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THURSDAY,

SINGAPORE SLUMS. CANTON FEARS RED

HEALTH OFFICER'S,”

STRICTURES.

FRESH AIR AND PHTHISIS.

RISING.

(Continued from Pugo 1.).

Some of the Powers had ad- the vanced the argument that Chinese judiciary was not inde pendent and that the code of laws In his report for 1926, Dr. P. S was incomplete, while other con- Hunter, Municipal Health Officer, ditions were unsatisfactory. "We Singapore, writing of overcrowd: must not ignore the objections ing, says: "Turning to the chief raised by foreigners, but set our causes of death generally, we find house in order so as to give the that Phthisis accounted for 1.294 foreigners no ground for further deaths as against 1,264 in 1925 excuses, but must make the

JUNE 23, $1927.

MALAYA'S DISADVAN-

TAGES.

HOW DEPARTING G.O.C.

SUMS THEM UP.

Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser, who has earned respect and esteem during the three years he has been in Malayo, was good enough to answer certain questions we put to him on the eve of his retirement from the command, says the Straits Times. His replies have the milltary

and the Pneumonias for 1,843 as necessary changes and improve-merit of putting a good deal of against 1,481. The total deaths | ments."-Reuter. from these two causes, 8,137, as

last year, accounted for almost FIRING ON PLANES.

Statement in Parliament.

London, June 22

Information in a few words. He sums up the disadvantages of Malaya sa a military station as follows:-the prevalence of vene. one quarter of the deaths from all causes. I will content myself

real disease; the excessive cost of with repeating as last year, that

living; the trying climate with no hill stations within reach; and most of those deaths are avoidably in that they are caused by over- Inthe House of Commons, re- the want of facilities for train- crowding. I do not propose to plying to Mr. H. Day (Labour) as

ing. There is no questioning, the elaborate further as an Improvis to whether he had any informa-justice of all these statements. ment Bill is at long last in pro- tion showing that the local Chin- The grim and horrible problem cess of being considered by the ease headquarters had instructed of venereal discase has assumed on aero-alarming proportions throughout legislators. It has a reasonable their soldiers to fre chance of becoming law and while planes of the Shanghai Defence the country, and in spite of much. It omits much. it is at least a be- Force, flying over strategie points, activity, the writing of reports ginning. But I would like to Mr. G. Locker Lampson said that and the taking of evidence; little the only instance of firing on has been done to try to cure it. strike one note of warning.

During the year one particularly British aircraft of which he had For this the blame lies not with Colonial bad slam area was acquired and any record occurred near. Shang- demolished. Many of the plots hai on May 18, when a Chinese Office, which, led away by the have been sold and rebuilding on warship fired on two British sea-protests of well-meaning theories, modern lines will soon be in Cantonese troops fired on a sea-

planes, and on May 19, when chose to Ignore the opinions of men on the spot and decided that gross. One of the conditions of sale by the Commissioners was

the proposals recommended were not feasible. The last has not that no new building in this areal

been heard of the matter. The should be more than three storeys,

So far as he knew, the Canton horrible evil is not cured by ig This is a very wise, and a very

as anything cae had not withdrawn their in-noring it, and the time will come necessary condition,

structions with regard to firing when the opinions of those who higher must mean overcrowding.

on seaplanes.-Reuter.

desire reforms will receive the to the acre-with a continued high

respect they deserve. mortality rate from the two causes mentioned.

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CHINA'S PROTEST.

Japan Considers Reply.

Tokyo, June 22.

High Cost of Living.

