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The head banker himself named Tang died last summer and was succeeded by his eldest son who, it seems, disappeared with the closing of the bank doors yesterday, as was also the case with the manager and also the second partner of the concern. The Tang family, however, own a couple of large pawnshops, a large drug hong, and a Northern and Southern Produce wholesale and retail hong, and will be able doubt less to pay over their share of the deficit; but the families of the other two partners in the Paoyü Bank are reported to be without any reliable assets; hence the burden, according to Chinese custom, will have to fall upon the head partner alone.-N. C. Daily News.
SQUEEZERS IN CONFLICT.
There appears to be a conflict of authority in the game of "squeeze" between the Shanghai magistrate and the officer in charge of the newly established Bureau of Reorganisation which has jurisdiction over the territory covered by the new Chinese Bund. The city magistrate had just begun instituting a tax on opium dens and opium retail shops in the above territory-a measure already viewed with alarm by the people to be taxed-when the above named Bureau also gave notice through the various tipacs that a similar tax would be collected by officers of that institution. As
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ESTABLISHMENT OF A PASTEUR INSTITUTE AT SHANGHAI..
REPORT ON INVESTIGATIONS IN JAPAN.
At a recent meeting of the Shanghai Muui- cipal Council the following report by the Health Officer on the results of his recent work in Japan was submitted and ordered for pub lication
Shangbai, 22nd November, 1898. Sir, I have to submit the following account of work done during my visit to Japan.
The Pasteur Institute at Nagasaki was first visited. This forms part of a small bacteriologi- cal laboratory in connection with one of the five schools of medicine in Japan. There is no foreign teaching in the school and the director has little reputation as a worker in bacteriology. It cannot be compared with that under Kitasato in Tokio. From what I saw, I could not con- scientiously recommend cases to go there for treatment."
KITASATO'S INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES AT TOKYO,
instruments necessary for the carrying out of While in Tokyo I was able to purchase the the Pasteur treatment. For these I expended the sum of three hundred and twenty yen.
Koch Hygienic Institute in Berlin. Professor This Institution is a copy of the celebrated Kitasato studied for nine years under Koch in Berlin, and is the discoverer of the Tetanus, Influenza, and Plague bacilli. I attended this liminary, the tipaos were ordered to
Laboratory daily and found Kitasato very good summon all proprietors of opium dens and retail in providing me with all the necessary material shops belonging to the new Band district to ap-methods used, I went through the course of for work. After satisfying myself as to the pear yesterday morning before the Bureau Director Mr. Chu, to state the extent of business injections for Pasteur treatment of Hydrophobia conducted by each in order to form a basis for cidental inoculation when subsequently working with a view to being rendered proof against ac- the projected tax. Much to Mr. Chu's surprise with hydrophobic material. I brought away the tipaos told him yesterday that these proprie with me the brain of a rabbit which had died tors had flatly refused to appear and that they of rabies, with which I can start the series in had declared also their unwillingness to pay two taxes. Mr. Chu then ordered bis tipaos to take
Shanghai. down the notices at the doors of opium deus and retail shops which had been posted by the city magistrate's runners and also to forbid the pro- prietors of the same from paying any taxes to the haien or city magistrate. The tipuos performed the second command but hesitated about the first for they are equally under the jurisdiction of the city magistrale and the Bureau of Re- organisation. In the meanwhile the opium dealers are considerably amused, being only too glad to be exempted from paying the city magistrate's tax, while there wasa lull yester- day afternoon in the opposing camps
squeezers," preparatory to their grievances against each other being laid before the Shang- hai Taotai, their chief. The outcome of the dispute will be that importers of the Indian drug will be the real sufferers together with the consumers.-N. C. Daily News.
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The N. C. Daily News of the 5th December says:It is with very deep sorrow that we have to announce the death of Mr. George R. Cor- ner, which occurred at his house in Museum Road at 6.30 a.m. yesterday from failure of the heart. His many friends have noted very re- gretfully that he was ageing considerably in the last few months, but his sudden death comes as a shock to all. Mr. Corner came out to China early in the sixties and was a book- keeper in the firm of Overweg & Co. After that firm retired from business, Mr. Corner joined the late Mr. Pearson, who was a public accountant, Agent for Reuter, and Secre- tary of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Corner succeeding to these posts at Mr. | Pearson's death, and holding them for many years. He was one of the founders and for very many years a mainstay of the Amateur Dramatic Club, having designed the stage and painted a large portion of the scenery, while as Secretary of the Recreation Fund Trustees, he kept up his interest in the Lyceum almost to the last. Flowers were his favourite hobby, and Shanghai owes a deep debt of grati- tude to him for all the work he did so cheerfully and energetically for his adopted home, and the Public Gardens will long remain a testimony to the ability and loving care he devoted to them. His intimate friends, the circle of whom had been gradually closing in, know what a tho- roughly good-hearted man he was, and they will miss him acutely. His age was something over sixty, and he was never married. Another of the veterans of Shanghai has dropped from the ranks.
