Belcher's Bay
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In England it is now becoming the practice to burn the waste product of towns by cremation, and many corporate bodies have established public furnaces with this object. When I was in England, I consulted Sir Robert Rawlinson, as to the most suitable form of Destructor for adoption here, and was favoured by him with some printed matter that had been published on the subject.
Also on Sir Robert Rawlinson's advice, I visited Rotherham and had an opportunity of personally inspecting the working of a Destructor on Fryer's Patent, which had been erected by the Municipal authorities of that town.
3.
The adoption in England of Destructors may be taken as a proof of their successful working, and I have therefore the honour to recommend the purchase of one for Hong Kong and its erection at Belcher's Bay with a view to putting an end to the great nuisance and risk to the Public health caused by the present practice of depositing the refuse of the town on the sea-shore, where it is left to go to decay by exposure to all weather.
There happens to be passing through the Colony at the moment a Mr Henry Matheson, Sanitary Engineer and the representative of a well-known firm of Matheson & Grant, 32, Wallbrook, London, who have been connected...