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No. 12.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH APRIL, 1895.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a special meeting held on Monday, the 22nd day of April, 1895.
PRESENT:
The Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Esquire), Vice-President.
The Director of Public Works, (The Honourable FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER).
ROBERT KENNAWAY LEIGH, Esquire.
JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.
The Honourable Dr. IIO KAI.
Dr. WILLIAM HARTIGAN.
ABSENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART), President.
The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES, C.M.G.).
NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
In the absence of the President, the Vice-President presided.
The Vice-President stated that the meeting had been called on a requisition sigued by Mr. J. J. FRANCIS, Q.C., Mr. R. K. LEIGH, the Honourable Dr. Ho KAI and Dr. HARTIGAN.
Plague in Macao.--Read a letter from the Honourable the Colonial Secretary addressed to the Chairman of the Permanent Committee, dated the 22nd instant, forwarding letters of the same date from the Captain Superintendent of Police and Inspector QUINCEY on the subject of the epidemic of plague in Macao, and the number of deaths from that disease alleged to have occurred in a certain brothel in that city, and reporting the immigration of a number of prostitutes from that Colony.
Mr. FRANCIS, Q.C., moved--
That a letter be forwarded to the Colonial Secretary conveying the recommendation of the Board that as the Colony is threatened with an infectious disease the Government be asked to declare by proclamation that the provisions contained in sections 32 to 37 of "The Public Health Ordinance, 1887,” both inclusive, be put în force in the Colony.
Dr. Ho KAI seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
The Director of Public Works did not vote.
The Vice-President addressed the Board and moved→→
That the Board do again urge the Government to take steps to prevent the immigration of Chinese from Macao. Mr. FRANCIS seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Dr. Ho KAI addressed the Board and moved--
That in addition to the prevention of immigration from Macao, strict medical examination of all passengers coming into this Colony from Canton and places on the Canton River and all places to the South and South- West of this Colony be at once instituted and continued.
Mr. FRANCIS seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
Health Officer.-Mr. FRANCIS addressed the Board on the subject of the appointment of an Acting Health Officer, and tendered his resignation as a Member of the Permanent Committee. He also signified his intention to place his resigna- tion as a Member of the Board in the hands of the rate-payers.
Dr. HARTIGAN and Mr. R. K. LEIGH addressed the meeting and stated, that unless the Health Officer was placed under its orders they could no longer continue to be Members of the Board.
Dr. Ho KAI addressed the Board and moved--
That a letter be addressed to the Colonial Secretary asking that His Excellency the Governor be pleased to make an order directing the Medical Officer of Health not only to advise the Board but to assist the Board in the carrying out of its various executive duties, and at all times to place his services at the disposal of the Board so that by resolutions the Board can delegute to him part or any of its powers, duties or functions; and further that the Governor be requested to place the Medical Officer of Health in the same position as far as practicable in relation to this Board as a Health Officer is at home to the Sanitary Authority of his
district.
The Director of Public Works seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned.
Read and confirmed this 25th day of April, 1895.
F. H. MAY,
Vice-President.
HUGH MCCALLUM, Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 183.
The following Returns are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th April, 1895.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary,