Defendant gave voluble answers to questions from the bench, which prompted His Lordship to enquire it she had read an article in the "North= China Daily News" yesterday about talking too much. When she replied the negative, His Lordship observ= ed: "Well then, read it, read it."
Plaintiqt told' the court. that. Mes Davis paid her first month's rent and an equal. sum as deposit. simultane ously. The claim, he said, was for rent for the second month," He said the rented her the ground floor of 9 house newly constructed.
When asked if she had any ques-Yions to put to witness Mrs. Davis wanted to know why he had caused her a loss of $3,000 and the time of three workmen and declared that the ceiling of her place was leaking badly. This was denied by Mr. Ciker, Plaintitt went on to say that there was a written scase in German bee tween him and Mfrs. Davis and produced an English translation of It voluting out that there was stipulation about rentals being payble in advance, 'Mrs. Davis in the witness-box said she did not pay the rent for the second month because plaintiff did not repair the ceiling which leaked badly after each rain. 'The premises, she" continued, "were opposite cinema and she intended to use' them asa cafe to sell refreshments cinema-goers, She said she had been promised a licence by the Municipal Council and said that the Fire Brigade and Health Department had. sent various inspectors to sec the premises and they told her the licence would be withdrawn, as they thought the Promises unfit for business, pointing out that the plaster on the ceiling might come off and was a danger to customers.
Reverting to the present case, counsel said a health inspector obtain= ed samples of the milk sold by defendant and had it tested in. the laboratory of the Health Department, Some of the milk was injected into two guinea pigs who showed dennite signs of tubercular infection, Cott sel went on to say that bovine tuberculosis was communicable to. human beings through milk. "He added that it appeared to be extremely. prevalent and was more communicable to children owing to their weaker resistance.
Cases' of bovine tuberculosis arise in Shanghai, counsel continued, out of the unlicensed sale of mill. A licensed dairy would exercise greater caution to keep within the bounds of municipal regulations. If defendant had a'Ticence he would have been competed to sell only pasteurized mille and all danger. to the public would be removed. Counsel conelud~ ed by saying that defendant belonged to a class who was short circuiting the regulations by selling mille with: out a licence.
'Mrs, N. M, Raschakah, 101 Seymour Road, gave' evidence of purchasing the mile from defendant and was followed into the witness box by three ofeials of the Health Depart~ ment. The last of them, Dr. J. Blakelock, director of the Municipal medical laboratory, said that cow milky sometimes contained fatal tubercular baccill communicable to human beings, specially children, and read a medical report stating' that 2,000 deaths were attributed in England to Levine tuberculosis, two-thirds of which involved persons of 15 years, No mere figure, he said, could de cribo the extent of the deformity occasioned by bovine tuberculosis.
Defendant said he kept a small farm of goats and had sold milk to many customers who had not complained that the milk was unfit for human consumption.
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