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ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE.
HONGKONG BRANCH PRIZE PRESENTATION.
His Excellency the Governor, who was accompanied by Lady Lugard, presided at the annual distribution of prizes of the Hongkong branch of the Royal Sanitary Institut he'd in the City Hall on February 5th. There were seated with their Excellencies at a table at the head of St. Andrew's Hall Hoo. Dr. J. M. Atkinson, president of the Hongkong Brauch, Mr. Halphs, secretary, Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, Dr. F. Clark. Mr, T. Perkins, Mr. A. H. Ough and Mr. A. J. Brackenbury. The body of the hall was also well file when Dr. ATKINSON opened the proceedings. He said :
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Your Excellency, Gentleman-As Chairman of the Board of Examiners I thought it would prove of interest to review the work accom- plished by the local branch of the Royal Sa- i- tary Institute since its formation five years ago. The first leotare in connection with this move. ment was given at Queen's College on the 13th January 1903. Since then a regular winter course has been held; up to the end of Jannary 209 lectures have been delivered, the attendants at which number.d 3441, giving an average of 16.46 per lecture. In addition to the lectures many practical demonstrations have been given at the Cattle Depot and Slaughter Houses Kennedy Town by Mr. Gibson and at the Disinfecting Station by Drs. Clark and Pearse. Visits have also been paid to the New Kowloon Waterworks, the Tytam Waterworks, Green Island Cement Works, Aberdeen Brick and Tile Works, Electrio Power Station Wanchai, Pokfulam Dairy Farm and to new buildings in course of construction etc. Lectures on Engineering and practical subjects have been delivered by the following gentlemen Messrs. Ough, Gibbs, Partius, Jackman, Lemo, Wright, Jaffe, Biden and Bryan. On medical subjects by:-Dre. Atkinson, Clark, Hunter, Pearse, Thomson, Barnett Moore, and fan ders; also by Lieats. Craig and Ryley of the Royal Army Medical Corps. The following gentlemen have lectured on Food Inspection- Captains Fitzwilliams & Shinkwin, Mr. Gibeon, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, and Dr. Clark. Messrs. Rees, Darby and Grey of the P.W.D. have lectured on surveying The practical sanitary science examination is for those who have no intention of becoming sanitary officers yet desire to obtain from the Institute a oerli- ficate indicating their knowledge of Sanitary Science. The Council have arranged a Sylla- bas which although not including many technic-l subjects that an Inspector is required to know, is of a higher standard than the Inspec. tors Examination as far as relates to practical Sanitation. The following candidates have passed since the formation of the local brazoh:- P. L. Cunningham, Naval Yard Extension Works, R. E. Hemmings (Messrs. Lei,b and Orange), J. Lemm, Architect, A. P. Samy, Architect, J. W. hite, Surveyor War Department, A. R. F. Raveo, Architect, H. E. Goldsmith, Publio Works Department,; P. T. Lamble, Sanitary Department, A. N. Parker, Public Works Department, H. J. Gidley late of Sanitary Department. Number of Ex- aminations heli 5; total number of andidates 21; total number successful 10; percentage of passes 47.61.
[February 8, 1908.
J. T. Longstaff and S. R. Boyde The fol. | man who are still doing their work and earn. lowing officers of the R. A. M. C. have also ing their salaries. These are very great been successful: Sergeant Majr Hutton. advantares. The Hongkong Branch, too, has Sergeants Williams nd Jones. I may also led the way in adopting that great principle s'ate that several o ndidates from the Army of affiliation with institutions in England, are attending the present cours of lectures, which I think is of immense advantage to the The following candidates in private employ Colonies, and of which I should like myself to have passed the Examination: -Mesra. R, see the Colonies take much more advantage. Bennett, Naval Yard Erension Works; G. It is the principle which underlies the Oxford Morphew, Messrs. Batterfield and Swire; C. Local Examinations which we bave in our Killington, Naval Yard; J. B. Winter, schools here; it is the principle upon which the Hongkong Gas Company, In all there have Hongkong College of Medicine intends to been 39 candidates, 26 of whom were successful, frame ita fatura; and it is, as Dr. Atkinson a percentage of 66.6 passes. The number of said, the princiole which hope will find sti'l candidates examined by the Royal Sanitary further expression in the Hongkong University Institute at London in 1906, is 992; number of of the future (applause). The Sanitary Depart- presed, 491, 1947 returns are not to hand The mant of the Government absorbs a great deal o following officers of the Sanitary Department the revenue of the Colony, and consequently has passed the Exanination for Inspector of Nui. a very considerable staff, and there are architects, sances during leave of absenos in England builders and others in the Colony who also Messrs. L. Brett, F. Fisher, E. Allen and require certificated engineers, and the number H. J. Knight; so that out of a staff of 30 of these appointments offers inducements to European Inspectors 19 DOW hold these candidates to onme and learn, and obtain diplomas. The Government in order to certificates at this branch of the Royal encourage the Inspectors obtaining these Sanitary Institution. I think therefore that certificates refund the fees of the success- the governing body of the Board of ful candidates, and next to a knowledge Examiners of the Hongkong Branch may of Chinese Colloquial, in considering the feel that they are rendering a great public question of promotion from one class to another, benefit to the Colony, and I think that our priority is given to those who possess the thanks are most heartily due to the body of oertificate. The local branch is now established gentlemen who give their time and thought in a suitable room at 7 Beaconsfield Arcade, gratuitously, without any remuneration, to con- where members can study. It is here that the dusting these lectures day by day on these lectures are given and we have the nucleus of a difficult subjects (applause). When I look, so 【 Ibrary there. Another important fact is that | did just now, at this syllabus of lectures, the dif- it is now self-supporting. Generally speaking ferant themes of the lecturers