SANITATION-DRY EARTH SYSTEM OF CONSERVANCY.
MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
No other residences should be permitted on the land draining into the reservoir that supplies the city with drinking water,
Furthermore, one of the sanitary officers should inspect each existing house (including my own) and see that suitable dry earth closets are provided, and that the servants know how to attend to them, and especially how to dispose of the contents of the buckets according to Dr. Moure's plan.
I take this opportunity of adding that each house should be provided with a dry earth latrine, in a covered outhouse, for the coolies and servants. At present the paths about the Peak are defiled on account of this want.
(Signed)
J. POPE HENNESSY,
17th July, 1877.
MINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL,
Inspector MCKINNEY will prepare and submit a report on the present condition of the sewage arrangements of all the residences at the Peak,
18th July, 1877.
[In C.S.O. No.1865 of 1877.]
(Signed) J. M. PRICE,
Surveyor General.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S LETTER ENCLOSING REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.
No. 96.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, 8th August, 1877.
SIR,-I have the honour to enclose from Inspector MCKINNEY, for the information of the Governor, the report commanded by His Excellency to be made upon the treatment and removal of refuse matter by the occupants of houses at the Peak.
2. Mr. MCKINNEY's intelligence and truthfulness leave no room to doubt the accuracy of his statements, some of which I have been able to confirm by personal observation.
3. Of the thirteen houses he has examined, it appears only three use the dry earth system, the Police at the Gap Station using lime in preference, while the tenants of Mr. ......'s bungalow have adopted the still better plan of having all excreta conveyed daily before sunrise to the proper public receptacles in town. It is true that in these five houses the sanitary arrangements are by no means as satisfactory as one would wish, but at all events they do not by any means present so objectionable an aspect as the remaining eight houses, where matters will be found to demand immediate reform.
4. I have ventured to detain Mr. MCKINNEY'S report for some days until I could carefully consider and accompany with it some practical remedy for the evils he depicts.
5. One remedy-unquestionably the best-will be to insist upon all Peak residents sending daily down to the town the soil and garbage at present thrown out on the hill sides. According to paragraph 9 of Mr. MCKINNEY's report this is already done by some, and I see no reason, other than that of expense, why the good example should not be generally followed. In this case, however, I think expense neither could or would be set up as an objection, as most of those who can afford the luxury of a summer residence on the hills can equally well afford the cost of so absolute a necessity as a scavenger at two dollars a month.
6. Should His Excellency deem the foregoing too arbitrary a measure, I would submit the less preferable alternative of an agreement with the city scavenging contractor to remove daily before 6 A.M. from every house at the Peak all excreta and other refuse, depositing and deodorizing the same by dry earth in properly constructed and water-tight cesspits, to be situated not far from the Gap or some equally central and convenient neighbourhood. These pits might be voided periodically by the contractor at proper hours, and they could be placed under the special surveillance of a proposed rural Inspector of Nuisances, whose appointment I have already, in a previous letter on kindred subjects, had the honour very respectfully to recommend.
7. AU LEUNG, the city contractor, with whom I have been for the past week in negotiation, offers to establish a proper scavenging service for $25 a month, which amount, I think, could be easily collected, the Government paying its corresponding share.
· SANITATION-DRY EARTH SYSTEM OF CONSERVANCY.
MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
No other residences should be permitted on the land draining into the reservoir that supplies the city with drinking water,
Furthermore, one of the sanitary officers should inspect each existing house (including my own) and see that suitable dry carth closets are provided, and that the servants know how to attend to them, and especially how to dispose of the contents of the buckets according to Dr. Moure's plan.
I take this opportunity of adding that each house should be provided with a dry earth latrine, in a covered outhouse, for the coolies and servants. At present the paths about the Peak are defiled on account of this want.
(Signed)
J. POPE HENNESSY,
17th July, 1877.
MINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL,
Inspector MCKINNEY will prepare and submit a report on the present condition of the sewage arrangements of all the residences at the Peak,
18th July, 1877.
[In C.S.O. No. 1865 of 1877.]
(Signed) J. M. PRICE,
Surveyor General.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S LETTER ENCLOSING REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.
No. 96.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, 8th August, 1877.
SIR,-I have the honour to enclose from Inspector MCKINNEY, for the information of the Governor, the report commanded by His Excellency to be made upon the treatment and removal of refuse matter by the occupants of houses at the Peak.
2. Mr. MCKINNEY's intelligence and truthfulness leave no room to doubt the accuracy of his statements, some of which I have been able to confirm by personal observation.
3. Of the thirteen houses he has examined, it appears only three use the dry earth system, the Police at the Gap Station using lime in preference, while the tenants of Mr. ......'s bungalow have adopted the still better plan of having all excreta conveyed daily before sunrise to the proper public receptacles in town. It is true that in these five houses the sanitary arrangements are by no means as satisfactory as one would wish, but at all events they do not by any means present so objectionable an aspect as the remaining eight houses, where matters will be found to demand immediate reforin.
