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as in the surrounding towns and villages. It is impossible to give any correct estimate of the mortality, as no oficial records of burials are kept. Comparing the estimates obtained from various sources, we believe the mortality from the beginning of the epidemic to the middle of June (the date of writing) to have been about

40,000, ...

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY)) MAYO18, 1963.

the origin of te epidemic; but as the case came under the care of the sanitary authorities the next day after arrival, also as there was a high mortality among the Chinese with no means of ascertaining the exact cause of death, and as the epidemic quickly followed the intro- duction of this single case, which is an unusual eccurrence with plague, whose progress at the

its population, if one may trust Chinese statistics, G

-The same tale is told of most of the villages and small towns which' have ·become infected with plague. Large towns seem to fare very much like a cluster of villages. or towns, ono portion being badly Affected)(9€ year and another portion another year.

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Although a goodly number of well-to-do beginning is generally slow, it is likely that this: Two of the outlying villages are infected in one year the town or village is attacked Jockey Club Enclosure are now on view in the of the MEMBERS of the HONGKONG

people fell victims to the pestilence, the chief sufferers were the puor-over-crowded and badly housed. The people who escaped the scourge in the most marked degree were those living in upper stories and the boating popula- tion. With the exception of those put in boats after falling sick, scarcely a case was noted on the river. Many well-to-do people, observing this immunity, removed from their houses and made their homes on the water. Judging from this circumstance, therefore, and also from the fact that rats living in the ground and drains were the first animals to fall victims wa.inter that the specific poison emanated from the sail What the specific prison may be is not deter- mined, but no doubt the insanitary conditions referred to, exaggerated by a prolonged draught, provided a specially suitable nidus for its growth and dissemination.

Macao was infected carter. The epidemic

ached its acne in April and May and dis-only are dying. appeared in June, and returned in 897 and 1898. From the position of Macao and its intercourse with Canton, Pakhoi, Hongkong, and the villages of the delta, it could only be a matter of time for it to be infected by people from one or all of these places,

One pi the characteristics of plague seems to be an alternating severe. and mild epidemic: badly, while in the next year it is only slightly affected. In Chaochowfoo, for instance, n town of some 200,0:0 inhabitants, the first out break was in 1898 and was bad, the second was in 1809 and was light, the third in 1900 bad and the fourth in igo light. This may possi bly be explained by the rate mortality in the severe epidemics considerably reducing the number of rats be attacked next year.

lars. The plague is rife in two villages about 2 miles distant, and rats and mice are dying in Thung Khe itself, but no person has been in feced yet. Perhaps I should explain that in this part of China villages are often arranged in groups under a common name, and that each village has its own special name in addi tion, thus Thung Khe is not only the name of the village, but of a group of villages lying around it. The condition of affairs is with plague, but that in Thung Khe itself rats 1 hear from another pupil about a group of villages called 'Tek Kee, 5 miles from Kich native of one of the villages Yang. This year contracted the disease at Chao Chow-foo, was taken home, and died. Since then a few more cases of the disease have occurred. It will be interesting to see if it becomes epidemic in Tek Kee next year. Though only 5 miles from ro. The agents by which the plague spreads from village, to village and town to town, as 6. With Canton, Hongkong, Macao, and Kich-ynng, where the disease had been

and now it has been infected fromfected clothing, or sick rats brought in boats; Pakhoi infected with plague, it was not long very bad for a few years, it has escaped, shown in the reports, are sick persons or in-

Chao Chow-lon, at least 30 miles distant. It is from house to house, rats or-infected persons before the disease became extensively diffused. The disease in Southern China appears, how only in the villages one can hope to trace the and from person to person in the same house ever, to have mainly kept to the towns and or gin of the infection. Towns and cities are direct infection, infected food, and infected

vermia,

11. The following is a summary of the opini. Swatow is in the province of Kwangtung at villages situated near the coast and on the absolutely hopeless."

