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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1933

MR. TRATMAN'S SPEECH

LOSS TO THE CHINESE

COMMUNITY

(Continued from Page 7)

THE HON. DR. A. R. WELLINGTON

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stock of drugs and dressing should be kept near the lines.

The Malariologist supervises the investigative and preventive side of the medical activities and the Medical Omeer, New Territories, the curative work-Both Officers visit bi-weekly.

RIBESS-

would occur

merely encourage Landlords to remove the occup- ants of a partially occupied,floor and crowd the remaining ones? They would in fact employ in re- spect of doors the tactics which the Honourable Member mentions in respect of whole houses.

The owner who is prepared to meet altered conditions and re- duce renta, accordingly obtains due relief as I have explained as the next annual assessment where full consideration of his case will The Director of Medical

be given. The existing law per- Sanitary Services said:

mits an allowance of up to 20% Sir-In reply to the Honourable

on the valuation & gure ample Senior Unofficial Member I have

Anti-malaria Inspectors from to cover normal periods of vacanes the honour to state that the

the Malaria Bureau "visit frequentcies are included in one

in all cases where several tenan greater part of the expenditure

of collecting incurred by the Medical Departly for the purpose

ment. The practice is to mosquitoes and their larvae.

grant ment on anti-malarial measures

81% in the first instance and a Specimens caught Яre. conveyed at Shing. Mun is debited against

to the Bureau for identification In some cases the Assessor allows further 5 to 10% when justified. the Shing Mun Loan Account and

During this year the full 20% when circumstances and dissection. therefore does not appear in the 25,000 anophelines caught in the

in his opinion justify the conces- Medical Department's estimates.

lines

been identified and sion. It is therefore considered The whole area surrounding the dissected.

The infection rate site for the Dam is broken coun varied from ail to 20% according-

that the existing system is equit able and generous and that no try consisting granite

of

hills ly to the species and the season. undue hardships on property own- valleys. separated by steep sided

The lines are visited daily anders are involved. At the date of commencement of any alck found there are examin- operations the narrow inverts of ed and treated. A statement, of these valleys were drained by vital statistics is sent daily to me.. boulder bedded streams Ted by dical headquarters and records innumerable seepages and springs. are being kept.

The dally sick rate among the Wherever possible the hill sides had been terraced. and irrigated labourers so far as can be asser- for the wet cultivation of paddy, tained from a shifting population The country abounded with poten-is about 5% of duty owing to tial breeding places of anopheline sickness, mosquitoes many of which were difficult to bring under control.

By mutual agreement was early decided that there should be be a division of labour in carry- ing out the scheme for malaria control. The Medical Department undertook responsibility for in- vestigation and research, for anti- larval measures other than drain- age, for

The

have

THE HON. MR. WOLFE

The Hon. IG.P.:-

Generally speaking it may be said that on certain of the bus routes on both sides of the Har-

bour, the service is well maintain

ed, but on others it is bad. In Hong Kong, the service on the From time to time blood tests Lower Level routes, gives little have been made to ascertain the cause "for. complaint, but on the parasite rates of the various sec-hill routes, the constant break- tions of the labour force. It has down of the buses makes it quite been found that a centage of those engaged are al-time schedule and complaints are varying per- impossible to adhere to the fixed ready carrying the parasite when they take up residence,

numerous.

In Kowloon, the same applies. some services are good, others, such as No. 6 Kowloon City to starved during

PROPHYLACTIC MEASURES The prophylactic measures tak- Star Ferry, are drug prophylaxis and

Engineering ea'so rar nave peen those directed for treatment. Staff undertook to do clearing against mosquitoes and theu

breeding places. and drainage. the construction of buildings and general sanitary employed are oiling and paris requirements. It was understood green application by the Medical that the two Departments should Staff and clearing and drainage work in full co-operation.

and mosquito proofing of lines by the engineering staff,

All the privately owned land mile .within a radius of half a

from the lines has been resumed in order that there may be full control over this area. In Malaya it was found that half a mile was beyond the normal flight of anophelines from thetr

breeding the same

The Resident Medical Staff all

places. It it hoped that applies in Hong Kong.

The methodN

It is estimated that twelve miles of water channel are being oiled weekly, the amount of oil expend- ed being 250 gallons. Certain areas are being treated with paris green diluted with dust,

The oiling gang consists of ten men under the supervision of a

dresser.

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With regard to clearing and of whom are paid from Loan Ac-draining, the following data have count include one Chinese Medi- been supplied by the drainage -n- cal Officer, two Dressers and a gineer. gang of coolles. Two Anti-Ma- Area dried by drainage opera- larial Inspectors who are in train-

tions 18.. acres, ing at the Malaria Bureau, will shortly Join the Resident Staff.

