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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

BANKS

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI THE CHARTERED BANK OF

BANKING CORPORATION

Authorised Capital

$60,000,000

INDIA, AUSTRALIA

AND CHINA

Issued & Fully Paid Up $20.000.000 | Trurgrated by Regni Charter, 1854

Reserve Funds

Sterling

Head Office -- HONG KONG

£4,000,000 £3,000,000

£3,000,000

£6,500,000 | Pand Up Capital H.R. Currency Reserve $10,000 Querve Fund Reserve Liability of

Reserve Liability of Pro Proprietors

$20,000,000

prietars

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38, Bishopsgate E.C.2. Sub-Agencles In London: 117-122, Lendenhall Street, E.C.2

West End Branch: 1446. Cockspur Street, S. W.). Manchester Branch:

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Board of Directors Hon Mr TJ Patemon

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Head Office: HONG KONG

No 10 Des Voeux Road. Central

Board of Directors:

(RANCHES ALL OVER CHINA} Owing to our marrous Branches

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Head Office SHANGHAI

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D. L. BALLANTYNE,

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LEGISLATIVE Typhoid Will Continue To

COUNCIL

FINANCE REPORT

ADOPTED

At the meeting of the Legislative Couned yesterday afternoon, the reports of the Finance Committer No. 14 of 1940-41 and No. 2 of 1941-42). dated Aug. 7. 1941, were adopted.

Hon

Exact Heavy Toll On Human Life In Colony

Typhoid and dysentery continued to exact a heavy toll on human life and may be expected to do so in future until the primitive methods of town conservancy are finally ellminated, and the cost of food and fuel for the masses is more to keeping with their earnings, says the abbreviated report of the Director of Medical Services for 1940, tabled in the Legislative Council yesterday.

The Mental Hospital is no longer grossly overcrowded,

A rather old and very dilapidar

The Anti-Tuberculosis

Assocla

The Financial Secretary Mr R R. Todd) said...-

Shortage of food of satisfactory patients as there are beds, states 1 rise to move that Rules 1 and quantity and quality was reflected the report. 1 made by the Board ol War in the appearance during the year Revenue Ordinance, 1941. on Aug under review, in spidemic form for 11. 1941. be approved

the first time in the history of the The scale of depreciation laid Colony, of a fatal form of pellagra.¦ed building with accommodation down by Rule 1 follows closely the There were 963 cases reported, and|for 144 lepers was completely re scale laid down in a similar Rule 442 deaths.

novated. made under the War Revenue Or Chiance. 1940 The only differ- ences are the inclusion in the new Rule of a rate of 10 per cent un Willien Down Value For Air-Con ditioning Plant and an increase in the rate for Fixtures from 74 per cent 10 per cent on Written Down Value The rate for Fix tures is now the same as the rate for Furniture

Rule 1 is a re-enactment. with

any amendments. of a Rule made under the 1940 War Revenue Ordinance.

These Rules are for the informa Mon of the pubile and the guidance of the Commissioner of War Taxa- flon: they indicate the basis on which profits of the corporations or businesses roncerned will he assessed for tax

A

BII

BILLS READ

to amend the Public Health Sanitation Ordinance. 1935; a Bill to amend the Midwives

Deaths from beri-berl, including the infantile type, rose from 3,189 tion was inaugurated during the in 1939 to 7.229 in 1940. Tuber year, and within a short time jus- culosis also took a higher toll, with tifled its existence. 6,751 deaths compared with 4,443 in the previous year.

The cholera

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The Immigration Ordinance expected to have a profound effect outbreak in 1940 on public health and the ultimate started late, but was attended by a reduction 0} Gross overcrowding bigh case mortality (86.2 per cen

and deficiency in the social services sum and left behind an under-

of this Colony Bourished community with aʼnigh | carrier" rate amounting to over 20 per centum in eertalh congested districts

SMALL-POX

LABOUR CONDITIONS Realisation that the care of la bour is of economie as well as so- cial importance led to an increased interest in the housing and gener al welfare of their employees by Smail-pox was controlled tu gote the larger and more reputable con- extent by ass vacetruation, over cerns operating in Hongkong. But. 2,250,000 vaccinations being per- generally speaking, the report con- | formed during the year

Some 45,064 births were register ed in 1940, as compared with 46, 675 in 1939, giving an uncorrected birth rate of 43.9.

occurred

The number of registered deaths was 61,010, a surplus of 12.727 over Ordinance. 1910; a B to amend the corresponding figure for 1939. further the Hongkong Corps of Alriving an uncorrected death rate of 56.9 Among the deaths, 14,683 Raid Wardens Ordinance, 1940: a B to enable the Governor to:

in children under one confer by Proclamation on certain year of age, resulting in an infant police forces in the Colony the mortality rate of 327. status of militia in time of war: The Nutrition Research Commit and Bill to amend the Betiingtee continued to carry out useful Duty Ordinance, 1931, as amended work investigating a suitable diet by the Betting Duty Amendment within the purchasing power of the Ordinance, 1940, were read a first masses

then

UNCLAIMED

TELEGRAMS

MALNUTRITION

The considerable increase in the

cost of living, and especially in the

Unues, labour conditions are un-

satisfactory Labour regulations have not been introduced, but the immigration control measures may result in a stiffening of the labour market to the advantage of the labourer.

MARINE COURT

1

UNLAWFUL BOARDING Fines of $50, default LWO months' hard labour, were imposed by Cmdr. T. C. Stiff on each of two women. Ho King and Chan Ying, who pleaded guilty to board- ing a ship in Victoria Harbour without the permission of the mas ter or other lawful authority, while at the same time admitting pre- vious convictions for the same offence.

rice staple and firewood for cook ing it, and the difficulty in secur

Two other women were fined $20. ing supplies, combined with high The following is a list of claimed telegrams from Shanghai in evidence

rentals and low earnings, resulted in default three weeks hard labour. of serious malnutr. for the same offence. They had no lying at the office of the

Great tion.

previous convictions. Northern Telegraph Company Progress was made in the

NO LICENCE (Limited):--Miss Pak Yee Koo, 226 organisation of Chinese hospitals. Leung Ng-mul. 47. mistress

Jaffe Read. Gr Flour: Chan Kow. 45 Spring Garden Street, 1st Floor Tso Yuen, 348 Des Voeux Road West Miss Tsang Yuet Ngor. 20 Village Road, Gr. Floor, Tung Ker Ce, 38 Quge Street

SUPPLY-SHIPS TO NAVAL BASES

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (Reuter Rear-Admiral Aolphus Andrews, Commandant of the Third Naval District, announced that the Unit-- ed States Navy has arranged to use 17 merchantmen a supply ships to naval bases outside con- tinental United States.

Several have been put into ser vice and the remainder will be ready shortly.

All the ships will be manned with civilian crews.

SUBMARINE LOST

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LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter). "The Board of Admiralty regret to announce that H.M. Submarine P-32 (Lieutenant DA.B. Abdy)

considered overdue and tuust he lost. The next of kin have been Informed"

says the communique last night.

Admiralty

re

()

although these still remain very boat No. B727V, was fined $15 for overcrowded and it is not uncom- having failed to renew the licence. mon to and twice, thrice or even for her boat, which had

Dimes the number of in- on June 30

expired

mor

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941. --PAGE 11

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