the mouth of the river Han, and is in long-ons formed by personal observation of the main principle rivers, it has not spread northward into the Provinces of Hondo and Kangsi.itude 116 E and latitude 23 N. It is a mer- cause or causes of the spread of plague --- the Provinces of Kwangsi, Kwangtung, and cantile town, with a population of 30,000 to

[Here follows a summary of 34 different Fukien which are infected, are separate. 35,000 inhabitants, the greater proportion of opinions with names and references] from those on the north of them by a range

which are males whose wives and families reside in the surrounding villages. There are of mountains which, commencing in Thibet, a number of em grant houses for the lodgment passes through Yunnan and Kweichow, and, of emigrant coolies drawn trom the surround- under various names, extends eastwards to ing district and on their way to Amay, Hung Chekking on the sea-coast. This range forms 20 yards wide from houses where cases of

a natural boundary limiting the commerce plague occurred, Not only did foreigners between the south and south. From the range living on the settlement enjoy excellent health pure come down southwards with valleys but no case of plague occur ed among their between, and these are seams and rivers join servants living on the premises. The rats also,ing the North, South, and West River already

tively."

Dr. Ronnie further stiles in this report that on the outbreak of the disease occurring in Canton many persons, especially the wall-to- do, removed to the country, hus forming fresh faci for its dissemination; and in the same

"The iminunity enjoyed by residents on the foreign settlement of Shamien is remarkable,

seeing that it is separated only by a creek sume

keng, Singapore, Bangkok, Saigon, and Dell The post generally compares favourably with ather Chinese towns as regards cleanliness. The two main thoroughfares have drains, the trap doors of which are lowered at high water, and kept closed at night in order that the drains may act as a reservoir in case of fire. No excreta pass into the drain.

There are na

up to the time of writing, remain healthy and mentioned, which form the natural channels sanitary laws or regulations. The inhabitants Plague in man is practically unanimous, not'

ol communication between different parts of the provinces. Idland the great highways are the rivers and streams, while on the coast com- munication from place to plaće is principally by sea The infection, so far as can be ascer ained, has mainly affected first the towns on

them to the adjacent villages, and then from village to village.

12. Apart from the question of the main causes of the spread of the disease, it is worthy of note that of 37 correspondents with ex perience of plague epidemics, 30, or over 80 per cent, had found the plague outbreak preceded by a mortality among ratat mortality per cent., were of opinion that the was simultaneous with the plague outbreaks, 3 did not answer the question, and t stated it was unknown, though. of opinion that rodents introduced the disease. The consensus of opin on that the rat mortality is a precurse of only among medical men in China experienced in plague, but among the Chinese people whose villages or towns have been attacked with plague. Dr. A. Lyall refers to this common notion. Be states: "It is generally recoghis! ed by the Chinese that rats die first. During the year 1 have often been told that men are dying in such and such a street, rats have Dr. Vanderburg states that: "The natives who left their villages in a body, and came to our market, say that the rais would be found is the morning dead on the ficor, and that they knew it was plaĝur, and hence ran away, Half of their village had died of it before' they came."

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB, EMBERS are hereby notified that for Me hece e PLANS of the proposed New Buildings to be erected in the Office of Messrs. HUGHES & HOUGH, 8, Des In the event of any Member having a sug. gestion to make, it is hoped that he will do so in writing, on or before NOON on SATUR DAY NEXT, the 23rd instant, on which date the Plans will be removed.

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FEDERATED MALAY STATES. NEGRI, SEMBILAN GOVERNMENT, ASSISTANT SURGEONS

WANTED.

1. Applications will he received for the Past of qualified ASSISTANT SURGEONS in the NEGRI SEMBILAN Government SERVICE. FEDERATED MALAY STATES. Salary $1,188 per Annum with Annual Increments (to be granted subject to conduct being satisfactory) | as specified hereunder, and free furnished Quarters and allowance for Lighting.

