Council Reviews Problems of Developments in Outside Areas; Health Department Active Shanghai, May 6. N accordance with the assurance given by the Chairman of Shanghai Municipal Council, in response to the ratepayers' adoption of the amended resolution proposed by Mr. E. F. Harris referring to conditions in the Wes! tern Extra-Settlement Area, that the incoming Council would con! tinue to do everything possible in connection with conditions in this area, the new Council in office has already given preliminary consideration to this matter.
A brief retrospect of the action taken by the several Municipal Departments in this connection 1 the information given in the Counc throughout the year, amplifying cil's Annual Report, follows.
With regard to the policing of the area, the total personnel employed during a 24 hours" period on the Coun~ cil's Roads, to which Municipal Police Jurisdiction in the area is confined, nas been more than trebled since the outbreak of hostilities, and is con-
Sidered to be more than adequate Since the outbreak of hostilities there have been no robberies, armed. or otherwise, committed in foreign-'Sccupied premises and no repetition of the one highway robbery on Columbia Road on December 28, 1938, Burglaries, however, are numerous but in the great majority of nocturnal breakings entry has been effected from the enclaves and escape has Italian, German Ships Detained Shanghai, May 6, Bound from Shanghai to Ningpo with ten Chinese doctors and. 21 nurses on board for the relief of civilian victims of Japanese air raids at the latter port, the Italian-owned Shanghai coastal vessel, s. Tembien was seized by a Japanese destroyer, together with a German vessel, the s. Kondor, at Chinghai on May 2. and with Japanese sailors on board and naval fags flying from the mast head of both vessels, they were escorted to Shanghai for further examination, The Tembien was re~ leased from detention on May 3 But the fate of the Kondor is not known, Owned by the Compognia Italiana Navigazione, of 93° Canton Road, the Tembien in addition to the doctors and nurses also carried medical supplies and 300 bags of cracked wheat, donated by the American Advisory Committee for Civilian Relief The medical unit, a passenger on the vessel informed a "North-China Daily News" reporter, was despatched by the Ningpo Guild of Shanghai fol-Towing @ request from that port, Port Shelled According to this passenger, the Tembien anchored at Chinghai on May 2a Japanese destroyer also anchored there shelling the port soon After she had arrived. Meanwhile, there had been an air raid at Ningpo. and the captain of the Tembien Up a signal informing the Japane: destroyer that he intended to return to Shanghai as he had been warned that it, was inadvisable to. proceed upriver.
Tu answer to the signal the destroyer ordered him to remain where he was and sharily "afterwards naval party boarded the. vessel, officer staying for some time before proceeding to inspect, APE. Tanker which was also anchored in the port.
Returning been made back to the enclaves. In most eases the premises entered hav ju fact, been shown to be inadequate:
Watchmen Obtainable Residents have been earnestly advised to take their own measures to protect. themselves in this matter. Watchmen can be supplied on application to Police Headquarters, Barbed wire should be put alom fences and as strong barriers as possible erected. The Police have vented an effective and cheap method of securing windows, information to which they will' gladly supply. Steel windows can be fitted with locks incorporated in the framework.
Gaps in the barbed wire barriers along Municipal Roads are being kept to a minimum, but the reason= fable interests and "requests of the owners of properly conducted com= mercial enterprises must be given consideration, The Police in their own interests are anxious to limit the number of these gaps as far 93 pos sible.
With regard to the sanitation measures of the Public Health Department and Public Works. Depart ment in the area, in addition to the cleansing services supplied to rates payers' houses on Municipal Road the Public Works Department main= tains a special daily cleansing service exclusively for the Western Are This service employs 180 coolies wit their foremen neting under three specially engaged foreign overseers. They cleanse all squatter camps. the area, comprising about 11,000 huts, They: erect latrines where necessary—95 have been erected 10 date, They collect all ordure where not "collected by other authorities id all refuse from the camps—about 300 tons a month, They Allin stagnant ponds; dig drainage ditches where required; and a gang is con tinuously employed cleansing the 12! miles of creeks in the area, They fill in ordure pits and destroy ordure kongs. They report all coffins and corpses—several hundred a month—to the Health Department for dis. posal. and they cleanse the area of all insanitary nuisances.
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