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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
states in a minute addressed to Dr. John- Bon under date the 10th October:-"I have in all instances in which drugs ask- ed for were not supplied accepted your ruling, and have not made a protest.'
I do not think that I can usefully add Indents have been anything further. minutely, I may almost say meticulously, Colonial assistant examined, by the Secretary principally, amounts have been added and subtracted totals have been checked; and in the result not even a "ridiculous mus" has emerged.
The following figures, however, regard. ing the principal reductions made by Dr. Johnson in the indent of the autumn of 1913, may be of interest to hon. mern- berg:
Horacio Acid
(5.) Ether
Article.
Bismuth Balicylate....
Do. Bulmitate (c) Potasium Jodide
Quinine....
Acid Acetosal (Aspirin)
Creosote Carbonste
Glycerine
(d.) Migralnice
Encalyptus Oil
Oleum Ric. E. I. Opi. Castor Oil ....
Average Amount
Government, is. that its minutest investi- gation has failed to reveal any sin of emission in the manner of the admini tration of the Civil Hospital drugs and disinfectants by Dr. Johnson; that on the contrary it is satisfied that Dr. John- son has gradually succeeded in compelling systematic and efficient store administra tion in place of a lack of system little short of scandalous; that it is satisfied that, in any sense of ill-considerare) duction, the stock of drugs and disinfect ants kept in store at the Government Civil Hospital was not reduced by the present Principal Civil Medical Officer before the war.
Mr. Pollock's Questions THE COLONIAL SECRETARY-I re gret to inform the Hon. member (Mr. Pollock) that the time occupied in pre- paring the statement just read by His Excellency was 80 great that it has been impossible to complete the replies to the questions standing in 280 112 hon. member's game in the Orders of the Day. Some of them have been com-
$ 97 Ø ? È ¬ Ï Ã §¤... ¿E 1011, 1913, 1913
Stock at Date
of Indent.
amount asked for.
Smount allow ad
25
0
the
10 piled, but it has been impossible to com-
plete them.
0
2,06 2,300 1,600 800
185
07.
$84
gallons.
(r.) Turpentine
133
200
Carbolted Creosote (Jeyta Fluid)..
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3
***
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* ***
36 112
0
0
The questions referred to follows:
were
2.
1. Of the sums of $9,905, $10,147, and 89,714 stated at the last meeting of Coun-
cil to have been expended in the years 290 1913, 1914 and 1915, respectively, will the
Government state
200
0
2:00 80
Norea) It must be remembered that the indent was intended to cover aborter period than had previously been the rase.
(b) With regard to ether Dr. Johnson reduced the requisition from 50 lbs, to 25 1.
but at the same time he allow ad 10 lbs, of chloroform although only 75 lbs. had been naked for.
(e) The 84 lbs. of potassium iodide and the 200 gallons of turpentine disallow ed by Dr. Johnson represented a saving of 25 and respectively, exclusive of Crown Agents' and ship- ping charges.
(d) Dr. Johnson did not think fit to order
any wigrainiae.
It may be that some drug, or some disinfectant has got through the net so carefully set to entrap it; the hon. mem- ber may be aware of something which the Government has failed to find; and, if so, I hope that he will bring it into the light of day. The hospital indents are all open to his scrutiny, if this will assist him. The reply then, of the
(i) How much of that expenditure represents drugs and disinfectants. (a) supplied from home; (b) purchased locally? (ii). Whether it is not the fact that the
price of drugs and disinfectants has gone up considerably since the beginning of the war, with the re- sult that the same sum of money purchased considerably less drugs and disinfectants since the war than it did before the war t
(ii).—Whether any savings were effected on the amounts voted for drugs and disinfectants in the years 1914 and 1915 or mitber of them, and, if so, what were the amounts of such savings?
2. With reference to the morning allo- cation of Sisters at the Civil Hospital which was announced by His Excellency the Governor at the Council Meeting of the 3rd August last, namely:-
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
A Block.
Morning, 1 Sister on each floor; Operating Theatre, 1 Sister; will te Government state
(1). On what dates between the 22nd August and the date of these Questions (12th October) it has been found possible to carry out the said intended morning scheme of allocation, namely, Sister on each floor of A Block, and a separ ate Sister for the Operating Theatre; and (17).—On what dates, between the said dates, one Sister alone has had to attend in the morning not only to the two floors in d Block but also to the Operating Theatre as well, that is to say, to do work which, under the above scheme of allocation, is supposed to be done by three Sisters,
The Recent Petition
HON. MR. POLLOCK -Sin, I beg to give notice that I shall put the following questions at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, namely:-
1. With reference to the following statements in paragraph 5 of the Des- patch of H. E. The Governor, of the 28th May, 1918, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of the recent Petition for greater representation of the public on the Executive and Legislative Councils, namely: It is quite imprac- ticable to apply the principle of election to appointments to a body like the Execu- sive Council and it does not seem neces- sary to set out the very obvious reasons for which such a proposal could not be entertained"; Will the Government state what are the reasons why such a proposal could not be entertained?
2. Will the Government also state for what reasons two out of the four non- Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legis Istive Council are Government nominees instead of being elected as Members! I will now hand a copy of my questions to the Clerk of Councils.
The Budget
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding eight millions six hundred and five thou
sand, one hundred and five dollars to the Public Service of the year 1917, for the
lowing purposes:-
Expenditure Secretariat for Chinese Affairs Audit Department Treasury Harbour Master's Department Harbour Master, Special Ex-
penditure
Expenditure
Governor
85,011
Colonial Secretary's Depart-
ment and Legislature Colonial Secretary's
79,169
Special
1,130
57,345
35,294
87,460
189,454
740
977,999
$2,750
6,100 714,213 272,478
Imports and Exports Depart-
ment
Royal Observatory Royal Observatory, Special Ex-
penditure Miscellaneous Services Judicial and Legal Depts. Police and Prison Departments 1,000,361 Police and Prison Departments.
Special Expenditure Medical Department Sanitary Department Sanitary Department, Special
Expenditure Botanical and Forestry Dept. Botanical and Forestry Depart- ment, Special Expenditure Education Education, Special Expenditure Military Expenditure:--
Volunteers
Public Works:-
134
264,000
381,899
39,000 51,338
650
339,011 1,900
70,152
464,981
589,200
Extraordi-
1,545,400 438,350
400
366,381
158,896
340,700
44,259
Public Works Dept. Public Works, Recurrent Public Works,
nary
Post Office
Post Office, Special Expenditure Kowloon-Canton Railway:
Working Expenses Special Expenditure Pensions Charitable Services
Total
$8,605,105
HIS EXCELLENCY said:-Honourable Members of the Legislative Council,-I think that you will agree that the finan cial position disclosed by the Estimates before you must be regarded as eminently satisfactory. The assets and liabilities of the Colony at the end of the year 1915 were presented in a new form, and, as has been already pointed out, they are now on a cash basis. The result of abandon- ing the proposed loan of £250,000, which bad appeared as an asset, and debiting
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