keep the feet of the lords and ladies warm, for the fire in the vast chimney of the banqueting hall must have been. The Chairman of the National Bank most ineficient heater of that great. Ltd., at the half yearly general meeting apartment: We all know that if our feet are of shareholders held in Dublin recently warm we are warm or, at least, comfort- made the following reference to tradeable all over, and that if the floors are conditions:-

TRADE CONDITIONS IN IRELAND.

warm all is well, calorifically speaking,

A review of the past six months' trad with the house..

ing in Ireland is difficult. Through cattle* « The amali 'open fire of millions of and sheep show a moderate margin of small houses at the present day is an profit, the prices of other products have excellent ventilator, but a bad heater of not been favourably affected, consequently the air of the room. The problem money is scarce. Traders find a growing should always have been before the difficulty in collecting shop debts, and maay have been forced into bankruptcy.architect how to heat a room without neglecting to change its air the essence A fall in value from the boom period of ventilation. The open grate is a was inevitable, and, this is now reflected in the price being paid for land, which wasteful and dirt-scattering source of domestic heat. When the building of shows a reduction in parts of the country | Bouses is so much before the dation at of some 40 to 50 per cent,

Within recent years, countries such as the moment, it might be well to remem- Helland and Denmark, by reason of more her the efficient, clean, and healthy Roman method of beating the floors first. scientific systems in production and pre- I understand that our architects are paration for market, have proved danger indeed contemplating something of the ous rivals to Irish agricultural exporters

It is therefore encouraging to note the kind, a return to the long-forgotten good stops taken by the Free State Government old Roman systera.

to ensure the adoption of such methods as should result in successfully combating this foreign competition, thus placing the trade on a sound basis.

trade.

Unemployment still remains a problem which can only be solved by a revival of

The

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In the intelligent application of such' methods lies success, and it is encoura ging that the importance of development along these linea is recognized by the Free State Government.

CINEMA NOTES.

QUEEN'S THEATRE..

Bert Lytell, the popular Matro star, will be seen in another screen play,

Sherlock Brown," which has been des cribed as "not a Conan Doyle story," which opens at the Queen's Theatre to- day. This now picture concerns, mainly, E earnest young clerk whose solitary am bition in life is to blossom forth as a detective of the calibre of his namesake, A course with a correspondence school and payment of $6 secures for him a detective's

the display of which badge, Causes much amusement to the fallow. lodgers at his boarding house. Un- deterred by their cynicalite of having

and unsympathe remarks and in spend weary hours in an office, he utilises his spare time to win 'fame by, detective exploits One day he falls accidentally

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