Manila, July 26, An earthquake, intensity 4, occurred in Ilocos North at 7.10 yesterday evening. Reuter.
Commenting on the disgraceful Jack of sanitation in Japan, the "Osaka Asch," © paper with a cir culation" that embraces nearly a million renders, declares eitorally "The sanitary organization in cities of Japan is lamentably back. ward. Our cities are glaringly back. ward in sanitary measures to pr vent discase- The drainage system is imperfect and citizens suffer from difficulties in the disposition of Alth. Some of our countrymen are not better than the natives of the South Sea islands in this respect. The existence of unwholesome districts and dirty houses huddled together 'a shame to the country, und if thingy as they are,' the national Health will deteriorate, Citixens are sanitation and to awakening them from their loisses faire attitude, Japan is yet unfortunately afMicted that could in their life should be radically uprooted." provided pro-Per sanitation measures are resort. ed to:
While the nation has made giant strides in many directions, sanitation, however, has been woefully neglected. Open sewers, into which are dumped indiscriminately all manner of refuse, from street sweepings to night-soil carts, form a festering sore in Japan's principal cities: The outer most of Tokyo is really 42 veritable cess-poot, especially when stagnant vegetation and other of fal in it to fester and rot. The disgusting smells of decomposing offscourings that assail one's nostrils sngerous tale of potential epidemics, but the olfactory nerves of the Japanese, or their sense of civic pride, seem to be terribly fault, No one seems to care, and a Exsewnere in this issue publish the revolting story of the slaughter by Harbin police of a number of escaped convicts in the streets of the city. In the same con nexion, our" own correspondent writes' that a Russian business man who witnessed the whole disgusting business fell dead from shock and heart failure as a direct result.
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