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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1932.
SANITARY DEPT.
REPORT.
FACTS AND FIGURES FOR 1931.
At an examination held locally on 14th January, 1932, seven, inspectors were recommended for the Royal Institute certificates n's Sanitary luspectors.
Every inspector (with the excep tion of two rcently joined men) now holds this certificate.
H.K. ASSESSMEN
SECOND LARGEST INCREASE ON RECORD.
DEVELOPMENT ON THE
MAINLAND.
In his report on the Assessment. of the Colony for the year 1932-1991, the Colonial Treasurer states:
CORRESPONDENCE.
[All letters intended for publi cution must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, nut. for publication, usiems so desired, but as evidence of good faith.-ED. }
HONG KONG WATER SUPPLY.
DAILY PRESS."}
St-Two points dealing with the history of the water supply of Hong Kong have recently come to my notice.
The following excerpts are taken from the report for 1031" by the Head of the Sanitary Department:
The establishment was increased by two second class inspectors. The numbers of inspectors on duty By Order nt His Excellency the TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG on 1st January, 1st July and 31st Governor-in-Council a Now Valun- December were 49, 45 and 48, res-
tion of the whole Colony has been pectively (Senior Inspectors includ.mado and the Rateable Value has ed).
thereby been
from increased 835,071,800 to $37,487,723, an addi- tion of $2,396.159 or 6.90 per cent.
The increase in the valuation of the City of Victorin is partly due to the great amount of building that has been carried out of the new Praya East Reclamation, aug mented by the Gloucester Building. On the same date, seven inspeethe King's Theatre Building, the tors (out of seven entrants) were National City Bank and the re- recommended for the Royal Sani-opening of the old King Edward tary Institute certificate in Sanitary Hotel "Building, nowa enlled the Science, Including these sove, Chung Tin Building, fifteen inspectors now hold this In the argus inluded under certifiente.
"Hong Kong Villngry there has Five inspectors hold the Royal been considerable building activity Sanitary stitute certificate as In-at Wongheichung, including the spectors of Ment and other Foods.
Jockey Club's Stables, and also at With three exceptions, all inspec-Tai Hang and Tunglowan, tora possess the 1st certificate ir Cantonese colloquial and with six exceptiona texelusive of three newly joined men all hold the End certi heute. Five hold, the 3rd and one
holds the 4th.
Administration,
Kowidon Development.
In the Case of Kowloon the in grease is partly due to new flats at Kowloon Point, Chinese tenement oases at Mong Kok and the now buildings at the Cement Works.
lu New Kowloon there has been The whole of the urban markets a remarkable development at Sham- were brought under the control of shuipo which now extends right up special market inspretors, one on to the Taipe Bend, and a certain ither side of the harbour, acting amount of building has take place ander the immediate supervision of jat Kowloon City on the new, layout. The total increase of $2.386,150 is the Colonial, Veterinary Surgedn.
A copy of the Census Report for 1931 has been sent me and in it I find the question of the greator water consumption per head in Hong Kong, than in Kowloon, is dealt with, and four far-fetched reas are brought forward to he- count for it. The real reason is that, in Hong Kong witter is laid into Chinese tenement houses while in Kowloon is is not. It is of course anomalous that Hong Kong with its restricted area should have better facilitics for wasting water then Kowloon but the explanation is simple enough.. The ruie waA made before the New Territory was lensed.
The Kowloon gathering ground was then very smal
The second point appears in the report of the recent Retrenchment The administrative machinery was the largest increase that has been
made i ny year, with the excep- Commission In the extracts you otherwise unchanged.
"Preliminary arrangementa were tion of the 1923-20 assessment, which mede for the carving out of three reflected the great increase in pro-give from that report the following additional health distries (one inperty values due to the building appeurs :- the Eastern end of the City and boem of 1924-1925. two in the Kowloon Peninsula) with avica to their being established on 1st January, 1039. As from that date, the number of health districts become-
Hong Kong (including. Peak
and Aberdeen). Kowloon al
Refuse Collection.
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In the ten years from 1922-1943. to 1929-1983 the rateable value of the Colony has increased by $17.031,796 or 80.32 per cent..
the
The large development on Praya East Reclamation has had the effect of drawing a number of tenants from various parts of the Cisy, with a consequent steadying tendency on the rentals of fats. It The department has, at its dise remarkable how the rows of new posal for refuge collection and re- moral, 22 motor lorries of which 14 are employed in Hong Kong and 9 in Kowloon towing tugs, ateam lighter, 7 drep druit, and light draft lighters and 3 smiling janks.
