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The reply included a figure which seemed to be far too low. Upon cross-examina-held up by two man on the Wanchai Gap tion the farmer seriously explained that Road on Wednesday and robbed of a he had. omitted to estimate for the bones, pair of gold-mounted rattan bangles. It is, of course, amazing to the European that an eminently practical people auch as the Chinese should be so inexact in regard to numbers and even personal matters. Allowance must be made for such inaccuracy when we are dealing with Chinese statistics.

In the returns of notifiable diseases for the 24 hours, ended August 10th, there were two cases (Chinese) of enteric fever; also another Chinese case of enteric during the following 24 hours.

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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S REVIEW OF THE FIGURES:

THE COST OF THE PEAK

HOSPITAL.

GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.

THE "QUESTION OF FEES.

When the vote of $8,000 for the Peak

At the meeting of the Legislativa Hospital came before the Finance Com- The thirtieth annual general meeting Council yesterday, the COLONIAL SECREmittee of the Legislative Council yester

day, the Hon. Mr. A. O. LANG asked AY moved the first reading of a Bill whether the Colonial Treasurer could give intituled An Ordinance to authorise the the Committee ady information regarding appropriation of a supplementary sum the running of the Peak Hospital before of 2932:249.59 to defray the charges of the the Government took it over. Ha wished to know whether it was run at a profit

Oriental-Agency, Ltd., will be held in We may rely upon those published by the offices of Messra. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., the Municipal Health Authorities on Tuesday, August 31st at nocu. :

Shanghai, but we must be cautious with regard to any that are quoted about

Section-Commander J. Ralston, of the Kowloon Division, St. John Ambulance

year 1995.

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viously owned it.

cholera ia.native cities. Rumour tells Brigade, has been appointed to the rank Commenting upon the figures he said: by the medical practitioners who pre- of cholera in Canton, Wuchow, Tsingtao of Corps Superintendent. Sergeant E. I believe this ís smallest amount and other places. Rumour may exagger Savage has been promoted to Section. ate but there is enough evidence about | Commander.

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The engagement is announced between Leslie Laurence, eldest son of Mrs. Alax Laurence and the late Sydney Mortimer Laurence of St. Ives, Cornwall, and Shanghai, China, and Kathleen Iliffe, only daughter of Sir Edward Iliffe, M.P., and Lady life, of Allesley Hall, near Coventry.

From the effects, it is stated, of some powder which he took, a Chinese died in

hospital on Wednesday, cre, hour after removal from his home. At an acute stage of the ailment, it is stated that he admitted to his wife that he had taken peison. The woman is being detained, with the view to discovering the motive

As will be seen from an advertisement columns Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co.'s

As is known the Government took over the Peak Hospital in January of this year, and it is estimated that there will be'a loss of $13,640 on the year's working.

asked for in a Supplementary Appro priation Ordinance for some years. I would remind hon. members that the

The COLONIAL Taxiswier said he could estimates for 1925 anticipated a reventie

not answer the question, but suggested of 921,813,700 and an expenditure of that the Hon. Dr. Koch might be able approximately thirty and a half millions, to give the information required. leaving a deficit of 88,030,911; Certain troubles occurred during the year and it is interesting to note that the actual figures for 1925 show a revenue of twenty-three and a quarter millions, an expenditure of twenty-eight and quarter millions and a deficit of only 85,020,452. In spite of the boycott the revenue. exceeded the estimate by a sum o $1,431,655. It was only a million dollars below the record year of 1924 and it was well above the revenue of 1991 and 1929

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Hon. Dr. Koen: It was not run at a profit. It just made both ends meer." The cost of maintenance was not as high then as it is now. There is now a larger and a better paid staff and generally it may be said that improvements have been effected. The hospital is an old building and the repairs and alterations which

have been made wore doubtless costly.

Continuing, Dr. Koos asked, now the Peak Hospital was a Government institu- tion, whether it would not be considered advisable to bring the fees more in ac- extent curtailed and in spite of unat other hospitals. For instance at the Expenditure was, of necessity, to some cordance with those which obtained in ticipated calls upon the revenue of the Peak Hospital the first class fee was 810 Colony the total expenditure was kept a day and the second class fee $5. In below the estimates by a sum of just other Government hospitals the fees were over two million dollars so that the years and $5. closed with the very substantial surplus

of assets over liabilities of 88,113,482, 3

figure which, within the last ten years has only bear, exceeded on three occa-

sions.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY: I will bring

Civil Medical Officer and investigate it the matter to the notice of the Principal

to see what can be done.

