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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1906.

TELEGRAMS. Long the males on the number of mental

+

[Reuter's.]

The Japanese Ships at Portsmouth,

LONDON, 3th June. The Japanese crews are being entertained at Portsmouth, and daily festivities take place.

.

The Madrid Outrage.

The officials are reticent, but it is stated that, to the present, twenty-four persons have died in Madrid from the bomb out- rage, and others are dying,

MORE ARRESTS,

Later.

The director of the Modern School, where Moral lodged, and several anarchist profes

sors have been arrested in Barcelona,

The police declare that they have es- tablished Moral as the author of the bomb outrage in Paris, which a bomb was thrown at King Alphonso.

cases dantled. Apart from these chien was able to trace clearly, in many of the cases of chronic. mania, melancholia and delusional insanity among the women as well as among the men, the effect of alcohol as a causative facier. Altogether the misuse and abuse of alcohol may be considered the princi. pal, and perhaps the leading, factor in the pro duction of mental derangements, especially among the outlanders in this Colony. The type of disease produced varies from cases of delirium tremens, too severe to be fit for treat ment in the wards of a general hospital, to typical cases ni alcoholic insanity. I will be noticed that England, Scotland and China contribute each a fifth of the cases, and Ireland and India about a leath. The reason for this excessive indulgence in alcohol which so often

THE NAVY LEAGUE.

ANNUAL MEETING.

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., presided over a small gathering of members assembled at the annual meeting of the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League at the City Hall last even.

ing.

The President said that as the report and statement of accounts of that branch of the Navy League had been circulated he would take them as read,

He was sorry not to see a

larger attendance, which he trusted did not

mean that the members and associates were not interested in the work but was due only to other attractions and to the heat.

TRAFALGAR · CENTENARY. From the report they would see that that branch had either disbursed or promised cons

TROUBLE ON BOARD & STEAMER.

THE SHIP FULL OF VERMIN.

Further hearing of the case in which Capt. Grant, of the s.3. Earl of Carrick, summoned seven members of his crew "for disobeying his lawful command whist on the high seas, on May 29th list, was resumed at the Police Court, before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, at noon, to-day. Mr. R. F. C. Master again appeared for the prosecution.

Wilnesses for the defence having been call- ed, the fourth defendant said that the fo'csle was in no condition for any person to live in. He had no sleep before that and consequently he could not do any work on the 29th.

The fifth defendant said that neither inside of outside the focale was a place for human beings to live in, while the bugs chased one all over could not sleep owing to the pest and so could the ship, and very nearly ate one alive! He

not work on the 29th. The food also was not fit for man. Only yesterday they had fresh meat, before that "deep-sea bash was served all the

time.

leads to such disastrous results in persons of siderable sums of money during the past year, unstable mental equilibrium is perhaps esot hore aspecially in connection with the Trafal. very difficult to seek; for it is an undisputes! gar Centenary. He thought the Hongkong fact that the abuse of alcohol is common in Branch ought to do its little best in com- this Colony especially among the wage earning memoration of that event, therefore as pre- classes and a certain section of sea-faringsident he put himself in cominunication with folk. I may mention incidentally that I the Naval Authorities to see what could be The United States and China.

have seen more cases of alcoholic insanity and lone here for officers and men of the Navy....... It The Washington House has passed a Bill

more cases of excessive alcoholic indulgence was at first suggested that a special recreation for establishing a district judgeship in China, during my short period of service in this ground should be procured for the Navy at

A Court will be held annually in Shang-Colony than I have seen in a longer period of Kowloon and the Government of the Colony at 10.30 p.m. to "get up ashes. He left the hini, Hankow, Tientsin and Canton,

service if another Colony. The reason then moss generally assigned is that the climate here is enervating and that in consequence the system requires bracing up. This idea combined with the well-known camaraderie

Another Shock of Earthquako

in San Francisco,

A shock of earthquake occurred at San

Francisco on Monday night, but no damage among a set of men earning & precarious

was done.

