5.
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6.
Two Sanitary Overseers should be permanently attached to the Office. Their pay without extra cost to the Government ( as well as the $50 to Mr "Cooper) is provided for further on. In order to facilitate the transaction business, the new. office of Sanitary
Surveyor
of
and Inspector of Buildings should be allowed to communicate
direst with builders and depositors
write on
of plans. of deemed necessary he can so word
-word his corespondence asto
behalf of the Surveyor General.
why the Government Propector of Buildings should
But I see no
see no reason
not write in his own name,
7.
The time has now arrived
when the Government must deside asto the scale of fees to be charged to all such house-owners as are called on to build.
proper house drains. These fees should be charged quite as much,
the~
for plans and the specification of work
which
which will be prepared for them in
the Sanitary Surveyor
each
case
by
ao
for the cost of ou bergnent supervision of the work by the Sanitary Staff.
8.
is now a
In all towns of Europe, there
Sanitary, rate impored on
all house holder in addition to
to fees,
the latter being changed only for the preparation of the plans, but in Hongkong, notwithstanding that it is
ungeuthy
More
wanted than in Europe,
co ouch Savitary Rate exists, therefore the fees
charged
to be
will have to be
oufficiently large to resinburse the Government. the outlay of cupervision as well as that of making plans and specifications.
If His Excellency
however
Check elect to depart from the European
practice and
the
charges no fees for preparation of plans and specifications, I think it would be all the ncore
recessary.
to impose a Sanitary Rate
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