I also obtained from Kitasato's laboratory cultures of the bacilli of Plague, Cholera, Ty phoid, Erysipelas, etc., so that now the Shang- hai Municipal Laboratory is well equipped as regards material for work.
Hydrophobia is uncommon in Japan. The number of dogs is, as compared with Shanghai, very small.
Imperial Vaccine Station, Tokyo, was visited and samples of lymph obtained. There is a large staff, entirely Japanese, and a large quantity of lymph is made.
hospitals and laboratories, and obtained a se- Imperial University of Tokyo.-I visited the cond series of cultures of bacteria from Prof. Ogata.
Municipal Isolation Hospital, Tokyo, is "a newly erected and extensive structure where cases of infectious disease such as dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc., are isolated. The general arrangements are very good.
The Look Hospital of the Tokyo Yoshiwara was visited. The system of examination of the four thousand prostitutes is very thorough and the hospital arrangements excellent. The amount of venereal disease is rather less than among the Chinese prostitutes of Shanghai.
THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT SANITARY BUREAU.
I had an interview with Dr. Hasegawa, the chief of the Sanitary Bureau, who furnished me with reports and statistics of Public Health in Japan."
The Tokyo Sanitary Department of which Dr. Yamane is chief, afforded me the means of visiting all the works bearing on sanitation.
The Steam Disinfecting Stations are under the care of the Health Department.
Public Slaughter Houses are very complete and afford means of disposal of rejected car- cases by burning.
On the subjects of refuse and night-oil dis- posal, little was to be learnt. With regard to garbage, their system of collection is not so good as in Shanghai. The night-soil is removed by the municipality in wooden buckets and sold for manure.
There is no proper system of drainage, merely surface drainage by means of side channels which are rarely water-tight, so that earth pollution is general.
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The night-soil removed from the hospital for infectious diseases is cremated at the crema- torium,
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The Crematoriums are very complete and so small is the charge made that cremation is the rule and ordinary burial the exception. In fact, burial is illegal within the limits of Tukio. There are seven crematoriums in Tokio which are financed by private companies and pay good percentage of profit.
follows:-
The charges made for cremation are
1st class 2nd 3rd
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$7.
yen.
Children. yen.
3.50 2
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2,75 1.30
is one yen.
The average cost for fuel for each cremation
half of 1898 was :—
Total income from 3,541 cremations for first
Expenditure 16,375
24,733 yen.
8,358 yen profit on 3,541
fcremations. The cremations usually take three hours and are done at night, the relations coming in the morning to carry away the ashes.
The Tokyo Hygienic Laboratory is an exten. sive institution whose chief function is the analysis of food and drugs. There is also a hygenic museum attached to it.
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THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING THE PASTEUR TREATMENT OF HYDRO- PHOBIA IN BHANGHAI,
apparatus and propose to begin at once with I am now prepared both with material and the preliminary work. The present laboratory
accommodation is of course very small for the work and I hope that the new laboratories will not be long in being erected. I should think ment of persons bitten by rabid animals on the that it will be possible to be ready for the treat- 1st of March, 1899. The work is such that the material must always be kept in readiness by inoculating a series of rabbits and the same amount of labour is necessary for treating a hundred cases as for being in a position to treat
a single one.
In any case the work will be a considerable increase in the usefulness, responsibility, and amount of the duties carried out by the Muni- cipal Health Department.
ARTHUR STANLEY, Health Officer.
WLADIVOSTOCK.
13th November.
On the 3rd of November, between 8 and 9 p.m. a gang of six robbers attacked the Catholic church, which they plundered. Three of the Church, killing two old men, servants of the robbers were arrested and will be tried by the that they will be hung. military tribunal on the 17th. It is expected
The Amur district proposes to open in our town a zoological station for the exploration of the biology of the sea. The Society maintains here a museum with collections of objects be longing to the Kiliaks, Orocbeis, Chuckchs, etc., etc. The library of the Society contains 3,000 volumes in Russian, French, English, and German.
Major-General Subotich, Governor of the Maritime District, has been appointed Com- mander of the troops in the Kuantan Peninsula.
A French firm has recently opened a magazine of fashions in. Wladivostock. Prices are rather high.
We have already two newspapers, the Dalni Vostock and the Vladivostock. On the 1st of September, O.S., a new paper, the Vostochnii Vestnik (Eastern Herald) made its appearance.
The summer and autumn this year have been remarkably fine.-N. C. Daily News correspon dent.
Humphreys and Son, General Managers of We are informed by Messrs. John D. Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited, that they have received a telegram from the mines as follows "Mill ran 28 days; clean-up yielded 325 oss, of gold (value about £1,150); mill stopped 5 days for boiler to be cleaned and repaired: 150 feet North Level is driven in 212 feet; Eurok B shaft, we are now driving for reef.'
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