The contractors for the removal of nightanil frem Victoria and the Kowloon Peninsula, Shaukiwan, Aberdeen, Pokfulam and Aplichau, and Stanley and Taitam, respective. ly carried out their work entisfac torily.
Dead Boxes and, Ambulances. Dead boxes are obtainable at any hour of the day or night at the two Disinfecting Stations and also by day at the Eastern and Western District Sanitary Offices.
The Departinent maintains a re serve of hand ambulances on behalf of the Public Ambulance Service controlled by the Inspector-General
of Police,
Births and Deaths Registration, The following births, and deaths were registered dining the year :-
Chinese Non-Chinese
hoitses
on this reclamation have gradually filled up, the ground Boors, however, being more difficult to let than the upper floors. The demand for housing accommodation is much stronger than that for trade premises.
ADVERTISING AGENCY
FINED.
ILLEGAL ERECTION OF
HOARDINGS.
The Universal Advertising Agency of the Bank of East Asin building, were the defendants in a case which came before Mr. Schofield yesterday when they were summoned for erect- ing advertisement boardings at Causeway Bay, opposite the South China Athletic Association Bathing Club without permission from the authorities.
As & commencement the Commis- sioners recommend the severance from the Public Works Department of the two Waterworks offices, and Construction. Maintenance
One of the reasons why the water question has been so mismanaged in the past is because the head of the Waterworks Department has been only one (albeit an important ono), of twelve other sub-depurt- mental heads competing for the time and attention of the Director of Public Works, with the result that his views have failed to filter through to the Chief Excentive:
The Commisaicners. realize that their proposal to set up anew de- partment may appear to be the re- the verse of retrenchment, hut money spent, in order to bring water to the Colony, and to store it during the drought of 1920, kuf- fciently demonstrates the result of neglecting this all important ques- tion. They feel strongly that a settled programme" should be pre- pared and definitely adhered to, so that there shall be no recurrence of
Mr. A. Hollands of the P.W.D., the untoward happenings of that who prosecuted, stated that the ad- Births. Deathsvertisement was for a certain brand. year. There is a full top year's 12,055 18,570 of Chinese tea. The merchants paid programme in front of the depart
87 a month for the erectior of the ment. hoarding.
388
977
Total 1,433 18,797
Child Vaccination.
"
The Vaccination Ordinance No. 12 of 1024 was amended so as to require parents to get their child- ren vaccinated during the summer months equally with the winter and 97 as to get them varrinated within six weeks instead of, as hitherto. six months of birth
His Worship fined the defendants 83 and made an order for the hoardings to be taken down within 48 hours.
Opportunity should be taken of the re-organization of the adminis. tration of the Waterworks office, to put upon a proper basis. The gallon of water should be sold as a com- mercial article; sufficient being. bine, private premises, etc., taking them to the Public Mortuary charged to cover its cost of produc- for examination. Special campaigns tion. As a corollary there will be no water rate, except for water in March and September were un dertaken when rat poison was disrequired for public purposes such as tributed throughout the urban dis tricts. The total number of rate caught was:-
Hong Kong Kowloun
Bnd
88,737
****** 71,091 Of these none were found to be plague infected.
Samples of fresh milk
were
street cleansing,-no free allowance, and the rider main system will have to be abandoned,
The mismanagement" of the "water question refers, I take it, to the numerous water famines which have occurred in Hong Kong aise public water works were first built
Esport by H.O.H. Sanitary Nuisances and Contra ventions of Sanitary By-laws:-of the total number of nuisances re- parted in which action was taken almost 70 per cent were abated after receipt of a letter. In 112 cuses a legal notice failed to pro- submitted for analysis under "see duce compliance. Of the summonecstion 19 of the Food and Drugs Or
The Hong Kong Water Works which followed, 108 secured convic-dinance, of which 5 were found to tions, 4 were discharged and with- pass the standard and 18 to be be generally been just a few years he bind the times and it is apparently drawn.
low standard.
In eight of these cases succdas-thought that with a separate Water House cleansing was carried on continuously on live mornings a ful prosecutions followed, in one Department this would not occur. week throughout the year by the case a warning was issued, in theThis may be so, but the facts do The staff. The privilege of permitting remaining seven cases no action was not support the assumption.
taken as the amount of adultera first water famine I remember was certain occupants of premises to carry out house cleansing at their tion was so slight as to be in all in the spring of 1801 when water own convenience was continued and probability due to accidental connd drainage works were a separate
tamination. Further extended during the year. The terms and canditions under which this concession was granted were, generally...complied with.
