THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH APRIL, 1899;
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No. 13.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a special meeting held on Wednesday, the 5th day of April, 1899.
PRESENT:
The Principal Civil Medical Officer, (Dr. JonN MITFORD ATKINSON), President.
The Captain Superintendent of Police, (The Honourable FRANCIS HENRY May, ('.M.G.), Vice-President.
The Director of Public Works, (The Honourable ROBERT DALY Ormsby).
The Acting Registrar General, (ARTHUR WIMBolt Brewin, Esquire).
The Medical Officer of Health, (Dr. FRANCIS WILLIAM CLARK).
EDWARD OSBORNE, Esquire.
Bubonic Plague.-The President addressed the Board on the subject of the prevalence of Bubonic Plague in No. 9 Health District of the City.
The Medical Officer of Health addressed the Board and moved-
That Health District No. 9 bounded on the East by Eastern Street-on the West by lumping Station, Pokfulum Road, and Western Street—on the North by the Harbour, and on the South by Bonham Road, be declared infected with Bubonic Plague in accordance with the bye-laws made under section 13 of Ordinance 15 of 1894.
The Vice-President seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
It was agreed that the Colonial Secretary should be written to for the purpose of ascertaining whether the Military Authorities would lend the services of 4 Sappers of the Royal Engineers to superintend house to house visitation at $1 per day in addition to their regular pay.
Adjournment.--The Board then adjourned.
Confirmed this 13th day of April, 1899.
C. W. DUGGAN, Secretary,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 226.
The following Letter is published.
By Command,
J. M. ATKINSON, President.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th April, 1899.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
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No. 542 MARINE.
Government of Bengal.
tion.
MARINE DEPARTMENT.
CALCUTTA, the 18th March, 1899.
The undermentioned document is forwarded to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong, for informa-
By order,
H. G. C. SWAYNE,
Major, R.E., Under-Secretary.
Copy of a Notification No. 50, Marine, dated 18th March, 1899, by the Government of Bengal, Marine Department.
It is hereby notified for general information that Mecca and the whole littoral of the Hedjaz between Lith and Yambo exclusive of both places are declared to be injected within the meaning of the Venice Sanitary Convention regulations, and that the Officers concerned have been instructed to strictly enforce the rules for quarantine, which are in force in the ports of Calcutta and Chittagong against vessels arriving from the infected area.