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HONGKONG, 18th July, 1923 THE HONGKONG MEDICAL REPORT.

SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1923.

DAY BY DAY.

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|precautions ... taken, we learn, ceilings and hollow walls are not allowed in now buildings, and in some instances in which they existed they won.-C. L, Gascoigne, wore removed by arter." Uo- fortunately, the abomination of The sailing of the e.a. lath and plaster double cellings until 4 p.m. to-day.

of Canada has been postponed and hollow walls still exists to |* great extent, among the older Tenders are invited for con- buildings in Hongkong. It is structing a reinforced concreto, mentioned that rats probably

refuse pier and forming approach road at Whitfield, enter the Colony by means of the shipping, especially in junks, and

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From the Office Butts.

There is no truth in the rumour The papers will have to be in the proposed Stadium will be marks got more and more like that the first match to be played careful. The new quotatione in between the Wongreichong Wan- tennis scores. derers and the Queen's Road Rangers for the Capsuimun Cup.

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Our - Observatory seismograph recorded a slight earthquake last Talking about stadiums, the week. This, however, should difference between a concrete give no cause for grave anxiety, proposal and a concrete structure for it may only have been Dr. Shaukiwan Inland Lot No. 500 is not so much after all. Appar Son thinking out new financial "at present it seems that to dis-is.to be sold at the P.W.D. officesently they are both equally hard, schemas. infect all junka poriodically and 10,332 equare feet, and the upset of hot air and leaving it to the typhoons are perhaps the result

on August 13. It comprises about

Eathusiasm is too often a blend. Come to think of it, these recent kill the rats and fleas would ro-price is one dollar a foot.

other fellow to do the thinking. of the Canton Government's re- cent attempt to raise the wind.

The most ardent supporters of Dy scheme are these, who have. nothing to lose but everything to gain.

More recreational facilities,

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Owners of griffins sbould find The Peak Tramway Company To the List of Medical Practi- no difficulty in selecting good bave 5,000 feet of steel cable for tioners there has been added the sounding. names for

their sale. Here is a chance for some name of Dr. Lin Hang Ngan, 34, ponies this year. What about bird, burdened with a civic con- Reclamation Street, Yangiati, "Karma", "Esoteric", "Sachas." science, to purobasa it on behalf Bachelor of Medicine and Bache: "Pythagoras."

of the O. R. A. in order that they lor of Surgery of the University

may pull themselves together of Hongkong.

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It is suggested, however, that again. the reporters tako a course in Theosophy previous to the Races,

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quire a large organisation for the purpose, as some four or five His Excellency the Governor bas appointed Sorgenat Wilfrid thousand junks would have to Brackenridge, M.C., to be Second be dealt with." Dealing with Lieutenant in the Hongkong ankylostomiasis, the report re Volunteer Defence Corps. marks that it is thought some 15

Tha King's Exequatur em-

Some one is advertising in the per cent,, of the population of powering Mr. Carlos Henrique Fee. But what we want at some Post for a live Chinese. In this South China is infected with Basto to act as Honorary Consul of our meetings is the advocacy weather we prefer them that way. hookworme.

for Bolivia in Hongkong has re- of more intensive mental training. ourselves: ceived His Majesty's signature. One menace to the community which is being tackled поге vigorously now is venereal dis. ease. Time was, who the mere mention of the subject was taboo, but in recent years that false prudery has given place to help ful discussions and racommend-

The lastest donations to the

According to our evening "con- ations. The report for last year Chinese Football Tour Fund 'are

temporary a London man has shows. no diminution of this $250 from Sir Robert Ho Tung, By, a new regulation, Peak drawn "My Lord" in the Cal- acourge. Dr. Johnson states: $25 each from Mr. Li Yak-ton Tram season ticket holders have cutte Derby Sweep. Maybe he'll

and the Bank of Canton, $20 to show their tickets

win but we hardly think this year, "Although a free clinia for the from the Sun Company and $10 Monday in future. These taipans for according to popular rumour, treatment of all who are affected each from Mr. Li-Tez-chung and want watching.

the Derby was run last month. has not been established yet, a Mr. Yu-kon. This brings the

total to $3,364."

