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NANCY

MAYOR NANCY--- WE'VE BEEN SENT TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR TERM

OF OFFICE

IS UP!

IT ONLY LASTS TWO WEEKS

Y KNOW!

OH, DEAR--- I FORGOT

ALL ABOUT

IT!

Thursday,

WELL-YA BETTER CLEAN UP ALL YER LAST-MINUTE

BUSINESS BEFORE FIVE O'CLOCK!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 16, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

I JUST WANT TO MAKE ONE MORE APPOINTMENT BEFORE

I LEAVE OFFICE/

MAYOR NANCY --- I NOW APPOINT YOU GOVERNOR!

-ERNIZ BUSHMILLER,

OCT-6

This Page Tells You About Hongkong's Health Problems PERSISTENT DISEASES PREVAIL.

FOR TWELVE MONTHS

The year 1938 was marked by the prevalence and persistence of infectious diseases in the Colony, states the annual report: of the Director of Medical Ser-f vices.

At the end of 1937 smallpox had begun to attain epidemie proportions und the number of cases notified in- creased rapidly in the early part of| the year, reaching a maximu In March. The last cost of this series was notified in July and by the end of that month the disease had diet uut.

Cholera occurred in Hongkong in 1938, the first case being notified on! May 25. The disease was not wide-spread ny in 1937, thanks in part to the rigorous measures of con trol which were adopted, in part to the fact that the disease was ex- pected and everything .was in readiness to combat un outbreak,

The Ravages Of Tuberculosis

Approximately one out of eight of all the 38,810 deaths occurring

in Hongkong during 1038 was due to plumonary tuberculosis, discloses the annual report the Director of Medical Services

It is probable that at least five people adffer from the disenso for everyone who dies of it, and the opportunities afforded for Ks sprend by overcrowding are legion.

The average poorer class Chinese tenement to-day houses from 30 to as many as 60 human beings per floor as compared with between 15 and 17 before the "Incident."

Many of these people are out of work, most of those who have work are underpaid and all live on an Inadequate and ill-balanced dict.

"They are exposed daily to mans infection with tuberculosis, he- cause of the universal and disagreeable habit of spliting; they are ignorant of the ways in which the disease is spread; their hygienie ‚ standards are of the lowest, and it is, therefore, not to be wondered

at that tuberculosis heads the list of killing disease In Hongkong.

Tuberculosis was not notifiablo In 1938 and it was quite impossible

to send into lospital any but a small proportion of infective cases.

doubtedly brought into the Colory

These were the two major during this November migration. epidemic diseases occurring in the

A sudden sharp rise in the num-

DYSENTERY WAS RIFE

"

CHOLERA

RAMPANT

Small Pox Epidemic Worst In History

Cholern was widespread all over the Far East during 1938. Although anti-cholera inoculations had been given free during the early part of the year to all members of the public The smallpox epidemic in the who wished to avail themselves of Colony during 1938, was the this measure, and despite active pro worst in living memory and

eduento the pugandi designed to

was no

of

pubile in methods of self-protection resulted in 1,833 deathy says the against the disease, it reappeared in annual report of the Director of

Medical Services. May

There

af } appearance

The total number of cases recorded cholera in the Colony during the in the year was 2,327, of whom only months of February, March and April. (834 reached hospital. The mortality Hongkong was prepared for an rate based on inclusive totals was 78 epidemic. After its first appearance per cent. In May, the disease spread rapidly in Five

Europeans were stricken with June and attained its peak during the discuse. One died of a severe the third week in July. From July attack of unmodified, confluent small- onwards the epidemic declined; al-pox in January, 1938 although he though, in contradistinction to 1937, said he had been vaccinated in sporadic cases of the disease occurred England in October 1937. No scars throughout December. In all, 547 were found to corroborate his evi- esses of the disease were recorded dence. Two others recovered from with 303 deaths as compared with moderately severe semi-confluent. ut- 1,401 cases and 770 deaths in the tacks, and two had mild and discreet previous year.

The outbreak was aggravated by and modified attacks. The mortalliy among Europeans was therefore 20 the steady stream of refugees into the per cent: All said they had been There was no significant rise in Colony and by the overcrowded con- vaccinated before contracting the the number of cases before the cho-dition existing

Hongkong, disease and all save the one who died lern epidemic began. The maximum Twenty-one Cases were imported were clearly speaking the truth. number of cases was reported in from various districts of China, and it The disease was already well es- June 1924, with 124 and July came

was found necessary to impose tablished in Hongkong at the be a close second with 123.

quarantine measures against ships ginning of 1030, and the incidence of It increased week by week to reach coming from Canton and Macao,

Many more males than femalos its maximum in March. It declined were affected by the disease, and it gradually from then on and finally was striking to note how relatively died out in July to reappear in a the disease Was in minor form at the end of the year uncommon children under ten years of age.. when refugees from Kwangtung poured across the frontier to escape "mopping up" operations by Japanese troups.