4. I have ventured to detain Mr. MCKINNEY'S report for some days until I could carefully consider and accompany with it some practical remedy for the evils he depicts.
5. One remedy-unquestionably the best-will be to insist upon all Peak residents sending daily down to the town the soil and garbage at present thrown out on the hill sides. According to para- graph 9 of Mr. MCKINNEY's report this is already done by some, and I see no reason, other than that of expense, why the good example should not be generally followed. In this case, however, I think expense neither could or would be set up as an objection, as most of those who can afford the luxury of a summer residence on the hills can equally well afford the cost of so absolute a necessity as a scavenger at two dollars a month.
6. Should His Excellency deem the foregoing too arbitrary a measure, I would submit the less preferable alternative of an agreement with the city scavenging contractor to remove daily before 6 A.M. from every house at the Peak all excreta and other refuse, depositing and deodorizing the sam by dry earth in properly constructed and water-tight cesspits, to be situated not far from the Gap or some equally central and convenient neighbourhood. These pits might be voided periodically by the contractor at proper hours, and they could be placed under the special surveillance of a proposed rural Inspector of Nuisances, whose appointment I have already, in a previous letter on kindred sub- jects, had the honour very respectfully to recommend.
7. AU LEUNG, the city contractor, with whom I have been for the past week in negociation, offers to establish a proper scavenging service for $25 a month, which amount, I think, could be easily collected, the Government paying its corresponding shure.
· SANITATION-DRY EARTH SYSTEM OF CONSERVANCY.
MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
No other residences should be permitted on the land draining into the reservoir that supplies the city with drinking water,
Furthermore, one of the sanitary officers should inspect each existing house (including my own) and see that suitable dry carth closets are provided, and that the servants know how to attend to them, and especially how to dispose of the contents of the buckets according to Dr. Moure's plan.
I take this opportunity of adding that each house should be provided with a dry earth latrine, in a covered outhouse, for the coolies and servants. At present the paths about the Peak are defiled on account of this want.
(Signed)
J. POPE HENNESSY,
17th July, 1877.
MINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL,
Inspector MCKINNEY will prepare and submit a report on the present condition of the sewage arrangements of all the residences at the Peak,
18th July, 1877.
[In C.S.O. No. 1865 of 1877.]
(Signed) J. M. PRICE,
Surveyor General.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S LETTER ENCLOSING REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.
No. 96.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, 8th August, 1877.
SIR,-I have the honour to enclose from Inspector MCKINNEY, for the information of the Governor, the report commanded by His Excellency to be made upon the treatment and removal of refuse matter by the occupants of houses at the Peak.
2. Mr. MCKINNEY's intelligence and truthfulness leave no room to doubt the accuracy of his statements, some of which I have been able to confirm by personal observation.
3. Of the thirteen houses he has examined, it appears only three use the dry earth system, the Police at the Gap Station using lime in preference, while the tenants of Mr. ......'s bungalow have adopted the still better plan of having all excreta conveyed daily before sunrise to the proper public receptacles in town. It is true that in these five houses the sanitary arrangements are by no means as satisfactory as one would wish, but at all events they do not by any means present so objectionable an aspect as the remaining eight houses, where matters will be found to demand immediate reforin.
4. I have ventured to detain Mr. MCKINNEY'S report for some days until I could carefully consider and accompany with it some practical remedy for the evils he depicts.
5. One remedy-unquestionably the best-will be to insist upon all Peak residents sending daily down to the town the soil and garbage at present thrown out on the hill sides. According to para- graph 9 of Mr. MCKINNEY's report this is already done by some, and I see no reason, other than that of expense, why the good example should not be generally followed. In this case, however, I think expense neither could or would be set up as an objection, as most of those who can afford the luxury of a summer residence on the hills can equally well afford the cost of so absolute a necessity as a scavenger at two dollars a month.
6. Should His Excellency deem the foregoing too arbitrary a measure, I would submit the less preferable alternative of an agreement with the city scavenging contractor to remove daily before 6 A.M. from every house at the Peak all excreta and other refuse, depositing and deodorizing the sam by dry earth in properly constructed and water-tight cesspits, to be situated not far from the Gap or some equally central and convenient neighbourhood. These pits might be voided periodically by the contractor at proper hours, and they could be placed under the special surveillance of a proposed rural Inspector of Nuisances, whose appointment I have already, in a previous letter on kindred sub- jects, had the honour very respectfully to recommend.
7. AU LEUNG, the city contractor, with whom I have been for the past week in negociation, offers to establish a proper scavenging service for $25 a month, which amount, I think, could be easily collected, the Government paying its corresponding shure.
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