[ { "id": 219392, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "* Surveyor Generals & chartment \n\nStatement of Expenditier \n\non the Public Works to the probable Expenditure \n\nAs excription of Work: \n\nCompletion of Recons Lear \n\nContinuation of o \n\ndo dos to doshimped, thence by dywan to Sylam. \n\nVe \n\nto Chuck chu \n\nTo bestiare te Chuckpywan. \n\nDue ducts in tieto ix. \n\nSundry toork on roads ry \n\nrepairing \n\nChikichu read the \n\nthridges repairs and rebuilding imperfect brides. \n\nVereerd. \n\nMainage, of taddy land, Hougnenhoong ballig, St. \n\nPreparing land for buildings, Su Chinia location, &c. \n\nPublic Buildings biz: \n\nYovernment Honk. \n\nSublic offices and Cour / House. \n\nRisor and house for Carler. \n\nDebtors Wast \n\nRegistrar's house are offiei. \n\nHouse of Conctione. \n\nExperide on tor he \n\nalosti/4s fur that \n\nVictoria Hongkong \n\nthe hall year ending September 2017 1944 and Estimate of to March 31% 1847 \n\nExporded during the Expireded during Amount Aditional quarterinding 30th the half year wuthorize for amants required of i \n\nMarch 1944. puding 26 Seph1844|tooshdin progrefe le Ghiarch, 1847%. \n\nreturn to Fedaiawn, \n\n遘 \n\n& \n\n1,422 20 \n\n2,810 \n\nفي \n\n1,800 49 \n\n6,20008 \n\n24,569 \n\nItal cost \n\ntruck. \n\nGrain letal. \n\ntvork. \n\n14,200 \n\n21,850 \n\n17,452 \n\n10,000 \n\n10,000 \n\n20,000 \n\n20,000 \n\n10,000 \n\n22,000 \n\n10,00 \n\n80,000 \n\n5,000 \n\n10,500 350 \n\n45,000 100,000 40,000 4,500 \n\n5322 hd 10,02971 105327 28 6031 82 6,206 40 \n\n45,000 \n\n40,000 \n\n10,000 \n\n4,300 4900 \n\nPolice Stations, \n\n50,000 \n\n20,000 60s or \n\nsundry repairs to beverarment buildings, temporary offices and Court house, including temporary church and hitchens at Government Hinse: \n\nResidence for Government officer se Abang huldings) paying rent, \n\n10,120 1,417 \n\n7,25 259374 \n\nHarbor Master's pier and sea toall, and bulding boat sheds, stous, the \n\n-Sea wall to form public Quay, or Marine locationes under. Government \n\nHilly \n\n2,520 87 \n\n3,000). \n\n20,000. \n\n20,000. \n\n3,962 \n\n25,000 \n\n4,75376 \n\n48,120: \n\n48,120 \n\nbetween top Lindsay's premises ain the north Barracks. \n\nExpenses of Surveyer Generals istablishment in. \n\nHages up to March, 1844. Salaries subsequently. \n\nCarlingencies. \n\ncontingencies on estimated toorht, 10 per \n\ntoorts, 10 per cent, big on $481200 is \n\nHlabamount \n\nas, \n\nmount expended on finished works as per Surveyor General's return 105 Heber, 844- Viz; \n\nDeducting for works in progress at the date of \n\nSurveyor Cenerals return, the subsequent \n\nExpenditure on which is included in this \n\nstatement, viz. Albany Buildings. # 17651. \n\nTemporary Church. \n\n431.75 \n\nKitchend to Govt: House. 4044- \n\n$196,882123 \n\n22,12675 \n\nLeaving a balance of as rotended hering $174,785.48 174,788 48 \n\nItals $187/7/14-54 \n\n\"stal amount of actual and anticipatid expenditière, \n\nVictoria, Horgheng, 5. Proveniber, 181014. \n\nC \n\non \n\n174,755 48 \n\n9947.35 26914.68 73338.92 $29,320 \n\n827,435, 779 \n\n3827,435 079 \n\nthe Public Works mding 31 March, 18467. \n\nLigued) Chat Dr. Bro: Cleverly \n\ndeling Surveyor Veneral. \n\nAhue Wymerup", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 226850, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-024 - Bonham - 1848 [3-6]", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-024 - Bonham - 1848 [3-6]", "content_text": "In accordance with His Excellency's instructions I have prepared the design with the strictest care as to economy, at the same time with sufficient regard to its character and stability and necessary requirements for a residence in this variable climate.\n\nThe House, Servants offices, Guard stables, Gate Lodge and House, Gates to offices, laying out and enclosing the ground I propose shall not exceed the original approximate Estimate prepared by Major Aldrich for the House and offices alone; his Estimate amounts to £14,107.8 $69,153.60cts: which I would devote to the above Services in the following manner,\n\n \n House. Stone Work,\n $20,170.\n \n \n Brick Work & Plaster..\n $9,100.\n \n \n Carpenter & Joiner's Work\n $11,500.\n \n \n Plumbing & Bellhanging.\n $4,000.\n \n \n Painting and glazing\n $500.\n \n \n Fittings,\n $7,080.\n \n \n Total for House\n $52,350.\n \n \n Stables, Kitchen, 4 Servants offices,\n $6,000.\n \n \n Gate Lodge and Guard houses\n $2,500.\n \n \n Five side gates and enclosure wall\n $1,200.\n \n \n Enclosing and laying out grounds.\n $800.\n \n \n Contingencies 10 per Cent.\n $6,285.\n \n \n Total\n $69,135.\n \n \n or £14,403.2s.6d. Sterling\n \n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) Charles St. G. Cleverly,\nSurveyor General.\n\n(True Copy)\nManie,\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-024 - Bonham - 1848 [3-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228646, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Step 1: Review the given text for OCR errors and formatting issues.\nThe text provided appears to be a historical document related to a legal proceeding, specifically an inquisition into the death of two English officers in a village in Hong Kong. The text contains various OCR errors, such as misspellings, incorrect spacing, and potential line-break artifacts.\n\n## Step 2: Identify and correct spelling errors.\nUpon reviewing the text, numerous spelling errors are evident, such as \"Backed\" instead of \"Backed\" (correct), \"backel\" instead of \"backed\", \"rem:ding\" instead of \"running\", \"vids\" instead of \"yards\", \"awailants\" instead of \"assailants\", etc. These need to be corrected to their proper spellings.\n\n## Step 3: Fix spacing issues and hyphenation or line-break artifacts.\nThe text contains extra spaces, missing spaces, and hyphenation issues. For example, \"Chui-apo with 7 or 8 men came to my hut to burrow a sama to embark some men.\" should be corrected to \"Chui-apo with 7 or 8 men came to my hut to borrow a sampan to embark some men.\" and \"I tent them my sanipat;\" should be \"I lent them my sampan;\".\n\n## Step 4: Rejoin broken sentences and restore paragraph breaks.\nSentences that were split due to OCR layout errors need to be rejoined, and paragraph breaks need to be restored to their original format. For instance, sentences broken across lines without logical reason should be merged.\n\n## Step 5: Indicate missing words due to OCR damage.\nIf a word is clearly missing, it should be indicated with `...`. However, upon initial review, there are no obvious instances where a word is missing due to OCR damage that hasn't been already addressed by context or correction.\n\n## Step 6: Format the text in Markdown.\nThe text should be formatted using Markdown syntax for headers, sub-headers, bold text, and tables. Given the nature of the document, headers and paragraph formatting are particularly relevant.\n\n## Step 7: Ensure file references are correctly formatted.\nFile references should not have spaces inside parentheses, e.g., `XCR(85)72` is correct.\n\n## Step 8: Preserve page numbering information.\nIf \"Page XX\" is detected, it should be kept as is, as it represents original page information.\n\n## Step 9: Reorder newspaper texts if necessary and reconstruct tables.\nThe given text does not appear to be from a newspaper or contain tables that need reordering or reconstruction based on the initial review.\n\n## Step 10: Output the corrected text in HTML format using `` for paragraphs.\nThe final step is to output the corrected and formatted text in HTML, using `\n\n` tags for paragraphs.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\n7.\n\nJ\n\n0\n\n307\n\nBacked out of the house. They did not attempt to go away before. They were not wounded in the house. When they backed out, they were followed by their assailants and then wounded. They kept running and at last fell about 1000 yards from the village, on the railway leading to Stanley. The wounds they received were mortal. I saw them dying. They were not far from each other. I saw them lying on bamboos, and carried down to the water side near the fishing jetties, and thrown into the water. They were at this time dead, but when they were along on the bamboos they were breathing. When they fell, some of their assailants went back to the village for bamboos and ropes. It was dark when they fell. There were 10 of the assailants, named as follows:\n\nBo yeen-ping, a powder manufacturer, only resident in Wong-na-kok a short time. I think from Wong-kong in Kwei-chuen.\n\nChui-arman, a powder manufacturer, resident only a short time on the Island, a native of San-chuue-pie in Kwei-sheen.\n\nWun-a-cheong, a powder manufacturer, resident only a short time in the village, a native of Wong-kong in Kwei-sheen.\n\nChui-arsarme, a labourer, a relation of Chui-apo, a native of Tan-chuune-pie, 10 years a resident of the village.\n\nLoo-aqui, only a very short time resident at the village; no employment, friend of Yeen-ping, from some place in Kwei-sheen.\n\nChoy-a-hing, 2 or 3 years resident of the village; a labourer, from Nu-...\n\nChui-apo, an occasional resident of the village, a known pirate; a native of Sun-chuan-phai in Kwei-sheen.\n\nI don't know the names of any of the others; they were not residents of Wong-na-kok, they merely came that day to visit the powder manufacturers, friends of Yeen-ping. I correctly identify at least 10 that were concerned in the murder. Chui-apo had the handling of the murdered officers. I did not see any one take their watches or rings. He was the ring leader in the fray. When the officers entered the village, I saw that they carried sticks. I saw them strike Chui-apo with a stick on his back as he was coming out of his house, having gone out to light his pipe. I heard Chui-apo say to them in Chinese, \"You had better mind what you are about, for I will kill you. I have done nothing to you.\" The officers were drunk. They threw stones at everybody who stood to look at them. When they entered my father's house, I also went in. I remained there until the villagers came in armed. In the interval, I saw both my father and mother struck; blood was drawn from both of them. They were both struck on the head. They did not call in the villagers to their assistance; they came of their own accord. All the villagers were looking on during the conflict - over 20. My father and mother called out to the villagers to assist. My mother is now in Stanley. My sister-in-law has gone to Little Hongkong to her mother's. The family name is Cheen. Cheen-ur-ching is the name of my sister-in-law.\n\nLO-YANG-SHING, a native of Hongkong. [This man was taken to Stanley by some officers. I did not tell them what had become of their two comrades, because I was not properly questioned. The two deceased officers were thrown into the water at one and the same time, at the same place. During the conflict, I particularly noticed Chui-apo and Chui-arman. I saw them stab the two officers with spears. I can't say where in the body they were stabbed. I cannot say in which hand the spears were held. Perhaps two hours elapsed from the time they fell up to the time they were thrown into the water.\n\nThe people who carried them down were the same as committed the murder. They were thrown into the water to avoid detection. I did not see any of the party burning the grass. Chui-apo was the man who struck the first blow. I don't know that any of the villagers were wounded. It was the small officer who caressed my sister-in-law - the one with whiskers. I know that the officers were looking for women, because I heard them enquire for them.\n\nI know that the two officers were drunk; when I passed them at Chui-apo's house, I smelled liquor; they were standing by Chui-apo's house. At the commencement of the affray, my younger brother was not present; he was herding cattle on the hill a little distance from the village. When the fight was over, he saw the others fall.\n\nA three-pronged spear is shown to the Deponent. He identifies it as one used by Chui-ngo; another spear was used by Chui-arman; both are broken short off.\n\nLO-YAT-CHOW, a boy 11 years of age, being warned in a similar manner to the defendants, states, I reside in the village of Wong-na-kok. On Sunday last, the 25th February, I was engaged in tending cattle. During the evening, I was returning with them. I saw my sister-in-law carrying two bundles of value into one basket. I saw two English officers in the village. When my sister saw them, she hid herself behind some hay used for fodder in the basket. I went into said hay. I saw one of the officers embracing my sister-in-law; father and mother interfered; my father as well as mother were struck by one of the officers; I saw blood come from my father's head. I did not see any of the villagers go into my father's house armed with spears. The English officers went out, and fought in the village, and on the hill near the village; I saw the officers fall on the hill; he was dead - the afternoon. I went to see him. I saw them both afterwards slung upon bamboos, and carried away. I don't know where they were taken to. The following Chinamen were concerned in the affray: Chui-arman, Wun-a-cheong, Chui-arsarme, Choy-a-hing, Chui-apo. The bodies of the officers were carried past the village, that is, through the village, by the same men who had murdered them. None of these in custody were concerned in the murder. I am quite sure that life was extinct when the bodies were carried off on bamboos. I did not see any of the Chinamen take any watch or rings from the deceased officers.\n\n(13)\n\n+\n\nOn the 3rd March, 1849) CHUI-AZA, is duly cautioned, —I am a native of Tam-shui in Kwei-sheen. I am a fortune-teller; I predict good and bad weather. On Sunday last, I was in the village of Wong-na-kok. On Sunday, the 25th of February, two English officers came into the village. I think they were drunk. They began to go into the various houses there, and assault their inmates. I did not see them go into Chui-apo's house; I saw them go into Lo-yaong-shing's. I do not know what took place there. I saw a fight going on in front of the village. Chui-apo and his men did not go into Lo-yang-shing's house. When they were fighting near the village, I did not see any wounds inflicted on the English officers. The latter were only armed with sticks at first, until one of them wrested a spear from a Chinaman. It was getting late in the evening, and I could not see the end of the struggle. Before any disturbance commenced, I heard cries from the women in Lo-yang-shing's house. It was then that the villagers armed themselves with spears and fought. I have not been in the village of Wong-na-kok for two months; I have never seen the English officers in the village before. When I was at Wong-na-kok, I lived in a room adjoining Chui-apo's. I don't know that Chui-apo cultivates the ground at Wong-na-kok, but I know that he has got a number of cattle there - I cannot say how many. I am 65 years of age.\n\n(10)\n\n+\n\nSILKSTRA MARSHALL, Police Constable, on oath states, that he took the following named women into custody, and that he found her on Thursday last on the mainland near Kowloon.\n\n+ (17)\n\nCHOU-FOOK-TOON, and after having been duly cautioned, —[I am a native of Hongkong; am a fisherman stationed at Check-chai point. I remember Sunday night, the 25th of February. This man does not appear willing to say anything farther.]\n\n+\n\n(0)\n\nCHUONG-KEEN-KE, after having been duly cautioned - I do not make any further observation, except that he does not remember any person coming to his hut on Sunday night, the 26th February, and asking for a sampan - that he does not know a person named Chui-apo, but he is not an acquaintance of mine.\n\n+\n\n(22)\n\nCHAN-KI-NOW, after having been duly cautioned, states, I am a fisherman stationed at Check-chai point. I am a native of Hongkong. [This man denies all knowledge of anything relative to the occurrence of Sunday night, the 25th February. Did not see any men come to his hut and borrow a sampan.]\n\n+\n\nCHOU-MO-YORT, after having been duly cautioned. - I am a sampan man stationed at Check-chui point; am a native of Hongkong. [Says nothing whatever to state relative to the matter in question.]\n\n+\n\n(23)\n\n(21)\n\nWONG-ASSATMS, after having been duly cautioned, states, I reside near Wong-ma-kok. I live in a small hut about three-quarters of a mile from the village. [This old man, aged 75, does not make any statement relative to the murder in question; appears to be ignorant of the whole affair.]\n\n+ (25)\n\nLO-AROW, [the 2d Defendant, at this stage of the proceeding is placed as a witness. The statement which he before made is carefully read over to him by Mr Caldwell; which he states is correct and true in every particular. He is now sworn as to its correctness; and further attests on oath.] - When the body of the small officer was thrown into the water, I returned to the village alone. Chui-apo and his men returned also to the village. They left shortly afterwards, on hearing the voice of foreigners. They went to Stanley - I don't know whether by water or land. [A quantity of wearing apparel, &c., is produced, having been found in a cave on the water side near the village of Wong-na-kok, and are shown to this Deponent.] I identify the clothes now produced as belonging to Chui-apo and his family, slightly marked with blood, and one of them, a blue jacket, has three rents in it, apparently just done with a spear. Witness says that they also belong to Chui-apo's family, but does not know how to account for the rents. Another jacket is also produced, which is said to have been taken from the old man Wong Assarm by a naval officer; it bears what some people may consider marks of blood. Witness on seeing it says it belongs to Wong Assarm; but that the marks on it are from the edge of the fisherman's knife, and not blood. - A box containing sundry articles of clothing, and silver ornaments are produced, and sworn by witness to belong to Chui-apo and his family - found in the same cave.] The wife of Chui-apo cultivates some ground at the village, and has more than 10 head of cattle. I could point out scores of them.\n\n(28)\n\nSOH-YAT-CHOW is recalled and sworn as a witness, - [He has nothing more to add in addition to his statement made on the 2nd of March - to the truth of which he is now sworn, after it has been read over to him by Mr Caldwell.]\n\nTaken before me on the date above written,\n\nCHARLES G. HOLDFORTH, A Coroner for the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nThe Inquisition is here closed, when the Jury give this\n\nVERDICT.\n\nAn inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady the Queen, at the House of the Central Police Station situated in Cochrane Street, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the 1st, 2, 3, 4, and 5th day of March in the Year of our Lord 1849, before Charles Gordon Holtforth, gentleman, the Coroner of our said Lady the Queen for the said Colony, on view of the Body of Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa, a Captain of Engineers, then lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert Strachan, William Henry Mitchell, James Smith, Thurstan Dale, William Frazer Bevan, Samuel Gray, good and lawful Men of the said Colony, duly chosen; and who, being then and there duly sworn, and charged to inquire for our said Lady the Queen, when, how, and by what means the said Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa came to his death, do upon their Oaths say, - That Chui-apo, Ho-yeen-ping, Chui-arman, Wun-a-cheong, Chui-arsarme, Loo-aqui, Chay-ahing, and others to the Jurors at present unknown, late of the village of Wong-ma-kok in the Colony aforesaid, Labourers, on the 25th day of February in the Year aforesaid, with force and arms at Wong-ma-kok aforesaid, in the Colony aforesaid, in and upon the said Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa, in the peace of God and of our said Lady the Queen then and there being, feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought did make an assault upon him the said Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa; and so that the said Chui-apo, Ho-yeen-ping, Chui-arman, Wun-a-cheong, Chui-arsarme, Loo-aqui, Chay-ahing, and others to the Jurors aforesaid unknown, him the said Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought did kill and Murder, against the peace of our said Lady the Queen, Her Crown and Dignity. And the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Chui-apo, Ho-yeen-ping, Chui-arman, Wun-a-cheong, Chui-arsarme, Loo-aqui, Chay-ahing, and others to the Jurors aforesaid unknown, after the doing and committing of the Felony and Murder aforesaid, withdrew and fled for the same; and the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Chui-apo at the time of the doing and committing of the Felony and Murder aforesaid had Goods and Chattels, - to Wit, ten Cows, otherwise Cattle, which remain in the Custody of Charles May, Superintendent of Police.\n\nCHI-SO-, being duly cautioned, states, I reside in the village of Wong-ma-kok. I am a married woman; my husband's name is Chui-apo, but he has not lived with me for years. I married him 10 years ago. He lives in the next house to me. I was in Wong-ma-kok on Sunday, the 25th of February last, but don't know what occurred there. I was sick in bed, and neither heard nor saw any occurrence. I left the village because the other people did. They left because the Police interfered. I don't know where Chui-apo has gone to. Chui-apo left me because I am too old for him. I am 63 years old. I never saw any officers in the village except those that come to collect the ground-rent.\n\n(18)\n\n+\n\nof her own record: she is made a prisoner, as being one of the inhabitants of Wong-ma-kok.]\n\n\"And would set out.\" - Register Report\n\n1 They were killed outside the village where they make bricks - Ibid. The spot where the blood and marks of scuffle were afterwards found.\n\nWhen they died.\" - 7812. ipitate.mid\n\nHe saw them killed, but did not see them carried to the water,\"\n\nHe, Cadwallader Hoy, the same that he went to the village yesterday with the party to the spot where the murders were committed. Captain De Costa had only got about 50 or 60 yards from the bay. And Mr Dwyer had 150 yards, where the bodies were found. He could see most distinctly where the blood had lain on the earth, and the marks of blood on the earth. The grass had been burnt where the bodies had lain. The earth bore evident marks of a struggle. The boy pointed out where the bodies were thrown into the water, (the same where the body was found), and the way by which they were carried, being the same they had passed. Evidently traced by the marks of blood. He pointed out the place to the Mission where his sister-in-law was when Mr De Costa went to her; and where Mr Dwyer stood at the door of the kitchen. Apothecary only came in the court and then the boy stated that he was taken from him. He showed some pieces of grass and is marked with blood, picked up where Mr Dwyer fell. The grass there is covered with blood.\" - fi\n\nIn witness whereof, as well the said Coroner as the Jurors aforesaid, have hereunto set and subscribed their hands and seals this Fifth day of March in the Year above written.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN. WILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL. JAMES SMITH.\n\nCHARLES G. HOLDFORTH,\n\nCoroner for the Colony of Hongkong\n\nTHURSTAN DALE. WILLIAM FRAZER BRYAN. SAMUEL GRAY.\n\n* According to the Paper's various she gave her bad character\n\nDuring the inquiry, but she did not know his status\n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "content_text": "42\n\nThis brings me to the last question: whether a union of the naval victualling department with the Commissariat, would be practicable? a question which would seem to hinge upon so many collateral circumstances, that I feel unable, for want of sufficient information as to the nature and extent of the proposed duty, to submit a decided opinion with respect to it.\n\nFrom the large squadron of ships of war which may always be expected at this the head quarters of the Indian station, it may be inferred that the duty is very extensive; that it would require our full authorized establishment to carry it on; and that the capacity of our magazines would be inadequate to the maintenance of a proper stock of supplies, while those insecure ones now used by the naval storekeeper, are from one to two miles distant from us. At some stations, like, for instance, the Australian Colonies, all victualling stores are certainly supplied by the Commissariat for naval purposes; but the issues are confined to perhaps two or three small vessels in the course of a year, and conducted under the Commissariat regulations, which are drawn up with reference to military authority alone; while at this station there are now one line of battle-ship, one frigate, three war-steamers, four or five sloops of war, a store-ship, and one for hospital purposes, with a naval Commander-in-chief, who, together with the Lords of the Admiralty, might not in transactions of such magnitude and importance as must thus arise, like to depend altogether upon any department not under their own immediate authority and control.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\nEXPENSE of the Commissariat Department at Hong Kong for one year.\n\nPay and\n\n43\n\nQUANTITY and Estimated Value of Provisions, Fuel, &c., in Her Majesty's Commissariat Magazines, at Hong Kong on the 31st March, 1849.\n\n \n Articles.\n Quantity.\n Estimated cost in sterling.\n \n \n Fuel, coal\n tons lbs.\n £. S. d.\n \n \n Provisions\n \n \n \n \n Salt meat.\n 63,550 lbs.\n 1,589 0 0\n \n \n Ghee\n 4,849\n 121 4 6\n \n \n Turmeric\n 6,584\n 54 9 0\n \n \n Arrow root\n 135.0.0.0\n 253 15 0\n \n \n Hospital supplies.\n \n \n \n \n Sago\n 1,509 lbs.\n 188 6 8\n \n \n \n 125\n 2 12\n \n \n Preserved meat,\n 3,691\n 184 11 0\n \n \n Soup concent. pts.\n 114\n 5 14 0\n \n \n Rum\n 222 gallons\n 20 7 0\n \n \n Vinegar\n 100\n 5 0 0\n \n \n Amounting to\n £2,424 19 4\n \n\n(Signed)\n\nCommissariat Office, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\nJNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\n \n Rank and name.\n Pay and allowances of each individual for one year.\n Remarks.\n \n \n Assistant Commissary-General Smith\n £ S. d. 591 6 3\n In charge and general superintendence of department, with the preparation of all contracts both for commissariat and ordnance services; correspondence and negotiation of bills on the Treasury, to raise money for every public service in the colony, a very responsible and delicate duty, which in the last year ending 31st March has yielded a profit of £2,949 10s. 6d., or £1,164 9s. 3d. more than the whole expense of the department.\n \n \n Deputy Assistant Commissary-General Carpenter\n 317 7 0\n Sub-accountant in charge of the commissariat chest and cash accounts, with all the detail payments to army, navy, ordnance, and advances for colonial services, together with the voluminous transactions arising therefrom; the annual expenditure being £157,305 6s. 3d. sterling.\n \n \n Treasury clerk, Fagan\n 248 17 6\n Sub-accountant in charge of the store duties and transport, with the numerous returns and accounts connected therewith; member of a standing board of survey on commissariat supplies; superintends contractors; checks their accounts; and as an efficient officer, is ready at a moment's notice for any out-post duty that may be required. Assists generally as required in keeping the books, making up accounts, filling up Treasury bills, and copying documents.\n \n \n Temporary clerk, J. A. Brooks\n 187 10 0\n Attends to the receipt and issue of provisions, fuel, &c. in detail, and superintends store-men.\n \n \n One issuer\n 60 10 0\n Attends to the receipt and issue of provisions, fuel, &c.\n \n \n One assistant issuer at Stanley\n 22 0 0\n and charge of commissariat store at Stanley,\n \n \n Compradore, shroff, coolies, boatmen, and contingencies\n 357 10 0\n \n \n \n Total for one year\n £1785 1 3 sterling.\n \n \n\nCommissariat Office, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\nLIST of other Buildings besides Stores in possession of the Commissariat Department at Hong Kong.\n\n \n Description.\n Purpose for which each building is appropriated.\n \n \n A dwelling house of granite and brick, hired by the respective officers of Ordnance, at £500 per annum.\n \n \n \n GROUND FLOOR.\n \n \n \n 1 Room, mea. 24 × 20 feet\n Cash office, &c.\n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Dwelling-room for office keeper, coolies, &c.\n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Issuer's office\n \n \n 1 Ditto, 24 × 20\n \n \n \n 1 Ditto, 20 x 13\n \n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Money vault\n \n \n 1 Ditto, 15 × 19\n Ante-room to money vault\n \n \n 1 Ditto, 9×9\n \n \n \n FIRST FLOOR.\n \n \n \n 1 Room, mea, 24 x 20 feet\n Office of senior commissariat officer\n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Provision office\n \n \n 2 Ditto, 24 x 20\n Quarters for three officers\n \n \n SECOND FLOOR.\n \n \n \n 4 Rooms, mea, each 24 × 20 feet\n Servants rooms, kitchen and stables\n \n \n Outhouses, viz.,\n \n \n\nThe stores belonging to this building are described with the Government stores.\n\n(Signed) JNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\nCommissariat Office, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\nG 2\n\n141", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234453, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "No. 11.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 6. No. 7.\n\nNo. 8.\n\nNo. 9.\n\nNo. 10.\n\n2\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\n39,017 persons, exclusive of troops. As to the climate, the report of Dr. Harland, the acting colonial surgeon, appended to the Blue Book, contains very accurate statistical information connected with this subject. The sanitary condition of the colonial gaol is given in the enclosed return from the acting sheriff, which shows that amongst its inmates, averaging 138 throughout the year, only three deaths occurred, and all in January. According to the enclosed memorandum, the mortality amongst the European troops was 5.7 per cent., being an increase over that of 1852, when it was 3.6 per cent. The number of deaths amongst the native troops (Malays and natives of India) was at the rate of 5.3 per cent., being a decrease of nearly 50 per cent. on the mortality during 1852, when it amounted to 10.02 per cent.\n\nEducation.\n\n7. No remarkable change has taken place in the number of the local schools; and as to the progress of the five native ones receiving Government aid, I would refer your Grace to the annexed report of the education committee entering fully into the subject.\n\nTrade.\n\n8. The information under this head, from the unwillingness of the parties concerned to afford it (Hong Kong being a free port), may still be said to be as defective as in former years; but from the acting harbour master's returns annexed to the Blue Book, it will be perceived that 1,103 square-rigged vessels, carrying altogether 447,053 tons, arrived in Victoria harbour during the year 1853. Of these vessels, 201 imported and 154 exported goods into and from the colony, being a very considerable increase over the numbers returned for 1852, when they amounted to 74 and 79 vessels respectively. The total tonnage of vessels arrived, as compared with that of the preceding year, is also on the increase, and shows an excess of 13,670 tons in 1853. The enclosed return of imports and exports for the year 1853, by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers alone, gives the following result when compared with the previous year:\n\n11.\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.\n\nI beg to transmit herewith two statements for the year 1853, showing respectively, the causes under cognizance at the chief magistrate's office and the Court of Petty Sessions, and the criminal cases tried in the Supreme Court; also, a return of the number of civil cases tried and actions commenced in the Supreme and Vice Admiralty Courts, during the same period.\n\nGeneral Observations.\n\n12. As I am about to quit the colony in a few days, after having administered its government for upwards of six years, I beg to annex some statistical tables showing its rise and progress from 1848, the date of my taking charge of it. From these, your Grace will observe that the call on the home Government for parliamentary grant has been reduced from 25,000l. to 8,500l. for the current year; that the expenditure has been reduced from 62,658l. to 36,418l.; that the number of square-rigged vessels frequenting the port has increased from 700 to 1,103, while their tonnage is nearly double; and that the population has in like manner advanced 82 per cent. during the past six years. In conclusion, I have no hesitation in saying, that were this colony taxed in the same way as are the settlements in the straits under the government of the East India Company, it could in a year or two be made to pay its own expenses, without the efficiency of the government being impaired; but I have considered myself bound by the opinions expressed by the committee of the House of Commons, in the session of 1847, upon our commercial relations with China, and in consequence refrained from the imposition of any new taxes. I must, however, with great deference say, after an experience of twenty-two years in the settlements of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca, and six at Hong Kong, I am by no means satisfied with the conclusions which the committee appears to have arrived at in this respect.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nS. G. BONHAM.\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, &c. &c. &c.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n222\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo. 12.\n\nNo. 13.\n\nNo. 14.\n\nNo. 15.\n\nEncl. 2 in No. 7.\n\n1\n\n \n Imports.\n 36,499;\n Increase\n $10,776,085;\n \n \n Chests of opium\n 20,752\n $10,659,774\n \n \n \n Exports.\n \n \n $3,742,914\n \n \n Treasure\n \n $2,331,931;\n Decrease\n \n\nWith regard to the native trade of the colony, I am satisfied it has increased in an equal ratio with the population; but, unfortunately, no reliable statistics on the subject can be given, owing to the absence of any means of obtaining regular returns.\n\nThe trade with California has continued undiminished, no less than 32 vessels having left for that port during the past year, conveying in them 4,949 Chinese; three vessels have likewise left for the colonies, carrying 268 emigrants.\n\nCrown Lands.\n\n9. The following statement is an abstract of the rent roll for 1853, and exhibits the fixed revenue under this head:\n\n \n Lands leased by mercantile firms\n £4,721\n 12\n 4\n \n \n Private individuals\n £4,439\n 8\n 10\n \n \n Chinese\n £1,586\n 10\n 9\n \n \n \n £10,747\n 12\n 0\n \n\nPolice.\n\n10. The enclosed return of felony cases coming under the cognizance of the police, shows a decrease of fifty-two cases in 1853.\n\nSIR,\n\nSurveyor General's Department, Victoria, Hong Kong, March 27, 1854.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit my annual report upon the public works undertaken during the last year.\n\nBuildings.\n\nNew Government House progressed very slowly indeed, in consequence of the partial failure of the contractor, and a strike amongst the masons to whom a considerable sum of money being due, I was obliged to make arrangements myself for payment, and enter into agreements for the completion of certain unfinished portions, both of the stonework and brickwork, in accordance with the terms of the contract, which empowered me to do so, charging the cost of the several portions against the amount of contract. By these means I have been enabled to expedite the work in some degree, and force the contractor to attend to his own interest, by a closer attendance to his duties and the regular payment of the men. With regard to the workmanship, I have the greatest satisfaction in stating that it is of the very best description, and would do credit to European artisans. I have adopted every expedient I could devise for the preservation of the timber, by giving to it ample ventilation, by saturation in a solution of arsenic, and coating it with coal tar according to circumstances, which my experience in buildings here has taught me to be essentially necessary for the prevention of dry rot, and the destructive effects of white ants.\n\nContracts have been entered into for the erection of the stables, kitchen and servants' quarters, as well as for the guardhouse or lodge, considerably within the estimate. The whole of the works required for the completion of the service will be completed and the premises fit for occupation about the end of the present year. Expenditure during the year, £3,843. 3s. 6d.\n\nDebtors' gaol, guardhouse and gaoler's house (Report and estimate, No. 5 of 1851). The two last-named buildings were commenced at the latter end of the year 1852, and the service is now fast approaching completion. The site for the debtors' gaol being occupied, this building was not commenced until the month of August last. Expenditure during the year, £1,153l. 8s. 4d.\n\nA new police station for Wong-nei-chung, upon the site of Leighton's Godown, was authorized under Report and estimate No. 19 of 1853, and commenced in the month of August.\n\nSite (and road to) Government House (Report and estimate No. 11 of 1853). A", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241934, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 360, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "No. 82.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n[MAY 23, 1857.\n\nMAY 23, 1857.]\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nIt is hereby notified that, on and after Monday, the 25th instant, the Garrison Gun will be fired at 8 o'clock P.M.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d May, 1857.\n\nNo. 83,\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.\n\nWhereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN have been received through The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, disallowing Ordinance No. 15 of 1856, entitled—\n\n\"An Ordinance for amending the Law of Evidence and Trial by Jury\"; -\n\nNotice is hereby given of the same, and the provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid are declared to be null and void, and of no effect.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 23d Day of May, 1857.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 78.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands at Aberdeen, for the Construction of Docks, will be held at the Surveyor General's Office on Monday, the First day of June next; the sale to commence at Three o'clock in the Afternoon.\n\nAfter which, one Lot on the Queen's Road, near the Old Protestant Burial Ground, will be sold on the ground. Plans of the Lots to be sold and the Conditions of Sale, which, with regard to the Docks are very special, may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.\n\nThe following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the sale is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th May, 1857.\n\nSchedule of Lots of Land proposed to be Sold.\n\n \n ORDER OF SALE\n LOCALITY\n BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS\n CONTENT IN SQUARE FEET\n FIXED ANNUAL RENT\n \n \n 1 (For Docks)\n Marine, ABERDEEN\n N. 600, S. 600, E. 840, W. 840\n 1 1/4 Acres\n £100\n \n \n 2 (id)\n Marine, ABERDEEN\n N. 600, S. 600, E. 840, W. 840\n 1 1/4\n \n \n \n 9\n Inland, VICTORIA, Queen's Road East\n N. 40, S. 40, E. 100, W. 100\n 4,000\n £0 0 100 0\n \n\nTaos. L. WALKER, Acting Surveyor General\n\nPUBLIC SALE\n\nANE, CRAWFORD & Co, have been instructed by the Administrator to the Estate of the late N. CROSBY, Jr., to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,--\n\nThe whole of the STOCK-IN-TRADE appertaining to the SHIPCHANDLERY business of the deceased, consisting of an Extensive assortment of Russian and Manila Ropa, Flax and Cotton SAILCLOTH and TWINE, BLOCKS, NAILS, TAR, PITCH, PAINTS, OIL, TURPENTINE, BUNTING, BEEF, PORK, BRANDY, WINE VINEGAR FLOUR, CANDLES, SOAP, and a great variety of other valuable Goods.\n\nAfterwards,\n\nThe HOUSEHOLD and COUNTING-HOUSE FURNITURE, viz., Dining, Toilet, and Side TABLES, COUCHES, CHAIRS, BEDSTEADS, WARDROBES, PICTURES, CURTAINS, &c., complete KITCHEN RANGE, & very large patent iron TREASURE-CHEST, DESKS, TABLES, COUNTERS, &c., &c., &c.\n\nAnd,\n\n1 WATER-BOAT, with FORCE-PUMP, SAILS, and FITTINGS.\n\nThe Goods will be put up in Lots to suit Purchasers.\n\nAlso,\n\nby order of the Mortgagee, will be sold,-All that PIECE or PARCEL of GROUND, situate, lying, and being in Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, abutting on the North side thereof on the Sea at high-water mark, and measuring thereon SEVENTY-THREE feet on the South side thereof, on the Queen's Road, and measuring thereon EIGHTY feet; on the East side thereof, on a close registered in the Land Office, at Victoria aforesaid, as Marine Lot number Seven, in the name of George Thomas Braine, and measuring thereon ONE HUNDRED AND TEN FEET; and on the West side thereof, on a close registered in the said Land Office, as Marine Lot number Sixty-two, in the name of Douglas Lapraik, and measuring thereon ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN FEET,-which said Piece or Parcel of Ground contains in the whole 8,855 SQUARE FEET and is registered in the Land Office as MARINE LOT NUMBER SIXTY-SIX-YEARLY RENT £68,13,2,—with the MESSUAGES, DWELLING-HOUSES, and BUILDINGS thereon erected.\n\nFor Particulars, apply to G. C. TURNER, Esq., or the Auctioneers.\n\nThe sale of the Ground and Landed Property will take place on Mr Caosay's premises, on MONDAY, the 1st day of June, 1857, at Noon precisely; and that of the Stock-in-Trade and Household Furniture on FRIDAY, the 5th day of June, 1857, commencing at 11 o'clock a.m.-it being understood, that the Transfer of the former need not be effected sooner than the 12th June, thus affording sufficient time for the delivery of the Goods.\n\nTERMS OF SALE.—One-third the Purchase-money to be paid, if required, on the fall of the Hammer; and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer. The GROUND RENT, from the 25th December, 1856, to be paid by the Purchaser.\n\nHongkong, 21st May, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Firm of BUYERS & Co., SHIPWRIGHTS, will cease to exist from this date; and the Business will in future be carried on by the undersigned in his own name.\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1857.\n\nJ. C. COWPER.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.\n\nIn the Estate of NATHANIEL CROSBY, J. Esquire, late of the Queen's Road, Victoria, Ship-chandler, deceased,\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of the above named have been granted to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK, of Victoria aforesaid, Merchant; and that all persons having any Claims to the said Estate, or who are indebted, are requested to send in and pay the same to the said DOUGLAS LAPRAIK,\n\n4. COOPER TURNER, Proctor for the Administrator,\n\nDated 13th March, 1857.\n\nIn re DAVID SIMEON, deceased,\n\nNOTICE,-All Claims against the above Estate, must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR before the 13th day of November, A.D. 1857, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.\n\nAll persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to make immediate Payment to-\n\nNORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator,\n\nPENINSULAR & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steam-ship “NORNA,” Capt. ROGERS, with Her Majesty's \"Mails, Passenger, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 25th May, at 2 P.M. CARGO will be received on board until Noon on the 23d; SPECIE until Noon on the 24th; and PARCELS until 4 P.M. on the 24th.\n\nFor Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.\n\nCONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED,\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels ; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.\n\nROBT. S. WALKER,\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,\n\nHongkong, 12th May, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr HENRY DAVIS in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 22d Instant.\n\nDAVIS & LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 28th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\n355\n\nIn the Estate of TSOO-A-TUCK, of Victoria, Carpenter, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith,\n\nTSOO-A-TUCK, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 18th February, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of CHARLES MARKWICK, late Auctioneer, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned. All Claims against the Estate must be sent in before the 1st day of October, 1857, and all parties indebted are requested to make immediate payment to\n\nG. DUDDELL, D. LAPRAIK,\n\nExecutors.\n\nHongkong, 11th April, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of GEORGE DOWMAN, Master Mariner, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned without delay.\n\nH. MAGNIAC,\n\nM. A. MACLEOD, Administrators.\n\nHongkong, 24th March, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith.\n\nHENRY RUTTER, Administrator,\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nIn Equity,\n\nMURROW, STEPHENSON.\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED,—that all monies now or henceforth to become payable to the late firm of MURROW, STEPHENSON AND COMPANY, be paid to JOSEPH FROST EDGER, Esq., (or his Deputy, he having been lawfully appointed Receiver in the said suit, by virtue of an Order of this Honourable Court; the receipts of the said JOSEPH FROST EDGER being alone good discharges for such monies.\n\nDated the 13th day of November, 1856.\n\nGASKELL & BROWN. Complainant's Solicitors,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, CHEONG ALLUM, late of the ESSING Shop, Victoria, Hongkong, are requested to forward particulars to Mr E. K. STACE, Solicitor, &c., Queen's Road.\n\nCHEONG ALLUM.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, March, 1857.\n\n亞霖謹啟\n\n店昇裕\n\n查明〇丁\n\n十七日張\n\n已 年二月\n\n士新\n\n爹機客\n\n月丁便時單數\n\nFOR SALE\n\nAt the Office of the “ China Mail.\"\n\n張亞霖欠\n\nForms of POWERS OF ATTORNEY, BILLS OF EXCHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECK BOOKS, SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest form of SHIP'S BILL OF SALE.\n\nBLANEY, WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES,\n\nAlso,\n\nSAILING DIRECTIONS for the RIVER MIN ;\n\nAnd,\n\nA Table, shewing the COST OF TEA, with all CHARGES-Tea, as bought by the Picul, and sold by the Pound Avoirdupois.\n\n19th March, 1857.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.