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of more air and light to the Chinese dwellings, they comprise:
(1) The provision of open space in the rear of every house.
(2) Revised rules as to cocklofts and Cubicles.
(3) The Sanitary maintenance of private streets and lanes.
(4) Regulating the height of buildings in relation to the width of the streets upon which they front and recommending that no domestic building in future shall exceed in height one and a half times the width of the street upon which such building fronts.
This Bill was read for the first time in Leg. Council on the 22nd November 1893.
I also attach a copy of a subsequent supplementing letter sent in by the Sanitary Board and dated 7th September 1898 recommending larger open spaces.
I would draw attention to the fact that the Barracks are in the middle of the native population, a condition which does not exist in any other Colony that I know of; in India the regiments are always in Cantonments. The situation of the barracks is one which entirely concerns the military Authorities.
The Hospital accommodation for the Military is undoubtedly inadequate; to prove this I have only to mention that all cases of infectious disease occurring among the Troops are treated in the Civil Infectious Hospital; there is no accommodation for Officers who are sick and many of them have been treated at the Government Civil Hospital.
From what I have stated I think it must be admitted that the Sanitary Board, both in the recommendation which it has made to the Government and in the action that it has taken, has done its duty.
(sd.) J.H. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer
22.6.99.
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of more air and light to the Chinese dwellings, they comprise:
(1) The provision of open space in the rear of
every house.
(2)
Revised rules as to cocklofts and Cubicles.
(3)
The Sanitary maintenance of private streets and
lanes.
(4) Regulating the height of buildings in relation to the width of the streets upon which they front and recom mending that no domestic building infuture shall exceed in height one and a half times the width of the street upon which
such building fronts.
This Bill was read for the first time in Leg.
Council on the 22nd November 1893.
I also attach a copy of a subsequent supplement- ing letter sent in by the Sanitary Board and dated 7th Septen- ber 1898 recommending larger open spaces.
I would draw attention to the fact that the
Barracks are in the middle of the native population a condition which does not. exist in any other Colony that I know of,in
India the regiments are always in Cantonments.The situation
of the barracks is one which entirely concerns the military
Authorities.
The Hospital accommodation for the Military is
undoubtedly inadequate, to prove this I have only to mention
that all cases of infectious disease occurring among the Troops are treated in the Civil Infectious Hospital, there is
no accommodation for Officers who are sick and many of then
have been treated at the Government Civil Hoapital.
From what I have stated I think it must be
admitted that the Sanitary Board,both in the recommendation
which it has made to the Government and in the action that
it has taken,has done its duty.
(sd.) J.H.Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer
22.6.99.
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