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21st May, when he was arrested in Fi Yuen street by a police officer.
Evidence having been given his Lordship addressed the jury, who found prisoner guilty, and his Lordship sentenced the man to nine months' hard labour.
ARMED ROBBERY AT YAUMATI,
Fan Cheong, Pau Tit, and Tsang Man were charged with robbery being armed. They pleaded not guilty.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
June 24, 1899.
in a private prosecution for assault entered by 2,016. deaths 1.520, recoveries 388. Out of a Fung Chi Ming, oue of the students appointed population of 47,901 in Tainan City (12,390 to carry on house visiting in No. 9 Health Dis- houses) there were 1,727 cases from Jan. 7th to trict, and in which I was called by direction of May 20th and 1326 deaths. In Auping, with a the Police Magistrate as a witness, it was held population of 4,371 and 1,106 houses, there were by the Magistrate that the assault was justif- 14 cases and eight deaths. Iu Kwantubyo, able as the student was trespassing on private with a population of 353 and 118 houses, there property. The Magistrate held these students were. 105 cases and 80 deaths. In Shineisho, had not been duly appointed as officers of the with a population of 3,297 and 733 houses, there Board as required by Sec. 9 of the Public Health were five deaths. These figures refer to Ja Ordinance. I suggest that the President be panese and natives, and do not include the asked to call a special meeting of the Board, and foreign residents of Tainan, among whom there that the Board do recommend his H.E. the Go-have so far been no cases of plague. vernor to appoint the following students as In-
THE PLAGUE At amoy. namedspectors of Nuisances until further notice, as the The following letter, dated June 1st, was Magistrate held that under the said Sec. 9 only read from the British Consul at Amoy :- In the Sanitary Superintendent, Sanitary Surveyors, consequence of rumours in circulation as to the and Inspectors of Nuisances are officers of the existence of plagus in Amoy City, I have made Board, the remainder being servants, and bye-enquiries of the medical officers of the port law 25, made under Sec. 13 of Ord. 15 of 1894. | whether any authentic cases have come to their r quires that the house to house visiting should knowledge, be conducted by officers of the Board. Names of the students--Lee Yia Sza, Fang Chi Ming, Chan Fai Kwong, Tee Hau Kee, Lau Lai, Kwong Ngai Leuog
The Acting Attorney-General said the three prisoners were charged with armed robbery at Yaumati on the 30th of May, and with stealing in the course of that robbery certain properties belonging to two men Fong Kan and Tan Muu. This robbery took place on the first floor of a house at Yaumati. That first floor was divided into two rooms, and the two man whose uames were mentioned in the information and another man named Chan Mun occupied the same room ou the first floor of this house. About eight or nine o'clock on the evening of the 30th May prisoners entered the room in question, oue being armed with a revolver and another with a aword, and assaulted prosecutors aud stole $32 and certain properties, the total value being $76. There were four man charged with the offence before the Magistrate, but one of them named Yip Ying To committed suicide in Vie- | toria Goal by hauging himself.-The Acting Attoney-General proceeded to state how the robbery had been traced to prisoners.
Evidence baving been given, the jury re- turned a verdict of guilty.
His Lordship deferred sentence.
HONGK NG SANITARY BOARD.
.! BATTLING WITH THE PLAGUE, On Saturday morning a special meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board was held for the purpose of recommending His Excellency the Governor to appoint six students of College of Medicine for Chinese for house to house visitation work; and to consider whe-
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ther any further steps are necessary with regard to the outbreak of bubonic plague in the colony The President (Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Ciril Medical Officer) occupied the chair, aud there were also present the Vice-President (the Hon. F. H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police), the Hou. R. D. Ormsby (Director of Public Works), Mr. A. W. Brewin (Acting Registrar-General), Mr. E. Osborne, Dr. Clark (Medical Officer of Health), and Mr. J. W. Duggan (Secretary).
The PRESIDENT stated the business of the meeting,
Dr. CLARK said that with regard to the further steps necessary for dealing with the plague,, as far as statistics wont the plague was undoubtedly less rather thau more, although eren under those circumstances they bad hal 233 cases during the last 16 days; but the special feature with regard to the epidemic was that the cases were much more scattered over the city. The cases had hitherto beau almost confined to No. 9 Health District, but during this mouth there had been a considerable outbreak in Nos. 5 and 6 and all the districts to the west of No. district and including No. 4 district. Under these circumstances he thought it would be as well if the Board declared the whole city wrest of the eastern boundary of No, 4 district infect- ed with plague. It was not his intention to suggest that they undertake the wholesale cleansing of these houses as they had done in No. 9 Health District. Most of the houses had been recently limo-washed and cleansed. They were as clean as they could hope to get them under the circumstances, and it was only to give the Board powers to visit and to sock for plague patients that he thought it would be well to declare the sedistricts infected. It was only when these districts were declared infected that bye- laws 23, 24, and 25 o.nld be enforced, and these contained several extraˇpowers which it was necessary to have. He begged to more that Districts Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 be declared infected with bubonic plague, No. 9 district having been already declared infected.