[N. C. D. News}

The Food Riot in Kiungsi.

Nanchang, 1st June. The Fu river is falling and H. M. S. Snife

is unable therefore to reach Fuchol. An over- land runner has been dispatched to ascertain developments.

Three hundred troops will arrive at Fachou to-night.

The Opening of Mukdon...

Tokin, is! June. Mukden was thrown open to foreign trade to-day without a hitch."

A Fable.

Tokio, 1st June. The Japanese Gavernment has not received, As has been reported, any remonstrances in regard to the circulation of any Japanese war notes in Manchuria as being disadvantageous to foreigners.

livelihood, often out of work, always isolated bereft of home ties, muxt lead to excessive

alcoholic indulgence and this in its turn surely lends to mental derangement. It cannot be tan strongly insisted upon that if the climate is bad the means adopted to counteract its effects are worse and but augment its injurious effects, if any. Total abstainers and moderate drinkers, that is, those that drink with discretion, come off best.

DEATHS,

These amounted to 7, of whom 6 were nates and one female, giving a percentage on cases treated among the males just under 4 per cent, and among the women just over 2 per

cent.

The immediate cause of death was as follows: Two males succumbed to exhaustion super- vening on chronic minis. The patient who

suffered from melancholia attempted suicide before she was admitted into the Asylum by inflicting wounds on her neck with a pair of scissors.

These wounds apparently super ficial set up extensive and deep seated cellulis which proved fatal, One malec

HONGKONG LUNATIC ASYLUMS suffering from dementia died of acute pleu-

INSANITY IN THE COLONY.

titis, and one suffering from idiocy con- tracted pulmonary tuberculosis prior to ad- mission which carried him off. One patient suffering from acute alcoholism suddenly and ithout warning developed extravasation of were we led to suspect that such a condition iue. He made no previous complaint nor

kindly met the League in the matter. After- wards, whed' co many boas left the station they thought they had better communicate with the Naval Authorities again and use their influence with the Government to secure permanent quarters at Happy Valley on which the League would expend a sum of $1,500. The Government on being approached on the subject were in-favour that a permanent build ing should be erected at Happy Valley, and in due course the said sum would be laid out for the erection thereof by this branch of the Navy League.,. They had also expended a sum of Stos, the cost of a wreath which had been placed in Nelson's Column

SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE. Amongst other items in the accounts a sum. of $787.30 was given for the purpose of pur cliasing a billiard table for the Seamen's Insti- tute at Wanchai, and the Committee under stood the gift had been much appreci ned. As members would observe from the statement of accounts, by the time the sum of 51, 03 had been disbursed they would have a very small. sum in hand, therefore he would like to remind those who wished to help in the future as they had done in the past that a was necessary they should secure further new members and asso- CiRles.

MEMBERSHIP.

The number of British adult resients in. this Colony (exclusive of the Services) ex ceeded 1,200, and the report showed a mem- bership of only 205, considerably less than one-fourth of the number of British residents. Members would agree with him that this was not a satisfactory state of affairs; ail British

members, or associates, and none could say subjects here should join this branch either as

The sixth defendant said that on the nights of the 28th and 29th. Mày ba went to work

stokehold at 4 am, tried to sleep but could not, Owens, Ross and himself made a bed of

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planks and stools under the break, of the foc'sle. No one forward was asleep for many nights. They tried hard, but gave it up as a bad job. Dat morning, five men complained Persian (Paper) to the captain about the condition of things and of the conduct of the mate in laughing at

them while in misery. The captain said be could do nothing for them, but remarked that the mate should not have laughed at the men. There was no singleader at all in this refusal to work. On that morning defendant was sick and was under treatment by the captain.

