THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH OCTOBER, 1892.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 415.
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The following Minutes are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th October, 1892.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 21.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Thursday, the 29th day of September, 1892:----
PRESENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWart Lockhart), President.
The Director of Public Works, (The Honourable FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER), Vice-President.
The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY ATRES).
The Honourable Dr. Ho KAI.
NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
ABSENT:
The Captain Superintendent of Police, (Major-General ALEXANDER Herman Adam Gordon).
Dr. JAMES CANTLIE.
JOHN DAVID HUMPHREYS, Esquire.
JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.
Minutes. The minutes of a meeting held on the 15th September, 1892, were read, amended and confirmed.
Resignation of Member.-A letter dated the 29th September, 1892, from the Honourable Colonial Secretary, informing the Board that His Excellency had been pleased to accept the resignation of Mr. Woo LIN YUEN as a Member of the Board on account of ill health, was read.
Contract. The draft of the specification for the new scavenging contract for Victoria and Hill District was
considered.
Clauses 1, 4, 5, 19, 20, 22 and 24 were amended.
It was agreed that the usual steps be taken to call for tenders for the contract.
Mortality Returns.-The returns for the weeks ended the 17th and 24th September, 1892-which had been circulated to Members-were laid on the table, and a minute on the circulating cover of one of them read.
Reports.-The Surveyor's reports on the condition of the house-drains of Nos. 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 36, 38, 40, 40 and 40B, Market Street; 1 and 2, In Mi Lane; 11, 13 and 15, Tank Lane; 50, 52 and 54, Square Street; and 1, Tung Lok Lane were read.
The Honourable Director of Public Works moved,~
That the owners of the houses in question be called on to carry out the works of re-draining, etc., recommended
by the Surveyor in his reports.
Mr. N. J. EDE seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
A
Licences.-Twenty-three applications for licences and renewal of licences to keep swine were considered. The Honourable Dr. Ho KAI moved,-
A.-That the applications for the renewal of licences be granted.
B.-That the applications for new licences be not granted, and that the Surveyor be instructed to report as to the
sites on which the sties have been erected.
Mr. N. J. EDE seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
It was agreed that notices be posted in the various villages informing the villagers that before they erect sties in which to keep their pigs, they must ascertain if the sites on which they propose crecting them are suitable for the purpose.
Adjournment
The Board then adjourned till Thursday, the 13th day of October, 1892.
Read and confirmed this 13th day of October, 1892.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.
F. A. COOPER, Vice-President.