2. Appointments will be made, in the first instance, ON PROBATION ONLY FOR SIX MONTHS, at the end of which time, if satisfactory the holder of an Assistant Surgency will be confirmed. He will then be required to sign an agreement for 5 years, on expiry of which, he will be put on the Fixed (Pensionable) should his service continue to be satisfactory Establishment

3. Candidates must hold some such a dip- toma as the L.M. and S. of a recognised Medical College.

way the outbreak in Hongkong no doubt are the rivers and coast, gradually spread from enjoy the same privileges in common as regards begun lo die in another streti, men mot yet APPOINTED,and, on his being confirmed in

from persons having migrated from Canton to Hongkong while actually suffering from the disease, or during the short incubation period. Dr. Mary Niles also states that "patients went home to the country in passage boats, some died in the boats, and others in their native towns." Under such circumstances and from

such a centre as Canton, which communicates with so many places, the infection was buand

to be disseminated.

3. The largest and most important Europ ean possession near Canton is Hongkong, sit

uated at a distance of only soine to miles, with

daily river communication with Canton bolli by steamers and junks. Hongkong, on account of its position at the mouth of the Pearl River, its population being mainly Cantonese, and the great and increasing traffic with Canton has been suggestively called the suburb of Cantor, The extent of intercourse between the two ports .may be gathered from the fact that nearly half a million of people pass each way to and fro annually, and some 4,000 river steamers and

Except in the towns and villages where missionaries reside and visit, or in those im- mediately adjacent to the treaty ports and near the customs, stations, it is next to impossible to obtain any reliable information conce.ning the prevalence of disease in China. Even in those mentioned as exceptions, it is not easy, because the Chinese think it unluckly to refer to misfortunes. They are reticent among themselves on the prevalence of plague, and

with foreigners. are generally reluctant to speak about it freely

of the two main thoroughfares employ their own scavengers, and the Tai Hong Hong Sn cielyemploys thirty scavengers and makes itself responsible for the early burial of the dead. the other portions of the town are very filthy. The houses are one-storted, badly l, and badly ventilated; swine, fowls, children, and adults accommodation both inside and outside the house, and the smell of the latrines, which are open cesspools or reservoirs, and air to be met with at nearly every comer, is such as to make a European shudder; and yet it is said to be one of the cleanest towns in that part of China. It is amidst these conditions that the Chinese live, and they are similar to those under which plague prevailed in Europe in the 14th century, The first cases of plague which appeared in ed from Hongkong Chaoyang is a residential Swatow and in Chaoyang in 1894 were import town of nearly focoo inhabitants, is a few miles distant from Swatow, and contains many shopkeepers and traders connected with Can ton and Hongkong. Dr. Layng has in hospi- tal a trader from Chavyang in 1895 who fled frem Hongkong with two friends in 1894. The three suffered from plague on their arrival at Chaoyang, and only this one recovered, In- Hongkong was commenced on June 5th and spection of steamers on arrival at Swatow from ended July 31st, 1894, the few isolated cases which gained admission not being sufficient to cause an epidemic in that year. The rats, how- ever, began to die in the characteristic manner in several haags, and a few case of plague oc- of whom are familiar with the town and district,curred among the inhabitants. One of these wwhich they have practised-many-years-Both D-Gousland-saw towards the end of August, In the spring of 1895 the disease appeared in Chinese called it the Hongkong sickness, just epidemic form in Swatow and Chaoyang. The as in Pakhoi, and in Canion they called it the in epidemic form either in Swatow or distride.

7. The events occurring in the neighbour hood of Swatow may, however, be taken as an index of what is occurring elesewhere in the infected provinces of Kwangsi, Kwangung, and Fukien. I visited Swalow and some of the villages near it, and had the advantage of being accompanied by Dr. Layng or Dr. Lyall, both

8,000 junks annually enter the port of Hongtake a great interest in the spread of plague, 1894. He was a clerk in the telegraph office.

kong from the Canton and West River district, most of them coming from Canton and its neighbourhood.

and have kindly prepared for me a map of the infected districts. Dr. Lyall is the oldest practitioner in Swatow, having been there some

.

