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the chlorinated lime). Floors and furniture are then scrubbed with solution of Jeyes' fluid and the walls are then lime-washed, chlorinated lime being added to the lime-wash in the proportion of lb. to the gallon.
6. Burial of the Dead. This is carried out under the superintendence of one of the Board's Officers, all bodies being buried at the Kennedytown Plague Cemetery, unless a special permit has been granted for burial elsewhere.
7. General Sunitary Precautions.--Chlorinated lime is supplied to all the public latrines for use in the buckets, and the officers of the Board are instructed to see that it is freely used.
A reward of 2 cents per head has been offered since January 16th for every rat brought to an officer of the Board, and some 25,000 rats have by this means been collected and destroyed.
FRANCIS W. CLARK,
SIR,
HONGKONG, June, 1900.
Medical Officer of Health,
Enclosure F.
SANITARY BOARD OFFICES,
HONGKONG, 21st July, 1899.
I have the honour to submit the following report for the information of the Select Committee of of the Sanitary Board, appointed to consider the question of the adequacy of the present Staff.
The City of Victoria is divided into ten Health Districts, the smallest of which has a built-over arca of 23 acres and the largest of 531 acres; Kowloon Peninsula is similarly divided into two
Health Districts.
The average population of each of the City Health Districts is 16,425 and the average number of domestic buildings is 768 or about 2,000 floors to each district, each floor being a separate dwell- ing for one or more families.
Each Health District is in charge of au Inspector of Nuisances whose duties comprise the su- pervision of the scavenging and conservancy of that district; the scavenging work is performed by coolies, who are supplied with Dust Carts and baskets, and who work under the supervision of a Fortuguese, or Indian Foreman in each of the City Health Districts. Each District Inspector is re- quired to be about his District between the hours 5.30 a.m. to 8.00 a.m. in the summer and 6.00 a.m. to 9.00 a.m. in the winter, to see that the scavenging work is properly carried out.
During the forenoon the District Inspectors are required to visit the Bakeries, Lodging Houses, Opium Divaus, Offensive business premises, Laundries, Cattlesheds, Latrines and Urinals in their District and during the afternoon a systematic inspection has to be made of the District, in such a manner that evey floor of every house in the District is visited at least once in every two months. It is as much as the District Inspectors can manage to get this house-to-house visitation work into the two months' limit and they are required to send in a daily report showing the houses so visited. by them and a record of all the nuisances and illegal structures observed in those buildings.
There are five first class Inspectors of Nuisances in the City of Victoria each of whom has the supervision of two Health Districts, and the daily reports of the District Inspectors which contain mention of nuisances or of illegal structures, are referred to them to deal with the nuisances and see that they are at once abated. The First Class Inspectors also have to supervise the six-monthly cleansing and limewashing of all tenement houses, the investigation of all uncertified deaths, the supervision of the Chinese and non-Chinese cemeteries, the supervision of the Rubbish Depôt at Tsun Wan Bay, the supervision of the Peak Sanitary District, and the institution of all prosecutions.
The duties of the Chief Inspector of Nuisances will be mainly supervisory and I have already arranged that he should accompany the various District Inspectors on their rounds of house-to-house visitation.
I beg now to direct the attention of the Committee to the following matters which in my opinion cannot be adequately dealt with by the present Staff and which, it may well be argued, are entitled to receive more attention in the future than it has been possible to give them in the past.