Defendant was therefore not in a fit condition to work in a stokehold. The day after the ship had arrived here he asked the captain permission to go on board a man-of-war to complain to the authorities that a sailor was driven over the side. The captain would not listen to him. The next day the whole gang again interviewed the captain and asked for money and hberty. They got neither. When the captain knew that the defendants

death of the seaman, who jumped overboard, were going to take steps to inquire into the the captain had them summoned so as to pre. judice them. On Whit Monday the captain, knowing all the time that it was a boliday, sept defendaul ashore to see the harbour authorities.

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According to the last statistics to hand, said Mr. Coroner Schroder at f'addington recently, there were in England and Wales 2,109 cases of

burns and 494 from scalds; of the 1,715 over 1,000 were the result of unprotected grates, and. 417′ cases were those of children whe wrote flannelette.

deaths of children, of which 1.715 were from Steinway,

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· HONGKONG CLUE. ·

NOTICE.

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AMEXTRA PINAR MEMBER

for the purpose set forth in the Notice posteri the Club will be held in the Club House, on THURSDAY, the 14th June, 1906, at 5 PM., in the Hall of the Club House,

By Order,

C. H. GRACE,

Secretary, Hongkong, 6th June, 1906.

($25

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AT THE THEAtre Royal,

The seventh man' said that since he joined On the ship he had only slept three times in the

down and therefore could do no work. lie foesle. In consequence of this and the poor quality of the food the defendant became run

In view of the Bill providing for the establish ment of lunatic asylums in the Colony, which was read a first time at the meeting of the Legislative Council this afternoon, the report of Dr. W. V. M. Koch, M.C. medical officer in charge of the Government lunatic asylums, for might supervene. He succumbed' in spite of that they could not da so as the subscription complained to the captain who ordered him

19ag, will he 'found interesting reading. This is what Dr. Koch wrote:

The admissions numbered 160, 118 being males and 42 females. This number is very slightly below that of the previous year-166, and practically the number has been constant for the past three years.

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under observation with reference in his mental the most active treatment. One male patient condition was suffering from pericarditis which proved fatal.

OCCUPATION OF PATIENTS.

associates. Some might ask what was the use of was only $5 a year for members and $2 for joining a branch of the Navy League out here.

He would say that it was a very great encour. It is a great pity that the patients, both Eu-agement, indeed, to the people at hours to feel ropeans and Chinese, display a strong, disin that they were supported in this far ou post of clination 10 work or to keep themselves occt the Empire by local opinion, The British fleet pied in some way that would distract their

was one, and he ventured to say that the Navy The following are the admissions for the thoughts and take them out of themselves.

Work and occupation as a means of treat League was one although its branches were 78 ment are well recognised in ali Kuglih asy scattered all over the world, and all did their furas and have been found effective inzameli-best to promote the objects of the League to orating the mental condition of such as

secure the efficiency and sufficiency of the are able to undertake the one or the other,

And such was absolutely Navy (applause). Our resources in this respect limited, but

imperative if we were to secure our commerce

past 7 years—

1849

1040 190,

1902

1913 ....

109

כן

...I 20 ..$5

...106 ....160

190

ingrasa The total number of cases under treatment during the year amounted to 177, of whom 148 were discharged na recovery or repatriated, and 7 died, leaving a total of 22 cases under treatment on the last day of the year.

Owing to the system of repatriation in force. it is extremely difficult to calculate the recovery. rate in figures, as we unfortunately are unable to keep the native patients under observation for any length of time. It is, however, as well as one can make out, somewhat low,

NATURE OF DISEASES,

we find European patients are particularly intractable, it is all we can do to induce the pative patients to un teriake a liule gardening from time to time.

BANGKOK SUPERSTITIONS.