MOSQUITO FROOF HOSPITAL

A small mosquito proof hospital of fourteen beds has been erected and in a few days time will b equipped and ready for occupa- tion. A microscope has been pro- vided. Mosquito proof quarters for the Medical Officer and for the Dressers have been completed. Pending the completion of the hospital it was arranged that the travelling dispensary should visit three times a week, and that a

SUNDAY AT

busy hours, owing to the excessive number of buses under repairs in. the Kowloon Motor Bus Co.'s work shops. This points to unsatisfac- tory supervision and lack of work shop accommodation, staff and supervision, which applies to both Licensees alike.

Representations have been made to the Licensees to improve, mat- ters; so as to do away with the two main complaints (1) Failure to maintain proper time sche- dules. which in turn is buses. The Hong Kong Licensee many cases to (2) Breakdown of contemplates the purchase of new

due in

Buses for the hill routes in due course, ag he is unable to main- tain his existing equipment in sufficiently satisfactory condition to avoid breakdowns. Moreover although the new concessionaires for Hong Kong took over forty- ane and those for Kowloon seventy-three of the drivers em- chan-ployed by the former holders there

Length of subsoil piping 12,-

763 yards.

Length of open concrete

nels, 8,870 yards. Clearing preparatory to oiling

channela 8 miles. Number of labour force em- ployed in clearing and drain-

is no doubt that lack of experience on the part of the drivers contri- butes in some measure to the bad ruching on the hill routes and it the licensees do not in their own interests employ more satisfactory have to be taken to compel them staff on these routes, steps will

to do so.

adopted in the case of Cadet om- cers but there are speciál reasons in that a: Cadet reèrujć must de vote, his whole time for two years to acquiring the requisite know- ledge of Chinese." As for periodi̟- cal shortages of staff and over time, these fall to the lot of every senior Government servant, Acting Colonial Secretaries in luded. · To have kept the Secretariat fully manned in the face of all the

casualties which have afflicted it during the last four months, three spare Cadet Officers would bave been required..

The question of a more suitable, nomenclature for our Police' Sta- tions will receive the considera- tion of the Inspector General.

The Shing Man Dam - As regards the completion of the Shing Mun Dam, the Resident Engineer still hopes to complete the work in the time originally set, in any case the delay and the subsequent change of site were due to the very unexpected defects in minary delilings and the subsol revealed by the preli-

were un- avoidable. The Resident Engineer

so hopes to be able to achieve some storage towards the end of 1935, but here again the stability of the dam as a „whole must take priority. I may add that the new siting of the dam is expected to Increase the total storage by two hundred and fifty milion gal- lóns.

I now come to the points raised

the Honourable Mr. Mackie.

tenders

· Dredging Sobeme dredging scheme has been dealt The.. position regarding our

with by my Honourable friend the Director of Public Works 1 may say that plant of the necessary type is not available in the Far East and may not be expected to arrive here until the North-East monsoon is over. Secondly it is the Intention of the Government to invite tenders, both iccally and at Home, and specifications and detalls with a view to obtaining at Home should go by next mail, so there is every rea- son to believe the work can be started as soon as it 13 physically possible. I now pass to the mat- ter of the Marine Survey Staff. The views of the Chamber of Commerce as to the desirability of the additional staff being re- cruited on a temporary basis were shared by the Government and communicated to the Board of Trade through the Colonial Offi ce; but the Board appears to have found them impracticable. It must be remembered that it is essential that trained men shall be on hand in the Colony as soon as possible and it is only to be expected that such men will hesitate to fall out of the running at home in order to take up the posts with uncer tain prospects in Hong Kong I shall have more to say on the converse of this proposition in my next section.

Magazine Gap Road As regards the use of the im proved Magazine Gap Road, it is the intention of the Government that, apart from trademen's vans and lorries carrying goods to the houses en route the road shall be. kept for passenger traffic.

ing, 200, Mosquito nets were supplied to the coolies but the infection rate

In the matter of the admission remaining high among the mos-

of Hong Kong manufacturers to quitoes found in the lines it was

The New Territories service ap- preferential duties in the United decided to try and, mosquito proof well. The companies have recent-

pears to be running reasonably Kingdom I am glad to be able to the lines themselves by providing ly applied for certain concessions method of certification satisfac

say that it is belleved that a wire screens for windows and for the more economical and pos-tory both to local manufacturers doors. Work is in progress in this sibly. satisfactory running of the and to the Customs Authorities. direction.

services, but it is proposed to has now been arranged. Detalls Drug prophylaxis has not been make any deviations from the of the procedure have been Come attempted owing to opposition on strict terms of the Contract de municated to the Chamber of the part of the labourers and the pendent on improved services all Commerce...

conformity with the under the contract system,

terms of the Contract, and to the The malaria situation at Shing satisfaction of the general Public. Mun is a very difficult one to com- Should these measures fail to trol owing to topographical and bring about the required improve geological factors, the range of ment, it will be necessary to have fight of malaria carrying anophe-recourse to the penal clauses in Hines and the constantly shifting the Contracts.

The CENTRAL dimculty of checking individuals round, ip

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population. There is every reason

to believe however that the acti- vities of the "medical staff and the engineering staff working a full co-operation will render the ares salubrious and maintain a good state of health in the labour engaged.

