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Mr Shelton Hooper:-

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consulted by the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board, the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London, Sir Shirley Murphy, on Public Health matters concerning Hongkong.

When did you first become President of the Sanitary (6 192 | Board ?

Well, it is in the Civil Service list, if I may refer

June 28th 1897.

to it. I forget the exact date.

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Were you President of the Sanitary Board in 1901 and 16.193. 1902 ?

Yes, I have been President ever since.

"But in those years you were President?

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Yes, part of them, because I was away on leave in the

first six months of 1901. I returned from leave in

August 1901, and from that date I have been President of the Sanitary Board.

Then you were President of the Sanitary Board when the bigs

Public Health and Building Ordinance Bill was introduced into the Legislature here, and read the first time on 11th July 1902 ?

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And in that Bill, section 16, was the section this: "The Sanitary Commissioner shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury such salary and allowances as the Governor with the consent of the Legislative Council may from time to time determine, and he shall be Administrative Head of the Sanitary Department". What Ordinance are you reading from, may I ask ?

The one I have quoted to you. The Bill that was

read the first time.

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That Bill was never passed by the Legislature.

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I have not come to that. I have said "Were you

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