Show THE TIK PLAGUE IN HONG HONO KONG The black plague w wh hion bien ion for the past lour far r months bas baa decimated the population tl tion dou of f Some ome me places place In China and nd n all bast destroyed the be magnificent CObi 0 of Hong Hona Kong I ia is said ald aid to have he its Ita pen permanent nen home bome In one ot of the poorest and aDd filthiest districts ut the em cm im The plague came from tzu Meag-tzu Isom bol Fak-bol Pa boi to Canton and nd from flew it spread In various directions direction The file two tiro cities mentioned are re c ac- ac e to all report In one of oft the PI most rat unhealthy parts parta of China la is hot bot all an the he year yar roun round C- C th Ii atmo atMO pher bere heavily beally charged with moisture Decaying matter of at the tb loll large proportion l trims tm a The water la is bad frequently contain contain- pg as much at 1500 grains ot solids lOUd to t tOne The population is II exceed One aU u e 1817 poor Door laborers laborer working for tram from 41 4 to 0 b 6 cents a day They live lire in small mall unclean n IMP hovels bovela unfit for tor human be be- be j be-j European visitors often otten become m within a day or two after theira their amI a val in these the stricken disease di ea e- e OUi cities and villages Here Here Ilia it ia is said Did aid the black plague is a aT yearly visitant and baa bas been from time Immemorial But u as a heretofore In- In Ina eoa a with the people has baa been very limited J the epidemic b has haa been beeD co confined ned to its ita own home After the annexation of ot Tonquin by bythe byth the the- French fre cb the district b has haa been boon opened d up to commerce aad ad with the communication it I is ise e rd the be plague will wUl b be a regular I VU If to Canton and nd from there eed on en its ita deadly march to toI toe chaser Gaer MT places I tome Rome important facts facto have haTe been vied oed In regard recard to the terrible dia dis- diss s ser One ODe 0 e ia ja that the germs xerma do not notto netto to 0 travel vaTel like those thole of ot cholera or ort I fever teer but to be and aDd t ai to the patient and his hia Imme- Imme The malad malady in- in in I i 17 al far fr as has bas been a ascertained brought bt by bl a sick alok person rom from place 10 lopace Another discover discovery equally Dt y nt la is that the plague mICrobe w period of incubation ia is tram from mine Ito days day seems to thrive InI ine in e carbolic acid while it died I wee po d to a low temperature in w o other bet microbes would live Ue a e made to conquer the die die- RoD Kong were crowned with s V Volunteers formed brigades d visited ed every house in the city bUona bi were scoured from roof I solar to and every spot pot pot disinfected dying It and d dead were wera removed a fu re end and Dd rubbish burned fens era and aDd 1 funks lunn Wen mere inspected I L and Dd e every every avenue enDe aven e of ingress closet cIoN watched The deadly dea foe bad had carried oft off probably victims victim but it was wal conquered at t last lut by the energetic and Dd systematic le application of sanitary regulations The 01 city had suffered immensely however and aad it will take ake a long time for it Ie to fully recover On May My 1 the population was waa estimated at while two months later it had bad scarcely Hundreds of stores bad ba been closed and hundreds of residences real resi- denoe dences were abandoned All AU this thia wu was caused chiefly by ty the inefficiency enoy ency of 01 the government officials official cial and their tardiness tar i in dealing with the he matter mattel With more prompt action at the outlet outset a areat grea great commercial center would have bave been la saved ed from Irom ruin The experience with the Ule Asiatic plague this thia time and nd it its ita appearance shortly alter aster the invasion of ot the French in Tonquin suggests the necessity Del of or some eue international measure for tor the conquest eat of ot disease di germs Kermi It ia is wen well enough to open up new countries tor lor commercial purposes and for the spread of civilization but if such new coun coun- countries tries are breeding places of ot epidemics it should be the duty of ot the advancing representatives of civilization to look to it b that the regions are re thoroughly cleaned and nd drained The black plague has baa not Dot recently spread terror outside of Asia Akia but chol chol- cholera cholera era ia is yearly finding its 11 lt way to 0 Europe from Irom places place where sanitary regulations are re almost unknown al- al although although al though they are re in constant cation with the out outside ld world odd It is II ismore more than probable that with intelli- intelli intelligent Cent intelli-Cent gent effort on the be part pan of those concerned epidemics could be almost tamped stamped out from freaa the earth and countries like Uke China and anI Asiatic Turkey ought no not to be allowed for for- forever for tor forever ever eer to remain sources of danKer danger to the thereat rest of Mankind on account of ot their slowness lowne to o comprehend the ot of cleaning their cities and Dd villages vill ea |