COL. TREASURER ON ASSESSMENT

The Col Treasurer said:

To assess floors Beparately as proposed by the Honourable Mem ber would treble. the work of the Revenue Collection Branch of the

THE COLONIAL

SECRETARY

Next are the comments. of my Honourable friend the senior Chie nese Member, and, before I deal with them I must thank him for the generous terms in which he has received my malden venture. I need not remind him that in learning alphabets the skill and patience of the tutor counts for more than the capacity of the pupil, +

I again express my sympathy with the speaker and those whom he represents over the impending

Chinese Affairs, but I fear I can hold out no hope that he will change his mind

The Hon. Colonial Secretary: I retirement of the Secretary for propose to take the criticisms of Honourable Members, in so far as they have not already been met, In the order in which they were presented.

Marine Surveypes Office

Surveyors after recruitment, I re

As to the training of Marine:

fer my Honourable friend, to the reply already given on page 184 of the Hansard volume for 1931. Whenever it has been possible to find fully trained men wiling to transfer to the service of this Co- long we have accepted them eagerly but such cases have been few and we have had to accept

The first item in the speech of the Honourable the Senior Unom- cial "member that fails to me is the staff of the legal departments. say again that even without the late Mr. Agassiz, whose death we all so deeply deplore, there should be aufficient legal officers in the Treasury and more than trebla Colony next year to keep all the the work of the Assessor's Office departments fully manned and I as the extra supervision would be now add that we propose to re- increased disproportionately. The cruit a new officer in Mr. Agassiz the cost of training as part of the large_addition of staff required place which will give a surplus. price of bringing this port up to would be out of all proportion to In addition it must be remember-- the relief that owners of house ed that there are a number of full, Board of Trade requirements. property would obtain,

Cadet Officers with legal qualifica-

Juvenile Courts

In Hong Kong a general reaseastions who can from time to time It is expected that the Juvenile ment now takes place annually be spared to assist the regular Le-¦ Courts will be in operation very and owners obtain relief whengai Staff. One is doing so low, shortly. At first, the proclamation rentaare reduced much more As regards. future retirements Go- bringing the ordinance into force quickly that elsewhere, In Bri-vernment cannot agree that it is who held back owing to certain tain for Instance re-assessments necessary to recruit new officers a criticism by the Secretary bot are quinquennial. At the moment year in advance. Apart from the State. Later the delay has been the rents of Chinese tenement reflection which this seeme to mainly due to the culty ex- property in Hong Kong are all cast on the competence of the ex- perienced in securing suitable ing partly, owing to overbuilding,perienced staff who will be left be- Probation Officers but this aith and to some extent as a result of hind and can supply local know-culty has now been overcome." - trade depression. Owners there-ledge, the idea that new officers The only other point of detali fore have to reduce rents or risk must have a year's trial run is that talis to me in the matter of loging their tenants. To assess costly novelty which the Colonial the Omnibus" heads. The oblece each floor separately and conse- Office is hardly likely to accept. I tion that Mr. Hallisz and I have quently to refund when vacancies am aware that this is the course raised to the new swatent is not

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that it involves extra work but that it does not achieve the object with which it was instituted, namely to give Legislature a more accurate view of the cost of esca départment, Comparative Agures over a series of years will show quite fictitious Auctuations due to the fact that it is only possible to frame the estimates for a given year on the position as it exists in the middle of the previous year We know from bitter experience that the best laid programmes for the coming leave seasons never cati work out as planned, but the de- viations which unforeseeable rasü- !, alties will impose are not calcul- able even by the law of averages 1 We know that the odds agaitis" the figures we set down proving correct the event are great, but these figures are at 'cast a fixed point and we take that rather than embark on wild guessing. It is true that after the close of a year we can calculate exactly the expenditure for the year in Per sonal Emoluments in any one De- partment; but even that is useless for comparative purposes · because as I showed in my opening department had to speech the bear, if not in that year then in anothe, the cost of officers on leave who may revert to it but more often will be required toʻ serve elsewhere on their return and are therefore not a proper charge on that department.

of

MANY DEMANDS

services,

As regards the general question increased cost of administra-

ernment of this Colony ton, 1 must remind "Honourable Unofficial Members that the Gov- is. con- tinually receiving demands from all directions including themselves, to increase its public services. We are pressed to provide new and larger schools, new and larger hospitals, new health new factory legislation, first class port status, larger legal staff, and many other similar improvements and expansions All these involve technical not only increases in staff but parallel increases in secretarial and clerical staff. The best instance I can give is that just provided by the Honourable Member himself and so strongly supported by his colleagua, If the property owners "want assessment. by separate flats, we shall have to treble the collection' stazi of

and the Treasury

more than treble the staff of the Assessor's Office. In ordering new houses one must not forget that the straw in the bricks though low pric. ed still costs money. Furthermore I would remind the Honourable" Member that the exchange rates adopted for the. 1926 Estimates were 18. Bd. for sterling salaries and 23, 2d for other sterling charges.

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