"Why waste more money? Wo By and by, once those nice new There are passages in the medi-considerable amount of free treat-

supply you with cheap osk and prisons got going in Canton, our eal report for last year, which is ment has been provided by

Judgment for Taels 4,000 and elm cofas made in Europa". So armed robbers will prefer jail signed by Dr. J. T. C. Johnson, Government" As we announced costs was handed down by Judge runs an advert. in a Malayan there to freedom in Hongkong. the late P.C.M.O, that require the other day, a free clinio is Lobingior in the United States contemporary. After once using This will suit us flae, more than ordinary notice. The shortly to be established by the Court, Shanghai, recently in the their coffins you want no other.

case in which Mrs. Kitty Roup report on the sanitary depart authorities, and it is to be hoped claimed Tls. 20,000 as damages Mr. Fletcher the other night typhoon a Chinese brass band ment of Hongkong, issued a few that this will merely be the com- from the American Drug Company asked if the stadium would be came booning through our town. weeks ago, covered a great deal mencement of an organised cam of using some hair shampoo sold country club. We hope he wasn't for injuries sustained as a result something on the lines of a of ground which the medical paign. To the late P.C.M.C. we by the defendant Company.

It's very hard to lift your hat by any chance confusing Sookun. when a funeral passes these days report deals with, and the former owe the first steps, for, as his

poo with Shekko?

unless you've practised stopping paid particular attention to tuber report records, he has recom

your ears with the fingers of one- culosis, one of the curses of this ended a suitable site for a free clinic and a plan for the building, Colony, We shall therefore not touch further on that subject, and has adviced the appointment Powers Should Reconsider which received due notice at the of an officer with special know.

Chinese Situation." time. There are other aspects of

lodge of this work. At the.

London, July 27.

What is a stadium ? asks Mr. local boalth work, however, about request of the Government, he A meeting of the China Associa Fletcher. A stadium is something which the public, will be interest-

submitted a memorandum last tion, at which Sir John Jordan entirely surrounded by doubt for od to know more. It is often year on the steps necessary for was elected president, unanimous which someone else is expected to

ly passed a resolution, proposed pay.

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In view of the prevalence of hand. week-end typhoons, thesa Gov..... ornment officiale are to be oon- It may have been a scientific gratulated on having a Saturday disappointment to Mr. Claxton that the typhoon didn't come our way, but, all the same, we don't pay our astronomers to become ambitious.

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declared, for instance, that money carrying out the recommend-y Mr. F. Anderson, the retiring should be spent freely on the ations of the Veneral Diseases president, and seconded by Mr. The reward offered by the... fight against disease, so when wa

Committee appointed by the Burkill, chairman of the British Police for information of the as- Possibly the mosquito makes find that the amount sanctioned

local authorities.

Chamber of Commerce in Shang-sassins who attempted to murder the closest approach to man. hai, urging the signatories of tho the Superintendent of the Chinesa in the estimates for 1922 was

.0 On the whole, Hongkong has a Four Power Treaty at the Wash-Telegraphs, has been increased In an American newspaper one $411,874 whilst the expenditure very efficient medical service, ington Conference to review the another $2,000. May be those in of the headings reads Pro- was only $371,782, and the which does a great deal of good considering measures

situation in China with a view to the know are awaiting another secution Bases Case on Post. department's revenue amounted work. We have not the space to China may be assisted to achieve

whereby rise.

Mortem Statements of Woman Ho Killed." Deed men tell no to $164,000, there is cause to touch on all its activities, but national union, sottled conditions If we get many more typhoons tales, but being a woman she is query a policy that appears to might mention the excellent and equilibrium; declaring that Kowloon way, the money for the evidently determined to have a have aimed at economy. In a bacteriological research and pro-by enlarging the scope of a special re-orecting the contractor's hoard-

these objecte may best be attained Peninsula Hotel will be spent on last word. Colony with an estimated popula. paration of vaccines, the system-conference which will be conven-ing. tion of over 660,000, the expendi alic examination of our water and abolition of the likin; but if

Canton, says distinguished ed to consider the customs surtax

visitor, abolished corporeal ture wat less than sixty, cents a supplies, the medical inspection the circumstances provent that believe in a man after you've seen ago, which seems to coincide with It takes an awful lot of faith to punishment more than ten years head. One thing we can see is of schools, and the training of body meeting soon, the four picture of him dressed up as a the date when martial law was that the medical service is cer Chinese midwives. We can feel Powers should convéne a special abriner. BETWEEN-tainly not handicapped by a want secure in the knowledge that Reuter.

conference. on the subject.- of funds, and it is pleasing to we have the right appliances, know from

the report under and the right men, to fall back review that certain reforms are upon for any demands that might being set on foot.

be made by the progress sanitary science.

THE TINGLE OF THE FINGERS-THE YIELD- ING TO TEMPTATION—THE TRAIN-THE TEE -THE STANCE-AND THE SATISFYING DRIVE

THE SELF-WILLED BALL-THE CARE-FREE HOURS OF SLOW

PURSUIT OVER THE FAIRWAY THROUGH LONG WET GRASS AND IN MARSHY CORNERS, IN A SHOE-LIGHT— STRONG-WATER-PROOF - GRIPPING THE GROUND FOR

SHOTSPURNING THE DISTANCE IN

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RUBBER SOLE. MADE ON THE HAND SEWN PRINCIPLE WITH EXTENDING WELTS ROUND HESLA, EQUALLY SUITED FOR WALKING, TOURING AND WEEK-ENDS.