— PRICE, $12 per Annum. $1 Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, -Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents; half of these charges for each Repetition.\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "# OFFICE OF SURVEYOR GENERAL\n## ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED FOR Government House and improvements to Gardens\n\nAt the time that Hong Kong was first lighted with Gas, Twelve Lamp Posts or Brackets were placed at the different entrances or within the grounds of Government House. Gas was not however laid on to the interior of the Building, no provision having been made in the Estimate for the necessary expenditure.\n\nIt is proposed to adapt the present lamps for Gas in the entrance Hall, Central Hall, Reception Room and Ante Room, the other lights required will be supplied from the Kitchen Department by the Hong Kong and China Gas Company. In the Central Hall it is proposed to place a Sun Burner for night use, the 4 Light Grecian lamp being sufficient for such occasions. By this arrangement all cutting into the walls for Pipes to brackets will be avoided. The service will be undertaken by the Hong Kong and China Gas Company.\n\nConsiderable improvements have been made during the last year to the Government House Gardens by cutting down the rough brushwood on the North and East sides, trimming and sodding the slopes &c., the greater part of this work has been executed by Convicts and it is with the view of completing these arrangements that this Report and Estimate are submitted.\n\n## Approved,\nW.T. Mercer \n(Signed), \nActing Governor.\n\n| Item | Cost | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Chandelier (new) with shades & Globes complete for Billiard Room | | $120 |\n| 3/2 | $38 | |\n| | $6 | |\n| | $12 | |\n| | $8 | |\n| | $16 | $80 |\n| St. Bernard Billiard Lamp with shades Complete | | $50 |\n| | | $50 |\n| | | $15 |\n| | | $50 |\n| Forward | | $855.36 |\n\nPage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266688, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "content_text": "Stewards Bath Room.\n\nRemarks.\n\n12 Old China Presses\n\n2/1. Meat safe\n\n1 Cellar\n\n9 Wine Bins\n\n17 Samps Condemned\n\nto be scrapped\n\n22 Racks for Wine Chills\n\none Cash Roller\n\n1 Bottle Rack\n\nLamp Room.\n\n212 Black chairs\n\n1 Duster for Cleaning Samps\n\n1 An oil Box\n\n4 Reflector Bracket Samps\n\n10 Brilliant Samps\n\n3 Small Brass China Samps\n\n3 Figured Bronze Pedestal Samps\n\n2 Pedestal Samps\n\nBoiler Room.\n\n2 Black wood arm chairs came bottom\n\nHigh backed.\n\nVegetable Larder.\n\nMeat safe\n\nDuster\n\n1 Cup Board\n\nMiscellaneous\n\n1 Garden Engine with Hose\n\n2 Fresh Tank\n\nBroken\n\nBadly damaged\n\nAll broken.\n\nOne missing the rest useless all broken.\n\nBroken\n\nBoth shades and\n\nChimneys hollow\n\nKitchen\n\n2 Tables\n\n1 Dresser with Drawers\n\nRemarks.\n\nBoth much worn and\n\n259\n\n...differed\n\nCondensed ...lobe sold replaced.\n\n(Signed) F. Frith\n\nColonial Treasurer:\n\n(\n\nM. Milano,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\n)\n\nHopton S. Stewards;\n\nPrivate Secretary & A.D.C.\n\nICT\n\nC\n\n(True Copy)\n\nAn the Acting Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287591, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "content_text": "Hongkong\n\nNo 981.\n\n9th April, 1872.\n\nEverver\n\nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell,\n\nto\n\nSt. Co. Mbler C\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley.\n\nFurniture. Government House.\n\nComplete printed list of -\n\ntransmitted\n\nware-\n\nas last sent\n\nAdditional - furniture plated\n\nChina - glass by Colony- list of\n\never\n\ntransmitted?\n\nC\n\n150\n\nRN\n\nWARE, CHINA, GLASS, KITCHEN UTENSILS,\n\nuse of the property of\n\nHONGKONG, and being\n\n(2 Enclosures)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287595, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "content_text": "ARTICLES.\n\nVERANDAHS.\n\nNorth.\n\n(6)\n\nREMARKS.\n\n1 Door Mat, 5 feet square,\n\n2 Circular Gas Lamps.\n\n6 Two-light Candle Brackets.\n\n1 Scraper.\n\n6 Cane Arm Chairs.\n\n1 Thermometer (Max. and Min.),\n\nIn bad order.\n\nSlightly out of order.\n\nWest.\n\n1 Old China Press.\n\n1 Large Ice Box.\n\n1 Clothes Dresser.\n\n5 Granite Pedestals.\n\n1 Filter.\n\n1 Stand for Bottles.\n\n2 Old Tables.\n\n1 Small Filter,\n\n1 Cane Office Chair.\n\n2 Plate Warmers.\n\n1 Ice Box.\n\n1 Table for Milk with Zinc Cover.\n\n1 Freezing Machine.\n\n1 Churn.\n\n1 Glass Filter.\n\n1 Tin Lined Case,\n\n3 Old Mats.\n\nSouth.\n\n4 Black-wood Canton Chairs.\n\n2 New Rugs.\n\n1 Door Mat.\n\n4 Circular Gas Lamps.\n\n4 Brackets each 2 Candles.\n\nGlass Shades for Do.\n\n1 Scraper\n\n9 Cane Chairs.\n\nSTEWARD'S ROOM.\n\n1 Round Table with Green Table Cover.\n\n3 Large Presses for Plate, &c.\n\n1 Mat Sofa.\n\nFender and Irons.\n\n1 Small Side Table,\n\n1 Desk.\n\n6 Cane Chairs.\n\nARTICLES.\n\n(7)\n\nREMARKS.\n\n133\n\nSCULLERY.\n\n1 Cup-board.\n\n1 Dresser.\n\n1 Table.\n\nCELLARS.\n\n1 Stand or Bottle Rack.\n\n14 Wine Bins.\n\n2 Cask Racks.\n\n2 Bottle Racks.\n\n1 Cask Stand.\n\nDELF ROOM.\n\nOut of repair.\n\n2 Teak-wood Presses.\n\nBOY'S ROOM.\n\nWood eaten by white ants.\n\n1 Chamber.\n\n1 Small Wash Stand.\n\n1 Old Cane Sofa.\n\n3 Black-wood Arm Chairs.\n\n1\n\nDo. High-backed.\n\n1 Old Dresser.\n\n2 Old Presses.\n\nIn bad order, needs new cloth.\n\n2 Tables,\n\nKITCHEN.\n\n1 broken.\n\n2 Dressers with Drawers.\n\n2 Kitchen Dressers.\n\n1 Roasting Screen.\n\n1 Table.\n\nSTABLE.\n\n2 Glass Harness Presses.\n\nVEGETABLE LARDER.\n\n1 New Meat Safe.\n\n1 Cup-Board,\n\nVery old.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290936, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "ARTICLES.\n\nVERANDAHS.\n\nNorth.\n\n(6)\n\nREMARKS.\n\n1 Door Mat, 5 feet square,\n\n2 Circular Gas Lamps.\n\n6 Two-light Candle Brackets.\n\n1 Scraper.\n\n6 Cane Arm Chairs.\n\n1 Thermometer (Max. and Min.),\n\nIn bad order.\n\nSlightly out of order.\n\n1 Old China Press.\n\n1 Large Ice Box.\n\nWest.\n\n1 Clothes Dresser.\n\n5 Granite Pedestals.\n\n1 Filter.\n\n1 Stand for Bottles.\n\n2 Old Tables.\n\n1 Small Filter,\n\n1 Cane Office Chair.\n\n2 Plate Warmers.\n\n1 Ice Box.\n\n1 Table for Milk with Zinc Cover.\n\n1 Freezing Machine.\n\n1 Churn.\n\n1 Glass Filter.\n\n1 Tin Lined Case,\n\n3 Old Mats.\n\nSouth.\n\n4 Black-wood Canton Chairs.\n\n2 New Rugs.\n\n1 Door Mat.\n\n4 Circular Gas Lamps.\n\n4 Brackets each 2 Candles.\n\nGlass Shades for\n\n1 Scraper\n\n9 Cane Chairs.\n\nDo.\n\nSTEWARD'S ROOM.\n\n1 Round Table with Green Table Cover.\n\n3 Large Presses for Plate, &c.\n\n1 Mat Sofa.\n\nFender and Irons.\n\n1 Small Side Table,\n\n1 Desk.\n\n6 Cane Chairs.\n\nARTICLES.\n\n(7)\n\nREMARKS.\n\nSCULLERY.\n\n1 Cup-board.\n\n1 Dresser.\n\n1 Table.\n\nCELLARS.\n\n1 Stand or Bottle Rack.\n\n14 Wine Bins,\n\n2 Cask Racks.\n\n2 Bottle Racks.\n\n1 Cask Stand.\n\nOut of repair.\n\nDELF ROOM.\n\n2 Teak-wood Presses.\n\nWood eaten by white ants.\n\nIn bad order, needs new cloth.\n\n1 Chamber.\n\nBOY'S ROOM.\n\n1 Small Wash Stand.\n\n1 Old Cane Sofa.\n\n3 Black-wood Arm Chairs.\n\n1 Do. High-backed.\n\n1 Old Dresser.\n\n2 Old Presses,\n\n2 Tables,\n\nKITCHEN.\n\n1 broken.\n\n2 Dressers with Drawers.\n\n2 Kitchen Dressers.\n\n1 Roasting Screen.\n\n1 Table.\n\nSTABLE.\n\n2 Glass Harness Presses.\n\nVEGETABLE LARDER.\n\n1 New Meat Safe.\n\n1 Cup-Board,\n\nVery old.\n\n100", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298146, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "content_text": "69\n\nwide and 18\" apart. The drugstore cupboard and dispensary fitted with six tiers of shelving 8\" apart and 6\" wide, the lowest tier being 3\" from floor.\n\nwith three tiers of shelves 14\" wide and 14\" apart above them: all on proper c... brackets as before. A shelf 1/2\" thick with rounded front edge to be fixed in recess at side of Kitchen fire plan steam Kettles. Four tiers of shelving 12\" wide to be fixed in kitchen wallery inside and in small store cupboard adjoining it on C. I. brackets of approved pattern.\n\nProvide and fix three wrought and beaded plate-racks, and repair its 21/2\" x 2\", bottom rail 271/2\" x 2\", top cross rail and intermediate upright 271/2\" x 11/2\", divided into compartments by round division rails 1\" x 1/2\". Paint and varnish into contrasts at distances apart so as to table soup flats, dishes and large and small plates: the racks to be of the following sizes: in ward Culleries of large wards 3'6\" x 3'6\", Kitchen scullery 4'6\" x 3'6\", in sculleries of segregation wards 3'6\" x 2'4\". Each rack to be provided with a brick surround of the same width and depth as the rack, sides and ends of 3/4\" stuff, wrought one side, laid flat and lined with zinc to head with drip pike to slope underneath. Wrought and framed deal case for stand in larder 4'6\" x 3'6\", legs square and framed 4\"x3\" dished to bulge of casks.\n\nProvide and fix a cast wrought iron tea hook screwed to 4 x 1/2\" rail across larder.\n\n7. 2 Sloftinks - Provide and fix where shown in plans sloftinks in laundry;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301255, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 383, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "Share have the plans backed with calico,\n\nRift Back the paper till they,\n\nagur\n\nJago.\n\nJoss\n\nAt\n\n2.9/4\n\nREGION Ap 10\n\nwh\n\nthat the space available for exercion gards is too small to allow of their radiating blocks suspended by M. Pinn; and thick with Caft: Omming that the existing blocks should be removed,\n\nthe frent Witt,\n\n17\n\nHospital converted.\n\nthe purposes.\n\narend\n\nthe\n\nНовов\n\nBut I antidy subject to\n\nsuction tus présent rétablishunts in\n\nHow\n\nsccupying that site (including, if\n\nLemay, removed\n\nthe\n\nPolice Kitchen, te\n\n4h\n\n381\n\nx/ the site of the Magistrates' offices,\n\n& the latter,\n\neste\n\nwww\n\nA\n\nperfreed by the Pain, will\n\nWe should note for plans to c\n\nCarry\n\nthis suggestion, with full details as to\n\nspace\n\n1\n\nentirely\n\nIsland (2) prism\n\nE\n\nLond\n\nFrankent\n\nprisen\n\nals where\n\nrequesting\n\nfor\n\nth\n\nMan tai Imeline's\n\nin line of the existing\n\nthen fr in the\n\nto held his hand with regard to the\n\nthe existing bildiye.\n\nCame src\n\nJebk\n\nAfiil 18\n\nCapt. Ommaney.\n\nPlease examine the plans\n\nFon\n\nrecollection\n\nMy\n\nplace\n\nSaf\n\nBing Karay\n\n:\n\nand I think it would\n\nif the\n\nbe much better economy,\n\nteam\n\nfor exlayment cement be food, to\n\ngive up the existing price altogether, and\n\nPotent\n\nbuild an\n\nuntinly\n\nLMA 14\n\nalsotherm\n\ntxadrang\n\nIn\n\nthat want, of wasted in converting the present prison into separate cells.\n\nBest\n\nIt is hardly possible to determine without personal knowledge of the ground, whether the present prison would be enlarged\n\nthat it would affect from the distance\n\nbetween the central School ought to be\n\n4 build a\n\nL\n\n\"\n\nstation and the front main prison block;\n\nblock parallel to the and connected (only) by the Subprint. It's\n\noffice with the existing main prison, and extending for the white\n\nAnyth\n\nA\n\npart of its\n\nmight be necessary\n\nthe buildings.\n\nWthe ground fear it could be impossible to build between\n\nThe Central Police Station & the present Prison, except at the\n\nrisk\n\nLivinding Camer\n\nof defective ventilation & narrow dividing\n\nM.15/4\n\nIn Promoter.\n\nI have carefully examined the plans and I do not think it would\n\nbe safe to place another brand cell block\n\nin front of the existing prison. The christame", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306324, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "79\n\nare quilted, for instance. Bedding is composed of quilted cotton, or a stuff resembling soft felt, covered by a light net to prevent it from tearing, and in no case is ever washed; sheets are never used. I never saw any entirely new bedding; the newest I saw was three years in possession of the owner, and he had bought it second-hand.\n\nI have seen bedding twenty years old, and that was bought second-hand. It is taken out and aired occasionally, and a few of the vermin picked out, if they are found to be too numerous.\n\nThe average quantity of water used daily by each individual is about two quarts, and this is considered sufficient, as a rule, for cooking, drinking and washing purposes. Often it has to be brought from a considerable distance, and this is troublesome and expensive, so they do with as little as possible.\n\nKitchens' average size is 13 feet by 6 feet by 10 feet high, with stone or tile floors, always very wet and dirty. It is rare to find a chimney; there is generally a square opening in each of the floors above, forming a sort of shaft, without walls to it, and the smoke gets up through these if it can, or escapes by a small window; that is to say, part of it; the rest pervades the house. In each kitchen there is a small drain in the upper floors; the opening is connected with a downspout, which either passes outside the house or down through the kitchens below. All the inhabitants, when at home, of every floor urinate in their kitchen drain; this is a rule without an exception. The walls and ceilings of the kitchens are always covered with a thick layer of soot.\n\nGround floors, as a rule, are very dark; the rooms usually have only one window, averaging 3 feet by 2 feet, and the door, for light and air to come through, and they require lamps to be burning day as well as night in order to see anything. The upper floors are often not much better.\n\nThe house drain is generally in filthy condition, and in many cases choked; the downspouts are often in the same condition. These latter are, for the most part, composed of unglazed pottery piping, and on the walls down which they run, on either side of them is seen a dark, damp stain, showing how the filthy liquids they convey filter through them, or escape from the joints, into the walls of the houses.\n\nThe drains in the gullies, lanes and smaller streets appear originally to have been very badly constructed of rough cut and unfaced stones, loosely put together, which, in many places, have sunk into the ground quite out of their original position, and quite as much liquid as the drains carry off filters out of them into the ground. I have found in many cases from six to eighteen inches of semi-solid, black, putrid filth stagnant in them, according to their size. Many of them have never been opened since they were first constructed twenty or thirty years ago, and some of them have been built over at parts, and their outlets choked, lost and forgotten; but of such places as these tons and tons of filth have been removed only to accumulate again.\n\nIn some streets large new sewers have been lately constructed by Government. I notice that the house drains are not connected with these sewers, and I am informed that, in the existing state of the law, householders cannot be made to connect their drains with the new sewers.\n\nMany houses in Tai-p'ing Shan have wells either in the main room or kitchens of the ground-floors, and these wells are invariably within one or two feet of the house drains and downspouts. In some cases the water smells or tastes so bad that it is not used for drinking, but in others, where there is no smell and the water is only apparently slightly foul, the water is used for drinking. In some of the lanes large public wells exist, and the drains invariably run close alongside them, and the condition of things is such that the sewage must filter through the earth in many cases, and mix more or less with the water in the wells. When the water is not used for drinking, it is used for washing vegetables for the markets, for washing clothes, and often for preparing food, &c., &c.\n\nSent to Survey General. G.S.D. NO.\n\nThis is a simple statement of facts as I have found them, and I think it will not be found difficult, after this explanation, for those who read this account to present in their imaginations a slight idea of the state of filth in which at present the lowest class of Chinese exist. I have not spoken of the state of the drains in the better quarters of the town, for that is patent to the eyes and noses of the public and attracts sufficient attention.\n\nIf it were not for the heavy rains flushing them frequently in the hot weather, matters would be worse still.\n\nThe Typhoons was a great sanitary visitor in the lower quarters of the town, and though it caused a great amount of destruction of rotten old buildings, it did a world of good.\n\nFrom this it will be seen that every condition exists for the development of cholera or fevers of a typhoid character; if the seeds are once sown, they will have a fair start. Port Louis, Mauritius, a town similarly situated at the base of high hills, with every similar convenience for a good drainage, and having an equally bad state of things, but certainly not worse, has suffered most severely from epidemics, though once it was a renowned sanitarium. I was in the Colonial service there in the fever epidemic of 1867 and 1868, and I sincerely hope I may never see such another, the death rate at one time exceeding 600 people daily. Let the rains fall short, or the monsoons cease to blow here for a time, and Hongkong would be the scene of a similar catastrophe. That condition of things occurred in the Mauritius, and it is not impossible it may occur here.\n\nHongkong has still an evil name; that it once deserved it, there is no doubt, though it does not at present; whether it will ever deserve it again is the question which, unless some improvement takes place in the water supply and drainage, it is possible may be answered in the affirmative in the future.\n\nThe Honourable CECIL C. SMITH,\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nOffice from this.\n\nJ.G. Austin\n\nIt is a little surprising to find the Colonial Surgeon or any Professional man with a knowledge of the position of the two Colonies, comparing the one with the other.\n\nC. C Smith\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nPH. B. C. AYRES,\n\nColonial Surgeon,\n\nNote Those portions of the foregoing report not marked to be omitted, were printed as the Colonial Surgeon's Annual Report in the year 1874.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306696, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "No. 11.\n\nREPORT OF THE COLONIAL SURGEON ON HIS INSPECTION OF THE TOWN OF VICTORIA,1 AND ON THE PIG LICENSING SYSTEM. HONGKONG, APRIL 1874.\n\nCOLONIAL SURGEON, DR. AYRES, TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN, COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nHONGKONG, 15th April, 1874.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to forward to you a report on the result of my rounds with the Sanitary Inspectors, for the information of His Excellency the Governor.\n\nAs I have already stated in my reports on the inspection of brothels, there are many things brought to notice there that are equally applicable to private houses, such as bad drainage, deficient ventilation, foul privies, filthy condition of houses, &c., &c.; but if I was astonished at the state of the brothels, they did not at all prepare me for what I was to find in private houses.\n\nAs was the case with the brothels before I came, so it is with the back slums of the town; little or no superintendence has been thought of over the Inspectors. The Inspectors of Brothels, the Sanitary and Market Inspectors, have all been left pretty much to their own devices, as I have shown and shall show, nor does it seem to have come within the province of my predecessors to do this work.\n\nPigs are universally kept in the houses all over the town, the usual place for their reception being the kitchens, but they are by no means confined to that part of the house; if the droves are too large or the kitchens too small, they are kept in the same rooms the inhabitants of the house occupy, and are as frequently to be found in upper stories as on the ground floors; a very favourite place for them is under the bed. I have seen four of the usual divisions the Chinese make in one room, each division having a bed, and underneath each bed a pig-sty, containing from five to seven pigs, the occupant of the house having a Government Licence to keep pigs, and having no other place to keep them in. Attached to this report I send eight Licences,* by the authority of which the occupants of the houses kept pigs under their beds, and two others where the pigs, though not kept under the beds, were in the same room the people slept and lived in.\n\nI could send many others.\n\nNo. 130.\n\nA\n\n*SPECIMENS OF LICENCES ENCLOSED.\n\n \n NOT TRANSFERABLE.\n \n C. C. Smith\nRegistrar General\n \n \n REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 5th January, 1872.\n \n \n WONG A-FUNG is licensed to keep Three Pigs, on her Premises No. 4. Cross Street, till further notice.\n \n \n No, 74.\n No.\n \n \n\n \n NOT TRANSFERABLE.\n \n CECIL C. SMITH.\nRegistrar General.\n \n \n REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 8th September, 1871.\n \n \n LI A-LAI is licensed to keep Four Pigs, (4) on her Premises No. 7, Hing Wan Lane, 15th June, 1875, till further notice.\n \n \n CECIL C. SMITH,\nRegistrar General.\n \n\n1. This licence is only issued for the number of Pigs stated on it.\n\n2. If any more than that number are kept, all the Pigs will be confiscated.\n\n3. If the Pig-styes are not kept clean, the holders of the License will be fined, and the Licence will be cancelled.\n\n4. If any Pigs are found in a house the owner of which has no Licence for keeping them, the Pigs will be confiscated, and the owner fined.\n\n \n NOT TRANSFERABLE.\n \n \n REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA. HONGKONG,\n \n \n 187\n \n \n is licensed to keep\n \n \n stated on it.\n \n \n until further notice.\n \n \n Registrar General,\n \n \n 3. If the Pig-styes, or other places where the animals are kept, are not clean, the holders of the Licence will be fined, and the License will be cancelled.\n \n \n 3. If any Pigs, or other animals injurious to the public health, are found in a house the owner of which has no Licence for keeping them, the animals will be confiscated, and the owner fined.\"\n \n \n Miller\n \n \n 449\n \n\nThe construction of this class of houses is against every sanitary rule as regards drainage, ventilation and cleanliness, which is rendered impossible to the inhabitants, which you will easily understand by what I shall show you. Many houses, being built back to back, have no yards; having only windows in front, there is nothing to promote a current of air through them. In others which are not built back to back, no yard is provided, but a narrow gully exists between the backs of the two sets of houses, about a yard wide, not used for passengers, but down which an open sewer exists, in which foul and fetid matter lies in pools, or slowly trickles from one pool to another, a slight descent assisting. The private drains existing are of the most complicated description, beginning in the kitchen of the house, and terminating goodness only knows where,—in but too many cases in the earth itself (with no outlet), through which the filth percolates till it finds the water level.\n\nThe upper floors of the houses are made with very thin boards, which, not lying close together, render it impossible to attempt to wash them, as that would result in giving the inhabitants of the rooms below a dirty shower bath. The ground floors are, for the most part, mud, though sometimes badly tiled or covered with stone; on this mud floor, every imaginable filth falls, from saliva to the pigs' urine draining from the pens, so that the earth is saturated with decomposing animal and vegetable matter of all descriptions, and the floor cannot be washed or cleaned.\n\nI don't think the value of this sort of property is known, or the enormous prices for which these houses let. Repairs cost little or nothing yearly. In nearly every room three or more families reside, up to as many as six or eight; the rooms being partitioned off, each partition pays a dollar and a half to two dollars a month rent, and a house with three rooms about fourteen feet square, with miserable little kitchens attached, will fetch from £55 to £70 a year; if it is a brothel, from £80 to £100 a year. I saw one room with four partitions, for which the woman of the house paid $16 a month rent, the girls paying her $9 a month for each partition. So that it is evident, it is better to own property of this description, which requires little or no repair, than to own houses in better quarters, which pay less rent and require frequent repair. I mean that the inhabitants have no choice in the one instance, and the landlord none in the other, as to whether repairs shall be done or not, when they are required.\n\nI now proceed to give a few notes of things I saw in certain localities, which notes are applicable to many other places.\n\nFuk On Lane.--Ground floors of most houses are mud; upper floors, open spaces between the boards, so that neither floors admit of proper cleaning; kitchens, poky little holes, overcrowded, and occupied by pigs. Steps at the upper end of this house were out of repair, underneath which are cavities containing liquid black and putrid filth.\n\nOpen space below Hospital Road, and east of Tung Hing Theatre, used as a place to shoot all sorts of rubbish, and a disgusting stench pervading the place.\n\nPound Lane.--South end filthy; no drainage; four cases of small-pox occurred here this year. Houses with broken floors, containing puddles of filth, from which a stench arose enough to make any one sick; outside, standing pools of filth in open drains. Tanks sunk in the ground floors of these houses containing filthy water, in which vegetables were being washed for the markets; also cake-making going on in these rooms, for sale in the markets; as many as from seven to twelve pigs kept in the kitchens here, the people having Licences.\n\nRutter's Lane consists of a passage about four feet wide, paved with large stones, with large cavities beneath them into which I could poke my walking-stick up to the handle without finding bottom, these cavities containing black and putrid liquid filth. The houses horribly filthy, and having pigs in them; in one house three children just recovered from small-pox.\n\nAt the top of this Lane is an open space, in which all sorts of rubbish are shot. Four wells in this space, which all, more or less, receive the drainings from the rubbish collected about. From three of these wells, the water only being used for cleaning clothes and vegetables, and the fourth used for drinking. Downspouts of the houses generally in a bad state of repair, and badly made.\n\nAlong the back of the houses in Upper Station Street runs a horizontal wooden trough, about six feet above the ground, which is used for conveying refuse water from the houses; this is not in good repair...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309904, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "(8)\n\n(9)\n\n29\n\nwin and hydrometeors, such as are usual in observatories of the first order; together also with apparatus, such, for example, as Seismic instruments, which is pretty certain to be procured before long. I propose also to provide a small room for the Electrograph, which will be referred to further in connexion with observations of atmospheric electricity. I have added, at Mr. BOWDLER's suggestion, an upper storey, to be appropriated as quarters for the Director. I recommend that the building be constructed of red bricks, the walls of the lower storey being made 1 ft. 9 in. thick, and those of the upper storey 1 ft. 2 in. thick.\n\nSo lately as last February, Dr. WARREN DE LA RUE furnished the Colonial Office with a list of the instruments necessary for these purposes in a first-class meteorological observatory. The list comprises a Barograph, a Thermograph, an Anemograph, a Rain-gauge, a Sunshine Recorder, and an Electrograph; together costing about £397.\n\nOf these, the Barograph, or self-recording barometer, will be accommodated in the Magnetic Room in the basement, to be presently described.\n\nFor the Thermograph—i.e., self-registering (photographic) dry and wet bulb thermometers—a special hut and shed will have to be put up in the grounds of the observatory. This may, however, be left until the instruments arrive.\n\nIn laying out the building on the ground, it will be important to obtain accurate orientation, for which purpose I suggest that Polaris be observed with a theodolite at one of its culminations, and a meridian line carefully marked at the observation. The transit-room will need vertical shutters about two feet wide, opening in the north and south walls from a height of four feet above the floor and extending to the roof; also roof-doors of the same width, so that there may be a clear view of the meridian from the south to the north horizon.\n\nThe rooms should be 15 feet high, from floor to ceiling, and the roof be made as flat as possible, in order that it may be utilised for some of the meteorological apparatus.\n\nEspecial care must be given to protection of the building against lightning, for which purpose one conductor should be placed at each angle of the main block, and the points carried at least eight feet above the parapet, the earth ends being sunk below ground until permanently damp soil is reached.\n\nPiers, isolated from contact with the surrounding soil or any parts of the building, will be needed for the transit-instrument, the electrograph, the collimator, and each of the two clocks. These should be built of red bricks, in cement, and be carried down to firm ground, at a depth of not less than four feet in any case, there resting on good foundations of cement concrete.\n\nA building on a plan somewhat as shown in the accompanying tracing will probably answer well for the present purposes of the Observatory. If at a future time it should be decided to increase the equipment, the east and west wings could be extended so as to accommodate a Photoheliograph for the record of sun-spots, as suggested by His Excellency the Governor, and an Equatorial telescope.\n\nIt would be necessary, in this case, to raise the equatorial sufficiently high to obviate any serious interruption of the sky view by the upper storey of the main block; and, for architectural symmetry, the photoheliograph might be similarly raised.\n\nA building of the kind above suggested would probably cost, with piers, &c., about $10,500, to which $500 must be added for furniture and fitments. A small additional building, to contain quarters for a caretaker, servant and coolies, with a store, workshop, kitchen and other offices, and connected with the main edifice by a covered way, would cost say $2,400 more.\n\nII. Meteorology.\n\nThe proposal to establish a meteorological branch of the observatory, under skilled management and supplied with the best modern apparatus, commands approval for two reasons.\n\nIn the first place, as Dr. DE LA RUE has indicated, such an institution will furnish the science with valuable and much-needed data, from a locality well suited for the observation and collection of facts appertaining to certain phenomena of special interest.\n\nSecondly, it cannot fail to have a direct and practical value, as being the means of affording security, by its predictions and weather warnings, to life and property, in seas navigated by vast numbers of native and foreign vessels, but subject during four or five months of the year to rotatory storms of appalling violence and danger.\n\nThe Anemograph, or self-recording Anemometer, is an instrument the best and newest forms of which are constructed to register continuously the direction, pressure and velocity of the wind. A small turret, to carry the vane, &c., for the instrument, of whatever pattern, may be erected centrally over the front verandah roof of the main building, and the spindle be carried through the roof to the registering apparatus placed in a small chamber or compartment on the upper verandah, as shown in the drawing.\n\nThe Rain-gauge, to judge from the high price (£60) set against it in the list, is doubtless a self-recording instrument, or pluviograph.\n\nThe Sunshine Recorder is a contrivance for marking and measuring the duration of sunshine. The instrument in use at Greenwich consists of a solid glass ball four inches in diameter, supported in a hollow hemispherical bowl of three inches' radius.\n\nThe Electrograph of Dr. DE LA RUE's list, though not described, is doubtless a THOMSON'S Quadrant Electrometer, fitted for photographic self-registration. I have provided a small room for it on the ground floor of the main building, the window of which can be darkened to the extent required.\n\nThe whole of the above are autographic instruments, and need only occasional attention, for changing the record-sheets, pointing the pencils, &c.\n\nThe second branch of work appertaining to the Meteorological Department will be the observation and collection, as far as possible, of facts and phenomena relating to typhoons, both for the protection of marine interests and for the purpose of contributing bit by bit to our knowledge of a subject at present but little understood.\n\nFor weather warnings, the telegraphic cables connecting this port with others on the coast, and with Manila, will furnish most valuable aid. Past observations seem to show that the typhoons which sweep the Southern China sea for the most part originate in a region the centre of which is situated about a thousand miles (in round numbers) to the south and east of the Philippines.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310973, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 555, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "542\n\n(8)\n\napparatus, such, for example, as Seismic instruments, which is pretty certain to be procured before very long. I propose also to provide a small room for the Electrograph, which will be referred to farther on. I have added, at Mr. BOWDLER's suggestion, an upper storey, to be appropriated as quarters for the Director. I recommend that the building be constructed of red bricks, the walls of the lower storey being made 1 ft. 9 in. thick, and those of the upper storey 1 ft. 2 in. thick. The rooms should be 15 feet high, from floor to ceiling, and the roof be made as flat as possible, in order that it may be utilised for some of the meteorological apparatus. Especial care must be given to protection of the building against lightning, for which purpose one conductor should be placed at each angle of the main block, and the points carried at least eight feet above the parapet, the earth ends being sunk below ground until permanently damp soil is reached.\n\nIn laying out the building on the ground, it will be important to obtain accurate orientation, for which purpose I suggest that Polaris be observed with a theodolite at one of its culminations, and a meridian line carefully marked at the observation. The transit-room will need vertical shutters about two feet wide, opening in the north and south walls from a height of four feet above the floor, and extending to the roof; also roof-doors of the same width, so that there may be a clear view of the meridian from the south to the north horizon. The collimator may be placed on a brick pier about fifteen feet to the north of the transit-room, a small room or hut six or seven feet square being built over it, for protection from the weather. It should be approximately horizontal with respect to the transit-instrument.\n\nPiers, isolated from contact with the surrounding soil or any parts of the building, will be needed for the transit-instrument, the electrograph, the collimator, and each of the two clocks. These should be built of red bricks, in cement, and be carried down to firm ground, at a depth of not less than four feet in any case, there resting on good foundations of cement concrete. The largest will be those for the transit-instrument and electrograph, which may measure about six feet by three feet. For the clocks the dimensions will be very much smaller. All of them had better be left unfinished at the floor-level until the instruments and clocks arrive.\n\nA building on a plan somewhat as shown in the accompanying tracing will probably answer as well as any for the present purposes of the Observatory. Lest it be thought that the space provided is somewhat more liberal than is necessary, it may be well to bear in mind the great heat of the summer weather, as well as the facts that ample room will be needed for presses for stores, stationery, records, &c., and that the requirements as to space in an establishment of this kind are certain to grow year by year. If at a future time it should be decided to increase the equipment, the east and west wings could be extended so as to accommodate a Photoheliograph for the record of sun-spots, as suggested by His Excellency the Governor, and an Equatorial telescope. It would be necessary, in this case, to raise the equatorial sufficiently high to obviate any serious interruption of the sky view by the upper storey of the main block; and, for architectural symmetry, the photoheliograph might be similarly raised. But, if a Siderostat in connexion with a fixed telescope should be preferred for gazing purposes to an equatorially mounted instrument, no such elevation would be needed. A building of the kind above suggested would probably cost, with piers, &c., about $10,500, to which $500 must be added for furniture and fitments. A small additional building, to contain quarters for a caretaker, servant and coolies, with a store, workshop, kitchen and other offices, and connected with the main edifice by a covered way, would cost say $2,400 more. Both of them may be at once designed in detail, and proceeded with, should the scheme here proposed receive the approval of the Government.\n\nII-Meteorology\n\nThe proposal to establish a meteorological branch of the observatory, under skilled management and supplied with the best modern apparatus, commands approval for two reasons. In the first place, as Dr. DE LA RUE has indicated, such an institution will furnish the science with valuable and much needed data, from a locality well suited for the observation and collection of facts appertaining to certain phenomena of special interest. Secondly, it cannot fail to have a direct and practical value, as being the means of affording security, by its predictions and weather warnings, to life and property, in seas navigated by vast numbers of native and foreign vessels, but subject during four or five months of the year to rotatory storms of appalling violence and danger.\n\nIts operations, like its purpose, will be twofold. There will be, to begin with, the systematic observation and record of the ordinary phenomena of pressure, temperature, humidity, rain, sunshine,\n\n(9)\n\nwind and hydrometeors, such as are usual in observatories of the first order; together also with observations of atmospheric electricity.\n\nSo lately as last February, Dr. WARREN DE LA RUE furnished the Colonial Office with a list of the instruments necessary for these purposes in a first-class meteorological observatory. The list comprises a Barograph, a Thermograph, an Anemograph, a Rain-gauge, a Sunshine Recorder, and an Electrograph; together costing about £397.\n\nOf these, the Barograph, or self-recording barometer, will be accommodated in the Magnetic basement, to be presently described.\n\nFor the Thermograph-i.e., self-registering (photographic) dry and wet bulb thermometers-a special hut and shed will have to be put up in the grounds of the observatory. This may, however, be left until the instruments arrive. The Thermograph, it will be observed, does away with the necessity for maximum and minimum thermometers, as the changes of temperature are recorded unceasingly.\n\nThe Anemograph, or self-recording Anemometer, is an instrument the best and newest forms of which are constructed to register continuously the direction, pressure and velocity of the wind. We are not told by Dr. DE LA RUE what kind will be sent. A small turret, to carry the vane, &c., for the instrument, of whatever pattern, may be erected centrally over the front verandah roof of the main building, and the spindle be carried through the roof to the registering apparatus placed in a small chamber or compartment on the upper verandah, as shown in the drawing. The turret must be provided with a lightning conductor.\n\nThe Rain-gauge, to judge from the high price (£60) set against it in the list, is doubtless a self-recording instrument, or pluviograph. At Greenwich, an Oster's Anemometer and Rain-gauge form a joint apparatus, by which wind and rain are registered on the same sheet of paper. This instrument needs no special provision beforehand.\n\nThe Sunshine Recorder is a contrivance for marking and measuring the duration of sunshine. The instrument in use at Greenwich consists of a solid glass ball four inches in diameter, supported in a hollow hemispherical bowl of three inches' radius, the two surfaces being separated from one another by a space of an inch. The rim of the bowl is marked like a sundial, and the interior surface is lined with a strip of prepared mill-board. Whenever the sun shines out, its rays, brought to a focus by the glass ball, burn a mark on this strip. The intervals and interruptions of sunshine are thus recorded. This instrument may be set up on the roof of the main building, for which purpose no special preparations are needed.\n\nThe Electrograph of Dr. DE LA RUE's list, though not described, is doubtless a THOMSON'S Quadrant Electrometer, fitted for photographic self-registration. It has been shown that I have provided a small room for it on the ground floor of the main building, the window of which can be darkened to the extent required. The collector for this instrument may be attached to a small mast on the roof, above the room; and the wire or rod be carried thence to the instrument, the pier for which should be capped with a slate or marble slab.\n\nThe whole of the above, it will be noticed, are autographic instruments, and need only occasional attention, for changing the record-sheets, pointing the pencils, &c. The labour of observation is thus reduced to a minimum.\n\nThe second branch of work appertaining to the Meteorological Department will be the observation and collection as far as possible of facts and phenomena relating to typhoons, both for the protection of marine interests and for the purpose of contributing bit by bit to our knowledge of a subject at present but little understood. It will include also the giving attention to the phenomena of the monsoons.\n\nFor weather warnings, the telegraphic cables connecting this port with others on the coast, and with Manila, will furnish most valuable aid. The Manila cable will be of special service in this respect. Past observations seem to show that the typhoons which sweep the Southern China sea for the most part originate in a region the centre of which is situated about a thousand miles (in round numbers) to the south and east of the Philippines. Of those which take Luzon in their course, some make for Hainan and the Gulf of Tonquin. Others pursue a more northerly direction, towards Formosa and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317203, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "page_number": 284, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "## TRACING D. BLOCK PLAN\nat present Shewing the position of the Building used for the Civil and Lock Hospitals. Timied Red.\n\nA Present Civil Hospital\nNew Female Lock Hospital now used as Annexe to the Civil Hospital for Male Lock patients\nC Sale Pox Ward for 9 patients\nD Formerly Government School now used as Female Lock Hospital\n\n| Label | Description | \n| --- | --- |\n| E | |\n| S | $21 |\n| T | RN |\n| S | |\n| A | 3 |\n| $20 | C |\n| 一 | 2 |\n| 606 | 3 |\n| A | 24 |\n| 316 | H |\n| • $ p | |\n| T | A |\n| L | 6 |\n| R | O |\n| A | 369 |\n| D | 664 |\n| 761 | 695 696 |\n| R | D |\n\nBERLIN MISSION\n\n| Label | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| H | H | | | | |\n| S | T | E | E | T | |\n\nSCALE 80 FI°≈ 1 INCH.\n\n| Description |\n| --- |\n| Coolies Barracks Kitchen |\n| Servants Quarter |\n| Dead House |\n| Hot water apparatus & ... | \n200 FI |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317908, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW.\n\nThere is one censor for the Capital, and thirteen for the provinces. The rules are altogether in the way of freedom in the criticism of the Government and the officials. In some respects they are the very highest officers in the Empire. The members of the cabinet and even the Emperor himself cannot consider themselves as free from their attacks.\n\n## Commissioner of Information.\n\nThis is the office through which pass all the memorials from the provinces, and all Imperial edicts from the throne.\n\n## Court of Appeal.\n\nThe chiefs of this Court are two, one Chinese and one Manchu. It is a kind of Court of review of the decisions of the Board of Punishments.\n\nThe Board of Punishments, the Censorate and the Court of Appeal are called the Three Law Commissioners. The officials have a fabulous animal embroidered upon their robes which signifies the stern and haughty character of their office as judges.\n\n## Court of Sacrifices (Vol. 82.)\n\nThe chiefs of this Court are two, one Chinese and one Manchu. They have charge of the worship at the Capital and the several kinds of sacrifices, as described above in the Board of Rites.\n\n## Forms of Prayers, &c. (Vol. 83.)\n\nThese are read and afterwards burned; a careful study of their contents and disposition is necessary to a right understanding of their significance.\n\n## Imperial Academy (Vol. 84.)\n\nThe constitution of this institution is two chiefs, one Chinese and one Manchu, both having the ranks of Vice-President of the Board of Rites. They have charge of the Dynastic History, Libraries, Imperial Documents, Edicts &c. The larger part of those who obtain the fourth literary degree are members of this Academy, and they occupy the most favourable position on that account for official promotion.\n\n## Dynastic Annalists.\n\nThese officials keep an account of Imperial movements and of passing events. There are twenty of them, eight Manchu and twelve Chinese. They are near the Emperor's persons, and the diaries are preserved for future reference.\n\n## Department for Reference.\n\nThe chiefs of this institution are members of the Imperial Academy, one Manchu and one Chinese. They accompany the Emperor and sometimes hold also the office of Annalists. They are applied to for precedents in the past and take part in the direction of the Imperial studies. They are supposed to be learned men.\n\n## Court of the Imperial Kitchen (Vol. 85.)\n\nThere are two chiefs, one Chinese and one Manchu. They have charge of the Imperial provisions for the table and for feasts.\n\n## Court of Imperial Retinue (Vol. 85.)\n\nThere are two chiefs, one Manchu and one Chinese. They have charge of Imperial horses through all the provinces, and the Imperial Retinue; a large number of the subordinate officials are Mongols, who are good horsemen, and probably the horses are chiefly from Mongolia.