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HARBOUR REFUSE,
RESULTS OF. RECENT EXPERIMENTS.
Interesting detalls of formor experiments conducted to deter mine what became of refuse that was dumped outalde the Harbour limits, wore disclosed by the Chairman of the Sanitary Board, Mr. W. J. Carrie, yesterday, when he answered questions put by Mr. J. P. Braga relative to har- bour pollution.
Amongst those present wore Dr. G. W. Pope, Medical Omeer of Health, Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Dr. S. G. Ho, Dr. S. W. Tso, Mr. Wong ICwong-tin and Mr. J. J. Watson (Secretary).
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with the Harbour Master. Floats were released at all etates of the tide and only
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Gonova, Sept. 18. At the League Assembly Lord The refuse occasionally seen Cushendun, speaking on the report floating near the beaches of the Fifth Committee on child comes from Junks and ships. welfare and similar questions, Many ships retain their re-aid that experts after careful fuse, accumulated during considoration, had given their their atay in harbour, until unanimous opinion against the they are outside harbour licensed house system. He could, fimits which is just beyond therefore, not imagine that the Green Island and then dump government concerned would not It, often near Cheung Chau feel it their duty not to leave the As a result of this report fur matter longer where it presently
rested. ther experiments with floats wors carried out from November 15 to On behalf of the British Gov- December 15, 1926. Fifty floats crnment he strongly endorsed the were released under European reports and recommendation for supervision each morning and each stricter mensures against sou afternoon, a careful record being tongura. As regards the recom- 1. Has it been brought to the kept of the exact time and of the mendations in favour of the em notice of the Medical Officer weather conditions. Of the 3,000 ployment of women police, ex- of Health, that several cases flonis released not one was reperience in Britain proved them so of acute infection of the covered, although notices, were valuable that he was sure publie external car have recently broadensted requesting any found opinion in England would gladly LONDON SERVICE occurred among bathers in
to be returned to the Sanitary De-support the extension of the sys- Boma of the most popular partment. The Police Inspector tem and the strengthening of the bathing beaches of Hongkong? at Cheung Chau was, in particular, small forces at present employed.
Instructed to watch the beach there. This experiment was in teresting, but it fails to convince me personally because of the time
Mr. J. P. Braga's questions were as follows:
ft. Is there any connexion between these cases of infection and the pollution by preventible means of the sea water in the best frequented bathing grounds of the Colony?
-Reuter.
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(Continued from Pago 2.)
and you promised to do this in the house but when you got to the mortuary you were not willing to do that. You said, Hayward has not come; I am got going to do it.
of year when it was conducted: it CHINESE GIRL'S DEATH. was, however, on the advice of the i. Are the bathing beaches 0 Harbour Master that the experi- the Colony subject to pollu- ment was not made until after the tion by the existing methods typhoon season. If the Board of disposal of elly refuse by wishes I would suggest that a similar experiment be conducted the Sanitary Department? iv. Will the Government consider next year, but during the actual the advisability of substitut- bathing season. Should a typhoon ing the present method of re-happen in the middle of the ex- fuse disposal by the erection périment the barges will probably of a Refuse Destructor, thus be held for about twenty-four minimising the dangers of hours, but this will not invalidate pollution of the waters of the the whole experiment. It has Colony within harbour limits been suggested to me also that in- of stead of wooden floats, which by the drifting thereto. floating matter containing the might prove useful as firo 'wood, portions of the refuse kely to germs of Infection 7"
float should be treated with vari- ous dyes. These details can be worked out later.
The Replies.
Mr. Carrie's replies are given below:
1. The answer to the first ques- lon is in the negative.
Witness: No. You mentioned very Hayward. You said "I am suspicious of you and I want you and Hayward to declare these. words to my daughter."
.. Refusal Denied. The Coroner: Did you agree to do it at the house?
or
Witness: I did not agree promise. I said if Hayward went I would go.
The Coroner: So at the mor- I regret having to make such a diffuse reply to a simple question,tuary you refused to go in and do but the only reply 1 can make to it? question is that I personally am
2. It is highly probable that pol-still in doubt. lution of the sea water does tend
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Witness: I did not refuse to go in. I was not requested, to go in when I arrived at the mortuary. The Mother: I got hold of your arm and tried to drag you in and you refused? No. We were not standing together,
4. The question of Refuse De- structore has frequently been con- sidered by the Government during 3. It is impossible to give a the last twenty years. The Com- categorical reply to this question.mittee of the Board in 1926 made There is a general opinion among certain suggestions which are now The late Mr. officers of the Department that the being followed up. reply is in the negative. I regret Jackman, during his absence on that I cannot wholly subscribe to leave in 1926, made careful inves- that belief. On the 18th May,tigations and examined different 1926, this Board appointed a Com- types of Refuse Destructors in mittee consisting of the President, use in various cities in England, Mr. Smith, the Vice President, Mr. India and the Straits Settlements. Creasy, Dr. Koch and Dr. Mac- His draft report on this subject, gown "to inquire into and report although it shews the unlikelihood on the question of Refuse Destruc-of any economical use being made tion and the possibility of its atop tion In this Colony." They obtain ed expert opinion on various
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Members may also have seen the all that about her not going in if one who may wish to read it. suggestions made by Mr. New-Hayward did not comic.
The Mother (To witness): Don't The following opinions were ex house in his report on the posai-
to Hayward pressed by the witnesses examined bility of using set water for flush you tell any more lies. I never by this Committee:
ing purposes, laid before the asked (1) At least 50% of the refuse Legislative Council on 28th June, before my daughter. What rea- sinks at once and after 1928, regarding the use of heat son have I to ask Hayward to de- twenty-four hours less than generated by a destructor for the clare?
In adjourning the Inquiry unt!! the 10% is still floating.
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Coroner remarked that the cross- I Chau, 4 miles from the the Government. centre of Victoria. The site Mr. Braga thanked the Chair-examination had been very ex- was carefully chosen-many man for the time and patience haustive. He hoped that the next
hearing would be the last, years ago after consultation devoted to his replies.
The Mother: If you had a clean heart the moment you were asked to go in you would have gone in. If you had made thla declaration I don't think I would to bother the have come here' Coroner.
The Coroner (to witness): Is it true that the whole of these pro- ceedings would not have been held if you had gone in and made the declaration before the corpse 7
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