ORDINANCE OF THE HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
In answer to Mr. A. M'ARTHUR,
SIR H. HOLLAND said, I presume that the honourable member referred to the Public Health Ordinance now before the Legislative Council of Hongkong. There is, of course, no desire to prevent Chinese or any other persons from occupying the best business parts of Victoria or to oust them from those districts or to hamper them in their business. But, sanitary questions have long been neglected in Hongkong, and the Public Health Ordinance is designed to enforce certain rules for preventing over-crowding and securing other sanitary rules which are necessary in any large town, and especially in such a climate as that of Hongkong. The last newspaper reports from Hongkong state that the clauses to which objection had been principally taken have been removed from the Health Ordinance to be brought forward again later in a Building Ordinance.
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ORDINANCE OF THE HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
In answer to Mr. A. M'ARTHUR,
SIR H. HOLLAND said, I presume that the hor member referred to the Public Health Ordinance now before the Legislative Council of Hongkong, There is, of course, no desire to prevent Chinese or any other persons from coonpying the best business parts of Victoria or to oust them from those districis or to hamper them in their business, But, sanitary questions have long been neglected in Hongkong, and the Public Health Ordinance is is designed to enforce certain rules for preventing over- crowding and securing other sanitary rules which are necessary in any large town,and especially in such a climate as that of Hougkong. The last newspaper reports from Hongkong state that the clauses to which objection had boen principally taken have been removed from the Health Ordinance to be brought forward again later in a Building Ordinance,
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