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states in a minute addressed to Dr. John-Government, is that its minutest investi- gon 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 anything further. Indents have been minutely, I may almost say meticulously, examined, by the assistant Colonial 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 ng the principal reductions made by Dr. Johnson in the indent of the autumn of 1913, may be of interest to kon, mem- berg: -
Boracic Aold
(4.) Ether
Article.
Flamuth Balkylate.
Do. Sulmirate
(6) Potassium Iodide
Quiniue...
Acid Acetobal (Aspirin)
Creosote Carbonate
Glycerine
(4) Migralnice
Eneslyntis On
Oleum Rie, F. 1. Opt. Castor (..
(2.) Turpentine
Avarage Amount
177) 8.5 111, 112, 1818
Amount naked for.
Johnson.
Anicunt allowed
gation has failed to reveal any sin of omission in the manner of the adminis- tration of the Civil Hospital druge 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-considered re- 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 so great that it has
been impossible to complete the replies to the questions standing in the 2:30 112 hon. member's name in the Orders of the Day. Some of them have been com-
50 25
34
0
10 piled, but it has been impossible to com-
plete them.
0
1,068 2,300 1,500 800
gallins
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ast
Q
112
60
.*44
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$40
900 0
200
50
Carolated Creosote (Jeyes Fluid).. Nous (2) It must be remembered that the indent was intended to cover a shorter period than bad previously been the rage.
(b) With regard to ether Dr. Johnson reduced the requisition from 50 lbs. to
25 lbs., but at the same time he allow ed 10 lbs. of chloroform although only 75 lbe. had been asked for.
(c) The 84 lbs. of potassium iodide and the 200 gallons of turpentine disallow- ed by Dr. Johnson represented a eaving of £50 and 23 respectively, exclusive of Crown Agents' and ship- ping charges.
(d) Dr. Johnson did not think it to order
any bigrainine.
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 indenta are all open to his scrutiny, if this will assist him. The reply then, of the
The questions referred to were 85 follows:--
Of the sums of 89,905, $10,147, and 89,714 stated at the last meeting of Coun- cil to have been expended in the years 1913, 1914 and 1915, respectively, will the Government state
()-How much of that expenditure represents drugs and disinfectants. (a) supplied from home; (b) purchased locally! (1)-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 druga and disinfectants since the war than it did before the war ↑
(iii).-Whether any savings were effected on the amounts voted for drugs and disinfectants in the years 1974 and 1915 or either 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:-
HONGEONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
A Block.
Morning, 1 Sister on each floor; Operating Theatre, I 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, Bister on each floor of A Block, and a separ ate Sister for the Operating Theatre; and (f). On what dates, between the said dates, one Sister alone has had to attend in the morning not only to the two floors in 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 dune by three Sisters.
The Recent Petition
HON. MR. POLLOCK-SIR, 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 1916, 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- cive 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- lative 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 following purposes:-
Expenditure Secretariat for Chinese Affairs Audit Department Treasury
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Expenditure
Governor Colonial Secretary's Depart
ment and Legislature Colonial Secretary's
.3
85,012
79,169
Special
1,150
57,345
35,291
67,460
189,454
740
977,999
22,750
6,100
Harbour Master's Department Harbour Master, Special Ex-
penditure Imports and Exports Depart-
ment
714,213 272,478
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
264,030 381,899
39,000
51,338
650
288,011
1,900
70,152
464,981
Extraordi-
589,200
1,545,400 438,350
400
366,381
159,896
340,700
44,150
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
Members of the Legislative Council,-I HIS EXCELLENCY said:-Honourable think that you will agree that the finian- 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 bas been already pointed out, they are now on a cash basis. The result of abandon- ing the proposed loan of £250.000, which had appeared as an asset, and debiting
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