Council, appointed provisionally and subject to your approval, Mr. J. Stevenson,
Stevenson, late Sergeant in the Army Hospital Corps, to be Inspector of Nuisances for the Kowloon District,
salary of $60 per mensem, with $15 a month lodging allowance, and $12 a month for chair coolies.
The appointment, which is a new one, is made from the 1st instant to the 31st next December, as it is experimental; and a vote has been taken for the sum of $735 accordingly.
The Superintendent of the Sanitary Board reports that in November of last year the high death rate in the Kowloon district forcibly directed attention to the sanitary condition of the Peninsula, and that the Board, after careful investigation of the circumstances connected...