The majority of existing superstitions in Bangkok seem to be connected with gambling. Here is one way of obtaining lock that was experimented with only a few days ago, Earth was obtained from seven cremation places, from seven ant heaps and from seven landing stages along the river. The whole was mixed were of the usual nature. he more together, and used to make small earthen pel acute diseases, namely, these which usually lets, in the centre of each of which was placed give greater hopes of recovery, such as acute

a tiny piece of palm leaf with a leuer engraved mania and acute melancholia are few in num

on it. A small imave of the lottery farmer ber. The cases of acute mania, with the ex-

was also made of the earth. The pellets and ception of ane, singularly enough, occurred image were then placed in water in a monk's Among the Chinese, whose meatality is equilibegging bowl, and lengthy incantations were brated on a very stable and stolid imsis.. This said. This is no doubt the vital part of the variety of mental disease is generally caused ceremony. In any case the little pellets soon by, or at any rate, accompanies the rush and begin to split open, and the pieces of palin leaf turmoil of existence when the senses have to

float to the surface. The first two to come up be keen and the emotions are "highly strong give the numbers that will win the lottery that and the intellectuality is sharpened. Evidence day. On the recent occasion when this was of this is seen in the admission returns of the tried one number floated on the water, and mental institutions in Western countries. With the other stuck to the neck of the image. It is the well-known mental characteristics of the said they were the winning letters of the day, average Chinese, however, especially their but those making the experiment' were too late strong will-power and self control, we do not to make any use of the first one. expect there acute mental disorders. Rather, They drik, when the mind becomes affected and unhinged into chronic conditions of alienation, such as chronic mania and melancholia and dementia; such states as seem scarcely ever to readjust themselves or even to approach the Dormal.

Another curious method of obtaining luck was also tried in Bangkok n few days ago. A man hanged himself recently at War Sam Plam. A portion of the cloth by which he did the deed

in' time of war.

CHINA'S AWAKENING.

Another point which struck him in connection with the necessity of British residents of this Colony supporting the Navy League arose out of the fact, which was patent to alf of them who closely observed the trend of events in the Far East, 'namely, that things were moving with wonderful rapidity in the Far East. China used to be spoken of as a very conservative country and her people as a very conservative people; but those of them who had thoughtfully watch- ed recent events must have been impressed by the fact that China and the Chinese were heginning to more, and the British nation ought to be prepared to take their part in the events which might follow. Whatever we had gained had been gained for the benefit not only of ourselves, but for all other nations,

OUR DOCTRINE.

below.

SATURDAY, 9th June,

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PUBLIC AUCTION,

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Mr. Master said that he thought his Worship was bound to convict from the evidence taken THE Undersigned have received instructions for the prosecution and asked for a full penalty.,

His Worship said he found the defendants guilly; it was a serious affair, and discipline was to be upheld. He would, however, take a lenient view of the case, and sentenced the men to one day's imprisonment each without labour, and to forfeit two days' pay.

THE CAPTAIN SUMMONED. Capt. Grant, of the s.s. Earl of Carrick, was then summoned by the police for wilfully re fusing-after a request was duly made-to allow seaman F. W. Yearsley to go ashore, or to send him in proper custody, so that he might make his complaint to a Justice of the Peace,

Inspector Langley prosecuted for the police, and Mr, R, F, C. Master appeared for the defendant.

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

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A very fine and rare collection of Maçau POSTAGE. STAMPS and : ALBUM con- The captain pleaded “not guilty."

taining about 1,200 Stamps. Yearsley-Can you tell me, sir, if, when we Catalogues will be issued, get back to Newcastle, we can

TERMS As usual. appeal against your decision?

His Worship-You had better consult a solicitor.

F. W. Yearsley said that he asked his Wor-

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"ZAIDA,"

ship to hear his case before concluding with BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION that of the captain. As he was already con- vicled he did not think Hongkong now the proper place to proceed with the case, He would see to the while affair when he got back to Newcastle. He even refused to give that the police were the complainants, for, if the captain were discharged he would have no chance of summoning him at Newcastle.

Other evidence was called.' The defendant was discharged.

