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Hong Kong Telegraph
26.11.1904
1904.
Sir Matthew Nathan.
Gverns
HONGKONG SANITARY INSTITUTE.
PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES. There was a fair attendance at the City Hall last evening when His Excellency the Governor presented the certificates secured by members of this Institute for Sanitary Science. Drs. Atkinson and Barnett and Messrs Hewett and Ongte were seated on the platform with His Excellency.
Dr. Atkinson explained the objects of the Sanitary Institute, and described the growth of this institution from its inauguration till the present time. Its success was due in a large measure to the efforts of the secretary (Dr Barbelt) and the Assistant Secretary (Mr. Carter. (Applause).
His Excellency the Governor, after present- ing the successful candidates with their certificates, said:--I look apon this ceremony, which I have been invited hero this afternoon to perform, as one of the most important since I have be n in Hongkong. The future prosperity of this colony depends largely on the extent to which we are able to eradicate diseases which disorganise labour and pat obstacles in the way of our intercourse with other countries. The speaker then described the picture of the plague ten years Bygo drawn by Sir William Robinson, the then Governor, and said there was no more melan- choly sight than that presented by the City of Victoria at that time. Each succeeding year has added to the plague death roll, and has also seen some change in our procedure for the prevention of plague. That is, by sanitation of the town. The sanitary worker, in striving to obtain physical purity in any place, must make himself conversant with physical impurities and work in impure conditions. In so doing he establishes a strong claim on the respect and gratitude of the coraimunity in which he works. I take pleasure in being here to night to give the certificates to those who have gained them from the Royal Sanitary Institute which, as Dr. Atkinson said, has recently been put under the patronage of our King ( ppianse). Before sitting down I would like to remind gentlemen present that the establishment of the Hongkong branch of the Sanitary Institute was largely due to the suggestion of our present acting Sanitary urveyor, Mr. Carter, a man who, both from European and Chinese testimony, is serious and earnest in what he does. (Applause). I should like also to express the hope that Sanitary Inspectors will emulate hint. Mr. Hewett proposed a vote of thanks to flis Excellency for presiding, which was carried and responded to. The following is a list of the candidates who were awarded certificates:-
For Practical Sanitary Science: Patrick A. Cunningham. Robert Edwin Hemmings, John Lémm, and Arthur P. Samy,
For Inspectors of Nuisances:-R. Bennett, G. W. Coysh, H. J. Gidley, S. Gidley, J. T. Longstaff, G. Morphew, J. Reiddio, and W. H. Woo.ley.
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