\n\n## Department of Shun Tin.\n\nAs the Government of the District of Washington is separate from that of the State of Maryland, so the Department in which Peking is situated is separate from the province of Chihli. The chief is generally a high official, who holds this office in connection with some other.\n\n## Department of Tung Tin.\n\nThis is the Chief Department of Shing King and like the previous one is one of great honour.\n\n## Court of Masters of Ceremonies.\n\nThis institution has charge of ceremonies of Court, sacrifices, and feasts. The chiefs are one Chinese and one Manchu, but the subordinate officers under them are mostly Manchus. They direct the manner of entering the Imperial presence, when to advance, when to kneel, when to rise, retire &c. They are responsible for breaches in these matters of Court etiquette.\n\n## National College.\n\nThe chiefs of this institution are one Chinese and one Manchu, but the office is held in connection with some other. The Imperial Academy, the Department of Reference, and the National College are the three departments which have principally to do with literary and educational affairs. It is to be regretted that this College at the Capital and those in the provinces are practically, in modern times at least, of little value considered as educational institutions. The instruction given is more a matter of form than anything else, and but little or no help is afforded by them to students in the way of learning and science.\n\n## Astronomical College (Vol. 86.)\n\nThe chiefs of this institution are one Chinese, and one Portuguese, the offices held in connection with some other. For many years no foreigner has held this office, but the distinguished services of some of the Romish priests, about the time this work was published, were much appreciated by the Chinese Government and people. Quite a large space is given to plates and descriptions of the Astronomical Instruments in the Imperial Observatory.\n\n## Medical Academy.\n\nThere is a large staff of professors and physicians. In theory the Chinese pay much attention to this branch of science, and it has a distinct recognition by the Government. The time cannot be distant when they will accept the theory and practice of the modern school of the West. The science and art of healing in China is very like those of the ancient world in the West. Some of the physicians at Canton have something like a diploma from this Academy which they display.\n\n## Department of the Imperial Household (Vol. 87.)\n\nThis is of course an extensive establishment. The chief is either a high Manchu official or one of the nobility, selected by the Emperor. Under the chief are seven Superintendents of as many departments.\n\n1. Superintendent of Receipts and Disbursements.\n2. Superintendent of Accounts.\n3. Superintendent of Ceremonies (Vols. 88, 89, 90.) There is a supplement attached in regard to Official Education, and Medical Dispensary.\n4. Superintendent in Charge of Parks. (Vol. 91).\n5. Superintendent in charge of Punishments.\n6. Superintendent in charge of Construction.\n7. Superintendent in charge of Herds and Flocks.\n\n## Imperial Stables (Vol. 92). \n## Warder of Gardens.\n\nThere is a supplement in regard to weaving and dyeing.\n\n## Arsenal.\n## Imperial Retinue (Vol. 93). \n## Department of the Commander of Imperial Guard (Vol. 94.)\n\n## Generals of the Eight Banners (Vol. 95.)\n\nThis refers to the eight great divisions of the Manchu people, representing the different armies which were employed in the conquest of China.\n\n## Regulations in regard to the Banners. \n## Population. \n## Lands. \n## Military Regulations (Vol. 98). \n## Teaching and Practice (Vol. 97), \n## Distributing Office. \n## Hereditary Honors. \n## Teaching and Support. \n## Imperial Bounty. \n## Mode of Public Business. \n## Commander of the Vanguard (Vol. 98). \n## Commander of the Guards. \n## Guides. \n## Commander of the Infantry (Vol. 99). \n## Comp of Fire Arms (Vol. 100).\n\n## Guard for Un-Ming-Un (Summer Palace).\n## \"Firm and Courageous\" Camp.\n## \"Three Banner Tiger\" Camp.\n\nThe study of this work takes us back to ancient times, to the days of Marco Polo, and \n\nPage 156", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318441, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 693, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## (No. 51.) ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE\n\n| Year | £ | s | d | Exchange Rate | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1859 | 306 | 0 | 0 | | |\n| 1860 | | | | | |\n| 1861 | | | | | |\n| 1862 | | | | | |\n| 1863 | 995 | 0 | 0 | | |\n| | 700 | 0 | 0 | @ 4/2 | 3,380.00 |\n| | 367 | 10 | 0 | | |\n| | 400 | 0 | 0 | @ 4/2 | 3,684.00 |\n| | 767 | 10 | 0 | | |\n| 1868 | 1,015 | 10 | 0 | @ 4/2 | 4,874.40 |\n| | | | | | 1,768.00 |\n| | | | | | 720.00 |\n| | | | | | 1,934.00 |\n| | 1,015 | 10 | 0 | @ 4/2 | 4,874.40 |\n\nIn 1869, --Paid for 1 Stove with Iron Piping, &c.\n\n| Year | Expenditure |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1863 | ... |\n| 1864 | 1 Iron Chimney for Fire-place and Whitewashing |\n| 1865 | Nil |\n| 1866 | Scraping Floor and Painting Staircase |\n| 1867 | Raising Wall of Kitchen |\n| 1868 | $4,418.00 |\n| 1869 | $4,492.00 |\n\n## (No. 52.) Return showing the Original Cost of, and Cost of Alterations to Lock Hospital and its Maintenance, from the commencement up to 30th June, 1878.\n\nOriginal Cost of the Building which was commenced in November, 1860, and completed on the 31st March, 1861, $8,723.80\n\n| Year | Expenditure | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1865 | Painting Sundry Wood Work | 60.00 |\n| | Supply of Iron Bedsteads | 876.50 |\n| 1866 | Sundry small Repairs during 1866 | 157.17 |\n| 1867 | ... | |\n| 1868 | Plumber Works | 400.00 |\n| | Drainage | 300.00 |\n| | Fitting up W. C. | 187.91 |\n| | Repairing Verandah and Out-houses | 101.55 |\n| 1869 | Iron Stove supplied by Lane, Crawford & Co. | 18.00 |\n| | Gas Service laid on | 80.31 |\n| 1870 | Sundry Repairs during 1870 | 131.79 |\n| 1871 | Additions and Alterations to the Building as per Contract 1 of 1871 | 18,000.00 |\n| | Extra Works to the above Contract | 1,608.84 |\n| | Cast Iron Gratings supplied by Inglis & Co. | 1,080.41 |\n| | Iron Gates | 257.90 |\n| | Gas Light Fittings | 226.32 |\n| | Construction of Iron Railing for Steps | 140.58 |\n| 1872 | Laying Lead on Dormer Windows | 849.68 |\n| | Laying on Water Supply | 543.03 |\n| | Laying on Gas Service | 20.30 |\n| | Building front Walls and Gates, &c. | 395.64 |\n| | Extras to Contract for Additions | 101.80 |\n| | Iron Ventilators, &c. | 174.97 |\n| | Sundry small Alterations | 105.99 |\n| | Fitting Wards for Destitutes | 477.12 |\n| | Altering upper Wards for European Patients | 284.57 |\n| | Supply of Furniture | 56.00 |\n| | Altering Gas Light, Water Supply and Handrail | 75.71 |\n| | 1 Patent Valve, &c. | 43.50 |\n| 1873 | Sundry small Repairs and repairing Damages to portion of Lock Hospital | 50.28 |\n| 1874 | Contract No. 62 of 1874 for repairing Lock Hospital | 390.00 |\n| | Fixing Stove pipes at and Iron Plates for Lock Hospital | 89.12 |\n| 1875 | ... | |\n| 1876 | Repairing Staircase, &c. | 182.86 |\n| | Sundry Works and Repairs during the year | 101.38 |\n| 1877 | ... | |\n| 1878 | Supply of Hard Wood Chairs, Cupboards and for sundry Repairs in 1878 | 166.34 |\n| | Supplying and fixing 2 Stoves | 248.03 |\n\nThe above figures from 1859 to 1872, inclusive, are taken from the Colonial Estimates for those years, and are made up as follows:\n\n| Year | Salary | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Surgeon, Wanchai | 864.00 |\n| | Cook | 158.6.8 |\n| | Dispenser | 75.0.0 |\n| | 3 Inspectors of Brothels | 760.00 |\n| | Chinese Interpreter | 50.0.0 |\n| | Matron | 240.00 |\n| | 2 Nurses | 495.0.0 |\n| | 4 Coolies, at $72 each | 2,040.00 |\n| | Gatekeeper | 180.00 |\n\n| Year | Salary | £ | s | d |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1876 | ... | 1,110 | 16 | 8 |\n| 1877 | ... | | | |\n| 1878 | Colouring and whitewashing during the year | | | |\n| | Fixing Iron Railings, &c. | 79.32 |\n| | Putting up Iron Railings in Verandah and cleaning Drains, &c. | 96.06 |\n| | Sundry Repairs to Downspouts, Water Supply, &c., during the year | 109.40 |\n| | Repairing Downspouts, Stove Funnels, Water Tap, &c., during 1876 | 83.10 |\n| | Sundry Repairs during the year | 61.01 |\n| | | 60.16 |\n| | | 39.02 |\n\nTOTAL... £36,332.15\n\nThe amounts from 1873 to 1877, inclusive, are made up from returns furnished by the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer.\n\n* No Expenditure here for 1857 and 1858.\n\nENW. BOWDLER,\nActing Surveyor General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318612, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "168 \n\nThe former duty was contemplated when Section XV of Ordinance No. 10 of 1867 was drafted, and the latter can now be enforced by a Departmental Order or by a Regulation by the Governor in Council, if such a course would not conflict with the powers of Section VII. \n\nIn my opinion, it is not necessary for the Surveyor General to inspect or report upon the houses to be licensed. \n\n21st January, 1874. \n\n## MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR\n\nC. C. SMITH, \n**Registrar General**. \n\nThis is a horrible revelation, and I feel under obligation to the Colonial Surgeon for the pains he has taken in bringing the subject to notice. \n\nMeasures must be adopted to remedy the evils pointed out. Bring before next Executive Council. \n\n22nd January, 1874. \n\nSend for the perusal of members and \n\nA. E. KENNEDY. \n\n## MINUTE BY THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS\n\nIn the first place, I should cancel all licences to keep brothels. These establishments are more necessary here than in any of the other British Colonies. I have never known them to exist except at Hongkong and Singapore. \n\nWhen sailors and others arrive at Hongkong, I know there are such places of resort; they immediately fly to them on landing, for a spree, when they get drunk and become riotous, and finish with a visit to the police office. \n\nAs to improving these houses in any way, it is impossible; they are so saturated with filth that they cannot be properly cleansed. The streets are so narrow and the houses so badly constructed and ventilated that it would be impossible to make the present buildings healthy or habitable except for Chinese. \n\nI would therefore recommend that they are all knocked down and proper healthy houses built, after the streets have been levelled and widened; the longer they are allowed to remain in their present state, the worse they will be. \n\nI think that a certain number of comfortable, clean, well-ventilated houses might be built and let to the most respectable women of this class, and not rented by old women, who make a living by keeping girls for prostitution. The girls would then be induced to keep a clean, tidy place, or men would not care to visit them. \n\nPigs are universally kept in the houses all over the town; the usual place for their reception being the kitchens, but they are by no means confined to that part of the house; if the droves are too large and the kitchens too small, they are kept in the same rooms the inhabitants of the house occupy, and are as frequently to be found in upper stories as on the ground floors; a very favourite place for them is under the bed. \n\nI have seen four of the usual divisions the Chinese make in one room, each division having a bed, and underneath each bed a pig-sty, containing from five to seven pigs; the occupant of the house having a Government Licence to keep pigs, and having no other place to keep them in. Attached to this report, I send eight Licences, by the authority of which the occupants of the houses kept pigs under their beds, and two others where the pigs, though not kept under the beds, were in the same room the people slept and lived in. I could send many others. \n\nThis is an inaccurate statement. \nC. C. Smith, **Registrar General**. \n\nThe construction of this class of houses is against every sanitary rule as regards drainage, ventilation, and cleanliness, which is rendered impossible to the inhabitants, which you will easily understand by what I shall show you. Many houses, being built back to back, have no yards; having only windows in front, there is nothing to promote a current of air through them. In others, which are not built back to back, no yard is provided, but a narrow gully exists between the backs of the two sets of houses, about a yard wide, not used for passengers, but down which an open sewer exists, in which foul and fetid matter lies in pools or slowly trickles from one pool to another, a slight descent assisting. The private drains existing are of the most complicated description, beginning in the kitchen of the house and terminating goodness only knows where—in but too many cases in the earth itself (with no outlet), through which the filth percolates till it finds the water level. \n\nThe upper floors of the houses are made with very thin boards, which, not lying close together, render it impossible to attempt to wash them, as that would result in giving the inhabitants of the rooms below a dirty shower bath. The ground floors are, for the most part, mud, though sometimes badly tiled or covered with stone; on this mud floor, every imaginable filth falls, from saliva to the pigs' urine draining from the pens, so that the earth is saturated with decomposing animal and vegetable matter of all descriptions, and the floor cannot be washed or cleaned. \n\nI don't think the value of this sort of property is known, or the enormous prices for which these houses let. Repairs cost little or nothing yearly. In nearly every room, three or more families reside, up to as many as six or eight; the rooms being partitioned off, each partition pays a dollar and a half to two dollars a month rent, and a house with three rooms about fourteen feet square, with miserable little kitchens attached, will fetch from £55 to £70 a year; if it is a brothel, from £80 to £100 a year. \n\nNo. 130. \n\n*SPECIMENS OF LICENCES ENCLOSED*\n\n| Licence No. | Licensee | Premises | Number of Pigs | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | WONG A-FUNG | No. 4, Cross Street | Three | 5th January, 1872 |\n| | LI A-LAI | No. 7, Hing Wan Lane | Four | 15th June, 1875 |\n\n## REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG\n\n**NOT TRANSFERABLE**\n\n`REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 5th January, 1872` \nWONG A-FUNG is licensed to keep Three Pigs, on her Premises No. 4, Cross Street, till further notice. \nCECIL C. SMITH, **Registrar General**.\n\n`REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 8th September, 1874` (should be before 15th June 1875)\nLI A-LAI is licensed to keep Four Pigs, on her Premises No. 7, Hing Wan Lane, till further notice. \nCECIL C. SMITH, **Registrar General**.\n\n26th January, 1874. \nH. W. WHITFEILD, \n**Major General**\n\n## REPORT OF THE COLONIAL SURGEON ON HIS INSPECTION OF THE TOWN OF VICTORIA, AND ON THE PIG LICENSING SYSTEM. HONGKONG, APRIL 1874\n\n### COLONIAL SURGEON, DR. AYRES, TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN, COLONIAL SECRETARY\n\nHONGKONG, 15th April, 1874\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to forward to you a report on the result of my rounds with the Sanitary Inspectors, for the information of His Excellency the Governor. \n\nAs I have already stated in my reports on the inspection of brothels, there are many things brought to notice there that are equally applicable to private houses, such as bad drainage, deficient ventilation, foul privies, filthy condition of houses, &c., &c.; but if I was astonished at the state of the brothels, they did not at all prepare me for what I was to find in private houses. As was the case with the brothels before I came, so it is with the back slums of the town; little or no superintendence has been thought of over the Inspectors. The Inspectors of Brothels, the Sanitary and Market Inspectors have all been left pretty much to their own devices, as I have shown and shall show, nor does it seem to have come within the province of my predecessors to do this work.\n\n### CONDITIONS OF PIG LICENCES\n\n1. This licence is only issued for the number of Pigs stated on it. \n2. If any more than that number are kept, all the Pigs will be confiscated. \n3. If the Pig-styes are not kept clean, the holders of the License will be fined, and the Licence will be cancelled. \n4. If any Pigs are found in a house the owner of which has no Licence for keeping them, the Pigs will be confiscated, and the owner fined.\n\n### LICENCE TEMPLATE\n\n**NOT TRANSFERABLE** \n`REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG` \nis licensed to keep \nstated on it \nuntil further notice. \n**Registrar General**\n\n1. This License is only issued for the number of Pigs stated on it. \n2. If the Pig-styes, or other places where the animals are kept, are not clean, the holders of the Licence will be fined, and the Licence will be cancelled. \n3. If any Pigs, or other animals injurious to the public health, are found in a house the owner of which has no Licence for keeping them, the animals will be confiscated, and the owner fined.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318618, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "174 \n\nRest pervades the house. In each kitchen, there is a small drain on the upper floors; the opening is connected with a downspout, which either passes outside the house or down through the kitchens below. All the inhabitants, when at home, on every floor urinate in their kitchen drain; this is a rule without an exception. The walls and ceilings of the kitchens are always covered with a thick layer of soot.\n\nGround floors, as a rule, are very dark; the rooms usually have only one window, averaging 3 feet by 2 feet, and the door, for light and air to come through, and they require lamps to be burning day as well as night in order to see anything.\n\nThe upper floors are often not much better.\n\nThe house drain is generally in a filthy condition, and in many cases choked; the downspouts are often in the same condition. These latter are, for the most part, composed of unglazed pottery piping, and on the walls down which they run, on either side of them, is seen a dark, damp stain, showing how the filthy liquids they convey filter through them, or escape from the joints into the walls of the houses.\n\nThe drains in the gullies, lanes, and smaller streets appear originally to have been very badly constructed of rough-cut and unfaced stones, loosely put together, which, in many places, have sunk into the ground quite out of their original position, and quite as much liquid as the drains carry off filters out of them into the ground. I have found in many cases from six to eighteen inches of semi-solid, black, putrid filth stagnant in them, according to their size. Many of them have never been opened since they were first constructed twenty or thirty years ago, and some of them have been built over at parts, and their outlets choked, lost, and forgotten; but from such places as these, tons and tons of filth have been removed only to accumulate again.\n\nIn some streets, large new sewers have been lately constructed by Government. I notice that the house drains are not connected with these sewers, and I am informed that, in the existing state of the law, householders cannot be made to connect their drains with the new sewers.\n\nMany houses in Tai-p'ing Shan have wells either in the main room or kitchens of the ground-floors, and these wells are invariably within one or two feet of the house drains and downspouts. In some cases, the water smells or tastes so bad that it is not used for drinking, but in others, where there is no smell and the water is only apparently slightly foul, the water is used for drinking. In some of the lanes, large public wells exist, and the drains invariably run close alongside them, and the condition of things is such that the sewage must filter through the earth in many cases and mix more or less with the water in the wells. When the water is not used for drinking, it is used for washing vegetables for the markets, for washing clothes, and often for preparing food, &c., &c.\n\nThis is a simple statement of facts as I have found them, and I think it will not be found difficult, after this explanation, for those who read this account to present in their imaginations a slight idea of the state of filth in which at present the lowest class of Chinese exist. I have not spoken of the state of the drains in the better quarters of the town, for that is patent to the eyes and noses of the public and attracts sufficient attention. If it were not for the heavy rains flushing them frequently in the hot weather, matters would be worse still.\n\nThe Typhoon was a great sanitary visitor in the lower quarters of the town, and though it caused a great amount of destruction of rotten old buildings, it did a world of good. From this, it will be seen that every condition exists for the development of cholera or fevers of a typhoid character; if the seeds are once sown, they will have a fair start. Port Louis, Mauritius, a town similarly situated at the base of high hills, with every similar convenience for good drainage, and having an equally bad state of things, but certainly not worse, has suffered most severely from epidemics, though once it was a renowned sanitarium. I was in the Colonial service there in the fever epidemic of 1867 and 1868, and I sincerely hope I may never see such another, the death rate at one time exceeding 600 people daily. Let the rains fall short, or the monsoons cease to blow here for a time, and Hongkong would be the scene of a similar catastrophe. That condition of things occurred in the Mauritius, and it is not impossible it may occur here.\n\nHongkong has still an evil name; that it once deserved it, there is no doubt, though it does not at present; whether it will ever deserve it again is the question which, unless some improvement takes place in the water supply and drainage, it is possible may be answered in the affirmative in the future.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nJ. M. Austin\n\nIt is a little surprising to find the Colonial Surgeon or any professional man with a knowledge of the position of the two Colonies...\n\nC. C. Smith\n\n## WATER-CLOSETS IN HONGKONG\n\n### MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR\n\nLet me have a return and a report from the Inspector of Buildings showing what water-closets are in existence in the Colony, distinguishing those in public and in private buildings, and the dates when they were put up.\n\n(Signed)\nJ. POPE HENNESSY\n3rd August, 1880\n\n### MINUTE BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY\n\nWill the Surveyor General be good enough to get a report from the Inspector of Buildings?\n\n(Signed)\nF. STEWART,\nActing Colonial Secretary\n3rd August, 1880\n\n### MINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL\n\nReturn herewith. I gave Mr. NEATE the Governor's instructions in respect of this work on the same day I got the document, i.e., the 4th instant.\n\nThe return has taken long to prepare, as it had to be made from actual house-to-house visitations from one end of the town to the other.\n\n23rd August, 1880\n(Signed)\nJ. M. PRICE,\nSurveyor General\n\n### LETTER FROM INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS TO SURVEYOR GENERAL\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, August 20th, 1880\nSIR,-In accordance with your instructions that I should, with the assistance of Mr. GERMAIN, make for His Excellency the Governor a Return of the water-closets in Victoria which run soil into drains, I have the honour to hand you the accompanying schedule, which contains the best information I have obtained.\n\nSir,\nI remain,\nYour obedient Servant,\nJ. R. NEATE,\nInspector of Buildings\n\n### PREMISES IN VICTORIA IN WHICH THERE ARE WATER-CLOSETS\n\n| No. | Premises | WHEN FITTED UP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | East Point, Ice House | |\n| | Sugar Refinery, Praya East, Dwelling | |\n| | Praya Central, Offices | 37 |\n| | Peddar Street, Praya Central | |\n| | Pottinger Street | |\n| | Queen's Road Central, City Hall | |\n| 1 | Messrs. Kyle & Rain | 1873 |\n| 4 | Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. | Uncertain |\n| | Messrs. Meyer & Co. | |\n| | Messrs. D. Sassoon, Sons & Co. | |\n| | Messrs. Russell & Co. | |\n| | Messrs. Holliday, Wise & Co. | |\n| | Messrs. Melchers & Co. | |\n| | Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. | |\n| | Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co. | |\n| | Messrs. McEwen, Frickle & Co. | |\n| | Messrs. Gibb, Livingstone & Co. | |\n| | Committee, BK. & S'hai Bank | |\n| | Corporation, Offices | |\n| 2 | Hongkong Hotel | 1869 |\n| 1 | Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co. | Re-arranged 1877 |\n| 1 | Messrs. Heuermann & Co. Lessees | Uncertain |\n| 6 | Hongkong Club | 1876, Four about 1878; three about 1775 |\n| | Committee | Re-arranged 1876 |\n\nCarried forward, 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## Report on Opium Smoking\n\n1st. [Not provided]\n\n2nd. That the Chinese estimate the value of opium according to flavour and the quantity of extract it yields.\n\n3rd. The mode of preparing smoking extract tends to the destruction of morphine.\n\n4th. The large quantity which can be smoked without any apparent toxic effect not only by habitual smokers but also by beginners,\n\n5th. There is no authentic case of acute poisoning from opium smoking.\n\nAn experiment has been made bearing on this point and although not conclusive it is confirmatory of the idea that morphine is not the active agent which gives pleasure to the opium smoker.\n\nThe following tabulated statement explains and gives the result of experiment:-\n\n| Description of Samples of Prepared Opium Submitted for trial. | Opinion of a Chinese Expert, in one of the Opium Firms, Hongkong. | Opinion of a Nine Years Opium Smoker. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1.-Prepared Opium from Opium Farm. | Is fairly good, is a mixture of Bengal Opium and something else. | Good. |\n| No. 2.-Prepared Opium, minus morphine. | Is black and coarse, smell fairly good, is not Opium. | Not very good. |\n| No. 3.-No. 1, with 10 per cent morphine added. | Coarse, but can be smoked, contains Opium with some other mixture, is not so good as No. 1. | Same as No. 1. |\n| No. 4-No. 1, with 20 per cent morphine added. | Very coarse and black burns like charcoal, contains no Opium. | Fairly good, but not so good as Nos. 1 and 3. |\n\nThe prepared opium minus morphine was made from Patna opium having as little as possible of the other opium constituents removed with the morphine.\n\nThe samples were submitted without any remark beyond desiring an opinion as to quality. A second trial was made with similar results:-\n\n| Description of Samples of Prepared Opium Submitted for trial. | Opinion of a Chinese Expert, in one of the Opium Firms, Hongkong. | Opinion of a Nine Years Opium Smoker. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1.-Opium Farm prepared Opium, contained 7 per cent morphine. | Appearance coarse and when burned becomes black and hard, it is Bengal Drug but not pure, it is mixed with some other stuff and has no taste. | Very good. |\n| No. 2.--No. 1, with 15 per cent morphine added. | Burns very quick and has no taste or smell of Opium at all. | Same as No. 1. |\n| No. 3.-No. 1, with 25 per cent morphine added, | Colour red and coarse when burned gives out plenty of smoke and leaves simply ash and no Opium to smoke. | Just like No. 2, only a shade better. |\n| No. 4.-Prepared Opium, minus morphine. | When applied to the light burns like Opium, but in a moment it burns quite black and the dross leaves a bad smell. When burning gives out strong smoke. | Not good. |\n\nIt will be observed that the Chinese expert bases his opinion on the physical appearance of the extract, its behaviour in the flame of the lamp and its smell, not on its effect when smoked. The nine years opium smoker apparently judged of its quality in a somewhat similar manner, but as he actually smoked a considerable quantity of each, viz.:-nearly a quarter of an ounce of each of those to which morphine had been added and over two ounces of No. 4 in the second table, his opinion is considered of most value. At my request he got some of his friends to try No. 4 in the second table and they agreed with him that it was good. On one occasion in about twelve hours he smoked a quantity of opium, to which morphine had been added, equal to at least twenty grains of morphine.\n\nIf the effects of opium smoking are similar to those of opium eating and morphine the active agent, it can only be said regarding the former mode of using the drug that a more elaborate, troublesome, wasteful, and expensive method could scarcely be devised to obtain a minimum of effect from a maximum of power.\n\nIn connection with the above, I may mention that I have visited a number of opium smoking houses of different classes, but have not as yet been fortunate enough to see that profound sleep with beautiful dreams, &c., which has been so graphically described. In the coolie houses, I have seen men asleep after their evening pipe, and also most probably a hard day's work, they having taken up their quarters there for the night, however, a slight shake with the sight of a ten-cent piece, and they were very soon wide awake.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nPir. B. C. AYRES, Esq., M.R.C.S., &c., \nColonial Surgeon and Inspector of Hospitals.\n\nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \nHUGH MCCALLUM, \nAnalyst.\n\n## Description of a House\n\nBlank wall no apertures in it or forming Kitchen wall of another house back to back with this.\n\nKitchen. \nKitchen. \nKitchen. \nFloor of Loft. \nFloor of Loft. \nFloor of Loft. \nShop.\n\nThe black lines show the original designs of the house, which is composed of a base three rooms and then kitchens. Afterwards the system is to divide the three big rooms into small partitions, a room thirty feet long by sixteen wide would divide into eight smaller rooms. each room is fourteen or fifteen feet then admits of a sort of loft being built within the room which is divided into partitions similar to the floor below, under these circumstances there would be sixteen partitions in each room each inhabited by a separate family.\n\nDownspout,... \nChimney, \nDoors. \nAirhole. \nPassage. \nStaircase. \nWindow. \nWindow.\n\nThis is a linear ground plan of one of the rooms and kitchens. Dotted lines show in both plans how the partitions are arranged, and how a common passage is made for the use of those inhabiting the partitions leading to the kitchen and staircase which is common to all. The windows in front of this staircase form the means of ventilation in front, the door leading into the kitchen and the air hole in the kitchen roof leading into the next floor kitchen in the case of the first and second stories and into the open air in the third and the narrow chimneys are the means of ventilation at the back. very little, very little indeed, is the amount of pure air that gets into a house of this description. The front rooms vary in length from 30 to 60 feet; they are rarely wider than 16 feet. The average height 14 feet. The kitchens are about 6 feet by 10 feet. 30 feet by 16 feet divided as described from 24 to 50 people, men, women and children included live. In a house of this description I have seen 170 pigs kept, besides the above mentioned number of human beings.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320598, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 562, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "## Correspondence on Lunatic Asylum Plans\n\nI am anxious about two points: \n1. Whether the males & females will be kept sufficiently apart.\n2. Whether the exercise grounds I have given will be big enough.\n\nCPL. Seen M: Price: he cannot make an Estimate until he gets to the colony and works out the details as to the points above he mentions.\n\nThere are hardly any female lunatics. He says he thinks there will be no difficulty about getting exercise outside the grounds. To Dr. Buchanan, he says the grounds are not big enough.\n\n### Response from Dr. Buchanan\n\nSept 13. \nSept 15. \nRun 1419. \nDr. Buchanan. Will you be kind enough to look at this plan for a Small Lunatic Asylum for the non-Chinese population of Hong Kong? There is no doubt that it will be quite big enough, and I think no objection.\n\nC-PL. I have little comment to make on the plans. I think it would be well to get a little more space, and this might be done at the expense of the day room which at present seems uncomfortably big for four people.\n\n1. The sleeping spaces (or what might be thought of as \"cells\") are small.\n2. A Kitchen scullery of 11X10 seems small, especially as I have not been conversant with Chinese Kitchen operations in China.\n3. The bathroom might well be larger, and the bath so arranged that an attendant can reach into it from both sides.\n\nM. Meade \n4 Oct.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328466, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "240 \n\nof extra & unnecessary food - When Prisoners are on \"punishment diet\" - double the number working were employed in the cook house - from 1 to 3 days. Nice & warm, they went on Sundays & Saturdays with lentils or \"Lucien\" 1/2 lbs of Rice per diem (nearly about 3 lbs) in spite of this clearly lawful reasons, Prisoners were allowed to have their own food inside the scale of 1 lb. I took the trouble to enquire about the food scale for all the Prison Men at least it was the Audit department had in contemplation to clean their own cells that forced this out & accentuated that team had been detailed for it. The warders on punishment diet had been allowed to have their Kitchen duties & cooks, which returned, as on Penal diet. I laboured of course also to supply food & labourers in truth is that my predecessors, not how well \n\nofficers. The warders are a rabble without rules of discipline, used to an easy quiet life - Prisoners tired of run away tales &c. Loafers of every nation used to commit an offence to get into jail with fast in their belly fulls if that the Prison has leisure a prisoner. Men who desire rest do their task of cake instead of a ration once a month or so - Milling or crank. We connived let it came back. We have large numbers with a reprimand. The Prisoners were \n\nwith them. 6 to 12 convicts May 10 often allowed to select what work they preferred. An unnecessarily large number of light billets were made for \n\nthem \n\nI have tried to sweep it a little, at the end of 2 of the secret cashiers were ... \n\nune", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333512, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 334, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "appear to forget that there are wide constitutional differences between a native of China and one who hails from Europe. They do not allow for the differences of habits, usage, mode of living and a host of other things between the two. They insist upon the theory of treating all nationalities alike however much they may differ from one another physically, mentally, and constitutionally. Hence arise the several provisions in this Ordinance and Bye-laws in question which I have no hesitation in characterising as wholly unnecessary. One might as well insist that all Chinese should eat bread and beefsteak instead of rice and pork, just because the two former articles agree better than the latter with an English stomach. One argument must here be stated and refuted. It has been stated by some advocates of this Bill that the Government is always adverse to anything like class legislation and that any recommendation of the Sanitary Board to that effect would not likely be entertained. This I must confess does remind one of old times when all class legislation was earnestly sought for to be abolished, but with what results I need not mention. Look over our local Ordinances, how many there are still in force which make clear distinctions between Chinese and Europeans. It would only be a waste of time to quote instances. As long as we govern the Chinese according to our promise given while this Colony was yet in its infancy, viz., to govern them as much as possible in accordance with their manners and customs, and to respect their religion and prejudices, we must of necessity modify our laws in order to meet their peculiar requirements. Besides, does not common sense alone indicate to us the advisability of legislating especially in many cases to suit circumstances and surroundings?\n\nFrom an economical point of view, the idea of sacrificing the millions of square feet at an average price of $6 to $7, per square foot is even more ridiculous. What is this enforced sacrifice for? Simply for the sake of a theory that the Chinese public require all such Sanitary improvements to promote their health and welfare. But I challenge the soundness of that theory. I say the Chinese in general do not require this sacrifice or even desire it. Let the Government ascertain the views of the Chinese public in this matter. I have often been told that I was almost always in a minority in the discussion of the various sections of this Bill, but I was and am confident that the public at large, without distinction of races, will support me in most of my contentions. I was often charged also with looking too exclusively after the interest of landlords, but I always denied that charge. I do not only represent the interest of landlords, and personally I am not a landlord, I care for the tenants as much as the landlords, and the poor as well as the rich. It is not for the welfare of the poor to have the valuable space occupied by their small rooms narrowed, in order to provide for a model of a privy, a superb kitchen and a sumptuous backyard of 10 feet wide, while at the same time the wicked landlords continue to charge the same rent or even a higher one for improvements and increased capital necessary to effect such improvements. I am not aware of any law, except in Ireland perhaps, which will compel landlords to lower their rent to an equitably low amount. Perhaps such law will be enacted here, but for the present at all events, all landlords, like everybody else, will want to get from 7 to 8 per cent net interest on their capital. What is the price of land now per square foot? In the central and most populous parts of Chinatown, like Queen's Road Central, and Bonham Strand, it is something like $9, or $10 or more, and even in the more distant and less valuable quarters, it is something like $3 or $4. Just fancy the position of the poor tenant if this Bill becomes law. He would be forced to pay an enormous rent for less space than before, plus all sorts of Sanitary improvements which, however good in themselves from a European standpoint, they do not care for, and which they think at least their constitutions do not require. They may say that they are habituated to such cities like Canton, Kowloon city, &c., compared to which Hongkong as it now stands is a paradise, a model of cleanliness, a perfect Sanitarium, and that if any more improvements are required, let those who advocate it pay for them and not they.\n\nHere two adverse arguments must be noticed. The first is that the Chinese are so ignorant of what is good for themselves that they must be taught, and forcibly too, by means of severe legislative measures. I hardly expected to hear of such an argument, if such it may be termed, at the end of the nineteenth century. It reminds one of the Star Chamber and the Inquisition. Those who advance this argument had better take care, lest some wiser heads might act upon the same principle and enforce something unpleasant upon themselves. Let me give a few illustrations of this dangerous but with some persons most plausible argument. (1.) The established religion of England is Protestant Christianity, the Chinese are mostly heathens, but as they are ignorant and should be taught, let us legislate for enforced Christianity. (2.) The Chinese doctors do not know anything about the European practice of medicine and the Chinese public constantly go to them for advice; but then they are so ignorant—let us legislate for the total expulsion of Chinese trained practitioners and forbid all Chinese under heavy penalties from consulting any one but European doctors. (3.) Many Chinese are inveterate opium smokers, that if long continued, must be injurious to their health as well as a waste of their money; but they are so dreadfully ignorant—let us legislate and force every one to abstain from opium smoking. I may multiply examples, but these will show what I mean. No European will deny that the Chinese urgently need reform in their religion, their system of medicine and their opium smoking habits, but who will advocate that such reform should be wrought by means of harsh and sweeping legislation? Their ignorance should be enlightened no doubt, but not by penal law.\n\nThe second argument is more reasonable and it is this, that as habitable rooms get smaller and rents go higher in directly opposite proportion, wages will get higher too and that will compensate the poor tenants. This would be perfectly true, I admit, if Hongkong were hundreds of miles away from China. But fortunately or unfortunately, we are close to the mainland, where thousands of poor Chinese are struggling for a bare subsistence. The labour market is always in excess of the demand, and there are many able bodies who are willing and even anxious to get their 10 or 20 cents a day. Those who stick out for higher wages on account of increased rent and less house accommodation will be supplanted by those who will be content with less. For example, if a man gets say $15 a month and has to pay $5 per month for two small rooms for his wife and children and $10 for food and clothing &c., but on account of higher rent he has to pay $6 for the same two rooms smaller than before on account of the sacrifice of building for backyard and other spaces, he would, according to the law laid down above demand $16 per month for his services. He would certainly succeed in this if there were no one to take his place for less, but let us say there are plenty who will take it for less, then what must the poor man do but to pay the $6, or resort to overcrowding or to stinting himself and his family of food and clothing. Now allow me to ask whether building four feet away from retaining walls, the leaving of a ten feet wide backyard and the establishing of a 3/6 feet brick privy and spacious kitchen, more necessary than food and clothing, or more desirable than overcrowding?\n\nI shall speak briefly of the unconstitutional and arbitrary way in which this Bill seeks to enforce its various provisions and Bye-laws. It does not provide for adequate compensation in every case. Surely if the public is to be benefited by a large sacrifice of property, the sacrifice should not fall on the shoulders of particular individuals but on all alike. It is always easy to make free with other people's property, but when the thing touches our own pockets we may not be quite so ready to carry out our best intentions and scientific views. I do not think it is a wise policy of any Government, especially when it is not of a representative character, to legislate arbitrarily concerning the property of its subjects, and particularly when such measures involve so large a sacrifice of property. It shakes public confidence and drives away capital, a state of thing which may not affect those who have no permanent interest in the Colony, but is sufficient to excite alarm in the minds of those who are permanent residents and have the future welfare of the Colony at heart. In connection with the question of compensation one curious argument was not infrequently advanced, viz., that since land has lately risen greatly in value, it is but just that the landlords who get the benefit of the rise should sacrifice something for the public good. On the face of it, this seems reasonable enough, but is it so? Are there no landlords who paid the present price for their land with hard cash? How many landlords are there now in existence who have held land for twenty years on the stretch? Even with these, are the risks they have run and the services they have rendered as pioneers of this settlement to go for nothing? Why should their profits be lessened more than any others? These are questions one has to answer before one can recommend this Bill for the consideration of the Legislative Council.\n\nI come now to the strongest argument in favor of this Bill, with its numerous Bye-laws. It has been repeated over and over again that in some large English towns similar Bills have been passed, and that this is an almost exact copy of them, most provisions having been copied word for word, and therefore it must be just and proper—going upon the principle that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. In effect whatever laws they may pass at home we must also pass here. I protest loudly against this kind of indiscriminate and servile legislation. If we are to adopt all English local Acts of Parliament as our law, why need we a separate Legislative Council? There is no doubt some English Acts which we shall all be glad to have introduced here, such as the Press law for example, still every new law should be modified and adapted to suit local surroundings and requirements. To my mind the very fact of the present Bill being copied from the local law of England is the strongest argument against its being passed here without a great many important modifications and alterations. Just compare this...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334116, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 400, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "Penalties\n\nD\n\n10.\n\nDe.\n\nProsecuting against sorora)\n\nPersons.\n\n96. Any person in whose possession there shall be found any food liable to seizure under Section 25 of this Ordinance shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred dollars or to imprisonment not exceeding three months.\n\n97. Any person or persons who shall in making application for registration or licensing of a Common Lodging House, knowingly make any false statements regarding any of the particulars required to be stated in such application, shall on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.\n\n98. Any person who shall contravene any provision of this Ordinance for which no special penalty is provided shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.\n\n99. All penalties imposed by this Ordinance or by any Bye-Laws thereunder may be recovered in a summary manner before a Magistrate at the suit of the Secretary.