1940-09-16 — Page 11

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

NEW NIGHTSOIL

REMOVAL

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940-PAGE IT!

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PRESIDENT

LINER

SAILIN

TO SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES

via - SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT".

SS. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND”.

8.S. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

Sept. 17 Oct. Oct. 25

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO.

BOMBAY and CAPETOWN ..

SS. "PRESIDENT POLK” -

6.5. "PRESIDENT GARFIELD"

Sopt. 30 Oct. 17

To SINGAPORE & PENANG

8.5. "CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS"

Sept. 25

SS. "CITY OF NORFOLK"

Oct. 27

To SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

DIRECT

„S.8. "CITY OF LOS ANGELES”

8.S, "CITY OF NEWPORTNEWS".

via Yokohama.

Sept. 18 Oct. 14

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

"ROUND - WORLD SERVICE AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR

AND UNITED AIR LINES

12, PEDDER ST.

TEL 28171.

N.Y.K. LINE

SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu.

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ASAMA MARI! (Starts from Kobe) NITTA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER

HIE MARU

NEW YORK via Panama.

:* SANUKI MARU

Wednesday, 2nd Oct.. Friday, 11th Oct. (Starts" from Kobe)

Monday, 23rd Sept.

Tuesday, 8th Oct..

SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Japan & San

3

Francisco.

HEIYO MARU

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila.

Thursday, 19th Sept.

ATUTA MARU

Saturday, 28th Sept.

** GENOA MARU

Begizning of Oct

BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo.

SAIGON & MADRAS

• ATAGO MARU (also calls Saigon) Monday, 18th Sept. Saturday, 28th Sept.

KASIMA MARU

RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

* TOTTORI MARU

KOBE

& YOKOHAMA

HEIYO MARU

KITANO MARU

Carga only.

Wednesday, 25th Sept.

Thursday, 13th Sept. Thursday, 19th Sept.

Complete Information From Your Agent or:

NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA

KING'S BUILDING

Telephone 10241.

General Passenger Agents in the Orient for

CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE

TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

To AUSTRALIA

Calling at Manila, Thursday Island, Cairns, Towns ville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne, etc..

NEXT SAILING

METHODS IN HONGKONG

Combating The Cholera Menace In The Colony

Drastic changes in the present "method of removing nightsol are foreshadowed in a new scheme now being prepared for the more anitary and efficient method of removing nightsolf in Hongkong. It is reliably understood. The new scheme is designed to play, a vital, part in the control of infectious diseases such as cholers and dysentery,

Under present arrangements nightsoll is removed by coolles. Householders are allowed to use any sort of buckets. The coolles empty the buckets into containers.and then sluice round the buckets with a dash of water which is often poured into the drain, and the empty buckets are returned to the household.

The first phase of the new; Each morning, trucks will travel scheme calls for standard, around, picking up one of the covered containers in each house- covered containers and leaving hold, mechanical transference, of the fresh one in its place. The the contents, and mechanical containers with night-soil in them washing in a "tank truck,” will be atted into the collecting

TANK · TRUCK

trucks in such 3 manner that This "tank truck" is an im- they cannot roll around and their portant part of the scheme, It covers will be strongly clamped will follow the collecting trucks

and as each container is emptied, it is passed on to the "tank truck," inside which there will be means for cleaning the containers out with a strong jet of water before they are returned, bright and shining, as it were, to the house holders."

The collecting truck will, in turn, transfer its own contents on the water-front to the boats.

down,

EMPTIED INTO BOATS They will be taken away. their contents emptied into the boats, and the containers will then be washed properly In a shed atted out for the purpose, to be returned the following morning when the other of the two containers supplied to each householder is picked up.

Under this scheme, there will be no smell, no early-morning noise of churning brushes, no spilling and no files.

CHINA HAND

PASSES

The funeral of Capt. Andrew Henry Brown took place at the Colonial Cemetery yesterday with Rev. Cyril Brown, Chaplain to the Mission for Seamen, officiating at the graveside.

The deceased, who was 64 years of age, died at the Matilda Hospi-

tal on Saturday after a long t ness. Deceased was suffering from Bright's disease.

He was formerly Chief Officer on board the river steamer s.8. Kautung, of the Tai Sang Steam- ship Co.

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Wreaths were sent by deceased's colleagues and friends.