Prevention of Mosquito Breeding. During the year action was taken in two hundred had eighty-eight cases of mosquito quizance or poten tial mosquito nuisance.
Licensed Premises.-Four hundred and suventy-nine premises were in- spected by officers of the depart ment with a view to the issue of new licences. Routine inspections of two thousand one hundred and seventeen licensed premises were made throughout the year.
Rat Catching.-Thirty members of the Cleansing Staff were employ- ed during the year netting traps, bird-lima boards did rat poison, also collecting rats from street fat (Continued on next column.)
department, entirely independent of the Public Works Department. Report by Acting Colonial
Tytam Reservoir had just been Veterinary Burgeon.
put into use. A Water Works There was a notable rise in the Ordinance had been brought he number of animals slaughtered at foro the Legislative Council. This Ma Tau Kok.ns compared with last Ordinance contained a provision year. This was due to the growth that all supplies should be meter. ed. The public, through its un of population in the Kowloon arca
Cattle: The total number of official members, protested against eattle admined to Kennedy Town any restriction on what was thought during 1931 was 55,716 against. to be an unlimited supply. A weak WDY. Water $7,300 in 1930. At Ma Tau Kok Government gave 13,097 were admitted against, 10,277 famines followed.
The immediate cases of in 1930.
1020 were, that the Swine.The total number admitt trouble in ed to Kennedy Town was 311,422 Tytaan Tuk scheme had not been Cecil that Sir against 307,513 in 1030 The total completed and number admitted at Ma Tau Kok Clementi, shortly after his arrival was-198,073 against 194,544 in 1830 as Governor in Hong Kong, had Sheep and Goats: The total stopped work on the harbour pipe I may here quote a letter number admitted to Kennedy Town line.
I wrote in criticism of certain was 31,083 against 27,131 in 1930,
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statements made at the Legislative Council Meeting when the stoppage of the latter work was announced.
My letter was dated November 8th, 1986, and is as follows:- To the Editor of the
Hong Kong Daily Press, Sir,-Some statements recently made on this questier prompt the following remarks:-
corres-
It has been suggested that the water to be obtained from the Shing Mun Valley issuing from. hu perennial spring and not sub- ject to the caprice of rainfall " constitutes a more reliable supply than that obtaining from other sources. This is a mistake. In Hong Kong all screen are sub jeet to the caprice of rainfall; in a dry winter perennial springs and the streams they supply are roduced in amount. The advan tage of the Shing Mun site is that its collecting area is large and its perennial spring' pondingly large; the disadvantage that it is not well supplied with good reservoir sites. If you can get the same area on Hong Kong island you can get just about the same amount of water from it. "Sir Henry May's unfortunata statement at the inauguration of the Tytam Tuk reservoir has come in for some criticism. It is over looked, and Sir Henry May ap ...pears to have overlooked, that the entchwaters which were to have brought the water to all were not made; the reservoir even now they are only partly made Fortunately, we have not sinco 1818 had anything like so dry a year or series of years ag past experience proves we may expect soonry or later.
The driest year since 1918 was 1022 with 00 inches, in 1893 we had only 40 inches and for the three years 1800-1901 a mean of only 67 inches a year. However, Bir
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Henry May's staterdent was un-
it doubtedly unfortunate ahould have been qualified by information as to the increase of povulation allowed for. Another point raised is that in periodic water famines it in the poor Chinese who suffer most. No doubt, this is so,. but on the other hand it is the poor Chinese who pay deast for their water, the charge being based on the rating. valuation of their houses. If the boor Chinese are treated the Samri as the better of Chinese gr Europeans they will have to par much more for their water.HE.. the Governor made. a slight mis- take in his reference to the water famine of 1902. In that year water was brought in lighters from Tsun Wun-not from Tai Lam Chung, Arrangements were in hand for bringing it from the latter place but fortunately the rains came and they were not needed. Sir Henry May's state- ment should be a warning of the danger of prophesying but, with trainfall table for the last 40 years before me, I venture, to predict that within the next five years we shall have in Hong Kong
water famine which will re- mind 11% of the "good old times" prior to 1918.
The letter was above the name of "G. Gibbs" a printer's error,
My prediction came off, success. fully for me, disastrously for the Colony
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I see nothing against the pra posal to create a separate Water Department. But its creation will not provent a strong-willed Gover. nor overruling his technical ad visers. Nor will it provent waak Government giving way to popular clamour.
L GIBBS. Forest Row, Susier, May 30, 1932.