\n\n100. Where proceedings under this Ordinance are competent against several persons in respect of the joint act or default of such persons, it shall be sufficient to proceed against one or more of them without proceeding against the others.\n\nSchedule A.\n\nThe following Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and all Rules made thereunder are repealed ---\n\nNo. 12 of 1856, sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, and 15.\n\nNo. 8 of 1858, sections 18 and 19.\n\nNo. 10 of 1872, section 6.\n\nNo. 7 of 1883.\n\nPage 393\n\nTo\n\nSchedule B.\n\nHongkong,\n\n183\n\nRegistration of houses.\n\nDo\n\nDe\n\nNOTICE is hereby given to you on behalf of the Sanitary Board that the Nuisance specified hereunder is found to exist in your premises No.\n\nand that you are therefore hereby required within a delay of\n\nfrom the time of service upon you of the present Notice to abate such Nuisance in the manner hereunder set forth, failing which you will be liable to a fine of\n\nBy Order of the Sanitary Board.\n\nNature of Nuisance.\n\nAction to be taken for the Abatement of the Nuisance.\n\nSecretary.\n\nBye-laws for the proper sanitary maintenance of Common Lodging-Houses made under Ordinance of 1887, Section 13, Sub-section 14.\n\nNo.\n\n1. A Register of all Common Lodging-Houses shall be kept by the Registrar General in the form of Schedule C appended to these bye-laws.\n\n2. Before a house can be registered as a Common Lodging-House, an application must be made to the Registrar General in the form of the Schedule hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the house, the number of the rooms to be set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of each room so set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be furnished by the Registrar General.\n\n3. The Registrar General shall transmit each application for the registration of a house as a Common Lodging-House to the Sanitary Board, and the Board shall then cause the house specified in such application to be inspected by one or more of its Officers who shall submit a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a Common Lodging-House.\n\n4. Any house to be registered as a Common Lodging-House must be substantially built and in a good state of repair, the floors must be paved with tiles or concrete or boarded with planks close jointed, and all the rooms which are to be used as sleeping rooms must be on all sides above the level of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws regulating house drainage, there must be adequate kitchen, lavation, privy, urinal and ash-bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334860, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "(1) The basement story of such new building is intended for purposes other than human habitation,\n\nor,\n\n(2) Such building is situated at the intersection of two streets, and the basement story thereof is properly ventilated from both streets, or,\n\n(3) The basement wall, abutting on the hill-side, is carried-up to such a height above the level of the ground outside as will admit of the construction in such abutting wall of one or more windows opening from the basement story directly into the external air; or, where this is impracticable, the basement story shall be lighted and ventilated by means of grated openings or areas on Crown land, the permission for the erection of such areas on Crown land to be entirely at the discretion of the Governor in Council, or\n\n(4) The basement story of such new building consists of one single shop, the frontage of which shall face on a public thoroughfare, and shall be open to the external air from the floor to the ceiling along the whole extent of such frontage.\n\n60. It shall not be lawful for any person, who shall have been allowed to erect any new building, kitchen, or outhouse, abutting against the hill-side, under the provisions of Section 58, or Sub-section 1 of Section 59, or for any subsequent owner or tenant thereof, to use, or suffer to be used, at any subsequent period, the basement story of such new building, or such kitchen, or outhouse, for the purposes of human habitation.\n\n61. Every person who shall, under the provisions of Section 58 or 59, leave a clear intervening space or area between a new building and the hill-side, shall make the surface of the floor of such area at least twelve inches lower than the level of the basement floor of such new building, and he shall lay, to the full extent of such area, along the toe of the slope of the hill-side, and to a depth of at least twelve inches below the surface, a line of hard, sound, stone-ware field-pipes, of not less than three inches diameter, for the purpose of effectually draining the sub-soil of such area, and he shall not cause such sub-soil drain to be passed out under the floor of any building, unless any other mode of outlet may be impracticable; and, in such case, he shall cause the sub-soil drain to be so laid under the ground floor of such new building, that there shall be a distance of at least nine inches between the top of such drain and the surface of such ground floor.\n\n62. The floor of every area and of every basement story shall be properly asphalted, paved, or covered over, with a layer of good concrete at least nine inches thick and the floor of such area shall have a fall, from the external wall of such building towards the face of the hill-side, of at least half an inch to the foot.\n\n63. Every area shall be kept, at all times, free and unobstructed by structures of any kind other than flights of steps, nor shall such area be roofed in, or covered over with glass or other material. No bridge or flight of steps shall be placed over any window opening into such area. Every area shall be provided with a suitable parapet wall, or safe iron railing, or fence, along its upper edge.\n\n64. No person shall construct, except in a Hospital, any water-closet having any communication with any underground public sewer or private drain, nor, without the permission of the Sanitary Board, any urinal having such communication, and any such existing water-closets shall be removed by the owner upon his being required by the Board to effect such removal.\n\n65. Every factory, refinery, distillery, godown, or other industrial establishment whatsoever, employing a number of persons, shall be provided by the owner thereof with proper privy accommodation on the premises, to the satisfaction of the Board.\n\n66. Every person who shall erect a domestic building upon land obtained from the Crown after the passing of this Ordinance shall provide along the entire back of such building, if one storied, a clear space forming a back-yard of at least ten feet in width, and if such building be of two or more stories, he shall cause the width of such back-yard to be at least fifteen feet.\n\nExceptions\n\nKitchen\n\nSub-Bo!1\n\nruin.\n\nPaving of area and doors\n\nXtrubiums\n\npribited\n\nWater-closets.\n\nPrivies to factories or other industrial establishments\n\nBuildings on new Crown Lots.\n\nPART V.\n\n67. Every domestic building or portion thereof found to be inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult to every three hundred cubic feet of clear internal space, shall be considered to be in an overcrowded condition, and shall be deemed a Nuisance. This Section shall apply only to such districts, or portions of districts, as may, from time to time, be designated by an Order of the Governor in Council.\n\n68. It shall not be lawful for any householder or tenant to let or sub-let, for occupation, any Tenement-House or any floor, compartment or portion thereof to so large a number of persons, or families, as shall leave less than three hundred cubic feet of clear space for every adult inmate of such Tenement-House, or portion thereof, including the family of such householder or tenant if resident on the premises, and the presence of any number of persons in excess of this proportion, between the hours of 11 P.M. and 4 A.M., shall be taken as prima facie evidence that such Tenement-House, or portion thereof, has been let in contravention of this section.\n\n69. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House, and every other person acting in the care or management thereof, shall, at all times, when required by any officer of the Sanitary Board, give him free access to such house, or any part thereof, and any such keeper, or person, who refuses such access shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.\n\n70. If any tenement-house, or domestic building, or portion thereof, shall be found to be in an overcrowded condition, the Board shall, by a written notice, require the tenant of the same, or any portion thereof, and also, if necessary, the householder, to abate such overcrowding, within a period of one calendar month; such notice shall specify the cubic capacity available for habitation in such Tenement-House, or other domestic building, and the number of persons which may be legally accommodated therein. If the said notice be not obeyed, it shall be lawful for the said Board to apply to a Magistrate, who, on sufficient cause shown, shall summon before him the tenant or occupier of such dwelling house, or such householder.\n\nIf the person summoned admits, or if it be proved to the satisfaction of the said Magistrate that the said house is overcrowded, the Magistrate shall make an order for the abatement of the nuisance forthwith.\n\nOn the hearing of the said matter, the Magistrate may make such order for the inspection, at any hour of the night or day, of the said house, as the circumstances of the case may require. Such order to continue in force for a period not exceeding one month.\n\n71. Any room of a Tenement-House used as a common kitchen, shall not be used as a sleeping room, and the householder, or tenant thereof, shall be responsible that such common kitchen is not so used, nor shall any passage, lobby, or other place, partitioned off from any sleeping room to the height of the ceiling, be included in the calculation of the cubic capacity available for human habitation.\n\n72. In the calculation of cubic space, for the purposes of the four preceding Sections, two children ten years, or under ten years of age, shall be counted as one person, and every person over ten years of age shall be considered as an adult.\n\n73. No person shall open, or keep open, a Common Lodging-House, unless the house is registered, and the keeper thereof is licensed by the Registrar General.\n\n74. No person who shall erect a domestic building shall allow the same or any portion thereof to be occupied, until such building shall have been previously examined by an Officer of the Board, duly authorised by the Board, and certified by such officer as having been built in compliance with the entire provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n75. Any person who shall not comply with the requirements of Sections 67, 68, 70, and 71 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment not exceeding one month.\n\nOvercrowding.\n\n30 cu. ft. of space to be given to every inmate of houses\n\nInspection of Common Lodging Houses.\n\n38 & 80 V. c. 55 Bez. 85.\n\nSteps to be taken to abate overcrowding\n\nMagistrate order.\n\nPower to inspect.\n\nCommon kitchen not to be used as sleeping rooms.\n\nChildren of ten years.\n\nLodging-Houses.\n\nDomestic buildings.\n\nPenalty\n\n139", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335278, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 560, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "Specifications\n\nREC\n\nC. O.\n\n553\n\n382\n\nREGO 9 JAN 88,\n\nThe school building of the Basel Mission in High Street contains one large schoolroom and two rooms and a Kitchen for a teacher.\n\nFig. A. Quoder to get two schoolrooms instead of one, the teacher is to be provided with other quarters, the walls of his rooms are to be taken out and the whole building is to be divided by a new wall into two schoolrooms as large as shown in Fig. B.\n\n2.\n\nIn order to get more light into the schoolrooms, the windows on two sides are to be replaced by larger ones.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336900, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "page_number": 616, "title": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "content_text": "quarters $60 per \n\n芝 \n\nmuch below the actual value. \n\nI believe arguable rooms in this neighbourhood are often rented for $10 a month and I think \n\nthe two rooms, kitchen and \n\nbackyard belonging to these quarters could not be valued at less than $120 per annum. \n\nI request the enclosure which belongs to M Chapman \n\nbe returned to me \n\n5. A. Gordon, \nSuperintendent. \n\n610 \n\nMinute by the Colonial Secretary: \n\nTo Audit for report. \n\n23.3.88. \n\n57. J. Stewart \n\nC. O. \n\n15012 \n\nREC. \nAPRO 7 AU MO \n\nCol: Secti \n\nMinute by the Audit Clerk: \n\nThe Hon The Colonial Secretary) \n\nreferred to \n\nHer Haywood: 2 \n\nThe late Gaoling Superintendent \n\n2 recd \n\n# \n\nIt is considered that \n\nthe value of quarters for all \n\nsubordinate officers below the Warder of the Gaol should be \n\nat a uniform rate, viz: $10 \n\nper month, which sum \n\nhas always been allowed. \n\nThe Secretary of State had, on several occasions, invited \n\nthe attention \n\nof the Governor \n\nto this subject - Vide Despatches \n\nNo 254 of 4 November, 1884, \npara.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342979, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "page_number": 594, "title": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1890.\n\nTHE GAP ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.\n\nLATING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE,\n\nEnclosure\n\nThe foundation stone of the Gap Rock Lighthouse was laid yesterday afternoon by His Excellency the Acting Governor. The well-known rock on which the lighthouse is to be erected is a small sterile island, about 400 feet in length, 3.4 miles to the southwest of Hongkong. The main building will be in three storeys, or to be more correct, a basement and two storeys. On the basement is a large tank, capable of holding 12,000 gallons of water. The necessity of this is at once apparent, as owing to the difficulty of reaching the rock at all times and the impossibility in bad weather of reaching it at all, frequently for long periods, one of the first things that it was necessary to secure was a large supply of water for the use of those living there. By means of pipes, the water to fill the tank will be collected from the roof of the building, which is of asphalt, and further, the supply from the tank will probably be supplemented by a condenser. The floor above will contain two living rooms for the lightkeeper, a workshop, and a kitchen. On the next floor will be two more living rooms and coolie quarters. The building will be in two blocks, connected by a stairway, this method of construction being necessitated by the conformation of the rock, the building being as far as possible adapted to the outline. On the top of the main building will be the lantern, the centre being 140 feet above the mean sea level, this being a few feet higher than was originally intended when the plans were first drawn. Under ordinary conditions, the light will be visible at a distance of 21 nautical miles and under very favourable conditions some distance farther.\n\nThe preliminary operations in connection with the erection of the building have been difficult in the extreme, a thousand tons of the hard metamorphic rock having to be blasted before commenced. The building work could be will be of a substantial character, consisting of granite facing set in Portland cement; the walls will be of extra thickness, and as the floors are to be of iron and concrete, the building will be practically fireproof. The light is to be a flash revolving light of the first order, giving a flash every thirty seconds and completing one revolution in four minutes. The light will be of about the same dimensions as that at Cape D'Aguilar, but its force will be nearly double that.\n\nThe light and the lantern now in store have already arrived and are in Hongkong. The lantern is 25 feet in height and 12 feet 10 inches in diameter. The makers are the well-known manufacturers of this class of work, Messrs. Chance Bros. of Birmingham. It is estimated that the whole work will be completed and everything in working order, should no unforeseen accident occur, by the end of 1891, but of course should a protracted spell of bad weather prevent the work proceeding, this time may have to be a little extended.\n\nTwo-thirds of the material required for the construction of the building have already been landed on the rock. Up to the present, the work on the rock has been of a preparatory nature, consisting chiefly of blasting, making roads, and erecting quarters for the workmen. Work commenced in earnest for the first time on the 24th March with thirty or forty men and has gone on continuously ever since, the number of men now employed being about one hundred. One fortunate circumstance that has told in favour of the progress of the work is that up to the present, there have been no cases of sickness among the workmen. The revised estimate for the entire cost of construction is $150,000, and it is hoped and believed that the building when completed will not appreciably overrun this estimate. In this matter, however, as in the estimate of time, much depends on the weather that may prevail during the period of erection.\n\nIn addition to the light, it is under contemplation to fix a foghorn for use in thick weather, when even this powerful light may not be visible. The wisdom of such a course is undoubted. The masonry work has been let on contract to Mr. Tsang Kong, whose name is well known in connection with contracts in respect of large public works, and the construction is being superintended by Mr. Mudie, of the Public Works Department, under the supervision generally of which Department the whole work is being carried out.\n\nConsidering the great initial difficulties that had to be overcome before even a commencement could be made with this undertaking, the untiring perseverance that has been shown and the progress that has been made reflects credit on all concerned, and should the work of construction continue to be conducted, as there is no reason to doubt but it will, with the same energy and skill, the chief of the Department, Hon. S. Brown—from whose plans and according to whose ideas the work is being carried out—will have in the lighthouse a substantial testimony to the ability displayed during his period of service here of which he should have every reason to be proud.\n\nA small party of gentlemen, chiefly from official circles, accompanied His Excellency yesterday to witness the ceremony of laying the foundation stone. Among those present were H. E. Major-General Digby Barker and his A.D.C., Lieut. Barker, Commodore Church, the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Fielding Clarke; the Acting Attorney-General, Hon. E. J. Ackroyd; the Surveyor General, Hon. S. Brown; Capt. Rumsey, R.N., Harbour Master; Major-General Gordon, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police; Major Dempster, Acting Superintendent of the Gaol; Mr. McLeavy Brown, Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon; Capt. Booth, of the Chinese Customs Service; Mr. F. H. May, Private Secretary to the Governor; Lieut. Thorburn, A.D.C. to the Governor; several members of the Public Works Department, &c. The party left the Murray Pier shortly after 9 a.m. in the steamer Fame, which is employed by the Government in connection with the building of the lighthouse, and after a pleasant run arrived off Gap Rock about one p.m.\n\nOwing to the heavy sea that was running, it was found to be impossible to effect a landing at the usual side of the rock, where a road has been cut to its summit. The party were therefore landed in small sections, first by means of one of the steamer's boats, which took them to a small cove, and from there they were hoisted in couples by means of a derrick on to a landing place about half-way up the Rock. This method of landing occupied considerable time and afforded...\n\nPage 26\n\n \n\n590\n\n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "of the Committee.\n\nEncl. 3. 17th Dec.\n\n1890.\n\nThe customary Report on the Ordinance by the Acting Attorney General is annexed, and a copy of the Drainage Bye-Laws referred to therein is\n\nenclosed\n\nfor Your Lordship's information.\n\n4.\n\nPrinted With six.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nGwder Volus\n\nSpare Copies)\n\n*\n\nEnclosure 2\n\nREPORT.\n\n63\n\nC. O.\n\n3905\n\nThe Committee appointed on the 29th November, 1888, to enquire into and report on the extent of over-crowding which is supposed to exist in Victoria have to report as follows:---\n\n(Red 24 FEB 91\n\n1. For the purpose of carrying out the investigations deemed necessary the city was divided into 275 blocks by the late Surveyor General as shown on the plan of the city in the Board Room.\n\n2. The superficial area of each block has been given to the Committee by the Surveyor, as also the area of the half of the various streets surrounding each block.\n\n3. The cubical contents of each floor have been ascertained by the measurement of the floors of one house in each row of houses of the same size and description. It is assumed that for practical purposes this has given a near enough approximation to accuracy. Of course, wherever there appeared to be any clearly appreciable difference of size between houses in a row, further measurements have been made to approximately ascertain the amount of such differences.\n\n4. The cubical measurements given in the tabular statements are gross measurements, i.e., no deduction has been made for the space occupied by partitions, fittings, furniture, etc., etc., nor for the space occupied by the people living in the rooms. This is a point of considerable importance. An ordinary three-storied Chinese house when it is completed by the builder has, as a rule, three living rooms and three kitchens. In the more recently constructed houses of this class the living rooms are separated from the kitchens by means of a back-yard. In the older houses the separation is by means of a brick partition wall. When such a house is let, in the great majority of cases the tenant of each floor, i.e., the living room and kitchen, begins at once to divide the living room into 4, 6, 8 or more cabins by means of thin wooden partitions, and then to sub-let these small cabins separately. These wooden partitions occupy a very appreciable amount of space, and when to the space occupied by them is added that taken up by other fittings, furniture, clothing, etc., etc. and also the space occupied by the persons living in the rooms, a very considerable deduction has to be made from the gross space of the floor before the nett clear air space available in each cabin is arrived at.\n\nThe rough model of a three-storied Chinese dwelling on view in the Board's Offices illustrates the points here alluded to, and the following table shows the gross measurements of four ordinary floors together with the amount of clear air space therein.\n\n \n STREET.\n FLOOR.\n GROSS MEASUREMENTS.\n CLEAR AIR SPACE.\n \n \n 17, Caine Lane,\n Ground.\n 8,544 cubic feet.\n 5,634 cubic feet.\n \n \n 28, Upper Station Street,\n Do.\n 9,133\n 7,725\n \n \n 46, Bridges Street,\n Do.\n 4,890\n 2,614\n \n \n 11, Tung On Lane,\n Do.\n 4,992\n 3,546\n \n \n TOTAL,\n \n 27,550 cubic feet.\n 19,519 cubic feet.\n \n\nIt will be seen that on an average something like 29 per cent. should be deducted from the gross measurements of the rooms to arrive at the clear air space available for the persons living in these rooms. Taking the cubical contents gross", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348460, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 193, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 95. \nThe building consisting of three slaughter houses, one exclusively for the use of Indians, the others for the killing of cattle, sheep, and pigs; three sheds for the accommodation of animals to be slaughtered, office, coolie quarters, and out-buildings covers an area of 8,615 square feet and is approaching completion.\n\n## 96. \nPublic Laundries.-A site 17,660 square feet in area has been selected for the construction of ten public laundries on Kennedy Road, Wanchai.\n\n## 97. \nThese laundries, consisting of two living rooms, cook house, washing, drying, and ironing rooms, are being erected by Mr. TSANG SAM under `contract (1)`. Good progress has been made with the work, and the laundries will shortly be ready for occupation.\n\n## 98. \nPublic Latrines.--Previous to the past year, very inadequate latrine accommodation existed in the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon. To meet this want, ten cast-iron latrines obtained from Messrs. MACFARLANE & Co. of Glasgow have been erected in the villages of Stanley, Shaukiwan, Aplichau, Hung Hom, and Yaumati. They appear to meet the requirements of the native population and will doubtless improve the sanitary condition of the villages.\n\n## 99. \nLatrines were also completed in June last in Jardine's Bazaar and Poyan Street. The former covers an area of 540 square feet and the latter an area of 770 square feet.\n\n## 100. \nCivil Hospital Staff Quarters.-This building is situated at the corner of High Street at its junction with Eastern Street and occupies a site 21,114 square feet in area. The building is two stories in height and consists of 10 bed rooms, 5 sitting rooms, an office, and one dining room with the necessary servants' quarters, bath, and lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 101. \nIn addition to the above, a chemical laboratory 41 feet by 21.4 feet and store rooms have been provided.\n\n## 102. \nA `contract (3)` was entered into with Mr. TSANG KENG in November, 1889, for its erection, the time fixed for its completion being May, 1891. I regret, however, that owing to what appears to be inexcusable delay on the part of the contractor, this building is not yet completed, though in a very advanced stage.\n\n## 103. \nCivil Hospital Coolie Quarters-Commenced in July, 1890, the `contract ()` being obtained by Mr. Wo SING, were completed in April, 1891. This building occupies a site (2,800 square feet) within the Hospital compound and is two stories in height, consisting of 7 rooms with the necessary bath, lavatory, and kitchen accommodation.\n\n## 104. \nCivil Hospital alterations and additions.-Under this heading, the necessary boiler house, boiler, and piping have been provided and erected for supplying hot water to the bathrooms, lavatories, and kitchen throughout the Civil Hospital main buildings.\n\n## 105. \nThe contract for this work was obtained by Messrs. FENWICK & Co. in May last and has been satisfactorily completed at a cost of $850.\n\n## 106. \nThe retaining wall on the northern boundary has been built, and a few minor improvements have also been carried out.\n\n## 107. \nLunatic Asylum for Chinese.-This building, situated in High Street, occupies an area of 11,700 square feet, including an airing court of 5,650 square feet, was commenced in April, 1890, by Mr. YEE HING under `contract (48)` and satisfactorily completed in July, 1891.\n\n## 108. \nThe building is two stories in height, in addition to a 7-foot basement, and consists of 4 day rooms and 16 single cells, four of which are padded. Four rooms are provided for the attendants and office, as well as the necessary servants' quarters, kitchen, bath, and lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 109. \nPolice Station Aberdeen-Commenced by Mr. SOON LOONG in October, 1890, under `contract (38)`, is situated near the eastern end of the village on an elevated site having a southern aspect, has been satisfactorily completed.\n\n## 110. \nThis building is two stories in height with a 4-foot basement and is built of brickwork with stone dressings.\n\n## 111. \nThe accommodation provided consists of 3 rooms for a married Inspector, mess-room and barrack-room for 4 European Constables, barrack-rooms for 6 Sikh Constables, 8 Chinese Constables, and 6 Water Police with lavatory and bath accommodation, 4 cells, charge room, stables, store-rooms, servants' quarters, and kitchens.\n\n## 112. \nThe site is divided into two terraces, the stables, store-rooms, &c. being placed on the lower and the remaining buildings on the upper.\n\n## 113. \nPolice Station at Quarry Bay-Occupying an elevated site on the western side of Quarry Bay, 4,340 square feet in area, is a one-storied building containing 2 rooms, store-room, and 2 cells. Detached from the main building but approached by a covered way are the kitchens, servants' quarters, and offices. This building was commenced in November, 1890, and completed in July last by Mr. CHAN A TONG under `contract (8)`.\n\n## 114. \nKennedytown Police Station.-The sum of $2,000 has been expended in erecting a retaining wall at the back of the building and cutting away the steep hill side, which had commenced to slip.\n\n## 115. \nDistrict School Sai-ying-poon.-This school is situated at the junction of High Street with Pokfulam Road and was commenced in September, 1890. It occupies an area of 6,530 square feet. Three class rooms are provided and fitted up to accommodate 186 children. Quarters have been provided for a coolie and the necessary kitchen accommodation and offices. The work has been carried out by Mr. YEUNG A TING under `contract (11)` and was completed in June last.\n\n## 116. \nAdditions to Government House-Erected from the designs of Messrs. PALMER & TURNER and under their supervision, was commenced in April, 1890, consist of a ball room 60 feet by 40 feet, supper, card, and billiard rooms, and other accessories, is situated at the eastern end of Government House and occupies a site 2,700 square feet in area.\n\n## 117. \nThe building, with the exception of the decorations and lighting, was completed in September last. A contract has been entered into with the Electric Company for lighting this portion of Government House with electricity.\n\n## 118. \nThe installation of the Electric Light has been commenced and consists of 138 incandescent lamps of a total candle-power amounting to upwards of 2,600.\n\n## 119. \nThe alternating current for supplying these lamps will be taken from the Electric Company's house-lighting mains at a pressure of 2,000 volts and will be reduced by a transformer placed in the building to a pressure of 100 volts for the purposes of lighting the lamps.\n\n## 120. \nAll wires used in the building will be insulated with vulcanized india-rubber protected by a braided covering and laid in hard wood casings; the sizes of the wires employed varying, as the number of lamps supplied, from a strand of 19 No. 16 B. W. G. copper wires to 1 No. 18 B. W. G. copper wire for a single lamp.\n\n## 121. \nThe amount of electric energy consumed will be measured by meters placed in the building, the charge being 35 cents per 1,000 watt-hours, at which rate it is estimated that the lighting will cost about $3.50 per hour for current when all the lamps are alight.\n\n## 122. \nThe estimated initial cost of Installation is dollars four thousand three hundred and eighty-one and cents fifty. ($4,381.50.)\n\n## 123. \nOn the completion of the electric installation, it is proposed to proceed with the internal decoration of the building.\n\n## 124. \nQuarters for Superintendent, Botanical & Afforestation Department.-This building, situated at the junction of the Albany and Robinson Roads, occupying an area of 7,920 square feet, is two stories in height. On the ground floor is an herbarium 44 feet by 22 feet, 2 offices, and 2 store rooms; on the upper floor are the Superintendent's private quarters. Work was commenced in March last by Mr. YEE HING under `contract (4)` and the building is now nearly completed.\n\n## 125. \nPier Stone Cutters' Island.-A substantial timber pier has been constructed on the northern shore of Stone Cutters' Island opposite the Powder Magazine. The pier is 176 feet in length and has a floor area of 1,930 square feet. This work was carried out by Mr. CHAN A TSAN under `contract (3)` entered into in November, 1890, and completed in March, 1891.\n\n## 126. \nThe reconstruction of the Governor's Peak Residence; Magazine for Explosives, Stone Cutters' Island; Shaukiwan Market Extension; and Lowering Queen's Road West, have not yet been proceeded with.\n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY WORKS\n\n## 127. \nThe Vaccine Institute-is being erected on a site 4,800 square feet in area immediately north of the Kennedy Road at its western end. The buildings are one story in height and comprise a waiting room, operating room, quarters for a caretaker, and the necessary cook houses and offices. To the north of the main building but connected by a covered way across a yard 33 feet in width are situated 20 stalls for calves and the necessary fodder store.\n\n## 128. \nYaumati Praya Wall.-During the gale of July last, the southern portion of the Yaumati Praya Wall, 750 lineal feet in length, was carried away, and the Praya roadway at this point considerably damaged. A `contract (1)` was entered into with Mr. TSANG SAM in September last for the reconstruction of the wall and repair of the roadway. The amount of this contract was $5,508.10, and the time for its completion July, 1892. Fair progress has been made with this work.\n\n... \nPage 2 \n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357086, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "page_number": 617, "title": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "content_text": "Shippers of cargo can be informed that I have 500 of the Dizle Brigade at my disposal if they want men, but they will have to pay them.\n\n8. W. Robuisons.\n\n## Inclosure 3\n\n613 \nC. O. \n7333 \nRECO IR 29 APR CS\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 233.**\n\nThe following Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board on the 13th day of March, 1891, amended on the 2nd day of April, and approved of by the Legislative Council on the 22nd instant, are hereby published for general information.\n\nBy Command, \n**W. M. DEANE**, \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd May, 1891.\n\n### Bye-laws for licensing and regulating Common Lodging-Houses\n\nmade under sub-section 12 of section 13 of Ordinance No. `24` of 1887 and sub-section D of section I of Ordinance No. `26` of 1890.\n\n1. A Register of all common lodging-houses shall be kept by the Registrar General in the form of Schedule A appended to these bye-laws.\n\n2. Before a house can be registered as a common lodging-house, an application must be made to the Registrar General in the form of the Schedule B hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the house, the number of the rooms to be set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of each room so set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be furnished by the Registrar General.\n\n3. The Registrar General shall transmit each application for the registration of a house as a common lodging-house to the Sanitary Board, and the Board shall then cause the house specified in such application to be inspected by one or more of its Officers who shall submit a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a common lodging-house.\n\n4. Any house to be registered as a common lodging-house must be substantially built and in a good state of repair, the floors must be paved with tiles or cement concrete or with lime concrete rendered with one inch of Portland cement or boarded with planks close jointed, and all the rooms which are to be used as sleeping rooms must be on all sides above the level of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws regulating house drainage, there must be adequate kitchen, ablution, privy, urinal and ash-bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board; and unless when the supply of water is constant, there must be a proper cistern for the storage of water.\n\n## Registrar \n## Registration \n## of houses. \n## R. \n## Da.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362677, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "( 22 ) \n\nVI-TREATMENT.\n\n( 23 )\n\n191\n\nThe treatment of plague has hitherto been prophylactic and symptomatic merely.\n\nThe first care was to isolate the patient and to place him in a well-ventilated and airy room. The clothing the patient wore when he was brought into hospital was burned. Care was taken to disinfect thoroughly the stools, the urine, and the expectoration of the patient, as well as the bed linen, and other articles used by him in hospital. Those that recovered were provided with entirely new clothing when they left the hospital.\n\nIn the symptomatic treatment, the first endeavour was to sustain the power of the heart by large doses of alcohol, by preparations of ammonia, or by subcutaneous injections of ether and camphor. When the fever rose too high, above 39.5° C. (103° F.), cold baths, ice, phenacetin, antipyrin, and quinine were employed. In Chinese patients, who were not accustomed to cold baths in daily life, their use caused such profound collapse that they were soon abandoned. Of the medicines employed to lower the temperature, the most useful was phenacetin, for it produced no unpleasant secondary symptoms, and in doses of 0.5 to 1.0 gram (8 to 16 grains) almost always reduced the temperature to the normal for from six to ten hours. Antipyrin was much less suitable for the purpose, on account of its depressing influence on the heart. Quinine, in daily doses of 0.5 to 1.0 gram (8 to 16 grains) proved useful in the secondary fevers arising in the later course of the disease.\n\nAs long as the fever lasted, fluid nutriment only was given, such as milk, rice-water, beef-tea, chicken-broth, and eggs. After the cessation of the fever, a change was gradually made to solid food. As a drink, good cold tap-water of undoubted purity was given, or seltzer water, with or without brandy.\n\nBronchial catarrh was treated with expectorants.\n\nVII. THE ORIGIN AND THE MODE OF DISSEMINATION\n\nOF THE PLAGUE AT HONGKONG.\n\nThat we may be able to understand the origin and the mode of dissemination of the plague at Hongkong, it will first be necessary to describe shortly the fundamental peculiarities of Hongkong, the town of Victoria, of the dwellings, and of the inhabitants.\n\n00\n\nThe English Colony of Hongkong consists of the island of Hongkong and of the district of Kowloon on the adjacent mainland, the two being separated by a channel from 2 to 4 km (1¼ to 2½ miles) wide. Hongkong is 142 km (89 miles) south-east of Canton, and 62 km (39 miles) east of Macao. It is about 15 miles long and from two to five miles wide. It is mountainous, and consists of granite rock. The climate is tropical. The hot season lasts from the middle of April to the middle of November, and the cool season from the middle of November to the middle of April. The weather is changeable. The heaviest rains fall in April, May, June, July, and August.\n\nThe town of Victoria, built in the European style, lies on the north side of the island, facing the mainland; and extends from east to west between the hills and the sea, stretching up the hill-side. The low-lying parts of the town, especially the west and centre, contain, in addition to barracks, factories, shops, and the dwellings of Europeans, everywhere the dwellings of Chinese; whilst on the tops of the hills and on the hill-sides are found the dwellings of Europeans only.\n\nThe low-lying parts of the town are traversed from east to west by several parallel main streets, with plaster-fronted houses. These main streets are intersected by numerous narrow by-streets. The houses in the upper part of the town are built in a detached manner, and receive from all sides plenty of light and air; but this is not everywhere the case in the lower parts of the town, especially in the narrow streets of the Chinese quarter.\n\nOn the island, there are other districts, inhabited chiefly by Chinese, named Shau-ki-wan, Aberdeen, and Stanley.\n\nIn severe disturbance of the sensorium and in violent delirium, an ice-bag was placed on the head, and narcotics were given.\n\nIn unconscious patients, the bladder was in many cases emptied at stated intervals.\n\nTo clear out the bowels, calomel was given in large doses of 1.0 to 2.0 grammes (15 to 30 grains) daily, or castor oil was given or enemata were used. In severe and exhausting diarrhoea, Dover's powder, bismuth and opium, or tincture of opium was used.\n\nWhen the lips and mouth became very dry, they were cleansed and moistened with a damp linen rag. Dry or fissured lips were smeared with vaseline.\n\nThe glandular swellings were rubbed with various kinds of ointment, painted with tincture of iodine, or treated with wet compresses or with poultices. Glandular and other abscesses were opened, cleansed, and treated with iodoform, etc.\n\nIn June and July, 1896, in Canton and Amoy, YERSIN, by the subcutaneous injection of an anti-toxic serum, prepared partly in the Pasteur Institute in Paris and partly by himself in Saigon and derived from immunised horses, is reported to have completely cured in a few days 15 out of 21 patients. According to the account given to me in Hongkong by YERSIN himself, the action of the serum was an extremely rapid one, so that in one or two days after the injection the fever and the buboes had entirely disappeared, and the patients had recovered with remarkable rapidity. The result of the serum injections is most favourable when they are made immediately after the onset of the disease. In severe cases after the third day from the beginning of the illness, in consequence of the great weakness of the heart and the too intense poisoning of the system by the products of the life activity of the bacillus, a successful result is hardly to be expected.\n\nThe quantity of serum injected was considerable, and reached as much as 50 c.c. The method of preparing the serum, which is analogous to that of the anti-toxic serum for diphtheria, was described by YERSIN, CALMETTE, and BORREL in the Annals of the Pasteur Institute for 1895.\n* La Peste bubonique, Deuxième Note par M.M. Yersin, Calmette, et Borrel (Travail du laboratoire de M. Roux à l'Institut Pasteur).\n\nThe Kowloon district on the mainland, to which the small town of Yan-mua-ti belongs, lies on stony, level ground immediately bordering on the sea. Here also, the streets of the Chinese quarter are for the most part very narrow.\n\nThe Chinese inhabitants of Victoria have for some years numbered on the average 173,000; those of Kowloon 25,000; those of Shau-ki-wan about 9,000; those of Aberdeen about 3,000; those of Stanley about 1,000. A large proportion, however, of the above enumerated Chinese population of the Colony of Hongkong, lives on the water, on the so-called sampans or junks in the harbour; of these about 18,000 belong to the town of Victoria, 6,500 to the district of Kowloon, 4,800 to Shau-ki-wan, and 550 to Stanley.\n\nThe number of the non-Chinese population of the Colony is about 10,000, of whom one half are Europeans, and the rest Indians, Eurasians, Japanese, etc.\n\nThe Chinese population, numbering about 215,000, lives in an area 1/10th, or 1/15th, the size of that inhabited by the 6,000 or so Europeans. In addition to this overcrowding, the Chinese houses in 1894, and still to a large extent in 1896, presented bad hygienic conditions in the shape of deficient access of light and air, imperfect removal of slop-water and excreta, and great uncleanliness of the inhabitants. The houses and their inhabitants must therefore be briefly described.\n\nThe houses of the Chinese are built of stone, are usually three storeys in height, have small windows, and these commonly only on the side facing the street. In each storey, there is a dwelling-room, reached in the upper storeys by a steep stair, and a kitchen. In each dwelling-room, several families usually live in separate partitions. The number of persons living in such a room is often sixteen to twenty-five. In 1894, cellars also, to which the light and fresh-air could gain no access, were used as dwellings, but this is now forbidden.\n\nWith the excessively filthy habits of the Chinese, the rooms are very rarely cleaned.\n\nOwing to want of space, Chinese houses have no privies. Usually, in the dwelling-room or in the kitchen, there is an earthenware pot used to receive the excreta. Frequently, the Chinese used, and indeed still use, the slop-water pipe leading from the kitchen either...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372468, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 463, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "461\n\nthan when in the form of a backyard. We concur in the opinion expressed by Mr. LEIGH that existing houses above a certain depth can afford to give up a space which would be sufficient to form such back alleys.\n\n11. There are no structural difficulties in carrying out our recommendations; it is true that the owner in many instances will have to sacrifice dwelling space, but we submit that if such entails loss on them, they are themselves to blame for overcrowding their property with buildings of an insanitary nature.\n\n12. In some cases it will be found that the backs of houses in rear of which we recommend formation of laneways are not in alignment. In such cases we advise that the Government resume the property, and, after effecting the improvements recommended by us, sell it again.\n\nCUBICLES.\n\n13. We append the recommendations of the Commissioners and our own suggestions on the subject of cubicles. The first recommendation the Commissioners make on this subject is under the heading \"Houses fronting on narrow lanes:\"\n\nRECOMMENDATIONS OF COMMISSIONERS.\n\nClass B.--Houses fronting on narrow lanes.\n\nClause 7.--In houses fronting streets less than 15 feet in width, no cubicles should be allowed on the ground floors.\n\nC. P. CHATER. T. JACKSON.\n\nIn houses fronting on narrow lanes less than 15 feet in which no cubicles should be allowed on any floor.\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART.\n\nIn houses fronting on narrow lanes less than 15 feet in width no cubicles whatever should be allowed on any floor, and in houses fronting on lanes and streets of over that width no cubicles should be allowed on the ground floor without the permission of the Sanitary Board.\n\nT. H. WHITEHEAD. N. J. EDE.\n\nClause 12.--We consider that no cubicles should in future be permitted on any floor in any dwelling that has not a window or windows opening directly into the external air, of a total area of not less than one-tenth of the floor space.\n\nCubicles.\n\nClause 13.