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of the situation is not to be left where of hotels round the island should The man who suggested a chain it is, because present conditions have one with a very large iron are manifestly unfair to this ball at the end of it, and then step Colony,

off Blake Pier Need of Revision.

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Shooting, of course, is not corporeal punishment. It is only lead poisoning in a highly con- centrated form.

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Another coincidence is that prison reform in Canton comes at a time when the International Commission of Jurists are think- about coming to China to look into this business of extra-ter- ritoriality,

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If we get many more encom. iums about our Gaol, the consider the advisability authorities will have sericualy to of increasing the rates.

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Hongkong is obviously not very healthy place in the ordin- ary way. Last year's death rate

Railway Problem. worked out at 25.47 per mille for

It would be interesting to know The Canton Daily News Bays a It is apparent from the state the precise extent to which the new racecourse here would only Chinese and 20.46 for Chinese races. The infant mort-mittee of the Legislative Council its obligations. Mr. Fletcher, in to gamble. Looks as if there were non-ment. made to the Finance Com- Chinese section has not fulfilled present another splendid chance ality was heavy.. Malaria, which on Thursday in regard to new his statement, referred to the no glass houses up Canton way. can almost be eliminated by capital expenditure on the Kow.

shortage as "considerable." To. loon-Canton Railway that the vigorous measures (and liberal arrangement between the British ur way of thinking the circum- Wonder if Flyssan is any good expenditure whore necessary) and Chinese section is not work-stances call for a rovision of the for dog in the manger? was more prevalent than usual,ing at all smoothly. In the first Present arrangement between the and probably this year's statistics is not supplying its full quote equitable that the Chinese railway aftor all. In Singapore they have have complained te

two sections. Obviously, it is not place, the Chinese administration

Hongkong is not so badly off Chinese Christians in Shanghai will show no marked improve- of rolling stock, and Ibis means share of the through traffic more than 4,000 motorcars, while Feng regarding the way in which General ment, if any. Passing over that we have to increase our receipts whilst it fails to pro- their Automobile Club boasts & he heped to overthrow President typhoid (of which the public with the result that our capital vidé its due quota of roiling stock membership of 452, of whom 60 Li, Our Sun-Worshippers are

expenditure is materially in- heard a great deal recently), creased. The mischief does not The respective percentages from are in arrears with their subscrip- apparently too busy to protest, small-pox, and dysentery (as the stop there, however, because the, the former source should bora. report states, a disease "often consequence of this is that ia-some relation to the capital ex-

Shanghai City Chinese want encountered "),

roads are made, upon our share

penditure incurred. It may, as

..That is the question self-government. Youmati has of the through traffic takings,

Mr. Fletcher says, be policy for Whether it is better to hoist the been thinking along these lines plague. This last-named disease whereas the Chiness section us to build up our rolling stock black cross too sion or to take up for years past. has become more prevalent in benefits through its own failure against the day when peaceful arms against a sea of know-alls the Colony-we trust only tom scheme, receiving its full share will be possible to the anton-

to observe the conditions of the conditions set in and he time who afterwarde will write to the

when. through commucation Papers: Ay, there's the rub. porarily so. It is interesting to of traffic receipts but not incur Hankow Railway, oven though Brewer advertises "My Method loarn that, of the entire number ring the capital expenditure both these desiderata sem still-Coire" and "Foreign Exchange" of rats which were reported as there are not the facilities at long way off. That is our own among the Now Fiction. Now

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The tizress at Asakura Park,

had, but you ought to see our cat. Toyko, who has given birth to five cube, is said to be doing well. Not

Who cares a curse about the température in Tientsin anyway, Boy Alles satre!

infected during the period under Canton for handling goods on

affair. The conditions of the we know, review, only 15 per cent, were offer, and here, again, this puun two sections, however, 'raiso quite existing arrangement between the black rate whilat 84 per cent fises Hongkong. The fault, of

Amongst the equipment which wore of the brown species, which course, is not with the. Chinese another matter, and it is surely is to be sold by suction for the

railway administration, which is right and proper that they should Daily Press we notice "one gas miles an hour. latter is somewhat more num-no doubt the victim of circum revision on a more equitable basis, out.

be looked into with a view to making plant." Maybe it's worn Ono of our erous in the Colony. Among stancos, but the matter. is one of

turned up yet,

The wind yesterday blow 88. assisients hasn't

We believe it. à