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Health Ordinance, the Governor (Sir W. Des Voeux ) reconsti-
tuted the Sanitary Board, materially increasing the unoffi-
cial element, and giving the ratepayers the privelege of
electing two gentlemen as their own immediate representa-
tives. Unofficial members appointed an elected on the 11th
June 1888 were as follow:-
Messrs. Wong Shing
James Cantlie
N. J. Ea e
Ho Kai
J. J. Francis
J. D. Humphrey s
appointed
elected
On the reconstruction of the Board it was provi-
ded that its meetings shoula se hela in public, and the pro
ceedings have accordingly been regularly reported in the '
Press.
From what is above stateu it will be apparent
that the newly formed Sanitary Board was armed with very
ample powers, and that it entered upon its period of office
with full knowledge of the urgent importance of effective-
ly scavenging the City. Although this was the case it would
seem that this department of the Board's work was never pe
formed in the thorough manner which was absolutely necessa-
ry, for the state of Taipingshan at the outbreak of the
plague, so far as the accumulation of garbage and filth is
concerned, could not have marked an improvement on the con-
dition described by Mr. Chadwick in 1881.
The much needed bye-laws for regulating the sani-
tary condition of common lodging houses were not made by th
Board until 1891, and when these were approved by the Legis
lative