--In his examination the Medical Officer of Health referred to the question of cubicles and suggested their reduction from the present height of eight feet to six feet, but in this he is not supported by the other witnesses, the local architects being averse to any change as the present height was decided upon so recently as 1894. We, however, recommend that no cubicles of a greater height than seven feet unless the height of the room exceeds thirteen feet be permitted to be erected or re-erected hereafter in any domestic dwelling.\n\nAddendum to Report.\n\nWe are further of opinion that no cubicles erected or to be re-erected in future shall be placed nearer than six feet to any window the area of which is included in calculating the required window area of one-tenth of the floor area.\n\nT. H. WHITEHEAD. N. J. EDE.\n\nRECOMMENDATIONS OF SANITARY BOARD.\n\nIn houses fronting streets less than 15 feet in width no cubicles should be allowed except on the top floor of each house.\n\nNo cubicles or partitions other than \"shop-fronts\" should be allowed on the ground floors of houses fronting streets of a greater width than 15 feet and such shop-fronts should, in no case, be permitted to exceed 8 feet in height. No cocklofts or cubicles whatever should be permitted in houses within the European District Reservation Area (Ordinance 16 of 1888), nor should any such be permitted to be erected in any kitchen.\n\nThat where one cubicle only exists in any room of a domestic building, the present height of eight feet be retained; that where two cubicles only exist, the height of each should not be permitted to exceed seven feet, and that where more than two cubicles exist, the height of each should not be permitted to exceed six feet.\n\nThat there should be a space of at least four inches between the lower edge of the partition walls and the floor, in all cubicles, and that no structure should be permitted to be erected within a cubicle which shall be of a greater height than the partition walls, as provided for in the foregoing paragraph, or which shall provide a cover or roof to the cubicle; and also that no cubicle should be permitted to be erected nearer than six feet to any window, the area of which is included in calculating the required window area of one-tenth of the floor area.\n\nThat no cubicle used for sleeping purposes should have a less floor area than 64 square feet. That the recommendation in Clause 12 of the Report be adopted and applied to every existing domestic dwelling in which cubicles are erected.\n\n14. With regard to cubicles in houses fronting streets less than 15 feet in width, three of the Commissioners were in favour of not permitting any cubicles in any floor of such houses, while two recommended that in such houses cubicles should not be permitted on the ground floor.\n\nWe are of opinion that in such houses cubicles may be permitted on the top floor only of each house, and we are supported in our opinion by the evidence of Dr. CLARK (page 8) in which Mr. COOPE concurred, of Mr. DANDY (pp. 25 and 26), and of Mr. PALMER (page 40).\n\nMr. LEIGH was of opinion that in a 3-storied building opposite a building of the same height cubicles might be permitted on the two upper floors. It seems to us that the majority of the Commissioners were influenced in arriving at their conclusions regarding the permission of cubicles on floors of houses fronting streets less than 15 feet in width by the opinion expressed by Mr. LEIGH on page 35 that a house is either wholly a coolie (common lodging) house or a family house.\n\nSuch is not the case. We cannot call to mind a single house in the central part of Victoria, where the population is densest, which is entirely occupied on each floor as a common lodging-house.\n\nWe are of opinion that, as explained by Dr. CLARK in his evidence on page 8, the above recommendations in regard to cubicles in houses fronting streets less than 15 feet in width will not entail loss on property-owners.\n\n15. With regard to cubicles in houses fronting streets more than 15 feet in width, two of the Commissioners were of opinion that cubicles should not be permitted on the ground floors without the permission of the Sanitary Board.\n\nThe witnesses who were examined on the point expressed the opinion that cubicles might be permitted in all the floors of houses fronting streets of a width of 15 feet and over, with the exception of Mr. DANDY whom we understand to say that he would not permit cubicles in a house of a depth exceeding 25' if unventilated at the back, or 30′ if so ventilated.\n\nWe endorse the recommendation of the two Commissioners, and we venture to record the opinion that there cannot be found in Victoria a ground floor divided up into cubicles, no matter what the width of the street in front of it, which can be said to be adequately lighted and ventilated. Our remark as to the height of \"shop-fronts\" on ground floors is in accordance with the existing provisions of the law (Ordinance 15 of 1894, section 8 (4)).\n\n16. Our recommendation regarding the prohibition of cubicles and cocklofts in the European District Reservation Area is aimed at preventing the houses therein designed for European occupation being turned into tenement houses for Chinese by means of the objectionable system of sub-division by cubicles.\n\n17. We attach very great importance to the recommendation made by the Medical Officer of Health at page 7 of the report to reduce the height of cubicles to 6 feet.\n\nTo meet any possible objections on the part of the richer Chinese we propose that on floors where only 1 cubicle is erected the present height of 8 feet be permitted, that where two cubicles are erected on one floor the height be 7 feet, but that when there are more than 2 cubicles the height be reduced to 6 feet.\n\nWe would point out that the space of 4 feet or more required by section 8 (b) of Ordinance 15 of 1894 could still be enclosed by wire netting or lattice work at least open between the top of the partitions and the ceiling or under side of the joists. This would prevent anyone looking over the 6 feet partitions as some of the witnesses examined by the Commissioners appeared to fear.\n\nWe would add that we have found that there are numbers of cubicles at present erected which are only an inch or two over 6 feet in height, and that numerous instances could be quoted of partitions which, owing to the lowness of ceilings, are made of open bamboo work throughout.\n\n18. The recommendation contained in the Addendum to the Report signed by Messrs. EDE and WHITEHEAD is a most important one, and we strongly recommend its adoption.\n\nAt present in the large majority of floors on which there are cubicles, one of the windows in the front of the building, and in many cases the only window, is monopolised by the cubicle next to it to the exclusion of light and ventilation to the floor. The same is the case with any back window there may be.\n\nWe have added recommendations for a space of 4 inches to be left between the lower edges of cubicles and the floor, and to prevent cubicles being covered over or obstructed by erections within them. We find that cubicles are not infrequently covered over with boards, or have large four-posted bedsteads placed inside which overtop the partitions and are provided with wooden covers. Such structures interfere very much with the lighting and ventilation of the cubicles.\n\nThe proposal that no cubicle used for sleeping purposes should have a less floor area than 64 feet is aimed against overcrowding.\n\nIt is presumed that 2 persons at least occupy a cubicle. The floor area for each person is 30 square feet and we have allowed 4 square feet for obstructions inside the cubicle.\n\n19. Before quitting the subject of cubicles we would observe that we regard them as one of the most objectionable features of the dwelling-houses of Chinese in this Colony.\n\nThey are not, as some seem to suppose, an adjunct of Chinese family life in China, but are essentially a contrivance to which the Chinese in this Colony have been driven by the excessive depth of the houses in Victoria and by the demand for house room.\n\nIn this connection we would refer to paragraph 146 of Mr. CHADWICK's report of the 18th July, 1882, in which he said \"the type of house in Hongkong is quite different from that in use on the neighbouring mainland, and I am certain that the lower class population is more densely packed together in Hongkong and worse provided with appliances for cleanliness than they are in Canton.\n\n\"In Hongkong the average number of inhabitants per house is 16 whilst in Canton it does not exceed 9 or 10. In Canton over the whole city there is not on the average a complete upper storey. Second and third storeys are there unknown whilst they may be said to be the rule in Hongkong. In China also there is in the middle of the house a square space open to the sky (Tien Tsing, \"heavenly Well\") with a sunken floor which serves for ventilation and many other purposes. In some cases this court is covered in, but I have generally observed that there is abundant provision for ventilation on the north side of the house especially.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377845, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 314, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "# New Head Quarters for the Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n## 312\n\nHemo. of accommodation required.\n\n1. Main building, consisting of Basement and two storeys, 90 ft x 50 ft.\n\n(a) Basement\n- Armoury, 70ft x 25ft.\n- Store Room, 20ft x 25ft.\n- Gun shed, 90ft x 15ft.\n\n(b) Ground Floor\n- Mess Room divided into two by partition.\n- Orderly Room, 20ft x 25ft.\n- Room for two Orderlies, 20ft x 25ft (moveable with partition).\n- Store Room, 25ft x 25ft.\n- Sergeants' Tea Room, 25ft x 25ft.\n- Bar, 20ft x 25ft.\n- Smoking Room, 35ft x 25ft.\n- Billiard Room, 35ft x 25ft.\n\n(c) First Floor\n- Officers' Lavatory and Dressing Room, 20ft x 25ft.\n- Officers' Ante Room, 20ft x 25ft.\n- Officers' Mess Room, 35ft x 25ft.\n- Band Room, 15ft x 25ft.\n- Reading and Recreation Room and Dressing Room, 90ft x 35ft (including Tea Room).\n\n2. Drill Shed, low and open, on iron pillars, with hanging eaves, to be also fitted and used as a Gymnasium, 100ft x 60ft.\n\n3. A detached building in rear, of two storeys.\n\n(a) Ground floor\n- Pantry.\n- Kitchen.\n- 5 Urinals and 3 commodes for men.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381489, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 201, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "Window..\n\nOpen space\n\n\"of and 13 of 1884\n\n(New)\n\nComputation of depth of building.\n\nOrd. 157 of 1885. 4.6 Basements, collars, &c.\n\n(a) All parts underground (as new)\n\nPenalty.\n\nOrd. 12 of 1891. 5. 2. Water-closets and urinals.\n\nOrd. 24 of 1887. 65 Privies in factories or other industrial establishments.\n\nORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\nPublic Health.\n\nHouses exceeding 40 feet but not exceeding 50 feet in depth: a lane not less than 8 feet wide. Houses exceeding 50 feet but not exceeding 60 feet in depth: a lane not less than 11 feet wide. Houses exceeding 60 feet in depth: a lane not less than 13 feet wide.\n\n(d.) The buildings must be provided on every floor with a window of at least ten square feet superficial area opening into such lane. The area of such window shall not be included in calculating the window area required by section 69 of this Ordinance.\n\n(e) In computing the depth of a domestic building for the purposes of this section, the depth of the kitchen shall be included in the computation of such depth in every case, except when such kitchen is separated from the principal room or rooms of such building by an open backyard of at least six feet in depth extending the entire width of the back of such building and unobstructed except by a bridge or covered way on each floor not exceeding the width specified in sub-section (b).\n\nBasements and Cellars. On and after the 16th day of Sept. 1895. - It shall not be lawful, without the written permission of the Board, to live in, occupy or use, or to let or sublet, or to suffer or permit to be used for habitation or for occupation as a shop, any kitchen, out-house, cellar, vault, underground room, basement, or room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil.\n\n(2.) Any person contravening any provision of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.\n\nWater-closets and Latrines.\n\n58. No person shall construct, except in a hospital, any water-closet or urinal having any communication with any public sewer or private drain, without the permission of the Board, and any existing water-closets or urinals so communicating shall be removed by the owner upon his being required by the Board to effect such removal.\n\n59. Every factory, refinery, distillery, godown, or other industrial establishment whatsoever, employing a number of persons, shall be provided by the owner thereof with proper privy accommodation on the premises, to the satisfaction of the Board.\n\nORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\nPublic Health.\n\n60. No public latrine shall be erected until the previous sanction of the Board in writing has been obtained.\n\nThe Board shall not incur any legal liability in respect of having granted such sanction, nor shall such sanction protect the owner of any public latrine from any liability to an injunction or other legal proceedings should the latrine be at any time so conducted as to become a nuisance, or its erection be contrary to agreement or be otherwise wrongful.\n\n61. When, in the opinion of the Board, additional public latrine accommodation is required in any locality, the Board may apply in writing through its secretary to the Governor, through the Colonial Secretary, specifying the site (upon Crown land) upon which it desires the erection of a public latrine, and the accommodation to be provided by such latrine.\n\n62. If such application shall be approved of by the Governor, a notification shall be published, in English and Chinese, in three successive numbers of the Gazette, specifying the site and that the Government proposes to erect thereon a public latrine.\n\n63. If any owner or occupier of property in the immediate vicinity of such site objects to such erection, such objection must be sent in writing to the Colonial Secretary so as to reach his office not later than one week after the publication of the last of such notifications.\n\nSuch objection must state the reasons and specify the property with regard to the ownership or occupation of which such objection is made and the interest therein of the objector.\n\n64. If such objection is so duly made and is not withdrawn, the Government shall not be entitled to claim the annuity conferred by section 66 of this Ordinance, unless a resolution of the Legislative Council is passed approving of the site and the erection thereon of such latrine.\n\n65. Where such resolution as mentioned in the preceding section has been passed or where no objection has been so duly made or has been withdrawn, no injunction shall be granted against the erection, continuance or use of such latrine, nor shall any suit be brought for damages or compensation in respect of such erection, continuance or use.\n\n66. The immunity with regard to injunctions and suits conferred by section 65 of this Ordinance is hereby extended to all the Government public latrines existing at the time of the commencement of this Ordinance, as fully as if they had been erected under this Ordinance.\n\nPage 199", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381496, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\nPublic Health,\n\n3. A register shall be kept by the person or persons in charge of each cemetery, at or near each cemetery and the date of burial, name, sex, age and registered cause of death of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred; such register shall be open to inspection by any member of the Board, or by any officer of the Board who may be directed to make such inspection, at any reasonable hour.\n\n4. Each grave shall be dug to at least a depth of seven feet throughout.\n\n3. Except as regards the corpses of children under five years of age, only one corpse shall be placed in one grave. In the case of the corpses of children under five years of age, two corpses may be placed in one grave.\n\n6. The interspace between any two graves at any point shall be at least eighteen inches.\n\n7. Each grave on being filled in shall be properly covered with turf or chunam or such other material as may be approved of by the Board.\n\n8. No grave may be re-opened after a corpse has been interred therein, without the written permission of the Medical Officer of Health or other officer duly appointed by the Board for that purpose.\n\n9. The person in charge of each cemetery shall give not less than two hours' notice to the Overseer, or other officer of the Board duly appointed for the purpose, of intention to inter a corpse and the hour at which it is proposed that such interment shall take place.\n\nB\nChinese Cemeteries.\n\n10. Each cemetery shall be laid out in sections of such size and arranged in such manner as may be directed by the Board.\n\n11. A plan of the cemetery or a tracing thereof as laid out shall be on view at or near to the cemetery and at the offices of the Board.\n\n12. The plan shall show the position of each grave-space in each section and every such grave-space shall bear a number.\n\n13. A register shall be kept in the English and Chinese languages at or near each cemetery and the date of burial, name, sex, age and registered cause of death of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred.\n\n14. Except as regards the corpses of children under five years of age, only one corpse shall be placed in one grave. In the case of the corpses of children under five years of age, two corpses may be placed in one grave.\n\n15. Each grave on being filled in shall be covered with turf, chunam or such other material as may be approved of by the Board.\n\n16. No grave may be re-opened after a corpse has been interred therein, without the written permission of the Medical Officer of Health or other officer duly appointed by the Board for that purpose.\n\n17. The following fees will be charged for each grave-space and interments in the various sections of the cemeteries.\n\nFifty cents for digging, filling in and covering each grave.\nSection A.Free.\nB.$1 and a dollar\nC.$2do.\nD.$10do.\nE.$15do.\nfor digging, filling in and covering each grave.\n\nORDINANCE No. 13 OF 1901.\n\nPublic Health,\n\nCOMMON LODGING-HOUSES.\n\n1. A register of all common lodging-houses shall be kept by the Registrar General in accordance with Form (a) appended to these bye-laws.\n\n2. Before a house can be registered as a common lodging-house, an application must be made to the Registrar General in accordance with Form (b) hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the house, the number of the rooms set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of each room so set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be furnished by the Registrar General.\n\n3. The Registrar General shall transmit each application for the registration of a house as a common lodging-house to the Board, and the Board shall then cause the house specified in such application to be inspected by one or more of its officers who shall submit a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a common lodging-house.\n\n4. Any house to be registered as a common lodging-house must be substantially built and in a good state of repair; the floors must be paved with tiles or cement concrete or with lime concrete rendered with one inch of Portland cement or boarded with planks close jointed, and all the rooms which are to be used as sleeping rooms must be on all sides above the level of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws regulating house drainage; there must be adequate kitchen, lavation, privy, urinal and ash-bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Board; and unless when the supply of water is constant, there must be a proper cistern for the storage of water.\n\n5. When the Board is satisfied that a house sought to be registered as a common lodging-house is suitable for such a purpose, it shall inform the Registrar General accordingly who may then register such house as a common lodging-house.\n\n6. Before any person can be licensed as a keeper of a common lodging-house, an application must be made to the Registrar General, and such application must be accompanied by a certificate of character from one or more house-holders—to be approved of by the Registrar General—who shall give security for the carrying out of the regulations by the licensed keeper.\n\n7. When the Registrar General is satisfied with the character of an applicant for a licence to keep a common lodging-house, he may issue a licence to such applicant accordingly.\n\n8. The keeper of a common lodging-house shall reduce the number of lodgers in any room of his common lodging-house upon receiving notice in writing from the Board stating the cause for making such reduction, and the period for which it shall continue in force.\n\n9. The keeper of a common lodging-house shall not permit his premises to be occupied, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., by a greater number of persons than that specified on the licence issued to him by the Registrar General.\n\n10. The keeper of a common lodging-house shall not permit males and females above ten years of age respectively to occupy the same sleeping apartment except in the cases of husband and wife, and parents and children; and he shall not allow any person to occupy his house for immoral purposes.\n\n11. The keeper of a common lodging-house shall not knowingly permit persons of bad character to lodge in his house; and he shall maintain and enforce good order and decorum therein; and he shall also keep a register of the name, occupation and native place of each lodger.\n\nAge-Camps\n\n206\n\nunder Ordinance\n\n24\n\nof 1887.\n\necution 13.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "No. 364.\n\n19.9.07.\n\nSir,\n\nC.C.\n\n36049\n\n484\n\nRECO Y Government House, 14 JUL 1907\n\n1 REG.\n\nHongkong, 13th September, 1907.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from the Principal Civil Medical Officer, together with a joint report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer and the Acting Director of Public Works, concerning the erection of a new operating theatre for the Government Civil Hospital.\n\n2.\n\nThe cost of constructing a new kitchen, removing the old one and erecting the mere shell of the building for the operating theatre is estimated by the Acting Director of Public Works at $9,000, but this amount would doubtless be largely increased by the special internal fittings and arrangements required. The cost of these fittings cannot be ascertained locally and I shall therefore be glad if, in the event of the proposal receiving your approval, you will be good enough to inform me of the estimated expenditure which will be involved and to obtain for the use of this Government drawings of the operating theatre at London Hospital to which reference is made in the enclosed report.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nJoseph Chamberlain, M.P.,\n\n&c..\n\n&c..\n\nGovernor, &c..\n\n&c...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385164, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "appointment annun \n\nTemporary Plague Staff \n\n \n Name\n Status\n Date of Salary\nped Period for which\n $1500. Monthly.\nSugaged\n Date of Econ. Approval\n Remark\n \n \n R. M. Even\n Civilian\n 26. £.01.\n \n 3.6.01.\n 1402 / 01. Disinfecting & Cleansing Works.\n \n \n H.7W Gidley\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n M. A. Farrell\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n HIM.\n \n 15.6.01.\n \n \n 1023 / 07. Acting for Suspector Brett on leave\n \n \n \"A. Levy\n \n 18-11-01.\n \n \n 3271/01. Replace Inspector Hoggarthinseg\n \n \n A. Kalliwada\n \n 2.02\n \n 3716/01\n 27.12.01 3716/0\n \n \n James Hardy Edholm\n \n \n \n 14.2.02.\n chargs of Rowloon Rat-catchers\n \n \n 5. M. Gidley\n \n \n \n \n 187/02. In charge of City Rat catchers\n \n \n 13. Am. Duff\n \n \n \n 3.4.02.\n 187/02. In charge of Rowloon Rat Prisoners\n \n \n 54. Peterson\n \n \n \n 12.4.02.\n 187/02. In charge of City Rat Poisoners\n \n \n James Daly\n \n \n \n 12.2.02.\n 150/07. In charge of Observation block R..\n \n \n Henry Foster\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AH! Baillie.\n \n 15.4.07\n M\n \n 30.10.07.\n \n \n 6.8.M. Hryem.\n \n \n \n \n .04.\n \n \n b. L. St. Clair\n \n 182.02\n \n 22.11.01.\n \n \n \n S. C. Butter\n \n \n 4\n 4\n \n \n \n J. W. Dalrymple\n \n 44.02\n \n H\n 1\n \n \n G. E. Jowett\n \n \n ₤1\n 11\n 403\n \n \n G.&.\n \n \n \n 27\n 11:07\n \n \n 8. Kelly.\n \n \n H\n 18\n \n \n \n A. Duncan\n \n \n \n ม\n \n \n \n John Anderson\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Richard Plows\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A13. Hind & Brown\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John Bailey\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mr. H. Coulth\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n P. Cummin\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2.C Kitchen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n m. leole\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5. Newhouse\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3. Smith\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nX Where men have been placed\nand replaced by other=\n\n328/02. Disinfecting releansing Works", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385548, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "C. O. P Y No. 101.\n\n151\n\nEnclosure to Despatch No. 34 of the 7th August, 1903.\n\n38377\n\nRec? \n\nnd 15 SEP 021\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th January, 1897.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter No. 2 of the 7th instant,\n\nI am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to grant you an allowance of $130 per annum as compensation for the privilege you have until recently enjoyed of rearing vegetables for your private consumption in the Government Kitchen Garden.\n\nThis allowance will be personal to yourself and cannot be drawn by your locum tenens nor by you whilst you are absent on leave.\n\nO. Ford, Esq.,\n\nSuperintendent,\n\nBotanical and Afforestation Department.\n\nI have etc.;\n\n(Sgd.) J. H. Stewart Lockhart,\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388709, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 216, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Distribution of Relief at Ts'am Chau\n\nDistribution 18 and among those missed by the Chinese at Ts'am Chau is done in three ways. (1) There is the official relief fund, to which the Governor of Kwang Sai, Wong Chi Chun, has promised a contribution of 1,000 piculs, towards which he has already paid down $2,000. The Prefect, Chong Tso Ke, has contributed $1,000, and the district magistrate, Chau Shiu Lim, 700 taels. This fund is intended primarily for relief only inside the city of Ts'am Chau, and is administered by means of the Po Kap Kuk, or tithings (10 families). Each head of a tithing reports those who are destitute among the ten families under his supervision; the man so reported is given a ticket by the Po Kap Kuk, for which he obtains rice at the rate of 3 oz. a day, i.e., he is given 15 oz. of rice, as the distribution is made once in five days in the Temple of Literature. The fault in this system is that it can relieve only those who are householders in Ts'am Chau; moreover, certain shopkeepers, who, owing to the suspension of trade, are absolutely starving, can obtain nothing, as the gentry will not believe in their indigence. The pawnshops have been closed in Ts'am Chau all this year, and I can see no signs of any business being done even on the market days.\n\n(2) The Fa-ti-pau, who is himself a poor man, makes a daily distribution of rice at the likin station, giving an ounce of rice to all starving people who come to the station, but the relief does not reach far, as the Fa-ti-pau cannot afford to issue large quantities of rice.\n\n(3) The Cantonese merchants resident in Ts'am Chau have subscribed a sum of $2,000 which has been sent down here to purchase rice. This rice is intended for distribution in the market towns, i.e., in the countryside, not in the city. But the rice has not yet arrived, and therefore relief has not as yet commenced.\n\n## Meeting with the Governor of Kwong Sai\n\nThis morning I visited the Governor of Kwong Sai, who handed me the appended list of famine-stricken districts in this prefecture.* His Excellency informed me that in his opinion the district which is suffering most of all is Nanning, and that the area of distress extends from Nanning the whole length of the West River to N'am Pong. Whatever is to be done must be done without delay, otherwise the people for whom relief is intended will be dead. His Excellency promised every assistance to measures taken by the Hong-kong community for famine relief.\n\n## Telegram to Your Excellency\n\nAccordingly, I sent to Your Excellency this morning the following telegram: - \"Arrived Ts'am Chau. Seen Governor Wong Chi Chun promises assistance. Famine work here in hands of Fee. Required for immediate continuance of work $550, which pay to account Fee, Hongkong Shanghai Bank. Relief needed till next harvest, and July. Estimate rice required Ts'am Chau district till then 1,350 piculs. Convert all contributions into rice and forward to Wuchow. Arranging for transmission from Wuchow up West River. Proceed Kwai Yun to-morrow.\"\n\n## Request for Information on Relief Fund\n\nIt will be a great assistance to me if Your Excellency will kindly telegraph to me at Nanning the amount of money at which the Hongkong relief fund is estimated, for any suggestions that I can make must be based upon the sum of money available for use. But as far as I can now see, it will be handy if we are able to establish three distributing centres at N'am Peng, Ts'am Chau, and at Kwai Yun. I will report later on N'am Peng and Kwai Yun, and also on Nanning, though I do not consider that it is probable that Nanning can be relieved from Hongkong owing to the delays of transport by junk from Kwai Yun up the West River. As far as Kwai Yun, steam transport is available. The companies which run launches are Chinese-owned and their headquarters are, I believe, at Wuchow. I am writing to Mr Fox to suggest that he should urge these companies to grant free transport for rice forwarded from Hongkong and would venture to suggest that Your Excellency should approach the Viceroy at Canton in this matter. Rice should also be duty-free. I mentioned both these matters to H.E. Wong Chi Chun, who said he would do what he could, but that the authority did not rest in him.\n\n## Distribution Arrangements\n\nDistribution at Ts'am Chau has been so excellently organised by Mr Fee that I cannot but recommend that he should be placed in charge of this distributing centre. Mr Jaffray is leaving to-morrow for Wuchow to arrange for missionary workers at any centres established, and also to endeavour to arrange the question of transport from Wochow up river.\n\nThe Chinese officials should be requested to provide at each distributing centre - (1) free quarters for the distributors, (2) a suitable place in which the distribution shall take place, (3) kitchen fittings for the cooking of rice gruel in large quantities, (4) free delivery of rice from the rice boats by coolies at the place of distribution or kitchen. They should also issue a proclamation in the distributing centres and country round about, notifying the distribution which is to be made by the Hongkong relief fund.\n\n## Next Steps\n\nI leave to-morrow morning at 6 am, for Kwai Yun by launch, and will report further after I have seen what is the condition of affairs there. I would urge that no time should be lost in sending rice up to Wuchow, and that in any case the distribution at Ts'am Chau should not be permitted to cease for lack of funds.\n\nI am,\nYour Excellency's obedient servant,\nC. CLEMENTI.\n\n*The number of starving people in the Famine District of Kwei-Ping is as follows: -\n\n| District | Number of People |\n| --- | --- |\n| Within the city and suburbs | 2,644 |\n| Daily going to the Protestant Church for food | about 3,500 |\n\nThe following is the approximate number of people in various districts at present requiring relief: -\n\n| District | Number of People |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. Wing-Wo-Li on the West and South banks | about 14,000 |\n| 2. Upper and lower Shung-Keung-Li | about 13,600 |\n| 3. Kwan-Ling Li | about 14,500 |\n| 4. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Hau-Luk-Li | about 2,410 |\n| 5. Sheung-To-Li, near the river banks | about 1,100 |\n| 6. Sheung-Shau-Li | about 10,700 |\n| 7. Sun-yat-Li near the river banks | about 9,000 |\n| 8. Kut-yee-Li near the river banks | about 12,000 |\n| 9. Chung-shan-Li | about 14,000 |\n| 10. Chiu-Li near the river banks | about 8,400 |\n| 11. Po Li | about 5,000 |\n\nThis gives a total of 150,000 people in a state of starvation in the various districts around Kwei-Ping. In other places where the famine is not of so serious a nature, rice is procurable at low rates.\n\nPage 2\nPage 212", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389332, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Appendix E.\n\n## EXPERIMENTAL BLOCK.\n\nReport showing NUMBER OF Rat-Holes in PREMISES OF Sheung Fung Land.\n\n| House No. | Floor | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1 | Top Floor | One hole leading to Kitchen. |\n| No. 3 | Ground Floor | One. One. Three holes. |\n| No. 9 | Ground Floor | One in Kitchen penetrating two feet three inches into the earth. |\n| No. 1 | Ground | |\n| No. 3 | Top | |\n| No. 5 | Ground | One hole. |\n| No. 7 | | One hole leading to No. 13 Top Floor Kitchen. |\n| No. 2 | Top | One hole leading from Kitchen to No. X Ground Floor Kitchen. |\n| No. 4 | Top Floor | One hole leading from Kitchen to No. 4 Top Floor Kitchen. |\n\nHosarong, 26th May, 1903.\n\nJ. H. SYDNEY, Temporary Inspector of \"Observation Block\"\n\n## Appendix C.\n\n## HISTORY OF EACH CASE.\n\nCHAN Koo, 30, M., rattan worker, No. 16 Sheing Fang Lane, 1st floor, reported dead on the 24th April. 12 persons occupied this floor. This house had not previously been washed out by us. No further cases were reported from this house. After washing out the house the occupants were allowed to remain.\n\nYue Foo, 23, F., married woman, No. 8 On Wai Lane, 1st floor, reported sick on the 26th of April. She had been sick since the 24th of April. This case was declared plague. She was attended to by an outside Chinese Doctor under whose care she eventually recovered. The other occupants were removed to No. 88 Second Street, after washing their effects in the tanks. No further cases were reported from this house. This floor was occupied by 15 persons. She was nursed by her mother and another Chinese woman. This house had not previously been washed out by us.\n\nWONG Tai, 52, M., coolie, No. 44 Second Street, 1st floor, reported sick the 30th April, had been sick since the 24th of April, and died the 1st of May. The other occupants were removed to No. 76 Second Street. After his death, the other occupants removed back after washing but the floor and going through the usual process. He was attended to by the Chinese Doctor from the Tung Wah Hospital and nursed by a clansman. This man was also a victim to consumption. 14 persons occupied this floor. This house had not been previously washed out by us.\n\nLAI CHUN, 24, M., hawker, No. 21 Sheung Fung Lane, ground floor, reported sick on the 1st of May. This man had a bubo in the groin and a scar on the foot. He stated that he fell a few days previous causing the scar on the foot. This case was declared not plague.\n\nCHING KING, age 5, F., child, No. 6 Tak Sing Lane, 1st floor, reported sick on the 3rd of May. She had been sick since the 1st of May, and died on the 4th of May. It was declared plague. The people were removed to No. 76 Second Street and went back the following day. No further cases were reported from this floor. A case was reported from the floor above on the 13th of June, a man named Soo Ki. This case had no connection with the above as Soo Ki came to this house on the 5th of June from No. 10 Torren Street. 21 persons occupied this floor. No further cases were reported from this house.\n\nKwok YUNG, age 58, M., coolie, No. 8 Sheung Fung Lane, 1st floor, reported dead on the 6th May, had been sick since the 1st May. 4 occupants resided on this floor. Disinfected clothing, etc., and allowed the occupants to remove to No. 48 Centre Street at their own request. No further cases reported from this house. This was declared plague.\n\nCHA CHUN, 28, M., coolie, No. 8 Sheung Fung Lane, ground floor, reported sick on the 7th of May, and died the following day. The occupants removed into the street and after washing out the house removed back. 9 persons occupied this floor. Plague.\n\nLi Nga, 13, F., girl, No. 4 Sheung Fung Lane, 1st floor, reported dead the 11th May, said to have been sick since the 10th May. The occupants, numbering 12, were removed to No. 76 Second Street. Plague. This house had been cleaned out by us on the 10th instant.\n\nCHAN PO, 64, M., head coolie, No. 80 Second Street, 1st floor, reported sick on the 11th May, had been sick since the 4th May, and died on the 14th of May. The occupants, numbering 18 persons, were removed to No. 72 Second Street, 3rd floor. No further cases were reported from them after removal. He was nursed by his wife and daughter and treated by the Chinese Doctor from the Tung Wah Hospital. Plague.\n\nFOO LAI CHUN, wife to the above, was reported dead by the daughter on the 19th of May. She stated that when her father died, the mother took sick, but she thought she was grieving for her husband so did not think it serious, therefore failed to report it. After burying the other the daughter returned to the country. Plague.\n\nLEUNG SIN, 33, married woman, No. 4 Sheung Fang Lane, ground floor, reported sick on the 12th of May and had been sick since the 11th May. She was declared to be suffering from plague. She was attended to by the Chinese Doctor from the Tung Wah Hospital and nursed by her husband and uncle. The other occupants were removed to No. 76 Second Street. This woman had been engaged by us to look after the bath-houses and tanks. She had a child suckling at the breast; it was at once taken away and put out to wet nurse. It did not contract plague. This house had been washed out by us on the 10th of May, the woman assisting in washing out. Plague.\n\nLAI KAN, 30, F., married woman, No. 17 Sheung Fung Lane, ground floor, reported sick on the 12th of May, had been sick since the 10th of May, and died the 14th of May, leaving a daughter, age about 12 years, destitute, the husband being in the country. The girl was taken to the Po Leung Kuk where she was eventually claimed by the father. The other occupants, numbering 15 persons, had cleared out and the Kai-fong were unable to trace them. Plague.\n\nChan Kum, 52, M., hawker, No. 76 Second Street, ground floor, reported sick on the 14th of May, took sick the 13th of May, and died on the 15th of May. This man came from the ground floor of No. 4 Sheung Fung Lane on the 12th May and assisted in the washing out of this floor. He was nursed by a woman named WONG SAM, who also came from No. 4 Sheung Fung Lane. She reported sick on the 16th. See \"Wong Sam.\" Plague.\n\nKum Sze, 23, F., married woman, No. 3 Sheung Fung Lane, 1st floor, reported sick on the 4th of May, and died on the 8th of May. She was not removed to the hospital as she was too ill. This woman also had a child suckling from the breast. It was taken away and put to nurse on the bottle. The child did not develop plague. The 9 occupants were removed to the Observation Block in Kui Yau Lane. None of them developed plague. Plague.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390686, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Melox \n\nI cannot pretend to have wrestled successfully with the technicalities connected with \"room\" Globides\" te \n\nThe above amendments appear to be all right subject to the following comments :- \n\n## Sec 23\n\nThe addition made to Sec 253 (3) of the Principal Ordinance is introduced in a somewhat unsatisfactory way. In sub-sec (3) there should have been an entirely new para. numbered (aa) corresponding to the new sub-para (aa) introduced in sub-sec (2), and the words \"second\" and \"third\" in paras. (b) & (c) respectively should have been altered to \"third\" & \"fourth\". \n\nAs it is, in para (a) the word \"in the first case\" must now refer to both para (aa) & para (aa) in sub-sec (2) - \n\nApart from this defect, the end of sub-sec (3) (a) as now amended reads \"occupied or had not been illegally crowded or used for an illegal purpose or as a gaming-house\". A nice jumble.\n\n`8.6.R.12/2`\n\n## Mr Lucas \n\nPoint this out. The Ordinance as regards drafting is discreditable to Sir H Bakeley & Br \n\n1812 \n\nNo. 579. \n\nHongkong, \n\nGovernment House, \n### 236 İted 28 JA.. 04! \nHongkong, 21st December, 1903.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the enclosed Ordinance entitled **An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903 - No. 1 of 1903 (No. 23 of 1903.)**\n\n2. The usual report by the Attorney-General is enclosed.\n\n3. Subsection 14 of Section 6 of the original Ordinance has been repealed because Ordinance No. 20 of 1903 transmitted in my Despatch No. 545 of the 27th ultimo renders the definition of the City of Victoria unnecessary.\n\n4. The original definition of external air has been found to be defective in that the length of the dimension measured at right angles to the window was not stated. The intention was that the length should be 13 feet. It was not intended that the air space of a verandah or balcony should be counted as external air. These points have accordingly been made clear in the new definition. Finally it was not the intention that the external air space should be 13 feet in width. That is the usual width of a Chinese house at the back of which the kitchen is allowed by the principal \n\n## THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C.. M.P、、 \n\n&c... &c... \n\n## Ordinance", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393673, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "page_number": 234, "title": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "content_text": "Page 233\n\n028.\n\n008.\n\n.042.\n\n.(b8#10] Jiyuona)\n\n9087 ent no 291d8J2 Ja9asmneq odt al (8)\n\nto yelley goosdb-19n-90ok ni manuod\n\ngdj yd noxed ed iliw noiɛɛmɛɛog doidw\n\n«X70J87082 isino100\n\nbabnuow LAR XO12 XπRJILIN 901 noriskos100CA\n\n•\n\nscasted adð MI пwob bisi es bobivong aá,bajaja (beanis es llim\n\n-100 21 BRONn aswod evods injiqson «00 9ắ3 ‚\"9vewod ‚itJnJ „saado2\n\nLIVIŰ Jaganɔsvoð sd♬ ja (absa SI) 18J1q8on (J107938# 8áð,boj9iq\n\nbecnuow Ens 111 (18001788 101 sideiisva otsa ed iLIN INJIGEON\n\nsiemal lo egæjarvbe adj sved aso yedd Jɛdj oz 21601110 (netik**\n\nyo J98 90 111# 8J0919^(up9\" ¡IVID janorjibba\n\nUNLRIUK*\n\nSoria, soul anj oj (89Jujijzel bas 901101) 2028ɔ eɛenidƆ gnifase\n\nof 29280 nerblido kaɛ a98ox 1983o tam,alejiqzon #10879dj94 Las\n\n900 (100 g1399x (097birdƆ tne nemok 01 lejiqzon BIMOJOIV AdJ\n\nJneanu 901Trupan nomon not indiquon livið Jaanaɔsvoë ed♬ ja kten\n\n1114 23700 911005 8891d0 adj to bebauox Lar xora edi .JnOAJB97J\n\n.i#JIqZON B★ gnul edj je bejɛenj ed\n\nLEVBR DOS 701 i8jiqzon exennå bedejuk odt\n\n..\n\neid,bauognoD INJIQSON LIVIƆ JOSBAŋevoð eɗt ar bebnuow Ene wole\n\n*esi dj je 298ko Jdgrie bas ajoeo2018vnos leve# 008 901 i8jiqzon\n\nYJIN79JEV J09291q ed♬ ni abnak'87801110 V983111# 683 Law,19jon\n\n1801ES LIVIO 18qizniti odj ya ben9jzıntabe od litw 18JIJZON\n\n-dua not beviovni stujilasqxs lo Jnuoose 38 488x lic# od# 1801110\n\n.901110 78k Ene yjieninba SɗJ AJIN JOSsajeuçbe Jnou 192\n\n-nevod add ni ebodajo and to no135978 sål\n\n-97 B001J679J18 18JUJOUnja yaв bne bawoqxoÛ i8JIJ8ON LIVIÛ 3190\n\nJO 10J0997Ů Bdd ed juo beiTTRO 90 111# isjon x899 adj je bartup\n\n.Ja9ajzu(be triimiz 701 Jnucosa ne qeex iiw od anno oriaut\n\n-zoн exennA Codefel add to Jasaqrupe 913 104\n\nLBJiq-\n\n.nielst\n\nStaff.\n\nhospital and for surgical appliances and drugs for that hospital and for the one at the Feak Hotel the Principal Civil Medical Officer will indent on the Deputy Inspector-General. The furniture bedding, crockery, kitchen utensils and other articles forming the equipment of the Feak hotel will, under Section of the Order in Council above referred to, be taken over at the same time as the building itself by an Officer of the Public Works Department in the presence of a representative of the proprietors and of an officer detailed by the Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nThe Principal Civil Medical Officer will furnish the Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, and Principal Medical Officer with whatever information those Officers may require for the purpose of official returns with regard to the Naval and Military sick and wounded in the Hospitals administered by the Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nNaval and Military patients in these Hospitals are to be visited periodically by a Naval or Military Officer as the case may be for this purpose.\n\n5.\n\nIt was decided that it was not possible to provide locally any Staff required for the Naval Hospital and Hospital Ships beyond attendance for two hours every day by the following Civil Practitioners who have expressed themselves as willing to help in Naval or Military Hospitals in war provided they have time to attend to their private practices:-\n\nMrs. Stedman, Rennie, and Marriot.\n\nIt is therefore imperative for the proper care of the 600 cases to be dealt with in this hospital and in these ships that the two additional hospital Ships which the Deputy Inspector-General has recommended should be sent from England to the China Fleet on outbreak of war should carry double Staffs of whom half should be appropriated for the two hospital Ships fitted out at Hongkong for service in them as long as the war continues.\n\nFor\n\nPage 233\n\n(continue...)\n\n(to be continued)\n\n \nPage 234\n\n is not present in the original text, hence not included.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406312, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "20 de\n\ntag voy ath in smith ext ro adhuron nadË MË\n\n39d0c4d spa må\n\n4A\n\n* Andolta set at almaqaq baold slect un, bka vy\n\nબે\n\n* blo\n\nadd or fi\n\nend at cornm oda yaq tüm við; bàn cho Bud car\n\n*'607\n\nMUA 12\n\nat dest\n\n蔓\n\nb'ng box da\n\n༢\n\nLindon\n\n重\n\n**\n\n7.\n\nmoney $10\".\n\nDid you make that entry ▼\n\nA.\n\nMy fokì,\n\n312\n\n01ly:-\n\nQ. And to whom, or to what, does the No 9 District refer?\n\n& 4\n\nIr Sercombe Smith:-\n\nelly:-\n\nDr Atkinson:-\n\nTitness:-\n\nDr Atkinson:- I don't know. The money was handed to Leung In to take.