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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH MARCH, 1896.
Mortality Returns.-The returns-which had been circulated to Members-for the weeks ended the 29th February and 7th March, 1896, respectively, were laid on the table.
The Medical Officer of Health addressed the Board and explained the steps that were being taken for inspecting and cleansing the tenement dwellings in the City of Victoria.
Licences.-Seventy applications for licences and renewal of licences to keep swine were considered. The President moved-
That the licences applied for be granted.
The Honourable the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned till Thursday, the 26th day of March, 1896.
Read and confirmed this 26th day of March, 1896.
HUGH MCCALLUM, Secretary.
FRANCIS A. COOPER,
President.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a special meeting held on Wednesday, the 18th day of March, 1896.
PRESENT:
The Director of Public Works, (The Honourable FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER), President.
The Acting Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. JOIN MITFORD ATKINSON, M.B.), Vice-President.
The Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, (The Hon. WILLIAM CHARLES HOLLAND HASTINGS, R.N.). The Medical Officer of Health, (Dr. FRANCIS WILLIAM CLARK).
NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
ABSENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable James HaldanE STEWART LOCKHART).
Minutes.-The minutes of a meeting held on the 14th March, 1896, were read and confirmed.
Bubonic Plague.-Three communications from the Honourable Colonial Secretary-which had been circulated to Members-were laid on the table and the minutes on the circulating covers read.
The President addressed the Board.
The Honourable the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police addressed the Board and laid on the table a scheme for allowing persons who are suffering from Bubonic Plague to leave the Colony.
The scheme was read clause by clause, discussed and amended.
The Honourable the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police moved―
That the Board recommend that persons suffering from Bubonic Plague be allowed to leave the Colony subject
to the conditions set forth in the scheme as amended.
Mr. N. J. EDE seconded.
The Board divided.
Mr. N. J. Ede.
Ayes.
Noes.
The Vice-President. The President.
The Hon. the Acting Captain Supt. of Police.
The Medical Officer of Health.
Motion carried.
It was agreed that the scheme as amended be printed and a copy sent to each Member for his consideration and remarks for transmission to the Colonial Secretary.
It was also agreed that His Excellency the Governor should be informed that the Board consider it inadvisable to offer any reward at present to persons reporting cases of Bubonic Plague.
Cattle Disease.-A letter-which had been circulated to Members-having reference to the destruction by fire of the carcases of animals dying at the Dairy Farm Company's premises, Pok-fu-lum, was laid on the table, and the minutes on the circulating cover read.
A discussion ensued.
It was agreed that the Dairy Farm Company be informed that the Board had not rescinded the resolution as regards the erection of a suitable apparatus for burning the carcases of such of their animals as may die or be killed, and regret that the Company have not yet erected such an apparatus. That in view of the difficulty of constructing rapidly a suitable apparatus for cremating carcases, such carcases may be towed out to sea at least ten miles from the Colony and there disposed of by sinking them with stones or other suitable material; the work to be done under the supervision of an officer of the Board.
Adjournment. The Board then adjourned.
Read and confirmed this 26th day of March, 1896.
HUGH MCCALLUM, Secretary.
FRANCIS A. COOPER,
President.