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this epidemic to justify a warning. So A Shanghai newspaper says far, cholera is much more likely to mark Chinese police are to be seen walking down its victims amongst the poor people through the streets of Chapel and Nantao than it is to attack the well-to-do. It beating brass gonga and warning the is, however, unfortunately true that if people to take heed of what they eat and

drink in order to avoid cholera. there is such an epidemic no one is ab- solutely, salc. So far as we are aware there are no preventative measures, such as inoculation, that can make one Ab- solutely immune. The only precautions that can be recommended are those that wise people always take in the summer in Hongkong. Stomach troubles of any kind may be to some extent avoided by boiling all water used for drinking pur- posas and refusing uncooked vegetables all fruit should be pected or, if not peeled, "disinfected before eating. We are informed by a local medical man that the banana is a fruit that must be care- fully watched. If the skin is in any way broken it gives one or more of the hor NON-ALCOHOLIC rible germs that upset our insides just CHAMPAGNE. It possesses the chance it is seeking. We mention the characteristic stimulating this fact about bananas for what it is and refreshing qualities of worth.

The expenditure on certain main henda In any case it is much better to

of expenditure had, however, been ex- Champagne and has

ceeded and consequently it is necessary be sure than sorry. delicious flavour.

We have every confidence that the local

to bring a Supplementary Appropriation Health Authorities are ready and fully

Ordinance before you in order to obtain

armed against the cholera peril. On the

legal sanction for the expenditure in other hand many of our readers had their

Provided the weather remains fine, the curred. It is not necessary; I think, for postponed open-air, concert of the Kow me to go into any details with rugaru confidence badly shaken over the typhoid loon Cricket Club, which should have to the figures placed before you as the of the conditions laid down was that the epidemic of two years ago. "The unfortabeen held last week, will take place in members of the Finance Committee are Government would construct the road nate levity of the then Colonial Secretary the grounds of the Club to-morrow even provided with very full details on every giving access to the Nursing Home. upon a subject that had caused so many ing. The programme, which has now occasion when a supplementary vote is The COLONIAL SECRETARY: I under- that the deaths is not quickly forgotten, We sug-been alightly altered, consequent upon asked for. The details are also to be stand the conditions were gest to those concerned that "preven- the departure from the Colony of Miss found in the report on the finances of Government should give the site and the tion is better than cure." The real peril danger, who was to have taken part, ap- priation account for 1925, prepared by Murs Shipoff, the clever young Russian the year 1925 and in the draft appro- is the trate between Hongkong and peared in our last Saturday's issue my hon. friend the Colonial Treasurer Canton if the stories about cholera in

A story was current in the City and laid on the Council table to-day, Canton and the West River bave "any yesterday that a party of police were The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and frustrated in an attempt to arrest an

the Bill was read a first time. foundation în fast. We must not be sur-armed man alleged to be extorting money prised to hear of isolated cases of cholera from B person in & West Point restaurant. He was being taken to the in the Colony and we recommend the Police Station when he held, the police motto of the Boy Scouts Be Pre-up at the point of a revolver and escaped into a building on the Central Praya. pared."

More police arrived and the man was again arrested, but as he was being taken away, a number of armed men covered

them to release the prisoner. A further raid proved fruitless. Such is the story, but offcial confirmation was not obtain- able.

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THE CHOLERA PERIL.

store will be closed on Monday with the exception of the grocery department which will remain open for the sale of bread and other foodstuffs. HE The Governor will open the Company's new veux Road, on Tuesday morning. premises at Exchange Building, Des

THE OUTBREAK OF RÅBIES.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

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The E. E. Australasia and China the police with revolvers, and force QUESTION OF PASTEUR INSTITUTE Telegraph Co., announce that telegraphic communication with Peking is restored.

Mr. J. V. Crowe, representative of the Tag latest statistics from Shanghai reveal Ford Motor Company of Detroit, has that last week there were 2,053 Asia-returned from Cantor and is staying at tice and 22 foreigners suffering from Hotel Metropole. cholera. That return was made by the

Municipal Health Authorities. We may safely assume that it refers only to the

cases reported in the International Settlement in Shanghai. It is not likely that any reliable figures are available

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It is always difficult to obtain accurate figures about anything in China. I, we travel inland and ask the distance from one place to another we get either a vague or a confusing answer. It is not

The str. Taike, ex-Wingsang is badly ashore on Swatow Bar and is likely, if she becomes a total wreck, to be a serious danger to navigation.

Mr. C. L. Kimble, of the Jardine Engineering Corporation, left Shanghai for San Francisco by the Dollar-str President Wilson last week.

Wednesday by aa. Empres of Asia, Passengers departing for Manila or

included Major Vantour and the Shipoff Company of Russian Dancers

Chinese physicians in Shanghai are

present cholera epidemic, while local reported to be coining money during the

coffin makers are working night and day to meet requirementa.

ROAD REPAIRS.

IS THE TREASURY OR P.W.D. RESPONSIBLE↑

QUESTIONS BY THE HON. MR.

- H. W, BIRD.

At the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday the Hon. Mr. H. W. BIRD asked:

"Is it the Treasury Department or the Public Works Department which decides whether or not roads are to be repaired ?”.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY replied; The

in a proper rtate of repair subject to the Public Works Department is responsible generally for keeping Government roads necessary funds being available.

