319
PROSECUTIONS.
The following is a list of prosecutions instituted under the authority of the Sanitary Board during the year 1903:—
Offence.
Summonses.
Convic- tions.
Penalties.
Remarks.
Attempting to bribe officers,
1 $
CA:
25
Breaches of Bye-laws :
Bakehouses,
35
35
359
Cattle & Swine,
Dairies,
Latrines & Privies,.
23
Matsheds,
18
Offensive Trades,
**
Public Laundries,
Verandahs,
Damaging grave,
Dirty premises,
Failing to cleanse and limewash,
up
14
awa
6
15
3
3
40
23
239
18
395
5
5
50
13
63
8
8
17
1
1
260
258
996
450
433
2,299
1 Dismissed.
3 Weeks hard labour.
1 Absconded, 1 withdrawn,
8 Dismissed, 9 withdrawn.
to fill rat runs,
64
63
260
1 Withdrawn.
to provide backyards,
32
30
447
2 Withdrawn.
27
to repair kitchens,
8
80
*
to repair or concrete surfaces,..
78
64
292
6 Dismissed, 8 withdrawn.
Illegal cubicles,
62
62
364
cockloft,
37
36
185
1 Withdrawn.
Insufficient window area,
1
1
Nuisances on Crown Land,
1
1
"
""
private premises,
17
17
89
"
public streets,
2
2
7
Obstructing backyards,..
5
37
windows,
18
1 Dismissed.
Occupation of basement,
infected premises,.
Overcrowding Common Lodging Houses,
Opium Divans,
Tenement houses,
Removing infected articles,
Sleeping on cocklofts,
22
20
87
1 Absconded, I withdrawn.
3
3
1
23
18
186
2 Absconded, 3 withdrawn.
1
1
5
59
49
316
7 Absconded, 3 withdrawn.
1
1
60
15
"
in common kitchens,
1
1
10
Unregistered Common Lodging Houses,
11
11
65
Total,..
1,258
1,202
$ 7,032
STAFF.
At the beginning of the year the special Plague Staff was sanctioned and at once formed. Inspectors L. E. BRETT, F. FISHER, W. H. WOOLLEY, J. REIDIE and F. ALLEN were appointed special Plague Inspectors under this scheme and Inspector W. FINCHER was appointed Acting Plague Inspector in charge of the work at Kowloon.
As the work increased with the increasing number of cases of plague per week the staff was augmented by temporarily engaged men.
The best of these temporarily engaged men were as vacancies occurred in the ordinary staff transferred to this staff.
Some of the temporary Plague Inspectors were so unsatisfactory that it was thought better not to engage such men in the future but to increase the number of Foremen continuously on the Plague Staff so that they could be better trained by and be under the control of the Plague Inspectors.
Dr. CLARK, Medical Officer of Health, went on leave to England in March and Dr. BARNETT, Assistaut Medical Officer of Health, arrived from England in April. Dr. MACFACLANE, Assistant Medical Officer of Health, arrived from England in September and has been appointed Assistant Medical Officer of Health at Kowloon.