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-PLAGUE AND DISINFECTION.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY: PRESS AND
thing to stay its ravages is depressing in the
extreme,
(September 9, 1889.
MAY
those who have talked the strongest against Russia and her designs will deem it strange, if they should happen to think of it, that any one should ever have contemplated ser- ious opposition to such a beneficent under- taking ns the establishment of railway com- munication between Europe and Linotnug- We do not credit Russia with any altruistic intentions in the policy she has pursued; she has consulted her own interests, and her own interests alone, but it so happens that in this particular instance her interests.coin- cide with the interests of the world at large, including those of Great Banain, for British merchants, if they make use their opportunities, cannot fail to profit by the opening up of Manchuria, even though the opening takes place under a foreign flng.
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WRECK OF AN AMERICAN TRANSPORT.
THE "MORGAN CITY" WRECKED. ON ONOMICHI.
155 (Daily Press, 5th September)
No doubt the disease will disappear some The Sanitary Board is actively enforcing time, as previous outbreaks in other parts of the regulations as to limewashing, which on the world have, but it may not be for many general principles of sanitation is no doubt years. In the meantime it behoves the a good thing, but there seems some room colony to do all it can to prevent or mitigate for doubting whether, limewashing has any the annual recrudescences. That is not to be appreciable effect in arresting or diminish accomplished by pinuing our faith to opera- ing plague. Dr. ATKINSON, in his report tions which experience has shown to be in- on, the prevalence of plague during 1897 effective. The cleansing and disinfection of and 1898, makes the following remark:- dwelling houses is a desirable measure on The recrude cence of the disease in houses general sanitary grounds, but for the extir previously infected shows how tena pation of plague, if it can be extirpated at ciously the bacillus clings to dwel-all, something more is evidently neces- lings; it may be that the process of dissary. The recently published report by infection used, namely, fumigation with Dr. Lowson on the dry earth system sulphurous acid gns, the washing of the goes to show that the latrines used by the Hoore, woodwork, etc., with Jeye's fluid, Chinese population are dangerous foci of in and the limewashing of the ceilings and! fection. In 1894 out of seventeen keepers of
THE ANGLO-RUS AN DIS- walls, is partly accountable for this." these establishments eleven died, and during
PUTE AT HANKOW, There appears to be a lapsus calami in this the present year, notwithstanding the use passage. What the Principal Civil Me- of disinfectants and more regular cleansing,
ARBITRATION AGREED UPON. dical Officer meant, we presume, was that five have died. If instead of buckets the the process of disinfection employed was lines waterre supplied with trough closets
[SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE “ DAILY PRESS,”] - ineffective in eliminating the poison from the fecal matter would be at once swept
Shanghai, 1st September." the house, not that it caused the poison to away and possibly the persistence of plague The British Government has agreed to sub- adhere more strongly than it would have in the colony might thereby be con- mit the question of Messrs. Jurdiue. Matheson done in the absence of disinfection. It would siderably lessened. The reason that the&o.'s title in the Russian Concession at certainly seem that limewashing alone is of disease has disappeared earlier from Pakhoi Ha ow to Arbitration. little value, and, indeed, the colony's experi- and Amoy this year than from Hong- ence of plague is proving a sore trial to faith kong may be due to the fact that there are in sanitary science altogether. In Pakhoi relatively to the population more latrines and Amòy, where plague has been prevalent in those places than in this colony and that during the present.season, the disease dis the infection is consequently less concen- appeared some time ago, the epidemic trated than when an an immense number having simply been allowed to run its of people have to use the same receptacle. course, without any measures being taken We are all in the dark on the subject, to cope with it, wherers in Hongkong, with doctors and laymen alike, but the evidence a highly organised and scientifically trained as it stands seems to indicate that an intel- sanitary staff devoting their energies to the ligent dealing with the nightsoil question work and, with the enforcement of laws de- is one of the means by which plague can be signed to ensure cleanliness in dwellings best attached. and to prevent overcrowding, the disease still lingers with us, although we are now. in the month of September. Mr. BROWNE,
(Daily Press, 2nd September.) the Government Analyst, in a report on the
