as to have caused His Excellency to form
: Cate charges against at which it would
have been better not to have made.
these charges
I am compelled with reluctance, to refer to here, because notice they have been again quite lately reproduced with the view to justifying in Your Lordship's sight, the dismissal of Dr Tyres from the post of Sanitary Inspector.
14. The first charge is, that Either Dr Ayres
or I, or both
of us, allowed a portion of the nightsoil from Victoria gaol to
flow into the sewer in the gaol yard thereby
endangering
the health of the prisoners.
&c.: the dry Earth system may deodorize but
it cannot disinfect infectious stools.
The mere absence
of smell does not mean
that the cause
of infection has been removed. Under the dry Earth system
an accumulation of faecal matter
although without smell has to remain for
hours in
contact with the surrounding air
sowing the seeds of possible
infection
Governor Hennessey seems
However
under the impression that
a charge
of this kind cannot be against us, that Governor Hennessy is aware that it
is the gaol Authorities
against
us disinfection insists on dry Earth system on Dr Ayres
at the Hong Kong Hospital, and the Colonial Surgeon's inability to accept the soundness
of the Governor's views, however promptly he may be compelled to obey on executive mandate, forms plaint on the part of His Excellency.
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