}r
Tout
auriety, on the dblibled,
with England privilege for with an armed: *of the " "other the Siamese ND “thinks such an fireement possible and even goes the length of saying that the more reasonable and ex-
1 of the French Colonial Party- &mong them, he believes, M, DOUMER think that little benefit can cerde to France from merely extending her boundaries over thinly populated and unproductive areas, such as the outlying territories of eastern Siam, While he cannot hopo to get possession of the fertil Menam Valley! Be Thee an it mi
_gravely doubt the "engerness of
Colonial Party to renounce aggres
bitious the present undeniably fproach the
tions of
opportune time to Government with tare Indicated, not agreeable relations the visit of KING EDWARD, but because negociations presumably'üre
ling for
new Convention in place failed to secure
one tion.
RAILWAY FARES IN CHINA.
(Daily Prev 18th May) the railway is ever to be a permanent ma-sticčena in tha the fares for pas
“
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Before
nfectiofi.
found in asocia
beir parasit
taken
lague
imals which
tact with them retions;" and "
men, The Plague Comi
will transfer
that the arguments SIMOND were not co course, is not the final
Now that
recent hostilities in North China] it was | bacillus i in two dollars, and then | the skin they rode in *comfortable secòtid-class | forms of carriage. Nowadays poor trav.llers find “it pays them to walk the whole distance. Including the cost of food on the way, they
got through for about two "dollars, the difference saved meaning a
great deal to a
The open truck is also strongly objected to, and the people
kesh – poor man, wonder why the Viceroy of Chihli does not reduce the farès, holding him, and not the Railway Administration, responsible for the high rates charged. It is to be hoped, if the railway is to be made popular in China, that low fares Fill be charged, or it will soon fall out of favour, for though the Chinese love riding in any kind of vehicle, from a wheelbarrow to a landau, and will pay to indulge their fancy, they will only use the railway butil its novelty has worn ont un of transit. It is not likely that the unless they find it to be an economical goods trazio will at first be large unless mines are developed and a large minera! traffic takes place over them. The main source of revenue on most lines in Chi will necessarily be the carringe of pas- sengers, and they will have to be carefully and specially catered for both in regard to comfort and price. Open trucks have long been abolished in civilised countries, and it seams a pity that they should have been introduc d'into China. Other companies starting will do well to avoid having any but covered trucks in a climate where protection from bo sun and rain
#
THE INFECTIVITY OF PLAGUE.
to be low, and it will be necessary. rable, if not imperative, to allow them carry a good quantity of baggage, pos- sibly far more than is permitted on rail- ways in other countrie, The Chinese are accustomed to travel long distances on their rivers
ers and creeks for very small fares, and they carry with them not only their personal baggage, but usually some little trading enture as well." The scene on the lower decks of the steamer, on the Canton and the Yangtze Rivers forcibly illustrates this." Almost every passenger has his little heap of baggage, which he is allowed to carry free, though if sent as cargo it would cost far more than the passage money of its owner. But it would be a mistake to insist upon these people paying for excess of baggage, thougli most of them could so be charged. railway train space would be more
the Chinese traveller would, all"
have his little “chaumars,
chances aggage containing merchau- Would the rail- nt be prepared to concede lestion, and it is one that orth the considération of those Bilways or who are ture. The corres res morning contempo- riting on the that the rail- Peking is not for passengers enre numbers of persons come from Shanhai. ged the hole long
are con
entoi
1.6
1
The
Anopheles mosquito
aris front mai
IN MIND Spread
ʼn a dip n given to view to discovering
the spread of plague
fact or not that i
tedly inconclusive i up to the present valuable contribution subject was made Liston, M.D., LMS., which he read before and Physical Society. persuaded that Dr. Bi sound one. He notes are most common on
body which are most fleas, and he also suggests by the prevalence of some inte prevalence of plague can be of plague bacillus, Ho ha by several people, chiefly nativ
corresponds
en Eints(Daily Press, 14th May.)ami
We are all of us "interested in learning what medical science is able to teach us that will satisfactorily explain the in- fectivity of plague. In their report the
plague... season Indian Plague Commission say
maximum" - prevalen of “universal experience of| plague in India *********
undoubtedly true rat proves that houses into which the "infection of plague has been imported, Ureeding season.
for they are most numerous
He had whether by nten or rats, are infective, been led to stu ly
the insect, this 'infectivity being so marked that far found on rats but one species, i many officers who have bal most ex- pallidus, which at first sight “perience of the disease, have come to the the human flea (Pulex irritan conclusion that the principal source of the microscope, differences “infection is, as would appear to hold true Captain Lisrok is prose “in the case of yellow fever, and possibly in conjunction with
also of typhus, to be found in the houses nuthority on such subject in which the infection of plague has been CHARLES Rothschild, but introduced "Critics of the Report, how the belief that the close resemb ever, hava pointed out that this is only true the Puler pallidur and the of dirty, dark, over-crowded and vermin- and the absence of the infested houses and as instancing the from many Europei contrary when the houses are clean, light for the frequent and niry, the experience of the majority of of the plague hospitals in Inilis is quoted. Here, they exclaim," infection is constantly being imported into a house, but, the disease is only rarely, communicated from
tion
European countries the sick to the healthy: who work and live pallidus is not found. in these hospital, and that this is not are some facla due to anti-septic precaut ons is said to be
ad of the obvious to anyone who has a knowledge of disinfection and who has seen these
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nat
road instead of réciutions carried out in a dative hosp
comfortably by lain experts in India further uestipus on the the bacteriological evidence is uni ably replied that | maintaining that plague gert
to tramp the or artificially placed on sol, clothing
Way too|| grain, rapidly disappear, or at least cannot be Mean The
ered from thess substances even It has further
tha | dồm
rate
plague ger Commission
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he
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