\n\n(To Kelly) I understand you were in the 9th District from the 1st May, onwards?\n\nYOB.\n\nAnd I understand prior to that, during all this I have already read out, you were in the 6th District?\n\nYes.\n\nWith reference to this money, on the one occasion you handed it to him yourself, where was the kitchen?\n\nTo what house did the kitchen belong?\n\nThe first floor of 208.\n\n208 where?\n\nDes Voeux Road Central.\n\nAnd why was it that on one occasion you gave the money yourself?\n\nI was there, and so I did it.\n\nQ.\n\nYou were told to do it by somebody, I suppose ↑\n\nA.\n\nYes, the master gave directions. It was the master's money, not my money.\n\nBut on all the other occasions we have had this afternoon, the foki gave the money ↑\n\nA.\n\nI only remember one occasion. There were so many times, I don't remember exactly.\n\nMr Howett:-\n\nDo you mean to say you only remember one occasion, on which you personally handed money to him?\n\nEr Sercombe Smith:-\n\nA.\n\nEr Thomson:-\n\nBut are there other occasions on which you handed him money, but of which you cannot give us the dates?\n\nNo, I remember it was once, it was my hand that paid it.\n\nMr Ball, will you ask him, is he responsible for those books ↑", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410525, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "content_text": "312.\n\nHongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n0.0.\n\n1600\n\n146\n\nRECP\n\nRest 15 JAN 08\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong,\n\n17th December, 1907.\n\nI have the honour to request your instructions in the following circumstances.\n\nOn August 13th, a fire occurred at Taipo and a Matshed in which Mr. Hallifax, District Magistrate, lived with his wife was burnt to the ground, together with an adjoining wooden hut built at his own expense by Mr. Last, Land Bailiff. The shed $1,600 furniture $870 approximate loss of Government property amounted to $2,470 though the absence of any proper Inventories and the transfer of furniture between houses which had occurred renders it difficult to accurately estimate the amount and value of the Government's loss. On this matter I have issued instructions (Financial Instruction No.173) which will, I trust, prevent such confusion in future. Mr. Hallifax' losses amounted to over £450 and Mr. Last to $109.50.\n\n2. The fire appears to have originated in the kitchen, where there were two stoves through the carelessness\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nZcc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414492, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## BUILDINGS MISCELLANEOUS\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chapel, green house & sexton's quarters at Colonial Cemetery | Ties damaged in the roofs of the Chapel and sexton's quarters; glass broken and casement windows blown down in the green house. |\n| Matshed fernery at Colonial Cemetery | Blown down. |\n| Matshed for sexton at Kai Lung Wan Cemetery | Do. |\n| Matshed for sexton and Watchman at Cheung Sha Wan Plague Cemetery | Do. |\n| Custodian's matshed at Wonguchi-chong Recreation Ground | Damaged. |\n\n## PIERS AND SEA-WALLS\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Harbour Muster's Bamboo Pier | Entirely blown away, |\n| Queen's Starne Wharf | Mat covering blown down. |\n| Temporary Murray Pier | Shore end blown away. |\n| Blake Pier | Matshed shelter blown down. Damage to railing and standards, etc. |\n| Kowloon City Pier | Damaged. |\n| Cheung Sha Wan Plague Cemetery Pier | Entirely washed away. |\n| Bamboo Pier at Green Island Gunpowder Depôt | Blown away. |\n| Tsim Sha Tsui Police Pier | Slightly damaged; a flight of steps was washed away and other minor items. |\n| Pitched slope at end of Arsenal Street | Damaged. |\n| Pitched slopes in Cadogan Street and adjoining Marine Lot 293 | Slightly damaged. |\n| West abutment of the Bridge at Bowrington Canal | Damaged and stones dislodged. |\n\nPage 19\n\n## PARTICULARS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY DAMAGED BY RAINSTORMS OF 18-25TH JULY OR BY TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY, 1908\n\n### Damage due to Rainstorms of 18-25th July when 16.20 inches of rain fell.\n\n| Location or description of property | Particulars with reference to Collapse |\n| --- | --- |\n| No. 26 Leighton Hill Road | The Verandah in front of No. 26 collapsed about 4 a.m., July 26th, no one injured. No apparent cause for collapse. |\n| Beaconsfield - temporarily occupied by Registrar General's Office and Sanitary Dept. | The retaining wall to the East of Beaconsfield collapsed shortly after midnight on the 25th of July. No one was injured. The collapse was apparently owing to the soil having got thoroughly saturated owing either to drain leakages, or defects in paving. The wall itself appeared to be very badly constructed at this point. |\n| Nos. 72-74 Bonham Strand West | The Kitchen roof North, and West wall of No. 72 collapsed prior to Typhoon, on the 27th July. No one injured. Cause of collapse defective walling, building was an old one. |\n| Rural Building Lot 6-Gough Hill Road | A portion of the retaining wall of the Tennis Ground on Rural Building Lot 6 abutting on Gough Hill Road collapsed on July 24th. The collapse was caused by the heavy rain getting behind the wall. |\n| No. 87 Stone Nullah Lane | A portion of the end wall and roof collapsed here on the 24th July. No one injured. The wall was defective and gave way, causing the roof to collapse. |\n| Abertholwyn \", Peak Road and May Road | Large portions of the retaining walls in front and in the rear of this house fell. Some of these blocked May Road for a length of about 50 feet and demolished about 40 feet of the Government boundary wall between May Road and \"Clovelly\". No one was injured. Large masses of earth fell with the retaining walls. |\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS RAINSTORM DAMAGES\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Notice Boards on Wongneichong Recreation Ground | All blown down and damaged. |\n| Headstones at Colonial Cemetery | 64 headstones including those belonging to the Naval and Military were blown down and otherwise damaged. |\n| Nullahs below Barker Road | Broken. |\n| Bank at Colonial Cemetery | Collapsed. |\n| Bank at rear of Braeside | Do. |\n| Bank at Forbes Street | Do. |\n| Gas Lighting | Lamp glasses, mantles, shades, posts, &c., broken, caused by rain and wind. |\n| Nullah at Aberdeen adjoining the Paper Mills | Wall partially collapsed. |\n\n### DAMAGE DUE TO TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY\n\n| Location or description of property | Particulars with reference to Collapse |\n| --- | --- |\n| Nos. 40-42 Market Street, Hunghom | The rear walls on the first floors collapsed. No one injured. These are old buildings and the walls were in a defective condition. |\n| Nos. 62, 64 and 66 Kowloon City Road | The roofs, party walls and West flank wall collapsed. These were old stone buildings with very defective walls. |\n| Nos. 36, 38 and 40 Portland Street, Mong Kok | The flank, party walls and roofs of these houses collapsed on the 28th. A considerable loss of life occurred. Cause of collapse, defective walling- the buildings had been tied together previously with iron tie rods. |\n| Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Fook Shing Lane, Yaumati | The whole of the 8 houses were practically demolished with the exception of the kitchens. A considerable loss of life occurred. These houses were old ones and, as they occupy a sheltered position, the collapse must be ascribed to the defective condition of the buildings. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "# Proposed Additions to No 2 Police Station, Wanchai\n\n## Ground Floor\n\n| Location | Description | Action |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 15 Chinese Con | New Room | 780 Sq Ft |\n| Openings | To be bricked up | |\n| Calls | Openings to be cut over doors | |\n| 16 Indian Cons | New Room | 800 Sq Ft |\n| | To be bricked up | |\n| European Kitchen | | To be bricked up |\n| Indian Mess | | To be bricked up |\n| Chinese Charge Room | | |\n| Sergeants Interpreters | | |\n| European Con | No 4 | |\n\n## First Floor\n\n| Location | Description | Size |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| European Bath | | |\n| E. Sergeants | | |\n| E. Mess Ri | | |\n| Inspectors Quarters | | |\n| Bed Room | | 43' x 54'8\" |\n| Sitting Room | | 27' x 50' |\n| Sitting Room | | 52' x 50' |\n| Indian Bath | | |\n| Boys | | |\n\n## Second Floor (New Storey)\n\n| Location | Description | Size |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Chinese Kitchen | | 7' x 10' |\n| Indian Kitchen | | |\n| E.W.C. | | 5'6\" x 10' |\n| Covered Way | | |\n| Latrine | A Bronze | 9'x10' |\n| | Concrete roof, Tiled Roof | 50' x 50' |\n| | Concrete Roof | |\n\n## Third Floor\n\n| Location | Description | Size |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Protemer | | 23 |\n| | Concrete Roof | |\n\nScale 1 inch = 8 feet", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426515, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG P.W. DEP\n### SCDS\n\nYOU WAS OFFERED.\n\nMEN QUARTERS.\n\n### PLAN ELEVATION\nGLAZED DOOR\n\n#### QUARANTINE STATION LAI CHI KOK\n#### PROPOSED HOSPITAL\n- 10 BEDS FOR WOMEN\n- 932 SF. PER BED\n\n| | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| B | 1, 2 | WARDMASTERS |\n| | x14\" | |\n| C. MEDICAL OFFICER | 219C | ASSISTANTS |\n| | AX10 | |\n| | 14x10 | STORE |\n| | 14x15 | WARD SERVANT |\n\nGLAZED DOOR\n\n### PLAN ELEVATION\n#### SECTION AA\n#### END ELEVATION\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| KITCHEN. COOK | 10'x10' |\n| KITCHEN | 12x10 |\n\n### PLAN\n#### MORTUARY.\n\n| CONTRACT No. | DRAWING NO. |\n| --- | --- |\n\n### SHEDS\n- PRESENT WATCHMAN QUARTER\n- HOSPITAL LATRINE\n- CURSCAC LATRINE\n\n### PLAN\n#### MORTUARY\n\n### KEY PLAN.\n- SCALE: 1 INCH = 20 FEET\n\n### ELEVATION\n#### SECTION D.\n#### SECTION AB\n#### SECTION C-C\n\n### SCALE\n- 1 INCH = 6 FEET\n\n293\n**DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430536, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "content_text": "83\n\nanaparf to ongaffwo ode starpon Isizolo of oonefotos daly go2+ihmon quotemash o 2 bus) doundh aonimoit \"I bum 20\n\nCJ .00% go (boilutionnb ator ons na dal v M. [Law yerng ord II .07 to of notranjén wath de god I (custani meri ode to gatuovo ort *HOUпTOVO\" && robw,9 .olf br Buenod & OROIT Srið doa\" erit ‚olest Edarintan boy look good onfa won and doldu hna verogo“q at duit bna dousen montro i mor) Jodim\" Koduo\" 510 oft nĵstingOD *o* of oldalters oħe od man about 32 older the crop of blow of 03 na pafoh tuods by nuauori & occult to corta ere omge 910.: bug tofhand buuona bus nå moldugnoo o ovoi- ON O BDIÍD.BOY. a suit to gattily!! ene avosqgt de vlclospo door of bonogome at a dobrly tostan win eft to chic mandhar fror qi Profxam bio od te etin add a od ton ***w onnid & vié ontloor \\'Iv* Indot nde .2 QUIVUI *o aufrou énonumy out Rodan aneroit enović To Do visokonang to moltifamat atris mt mote mwao bocpotong via not older wovet count onl S JA Venugong art gatxinado to oocería ti oldalketa niame fi of savo sesibiru of al doidu da oumit Jodan od 10% bonut od neo growing old duoreri danɛoтd of? -mon 70% blog y lentoy davors oft aufy onole band of. to ooing .cotequcon groping-\n\nshops and stalls will be entirely met even with a two-storied building. Reckoning on a revenue of $30,000 per annum the resumption will also be paid for in a comparatively short space of time.\n\n4.\n\nThe Honourable Director of Public Works has already ear-marked these houses for resumption I believe. I therefore strongly recommend that the question of resuming the 4 houses be referred to him for consideration at an early date 1.e. before any steps have been taken to prepare plans for re-building them and that if possible this entire area be taken over by Government.\n\n5.\n\nThe collapse of the 3 houses has entailed thaødemolition of a latrine and kitchen within the market both of which are Gore nment property and which it will be waste of money to rebuild in any case. The rebuilding of the market might therefore be hastened and work commenced on this, the Eastern portion first, the empty space on the west side being made temporarily available for the stall-holders ejected from the Eastern portion.\n\n22nd. September, 1910,\n\n(Sd.) E. D. C. Volfe, H. S. D.\n\nDrw dobry, todrom went out to drop fairon 6.\n\n.* & Tor: oftalí a ml borovooot od b'Hogn 000,00£) od tldarion wor not mot beriwob nunsyo\" or to odamizno niet ♬ và ɑreog duften bainoja ono caraut, effe mojathuoo bedshiqaith a dore at at farne tag 000,087 al defro and ruins rog 000,813 abisty oouqa on Boranf +i bra ( 115620900 Wedrioada al quthižudon tant\n\nblon tinmot dinit #fon to fkntos here ofena Care Clins not to ofon one not eosqn olztil snd bee,bei:itanup ogral ni oroi Jednar and affata not buanob Jaown wine s at æterit .acidstenov 6 23 mvor / low al hee jointalk bødningaŋ violet a m! Tot brarioh oilt ca ♪ ploillfaw y:ev onotonoild et #I eqoifa", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432168, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "page_number": 376, "title": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "content_text": "# KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY.\n## BRITISH SECTION.\n### ALLOCATION OF REVENUE EXPENDITURE.\n\n## Abstract\n\n| | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| I. Law Charges. | |\n| II. Compensation. | |\n| \"B\" & \"C\" | |\n| 1. Engineering, Sub Inspectors. | |\n| General Superintendence. | 5 |\n| 1. General Superintendence. | |\n| Allowance. | 2 |\n| Office Expenses. | |\n| Ordinary Gangs. | (v) |\n| Extraordinary Gangs. | (a) |\n| (a) | (q) |\n\n## I. Maintenance and Renewal of P. Way\n1. Running Expenses Wages connected with the Working of Loco. Engines.\n - Salaries of Superintendents and Assistants.\n - Allowance.\n - Subordinate Superintendents.\n - Allowance.\n - Overtime Allowance.\n - Drivers, firemen, shed-men and Shunters.\n - Overtime Allowance.\n - All labour connected with fueling, cleaning and Looking after engines in yards.\n - Labour including wages of Oilers. Carriage cleaners, and examiners.\n - Stores including Oil, Grease and other stores for Consumption on Running Vehicles.\n\n2. Materials\n - Rails.\n - Sleepers.\n - Ballast.\n - Fastenings.\n - Points & Crossings.\n - Bridges and Tunnels.\n - Earthwork.\n - Fencing.\n - Roads and Level Crossings.\n - Miscellaneous.\n\n## II. Repairs of Bridges, Etc.\n## III. Fuel.\n - Coal.\n - Wood.\n\n## IV. Repairs of Station Building and Structures.\n - Repairs of buildings of and in Station Yards and every description including Staff Quarters.\n - Signals.\n - New Minor Works.\n\n## V. Maintenance and Renewals of Loco. Engines.\n\n## VI. Maintenance and Renewals of Vehicles.\n 1. Coaching Vehicles\n 2. Goods Vehicles\n\n## VII. Tools and Plant.\n## VIII. Clearing Accounts with other Lines.\n\n## I. Management, Including Offices.\n1. Salaries, Wages Etc.\n - General Superintendence.\n - Station Staff.\n - Train Staff.\n - Telegraph Staff.\n\n2. Office Expenses.\n\n## II. Station Expenses.\n - Conservancy.\n - Rent of Buildings and Land.\n - Furniture, Fittings and other Miscellaneous expenses of Head Office.\n - Printing and Stationery.\n\n## III. Supervision.\n\n## IV. Police.\n - Constables.\n - Contingencies (Watch & Ward other than 1 & 2) including Wages and Stores.\n\n## V. Unclassified Expenditure.\n - For Goods lost or damaged.\n - For Personal injury.\n - For other Claims.\n\n## VI. Miscellaneous.\n - Rates and Taxes Including Municipal Water Rates.\n - Prizes for Best Kept Station, Station Gardens Kitchen Gardens Gate Lodges, Line fences etc.\n - Contribution to Provident Institution.\n - Loss on Light Coin.\n - Expenses for Collection of Tolls on Bridges.\n - Expenses for Collection of Rent.\n - Expenses connected with Fire Engines.\n - Carriage of Revenue Stores.\n\n## VII. Payments to other lines.\n\n## VIII. Unclassified Expenditure.\n - Loss on Stores.\n - Plantations.\n\n## IX. Unclassified Expenditure.\n\nPage 370", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437667, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 323, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\nC O\n\n10881\n\nKOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY.\n\n(British Section)\n\nESTIMATED\n\nAMOUNT REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE\n\nII\n\n \n Head\n Sub-Head.\n PRELIMINARY Survey EXPENDITURE\n Amount Required\n \n \n \n \n CENSTRUCTION IN\n \n \n \n \n \n EQUIPMENT OF THE RAILWAY\n \n \n \n \n \n Explanatory Notes.\n \n \n \n 323\n LAND\n Lend\n \n \n \n \n \n FORMATION\n \n \n \n \n (a)\n Earthwork\n 7,912.81\n \n \n \n \n This amount will be required to complete Earthwork.\n \n \n \n \n \n For reinstating P.W.D. Drains, Sewers and main and Road surfacing when building Kowloon Station.\n 6,654.65\n \n \n \n (b)\n Tunnels\n \n \n \n \n (o)\n Roads\n \n \n \n \n \n BRIDGES\n \n \n \n \n (e)\n Mejor\n \n \n \n \n (b)\n Minor\n \n \n \n \n (c)\n Culverta\n \n \n \n \n \n FENCING\n \n \n \n \n (a)\n signs\n \n \n \n \n \n Boundaries\n ::\n \n \n \n \n TELEGRAPH\n \n \n \n \n \n Telograph\n \n \n \n \n \n TRACK\n \n \n \n \n (a)\n Ballast\n \n \n \n \n (b)\n permanent way\n \n \n \n \n \n STATIONS & BUILDINGS\n 4,000.00\n \n \n \n \n This amount includes cable through Beacon Hill Tunnel & also all equipment & instrument for new station.\n \n \n \n \n \n For Kowloon Station Yard.\n 10,953.25\n \n \n \n \n For Kowloon Station Yard includes rails, sleepers, points & Crossings, etc.\n 131,074.92\n \n \n \n (a)\n Buildgs: Fixtures\n 248,127.67\n \n \n \n \n Kowloon Station & Offices Including Carriage shed & Engine Shelter, installation of light and water, Goods Transit Shed, Awnings and Raised Platform.\n \n \n \n \n (b)\n station machinery\n 16,981.08\n \n \n \n \n Kowloon Station, Signalling, water, Fire Appliance, weighbridges, Weighing Machine, Buffer stops, Etc.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8,000.00\n \n \n \n \n Kowloon Station, includes Lavatories, Buffet, and kitchen Arrangements, and Office Furniture.\n 15,000.00\n \n \n \n \n For addition to Engine Shops on account of increase in number of Locomotives.\n \n \n \n \n (e)\n Furniture\n \n \n \n \n (a)\n Workshops\n \n \n \n \n \n PLANT\n \n \n \n \n (a)\n Construction\n \n \n \n \n (b)\n Loco, Tool & Plant\n \n \n \n \n (a)\n 0. & W.Tools & Plant (a) Engineering\n \n \n \n \n \n GENERAL CHARGES\n 9,975.00\n \n \n \n \n \n ,000.29\n \n \n \n (s)\n Loco Rolling Stock\n 140,0\n \n \n \n (f)\n 0.&W. Rolling Stock\n 125,512.07\n \n \n \n (a)(1)\n Salaries & Allow:\n 12,477.62\n \n \n \n (2)\n Quarters & Office\n 53,500.00\n \n \n \n (5)\n Instrumenta\n \n \n \n \n (4)\n Office Expense\n \n \n \n \n (5)\n Medical\n \n \n \n \n (6)\n Home Charges\n \n \n \n \n (7)\n Interest\n \n \n \n \n (8)\n Exchange\n \n \n \n \n (b)\n Accounts\n \n \n \n \n \n Andrassalid credit\n \n \n \n \n \n by\n \n \n \n \n \n Stris Sales\n 1,002.15\n \n \n \n \n \n $691,171.48\n \n\nميس 5\n\nThis is for four Locos, one sanctioned in Final Estimates, the second provided for in special expenditure 1912 Estimate, the third sanctioned in O.S.O.1, 041/12 and also for an additional Engine for Fanling Branch Line, sanctioned but order not yet placed, it includes also all inspection and Crown Agents' freight, landing charges and all cost of erection.\n\nThis includes total cost of eight coaches now in course of erection, slao rolling stock for Fanling Branch Line not yet ordered.\n\nKowloon Station, Architect's Fees, Clerks of the Works and Timekeepers. For Manager's House and quarters for the Station Staff at Kowloon.\n\nfees\n\n641/17/:00", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439156, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "DRYING ROOM\n\nCELL\n\nPROPOSED ADDITIONS HUNG HOM POLICE STATION\n\nC.S.O. No 4261\n\nPur.E\n\nStern 36.\n\nPROPOSED NEW WORK COLOURED\n\n \n BATH\n 10:0\n \n \n BATH\n 12:0\n \n \n 8 INDIAN CONSTABLES\n \n \n \n 8 CHINESE CONSTABLES\n 2\n \n \n DETETIVES\n .46:4\n \n\nPROPOSED ADDITIONAL STOREY OVER OUT HOUSES\n\nCELL\n\nKITCHEN\n\nEUROPEAN CONSTABLES\n\nCHARGE ROOM\n\nINSPECTORS' ROOM\n\nSITTING ROOM\n\nEUROPEANS CONSTABLES' BED ROOM\n\nE.C's BATH\n\nGLAZED DOOR TO ALLOW FOR REMOVAL OF NIGHT SOIL\n\nINSPECTORS' ROOM\n\nPLAN\n\nSCALE 1 INCH = 8 FEET\n\n \n INSPECTOR\n Ianby Roge\n \n \n INSPECTORS' MESS ROOM\n \n \n \n SECTION A.A.\n 694\n \n\nBRICK IN CEMENT.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448278, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Verandah\n\nPROPOSED QUARTERS\n\nFOR\n\nEUROPEAN RAILWAY STAFF - CLASS A\n\nSCALE 16 FEET - 1 INCH\n\nFRONT ELEVATION\n\n \n A\n Amah\n 10'X10'\n Coolies\n 10'X10'\n Coolies\n \n \n B\n Gang way\n \n Gang way\n Amah\n Boy\n \n \n C\n Kitchen\n 10' x 10'\n Dining Rm\n 10'x19'\n Store Servy\n \n \n \n Servy | Store\n Dining Rm\n 14' x 19'\n R.S.J\n Sitting R\n \n \n \n Sitting Rm\n 20' x 18'\n Verandah\n Passage t'e\n Passage t'o\n \n \n \n Sitting Rm\n 20' x 18'\n Verandah\n Balcony\n Bath\n \n \n \n Barth\n Bed Rm\n 14'x 13'10\"\n Passage 4'0\"\n Bed Rm\n \n \n \n Bed R\n 18' x 12'6\"\n 18'x 12'6\"\n Verandah\n \n \n\n1ST FLOOR\n\n2ND FLOOR\n\nHmap seas\n\n10-7.14\n\n489", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459937, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "# Scheme for the Erection Endowment and Management of the Matilda Hospital.\n\nA. ERECTION.\n\nLAND.\n\nThe Matilda Hospital is erected on Rural Building Lots Nos. 16 and 131 Mount Kellet Penk in the Colony of Hongkong and having a total area of 99,100 square feet. The Trustees have also acquired contiguous thereto Rural Building Lot No. 48 having an area of 20,886 square feet.\n\nBUILDINGS.\n\nThe general design and arrangement of the Hospital are best shown by the Plans which are attached hereto and are intended to form part hereof, but the following is a short description of the main details.\n\nCENTRAL BLOCK.\n\nBASEMENT.\n\nThe Basement is only intended as an air space between the ground and the Wards above. The portions under these are not intended to be used except four rooms for storage purposes.\n\nGROUND FLOOR.\n\nOn entering the building from Mount Kellet Road are the following rooms:—\n\nDoctor's consulting Room.\n\nWaiting Room. Office.\n\nBeyond these rooms are the Wards, one side of the building being for female and the other for male Patients. There are 3 Wards on either side containing 8 Beds, 3 Beds and 2 Beds respectively.\n\nAttached to each of the three Wards is a Scullery, and Drying Room, with a detached Wing containing two Bathrooms, two W.C.'s and Slop sink.\n\nFIRST FLOOR.\n\nOn this Floor are the Nurses' Quarters comprising:\n\nDrawing Room.\n\nDining Hall.\n\nFour Bed Rooms.\n\nTwo Bath rooms, W.C. and Pantry.\n\nFront and two side verandahs.\n\nOPERATION BLOCK.\n\nIn the rear of the Central Block and connected with it by the Main Corridor is a one-storied Block with\n\non one side,\n\nOperation Theatre.\n\nAnaesthetic Room.\n\nStore for Splints.\n\nDispensary.\n\nand on the other side,\n\nA One-bed Ward (with verandah).\n\nDrying Room.\n\nDrug Store and Doctor's Laboratory.\n\nIn the basement under Operation block are erected the following:\n\nKitchen,\n\nBoiler House.\n\nLarder.\n\nDisinfecting Room.\n\nCoolies' quarters.\n\nCoal store.\n\nOne room for servants\n\nOn the East Side of this portion of the basement is a yard into which open the quarters for the Chinese Servants such as Boys, Cooks, &c, comprising six rooms with bath rooms and latrines attached.\n\nOn the West side is another yard with six rooms for Amahs also with bath rooms and latrines attached.\n\nAdjoining the Operation Block is an Extension for delirious cases comprising:\n\nA Ward Attendant's room, Pantry, Bath room and W.C.\n\nDOCTOR'S HOUSE.\n\nThe Doctor's House in the rear of the main building is approached from the central corridor by a covered way and contains:\n\nDrawing and Dining rooms and Lounge.\n\nFour Bed rooms.\n\nDrying room, Pantry, Bathrooms. Verandahs.\n\nKitchen and separate Quarters for Servants.\n\nAt the North West corner of the grounds is a small Mortuary.\n\nELECTRIC INSTALLATION AND LAUNDRY.\n\nTo the West of Rural Building Lot No. 16 on Rural Building Lot No. 131 is a building containing:\n\nBattery room for electric light installation with engine room under. Laundry.\n\nExtra Servants Quarters, Kitchen and Latrine.\n\nMATERNITY WARD.\n\nUpon Rural Building Lot No. 48 above mentioned the Trustees are erecting a two-storey brick building for the purpose of a Maternity Ward as an addition to the Main Hospital and to be connected with it by a covered way.\n\nThis building is designed to contain the following accommodation but the walls are of sufficient thickness to carry another storey if an extension of this Ward is required.\n\nGROUND FLOOR.\n\nMain entrance from Mount Kellet Road. Hall. Delivery Ward with bath room attached. One large double bed Ward capable of holding four beds if necessary. Two single bed Wards each capable of holding two Beds if necessary. Wide Nurses' Rooms. Doctor's Room. Baths, lavatories and other offices. Verandah on East Side, and open air terrace.\n\nBASEMENT.\n\nServing Room with band lifts to Ground Floor. Boiler Room. Servant's quarters. Service and Store Rooms.\n\nCOST OF THE HOSPITAL.\n\n(a) The amount expended in acquiring additional land and in the erection of the original main buildings and equipment thereof was,\n\n$539,074.86\n\n(b) The estimated cost of the erection of the Maternity Ward and equipment thereof is,\n\n$105,130.00", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461801, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 434, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "## V.--PUBLIC WORKS\n\nThe New Magistracy, a description of which was given in last year's report, was completed, the Courts being opened on the 26th April. The Married Quarters for Police in Caine Road were also completed and occupied during the year. They consist of a three-storeyed block of 9 flats, four flats containing 1 rooms and five containing 3 rooms, each with kitchen and servants' quarters complete. \n\nAn extension to Victoria Gaol, consisting of a four-storeyed block, was completed during the year. The ground storey is open all round so that it can be utilized as a work-shed whilst each of the three upper storeys contains 20 cells. The total number of cells is thus 78.\n\nThe school in the Hill District, situated at the junction of Gough Hill Road and the Aberdeen Road, was completed during the year. The building is one-storeyed and contains 3 class-rooms and 2 sets of Mistresses' Quarters of 2 rooms each, with kitchen, servants' quarters, &c., complete.\n\nNew P.W.D. Stores situated in They Bullock Lane, Wanchai, were completed during the year. They comprise an extensive store-yard (1.82 acres), containing a large open shed for the storage of heavy materials, a two-storeyed building for the storage of small stores, with oil store and office for the Inspector of Stores, and quarters for the Storekeeper and his staff.\n\nThe low-power Wireless Telegraph Station at Cape D'Aguilar was completed and occupied during the year. The station comprises 2 buildings: the one a one-storeyed building containing the wireless apparatus, engine-room, battery-room, oil-stores, &c., and the other a two-storeyed building, containing the quarters for the operating staff.\n\nAccommodation for a Land Bailiff was provided at Tai Po by adding a storey to the Land Office. The quarters consist of a living room and two bedrooms, with the necessary verandah, bath-room and other subsidiary accommodation.\n\nA Police Station at Lok Ma Chau was completed. The building is two-storeyed and contains accommodation for a sergeant (3 rooms and two bath-rooms), one European constable (2 rooms and a bathroom), 10 Indian constables, 8 Chinese constables and 15 Chinese boatmen, besides a charge-room, two cells and a small store-room. A subsidiary wing contains the necessary kitchen, servants' and other accommodation.\n\n-18-\n\nWhile the Technical Institute has suffered in several directions from the activity of the University, it continues to perform many useful functions of its own. The Normal Classes (\"English\" and \"Vernacular\" for men and women), the Shorthand, Mathematics, and English Classes were all well attended, as also were the \"First Aid\" Classes.\n\nThe Hongkong University is an institution that arose from the joint enterprise of British and Chinese subscribers. It was founded with funds representing about equal proportions of Chinese and British money.\n\nAt the end of the year, the number of students was 172, 101 of whom were taking Engineering, 37 Medicine, and 34 Arts. While most of the students have studied in Hongkong schools, a number came from Canton, the Coast Ports of China, and the Straits Settlements.\n\nThe idea of the University is to provide, close to China, education for Chinese similar to that given in the British Universities, but at a much cheaper cost; for if a Chinese goes abroad to be educated, he has to pay, besides travelling expenses, some $2,000 per annum; whereas at Hongkong, the expenses of the University are $540 per annum for board and tuition, or, including extras, from $600 to $650.\n\nThe founders of the University took into consideration the fact that Chinese students being educated abroad have usually to make their own arrangements for board and lodging. Consequently, sometimes they contract irregular habits. All students educated at the Hongkong University are required to become boarders, and thus their whole lives are under supervision whilst they are there. Ample provision is made for indoor and outdoor recreation, and in this connection, it is interesting to note that the Chinese residents of Hongkong recently subscribed a large sum for levelling a new playing field, and that the work has just been completed.\n\nThe University is composed of three Faculties: \n1. -- Medical, which offers unexampled facilities for the practice of medicine. The anatomical laboratories were the gift of a Cantonese gentleman (Mr. Ng Li-hing). There is a large staff of instructors in medicine: all the principal doctors of Hongkong give lectures at the University. \n2. -- Arts. The establishment of this Faculty was largely due to the munificence of a Chinese gentleman in the Straits Settlements (Mr. Cheung Pat-sze). Its special object is to provide training suitable to those who desire to enter the public service or the higher branches of mercantile life. The course of instruction comprises English and Chinese literature, political and constitutional history, political economy, jurisprudence, and international and commercial law.\n\nThe largest of the Faculties is that of Engineering, to which nearly two-thirds of the students belong. It is divided into three branches: Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical. The University has an exceptionally large equipment of machinery and apparatus and has fourteen laboratories and workshops in working order. There is practically no place in China where students have such an opportunity of seeing all kinds of machinery in actual working and of learning their practical management.\n\nThe University insists upon all students having a proper knowledge of their own language, although instruction at the University is carried out in English. Students are required to pass an examination in written Chinese before entering, and two Chinese Professors, both Hanlin graduates, give lectures on the classics and history of China.\n\n-19-\nPage 427", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1928.]\n\n\"No. 2 cook, and a makee learn,\" several house and market coolies, not to mention fa-wongs, chair-coolies at least,—stores in cup-board, all the material—and no magic ring of knowledge to apply it. The poor taipan husband, formerly so proud of his beautiful and socially successful wife, climbed down one more step of his unassailable ladder of \"no surrender\"\n\nevery time he arose from his table, on which cut-glass and silver and choice flowers mingled with Lazenby's tinned-foods, charred mutton and soup tablets, what time the men who had domesticated (and not necessarily \"homely\") wives or who, perhaps, being grass widowers or bachelors, took their meals at the Hongkong Club or Hongkong Hotel, said: \"Starvation before Surrender.\"\n\nN.B. The husband of the social star was more influential than the men who were well-fed.\n\nTalking of hotels and clubs, they do say that cold meat will get the cold shoulder for many a long day to come, and that the cold tide took a longer time to subside at the club than anywhere else in Hongkong. Many of the members wonder if the innovation of pretty girl-helpers could not be kept up; they say there would not be any cold shoulders in such a contingency.\n\nStories from hotels and boarding-houses come in shoals. Some of the boarders in a big establishment were very indignant when the proffered aid of soldier-cooks was refused on the ground that the boarders were managing quite nicely. Of course, it is quite possible that the management may have realised that the soldier-cooks, being defenders of the realm, might be needed elsewhere, while the women had an excellent opportunity of showing that they were not only able but eager to step into a breach and for once get the opportunity of showing their men-folk that they could be something better than a parasitical growth, battening on other people's labour and returning nothing but a pretty appearance and an insatiable appetite for amusement.\n\nA juster cause for complaint was that of the boarders in those establishments where the management simply declined to be bothered, saying, in effect: \"Each man for himself and the women for us all.\" It is rumoured that in some cases the boarding-house keeper did not scruple to take full advantage of the organised efforts of the boarders to cater for all and sundry.\n\nOn the whole, however, things went merrily, and if the strike had lasted another week I think numbers of women in Hongkong, barring those with young families, would have refused to take their servants back. I heard of one emergency mess where the returned cook's first meal was greeted with very wry faces, and if you want to know what mess I mean you will not have to search far.\n\nIt was in a very well-organised centre and three very capable women were doing the cooking for thirteen people; not one of the thirteen ever wants to eat Chinese cooking again, but noblesse oblige and if you are gentlefolk, why you are and there is an end of it; you have jolly well got to keep servants, your position demands it, and you have got to leave to the working classes their little atom of compensation in life, that of knowing that they are getting value for their money and not eating bad food at top prices.\n\nGreat fun it seems to have been to go shopping at the Peak Hotel, where, unless you signed a requisition order for milk or meat or bread, you could not be served, not even if your husband's banking account ran into lakhs.\n\nRather amusing, too, was Lane, Crawford's barricade. They had my sympathy, those much-abused assistants tearing their hair and rushing frantically from sugar to flour, consulting papers, and piling up the parcels, till at last they created a barricade of screens and one man sat at a table and took all the orders and tried to look as if he loved the frantic women. I had to laugh when, on a bed of sickness some days afterwards, I read that stores laid in during the strike might not be returned, for I know that many recklessly extravagant orders were given with the mental proviso that, after all, we are jolly good customers and they will take back what we do not use!\n\nI nearly forgot to say that another factor in the strike settlement was said to be flues. I can quite imagine why! While I was ill I used to lie in my bed and wonder if an army of plague rats was scuttling down my chimney, but it was just soot, and it came down in torrents and settled on the floors and everywhere, so that if my kind volunteer nurses and house-maids had wanted to skimp work they simply could not. Some of the Peak taipans had terrible times when they cleaned the kitchen grates and made the daily fire—all the wood was damp, coal sodden, grates rusted overnight, impenetrable fog on all sides. Ough! One who looks as if nothing in the way of good solid work could frighten him found a very obstinate kitchen-range one day, so he searched for cause and effect (great minds always do). He remembered on some occasions seeing his cook blow up the flue to clear the soot away, so he proceeded to do likewise. He blew, so did the wind, down came a cloud of soot. Stunned and staggering, he fell back bang on to the back of his head, rushed from the kitchen, clothed himself in garbs of cleanliness and decency, and caught the first tram and motor-car to Government House and found His Ex. in an early morning state of bliss (my informants do not state whether His Ex. had also been cleaning grates), and demanded: \"For the love of a blazing fire stop the strike.\"\n\nIn conclusion, let me say that we have all had a very hard time, but most of our women have lost the Hongkong expression; there is a look of lively interest and healthy fatigue on many a face that was disfigured by boredom and a smile of superiority. Women have learned that even the best of servants think first of themselves and their employers second—even when the servants are amahs and have the care of their most precious possessions—and a good many golfing-bridging mothers have made resolutions to sacrifice a certain portion of each day to the duties of controlling their homes and their children. Here's to a new Era!\n\nPage 32\n\n819\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nMUNICIPAL ELECTION AT SHANGHAI.\n\nRESULT OF THE POLL.\n\nPolling took place in Shanghai last week for the election of the new councillors. Out of ten candidates, the under-mentioned were elected:-\n\n \n Successful Candidate\n Votes\n \n \n Mr. S. Sakuragi\n 628\n \n \n Mr. H. G. Simms\n 594\n \n \n Mr. H. H. Girardet\n 589\n \n \n Mr. A. B. Lowson\n 532\n \n \n Mr. W. P. Lambe\n 530\n \n \n Mr. V. G. Lyman\n 499\n \n \n Mr. H. W. Lester\n 479\n \n \n Mr. G. N. Wilson\n 325\n \n \n Mr. S. Fessenden\n 273\n \n\nMr. A. J. Hughes, for whom 284 votes were cast, has already stood for election, but on this occasion was again unsuccessful.\n\nIt will be noticed that the highest number of votes are recorded against the name of Mr. Sakuragi, the Japanese candidate.\n\nIt is estimated that about two-thirds of those entitled to vote about 1,600 under the Land Regulations took active part in the election. The total number of voting papers placed in the ballot box was 752 and, in addition, eight were irregular. With the exception of Messrs. Lester and Wilson, the newly elected councillors served during the last Municipal year.\n\nThe next Chairman of the S.M.C. will be elected by the new councillors at their first meeting, to be held shortly after the annual meeting of ratepayers.\n\nSTRIKES IN CANTON 1921.\n\nThe Canton Times says:-\n\nThe year 1921 was a noted year of strikes in Canton. According to investigation, there were more than eight hundred \"Hongs\" organising different independent associations in the city last year. The organising of such associations simply leads the way to improve the workmen's livelihood, and strikes for increasing of wages were occasionally initiated. The various strikes last year ended successfully. The strikers made a solid stand in the fight for their rights. Their achievements were only personal movements. No outsiders interfered or gave assistance to them. The following is a summary of the result of the various strikes that took place in the city of Canton 1921:\n\n \n Occupations\n Date of Strike\n Date of Settlement\n Number of Workers\n Wages\n \n \n Mat-shed builders\n May 22, 1921\n June 13, 1921\n 2,500\n 15%\n \n \n Fire-crackers makers\n May 24, 1921\n Sept. 6, 1921\n 850\n 25%\n \n \n Painters\n May 22, 1921\n June 8, 1921\n 30\n 520\n \n \n Mechanics\n May 26, 1921\n Dec. 17, 1921\n 25\n \"\"\n \n \n Tea pickers\n July 12, 1921\n Nov. 28, 1921\n 3,400\n 25%\n \n \n Oil producers\n Aug. 7, 1921\n Aug. 25, 1921\n 97\n 2,500\n \n \n Tea-house Waiters\n Aug. 12, 1921\n Aug. 25, 1921\n 35\n 3,450\n \n \n Masons\n Aug. 16, 1921\n Sept. 5, 1921\n 50\n 8,640\n \n \n Ox Butchers\n Aug. 19, 1921\n Dec. 8, 1921\n 40\n 9,400\n \n \n Potters\n Oct. 1, 1921\n Oct. 8, 1921\n 12\n 35\n \n \n Tailors\n Oct. 6, 1921\n Not settled\n 1,200\n failed\n \n \n Barbers\n Sept. 20, 1921\n Nov. 8, 1921\n 340\n 40%\n \n \n Laundrymen\n Oct. 28, 1921\n Nov. 11\n 2,300\n 40%\n \n \n \n Nov. 11, 1921\n Not settled\n 3,400\n 40%\n \n \n \n Dec. 14, 1921\n Dec. 25, 1921\n 3,200\n 30%\n \n \n \n Dec. 14, 1921\n Jan. 20, 1922\n 820\n 20%\n \n \n Wooden Box makers\n Aug. 10, 1921\n Not settled\n 1,400\n Not settled\n \n \n \n Dec. 16, 1921\n Feb. 10, 1922\n 150\n 340\n \n \n Makers of Chinese Shoes\n Jan. 2, 1922\n Not settled\n 1,320\n 40%\n \n \n Makers of Foreign Shoes\n Jan. 7, 1921\n Jan. 29, 1922\n 1,200\n 25%\n \n \n Foreign Dress makers\n Jan. 30, 1922\n Feb. 11, 1921\n 25\n \"\"\n \n \n Paper markers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Packages Workers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Weavers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wine Distillers", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492279, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "CRUELTY TO MUI TSAI.\n\nTHREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT FOR MISTRESS.\n\nBefore Mr. Lindsell, at the Magistracy, on Sept. 1st, a Chinese woman, living at No. 20, Hillier Street, was charged with assaulting a 10-year-old mui tsai.\n\nMr. F. X. d'Almada appeared for the accused.\n\nDr. W. B. A. Moore said that on August 8th he examined the child. She was suffering from a superficial burn on the left ear. There were some dried-up sores on the face—two on the right cheek and one on each of the upper eyelids. There was a recent burn on the right forearm and several scab sores, which might have been the result of burns, and there was also a superficial burn on the left forearm just below the elbow, and several small sores on the wrist. The nail of the fourth finger of the left hand was black. There were three small superficial burns on the right instep, and one on the outer side of the left instep. There was a small mark on the right hip. The child seemed well-nourished and intelligent and the marks were all very superficial. The marks of burns were such as might have been caused by lighted matches.\n\nThe mui tsai, in the witness-box, said that she had been with the accused for about 5 years. Her parents were still alive, and she knew them. The accused was not a good mistress to her. She often beat her with firewood and tied her to the bed-post, \"because,\" she said, \"I was naughty.\"\n\nQuestioned by the Magistrate, the mui tsai said that the accused tied her hands behind her back. Her legs were not tied.\n\nThe Magistrate: When she tied you could you walk—No.—Could you move your body—Yes.\n\nHow did you get those burns?—The defendant burned me with a tong.\n\nWas the tong red hot?—No, she picked up a piece of burning coal from the stove with it and touched my face, hands, and legs with the coal.\n\nOn how many occasions did she burn you?—Only once.\n\nWhy? Because she said I was naughty. How long was it after the burning that you were taken to the police?—I went the following day.\n\nWhat did she say you did to be called naughty? She said I did not do my work. How did you get the old scars on your wrists?—Through a beating some time ago. And the mark on your buttock?—Also, as the result of the beating.\n\nShown two pieces of split bamboo, the child said they were used by the accused to beat her. A cord was used for tying her.\n\nWhen she was burning you, could you not run away?—No, it was done in the kitchen with the door closed.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. d'Almada, witness said that she knew the accused's brother-in-law, who had been to court against the accused over a dispute about jewellery. It was true that the brother-in-law laid the information about the assault on witness.\n\nThe brother-in-law of the accused said that he lived opposite the accused's house and heard the mui tsai cry, because he had often heard her crying. On the night of the 16th, the cry was more touching than usual. He went to the house at 11 a.m. on the 17th, but saw neither the accused nor the girl. As he was busy, he went away. The following day he went to the house again. He saw the mui tsai, who cried and told him that she had been beaten on the 16th. He saw the burns and reported to the police.\n\nA Chinese constable said that he visited the house on the 18th. The defendant was not there. The child complained of being tied and beaten. She produced the rope and the bamboo splits. An amah supported the child's story.\n\nMr. d'Almada said that the accused would admit punishing the child, but not burning her. The defendant was the only witness he proposed to call for the defence, but before doing so, he would like to point out that the amah, who was the only person alleged to have witnessed the burning, had not been called to support the child's story.\n\nSergt. Stimson interposed that the amah had absconded and could not be found.\n\nThe accused, in the witness-box, said that bad feeling had existed between herself and her brother-in-law for some time. The matter reached a climax when he entered her house on August 17th, and assaulted the boy servant. She remonstrated with him, and they quarrelled. He took away her gold watch and chain, and she reported the matter to the police. On the following day she was arrested on the present charge of having ill-treated the mui tsai by burning her. She knew, as soon as the police visited her house, that the trouble had been caused by her brother-in-law. She did not burn the child. She did beat her on the 16th, because she was disobedient, and stole food from the kitchen. She did not tie her up.\n\nThe Magistrate: But surely, you can suggest how the burns came to be on the child?—I did not do it. Perhaps my brother-in-law and the amah know how the child got burned.\n\nDo you suggest that they deliberately burned the child in order to bring the charge against you?—Through spite, yes.\n\nThe Magistrate: Stand down, that's enough. I find the charge proved, and take a serious view of the case. Three months' hard labour.\n\nMOTOR PROSECUTIONS.\n\nThe driver of motor-car No. 379, owned by Mr. C. Montague Ede, was charged with having left the car unattended in Pedder Street, outside Jardine, Matheson's, from 3.15 to 3.33 p.m., on Monday. The defendant said that the coolie who was in charge of the car while he was having tiffin left it for a few minutes only to get some water to wash the car. A fine of $5 was imposed.\n\nMr. M. A. Hancox, of Holts wharf, was charged with reckless driving on 22nd, Bonham Road at 8.10 p.m., on August.