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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JUNE, 1898.
PROSECUTIONS.
The following is a return of the prosecutions that were instituted during the year by myself and the Inspectors of Nuisances acting under my instructions :
Offences.
Occupation of Basements,
Cocklofts and Cubicles,
Unlicensed Common Lodging-Houses,......
Overcrowding Common Lodging-Houses,.......
Causing Nuisances :--
On Private Premises,.
In Pigsties,......
In Common Lodging-Houses,
In Public Latrines,.
In Public Streets,
Ou Crown Land,....
In Harbour,
Neglect to notify infectious disease,
Keeping Swine without Licence,
Keeping Cattle without Licence,
Sleeping in Public Laundry,......
Sleeping in Fat-boiling Premises,. Adulteration of Milk,.
33
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Whisky,
Coffee,
Overcrowding Tenement Houses,
Not concreting ground surfaces, Keeping Unregistered Laundry,
**
Bone-boiling
Premises,...
Total,.........
Sum-
monses.
Con- victions.
Penalties.
Remarks.
8
32
20
$150.00 389.00
2 cases dismissed, I withdrawn.
39
490.00
25.00
4 absconded, 1 case withdrawn. I case withdrawn.
38
35
194.00
1 absconded, 1 dismissed, I withdrawn.
13
13
13.00
1
5.00
3
35.00
22.00
1
3.00
2
4.00
6
57.00
142
128
307.25 | 2 cautioned, 1 absconded, 11 withdrawn.
27.00
35.00
20.00
100.00
1
50.00 1 cautioned.
1
I
50.00
6
4
99.00
30.00 In the other cases, order to abate forthwith
made by Magistrate.
10.00
2
20.00
317
286
2,085.26
DISINFECTING STATION.
The following is a return of the number of articles which have passed through the steam disin- fecting apparatus during the year :---
Articles removed from private houses,
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11,563
Government Civil Hospital............................. 3,518
13
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Victoria Gaol,
21
Tung Wah Hospital,
Military Barracks.
13
2.243
198
17.535
Inspector GRIMBLE, of No. 3 Health District, who has been in charge of the Machinery and has per- formed these duties in a satisfactory manner, reports that the boiler and fittings are in good working order, but as mentioned in my Report for last year, the building, which is a wooden structure, is in à most dilapidated condition. I understand that the plans of a new brick building have already been drawn and that this will be erected, and the machinery reinoved thereto, during the present year.
The apparatus was in use on 184 days of the past year.
STAFF.
A few changes have taken place on the staff during the year; Inspector HoRE was dismissed and Inspector McDONALD was appointed to fill the vacancy: the two additional Inspectors who were to have been appointed from England could not be obtained at the salary offered by the Government and Inspectors ALLEN and PHILLIPS were accordingly appointed locally.
Inspector GERMAIN went to England on leave on March 20th, 1897, and his leave has been extended to September 20th, 1898, while Inspector RENNIE was also granted home leave on December 7th last. so that the staff is at present somewhat short-handed.