Front Oun Own Commsronoeer Harbin, Mar. 14.
The Anancial authorities are working out new measures to improve the Position of private banks, whose volume of business has fallen during the past year. The director of the local branch of the Central Bank of Manchu proposes to hold. periodical conferences with representatives of private banks at Changehun for the purpose of establishing closer con-sections between the State Bank and the private banks. and assisting them increase the number. of their clients, specially the smaller ones. Mest of the private banks are Japanese owned, but there remain one or two Russian ones in Harbin, who confine their business almost entirely discounting bills.
Every year about this time, typhoid fever breaks out in Harbin, specially in the districts occupied by the poorer people, this being due to poor sanita-Yien and delay in cleaning up the backwards at the end of winter. This season the disease broke out rather Carlier than usual and the number of cases Increased so rapidly during the past two weeks that it is causing the Buthorities considerable concern. Special posters are displayed in the streets, warning residents against the epidemic and giving information as preventive measures. The Municipality has prepared a ward for typhoid fever patients and special medical units have been organized to Inspect districts and to remove sick persons to hospital,
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