\n\nDefendant said that he had not been warned that he would be charged for speeding, or he would have shown his speedometer to the prosecuting sergeant.\n\nInspector Garrod said that the defendant passed him on Caine Road about half a mile from where the sergeant stopped him, and he was going at fully 20 miles an hour then. He would have summoned the defendant had not the sergeant done so.\n\nDefendant said that it was dark, and it was hard to estimate speed. He might have driven at between 16 and 20 miles, but he did not think he was causing any danger to the public at that particular time. He admitted two previous convictions in connection with the same cycle. He was fined $25.\n\nA driver employed by the Russell Street Garage was charged with reckless driving in West Point at 9 p.m., on August 21st, and with having taken out motor-car No. 344, owned by Mr. E. A. M. Williams, without permission. He was fined $20 on the first charge, and $10 on the other.\n\nPage 179\n\nPEKING, August 17th.\n\nFighting in the Hunan-Hupeh border war was more severe than first reports indicated according to reports received in foreign circles to-day, and this was largely due to the sagacity of General Wang Chan-yuan (the late Tuchun) in providing his enemies with wooden bullets and other useless munitions.\n\nWhen Wang some time ago was named to put through a unification plan and to assume full control on the Upper Yangtze, he received funds for equipping the forces in his area. He presented a glowing account of his military needs, of his wishes to serve the Peking Government, and of his ability to put the programme through.\n\nWith the money the Peking Government gave him he bought the Hunan troops wooden bullets and blank cartridges. In some cases the cartridges were not even blanks in the accepted sense of the term but contained no powder.\n\nThe Hunanese knew nothing of this until they were on the fire line.\n\nThe witness added that through the influence of her brother-in-law, her amah was also prejudiced against her, and helped him to bring this false charge against her, through spite.\n\nAs a result, the total losses in their little skirmish were 5,000 men, of whom about 2,000 were killed and the others severely wounded.\n\nThe Hupeh men in the Hunan army, however, were better equipped. As a result of this, the Hupehese lost several men, and there are 2,000 Hupeh prisoners in Changsha alone.\n\nWhile Wang received no praise from the Hunanese, they are not condemning him openly because to do so means a lack of face.\n\nWIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA.\n\nSTATEMENT BY THE BRITISH POSTMASTER-GENERAL.\n\nIn the House of Commons, on July 14th, Mr. Hurd asked the Postmaster-General whether the Chinese Government has entered into an agreement with the American General Company and the Radio Corporation for the erection of high-power stations in China which will bring Washington into direct communication with Peking; whether he is aware that by this means the 800 daily newspapers of China will be provided with a cheap and steady flow of world news through American channels; and what comparable British news services will be available in the Far East under the British Government's scheme?\n\nMr. Kellaway (in a written reply): The question of wireless telegraphy in China is at present the subject of diplomatic communications between His Majesty's Government and the Chinese and other Governments concerned. I understand that no such agreement as that referred to by the hon. member is in existence; but I would point out that the receipt in China of news sent out by wireless stations in other countries depends upon the existence in China of suitable receiving stations, and not of high-power stations capable of transmitting to other countries. If such receiving stations exist, they would be able to receive news from stations of the proposed Imperial Chain—e.g., Hongkong, Singapore, and possibly India—in the same way as from stations in other countries.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492318, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "Table XIII.\n\nNumber of Patients under treatment and other statistics concerning the Kwong Wa Hospital during the year 1920,\n\nMale\nFemale\nTotal\n\nPatients\n5,216\n13,681\n18,897\n\nAdmitted\n69\n2,619\n2,688\n\nTotal for 1918\n7,835\n28,518\n36,353\n\n896\n242\n1,138\n\n200\n10,392\n25,000\n\n...\n245\n29\n\nTable XIV.\n\nStatement of Receipts and Payments of the Kwong Wa Hospital for 1920,\n\nReceipts\nAmount\nPayments\nAmount\n\nBalance brought forward from 1919\n706\nRefund of loan to Tang Wa Hospital\n47,872\n\nGovernment Grant\n8,500\nSalaries and wages\n11,332\n\nSpecial Donation\n20,000\nFood supply to staff\n3,836\n\nLoan from Tung Wa Hospital\n54,557\nSundries\n773\n\nSubscriptions from charitable persons\n1,952\nPatients' food, &c.\n10,014\n\nSubscriptions from Ko Shing and Tai Ping Theatres\n1,930\nKo Shing Hiek room expenses\n3,121\n\nContribution from Mr. Chan Kang U\n6,036\nCharcoal\n374\n\nContributions from Wa Fong and Tai Wo photographers\n1,500\nChinese drugs\n2,837\n\nContributions from Tung Wa Hospital\n2,000\nWestern drugs\n8,199\n\nContributions from Chinese Public Dispensaries\n5,389\nLights\n902\n\nContributions from Po Hing Theatre\n858\nStationery, stamps, and advertisements\n867\n\nContributions from Tin Hon and Yaumati Temple\n7,113\nRepairs and furniture\n275\n\nRefund from in-patients for treatment and medicine\n1,148\nWater Rates\n15\n\nRefund from sale of medicine to out-patients\n212\nTelephone\n45\n\nSale of kitchen refuse and sundries\n287\nCoffin\n2,618\n\nRent of Small Pox Hospital\n150\nGrave stones\n141\n\nBurial of bodies\n379\n\nMortuary\n322\n\nConstruction of wards, Sundries of the Small-Pox Hospital\n17,160\n\nCash in hand\n22,509\n\nPremium on notes\n161\n\nGrand Total\n$111,624.18\nGrand Total\n$111,624.18\n\n• Cents omitted except in the totals.\n\nA\n\n206", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nNOTICE.\n\n305 3\n\nHIRE YOUR CARS from the DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. TOURING AND SEDAN CARS FOR HIRE. PROMPT SERVICE. CAPABLE CHAUFFEURS. REASONABLE RATES. GARAGES IN HONGKONG AND KOWLOON. Telephones-HONGKONG Central 482 & 3552. KOWLOON Kowloon 226\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL AMERICAN SODA FOUNTAIN NOW OPEN OVER 100 VARIETIES OF ICES, PUNCHES, SUNDAES and FROZEN SPECIALITIES. Also ICE CREAM BRICKS MAIN ENTRANCE ON DES VOEUX ROAD.\n\nE HING & CO. SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIPCHANDLERS AND HARDWARE MERCHANTS. 25, WING WOO ST. 'PHONE CENTRAL NO. 1110. CENTRAL.\n\nFRENCH LESSONS. C. MOUSSION, 15, Morrison Hill Road.\n\nBRUNSWICK NEWS LEOPOLD GODOWSKY MASTER PIANIST RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR BRUNSWICK. THE BRUNSWICK STUDIO, Bank of China Bldg. (1st Floor) entrance DUDDELL STREET\n\nDON'T Wear cheap colored glasses YVANOVICH & CO. DISTRIBUTORS Tel. Central No. 4035 SAVE YOUR EYES. CHINESE OPTICAL CO will give you the BEST ADVICE regarding your eyesight. 67, Queen's Road Central.\n\nSPEED! International Amateur Typewriting Championship won on Remington No.10 142 WORDS PER MINUTE New York Oct. 7. 1921 International Typewriting Contest won by Miss Marion C.Waner on Remington No.10 142 gross. 127 net words per min for 30 minutes\n\nRemington M Lightening speed, lightness of touch, accuracy and sturdy construction are principles which are built in the Remington.\n\nMUSTARD & CO. 22 Museum Road, Shanghai Exclusive Representatives for China (including Hongkong & Macao) Branches-Hongkong, Canton, Hankow, Tientsin.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. (Continued from Page 23) in service. That has been remedied and the Government now has before it the general question of extending motor bus services in the New Territories. We want in future to complete road making before the services are started.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Lang: Will the owners of these busses be responsible for part of the upkeep of these roads?\n\nThe Chairman: Well, the whole question is under consideration and we are not embarking immediately on any scheme for that reason. There is another point about these roads. From Au Tau the approach is merely a road through paddy fields and the result is that with the weight of the traffic the foundations of the road spread. It ought to have been made of stone in the first instance. I think the Director of Public Works will agree.\n\nThe Director of Public Works: It would have been better if it had been formed as a causeway.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Bud: If they reinforce the road would that help?\n\nThe Director of Public Works: No, the road falls away from the reinforcement.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Bird: Will the busses be made to have pneumatic instead of solid tyres?\n\nThe Chairman: Undoubtedly. That is the intention.\n\nEARLIER TELEGRAMS.\n\nTHE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSEMBLY. Geneva, Sept. 21. D. Nansen's Near East proposal invites the Assembly to request the Council to consider steps, by the offer of its good office to the belligerents or otherwise, to secure an immediate cessation of hostilities. The proposal was referred to the Political Commission.\n\nJapan alone escaped adverse criticism from the mandatory Powers when the Assembly resumed the discussion on the mandate reports. On the contrary, at the meeting of the Permanent Mandate Commission, the Chairman, Marquis Theodoli, expressly complimented Japan on the way in which she had carried out her duties and the excellence of her reports.\n\nH. M. S. PETERSFIELD. London, Sept. 21. The minesweeper Petersfield is commissioning at Portsmouth as a despatch vessel for the China Station Commander.\n\nU.S. SOLDIERS' BONUS BILL. Washington, Sept. 21. The Senate, by 44 votes to 28 failed to pass the Soldiers' Bonus Bill over President Harding's veto.\n\nContinued on Page 41\n\nmotor car for use of Medical Officer in Kowloon and New Territories. Kowloon British School, provision of new class rooms.\n\nThe Chairman: The vote was $5,000 and this is $500 extra for the furniture.\n\nThe Chairman: There is an increasing demand upon the cars by several departments and the $7,000 in aid of the vote medical officer has to go to Lai Chi Kok daily so that it is necessary to buy another car.\n\n$5,700 in aid of the following votes:--Fire Brigade. Other Charges:-Clothing, $3,500; incidental expenses, $200; stores, $1,500; other charges, coal.\n\nThe Chairman: The vote is $139,650. It was based on an exact number of tons it the monthly consumption is slightly higher and the strike traffic was heavy.\n\n$1,500 in aid of the following votes:-Governor, Other Charges:-Incidental expenses, $750; electric fans and light.\n\nThe votes for $15,000 in aid of the vote Public Works. Extraordinary, Hongkong, Government House, additions and reconstruction of kitchen and garage blocks.\n\nThe Chairman: The estimate was $5,000 but there has been an increase in the number of men and the extra expense was to cover the increased personnel and establishment generally. Approved.\n\n$750. $15,000 on account of Public Works. Extraordinary, New Territories, diaphone fog signalling installation, Waglan.\n\nThe Chairman: $13,400 in aid of the vote Public Works. Extraordinary, Hong Kong. alteration of Harbour View Police Training School.\n\nThe Chairman: $20,000 was voted in 1921 and when the estimates for 1922 were prepared it was not certain how far the vote would be exhausted and $15,000 was put in. The revised estimate of total costs is less than this.\n\n$10,000 in aid of the vote Public Works. Recurrent, Hongkong. improvements to buildings.\n\nThe Chairman: The Police Training School, as you know is being built eventually on Kowloon City Reclamation but in the meantime Harbour View is an entirely suitable position for it. This money is required to make the necessary alterations.\n\n$17,000 on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon, conversion of the China Light and Power Company's premises into a Government garage.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Lang: I am afraid I do not know where it is.\n\nThe Chairman: It is at Breezy Point, the old German Mission. The Government's intention is to resume that land and pay the proceeds over to the mission and in the meantime while the other Police Training School is building, we have to use these premises.\n\n$5,000 in aid of the vote Harbour Master's Department, other charges, raising and renewing moorings of ocean steamships.\n\nThe Chairman: The vote is $20,000 and we find that this extra sum is required.\n\n$2,402 on account of Miscellaneous Services, purchase of a motor car for use of Medical Officer in Kowloon and New Territories.\n\n$500 in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon.\n\nThe Chairman: The Government is increasing the number of cars and fire engines and lorries. These are repaired at the old premises of the China Light and Power Company.\n\nCaruso said:\"My VICTOR RECORDS shall be my biography.\" MOUTRIES:-ole Victor Agents.\n\n20% September 16th. to October 16th. HABANA CIGARS **CORONAS** Coronas Obeliscos Hall A-Corona 25s $22.75 25s 13.25 25s 11.75 Celestiales Chicos 25s 10.75 Londres Finos 50s 18.50 \"BOCK Y CA\" Emperadores 258 22.75 25$ 12.50 258 9.75 506 16.50 258 19.00 258 15.75 Perfectos Elegantes Regalia Santiago Panetelas \"HENRY CLAY\" Torpedoes Invincibles Finos Jockey Club... 255 9.75 TABAQUERIA FILIPINA 38. Queen's Road Central. Phone 3559.\n\nBATH TOWELS THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THAT FINE ENERGETIC FEELING OBTAINED BY A BRISK RUB DOWN WITH A GOOD TOWEL. WE HAVE TOWELS FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE MAKE YOUR SELECTION FROM OUR NEW STOCK. THE SINCERE CO., LTD.\n\nHALL'S DISTEMPER The KING of Water Paints Its Sanitary, washable, and high disinfecting qualities make it the ideal wall covering for your home or office. Handled by all Contractors and Painters. Write for our Brochure on \"How to decorate your Home\" to WILLIAM C. JACK & CO., LTD. Sole Agents HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA.\n\nTHE CAMERAS & LENSES that can do WONDERS are GOERZ Sole agents in China HALL, LAW & CO. Telephone Central $217. 10, Des Voeux Road, C. Above Bank of East Asia, Ltd.\n\nTHE WING FAT PRINTING CO., LTD. PAPER SELLERS, STATIONERS. Printers, SALE ROOM Photo Engravers, Paper-Box Makers and Bookbinders. PRINTING OFFICE No. 149. Wing Lok Street No. A. WHITFIELD Rd. TELEPHONE CENTRAL 2257 TELEPHONE CENTRAL 1910\n\nSCIENTIFIC MASSAGE. Mr. Nankwatsu Akaji, a Graduate of the Tokyo Massage School, has opened a massage room on the First Floor of 2 Queen's Road. Central. Office hours from 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mr. Akaji gives massage on scientific lines, based on instruction in anatomical physiology. Fee for treatment :-$2.00 per visit.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496939, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "181\n\n# Excess as Approved\n\n| Head. | Subhead. | in Appropn, by S.W': Acot.1922. | Excess. | Brought formrd |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| K.O.R. Maintoe.of Way, worką and Stations, Plantations | | | 5.37 | 5.37 |\n| | Points and Crossings. | | 13.61 | 13.61 |\n| | Tools and Plant | | 3.17 | 3.17 |\n| | Logo.Carr, & Wagon Department, Stationery | | 11.58 | 11.58 |\n| | Fanling Branch Line Running Repairs, Carr. and Wagon | 400.00 | 407.45 | 7.45 |\n| | Pensione. | | | |\n| | Tools and Plant, Haintes.of Way and Works Sp.Expenditure, Alteration of Stairs of extension of kitchen at K.C.R.3th. | | 2968.85 | 2968.85 |\n| | Civil. Police | | | |\n| | Charitable Services, Charitable Allowances . | | 4.31 | 4.31 |\n| | | | 15572.64 | 15572.64 |\n| | | | 18439.38 | 18439.38 |\n| W. Orphane | | | 2238.02 | 2238.02 |\n| Dowling John at Sydney | | | 1.11 | 1.11 |\n| Teoi Hin Ki | | | 24.00 | 24.00 |\n| Grants in aid of Charitable Inst. Strangers Home for Asiatics | | | 2.90 | 2.90 |\n| **Total** | | | **309,626.95** | |\n\n**(Signed)** \nH.H.PHELIPS. \nAuditor. 11.9.23.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497573, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# \n## V.-PUBLIC WORKS\n\n### BUILDINGS\n\nDuring the year under review the following works made fair progress:- The Senior Officers' Quarters on the Homestead Site at the Peak, and at Leighton Hill, the former under Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood, and the latter under Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs; and the new Offices for the Public Works Department. Good progress was made with the following works:- In Hongkong, foundations of the new Fire Brigade Station, opposite the Central Market; Maternity Block and alterations to the Sisters' Quarters, Victoria Hospital; site formation for the new Queen's College Building; and the Miniature Rifle Range at The Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters. In Kowloon, new Police Stations at Yaumati and Mongkoktsui; and the underground Seismograph Room at the Royal Observatory. The undermentioned works were completed:- In Hongkong, additions and reconstruction of the Kitchen and Garage Blocks at Government House; Outpatients Department, Government Civil Hospital; Quarters for Scavenging Coolies, Belchers Street; Temporary School for Chinese Boys, Morrison Gap Road; Married Quarters for Police, Caine Road; Gardeners' Quarters, Colonial Cemetery; accommodation for Chinese Linesmen at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station; and various Public Conveniences. In Kowloon, Extension to the Fire Brigade Station; new Class Rooms at the Kowloon British School; and various Public Conveniences. In the New Territories, the Land Bailiffs' Quarters, Ping Shan, and the Clerks Quarters, Taipo. Other smaller works of minor importance were also accomplished. The reconstruction of certain sheds at Laichikok for purposes of a prison was nearing completion.\n\n### COMMUNICATIONS\n\nThe 2nd and 3rd miles of the road from Taitam Gap to Shek O and Cape D'Aguilar; the extension of the road contouring the hillside in Wongneichong and Tai Hang Valleys; and the diversion of the road leading from Pokfulam Road to Victoria Road were completed. Broadwood Road was extended to connect with the new Motor Road contouring Wongneichong Valley. Substantial progress was made with the undermentioned works- Improving and widening road through Quarry Bay Village; a low level road (25 feet wide) from Island Bay to Big Wave Bay and another of equal width to effect a junction with it, and link up the 3rd mile with Shek O Gap; and the 1st Section of the Road contouring the hillside above Conduit Road. Fair progress was made with the extension of the 20-foot road from Magazine Gap to Peak Tram Station, Chamberlain Road.\n\n## \n-24 -\nNo University Hostel at present exists for women students- whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921: but by the courtesy of the school authorities, arrangements have been made for their lodging in connection with St. Stephen's Girls' College.\n\nUniversity fees for tuition and board amount to $550 per annum, enabling a student who lives carefully to meet the whole of his expenses with a sum of $1,000 per annum, as compared with a minimum sum of $2,500 per annum, besides travelling expenses, in the case of a Chinese student going abroad for his education.\n\nNumerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government, the President's Scholarships founded by His Excellency the President of China, together with Scholarships (some of which are in the nature of bursaries) given by the Hongkong Government, the Chinese Government, the Metropolitan District of Peking, the Provincial Governments of Canton, Chibli, Yunnan and Hupeh, the Governments of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the Government of Kedah and the Siamese Government. Students are also drawn from the Philippines, French Indo-China and Australasia.\n\nDuring 1922 honorary degrees were conferred upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G., and the late Mr. E. H. Sharp, c.m.g., a member of the Governor's Executive Council. A benefaction of $500,000 was received from the Rockefeller Foundation for the foundation of full-time Chairs in Medicine and Surgery. The complete scheme includes a grant of a further sum of $250,000 for a full-time Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and provides for the creation of complete medical units for the teaching of the three subjects in the Government Civil Hospital. The University is to make provision out of its own funds for assistants to the professors of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology and it is desired to erect a Hostel for medical students in proximity to the hospital. Eight scholarships of $200 each were founded by the China Medical Board for medical students who shall have carried out their pre-medical studies at the Canton Christian College, the University undertaking to remit fees to the extent of $100 a year. A sum of $10,000 was presented to the University Union by the Hon. Sir C. Paul Chater, Kt., c.m.g., for the foundation of a Library in memory of the late Dr. Jordan, formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Acting Vice-Chancellor in the University. A sum of $5,000 was collected for the extension and partial refurnishing of the Athletic Ground. An appeal was issued in the course of the year asking for a sum of from four million to five million dollars for the general purposes of the University.\n\nThe total cost of the land, buildings and equipment of the University may be placed at approximately $1,750,000 and their replacement value at not less than $2,500,000, while the invested endowments exceed $3,000,000.\n\n- 25 -\n## Page 249\n## Page 24 \n\n## Page 25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "# FROM 1924\n## HANA\n### DATE H 146 c.v. 53552 14 NOV 24\n\n**Conf**\n\nGov Stubbs \n4 October \n**FOR CIRCULATION :--** \nMr. \nMr. \nMr. Asst. U.S. of S. \n\nSmuggling of opium from Kwong & Chow to Macao. \nIdo. KT \ncopies of reports by Supt. of Imports & Exports on the contents of documents found on premises occupied by persons engaged in illicit trade in opium, together with 3 sample opium parcels acquired for Revenue.\n\nPerm2 U.S. of S. \nPar U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State.\n\n-20 NOV 1924\n\n**Previous Paper** \n52385- Chew Ware\n\n## MINUTES\n\nA copy of this document was sent to Sir Dr. Delevingne at Geneva. \nThe lack of a proper system of control in Kwong Chow between Macao and... \nhave been discussed with Sir Mr. Delevingne, on Fletcher... \nThe French delegation also have agreed to the principle of direct communication between the heads of the respective monopoly services, to facilitate action against...\n\nTo 3/0 w/ Draft Dispatch - 7 Mar 1925. \nFir. to You Conf. 14 Feb 25. \nTo Gov. Conf. 26 Mar 24\n\n**Subsequent Paper** \n70543...\n\nM. Kricher, Customs, instituted a monopoly in K.C.W. \nThat is the suggested... \nEri M. Delevingne... \nwith a Kitchen & sand... be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497993, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "## MINUTES.\n\nGood thing for Lloyd to meet M. Kircher personally on the latter's return last.\n\nMr. Kricher agrees in this connection. (XCR(24) 6 49615/24)\n\n### CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 4th October, 1924.\n\nWith reference to your telegram of August 26th, 1924, on the subject of the alleged smuggling of opium from Kwong Chow Wan to Hongkong, I have the honour to forward for your information the enclosed copies of reports by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports on the contents of certain documents found by him on the premises occupied by persons engaged in the illicit trade in opium, together with three samples of opium tins originating in Kwong Chow Wan.\n\n2\\. These documents seem to prove conclusively that a considerable trade in Indian opium does exist having its headquarters in Kwong Chow Wan and the neighbourhood. They indicate further that this opium, described as Government opium, is procurable in chests at a price varying from $6,300 to $8,300 per chest and that the best market for the sale of the prepared product is at Shanghai.\n\n3\\. On enquiry from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Saigon, I learned that the strict control over the retail trade in Indian opium provided for in the regulations in force in other districts of French Indo-China does not exist in Kwong Chow Wan. The opium destined for that region is purchased by the chest in Tonkin by certain approved farmers and by them taken to Kwong Chow Wan to be consumed there. The export of the opium to other places is forbidden.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nJ. H. THOMAS, M.P., \n&c., &c., &c. \n\nPage 440 (with Sampler in orig) \nLFF. (24, 5822) \n20. & send copies of 5/122 (without \n51916 to Gon Conf. LF.\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.\n\n### Other Text Fragments\n\n* In cadruplica... (53552 TANOVIC+ 147)\n* I receive for... oft deep to you between on those 9-17. Kricher, Qu...\n* Mr. Deleurigue's idea was that... th floyd sho. actually visit A. 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Sii... \n* 050... gir...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499271, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "# Instructions\n\nunder consideration \nprobably be settled \n\nDRAFT. \n\nSent to Nouvel Hotel, by \n370 \n21 Oct: 24. \n\nDen Ketcher, \nRany \nlist \nthe \nsituation \nJon Perhaps \n7. \n\ntouring \nKitchen St. C.N.G., C.B.E. \nletter \nwith \nthe \nlist of addresses. \n\nIt \nLove \nbeen \nsuggestions you \nwill suggest a day. \n\ndecided \n\nYours sincerely \nSigned) G. GRINDLE \n\nI think it will be best to see \nhow far \nbefore \nBapt. \n20.-20. \nin agreement \ndiscussing further with other \n\nMr. \nMr. \nMr. \n\nMINUTE. \n77.P. 21/4. \n\nSir C. Davis. L \nSir G. Grindle! \nSir H. Read. \n\n# We Shall probably \n\nSpray \n\nSir J. Masterton Smith.eve \nLord Arnold. \n\n# 2 \n\n→ of Now? \nsubject to approval) that \nis to be the \nDelegue \nSole British Delegate. \n\nParis & \nstaying \n(period \n\nwill be \nthe Metropole \nthus \nfor \nthere). Beatty has now \n\nCelt \nHat \n\nMr. Thomas. \ngive ... yet heart \nthere \n<<(frawak) losing \nto stay. \nhe has \nCrones \nthe Richmond. \nwill be \nmeeting \na \nexpend \nThe Beatty \nwith him. At \nrestudar Belerigue \nthe trait \nMat \n\nBack to \nLive \nto be considering \nconsidering what \nIn the \nmuch obliged off ... \nit ... comment \nto \n\nSome afternoon for \nI sold. Le \nCould \naris. \ndes covan \nmight Mould be \n\nLue \n5.0. for \n1045514 \nRefashi's sig.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 409, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\n\" for L. Parkin \n11 S.P. Waterlow Way. C.B.E., \n$2>3 HIC.\n\n(2) Capt. W. Tonhuism, C.B., N.V.O. R.N. \nA.G.M. Hatcher Sy. Cinige, \n\nMINUTE. \nJP. 37+ \n247. Collein 4/4 \n\nSir G. Davis. \nSir G. Grindle. \nC. D. \n5 NOV \nAdmity. \nCBE \n7. \n399 \n\nDear Sir H. Read. \nSir J. Masterton Smith. \nLord Arnold \nMr. Thomas. \nCermeste Chapies wi \nThen R. W na watu Conve \n\n(3) Hitchen. \n(4) Capt Tankini Lore \n\nI will remember that \nA.K. Prinez mesting \nFull Run on \nderde d \nbe issues. \na to th \nthat a \nI had \nwhich \noff July, it Report Scr. \nbogad \nposition to prepare \nbefore this \nit was \nthe \nLabo \nG \nmiddle of Sept, before \n\n5. for any sig. by be. Chutturact que \n\nMr. \nMr.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500222, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 626, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n### THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH\n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\nWILLIAM DESMOND IN \"STRAIGHT THROUGH\" \nWANDA WILEY IN \"GETTING TRIMMED.\" \nOUR OWN TOPICAL.\n\n## QUEEN'S THEATRE\n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \nLON CHANEY IN \"THE NIGHT ROSE\" IN SIX PARTS. \nSaturday, July 11th. \nLILLIAN GISH IN \"THE WHITE SISTER\" IN ELEVEN PARTS. \nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY. At all Shows. \nWILLIAM DUNCAN AND EDITH JOHNSON IN \"THE FIGHTING GUIDE\" (IN SEVEN REELS), \nADDED ATTRACTION: \"A GAME LADY\" (COMEDY IN TWO REELS) AND TOWN TOPICS.\n\n## WORLD THEATRE NOTICE\n\n#9 \nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well Stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently Received Large and Well Selected New Stocks. \nCome and Select your Menu from us \nMAGASIN GÉNÉRAL, The Corner Shop, Phone 3312. Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\n## [101 \nTHE NAME MOUTRIE ON A PIANO IS A GUARANTEE OF RELIABILITY. \nEASY TERMS ARRANGED. \nS. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD., CHATER RD.\n\n| Ad | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 117 | CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. |\n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. PROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands.\n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments.\n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers.\n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties.\n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st.\n\n## GERMAN LOANS. UNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG\n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation only 2 per cent., compared with 12.5 per cent. for old holders.\n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. Bankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be possible to parry out much differentiation and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby.\n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list.\n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON\n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. COMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH\n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going.\n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously.\n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. Bluebell makes all the bread for them and the bluejackets have been doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore.\n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. TO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA?\n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the Peking and Tientsin Times.\n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor, the number 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again.\n\n## HOME CRICKET. OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872. Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 60 not out.\n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November.\n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. RIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. \nPARIS, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repair, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after luncheon at the Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. C. Denison Pender.\n\nA message from Fez says the French evacuated two advanced posts after destruction of defences northward of Wezzan. A later despatch reports that the Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergha region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south.\n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes.\n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. MR. BALDWIN HOPEFUL\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the coal crisis, Mr. Baldwin said that he thought it was clear that the possibilities for negotiation were not yet exhausted, and appealed to both sides to explore every opportunity for a settlement.\n\nHe disagreed with a Labour member who declared that the deadlock was complete.\n\n## FLYING RECORDS\n\nAMSTERDAM, July 8th. Mynheer Grase, the chief of the scientific section of the Fokker aeroplane works, flew a standard Fokker D.XIII machine of 450 h.p., with Napier Lion engine, 100 kilometres at an average speed of 260 kilometres per hour, and 200 kilometres at an average speed of 265 per hour, with a load of 500 kilogrammes. These feats are believed to be world's records.\n\n## 'SOCCER IN AUSTRALIA. ENGLISH TOURISTS WIN AGAIN\n\nNEWCASTLE, New South Wales, July 8th. The English Association Football team beat Newcastle by 3 goals to 1.\n\n## FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY\n\nPARIS, July 8th. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.\n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW. BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuehlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh floor apartment at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and was killed. The accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the Berengaria to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio.\n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. Violent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit.\n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97.\n\n## LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nL. C's are clearing out their stock of Aertex Underwear at reduced prices - $3.00 per Garment.\n\n## GAUNTIE HATS. HOSE AND SOCKS\n\nThe Ideal Hat for Sportsmen. Price $7.50 \nThe Ideal Summer Sock-Light Weight-Silk Mixture in Drab Brown and Grey Shades. $1.75 Pr. \n6 Prs. $10.\n\n## GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nGOLF HOSE and KHAKI SHORTS.\n\n## E. MERCK, Darmstadt. WORKS CHEMICAL ESTABLISHED 1668\n\n\"MERCK'S\" Products are second to none for Purity and Reliability. \nSole-Agents:-BORNEMANN & Co., HONGKONG, ASIATIC BUILDING. C. 4567\n\n## NEVER GOES ON STRIKE! THE DECCA\n\n$35.00 AT ANDERSON'S. EXCLUSIVE AGENCY FOR VAN RAALTE MILANESE \nVests $6.25 & $8.25 ea. O.S. $6.50 & $8.50 ea. \nKnickers to match $8.25 $8.50 $11.00 \nTeddies $8.50 $11.00 $11.00 \nSILK UNDERWEAR. \nA New Delivery of White Dresses Just Received. 600", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500861, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 573, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## LIST No. 2\nWorks not in 1925 Estimates for which Votes have been taken.\n\n| WORK | AUTHORITY | AMOUNT OF VOTE TAKEN |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Hongkong** | | |\n| **BUILDINGS** | | |\n| Volunteer's Headquarters' Extensions | (F.M. 13) | |\n| **MISCELLANEOUS** | | |\n| New Telephone Cable to the Peak | (F.M. 5) | |\n| Installation of Wireless at Waglan Lighthouses and General Post Office | (F.M. 20) | 117 |\n| Installation of Wireless Telephone | (F.M. 20) | |\n| Compensation to Dairy Farm Co. for rebuilding Cattle Sheds &c. consequent on surrender of certain Building Land to Government | (F.M. 23) | |\n| Concrete Tank for storage of submarine cables | (F.M. 26) | |\n| **Kowloon** | | |\n\n## LIST No. 3\nWorks not in 1925 Estimates for which votes must be taken.\n\n| WORK | AMOUNT REQUIRED | AUTHORITY |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Hongkong** | | |\n| **BUILDINGS** | | |\n| Extension to kitchen, &c. at the Government Civil Hospital | 10,300 | 2302/17, F.M. 99.24 |\n| **COMMUNICATIONS** | | |\n| Widening Garden Road below the Tram Station | 6,000 | 2136,23, 437/14 |\n| Extending 20 feet Road from Magazine Gap to Victoria Gap (Stubbs Road). (Retention money) | 5,158 | 524/19, F.M. 20 in 63/25 |\n| do. | 8,935.05 | 531/19, F.M. 49 |\n| do. | 25,000 | |\n| **MISCELLANEOUS** | | |\n| Tsat Tze Mui Government Quarry. Additional Quarry plant which has arrived and will require to be paid for and a further sum towards a commencement of the new lay-out | 40,000 | 1011/14 (II) |\n| Plant did not arrive in time for payment in 1924 (see P.W.E. 36/1924) | 90,000.00 | 3261/23, 33 in 96/24 |\n| Installation of Wireless Telephone at the Water Police Station and Cheung Chau Island | 1,800 | 20 in 63/25, F.M. 20 |\n| Wireless Receiving Station, Royal Observatory | 971 | do., F.M. 20 |\n| Miscellaneous Works | 640 | 22 in 100/24, F.M. 8 |\n| Additional portable asphalt mixing plant and tractor | 10,000 | |\n| Purchase of a Cubitt Car for the Public Works Department | | |\n| Resumption of a portion of M.L. 122, R.P., Praya East | | |\n| **Kowloon** | | |\n| **COMMUNICATIONS** | | |\n| Improvement to junction of Gascoigne and Nathan Roads, Kowloon | 20,000.00 | 601/24, 59 |\n| | 2,743.03 | 1479/23, 110,000.00, 59 |\n| | 60,000.00 | 18 in 20:23, 40, F.M. |\n| **New Territories** | | |\n| **MISCELLANEOUS** | | |\n| **New Territories** | | |\n| **BUILDINGS** | | |\n| Mosquito Proof for certain Police Stations in the New Territories | 7,000 | 2287:13, (F.M. 22) |\n| Erection of Quarters at Taipo for the Inspector of Vernacular Schools | | |\n| Extensions to Lai Chi Kok Branch Prison | 9,500.00 | 299/23, 3409/12, 44 |\n| Total | $106,869 | |\n| **MISCELLANEOUS** | | |\n| Purchase of N.K.M.L. 4, &c. for converting into a Quarantine Station | 250,000.00 | 2554/24 |\n| Total | $610,478.08 | F.M. 59 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502334, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "failure, and that the financial\n\nSituation\n\nHongkong consequence likely grave.\n\nIncome increasingly\n\nThe SoF I had hoped that it would press his aquat showed be arked not be necessay\n\nHat Parliament To guarantee the loan of ₤3,000,000 been made to Hongkong.\n\nit is now clear that any prospect of maching As Lowere has longer au caly eady Schlement with Canton, Mr Amay feas\n\nIn the Yor's tel., 16 nquest notified 7.1. Scious issum mud Le will be compelled to reconside the decision you later unde refacuu. au clo 298 6 Grindle\n\nFROM 1926 Sesel Gor Clementi Tel Rud to 7.20 di\n\nFOR CIRCULATION :—\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Asst. U.S. of S.\n\nX Perm U.S. of S\n\nPari U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of Stalt.\n\nPrevious Paper\n\n6° Febry, 1976 Is So WG. Youred to) to come. 2006\n\nHONGKONG\n\nDATE 5 Jan 1926\n\n23 C. 448 Colonial Secretaryship MINUTES\n\n6 JAN 1926\n\nIt is scarcely to be wondered at that a lack of secretariat experience amongst the higher offices of\n\nSeeing that A hi Hitchen has been The 1th suni Aust Co. Seck for very many years past and has regularly been affte to act as Cor. Leak in prefermer to his seniors ins the Levice\n\nOnce it is the bi Wolfe hand Lan offortunity / acting Mary CD. 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The changes made should improve the readability and accuracy of the original OCR output.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503729, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "Table XI.-Continued.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF PORTFULUM WATER SAMPLES\n\nContinued.\n\n57\n\nTable XII.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF KOWLOON WATER SAMPLES.\n\n \n Date.\n Description of samples.\n Pollution Index as C.C.\n Date.\n Remarks.\n Description of samples.\n Pollution Index as C.C.\n Remarks\n \n \n 21-1-25.\n Unfiltered water\n +10\n 12-8-25.\n Unfiltered water\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n Filtered water\n ++\n 0.1\n Raw water.\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Filtered water\n 50\n Raw water Excellent.\n 12.5 Up to standard.\n \n \n \n Tap water, street\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n fountain behind\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Depot, Caine Road\n 50\n Excellent.\n 605, Shanghai\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n Tap water, 6B,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Street\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Road\n do.\n 9-9-25.\n Unfiltered water\n do.\n \n \n \n \n 18-2-25.\n \n \n \n Filtered water\n 1+1\n 50\n do.\n \n \n \n Tap water, 62a,\n do.\n \n \n + 0.1\n Raw water.\n 50 Excellent.\n \n \n \n Bonham Road\n 50\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tap water, Pumping\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Unfiltered water\n \n \n Station\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Filtered water\n ++1\n 8888\n 50\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n 25\n Raw water. Good.\n \n \n \n \n \n Tap water, street\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n fountain opposite\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Road\n 50\n do.\n 14-10-25.\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n Tap water, 6a,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Road\n do.\n \n Unfiltered water\n \n \n \n \n \n 18-3-25.\n \n \n \n Filtered water\n ++\n + 0.1\n Raw water.\n \n \n \n Tap water, Pumping\n \n \n \n \n 50\n Excellent.\n \n \n \n Station, Yaumati\n \n \n Tap water, 23, Bonham Road,\n 5\n Below standard.\n \n \n \n \n Unfiltered water\n 50\n do.\n \n No. 62, Shanghai Street\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n I\n 50\n Excellent.\n \n \n \n \n Filtered water\n A8\n 50\n Raw water. Excellent.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n grd. fr.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tap water, 63A,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Road,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n grd. fr.\n 50\n do.\n 16-11-25.\n Unfiltered water\n 0.1\n Raw water.\n \n \n \n Post Office\n \n \n \n Filtered water\n 10\n Not up to standard\n \n \n 16-12-25.\n \n \n \n \n numbered\n \n \n \n \n \n Unfiltered water\n \n \n \n Tap water, 62a,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Road.\n \n \n \n \n \n Filtered water\n キ\n + 0.1\n Raw water.\n grd. flr.\n 50\n Excellent\n \n \n \n \n \n 8.3\n Below standard.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tup water, 62a.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Road,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n grd. fr.\n + 25\n Good.\n 20-5-25.\n Tap water, street\n \n \n \n \n 22-4-25.\n \n \n \n \n fountain opposite\n \n \n \n \n \n Tap water, street\n \n \n \n Cornoration Road\n \n \n \n \n \n fountain behind\n \n \n \n Motor Bus Co.\n \n \n \n \n \n Depot, Caine Road\n 50\n Excellent.\n \n Unfiltered water\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Filtered water\n ++\n 0.5 Raw water.\n \n \n \n Tap water, new un-\n \n \n \n \n 16.6\n Up to standard.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 86, Caine Road\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16.6\n Up to standard.\n \n \n \n Tap water, 6B,\n do.\n \n \n Filtered water\n 1++\n ...\n \n \n \n Street\n \n \n \n \n 50\n Excellent.\n \n \n \n Bonham Road\n \n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 50\n do.\n \n \n \n \n Tap water, Pumping\n \n \n \n Raw water. Very good.\n \n \n \n \n \n Station, Yaumati\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Unfiltered water\n I\n 39\n 50\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tap water, street\n \n \n \n \n \n Filtered water\n \n \n \n fountain opposite\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 625, Shanghai\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Street\n 50\n Excellent.\n \n \n \n Tap water, kitchen,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n house\n \n \n \n Tap water, Pumping\n \n \n \n \n \n opposite Kowloon\n 50\n do.\n \n Station, Yaumati\n 50\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n213", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503731, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "60\n\nTable XIII.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF LAI CHI KOK WATER SAMPLES\n\n \n Date.\n Description of samples.\n Pollution Index as C.C.\n Remarks.\n \n\n61\n\n--\n\nTable XIII.—Continued.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES of Lai Chi Kok WATER SAMPLES\n\nContinued.\n\n \n Date.\n Description of samples.\n Pollution Index as C.C.\n Remarks\n \n \n 21-1-25.\n Unfiltered water\ndo.\nFiltered water\n キ\n0.5\n Raw water.\n \n \n 17-6-25.\n do.\nTap water, kitchen water work\n 2.5\n50\n Below standard.\nExcellent.\n \n \n 15-7-25.\n do.\nTap water, servant quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n 50\n do.\n \n \n 18-2-25.\n Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water. coolic quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nUnfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n ++1\nキ\n1.4\nT++\n50\n50\ndc.\n50\n10\n Raw water.\nUnsatisfactory\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\nVery good.\nExcellent.\nNot up to standard\n \n \n 19-8-25.\n Unfiltered water\ndo.\nFiltered water\ndo.\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\n 0.1\n1.1\n++\n1\n50\n10\n Raw water.\nUnsatisfactory\nRaw water,\nNot up to standard\nExcellent.\n \n \n 18-3-25.\n Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n 0.5\n1\n50\n50\n Raw water.\nBelow standard.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n \n \n 22-4-25.\n Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n 0.1\n0.5\n50\n50\n Raw water.\nRaw water.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n \n \n 20-5-25.\n Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n 1++\n0.1\n50\n50\n Below standard.\nRaw water.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n \n \n 16-9-25.\n Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, street fountain near un-numbered house Castle Peak Road\n 0.1\nT++\n5\n50\nT\n50\n Raw water.\nBelow standard,\nExcellent.\nBelow standard.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n \n \n 21-10-25.\n Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, Lai Chi Kok Prison\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nTap water, street fountain Castle Peak Road opp. Wong O Village\n 0.1\n6.2\nTHI\n2\n50\n50\n50\n Raw water.\nBelow standard.\nExcellent.\nUnsatisfactory.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n \n \n 18-11-25.\n Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\n 0.01\n0.5\n1.2\n50\n50\n Raw water.\nRaw water.\nUnsatisfactory.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n \n \n 17-6-25.\n Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\n \n\n Very good.\n \n\n215", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 228, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "62\n\n-\n\nTable XIII.—Continued.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF LAI CHI KOK WATER SAMPLES,-\n\nContinued.\n\n63\n\nTable XIV.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF WATER SAMPLES OF VARIOUS\n\nSOURCES.\n\n \n Date.\n Description of samples.\n Pollution Index as C.C.\n Remarks.\n Date.\n Description of samples.\n Pollution Index as C.C.\n Remarks\n \n \n 8-1-25.\n Unfiltered water,\n \n \n 18-11-25.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tap water,\n +1\n Raw water.\n 23-12-25.\n do.\n 50\n Excellent.\n \n \n \n street fountain, Castle Peak Road\n \n \n \n Filtered water, No.\n +1\n Raw water.\n \n \n Unfiltered water\n \n 50\n Excellent.\n Taikoo Sugar Refinery\n \n + 5\n Below standard.\n \n \n Filtered water, No.\n \n + 5\n Below standard.\n 14-1-25.\n Unfiltered water,\n 1\n coolie\n \n \n Taikoo Sugar Refinery\n \n + 10\n Raw water.