The Chairman, in extending a wel-|" foreigner is an cesential part of his come to the Chinese delegater, expresses preventive scheme. On the other band agreed with the chief Chinese merchants, the hope that as a resalt. of joint the whole of the Chinese present, led by deliberation, fame measures may be Mr. Shen Tan-be, pronounce this she: adopted effective from the point of view crex of the difficalty. of the Municipal Health Officer and Mr. Shen Tan-be states that the not calculated to arouse opposition on system of reports laid down in the the part of Chinese residents, Mr.
Chamber's second proposal would be! Chow Teing-piso submits the following quite effective, because 00 charge will foot proposals which were compiled at a made by the brapital and the Chinese meeting of the Chinese Chamber on consequence readily avail of ite November 4, and these are need as the advantager. On the other hand the batis of the ensuing Health Officer regards the proper likely to prove ineffectual and no p and may not spply to ble substitute for search. other maladies.
Mr. Wen Teung-yao realizes thet the 2—As Inspection for Plegoe may Council's preporals are more thorough very easily result in disturbance, if and likely to be more effective than Chinere offers from urgent illness the system of notification suggested such 8 appears to be plagao there shall aga subetitnte for earch; bat he con-immediate report tos hospi 1 fiders that concession should be made instituted by China independently to the present inflamed state of lower! the Chinese doct that hospital class native opinion. shall proceed and investigat A discastion, lasting four hour, 3—If alter this investigation the illness is found in fact to be plague, the affected person shall at once be tent for treatment to the Hospitel established independently by Chiva If death oneness all such matters as out, etc, shal! be arranged in accordance with Chinese custom, thos complying with people's sentimente, 4,—Extennioation of rats, etc., shall be pat into effect by residents them-solver, alter the following manner earch in pairs Bat. this project in vetoed by the Health Officer,.who is rioable to take the respon for ench inspection, Tt in pointed out by Dr. Moore that he desires to do no more at prevent than conduct the rearch in the Sub-District which has been declared infected, and that if after one month he finds no (a) The general keeping of (b) The general use of traps for rat-catching.
(c) All rat-holes shall be blocked op. (d) The geverel use of The Chairman of there proposal ers, which has new Ryelaws to Plagae, excluding all other infections diseases. Nos. 2 and 3 are concerned with two definite questions, (i) the search for plague cases, snd procedure when such are identified. regard to the latter, the Council prepared to meet the wishes to my plague the ted 5 cases will be carried out in " Chinese hospi se outside the limits of the Settlement.
Mr. Bhen Tuo-be observes that there will be n0 objec tion on' the part of himself-or of the directorate of the has to Monicipsl sopervition of their methods. that the Hospital will be onder the medical control of Dr. S. Cox and his Health Officer points out Chinese Isolation ud well-equipped, it appears to bim useless to erect another similar institation At the same time from the stard point of public health, there is no obj-ction to this course, and wince i+ meets the wishes of the Chinese Committee, there is no ground for! opposing it.
The question of search. og., houseation, presents the very Breatest difficulty, the Health Officer 1 that personsl inspection by Chinese Committee now result in recurrenc> of th st few dass, an opinion in which hi colleegars concur.
Solation of the point is eventually fourd by the Council's "fter to eobstitate foreign ladies for men inspcterr, to be sccompavied by native doctors nominated by the Chinese Chember. oRgee tion, Boally receives the assent of the The fourth roggestion of the Chinese j, Chamber relates to rat-catching. and it ich have been in force without opporition for more than a year, may contione with apabated rigour.
At the conclusion of the meeting it is agreed that s proclamation setting forth the arrangement which has been arrived at, shall be iaeued by Conreil without delay, ite text being thawn to the Chairmen of the Chamber before printing.
The meeting adjourns at 11.15 p.m,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.