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Directions for Cleansing Insanitary Houses and
Blocks of Buildings.
Subject to any Directions to be given by the supervising Medical Officer, the following steps must be taken in the order in which they are here set down.
(a) Drench whole surface of the yard together with its contents, and any courts, passages, lanes, by-ways, also drains and latrines with bucketsful of Jeyes' Fluid.
(b) Scrape up and collect all filth, dirt, refuse, rags and rubbish, contents of gulley- traps, blocked drains, etc, into two heaps, consisting of material which will burn and such as will not. Cart at once that for burning to the Station set apart for that purpose and there burn. Cart the remainder to the dust boats.
(c) Examine carefully all sanitary appliances, all drains, inspection chambers, ventilators, etc, and note any defect and the work necessary to make it good, in order that the work may be put in band at once.
2. Open all windows and doors and let light and air into the building.
3. Make a correct inventory of all articles which are to be sent to the Steam Disinfector, or otherwise disinfected as the Medical Officer may direct, such as bedding, including mattresses, curtains, hangings, clothes, carpets, rugs, etc, not including leather goods.
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4. Move all furniture room by room, into the verandah, yard or street and wash with Jeyes' Fluid, the strength of which to be half a pint of Jeyes' Fluid to every gallon of water.
5. Spray the walls and ceilings, including the interior and exterior of cubicles with a solution of Corrosive Sublimate (1 in 1000) In spraying a wall begin at the lower part and gradually spray higher.
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All boarding on the ground floor showing signs of decay or of having rat-runs underneath, to be taken up. A search to be made for rat runs. Pour crude carbolic acid down any that may be found. Rats escaping from their runs should be immediately killed and a man should be specially detailed for the purpose while the floor is being taken up and the runs exposed. All dead rats should have solution of Jeyes' Fluid immediately thrown on to them, and be removed by a pair of tongs.
7.
Lime-wash all internal walls, including those of the passages. Scrub the floors and all woodwork with a solution of Jeyes' Fluid (half a pint to the gallon) and after they have dried scrub with soft soap and water.
8. All furniture having been returned to the house, the yards and appurtenances should be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected again.
On the completion of the disinfection and cleansing of the house all the windows on the ground floor should be securely fastened and all those on the upper floors left open at the top All external doors should be fastened and the key of the front door handed to the owner.
Francis W. Clark. Medical Officer of Health,
The average amount of Disinfectants required per floor should be about as
P. S. follows:-
10 gallons of solution of Perchloride of Mercury 1 in 1000.
3 gallons of Jøyes fluid.
4 pints of crude Carbolic acid for rat runs.
1 gallon of strong liquid preparation of soft soap.
KONG.
135.
sir,
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Downing Street.
23rd August, 1894.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No.133 of the 5th of June last
enclosing a petition addressed to the House of
Commons by various residents at Hongkong, praying
for an amendment of the constitution of the Colony.
2. This petition was forwarded to you by Mr
Whitehead, Member of the Legislative Council, and
though, among his colleagues in the Council, Fr
Keswick and Mr Belilios have refused to sign it, it
bears the signatures of Mr Chater and Dr Ho Kai both members of the Council, of Mr Jackson Manager
of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and of other
leading residents. I am therefore bound to assume
that it is the matured conviction of at least a
considerable proportion of the most influential
members of the community, that constitutional changes
are desirable at Hongkong and that for the present
Crown Colony system should be substituted, some
measure of self government. It is my duty to examine
the arguments which have been brought forward, with
care and attention; and I should be wanting in
courtesy if I did not give full answer to a petition
which is far reaching in its scope and which has
been strongly support ed.
3.
The petitioners have addressed themselves
vernor,
Sir W.Robinson, K.0.M.G..
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