502
NEW BUILDINGS.
7. Certificates have been granted during the year under Section 84 of Ordinance 13 of 1901 for 37 new houses certifying that they have been built in accordance with the provi- sions of that Ordinance.
CEMETERIES.
8. The whole of the bodies dead of Plague during the year, with the exception of 5 buried at Kennedy Town, have been buried at Cheung Sha Wan Cemetery.
At the end of the year terraces were in readiness for the reception of about 150 bodies. A small space is still reserved at Kennedy Town Cemetery for any emergency that may
arise.
Eight new terraces have been formed in Sec. C of Mount Davis Cemetery and have been utilized almost to their full extent.
This cemetery was closed on December 31st, 1906.
Eight new terraces have been formed in Mount Caroline Cemetery, viz., 5 in Sec. B. and 3 in Sec. C.
A new cemetery has been laid out at Kai Lung Wan and 20 terraces formed, viz., 7 in Sec. A, 9 in Sec. B, and 4 in Sec. C.
PROSECUTIONS.
9. The following is a return of the prosecutions instituted by me during the year.
Offence.
Summons.
Convictions.
Penalties.
Remarks.
Contravention of Sec. 191,.
Do.
3
3
Bye-law 32,
1
1
$120
5
4
$125
J. J. BRYAN,
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Table A.
DRAINAGE AND RE-DRAINAGE.
Year.
No. of houses received.
No. of houses
drained.
No. of houses cancelled.
Total.
No. in hand,
Quarter.
1st,.
60
Carried forward from 1905 } 2nd, and dealt with in 1906) 3rd,
4th,
8925
15
10
67
36
189
30
219
152
1st,..
30
Received and dealt with in) 2ud,
1906,
43
3rd,
23
**
4th,
27
33
43
80
123
40
Total,.
342
192
40
232
110