CONCERT FOR

THE TROOPS

1/4

A number of local amateur artistes, some of whom will make their bow before local audiences for the first time, have been brought together for a concert being arranged for the troops, to, be given at the Cheero Club'on Friday evening, Sept. 27,

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Among those who have agreed to take part are Messrs. John Gilchrist, Jack Fountain, William Knight, Less Gibson, Vic Labrum, PRELIMINARY PART

Rev. Cyril Brown, Norman Binney,

and This, however, is only the pre

Harrison

Richmond, liminary part of the scheme, and

Wimsett and David Kossick, although it marks a great im-

Arrangements are in the hands provement on present methods. It

The scheme goes even further of Mr. David Kossick, is not the ideal finally aimed at than this, however. At the pre- This ideal calls for the provision sent moment, once the night-soll of two covered containers to each is loaded into the boats, it is up householder. A different system to the contractor to get rid of it will then be used,

as best he may. He sells as much as he can to farmers and so on

Hongkong Royal Observatory 、

1 a.m.. Sept. 15. Batometer (at sea level), 29.86

...ins

Temperature, 86 F.

Humidity, 77 per cent. Wind Direction, ES, Wind Force (Beanfort), 4

Temperature: Maximum yesterday.

sea.

Health Bulletin Of

Eastern Ports

The following is the Health WEATHER REPORT n the New Territories, charging Bulletin of Eastern Forts for the

them as much as he can get; the week ending September 7; unsold portion is dumped into the CHOLERA: Bimlipatam, four Cal- cases: Cawnpore, 26 cases, This is not satisfactory as, apart cutta, 17 cases; Delhi, three cases; from other considerations, farmers Macão. 39 cases; "Hongkong 76 In the New Territories who need cases; Shanghai, 45 cases; the night-soil for manure are un-SMALL-POX:-Port Sudan, one able in many cases to pay the case: Allahabad, one case: Bom- st prices demanded by the contrac-bay, eight cases; Calcutta, tors, with the result that available cases; Cochin, 23 cases: Madras, land in the Territories is not be one case; Bangkok, three cases. ing used to its full extent, with a

69 CHOLERA CASES consequent rise in unemployment. The following is the Return of

diseases It is suggested by the sponsors notifiable

notified 35 of the scheme that Government having vecurred in the Colony might do well to take this question during the 24 hours ended at of disposing of the night-soll off midnignt, September 13:-Cholera, the contractors' hands by build. 69 cases: Enter'c Fever, one' case: ing in the New Territories large, Dysentery. 17 cases: Tuberculosis, concrete tanks for its reception. 34 cases

87 F

Temperature: minimum last night

79 F.

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Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th

today, 0.00 Ins.

Total rainfall since January 1st.

111.42 bas. Against an average of. 7249 ing. Subset tonight, 6.27 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow. 6.10 a.m.

4 p.m., Sept. 15. Barometer (at sea level), 29.78 ins. Temperature, 85 F. Humidity, 77 per cent. Wind Direction, E/S. Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Maximum temperature, 88' F. Minimum temperature. 70 F.. Rainfall, n...

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 16 to 22 Sept. 1940

HIGH WATEE,

Hong

a Boog

Dayh

Dats of

Month.

Standar

Time.

Height

Low WATER.

Hong Kong

Standard

Height

Time

h. m. j, la

b. m

La.

Mou, 16. 09 14 6 9

02:37

3 1

Tues 17

21 49 03 49

59

16 15

80

(3 18

29

„22 11

@ 1

1544 21

Wed. 18

1024

6 4

03 55 **

2227

1814 24

Thur 19

10 04

e 1

0438

20

92 44

8 4

'MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER, 1940,

Fri.

20

17 24

15 6

QB 14

12 5

23 04

€ 6

1700 30

Sat.

21

11708

5 41.

00 58. (2 6

For Freight or Passage apply to:-

93 27

6 8

J7 27

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

Sap.

22

06 42 28

12 37 14 0

Agents,

Tel. No. 38332.

1. Connaught Road.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

MAILINGS FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW & RETURN

(Sailings temporárily suspended)

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For particulars of Freight & Passage apply to;-.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.

General Managers,

• 0, Building, 5th Floor.

Tel, Nos. 28337 & 28038.

1842 2 6

1742 13.7

OHINA NAVIGATION

ICOMPANY, LIMITED.

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. CAEFOO and TITAN.

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NEXT SAILING END SEPTEMBER

For Freight or Praga on any of the above new an

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All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route

" and the route and all sailings are subject to cancellation

change or deviation with or without notice.

Passengers are requested to register their requirements but 'under present circumstances sailings are perforce restricted.

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TO VANCOUVER

FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER

(Omitting Honolulu)

NEXT SAILING TO MANILA

FOURTH WEEK IN SEPTEMBER

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