appear to me to be the work of the Institute has been well supported so practical and so sound that I honestly wish I and the local branch has done good work jadg. had the time myself to be admitted and to ing by the fact that 36 certificates have been come and leard some of these things aud gained since the starting of the movement, endeavour to obtain a certificate (applause). Mr. Carter is still the life and soul of the I will not speak to you, gentlemen, now, on branch, he has all along had the interests of the the necessity of encouraging sanitation in branch at heart and has done all in his power to Hongkong: I will not give you a dis- foster it. Our thanks are due especially to him course on the lessons to be learned from and a's to our local Secretary, Mr. Ralphs. A the great ontbreak of plague or of the great new departure has recently been made whereby value of having an object lesson here in Hong. lectures on special subjects shall be delivered kng for China. All these are great subjects, at the room of the Institute by competent but they have grown somewhat hackneyed and lecturers. These are opn to any one to you have heard them discussed by speakers attend, e.g., a course of sir lectures
who have more fuency than I have, "Stresses and strains in framed steel struc- I will only refer briefly to the labours of tures "is to be given by Mr. J. C. Joughio, the Sanitary Commission who have spat Assistant Naval Constructor, H. M. Naval Yard, their private time and laid this Colony commencing on Friday next at 9.15 pm. andar a great debt of gratitude to them. We have all lately been dreaming dre ms and
You have heard, no doubt, a great deal of dis- when the Hongkong University is established
aussing on their report, and I ova tell you you Incal College of Medicins for the Chinese affi we may bope to see this Institute as well as the are likely to hear a good deal mors within the Dext week or two. There is only one point liated to it. i would now ask Your Excellency which I will allude to before I sit down, and it is to present the certificates. There are twelve in that I will say to these gentleman. I have just all, seven were obtained at the May Examinati a had the banour and pleasure of presenting with last year and five at the October Examination: these certificates, that in their groster wealth -Sanitary Science Examination: Mr. Albert of sanitary knowledge they should not lose Victor Parker, Public Works Department. sight of the saving grace of common 88 DRA Inspectors of Nuisances Examination:- (^pplanse). I think that sensible tolarstion is Meners. Joseph Albert Ballen, Hary Counts, the most valuable sense a man can have; our Thomas Hynes, Robert Gardiner McEwen, ideal are good, but not always maay to Charles Walter Thornton Bret (Sanitary realise. By the exercise of Dept.), John Mackay and Samuel Robert Bayi tact, A little give and (P.W.D.). George Willis, (Police Force) often schiava results that are more Alu- Sergeant Major Hatton and Sergeants Walterable than all the rules of the text books. Henry Jones. Harry Williams (R.A,M.C.) may obtain these results without wounding the
At the request of Dr. Atkinson the Governor then presented the prizes.
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prejudices of others. It is your basins here to endeavour to impress apon the Chinesa HIS EXCELLENCY, at the conclusion of th community the valus of sanitation, and to Sanitary Inspectors Examination. With presentation, said - Ladies and gentlemen, It is try to get them to work with us, and reference to this Framination a practical as some years now since certificates which have not to work against as WA wish well as a theoretical knowledge with the subjects been won by students of the Hongkong make the Chinese gentlemen of intelligence set out in the Syllabus is required and the Local Branch of the Royal Sanitary Institute have and stan ing co sperate with us in our work of Government Board Londen, accept this certi.
b-en distributed publicly. The sat occrsion
*auitation. We wish to get them to show as ficate as evidence that the person possessing it is
WAR. I think, in 1944, and on that ocession my
the right way to put a stop, for instance, to the qualified for the office of Inspector of Nuisances predecessor made a long speech in which he to d abandoning of bodies in our public streets. I in any urban or rural district outside London; you generally of the objects of the institation hat, a day or two ago, A return made it is also recognised by the Local Govern- and the work which had been done, It was in of the number of bodies abandoned within ment Board Edinburgh and the similar insti- į stituted in 1903 on the suggestion of Mr. Carter, the 1t precedig days, The number was 38. tution in Dublin, The following officers of the
and it took shape owing to the energy and
and out of that just about ons half had died Sanitary Department have passed the Examia-organising ability of its president, Dr. Atkin of infectious diseases, Tha', gentlemen, is a ation for Inspector of Nuisances since the and of various other members of the Body "tanding reproach to this Colony, and I am formation of the brauch. J. Reidie, W. H. of Examiners, many of whom are still on the convinced we shall never uncosed in putting Woolley, G. W. Caysh, O. W. Ward, R. Board. I think gelem-n, that the value of a stop to it until w⋅ get the co-operation of the Duncan, C. E. Frith, D. J. Mckenzie, 1. J. an institution like this, s ́iated to a great | Chinese, sad
get them to show as how O'Halloran, R. G. Mo Ewen, H. Coombs, J.institution in England is immense. The carti we can stop
this thing without wound. C. W. Brett, T. Hynes, J. Mackay (sinos ficates can be obtainal here, and are recognised jng their penjalices and violating the snotity transferred to P. W. D.; G. Willis, (since throughout the British Empire, and they of domestic life. That is why I my by yoɑ transferred to Police Dept.); H. J. Gidley, 8.
be obtained without the expense of a that I hope those who have gained all the M. Gidley, (who have left the Colony). The
royage home and without the cost of technicsi knowledge which is represented following officers of the Public Works Depart. taltion in England. They can be obtained | br these certificates will boar in mind ment have passed this Examination :-Messrse in their leisure hours of the evening by the that a very great deal can be done by
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