The Commissioner of Police records that four Chinese members of the staff lost their the execution of duty. The police took! art in forty armed encounters with Eriminals, four Chinese officers be-Sng lollled and thirteen "wounded. Fifteen criminals were shot dead land fourteen wounded. Vacancies inthe Chinese side numbering 151 fare due to limited capacity of the Training Depot though large nun fers of applicants for posts are coming forward and the Council is enabled 0 engage a good class of moan, 'The Training Depot handled no fewer than 115, foreign, 48 Japanese and G3 Chinese - daring hile in August, 1990 31 probationary' Sub-inspectors were sent to. the depot for training. There is a scheme afoot "for the engagement of Chinese suitable for filing the posts of Chinese superintendents; one of each will attached to each Divisional Ofer for duty, thereby gaining, it) is hoped a closer. control and contact ever and with the lower rauks and the: public.
The. Municipal Advocate reports hat" 97,605 cases weve taken to the District Court, 20.883 were prosectited. to completion of which 49,67 were convicted. The report eviminal cases have been satisfactorily "handled during the past year by the Kinngsu High Court (Branch Division) and the: Shanghai Special Area District Court. It is not intended to give the impression that there have been 10 difficulties. On the other hand, there have been sharp differences of opinion. "Shortly after the pre-tent agreement was put into oper: tion, the courts refused to pert the Judicial Police to record civil processes before service: denied the Council's right of appeal to. the Supreme, Court at Nanking: insisted that judicial processes "be signed by the Presidents instead of the Judges as is required by the agreement. These questions were! Jaid before the higher - authorities and the Council's views were sustained: Coeval with the establishment of the above mentioned courts, the Two Trial end Final Appeal on the Record System was installed. he inauguration of this system, together with the enforcement toto of the Chinese Code of Criminal Procedure, necessitated a large number of changes in the Council's detail arrangements in, handling} Prosecutions." Such questions were Aiscussed and settled in a spirit of mutual ce-operation and amity.
'A Wealthy Year According to the Commissioner of Public Health, 1990 was a compar tively healthy one, though the create of malaria indicated the neces sity of careful study of the Subject and of special measures being taken during the year. Cholera and small pox showed a compara: {ively small incidence though an out. break of the. former disease September was noted az occurring atlan unusual period of the. yea its failure to become apparent dur: ing the variier. months being. attr of "the. ordinary movements of trade, ete,, by the civil war which reveiled during last summer.
concluding his report the Commissioner says:
Tu regard to matters or gencri administration, one may say that the year has' been one of steady roRress, with marked improvement in the organization and control of licensed food and other premises.
Structural "improvements in nid down by the 1924) jon have now been completed with the result that Licensed Dairies in the Settlement are all up to the required standard. This is a satisfactory state of affairs, but the Public should be warned against any false confidence regard to the milk supply, since unlicensed Dairies existing in areas outside the contro! of this Dey During the year. the Senior' Chi nese' Medical Offer in the. Public Health Department. proceeded t
with a view to post gradual Nerpoot under the it Scheme Tropieal Medicine and.
This represents an in far as the Department concerned hit ix hoped will have the hap-lest results.
Tt is anticipated that a number of the Chinese Medical Officers in the Municipal Service will be able to avail themselves of the facilities offered which cannot fail to improve the general standard of the Department, by giving the opportunity of exchanging ideas with Ofcers from other countries, Much Building Activity The Commissioner of Public Works reports in part as follows:
Building activity in the Settle. ment has continued unabated throughout the year and new high lished. 'The lings for which building permits were issue: be|during the year is Tls. 40,693,800. In addition to this value, minor work, which is not as a rule separately' recorded, is estimated 'Tis, 2,000,000.' As_ the Municipal building programme was also a large one, a total value of Tls. 0,000,000) for' all building work commenced during 1930, may be taken as a close approximation to the actual cost, the comparative value for} 1929, the next highest year, being] Tis, 27,000,000, While the building activity of] 1930 is without parallel ju the history of the Settlement, it is the opin-jon of the writer that, owing to the decline in the value of silver and the consequent increase in the cost] of construction, the actual volume of work embarked upon in 1930 ex-seeds that of 1920 by 30 or 35 per cent., so that Tls. 10,000,000 repre-_ sents in round figures the increased cost of building construction, Permits were issued for 6,818 Chinese houses and shops (come pared with 5,282 for 1929), 327 foreign residences, 2 hotels, 'S apartment buildings, 35 office' buildings, 298 foreign stores, 6 theatres, schools (compared with 1 in 1929), 8 cotton mills, 24 factories, 64 g0- downs, 1 hospital, 3 telephone exchanges and 1,002 other structures, making a total of 8,595.
The number of sets of plans submitted for approval was 2,320, of which 1,773 were approved.
The demolition of buildings—ia most eases in connection with re-
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