"CLUB"

Our doctrine throughout had been the prin- evidence in the present case, notwithstanding Captain A. M. Rait, will be despatched as THAT'S

THAT'S ALL

THE MUTUAL STORES.

ciple of an open door in China, and we were anxions that it should be adopted and main tained in future. To do this we must have an efficient Navy in the Far East. President Roosevelt put this måtter very incisively in að address he delivered at Chicago, when he said "We wish for a powerful and efficient navy; not for purposes of war, but as the surest guar. anice of pence," The speaker stated that this branch of the League disputed the wisdem of the Admiralty's policy in withdrawing so many gunboals from Chinese waters. They thought it was desirable that the British flag should be visible on the inland waters of China in order that British prestige should be maintained. As we were aware the Admiralty policy had Court this afternoon, before Mr. C. A. D. been reversed considerably, two gunboats Helbourne, in which two confien were charged with stealing an order book and forging on order on the Mutual Stores for the delivery of Szto worth of butter from the Ice House.

Mr. F. X. d'Almada e Castro appeared for the prosecution.

AN APPEAL TO BRITISHERS.

defendants CONVICTED.

The case was continued at the Police

In conclusion, he urged British residents in that since the last meeting the number of the Colony to join the League, and pointed out

Ho Man, manager of the Mutual Stores, said members had diminished from 285 10 265 and

that the cost price of the butter was $180; dssociates from 35 to 17. He was sure they his selling price was Sato; but witness was would agree that that was not satisfactory villog to alter the cost of the butter from state of affairs, and he appealed to British $10 to $50 so as to bring the case within residents to strengthen that branch of the League which, he could assure them, was very the jurisdiction of a Magistrate for the case Mr. Castro much appreciated at home, With those few to be dealt with summarily. observations he moved the adoption of the submitted that under the evidence adduced he report and balance sheet. carried.

Mr. Cochrane seconded, and the motion was

was obtained and handed to a "Mon Du" or having been put into commission, and he was fortune teller who pliced it in a covered pot glad to say that the British flag was again flying with two letters. There followed once more

on the inland waters of China (applause). Founeen cases were admitted suffering from the lengthy incantations, and the pot was delusional insanity-a condition, that is to say, handed back to the resident seeking luck. The where the patient retains strong active and fixed instructions were that the pot was not to be delusions, but, is free from manifestations of opened till axoans were heard to proceed from mania or melancholia. Sometimes, as is one it. After about a week groans were heard to case here, this, may pros into a condition of came from it, though not by the person making acute delicious manin, but, on the other hand, the experiment. It happened at night, of and perhaps more usually, it terminates in a course, but curiously enough the person who heard the groans did not know apparently the significance of the pot. Anyhow next morning it was opened, and the two letters found inside proved to be the lottery letters of the day! The Cases of alcoholic insanity bulk largely fast statement is presumbly necessary to give among the admissions; these I will refer to incompleteness to the tate, for it has to be added the next paragraph.

that nobody made a Tortune with the in On reference in Table 11.it,will be seen that formation,

condition of dementia.

Epilepsy does not seem common among the Chinese, only one case occurring among them to twa among Europeans.

35 males and female were admitted suffering. It should be worth while to have a collection from alcoholism, that is, from the direct result of the incantations used for such purposes made of the abuse of alcoholma pérconiego of 28- and published.—Bangkok Timur,

COMMITTEE,

would ask for a conviction, the full penalty required, as they were constantly losing but ter, andthis would act as a deterrent to others, On the motion of Capt. W. E. Clarke, Ha koow there was no cvidence to substantiate seconded by Mr. A. Carter, the committee was the charge of forgery, but he would ask that re-elected with the substitution of Messrs. they be convicted for stealing the order book, Murray Stewart, C. H. Medhurst, and Azad uttering a forged order, His Worship Forbes (secretary), for Messri. Gershom Stewart, E. W. Mitchell and N. J. Stabb,

sentenced the defendants to three months This was all the business,

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