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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH AUGUST, 1894.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 301.
The following Minutes are published.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th August, 1894.
No. 20.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Thursday, the 2nd day of August, 1894.
PRESENT:
The Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Esquire), Vice-President.
The Acting Director of Public Works, (HUGH POLLOCK TOOKER, Esquire).
The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES, C.M.G.).
Surgeon-Major JAMES, A.M.S.
The Honourable Dr. Ho KAI.
ROBERT KENNAWAY LEIGH, Esquire.
Dr. WILLIAM HARTIGAN.
LAU WAI CHUN, Esquire.
ABSENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART), President. JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.
In the absence of the President, the Vice-President took the chair.
Minutes.-The minutes of a meeting held on the 19th day of July, 1894, and the minutes of a special meeting held on the 31st day of July, 1894, were read and confirmed.
Personal Explanation.-The Captain Superintendent of Police addressed the Board concerning some remarks that he made at the last ordinary meeting of the Board-when a minute of His Excellency the Governor was under con- sideration-which were liable to misconstruction, and which he wished to withdraw.
Minute.-A draft reply, prepared by a Sub-Committee of the Board, to a minute by His Excellency the Governor- which had been circulated to Members, and the minutes on the circulating cover read-was laid on the table.
Dr. HARTIGAN addressed the Board and moved,-
That the answer be modified or referred back to the Committee for amendment.
The Acting Director of Public Works seconded the motion.
The Captain Superintendent of Police addressed the Board and moved, as an amendment,-
That the letter be adopted with such amendments as may be approved by the Board at this meeting. Honourable Dr. Ho KAI seconded the amendment.
A discussion ensued.
The Board then divided on the amendment-
Mr. LEIGH.
Ayes.
Surgeon-Major JAMES.
Dr. Ho KAI.
The Colonial Surgeon.
Mr. LAU WAI CHUN.
The Captain Superintendent of Police.
Amendment carried.
Noes.
Dr. HARTIGAN.
The Acting Director of Public Works.
The Plague.-Dr. HARTIGAN, pursuant to notice, addressed the following question to the President,-
Since it appears that Hongkong itself is almost if not quite free from plague, if we except cases brought over from British Kowloon, is it not therefore in the opinion of this Board inadvisable to introduce plague patients from these districts into Hongkong, or to remove plague corpses thence for burial on this Ísland, in order that the City of Victoria may be declared free from infectious diseases at as early a date as possible?
The President replied.
Praya Reclamation.-The following motion, of which notice had been given, was introduced by Mr. LEIGH,—
That, in the opinion of this Board, it is highly expedient that steps should at once be taken to carry to a point or points beyond the line of the new Praya Wall, the sewage from the Pedder's Street, D'Aguilar Street, Pottinger Street, and any other sewers discharging into the basin formed by this section of the Praya Recla- mation Works.
The Colonial Surgeon seconded the motion.
A discussion ensued.
The Board then divided----
Mr. LEIGH.
Dr. Ho KAI.
Ayes.
The Colonial Surgeon. Mr. LAU WAI CHUN. Dr. HARTIGAN,
Noes.
The Captain Superintendent of Police. The Acting Director of Public Works. Surgeon-Major JAMES,
Motion carried.