-Dr. H. W. Dobson states that: "Dead rats are generally numerous just before an outbreak! Chinese seem to look upon, this as preceding plague.".

4. Applications with copies of recent festi- monials will be received by the Secretary to Resident, Negri Sembilan, Malay Peninsula.

Free and class passage to Negri Sembilan will be granted TO THE CANDIDATE the appointment, to his wife and no more than 2 children. If he is not confirmed and his conduct has been satisfactory his passage back to India will also be defrayed by Government. 6. Free fully furnished quarters and lighting will be allowed.

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13. That rat mortality precedes an outbreak of plague is a fact the significance of which is all-important, Were man and rats at tacked concurrently at the commencement of an outbreak, the spread of an epidemic would 8th have to be sought in some common media containing the infectious material, and which were likely to affect both simultaneously. But the antecedence of the rat plague points to a channel of infection which is capable of giving the disease to the rat, but which at nation of influence on man, and that dissemination the infection by the rat is needed to bring it into those channels by which man can become infected.

(To be continued.)

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4. Under such conditions-it is not surprising twenty-three years. His connection with the Yannan sickness. Since 1895 it has appeared THEATRE

that whatever affects Canton is not long in making itself felt at Hongkong. This year when cholera broke out in Canton there was only an interval of a few weeks before the dis. case appeared in Hongkong. And so it was with plague in 1894. As soon as the disease

was well established in epidemic form in Can- ton, it was discovered to be present in Hong- kong.

Although there is no positive evidence of the first cases of plague coming from Canton, rather than from the atlier affected areas in its

mission brings him much in contact with the Chinese, while the branches of the mission Rive him opportunities of hearing of infected villages which do not readily come to others, But even with such exceptional opportunities of acquiring information, the extent of plague is seldom ascertained even when the disease is known to prevail.

From the map, which gives the year in which the towns or villages were first infected, and in some cases the direction in which the plague spreads, it will be seen how slowly but surely the disease is icfecting village after village and town after town. I quote Dr, Lyall's explana

.

vicially or from Pakhoi, yet as large numbers of the inhabitants in order to escape plague were fleeing from Canton to Hongkong, the probabilities are greatly in its favour, particul

"If yon will look careilly over the map, arly so when the enormous ordinary traffic is taken into account, together with the rircum. You will notice that there seem to be two

stance that detection of sick persons entering the Colony is impossi le, because there is no system of inquiry as to sickness, nor is there any inspection of passengers on steamers and junks from Canton or from the West River.

tion:

ways by which the plague spreads. One is by r.diating from centres into neighbouring villages, and the other is by making a jump as it were over considerable distances to some town bayond, without infecting intermediate places. Then the new places Dr. Lowson, in his able report on the epide-form a centre of infection by radiation and

is of opinion that the disease, was imported

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district of Hainan; in 1897 in Tathoupou and In 1836 it was epidemic in Chaoyang and villages due south-east; also, Haitai on the south-west.

In 1898 the port of Swatow, Chaoyang, and

Haitai.

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In 1899 Ampou and villages, north and south-east, Nugking north, and Haitai and Kensu to the south-east.

chowfoo, and Nugking to the north

In 1900 Choyang, part of the city of Chow-

In 1901 Ampou and surrounding villages Kityang, Poseng, and Tathoupou. It also prevailed in Nugking and in the port of Swatow.

8. The description of one village applies to most others. Sua-hui is about an hour and a hall's sail from Swatow. The houses are clustered together with a few lanes of some 6 to 8 feet in width and some passages not more than 4 feet intersecting the village)

Fronting the lanes are shops and he uses and entrances inlö'courtyards. The shops are

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Goods not cleared by the 24th inst, will be subject to rent,

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage obtained from the Godown Company within ten days after the steamer's arrival, after which no claims will be recognised.

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narrow, obtaining their light only from the frant. The houses in many instances are end tered direct from the street and consist of one or more rooms, and are usually devoid of other means of light than the door; sometimes there is a small window of 1 foot in length 9 inches in breadth. Other entrances give access to a mic of bubonic plague in Hongkong in 1897; | jumping.' Thus to the north your will small courtyard, around which are windowless i

buildings entered by separate doors. In fine from Canton rather than from Pakhoi, where find Ung Kug infected, and none of the villages weather the inhabitants, when not out in the it did not prevail until the latter part of the between it and Swatow being yet infected, fields, spend most of their time in the courtyard nr in the street. At the time of the visit gar spring, and between which and Hongkong the From Ung Rug it has spread to Chin-na, but traffic is insignificant compared with that be

has ant gone inland yet. To the west, Mai-On, bage was to be seen heaped up almost every. where, being thrown out of the house and left tween Hongkong and Canton. Once introduced it town to miles from Swatow, up the river, to the disintegrating forces of nature and of the was the first place infected, and it was infected pigs and, fowls. Pigs moved or lay about the into llongkong, the disease caused the great. est alarm, but the epidemic, though severe, is not from Swatow, but from Hwei-laj, between lanes, of were in the courtyard or in one of the lane or were in the courtyard, The drains which towns there is a large carrying trade of forms of the house with the fowls. Calves and cows were usually tied in some corner of the were full of foul, putrefying black inud or stinking water which could get no outlet, being blocked with garbage. Streets, passages, and courtyard were a mass of uncleanliness. The latrines, however, were well-built reservoirs, the feces and urine being valuabic, hut, the smell from them was extremely offensive. Several of the wi dawless houses were closed because their inmates. had fled from them either to other villages or the hills; to escape from the plague, which had been in the house.

Among this caagery of badly-lighted, badly. ; ventilated, and filthy houses there were a few to be seen better built, tener lighted, and AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGAM cleaner. They were the exceptions, and they had escaped plague. Outside the village are the fishponds, which also ha elatrines over them. The po ds, when emptied, supplied in un the mud taken from them a valuable manure.

Just before leaving, Hongkong I received a village had been very heavily struck with plague, and had lost nearly half of its inhablan

not to be compared in intensity with that in salted fish. One of the conlies engaged in the Canton, even if the lowest estimate no 40,000

porterage contracted the disease and 'died at. be accepted as the highest number of deaths. Many in Canton have estimated the deaths Mai On. From Mai On it spread to Lifin, near from plague in that city in 1894 to have been Swatow. There is a series of villages, Tsun between 80,co' and 103,000. The deaths in phon about 8 miles from Kuh-Yang: In this series of villages in the same year one was in Hongkong did not exceed 3,000.

fec ed from Chhiahlian (between which villages there is a large trade in salted vegetables, and 15 in Mai On one of the coolies contracted the disease in Chhiah-lian) and one from Swatow, You will also notice that this year the plague bas 'jumped from Kub Yang to Thung. Khe, a distance of at least 12 miles, and it has aheady, during this one year infected two or three neighbouring villages, to the south and west. There seems to be no plague from Cup chi westwards. Kong-pheng in the west was infected from Hongkong-a man came from Hongkong, developed plagne, and died. Next

In neither city do the figures given represent the total number of cases of plague or extent of mortality, for at the height of each epidemic the Chinese fled from both Canton and Hong. kong to their homes, many of them Aying on the way or sickening with plague on their arrival.

very great. In town of some 15,coo inhabi-

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All Claims: must, be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

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NOTICE

HE LEAL SENADO DA JAMARA OF MACAO, duly authorized, will re- ceive Tenders for the supply of ELECTRIC POWER to be used in the Lighting of the Public Streets of the City of Macao, under the following Conditions