A remarkable change ha come over special cleansing in the Kowloon health dis- English public opinion in the Far East with trict, submitted to the Sanitary Board at its reference to the question of Russian expan last meeting, says that from April 3rd to sion in the North. Nothing could better July 3rd the number of deaths from plague illustrate this change than the article which in No. F1 district was 53; it was considered advisable to disinfect every house in Hung N. C. Daily News on Talienwan. A couple we reproduce in another column from the hom, so on July 8th a mixture of mangan of years ago our contemporary would have ese (li-oxide, salt, and sulphuric acid was had Lord SALISBURY threaten war in order placed on every floor; ouly 15 cases had
to prevent the réalisation of the Russian occurred since (the date of the report is
designs. To-day our contemporary, in 21st August), and there was no doubt describing the works that are about to be from this and past experience that undertaken in Victoria Bay and on shore where pingue was widely spread over a
to make Talienwan a great commercial district such a complete disinfection was of
port and city, the fitting terminus of the Considerable value in stopping epidemics. great railway uniting the Far East with The figures show that in the district in ques Europe, says :--"We have more than once tion, before the disinfection there was one case every two days, and that the average after-inveighed against the manner in which wards, was one case every three days. But the disinfection was made at a time of the year (8th July) when plague is usually on the wane, and seeing that at neighbouring ports it has disappeared completely in the absence. of disinfection, the claim that its decrease
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THE OPENING OF TALIENWAN,
Russia has become possessed of the peninsula or which these great works, are to be carried out, but there can be no question that the use which Russia pro- 'poses to make of her acquisition will be for the benefit of all residents in and traders with the Far East." In concluding its
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Shangbai, 4th September. The transport Morgan City, carrying 200 troops for Manila, has been wrecked on On omichi.
Provisions have been sent from Kobe. The Japanese Cruiser Yoshino has Kure to render assistance,
gone from
Krbe, 5th September. The transport Morgan City, with 76 | troops on board for Manila, struck on the Qnomichi reef and foundered.
No lives "ere lost.
[From the latest San Francisco papers to hand we learn that the St. Paul and Morgan City had been directed to take on board the
departure of the Morgan City must have been Third Cavalry at Seatte in time to depart about August 20th. It would appear that the expedited and that she must have left some time previous to the date stated |
1st September.
BELILIOS V. PALMER AND TURNER. This was a claim for $6,800 made by the Hon. E. R. Blilios, (.M.G., upon Messrs. Palmer aud Turner, oivil engineers and architects which he alleged they had i aproparly paid to a
contractor.
Mr. E. Robinson (instructed by Messrs. Wil-' kinson and Grist) appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. M. W. Slade (instructed by Messrs. Joh son Stakes, and Master) for the defendants...... The special jury was compos d of Messrs. J, J. B. Heemskerk, E. S Whealler, P. EH
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in Hongkong is to be ascribed principally article our contemporary, after stating that Melbye. R. H. Hill, John Birton. H. U“
or very largely to that measure does not necessarily command, acceptance. Another fenture of the plague which is unpleasantly prominent is the increased deadliness of the disease during the latter part of the epide- nic, the returng showing that since the begining of June there has not been
single
to recovery From the beginning of the year, to the 27th May there were 499, cases nud 437 deaths. Since that date
there have been 921 cases and 925 heaths. The prospect of an jangjual Visitation of such a disease and the apparent helplesitress'ol 'science or energy to do my
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Talienwan will be a free port to the whole world, again anys: We do not “doubt for a moment that it will fulfil the expectations of the Czar and his advisers, "who have undertaken its establishment in such a liberal and comprehensive the front of the city to the piers, so that spirit" The railway is to be carried along:
passengers will be able to step direct from the steamer into the train. Five or six
enra hence the foreign residents China. will all be travelling home and out again via Talienwan and as they speed along in the train de luze even
Jeffries, and F. G. Collius. his evidene, and was
Mr. Turner, one of the defendants, continued
· ́ ́cross-examined at spnie; length by Mr. Robinson.
Mr. Orange (of the firm of Leigh and Orange): gave evidence as an expert in the building trule,
2nd September.
Mr. Slade, addressing the jury for the defence after the evidence had been given, recapitulated · what took pace from February, 1898, when the contract was let, to the followingNovember, when in a storm part of the walls was blown down anit other damage done. At the time this happened the price of materials had gone up very consider.
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