Resolution Passed at Annual Meeting of Western (Extra-Settlement) Association for Action Shanghai, Mar. 24. ETERIORATING conditions in the Wester district brought forth sharp criticism at the first annual meeting of the Western (Extra-Settlement) Association, held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca,, Ltd., yesterday evening, the meeting passing'a resolution expressing the alarm of the Association at the serious problems confronting residents and property owners in the area and requesting the incoming committee to consider bringing to the notice of the Municipal Council the question of the adequate policing of the district, sanitation, fire prevention and other public health and publ works matters, the effective control of factories and representation of the Association on any committees appointed by the S.M.C, fo deal with problems in the area. Mr, J. W. T, Brooke (Chairman) presided.
In lis speech the chalrmhan' said: Refore dealing. with the events. of the nest years T should keto soy a ow words onthe orig and. alms Sr the' Western CextraSeltlement) Resection, "As most of you realize, have in che comparatively small fares" "which comprage Shanghai no Rose than four ditering (pes of sov= Grment five In fae, Oi Wea faucre for the time being those areas which foreigners are: not atthe present time permitted to reside.
'Q) 'Tha Foreign Settlement Is ¢oitrolled by a Murelpal Counelt eletratepayers residing. In it) the French Concession is governed by {ts Consul; (2) other areas onside the two mentioned and' west of the railway line (in which Is Hunelao) Brea present under. the nominal ontcol_ Of the. Japanese: (4) while
ment boundary tothe oilway fi rea from teen of he Sale: from Tockhilt Avenue to. Soochow Gree, sat the present ime, a kind any."man's* land. "Thoth, mark Sout is inside that part of Shanehal intos defended by Torelan troops, Wong any central control, tis without any definite government, and ora cal hano voles ne woe final Counéh of the Foreign Selilehough. ft pays rales to the Munl-
iment), no means of remedying existing abuses, and no corporate body 10 present is views to the x gatherers Who ave certainly under a dennite moral obligation to mainiin it og a Reaithye law abiding' and livable trea. the peculiar "slluatlon and Status of. tug largo resdentiat, die {Mets os argo' as the Western dlstrit Jed io the formation of the Western adequate to desi with such fires and although we are assured that new water connections are not being fiven, inspire of the demand for them, the consumption of water has ner eased enormously. There has een, however, no corresponding increase in the the water supply for general purposes being definitely inadequate.
jambling dens are thriving and vice of every kind is being openly practised and encouraged by persons the control of the There. is great danger of epidemics resulting from Insanitary conditions and overcrowding in the areas between the roads. The Public Health Department has done a great deal to amelioral Fesourees are inadequate and it has not the authority to adopt the drastic measures which are really necessary. These conditions are well-known to members of the Association, who also realize the diticulties confronting the Municipal Council, who are dependent on the active support of the Consular Body and the military authorities,
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