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CEMETERIES.
Last year was not a severe plague year, so that there were fewer terraces required to be formed. All plague bodies were buried at Cheung Sha Wan Ce- metery, and at the end of the year, there were terraces formed in readiness for the plague season to take about 500 bodies.
A small space in the Kennedy Town Cemetery is also reserved for plague bodies, at times when it is impossible to convey the bodies to the Cheung Sha Wan Cemetery during typhoons.
New terraces have been formed in Mount Davis Cemetery in Sections A and C, and terraces that were incompleted in Mount Caroline Cemetery at the end of 1903 have been completed. Terraces for a
Terraces for a single row of bodies bave since been made in preference to double rows as being more economical on the steep
hill sides.
PROSECUTIONS.
9. The following is a return of the prosecutions instituted by ine during the
year :-
Offences.
Summonses. Convictions. Penalties.
Remarks.
Drainage nuisance on private pro-
53
45
perty,
Failure to comply with order of
Magistrates,
2
$378
35
8 withdrawn.
Total,.........
Frar.
55
47
$413
8 withdrawn.
Table A.
No. of
Houses rercived.
No. of Houses
drained.
No. of Houses ́cancelled.
Total.
No. of Houses
in hand.
1904 Quarter.
Carried forward. from
1st,
26
26
2nd,
29
18
47
1903 and dealt
with in 1904,
3rd,
14
14
4th,
33
33
211
102
18
120
91
1st.
104
14
14
Received and dealt
2nd,
47
21
10
31
with in 1904,
3rd,
54.
20
20
4th,
91
40
1.
41
296
35
95
106
190
Total,
Year.
507
197
88
29
226
281
Table B.
Reccivcil.
Passed. Cancelled.
Total.
In hund.
1904 Quarter.
1st,
Carried forward from
2nd,
10
1903 and dealt
3rd,
with in 1904,
4tb,
19
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5
8
33
42
:
42
16
r 1st,
46
Received and dealt.) 2nd,
78
39
with in 1904,
3rd,
90
54
4th,
52
80
5: w
16
266
173
19
192
74
Total,
324
215
19
234
90
05