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Goods are being landed and placed at their signees of cargo are hereby informed that their wish to the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godawaat Kowloon

Copies of these conditipus of agreement will be forwarded to the parties, who apply

5. It was in the Hongkong epidemic of 1894 that the causal agent of plague, the plague bacil- Ius, was discovered by Dr. S. Kilasate of Tokyo, on June 14th. Later Dr. Yersin made inden it appeared in epidemic form. The from Dr. Layng mentioning that this pendently a like discovery in Hongkong. The Chinese say Kong-pheng is a dirty town, so it Hongkong epidemic began in May and ended must be ditty. From Kong-pheng, the other

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby

IN CHINA in August, and its incidence was proportionate places in that region have been infected. The Although it seldom attracts outside notice, mong artic Goods are beins, Janged. I ly more severe on the female portion of the only village in the estuary so far infected is

Chhi-Ishan. This village is the trade terminus mortality in some of the villages and towns is their risk, into the Godowns of the Hongkong population than on the male. Macao did not for Tua-na. Boats carry goods to Chhitshan,tants, not far south of Chaoyang, it is estimated And: Kowloon Whad, and Godown:Company, where each consignment:will be ́sárted-out, y lud for themgalang hann Vall de ayang, ́s mark by markand delivery can be obtaînéð anna{ "L.VicAny lebdar, unless accompanied by sufler epidemically from the disease un.il April, and the goods are then carried by road to Tua-

that over 3,000 died. In Ampou, a cluster of Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. May and June of 1895. During the winter of us. It has been infected secondary to Tua-na villages about rd miles front Swatow, and aims will be admitted after the Goods soon as the Goods are landed on sarni cosa deposit 500, will not be received

have left the Godowns, and all claims in be OptimeGoods will be carried on 'unfuss VI. The tenders will be opened by the With regard to question rs-what I mean is contre for rice, fruit, and vegetables to be 1894 and 1895 there prevailed a fatal épidemic his, in a good many places where plague has brought down to Swatow, the mortality was so sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before instructions are given to the contrary before Leal Senado de Cardin, în public meeting, which attacked the respiratory organs, and broken out in a Chinese house i personally reagh ngon, that the inahbitants of whole Noon, on the 73ud instant for they will not be dinar TODAY

on the grit October-speak which was believed to be influenza. It is know that dead rats have been found behind, villages fed en masse,, and, got, boats and recognisedi:qasbod film paalia'ff nietqe) † †AGdodst:höff«Téxtasibe Zaitostantini qatiffat ke: Leal-Sepidid day Gamart Te

No Fire lasecante has beef ffected, and any will be subject to rent, worth noting that this was at a time before the furniture, &c. And it does seem that from one

Goods remaining in the Gedown after the 23rd pneumonic type of plague was recognised as a place to another, one way at least of carrying

instant will be subject to find) variety of the disease. The first case of bubonic the plague is by infected individuals. At the

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by same time I must say that in scores of cases

SANDER, WIELER & GO, plague which came under the notice of the when infected persons have been carried to

Agents. Portuguese authorities was an imported case their homes and died, no epidemic has resulted.

Hongkong, 18th May, 150p from Hongkong, and to this source is ascribed Re Thung Khe-I sent to a pupil for particus

lived in them on the river, while others deserted their villages and put up small, matsheds along the coast. Nearly all the large villages between Hongkong and Swatow are affected.

Dr. A. K. Scout reports that the City of Ung Kong (an intolerably fitby city) lost a tenth of

Allanipidamaged packaged must be left int the Godowns and Notice of same sent to this Office before the 28th instant, or claims in confettion therewith will bot be recognized." NIPPON:YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong 18th May, 1993.

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- serves the right not to gring the camtendon

if (the tenders submitt* are not found

PEDRO NOLASCO DA SILVA,

V-President of Leal Senada da Camara.

· Macao, 18th April, 1993.