Shanghai, May 19. PPLICATIONS have been received by the Shanghai Municipal Council for the leasing of the open air swimming pool at Hongkew Park, according to the report of the first meeting of the Health Committee for the present municipal year held 'May 12. Tenders will therefore be put out for this purpose. The Committee also recommended that the Council offer to the Japanese Residents' Corporation the use of the Chinese Isolation Hospital premises in Haining Road. The Council has approved.
1 regard to the applications received for leasing the pool, it was hat the estimated receipts forthe reported {0 the Committee that to year 1057\ were $27,000, 'The Com re-open the pool would necessitate Initiee further recommended—the extensive repairs and the engagement 'Councit {0 reserve the right to refuse of further staff for lls operation. To riy' oF all of the tenders put the property, including the Hospltat Accommodation purifying plant, into condition would 'There was referred to the Com-cost approximately $7,000, 'The view mittee an application that had been expressed that the Council would fade to the Council by the Japanese not be justified ju incurring this ex~ Residents' Corporation for the Tease penditure unless the pool was avail of hospital premises for the purpose. Able for the se of the general body Of a general hospital for' the local the community. apanese community. The applica:
Another view" was put forward lion emphasized the inadequacy that as the poot had been built by the hospital facilities for local Japanese Couneit for the benefit of the whole residents, and @ request. was, made community it should not be leased that no rent be charged, Having re-to private parties as a business pro-gard to the limited finances of the riesition, but_ members generally "felt Japanese "Residents" Corporation that tenders should be called for and which would be burdened with the he pool Teased fo the highest bidder Expense of operating the hospital, ivespeetive of nationality, regarding 'The Committee accordingly examined this course ax preferable to the poo! ihe possibility of the use of the Chi-remaining. closed indefinitely. hose' Isolation 'TTospital premises in Haining. Rood. "The book value of Cash Deposit Required {he land and buildings concerned It was decided to recommend the $877000, and the building when part Council to require a cash deposit of reconditioned would accommodate.
(000, which would enable the neces-{east 120 patients. The present tem= reconditioning work to be executporary small foreign Teolaion Hospital the money deposited 0 be subject Was reported to the Committee to be subsequent return when the poot definitely inconvenient for the Japan= -aWailable for the general community. public, 1 was further recommended Members generally felt that there That an undertaking should be is scope for an extension by the quited that any damage to the pro-Japanese "Residents" Corporation of Rerly. or plant during the period of {he facilities It provides for hospital The louse "should be made good by {treatment for the least well-do the lessee, Members were Informed section. of the Japanese community hdl that the application of the Japan Leader of Arson Gee Residents 'Corporation was' de-the Council, torving of reasonable support from
Gang Arrested 'After studying the reports of various Council' Departments, "members fame to the conclusion that essential Shanghai, May 20, expenditure on repairs, mainly for The leader of a band of Chinese improved sanitation, described by the ingendinries, who have been respon Commissioner of Public. Health as sible for a large number of fires. in definitely necessary, would amount Honnkew and Yangtszepoo, including Approximately $15,000." Atter further the disastrous outbreak at the N.Y.K. discussion, in which it was. again bedown and the Japanese Consular Pointed out that it was the duty. Police Headquarters on March 24, the Council to provide hospital fact hag been arrested by the Japanese fies for the community, and that the military authorities, ik was revealed Japanese Residents" Corporation look AN the. Japanese press conference ler "the. interests of the poorer members of the Japanese community, Another incendiary who set fire to was decided io. recommend to the 4 godown belonging to the Shanghai Couneit that the use of the Chinese Cotton Spinning Ca, in. Yangtszepoo Isolation Hospital premises be offered May {1 Was also arrested, it wax the Japanese Residents" Corpor stated." A military spokesman re-ton for the purpose of 'a general Veated that the alleged leader hospital for the focal Japanese. com= the bund. responsible for the fire at annuity; that a sum of $15,000 be vot the Na-K, godown was arrested on towards the east of repairs, and th May and had been identified 4 nominal rental of $100 a year be Chen Shun-lin, 39 years of age and charged.
employee of the British-American Free Dental Clinic 'Tonaceo Ca, at their plant at Yang xzepoo. He was a resident on North 'There was brought to the attention Kiansse Road, of Members a letter from the King's This band" of incendiaries, the Daughters' Society calling attention to the need for the establishment of spokesman added, had been respon-a free dental clinic for sible, in addition to NY.K. godown outbreak, for another "fire. at the members of the community. Member, 'VK. Wayside Wharf on December while sympathizing with the project, took the view that available funds asi year and for a fire in Chapel, are at the present time needed for which Was extinguished before it used any damage, on March 26. more important and necessary public health requirements, and decided 20 The incendiary arrested in conto recommend 0 the Council. nection with the fire atthe Shang hat Cotton Spinning plant on May 9 Reserve of Dispensary Stocks was stated to be Wanit Keng-pao, aged 24, who was employed as a Consideration was next given by labour "The spokes the Committee to the advisability of Brocuring extra stocks of drugs, ing fire to the mill dressings, surgical instruments, ele, employed white Chen had also, view of possible importation Cimeulties due to disturbed world conditions, "Tt_was estimated" that approximately $100,000 would be required to provide a reserve of essenial supplies, which at the average correspondent, consumption rates would Fast about tated that Chen had been 12 months, arrested on Chapoo Road bridge and was believed that he did not take Members were informed that it is the part in setting fre to the practice of the Health Department to directed the work lay in stocks every year to meet men. Wane, it was possible emergencies, "and that he na rested as he was proposal put forward really amount-scene of the fire at ed merely to ordering larger supplies Chapel and had confessed to. setting, ahead of time. Stocks ordered would, fire: to the cotton spinning. mill of course, be used as required. 'Mem-group led" by Chen' had bers agreed to recommend to the political afliations, the spokesman Council that the proposal to establish died. but Wang had been given a emergency reserve of dispensary Supply of chemicals. and had. been locks be approved in principle, the promised large sum of money by a Commissioner of Public Health' a not yet arrested at tea house the Treastirer and Controller. being Tue annual recess of the Muni ipal Council for 1939 has been fixed wy, duly 27, to Tuesday, September 5, both days inclusive. to collaborate in framing a estimate of essential stocks and their cost.
The Council, at its meeting on Wednesday, May 17, accepted all the: Health Committee's recommendations set forth above,
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