Colony in 1938, and there is no doubt ber of cases of epidemic cerebro that they lasted longer than they splan meningitis was also noted Dysentery was rife throughout the would have done in normal years shortly after this inflow, and this year in the Colony and accounted for owing to the overcrowding in all was probably due to the fact that 338 deaths out of a total of 1,071 parts of the City of Victoria. The these people were brought into con- cases, prolongation of the Sino-Japanese) tact with carriers of the disease in "Ineldent has meant that the advent the Colony and, being exhausted and of poverty-stricken and starving re-lil-fed, succumbed to It only too fugees Hongkong has continued readily. throughout the year. The extension

of hostilities to South China IR The congestion of the urban dis- November led to a sudden rise in tricis in Hongkong continues unabat- the number of refugees crossing the ed and the sanitary condition of most year cases of this disease have been frontier and this attained a maximum of the town is calculated to promote recorded, although it is well-known during the month in question. rather than to prevent the spread of that this disease has an increased

The measures of control token Infectious disease. This congestion were not adequate to ensure Inspec- has undoubtedly been the most ime preference for the winter and spring. The total number of deaths during tion of all those who crossed the portant factor in keeping up the in the year was 30,819, the frontier, and it is regrettable to have cidence of meningococcal meningitis. number occurring in March and De to record that smallpox

un- Even in the hottest months of the cember.

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İLETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to the untiring zeal and Indefatigable activity of the Malaria Bureau, this disease is no longer regarded as one of the major-killing discares in Hongkong, states the un- pual report for 1838 of the Director H+

of Medical Services.

The number of deaths recorded | TAXATION OF WEALTH

from malaria in 1030 is 733; this

Hongkong Telegraph.

number hicludes two deaths from The Editor.

of the! malaria among the Forces Crown. Nd case of blackwater fever |was recorded.

Nine cases of filariasis and five of tengue were reported during the year. It is clear, therefore, that the inci-

S-Surely it is signideant that

the greater part of the outery against Income Tax has come from the very prosperous of the Colony.

We are told, ond we accept, that

dence of mosquito-borne disease in war demands the conceripilon of

take

is no room

Hongkong is not excessively high.

Regarding infectious diseases, the human beings. Men of military age the colours, Those of report ELYS that although British are called Medical Association has made a misus with grown sons must send them in its journal and reported to the battlefields and, if they are caces of plague in the Colony, no killed, recognise the inevitability of case of plague was recorded in Hong- the sacrifice. kong in 1938.

If the effort for victory is worth The disease has been epidemic this price, surely there during the year in the following dis-among Engilshmen for walls and pro- tricts of China: Kwongtung, Kwangst, tests against a little extra taxation. tiainan Island and some parts of the Why should money have tights above North.

those of life? If life can be The infection, Snyr the report, scripted, why not capital? appears to have been absent from the An examination of the arguments Colony since 1020. Dally examination against Income Tax shows that they of rats are made in both the Hong-boil down to one thing: "Tax every- kong and Kowloon martuarles, and body or anybody,, but don't, God spleen smears bre taken from a cer- forbid, tax me." It also reveals the thin number of the animals Cach fact that those who shout the loudest morning. This is a "proenutionary are the ones, who have the least right measure of value, agy the possibility to do so.

of a reappearance of plague in the

Colony is by no means remate,

M.. A. C.

Dominion Chiefs Meningitis

Back In London

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ LONDON, Nov. 15 (Router).-The Dominion Ministers and representa- tive of the Government of India re- turned to London iliis evening after a six day visit to France;

They were met af, the station by the Duke of Devonshire.

Was Sporadic

соле

Cases of cerebo-spinal meningitis occurred sporadically in the Colony throughout the year, says the annual Fronch Minister's Visit report of the Director of Medical Ser- LONDON, Nov. 16 (Reuter).-M. vices for 1038.

Out of a total of 103, 113 were Paul Reynaud, the French Finance Minister, concluded his visit to Eng-notided in April, February, March innd yesterday.

and April were the months of the The visit will strengthen the tles, greatest prevalence,The mortality which are already strong, between was 40 per cent, 223 out of the 483 the British and French Treasuries, cases having died,

M Reynaud has proposed that fur

ther meetings take place between the

financial experts of the two coun- Chinese Internees

tries,

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