As regards the excessive cost of living General Fraser will re-

all who work here, civilian as well as military. In this respect, the military are to a certain extent

I say, therefore, that it should

made an absolute rule ip- The Government intends to receive the wholehearted support of plicable all over the town both in ply in two or three days to the old and the new areas that China's second protest against no domestic building, and all shop-Japanese despatch of troops to houses are domestic buildings, wili Taingtao, reiterating the position be allowed to exceed three storey.. taken up in the first reply. And this question cannot bo fought out too soon because there

in worse case than civilians,, for while civil rates of pay do hear

It is understood the Govern- some relation to the cost of liv ment regards the second protesting, the War Office, in Its wisdom, ls undoubtedly a regrettable ten as purely due to the new Chinese appears to make little if any dis- dency on the part of architects Cabinet wishing to follow the extinction between Singapore and and others whose opinions un-ample of its predecessor-Reuter. home stations. fortunately must carry weight

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Malaya has no advantage over India, as regards high living costs, and it will al- ways be an impenetrable mystery why Indian Army rates of pay should be higher. In the same way, we suppose, the reason for The following are the replies to the excessive expense of Malayan life will never be solved. Even today's questions:-

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"We Americans are overfond

exceed-superlatives. The endinge

Jhas a powerful fascination for us

I offer as a wholesome antidote for

found in dredging the Pacifle and Alanile hardships of those of their Derm during the Challeaker Expedition, 1776. When Lavaisler dincovered oxygen, civilian brethren who have to pay A small culvert in the Forum at Rame, silli enormous house rents out of. A rat which was killed at Glebe, existing 8. Take hand magnifying gledealary. Point number three near Sydney, has been found to be surfacs felght-sided the nis is a diamond, against Malays that there is no infected with leprosy.

hill station within reach is, we

be remedied. This disease in rats is hope, at long last There is ungent need that the ingly rare in Australia, Cameron's Highlands scheme should be taken firmly in hand Whether, human beings can conthis: national weakness the an and pushed along with all postract leprosy from rats is un-nouncement that neither the big The truth is that our present.

sible speed. When the Ordinance is hopelessly out of

time known little in fact is known as gest job or the executive who comes for the new General Offi-to how leprosy is spread-but rat holds it is American. We may date in the light of modern thought. The section dealing limits the higher the building the cer Commanding to say his good leprosy and human leprosy a gather some comfort from the fact with the open area to be provided greater the rental, as people will byes we trust that a hill station similar in regard to the lealons that he and it are of our own con round a building lays down that crowd. in to the centre, and in on the Highlands, easily acces- and progress of the disease. tinent, one third of the site must be un-consequence

even sible by rail and giving accom- The Health Department to built on.

"Without playing any further When this was drawn higher Whereas the real truthmodation for a big population, up our legislators had no knows that property in the congested will have been an accomplished whose microbiological laboratory upon your curiosity--the executive There will the dead rat was taken for exami with the biggest job is Edward ledge of reinforced. concrete areas has an entirely artificial fact for some time.) buildings, and they meant it to value-due to the simple law of be room there for Government nation, helds the view that such Wentworth, Beatty, LL.D., chair- most supply and demand. There is no and Naval and Military officers a discovery is not a matter for man and president of the Canadian apply to two storey or at three storey buildings. But the place elsewhere for the people to as well as the less picturesque alarm. Many

Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., Singapore Architect owner com-go. The congested areas mean-sections of the community. We clined to regard rat leprosy, and Pacific Railway, chairman of the one have seen dark hints that the human leprosy as distinct diseases and head of the varied enterprises bine would have it applied to seven time can only expand in

The real Highlands, if ever they are deve- Very few rata suffering from in the company's immense family. and eight storey buildings-which direction-upwards.

"The properties include:- is ridiculous and was obviously solution is to make the contiguous loped, will be a preserve for the leprosy have been found in Sydney,

vacant lands fit for immediate "Heaven-burn," as has unfortun-hut in other parts of the world "Twenty thousand miles of never intended,

building by putting in roads and ately tended to be the case In there have been epidemics of rat road, owned and operated. all essential services. There is no some other resorts. We are sure leprosy. There was one at Odessa question but that it will be built Government will realise that the some years ago, when thousands of up with a resulting fall in the work of the humble but necessary rats were killed by, the loathsome value of domestic dwelling land civilian has a

certain value to disease. the congested areas

Malaya and that he and his de- pendents have a claim to what amenities of existence there are

Dealing With the Evil, There are two ways of dealing with this coming evil,

(1) To increase the open area in proportion to the height of the building.

