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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, ST MARCH, 1884.
The following is a general classification of the six Groups-
DIVISION I-HEALTH.
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Group I.-FOOD AND DRINK. Selected foods and preserved food Products; the Supply and Economic Distribution of wholesome and nourishing food and drink; the Conveyance of fresh provi sions; the detection of Adulterations and Impurities; food Analyses and food Constituents; Cooking and Practical Dietetics, including varieties of diets consumed by different nations; New descriptions of food; food for the Young and for Invalids; Army and Navy rations; Prison and Workhouse diet; Domestic Economy.
Group II-DRESS FOR ALL CLIMATES FOR BOTH SEXES AND FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES.—Examples of National Costume of all classes-retrospective and modern collections; New and improved wearing apparel, and designs and materials for the same; specimens of improve- ments in the Design, Material, and the Making of clothing and cheap dresses; dress for Exercise and Sport; Uniforms; Life Saving and Fire-proof dress.
Group III-DWELLINGS FOR ALL CLASSES, their Sanitary Construction, Fittings and Appliances. Improved Materials for external and internal construction; Damp Courses; Non-Con- ductors for walls and roofs; Wall Linings and Cements; non-poisonous Paints and Paperhangings; solid Floors; Washable Materials for construction and decoration; Ventilation of houses and apartments; Air Cooling, Heating and Purifying Apparatus; Apparatus for Heating and for the Abatement of Smoke; Heating by open grates and stoves; Hot Air, Steam and Gas Apparatus; Improved Kitcheners and Gas Cooking Stoves; Lighting by Gas and Electricity, Fittings and Apparatus for the same; Fire Prevention-Extincteurs, Hydrants, Escapes, Preservative Solutions; Water Supply, and Improved Sanitary Fittings connected therewith-Meters, Cisterns, Filters, Softening Apparatus, Baths and Lavatory Apparatus and Fittings; House Drains, their construction and ventilation Closets; Sewer disconnection, Sinks, Traps, Gullics; the disposal and utilization of House Refuse.
Group IV.--SCHOOLS. Buildings for town and country Schools; Yards and Playgrounds for Schools; Fittings for school Latrines and Lavatories; Heating, Lighting, and Ventilation of schools; Apparatus for physical training, Gymnasia; school Kitchens; Storing of hats, cloaks, etc.: Drying the same in wet weather; isolation of Diseases in schools; school Infirmaries.
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Group V.--WORKSHOPS AND FACTORIES. Models and designs for improved Workshops, especially those in which unhealthy, noxious or dangerous trades and processes are carried on; Improved Apparatus and Plant for the same; Guards, Screens, Special Dresses, and objects for personal wear to prevent injury from manufacturing processes. Illustrations of Special Diseases and Deformities caused by unwholesome trades and occupations; Means of guarding against the same; New Inventions or improvements for the better carrying on of dangerous or unhealthy processes of manufacture; Models, Diagrams, &c.
DIVISION II.-EDUCATION.
Group VI--EDUCATIONAL WORKS AND APPLIANCES. Apparatus and Fittings for Créches and Infant Schools; Appliances for Teaching; Kindergarten Models, and Examples and Results of Instruction; Primary School Fittings and Apparatus; Examples and Models for Teaching Practical Manual work to Girls, and various Handicrafts to Boys; Apparatus and Models for Science Teaching; Apparatus and Models for Art Teaching; Designs and Fittings for Apprenticeship and Industrial Schools; Apparatus for Instruction in such Schools; Specimens of Work done in these Schools; Schools for the Blind and for the Deaf and Dumb; Apparatus and Results of Teaching in such Schools..
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It is proposed to arrange, in connection with some of the above classes, COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS, illustrating, among other subjects, the Dwellings of the Poor; the care in the Dwelling for the Welfare of the Children and of the Sick; Model Nurseries; Sleeping Apartments; completely fitted Kitchens ; fully equipped Gymnasia for adults and for the young; Model Laboratories and Collections for Health- Teaching; Model Schools; Workshops, &c., and also Collections having reference to especial trades.
It is also proposed to hold, in June or July next, an INTERNATIONAL Congress on each of the main Sections of the Exhibition-Health and Education.
LECTURES will be given, and CONFERENCES will be held on the various Subjects illustrated in or cognate with the Exhibition; they will be explained by practical Demonstrations and Experiments. Reports on each group will be issued.
PROCESSES will be shewn in actual operation, and PRACTICAL TESTS will, from time to time, be made of the inventions subinitted to the Juries.