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Annexe A.
REPORT OF THE HEAD OF THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
STAFF.
1. During the year Dr. W. Pearse, Assistant Medical Officer of Health, went on 7 months leave and during his absence Dr. J. W. Hartley acted as Assistant Medical Officer of Health. Inspector Cotton was invalided out of the service and was replaced by Inspector Taylor who was transferred to the Sanitary Department from the Hongkong Police Force. Three Inspectors returned from leave and four Inspectors proceeded on leave, one for four months only.
EPIDEMICS AND MALARIA.
2. Epidemic disease was more prevalent during 1911 than in the previous year as the report of the Medical Officer of Health (Annexe B) shows. There were 269 cases of plague, a large increase as compared with the 25 cases in 1910. Small-pox was also more virulent than in the previous year and 272 cases were recorded. Typhoid fever showed an increase but Malaria showed a marked decrease.
BYE-LAWS.
3. New Conservancy and Scavenging Bye-laws and new bye-laws for dealing with Offensive Trades were passed during the year. The former were found necessary as the old bye-laws did not fully regulate the traffic in nightsoil in the Colony; the latter were passed to regulate new offensive trades such as feather picking and other dusty trades which could not be dealt with under the old bye-laws. An additional market bye-law prohibiting begging in the markets was also passed.
CHINESE CEMETERIES.
4. Extensive exhumations for the purpose of providing additional burial space took place at Ma Tau Wai Cemetery, a large Chinese Cemetery on the mainland, and at Chai Wan, a cemetery which serves the village and district of Shaukiwap in the East of the island of Hongkong. These exhumations were carried out by the Tung Wa Hospital, and following the exhumations the ground was terraced and made available for fresh interments. 2,251 bodies in all were exhumed in Ma Tau Wai Cemetery, 1,276 bodies in Chai Wan Cemetery and 75 in an old disused cemetery in the Wong Nei Chung road under Orders of the Governor.
The total number of exhumations during the year amounted to 3,855 as compared with 1,520 in 1910. 266 permits were issued
L 3
Annexe A.
REPORT OF THE HEAD OF THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
STAFF.
1. During the year Dr. W. Pearse, Assistant Medical Officer of Health, went on 7 months leave and during his absence Dr. J. W. Hartley acted as Assistant Medical Officer of Health. Inspector Cotton was invalided out of the service and was replaced by Inspector Taylor who was transferred to the Sanitary Department from the Hongkong Police Force. Three Inspectors returned from leave and four Inspectors proceeded on leave, one for four months only.
EPIDEMICS AND MALARIA.
2. Epidemic disease was more prevalent during 1911 than in the previous year as the report of the Medical Officer of Health (Annexe B) shows. There were 269 cases of plague, a large increase as compared with the 25 cases in 1910. Sinall-pox was also more virulent than in the previous year and 272 cases were recorded. Typhoid fever showed an increase but Malaria showed a marked decrease.
BYE-LAWS.
3. New Conservancy and Scavenging Bye-laws and now bye- laws for dealing with Öffensive Trades were passed during the year. The former were found necessary as the old bye-laws dil not fully regulate the traffic in nightsoil in the Colony; the latter were passed to regulate new offensive trades such as feather pick- ing and other dusty trades which could not be dealt with under the old bye-laws. An additional market bye-law prohibiting begging in the markets was also passed.
CHINESE CEMETERIES.
4. Extensive exhumations for the purpose of providing ad- ditional burial space took place at Ma Tau Wai Cemetery, a large Chinese Cemetery on the mainland, and at Chai Wan, a cemetery which serves the village and district of Shaukiwap in the East of the island of Hongkong. These exhumations were carried out by the Tung Wa Hospital, and following the exhumations the ground was terraced and made available for fresh interments. 2,251 bodies in all were exhumed in Ma Tan Wai Cemetery, 1,276 bodies in Chai Wan Cemetery and 75 in an old disused cemetery in the Wong Nei Chung road under Orders of the Governor.
The total number of exhumations during the year amounted to 3,855 as compared with 1,520 in 1910. 266 permits were issued
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