(2) To limit, as said, all domes-

Architects' Opposition.

air in the back lanes and open spaces behind high buildings is stagnant andme relate that on account of the

the sun's rays only pene

few hours of the day,

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doctors are

"A £5,000,000 chain of hotels, AS in important points, besides many bungalow camps for tourists and sportsmen:

"Four hundred and twenty-five thousand tons of shipping+÷6/

“A £4,000,000 irrigation projects "Millions of acres of farm landa, "An express company that ser

I will close my remarks on this to be found. Seriously, however, days the majority of officers and steamers, on the Atlantic ar tic dwellings to three

subject with one figure. Of the this aspect of the question, de- N.C.O.'s are men who have gain Pacific Oceans, 23 on Iakes a storeys, and I think the mothers visited after conserves close attention. When Hised hard experience on active ear-rivers. latter is preferabler For

"One hundred and fifteen thou in this country where there finement by the European Sisters Excellency visits Bukit Fraser he vice. Volunteers can never be as is so little wind movement, of the Welfare Branch 7.789 were will quickly grasp the need for efficient as regular troops. Their sand miles of telegraph wires.

"One hundred thousand ou especially at mid-day, the living in cubicles or single rooms. circumspection in the develop soldiering is done in spare time

after civilian work winch, parti-ployees scattered over the worl But to show how little they ment of the larger scheme.

cularly in a tropical climate from Europe to the Far East. understand who ought to help, let

The Volunteers.

makes great demands on body and opposition of the local Architects

Like his predecessors, General brain. While a number are en- trate to ground level for a Association it was with the utmost Fraser will be remembered for thusiastic over milltary work for

difficulty we were able to obtain in the great interest he has taken its own sake, the majority take ves the entire railway system anc

He has it up purely from a sense of the world." our byelaws a small increase in in the Volunteers.. the kitchen accommodation of the striven throughout for a high patriotic duty. Bearing these]" less skies, Municipal Authorities domestic buildings in which these standard of efficiency, and his points in mind, the professional poor mothers live. In these constant visits of inspection in soldier always makes due allow are spending money feverishly in establishing light clinics in an houses every available foot of floor all parts of the country have been ances when judging Volunteer HONGKONG TIDE TABLE. attempt to capture what nature space is thrown into cubicles an Inspiration and incentive to results. It is true that on mobi withholds, while we in Singapore, there are no dining rooms or officers and men. Believing inlisation the Volunteer Force

Whole familie the where nature is Bo bountiful, public rooma.

excellant military marim would require a period et inten- refuse the gift that means life to exist and have their entire being that nothing is perfect, he has sive training to it, itself for those born in our slums-because-house all their belongings-eat not been in the habit of giving operations against well-trained forsooth we refuse to keep pace their food and often in addition praise lightly, and for this reason and well-armed troops, but given cook it, are born and live and die all the more value is to be at a force possessing the good la a spaco of 100 square feet.

It is tragic to think that to-day

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tached to the commendation material which is to be found in yuay 24 03 The objection urged that land in the congested areas is so expensivo The same association I seo from which has been bestowed in his Malaya an amazing amount could that high buildings must be built press reports, wishes to establish reports. We agree with the be achieved in a period of inten-s on it to return a reasonable rental a tribunal of two Architects and General that very good work has sive training covering only a few leaves me unmoved. All the more one barrister to protect them from been done with the Volunteers weeks. General Fraser has altown fun reason for introducing new legista- the arbitrary rulings. of the Com both in the. Biraits Settlements a wholehearted Interest in his e tlon now, so that anyone who missioners' staff when that staff and the Malay States. We would work in Malaya. We trust he buys property in future will know demands a very meagre pound of go farther and hay that at no will look back upon the time spent what to expect. But that apart, flesh. I shudder to think of the period before the war was such here as not the least interesting Thur the argument is an unsound one. new Singapore left to their tender efficiency attained, for the good period in a distinguished career, It is a vicious circle, for within mercies."

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