It is the duty alike of the Public Works Department and of the Treasury to en- sure that expenditure "shall not be in- curred in excess of the amounts voted and allocated for the purpose.

the answer to my question, it seems to Hoa dr. H. W. Bind: Arising out of me that whether the money has been voted or not is beside the matter. If the Director of Public Works thinks that the repair of such and such a road is urgently Dr. V. Ting is back in Shanghai necessary, surely the money can be pro- ferring with his chief, Marshal Sun to pay a great deal more for the repairs from Nanking, where he has been convided by a supplementary vote. Delay might mean that the Colony would have Chuan Fang, on the subject of Bolshevik than it otherwise would do. propaganda in Shanghai..

unusual to be informed that it is, say, forty li to a certain place and eighty li back again. Investigation reveals the fact that there is & difference, not of course in distance, but in the time taken Employees of the Shanghai-Nanking to traverse the road, because in one and Shanghai-Hangchow.Ningpolines direction the road, descends and in the have petitioned their superiors for 4 special compassionate" rice allowance. other direction it is uphill work There They point out that rice just now is is an authentic case of a farmer who especially dear, and they find it very was asked the weight of one of his ored. I·hard to live on their small pay

HE. THE GOVERNOR: The Director of Public Works has no authority to spend money unless it is voted "er unless a special warrant is given him by the Government. In a case of emergency the Government would sign a special warrant and the work could be done as once. If there is no emergency the proper course is to come to the Fiammee Committee and will always vote any money that may be I feel sure that the Finance Committee

needed.

At the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday, the Hon. Mr. A. O. LANG asked:

Will the Government state:- (1) The number of deaths from Rabies since the beginning of present out- break

(2) The number of those inoculated who have subsequently died from Rabies.

(3) If it is the intention to take more drastic measures for the prevention of the spread of Kabies..

(4) If the question of establishing a Pasteur- Institute in Hongkong has been considered.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY read the fol- lowing replies;

1. Since the beginning of the present outbreak, from December 27th, 1925, to the present date, eight deaths. from rabies have been notified. All the eight victims were of Chinese race. The last ease was notified on the 20th May, 1926

2. Enquiries in each of these eight

WAR MEMORIAL NURSING HOME.

In connection with the supplementary vote of $6,000 for the road giving access to the War Memorial Nursing Home on- Stubbs Road, the Hon. Dr. Kocs asked why the cost of this road was not defray-. ed out of the War Memorial Funds. The DIRECTOR OF Fuse Wonks

road of access to the site.

One-

Hon. Mr. BinD: The War Memorial

Fund is defraying one third_of_the_cost

of the road and the Government two- thirds, or vice versa. I am not sure of the figures but the War Memorial Fund is defraying a proportion of the cost of the road.

TYPHOON FORMING"

ABOUT 1,000 MILES AWAY.

There are indications from the weather reporta that a typhoon may be coming this way again, but not for a few days at least.

The position, given early yesterday was that it was within 120 miles of Lat. 15 N., Long. 139 E., which if further away than Luzon, or approximately a The thousand miles from Hongkong. ties toward this part of the South China direction, however, West-North-West,

Coast.

stated :-

At 10 a.m. yesterday the Observatory

A trough of low pressure extends from the middle of the China Sea to far east of Luzon. A typhoon may be forming in its eastern extremity.... The locality referred to corresponds with that of the reports quoted above. The weather report also stated-

Pressure has decreased moderately over Central China and slightly at the majority of other stations. It is low over NE. China and high over the Bonics

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MANILA TELEGRAM.

The American Consulate General in

cases, failed to produce evidence Hongkong informed as that the telegram that any one of the victims had quoted below was received from the received anti-rabic inoculations Manila Observatory at 1.30 p.m. yester- prior to the development of symp day?....... toms of the discnas.

a. The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. reports that there is some improve. ment in the situation and the Government, therefore, does not consider it necessary at present to take more drastic measures. The "present measures will however, be carried on as vigorously as possible 4 In Hongkong anti-rabic serum is prepared at the Bacteriological In stitute and administered both at the Government Civil Hospital and by private practitioners. It is, therefore, considered that the needs of the Colony in this respect are sufficiently supplied and that a special Pasteur Institute need not be established.

the

12th, 11,50 Lm—Warning? typhoon has crossed Luzon, North of Manila, in the form of a shallow de pression; it may increase in intensity in the China Sea...

Cyclone or typhoon E. of Northern Luzon, less than 300 miles distant; direction unknown.

WEATHER REPORT.

Last night's weather report, forecast, and remarks issued from the Royal Observatory stated

Pressure has decreased over the whole area. A trough of low pressure extends from the Paracels to the far cast of Luzon, Depressions may be forming in its western and extremities.

Local forecast-East or variable winds, light to moderate, fine.