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Dr. ATKINSON said that on the 9th May at an interview he had with H.E. the Governor he recommended the appointment of these six students as officers of the Board for the purpose of visiting houses in the infected district No. 9. He made that recommendation as President of the Board, and was acting upon the standing order of the 12th July, 1888, which said "That in accordance with the provisions of section 12, the conduct of the exsontive business of the Board be carried on by the Presidout in the intervals between its insatings until further notice." He might say that this standing order had been frequently acted on before, but the decision of the Magistrate was evidently such that the students must be appointed by the Board-tust the appointment by the President under that standing order was not sufficient. He thought it would be better to appoint them officers of the Sanitary Board under by-law 25, rather than appoint them as Iuspectors of Nuisances. and these six students be appointed officers of He propose that Dr. Thomson the Board under section 25.
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VICE-PRESIDENT seconded and the motion was carried.
This was all the business.
The fortnightly meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board was held on Thursday afternoon. The chair was occupied by the President (Dr. Atkinsou, Principal Civil Medical Officer), and there were also present the Hon. R. D. Ormsby (Director of Public Works), Mr. A. W. Brewiu, Mr. E. Osborne, Dr. Clark (Medical Officer of Health), and Mr. J. W. Duggan (Secretary).
PUBLIC LATRINES.
The Board were called upon by the Govern. ment to recommend sites for four public latrines which it is proposed to erect
The PRESIDENT remarked that ever since 13:4 the Sanitary Board had arged upou the Government the necessity for additional public latri.es, and it was satisfactory to know that work was to be procanded with at once. He recomended the appointment of a sub-committee composed of the Medical Officer of Health and the Director of Public Works to consider the question of sites.
Mr. E. OSBORNE secouḍed, and the motion. was carried.
INSPECTION LAIRS.
In reply to the Board's request for the erec- tion of inspection lairs for cattle at an early date, the following letter was seat from the Colonial Secretary's Office With reference to your latter No 18 of the 6th February last, I am directed to inform you that the necessity of providing inspection lairs for the reception of cattle when lauded has not been lost sight of, but that until the Government isțin a better position to provide the necessary expenditure
this work caunot be undertaken.”
THE PLAGUE IN FORMOSA.
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Dr. MacDougall, medical - adviser to the Consulate, informs me that one. Case of plague has occurred on the island of Kulangsu, the patient (a Portuguese boy) having died of the malady. It is probable that the disease is smouldering in the Chinese city, but he has not seen any cases, nor has it as- sumed any epidemic form He continues, therefore, to sign bills of health as before that there is no epidemic disease at the port. Special precautions are being adopted by Dr. O'Neill, who examines the coolie emigrants; be now insists on each male passenger stripping himself to the waist that he may the better ascertain his condition. Should it come to my knowledge that the plague has become epidemie, I shall not fail to inform you"
In a subsequent letter dated June 8th the British Consul at Amoy said :--"I have the honour to inform you that some cases of bubonio plague having come to his notice, Dr. MaoDougall, medical adviser to this consulare, intends for the present only to grant modified certificates for bills of health. Two undoubted cases of plagne. have come under the coguisance of European medical men here, and another case is said to
have occurred which was not seen by thum”
Miaute by Dr. Clark -"Only one case of plague has to my knowledge been imported into this colony from Amoy-that was on April 18th last. The Amoy coolies mostly go to Penang. Our men come from Swatow or from nearer parts of the Kwangtang province,”
MORTALITY RETURNS.
The mortality statisties for the colony of Hongkong for the week ended June 10th show a death rate of 39-5, against 408 for the pre- vious week and 39-2 for the corresponding week last year.
The mortality returns for Macao for the week ended May 28th show 64 deaths, and for the succeeding week 67 deaths, including two from plague.
LIMEWASHING IN THE WESTERN
DISTRICT.
Mr. OSBORNE said that on the 22nd June 2.636 tenements out of 9,947-about one-third -in the western distriot had been cleansed. He thought they would be very much obliged to the representatives of the press if they would take note of this, so that those who might not have seen the advertisement could be warned.
DRAFT SANITARY REGULATIONS.
The Board then proceeded to consider, with the aid of Dr. Jordau, the amended draft gani- tary regulations under the Merchant Shipping Act
THE MURDER AT UN LOỠNG,
AN ARREST. Our readers will remember that shortly after. the arrival of the British troops at Pinging in April last the widow of a Chinaman who had undertaken to put up the proclamation of His Excellency the Governor came into the camp and complained that her husband had been Returas from the British Consulate at Tni-murdered at Un Loong on April 17th. She nan, Anping, show that from May 9th to May stated that when her husband arrived in the 15th (inclusive) 111 cases of plagae were ro. village to post the proclamation he was sot ported in the prefecture, the deaths numbering upon by a crowd of persons and severely bentớn. $6 and the recoveries 53; from May 16th to May He was then placed against a wall and fired at,' 22, cases 66, deaths 55, recoveries 61; from his diabolical tormentors, however, with a view The SECRETARY read the following winute | May 23rd to May 29, cases 73, deaths 56, re. / to prolonging his agony, taking oare not to by Dr. Clark—I have the honour to report that coveries 27; from Jan. 7th to May 29, cases, shoot him in any vital part. He was then put
The VICE PRESIDENT secouded and the
motion was carried,
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