\n \n Tap water, street fountain in Castle Peak Road neur Wong Village\n \n \n \n \n do.\n \n 50\n Excellent\n \n Filtered water\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Taikoo Sugar Refinery\n \n 50\n Excellent.\n \n \n 22-1-25.\n Unfiltered water,\n 50\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Taikoo Sugar Refinery\n \n +1\n Raw water.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Filtered water\n \n +1\n Raw water.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Taikoo Sugar Refinery\n \n 50\n Excellent.\n \n \n \n \n \n 4-2-25.\n Tap water, kitchen,\n \n No. 6 Penk\n 50\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n Tap water, yard,\n \n No. 5 Peak\n 50\n do.\n \n \n \n \n 23-2-25.\n Tup water, Sha Tau\n \n \n 20-3-25.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23-3-25.\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n Kok Police Station\n 17\n Up to standard.\n \n Water from No. 3 stream Lai Chi Kok Water Work\n +10\n Raw water.\n \n \n \n Water from No. 3A stream Lai Chi Kok Water Work\n + 0.01\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Water from west stream. Kau Pah Kang\n + .01\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6-5-25.\n Unfiltered water,\n \n Custom House Kong Moon\n + .01\n do.\n \n \n \n \n \n Filtered water, tank\n \n on top of Com- missioner's house\n \n Water from supply tank to house af- ter filtering\n +1\n Unsatisfactory.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n + 0.5\n do.\n \n\n216", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506483, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-24 Honorary Cadet R. Ho Tung- application for training in the Royal Tank Corps 12-11-1926 - 19-1-1927", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-498-24 Honorary Cadet R. Ho Tung- application for training in the Royal Tank Corps 12-11-1926 - 19-1-1927", "content_text": "## 28r. B 29/0\n\n**AB Mr. Ellisia**\n\nMr. E. J. Harding. \nMr. Strachey. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nEarl of Clarendon. \nMr. Amery.\n\n**DRAFT.**\n\n70. OF 21272 th. 2nd\n\nAGM Hitchen \nDear Hitchen,\n\n3 0 NOV 1928 \nC. D. R 3ONOV 0 \nCOR 198\n\nI bother you with another of Tony. We have had a letter from the War Office saying that they have had an application from Honorary Captain R. Ho Tung, a student at the R.M.A. Woolwich, for instruction with the Royal Tank Corps. In W.O. refusing the request, they state that a decision has been made not to allow foreign officers to examine the interior mechanisms of Tanks.\n\nI have since learnt that Ho Tung, who is the son of a British subject and might in future be a person of great influence in China, proposes to ask the Germans if they won't grant his request, and they ask whether, in new exigencies, we (or rather the Tank Corps) should refuse.\n\n... \n`XCR(85)72` is not present, but `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present either. The text seems to be a letter or memo.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-24 Honorary Cadet R. Ho Tung- application for training in the Royal Tank Corps 12-11-1926 - 19-1-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510794, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927", "content_text": "L.S. \n\nHONG KONG. \n\nNo. 6 of 1927. \n\nI assent. \n\n**C. CLEMENTI**, \nGovernor. \n\n24th June, 1927. \n\n## An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.\n\n[24th June, 1927.] \n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :— \n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1927**. \n### Short title.\n\n2. In this Ordinance \"principal Ordinance\" means the **Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903**.\n### Interpretation\n\nOrdinance No. 1 of 1903.\n\n3. Paragraph (8) of section 6 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :-\n### Amendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, s. 6 (8).\n\n(8) \"Building includes every domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, godown, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, and sunshade.\n\n4. Paragraph (25) of section 6 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :-\n### Amendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, s. 6 (25).\n\n(25) \"Exceptional building includes (i) every public building, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, every building intended for special uses, every building made wholly or partly of reinforced concrete, every building made wholly or partly of glass, iron or other material not provided for in this Ordinance, and (ii) every part of every building which is an exceptional building within the meaning of the first part of this paragraph.\n\n5. Section 8 (2) of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following sub-sections are substituted therefor :-\n### Amendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, s. 8 (2).\n\n(2) Two of the said additional members shall be elected by an electorate composed of the persons whose names shall appear in one or other of the two parts of the register hereinafter referred to.\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512271, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "# Appendix C.\n\n## CLASSIFICATION OF NUISANCES REPORTED.\n\n \n Defective grating\n 2,458\n \n \n Defective wastepipe, rain water pipe, eaves gutters etc\n 2,209\n \n \n No dust bin\n 1,866\n \n \n Illegal cubicles\n 1,646\n \n \n Defective cement rendering\n 1,124\n \n \n Choked wastepipe, rain water pipe, eaves gutters etc\n 1,033\n \n \n Breeding of mosquitoes\n 926\n \n \n Accumulation of refuse\n 781\n \n \n Missing grating\n 726\n \n \n Defective floor surfaces\n 528\n \n \n Rat runs filled in\n 492\n \n \n Dirty premises\n 416\n \n \n Grating not properly fixed\n 384\n \n \n Obstruction of verandah\n 335\n \n \n Illegal height of cubicles\n 288\n \n \n Use of room without windows opening for sleeping purposes\n 198\n \n \n Use of basement for habitation, as workshop, etc.\n 149\n \n \n Obstruction of windows, doors, and ventilating opening\n 116\n \n \n Choked drain\n 110\n \n \n No cement rendering\n 74\n \n \n No receptacle to latrine\n 71\n \n \n Water closet not maintained in thoroughly efficient condition\n 71\n \n \n Illegal wooden bunks\n 48\n \n \n Use of verandah for sleeping and cooking purposes\n 37\n \n \n Accumulation of stagnant water\n 33\n \n \n Insufficient glazed area to windows opening\n 26\n \n \n Use of kitchen for sleeping purposes\n 23\n \n \n No fly-proof receptacle to latrine\n 23\n \n \n Accumulation of undergrowth\n 21\n \n \n No urinal accommodation\n 20\n \n \n Keeping of cattle without licence\n 20\n \n \n Illegal wooden partition in verandah and kitchen\n 20\n \n \n Discharge of sullage water, urine and excreta\n 18\n \n \n Bakehouse without licence\n 10\n \n \n Offensive Trade (Rag-storing, Soap-boiling etc.)\n 5\n \n \n Illegal showcase\n 3\n \n \n Damp wall\n 3\n \n \n Dirty barrel for the storage of drinking water\n 2\n \n \n Exposing of fruit and vegetable for sale without licence\n 2\n \n \n Depositing of excreta and urine etc.\n 1\n \n \n Black smoke issuing from chimney and funnel\n 1\n \n \n Illegal wooden cover over cubicles\n 1\n \n \n Illegal urinals\n 1\n \n \n No cover to water tank and well\n 1\n \n \n Defective sump and cover etc. to pigsty\n 1\n \n \n No cover to sump of pigsty\n 1\n \n \n The lowest part of pigsty less than four feet in height\n 1\n \n \n Total\n 16,340\n \n\nPage 123\n\n## Nature of Offence\n\n \n Dumping rubbish, Nightsoil during prohibited hours\n \n \n \n Overcrowded conditions..\n \n \n \n Permitting basements to be used for human habitation without the written permission of the Board\n \n \n \n Occupying basements for habitation &c, without the permission of the Board\n \n \n \n Obstruction of avenues etc.\n \n \n \n Failing to keep markets in a cleanly condition\n \n \n \n Selling tinned milk not properly labelled\n \n \n \n Selling food and drugs not of the nature, substance or quality required\n \n \n \n Selling Pork, Fish, Poultry without S. B. Licence\n \n \n \n Selling Milk premises not registered as a Dairy\n \n \n \n Carrying on Offensive Trade on unlicenced premises\n \n \n \n Keeping Swine and Goats without S.B. Licence\n \n \n \n Dirty condition of premises\n \n \n \n Failing to limewash within prescribed period & after warning\n \n \n \n Recurrence of mosquitoes after previous action\n \n \n \n Prosecutions on S.B. Notices\n 4\n \n \n Total\n In", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929", "content_text": "53\n\nand the result was a charge against the mother for \"deliberate swindle\". The magistrate convicted the woman only for fraud, and never questioned the legality of the sale and purchase of a human being. To the defrauded purchaser, the magistrate said that she deserved to lose her money because she bought the girl without making proper inquiries.\n\nSuch attitude from the Bench is indicative of official apathy, conscious or unconscious, and that the Ordinance of 1923 is to all intents and purposes a dead letter today.\n\nIt is to be noted with regret also, that the law in Hong Kong is inclined to be more indulgent to the mistress than to the Mui Tsai, especially in the way of obtaining redress and better protection against ill-treatment or cruelty.\n\nAs an instance, I may cite a case brought before the Chinese Secretariat not so very long ago.\n\nA Mui Tsai about 12 years of age was picked up near the Chinese Y.M.C.A. on Bridges Street. The Chairman of this Society discovered bruises all over her legs, in addition to a clot of blood on the top of her head. So far as could be ascertained from the little girl, the wound on the head was inflicted by her mistress, who struck her with a piece of firewood. The bruises were traceable to her mistress's daughters, who often kicked her with the clogs they wore in the kitchen. The long and short of it was that after all the ill-treatment meted out to her, she was turned out of the house and left as a destitute on the street. It is quite needless to go into the details of the case.\n\nHere let it suffice to indicate that the cruel owner of the Mui Tsai was never severely dealt with, so far as we know. True it is that the little girl was turned over to the Po Leung Kuk. I have often wondered if a special government department can be created dealing with the guardianship of these girls; at least these girls should be placed under the guardianship of an institution that is less bureaucratic and soulless.\n\nIn passing, I wish to make the observation that the Ordinance of 1923 can be put into effect, and much good can be done in eradicating the Mui Tsai evil, if the various officials concerned in the colony are willing to make the law operative.\n\n2. You also mentioned that if registration were put into force, it would involve heavier expenditure in creating, most probably, a special department, or special officer allotted for the task. This constituted, as you said, the practical difficulty confronting the Government. But it is not impossible. Obviously, to obtain the beneficent result in any reform, it is well worth the additional outlay of expense and trouble on the part of any Government. As the saying is, the game is worth the candle.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520414, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "content_text": "# 301\n\n\n\nIt is unnecessary to lay stress on the important part that China New Year plays in the life of the Chinese people; and the great value that would be attached to the possession of a lump sum at this time. Most of these men will never rise out of the class into which they are born, and their domestic expenses exhaust all their earnings and make it practically impossible for them to collect any appreciable sum for any special occasion. A bonus such as we propose would, we believe, go a long way to make them contented, and we therefore recommend that every employee drawing not more than $20 a month be given one month's pay at each China New Year, provided he has previously completed one year's service, and half a month's pay after 7 months service. We estimate the cost of this concession would be about $40,000 a year.\n\n27. We now proceed to deal with the various Departments of the Government on the principles which we have laid down in the preceding paragraphs of this Report. Where 15% only on sterling salaries or 20% on dollar salaries, or sums based on these percentages respectively necessary to express the scales in round figures, have been added to the existing scales of salary, we have given no special reasons for our recommendations; but where we consider such amended scales inadequate we have given our reasons in detail.\n\n## 1. GOVERNOR\n\n28. The present emoluments of His Excellency the Governor were fixed in 1904. They consist of a sterling salary of £4,800 per annum and an Entertainment Allowance of £1,200 per annum. Salary and Allowance are paid in accordance with the rules applicable to Government servants generally so that H.E. the Governor, while in Hong Kong, draws salary at the rate of $5,376 per mensem and entertainment allowance of $1,344 per mensem when the dollar is at 2/-, a total of $6,720.\n\n29. The sterling salary of the Governor was fixed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies with special reference to the salaries payable in the case of certain other Governorships and we understand that H.E. does not desire that any alteration should be made in the amount. The High Cost of Living Allowance suggested by us in paragraph 12, supra, would of course be payable on this salary, but as the maximum allowance suggested is 15 per cent instead of 34.4 per cent, as at present, the number of dollars drawn locally by the Governor would be diminished unless the amount of the Entertainment Allowance is increased correspondingly.\n\n30. The Entertainment Allowance is payable only while the Governor is in the Colony and is available for the Officer Administering the Government when H.E. is absent on leave. The present allowance is, however, wholly inadequate to cover the cost of entertainment, and in the case of the Officer Administering the Government a period of acting is a heavy drain on his private resources. We recommend that the allowance be increased to £2,200 per annum on which sum also the High Cost of Living Allowance will be payable. The result will be that the Officer Administering the Government will not have to meet any part of the cost of entertainment out of his own pocket, while H.E. will not be materially affected by the reduction of the high cost of living allowance from 34.4% to 15% on his substantive salary.\n\n31. The Governor's emoluments locally will then become:\n| Component | Original | + 15% H.C.L. Allowance | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Salary | £4,800 | | $48,000 + 7,200 = $55,200 |\n| Entertainment Allowance | £2,200 | | $22,000 + 3,300 = $25,300 |\n| | | Total | $80,500 |\n\nas compared with the present figure of $80,610.\n\n32. We consider that the salaries at present paid to the Private Secretary and the Aide-de-Camp are inadequate and we note that the Secretary of State for the Colonies agreed (Despatch No. 130 of the 17th April 1928) that some increase is desirable. We recommend that the salary of each post be £500 per annum more is not specified, assuming it means an increase to £500.\n\n33. The salary of the Custodian at Government House is the same as that of several groups of Subordinate European officers of the lower or 2nd Class. It is desirable that the officer performing the duties of Custodian should remain in his post over a considerable period of years and should not be tempted to look for promotion to other posts. We consider therefore that the scale of salary should be a long one covering roughly the same range as that of subordinate officers of the 2nd and 1st Classes. We recommend a scale of £260 rising by 5 annual increments of £10, 2 of £20 (after the sixth year in accordance with the principle laid down in paragraph 19) and 7 further increments of £10 to £420 with an efficiency bar at £350.\n\n34. Chinese Staff of Government House. Provision is made in the Estimates for certain household servants only. We recommend that their salaries shall in future be as follows:\n- 1 Chauffeur: $960;\n- 1 Amah: $324;\n- 1 House boy: $252 to $300 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years;\n- 1 Laundryman: $360;\n- 4 Messengers and 4 House coolies: $156 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years; and\n- 1 Stoker: $216 to $240 by $12 annually.\n\n35. Apart from these we understand that the Governor employs one chauffeur, three table boys, one hall boy, one personal boy, one kitchen boy, two cooks, nine house coolies, two amahs, one motor-cleaner, twelve chair coolies and one laundryman, whose wages exceed $7,000 per annum. We consider that the major portion of the Staff at Government House and Mountain Lodge should be provided for out of public funds and we recommend that a sum of $5,000 should be provided annually in the estimates for the purpose.\n\n36. The Governor receives no conveyance or travelling allowance, but a sum of $1,040 is provided for running expenses of one car. We consider that the Governor should be provided with two cars and that they should be maintained and run at Government expense.\n\nWe consider also that the Governor should at all times, and his staff while on duty, have free conveyance on any of the Government launches.\n\n37. Expenses are incurred from time to time for house decorations; we consider that these should be defrayed from public funds and that H.E. should be required to pay for coal, gas, electric fans, light and power only when consumed in the non-public rooms. The central heating plant recently installed in Mountain Lodge is required mainly for the preservation of the building and its contents from damp, and should be operated and maintained wholly at Government expense.\n\n## 2. THE CADET SERVICE\n\n38. Since the revision of salaries in 1920 the emoluments of the Cadet Service have been determined by means of a \"time scale\" in so far as the junior or Class II Officers are concerned, with five posts on a higher scale of salary for senior or Class I Officers in charge of the main Departments of Government.\n\nThe scales then fixed commenced with a salary of £350 per annum for an Unpassed Cadet rising to £375 on his passing his second examination in Chinese, usually after about one year's study, and to £400 per annum on passing his fourth and final examination after a further year. Thereafter his salary rose by two annual increments of £25 and fifteen annual increments of £50 to £1,200 per annum with two \"efficiency bars\".\n\n# 302", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520794, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-5 Nurses Registration Ordinance- 1929- Bill 19-9-1929 - 25-2-1930", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-519-5 Nurses Registration Ordinance- 1929- Bill 19-9-1929 - 25-2-1930", "content_text": "## III.-Theory and Practice of Nursing\n\nEthical aspects. Hospital etiquette. Domestic ward management.\n\n(a) Methods of cleaning.\n(b) Care of furniture.\n\n## PART 1\n\n(c) Care of bedding, linen, blankets, waterproofs.\n(d) Care of kitchen, bathroom, lavatory.\n(e) Sanitary methods of cleaning utensils, baths, lavatories, crockery, mackintoshes.\n(f) Disposal and disinfection of soiled linen and dressings, etc.\n\nGeneral care of the patient.\n(a) Lifting and turning.\n(b) Bathing, in bed, in bathroom.\n(c) Care of back, hands, feet, head, hair, mouth, teeth.\n\nBed making, general and special.\n(a) Operation, fracture, plaster, stump.\n(b) Rheumatism, renal, cardiac.\n\nBed sores.\n\nFilling of water beds, water and air pillows, hot water bottles.\n\nCharting. Temperature, pulse, respiration.\n\nCommon abbreviations in prescriptions.\n\nMeasuring of lotions and simple drugs.\n\nInhalations. Steam kettle. Inhaler. Oxygen apparatus.\n\nFomentations - surgical and medical.\n\nIce bag.\n\nEnemas cleansing and stimulative.\n\nExcreta. Keeping of specimens. Care and sterilizing of catheters.\n\nBandaging. Splints and extensions.\n\nRequirements for simple ward dressings.\n\nCleaning and sterilizing of instruments.\n\nPreparing and serving meals.\n\nFeeding helpless patients and children.\n\n## PART 2\n\nPreparation for rectal and vaginal examinations.\n\nArtificial feeding.\n\nTest meals.\n\nLavage, and irrigation of rectum, stomach, throat, nose, ears and eyes.\n\nWeights and measures. Lotions in ward use.\n\nAdministration of drugs; hypodermic injections.\n\nPreparation for intravenous and subcutaneous infusions.\n\nCommon instruments, names and uses.\n\nCommon technical terms and abbreviations.\n\nLocal applications; cold and hot.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-5 Nurses Registration Ordinance- 1929- Bill 19-9-1929 - 25-2-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526586, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "## Lok Ma Chau Police Station Plans and Strength\n\n### Ground Floor Plan\n\n| Room/Label | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| INDIAN VERANDAH | |\n| CHINESE KITCHENS | |\n| INDIAN BATH | |\n| CHINESE SATN | |\n| CHAU POLICE STATION | |\n| SPARE ROOM | |\n| WATER POLICE CONSTABLES VERANDAH | |\n| SERGEANTS VERANDAH | |\n| CHARGE ROOM | |\n| DETECTIVES | |\n| WATER POLICE CELL | |\n| CELL | |\n| 2 MARIANS | |\n| JURMEAN CONSTABLES | |\n| WATER POLICE CONSTABLES | |\n| MERS DOH BED ROOMS | |\n| E. SERFANTŲ | |\n| KITCHEN | |\n| INDIAN KITCHEN | |\n| COMPOUND | |\n\n### Plans and Elevations\n\n* `C5.0.30 in 96/24` PUBLIC WORKS DEPT. HONGKONG. GENERAL WORKS OFFICE\n* FRONT ELEVATION\n* FIRST FLOOR PLAN\n* ROOF PLAN\n* SECTION A.A.\n* SECTION B.B.\n\n### Strength at Lok Ma Chau Police Station\n\n| Rank/Name | Remarks |\n| --- | --- |\n| F.S.A. 22 Madgwick | |\n| L. S. A. 95 Gardiner | |\n| P.S. B. 135 Mustan Singh | Married quarters |\n| L. S. B. 349 Jewan Singh | |\n| P.C.B.384 Santa Singh | Married quarters |\n| P.C.B.722 Garbuksh Singh | |\n| P.C.B.315 Phuman Singh | |\n| P.C.B. 9 Chujja Singh | |\n| P.C.B. 4 Hari Singh | On duty |\n| P.C.B.553 Gurdit Singh | age 9 |\n| P.C.B.543 Dalip Singh | |\n| P.C.B.584 Jagar Singh | In hospital |\n| P.C.B.493 Bhauga Singh | Transferred to L.M.C. temporary |\n| Det. C.C.268 Kwan Yu | On 24 hours' Leave |\n| Det. C.C.374 Li Chau Shing | |\n| Interpreter (Cantonese) Cheung Man Wai | |\n| Station coolie Man Lin Yau | |\n| Station coolie Man Kam | |\n| Water carrier Man Choi | |\n| Water carrier Man Hoi Ip | Water carrier Han lau |\n| Cox, W, 94 Tang Sang | |\n| Eng. W66 Tong Kan | |\n| Seaman W.26 Ngan Kam | |\n| W. 79 Cheuk Tak | |\n| W.52 Ip Lun | |\n| W167 Ng Koon | |\n\n### Other Persons\n\n* Mrs. Madgwick\n* Au Huon\n* Lip Chu Hui\n* Pang 01 Wah\n* Pun Hung\n* Interpreter's wife\n* Single Sergeant's boy (not in station)\n\n### Remarks\n\n* Not in station. Villagers paid for supplying water.\n* On duty on Motor Boat with Sergt. Gardiner.\n\nPage 10\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526597, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "P.11 \nP.12 \n\nThe third body I saw was that of I.P.C. B.9, which was lying in an alleyway near the N.W. corner of the compound. It appeared to have been dead about 4 hours. It had been shot in the back, the bullet entering at the level of the 3rd lumbar vertebra and the exit was about two inches to the left of the middle line in front, 3 inches to the right of the middle line in the space between the 10th and 11th ribs. External haemorrhage had been very small, but the post mortem next day revealed that the stomach had been shot right through and the liver badly lacerated. Death was due to this bullet wound and haemorrhage, and must have been considerably delayed, probably 2 hours. It is just possible, though not probable, that if assistance had reached B.9 within an hour, his life might have been saved. The wound might have been caused by either a revolver or a rifle bullet, but my opinion is in favour of the latter, the entrance wound in the back being very small.\"\n\nTo Jury: \"The wound in B.543's head could not have been other than self-inflicted.\"\n\nsd. J. T. Smalley \nsd. R. E. Lindsell \nP.M.\n\nThe \n\n5. Yip Chu Mui deposed: \"I was amah to the Sergeant's wife at Lok Ma Chau police station last month, and was in the Station on the afternoon of July 21st. The Sergeant went out about 2 p.m. His mistress went with him to the gate, then returned to her quarters and did not go out again. I did not see her before the trouble started. About 5 p.m. I was in the other Sergeant's kitchen, that next his quarters. I heard a shot from somewhere outside. I came out to the cook house door and looked down into the compound. I saw 3rd witness on our verandah. I only heard the one shot. I saw an I.P.C. take two paces in the compound and then fall on the ground. I did not see anyone come into the compound by the back door. Then I saw another I.P.C., who had a rifle, come out of the passage on to the verandah overlooking...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "2.19 \n\nI was too much exerted to take proper aim at 3.543. He jumped \nup and fired one shot at me which missed. I had 18 other rounds \nof ammunition on me. I didn't try to reload but rushed in through \nthe compound and the passage to the alarm switch which \nI turned on. I then came back to the compound end of the \npassage and half closed the door there. I reloaded behind the \ndoor. I looked round the door into the compound. 1 BRW 3.9 \nlying on the ground. I had already seen him when I ran into \nthe compound. I saw him come out of the Indian kitchen and run \ntowards the small barrack room. He was in mufti and unarmed. \nI did not see him go to the compound gate. When I peeped out, \nI had seen he was lying towards the inner side of the compound. \nI heard 3 or 4 further shots. Then I saw 3.543 come into the \ncompound by the gate. He fired a shot towards the station and \nanother towards the latrine. He then ran towards the outer \nstone staircase. I again emptied my revolver at him but without \neffect. I reloaded again, and fired one more round at him as \nhe went up the stairs. Then I closed the door and locked it. \nThe key was in the lock and I removed it. Then I ran into the \nbig barrack room where L.B.349 and P.C.B.315 were sleeping. \nI roused them. I told them what had happened. B.653 also \ncame in. They put on boots and got their rifles etc. There \nwere 6 rifles there. I didn't take one as mine was in the other \nbarrack room which I occupied. I shut and locked the door in \nthe corner by the kitchen. Then I telephoned to Taipo. \nIt was \n6.10 by the Charge Room clock. I got through and said \"shooting\" \nin Chinese. I did not notice whether the Lewis Gun was in the \nCharge Room or not. The barrack room door on the charge room \nside was open all the time. I did not see or hear B.543 anywhere \nabout. After telephoning, I went back to the barrack room, \nclosing and locking the front verandah grille. We left our room \ndoor open, and with our firearms manned the windows. No-one \nguarded the Charge Room, but B.543 could not have got down to it", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526604, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "# \n\n28 \n\n→ the gun \n\nTherefore, in my opinion, he must have taken it upstairs before, i.e., when he went in at 4:30 p.m. \n\nI never saw B.543 after 5 p.m., but whenever we heard a shot, we fired through the windows in reply. \n\nWhen I first ran into the compound, B.563 had his rifle. \n\nWhen he reappeared in our room, he had been to his mail... \n\nTherefore, he must have gone to his mail after he disappeared from under the tree. \n\n\n1.20 \n\nWe four stayed in our barrack room first. We stayed in our barrack room until about 7:30 p.m. Then I heard a shout from the married quarters: \"Come out, all of you who are alive.\" Then I went out through the door by the kitchen, outside which I saw B.9 lying, apparently dead, and crossed the compound and went down. No shot was fired at us from inside the station. I had already been out about 6:30/7:40 by the same route and had a look round in order to attempt to locate B.543 or a rescue party. I did that on my own. I found the Sergeant's revolver just outside the compound gate. I went no further but returned to the barrack room. I was not fired at, either coming or going. I dared not go upstairs, for if we had, we should have been under fire from both outside and inside. I did not at any time look up the inside staircase. \n\nGurbarah Singh \n\nEnquiry adjourned to Wednesday, 20th August, at 2 p.m. \n\n## 20.8. Jury present. \n\nEd. R. E. Lindsell \n\nP.M. 15.8.30 \n\nEnquiry continued. \n\n11th witness, K.C.B.722, recalled, continues: \n\n\"When I ran in through the compound, I had my revolver in my right hand. It isn't true that it was in my holster. \n\nDespite the alarm ringing and my seven shots, the two officers in the barrack room were still asleep when I went in and roused them. \n\nWhen I was rousing them, I heard 2 or 3 other shots fired upstairs. There may have been more. I can't recollect exactly. \n\nB.543 did not enter the Station by the back door or go up the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526607, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "P.24\n\n31\n\nI heard a third shot and then saw the officer in Charge jump off to see who was firing. I saw B.722 run towards the corner of the Station and the big tree. I myself ran straight through the compound into my barrack room.\n\nAs I ran in I heard several more shots. I can usually distinguish between rifle and revolver shots, but was in too much of a hurry to distinguish at the time. I realised that someone - I didn't know who - must be firing at the O. in C. Before the alarm went I heard something like 20-25 shots. I did not see anyone as I ran in. In my barrack room I left my door open. I put on my boots standing and got my rifle and 30 rounds. While I was going out, I saw B.722 run past the door with his revolver in his right hand. He went straight into the Station by the back door, and immediately afterwards I heard the alarm ringing. I saw no-one else pass my door. I myself went in through the passage to the other barrack room.\n\nI did not see B.9 or B.543 or anyone in the compound. Into the big barrack room I looked through the west window nearest to the kitchen and then saw B.543 at the top of the slope near the S.W. corner of the Station running towards the compound gate with his rifle held at the ready. I saw no one else. I saw him fire 2 shots towards the married quarters.\n\nWhen I got to the window, I fired 5 shots at him from my rifle, three before he disappeared round the corner and then 2 more. L.8.B.349 was the senior in the barrack room. On his orders we manned the windows. B.722 closed and locked the door in the corner by the cook-house. The other door was left open, so that we could see into the Charge Room. I heard several more shots fired outside and upstairs. I did not see B.543 again. About 5.10 p.m. B.722 telephoned. I did not go into the Charge Room. I fired 22 shots in all, but only the first 3 at any visible target. Whenever we heard a shot, we fired in reply.\n\nTo Mr. King: \"I put on my boots as a precaution. It is the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526609, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "## P.26 \n2 \n\n## P.27 \n22. 8. Jury present. \nEnquiry continued. \n\n13. Jewan Singh deod. \"I am L.S.3.349 with 16 years' service and have been at Lok Ma Chau since 3rd November last. On 21st July last I came off duty at 4 a.m. and afterwards was up and about until 2.30 p.m. I did not see the O. in C. go out at that time. I didn't know he was going out or that I was senior officer in the Station. I went to bed about 2.45 p.m. and very soon fell asleep on my bed in the main barrack room. About 2.30 p.m. I saw B.543 come in for a handkerchief. I did not see him afterwards. I was still asleep about 5 p.m. when B.722 aroused me. B.722 made a report to me. I then realised I was in command in the Station. I got up and put on my boots. I got my rifle and belt with pouch. I took up my position at the barrack room door opposite the charge room. After he roused me B.722 ran out into the passage towards the back door. I heard no shots fired in the passage or from that direction. I saw B.553 fire some shots through the window towards the flag-staff. I looked through the next window but saw nothing. The next thing I heard was shots upstairs. I ordered the other three to go to their alarm posts and fire if any one saw B.543. My fixed alarm post was in the barrack room at the north window. B.722, as Station Guard, had his post in the Charge Room, but he didn't go there. He stood near the door of our room next the kitchen. I ordered him into the Charge Room. He did not go. He may not have heard. I did not repeat the order. I could see into the Charge Room, and so could B.315 who stood by the door on that side. We did not shut that door, but kept it open 4 or 5 inches. I saw no-one enter the Charge Room. In my opinion B.543 must have got the Lewis Gun upstairs before the shooting started. I myself fired 25 shots from my rifle. We fired whenever we heard a shot. I never saw anything to fire at. I can give no reason for so firing.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527871, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-6 Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931 6-2-1931 - 4-11-1931", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-530-6 Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931 6-2-1931 - 4-11-1931", "content_text": "# 22nd May. A.D. 1931.\n\n## Treat- ment of Water for Domestic Use\n\nWater. Sources. Hard and soft water. Treat- ment of water for domestic use. Relation of impure water to the spread of disease.\n\nMilk. - Composition, sources of contamination, adul- teration, storage, and preservation.\n\nDisposal of Refuse. - Various methods in use. Dry and water systems. General arrangements of house and hospital drainage.\n\nPersonal Hygiene. Habits. Exercise. Rest and recreation. Cleanliness. Clothing. Parasites.\n\nInfection. Its nature, sources, and modes of transmission. Insects and other parasites. Methods of disinfection.\n\nHeating. Of houses and hospitals.\n\nLighting. - Natural and artificial.\n\nHygiene of the Sick Room.\n\n## III. - Theory and Practice of Nursing\n\n### PART 1\n\nEthical aspects. Hospital etiquette. Domestic ward management.\n- (a) Methods of cleaning.\n- (b) Care of furniture.\n- (c) Care of bedding, linen, blankets, water- proofs.\n- (d) Care of kitchen, bathroom, lavatory.\n- (e) Sanitary methods of cleaning utensils, baths, lavatories, crockery, mackintoshes.\n- (f) Disposal and disinfection of soiled linen, and dressings, etc.\n\nGeneral care of the patient.\n- (a) Lifting and turning.\n- (b) Bathing, in bed, in bathroom.\n- (c) Care of back, hands, feet, head, hair, mouth, teeth.\n\nBed making, general and special.\n- (a) Operation, fracture, plaster, stump.\n- (b) Rheumatism, renal, cardiac.\n\nBed Sores.\n\nFilling of water beds, water and air pillows, hot water bottles.\n\nCharting. Temperature, pulse, respiration.\n\nCommon abbreviations in prescriptions.\n\nMeasuring of lotions and simple drugs.\n\nInhalations. Steam kettle. Inhaler. Oxygen apparatus.\n\nFomentations: surgical and medical.\n\nIce bag.\n\nEnemas, cleansing and stimulative.\n\nExcreta. Keeping of specimens. Care and sterilizing of catheters.\n\nBandaging. Splints and extensions.\n\nRequirements for simple ward dressings.\n\nCleaning and sterilizing of instruments. Preparing and serving meals.\n\nFeeding helpless patients and children.\n\n### PART 2\n\nPreparation for rectal and cystoscopic examinations.\n\nArtificial feeding.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-6 Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931 6-2-1931 - 4-11-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531650, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CHINA AUCTION\n\nSPORTY GOODS.\n\nThe Undamaged buy is anounced the spanning at imalo stare\n\nROOMS\n\nIndustrial and Commercial Bank Bakang.\n\nsild, Queen's Road, Centrul at No Bk House Streler and Bissnésand Housekee\n\nCiljnennt be Heeers Powell & G\n\nDijaga and Burcjaluka in 10t| Beperti al tepk, sporta pieds. Perf Pontracting sise undertaker\n\nInspection of Store verdalle in. Hod.\n\nTAUPOLE & SONE\n\nBlackan, 28d detokes, 1981.\n\nOm Furniture for disposal\n\nMy private paAN AL BELONGA peshk\n\nFOR SALE OR HIRE.\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND, KOWLOON MARINE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLint. Col. Robertson, Hong Kong Club, will be glad to receive any article which may be give\n\nauctioned as Armisting Day for\n\nthe bench of Karl Halge Fund,\n\nLOT NO. 73\n\nChioare Boden, 72,768 vs. ft. Apply\n\n19, & RADERY 4 00, LTD.\n\nPOPULAR\n\nand earsally hases th! EFFERVESCENT SALTS\n\nameponse to this approud may be\n\nmade\n\nPrescribed\n\nconstipation.\n\nIle in anaouraged to appeal headache, indigestion liver and\n\nsenim thin your owing to the vary įkalney disorders, Motach com MEN KOLLA KITla sent last year.\n\n(PÍNIALA, STE, Blo\n\nNOTICE\n\nItse kemby notifed that Sporlal Current Papénit a/c Pana Boska,\n\n27 in the game of Tang Yai Kan and X, 514 In the same of Tank But Sing\n\nwith\n\nYokohama Specie Bank, LLC., Hong! Konur, have been reported lost ar stolen and the sang nay kepeby declared to be canceled.\n\nNOTICE\n\nIL SKOTT & CO.\n\n―\n\nJ\n\nWe have this day authorsand Mr.\n\nPeter Ball Helga Melbyn to sigu Fr Pin Рег Procure, Mr George Bravet Wetten kavag handed in Kin power of attorney.\n\nIL SKOTT A CO. Fongkong, 19th Getaber, 1981\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe Pearl of the \"Kingship at\n\nChilier and the Golden Jubilea!\n\nThey are justly calabratori and MEN LIQDAN LAD I LINDLADÍ,\n\nThey can\n\nbe procured\n\nin Hongkong—\n\nSincere & Co., Berlin & Co., The Pharmacy,\n\nand\n\nKing's Dispensary and in Kowloon-\n\nThe World Drug Co.\n\nTAAI HING\n\nGentlemen's Tailors &\n\nMilitary Uniform\n\nisa\n\nLatest Style Hata\n\nFar Spa. Cheap.\n\nstablishment of the App Satisfaction Guaranteed. of Prayer\" will take place at the Catholic Cathedral an Sander, the 126, Pottinger Street, Central\n\n18th Ovember, 1881.\n\nMORNING SERVICE 8 mm.\n\nEVENING SERVICE L24 pm.\n\nA Triduum will be bold also a\n\nthe above place at 530 pm, on the | three (2) days preceding the celebration.\n\nG\n\nPARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, De 3604) day of October, 1831, at 3. athena of the Tablic Werka Department, by Order at His Excellency the Governor att nae Let of Crew Land 1 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colay of Hong Kong for a term M 75 JOLER Cencing fron E\n\nJuly, 1898, with the option of\n\nTeroval of a Crawa Best to be\n\nJced by Far Surveyor of Ris\n\nHONGKONG\n\nMUSIC CO.\n\n26. Wyndham Street.\n\nTal 2290.\n\nDealers in Munke,\n\nMusical Merchandise and\n\nAccessories Alag\n\nExpert in Repairing all types of\n\nMusical Instrumenta\n\nand\n\nPiano Tuning.\n\nMajnatý thu King, furi Reasonable Charges.\n\nther term of 24 years less the\n\nlast three days thereof.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\nTO LET.\n\n8, Conduit Red\n\nDWELLING HOUSES.\n\nrose\n\ngro Lad\n\nnaturalebed. Garden.\n\nKo 22 Confult Road.\n\n|Hour.\n\nGodown at Daddell Street.\n\nOffer Rossa 16. Queen's Loud. Central.\n\nLINNTRAD & HAVIS,\n\nALEXANDRA HITILDINGE\n\nTO LET-IN THE PEAK.\n\nNA Z MIŠINTAIN VEW\n\nApply to\n\nPERCY SHITH SETH\n\nAPT PVING\n\nNOTICE.\n\nClassified Advertisements\n\nwill not be accepted for insertion after 6 p.m.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLAMMERT'S\n\nAUCTIONS\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nThe Undersignad katy pocultad Instruction tolly Public Auction\n\n'TL'ESDAY,\n\nThe 17th Detaker, 1983. COMMERCİNE at 18.30 a.m.\n\nat The Star Furniture StormX.\n\nSo, 22, Wing Lack Building, Hankow Road, Kawhon.\n\nA Quantity of Valuable Beaned\n\nFurniture and Garipu.\n\nOn View from Monday, the 26th October, 1951, Catalogue will be issued. Terms: --Cash on Delivery,\n\nLAMMERT BROS.\n\nAuctionem.\n\nOUR BREAD\n\nFRENCH BREAD\n\nCOFFEE ROLLS SANDWICH FREAP\n\n=\n\nDELIVERED DAILY\n\nIn Kawloon f November JL, JOSE, Platou place widers in adorner\n\nMARCEL\n\nCONFECTIONER\n\nM-NATHAN ROAD TO\n\nMASSAGE.\n\nMOL & MAS, Y. MORL Bolder of Japaanse Government Caricate\n\nCares Sprained Ankle and Wrist app. \"South China Morung Prat” 4. Wyndham Streit. -Ial Koer), Telephone 2801.\n\nNEW\n\nVictor\n\nRecords\n\nUSED CARS HUGHES & HOUGH\n\nWATCH\n\nThis Cobe wary day for\n\nLIMITED.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nUndersigned have receive instruction to sell by Pahle\n\na dual basin in GUARANTEED I>ED CARS\n\nToday Special PALATIN, BEVEN 1926-1927-70r Account of the Caprerasli. modal, da mechanical order\n\nMONDAY, . #875.\n\n་\n\nThis cat fi guaranteed agafant j ali mochandaal defecta for a period | of thirty days.\n\nPhase to-day for a trial run, HONGKONG INED CARS, LTTI, Phone: 28481 (Qiles) H£750 (Show Room).\n\nRARE CHINBR\n\n|COʻNINE CHAFTSMEN AT\n\nDISPLA? OF CHINESE PIREWORKS\n\n· QUAIRĪT” CHINESE CUSTŪRIS\n\nALL TO BE SEEN AT THE\n\n\"CHINA\"\n\nEXHIBITION,\n\nCITY HALL\n\nsch, min 4 7th November, 1981\n\nCHEME PUNCIEH\n\nDEXTERHE-ORIENT\n\nMortimer Uk & Rinate Agenta “PEAR BANSIONS,”\n\nHerend à Five-rammad ndictments.\n\nkatarken & Sandstad had MÜKƏ modern conjuction with garage\n\nSAMRAŞ BUILDINGS\"\n\nthe 28th October, 1991,\n\nat their Halen Rome, No. F. Queen's Rond. Central (French Bank Beliding BaseTMENİ | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising of --\n\nSideboard, Dining Table and Chales, Dressing Tubền, Ten Chest, ¡Croekary, Eléctile Pra, Chasale- H. BILA Ware Wall Plates, Gleaner, Kitchen Utensils, Daner Barem,... mka.\n\n*\n\nTexten Carpeta\n\n:\n\n· Cabinet Gramophone, Goud Caller tom of Recordi, mostly Red Seal. High Class Carpenter'a Tuola, I Laths. Several Pots of Rhododen\n\nCrysalidocarpus\n\nrom\n\nAnd\n\n*(Mauritius Palm).\n\nיי\n\nNote.\n\nNow on View.\n\nThe above are high claw\n\n'pute and in good conditiam mod\n\nbe sold without reserve. Loved from Kowinna Ten for The sentence of bayern.\n\nTerm-Cash on Dativars\n\nBUGRES & ROUGH, LTD.\n\nMake Canones. ilangkanje, zied Oetoboř, 1961\n\nTHE\n\n│\"SOUTH CHINA\n\ni\n\nMORNING POST\"\n\nis always on sale at\n\nSELFRIDGE'S\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLondon, W. 1.\n\nThe fol - sharp poitibeyken in the Ewe Carton Mẫu have\n\n· bass lost at manda The Team For Denda are in deʊ pay. The Pakka ke warned not in accept these calientern\n\nPo skarva Scrip. No. 14876-848242/341 kc, în x/n Yan Ching Chun\n\n14981-276485:20 Az.\n\n200\n\n100\n\n100\n\n100\n\nfor\n\nOCTOBER.\n\nTSANG FOOK. PIANO CO.,\n\n8, Des Voeux Road, Central,\n\n(Entrance lee Honge Street)\n\nTelephone 21648.\n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS\n\nAT\n\nAll other Advertisements 4 p.m.\n\nGray's Yellow Lantern Shops Alexanden Bldg. Tel. 21854\n\n140:33–440691/900\n\n17726–898257/454\n\n17727–222457/50% 40-\n\n17728-878381/456\n\nChau Chik Nia\n\n-do\n\n---\n\nTHE SOY KUT BANK.\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\n-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\n\"& BAD ONE.\n\nUNITED\n\nMATSO\n\n- EDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nFor a good fit\n\nto go\n\nA-MAN, HING\n\n1\n\nCHEON.\n\n(LATE AA-MEN HING CHEANG.\n\nECU\n\nTAILORS. DIAPERS\n\n& OUTFFITERS\n\nto Military Officers\n\nfor many years.\n\n34. Qarena Rood Central.\n\nT! 23334\n\nWHITE ANTS\n\nand cockroaches will be banished from every place where care is taken to use\n\nFLUIDE EXPRESS.\n\nSale Agents: Compagnis Ostore. Proman Bukhang. Das Vanch Boyd, Canteni,\n\nTH. SI5\n\nANCHORS\n\nBUTTER\n\nFOR OVER\n\nHALF A CENTURY\n\nthe \"ANCHOR \"symbol has been the Sterling\n\nnurk of baller,\n\nIt is your guarantee i\n\nFINEST QUALITY.\n\nAsk For It By The Kaize\n\nsold by-\n\nThe South China old Storage Co., Ltd.\n\n221 Da Vomux Rand Centr\n\nThe Cafeteria. Peninsula Hotel, Kowloos. Rahim Store. Shameen Distritor.\n\nARGE SIZ\n\nExtra moisture.. Easier shaving\n\nWilleme Sharing Creem is the diman at 90 years' experienes in making Father for sukuning the hoord and com\n\nalling the skin.\n\nTrabanels 10% intera meistars them way ather Fedkar we know of Thara why your ride aldas sa swiftly and smoothly, and your beard comes all\n\nsa dasa and clean, Willana la millal ve tõeline poravnavalenty!\n\nAdnak at Williams Aque Velva niður shaving, well knep your side smooth and soft all day long-leak as Wi inther Inmuna 195. Try this. habeat playlag domination. For sale everywhat\n\nDodge & Seymour (China) Ltd.\n\nHagk my Shangbai-Harbin\n\nWilliams\n\nSHAVING CREAM — AGUA VELVA\n\nCLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n25 WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID\n\nFOR EVERY ADDITIONAL DAY\n\n50\n\nIF NOT PREPAID A BOOKING FEE OF\n\n50 IS CHARGED.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE=EN\" CENTRE LATHE, Amarinan makA VI, DE, Melor X 1.2, complete with whiske for KIR GRUN Going Thong. Desar\n\n= (1 Bed\n\nPORNALE – MANOMAG CAR, 200 ronning vier, Jeromeni til 2002 1945. Can banen 12 Kathan Garags, Köni Ja amat Team dua Na\n\nFOR SALE. 1990 SUNBEAM boleč tyrke, overkant valve quim, perfect Peking crter, prien 1975, or senrent Konfor selling, wwIAL mon at WIH BIT NO. 26, \"g С. И Pet\"\n\nFOR MALE-ZA-TRAR ICARETER CAMERA Pie 15\" x 24\" PONTEARE and plate. Terra) F714 \"Campur Sheller swabbe uztenaten, ailment new.\n\nReplies in the following Box Nombora uze lying at this\n\nC\n\nNo Te TH 10) Pe Koh, KAI BAT PUT A L\n\nHid KT 840 149 R44 8 20\n\nbakııı Replies to the following Box Numbers were called for and/or forwarded ta nádvertisers, yesterday:—\n\nYALE\n\nE\n\nwww\n\nZuma pa andrium should neeskijaky MěTETİRMİZM, THES necovariis far pukilentiam, hatt ta medwore that replies received by the person Cực shom they are intended.\n\nTHE MAXI-KAUNE RUPEI ELL\n\nTe\n\nHax No. 1,\n\n#K. FI. PAL\"\n\nS\n\nH\n\nWe will forwačil teplies to the stated nádro L Live Advertiser desires\n\nIf the wants) kalvnctioors are quickly met and they de met derden any further repila tevazásd, we shall be glad to be\n\ncomplir In that cløbct\n\nyou\n\nPosted replies to advertisements will be accepted, if they ar not sufficiently stamped. Correct postage in Three Cent..\n\nLOST.\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nWANTED.-TNI\n\nSAFE The Evek med chillin, Kanisan po Write Box No. 14, “S. C. K.\n\nTHE AMERICAN CONSILATS GENERAL WHL FENOL Bulatan for a STENOGRAPHER, Thorval knowledge of Englik, Contamme, atomography vasential. Applien išoma, jelang začećanom sisi vžgečlanew, will on received by maat volt.\n\nED\n\nWANTED TO BUY.\n\nWANTED TO MITOM \"BOB\" časa in puod condition Write Box Nu C. H Fool\"\n\n$106_ Wrike Bust Ha, 241, \"4 (LM).\n\n| FOR BAR\"LL TEARETEK theo\n\nmonth Goal polgan, Aly\n\nKe\n\nTỉnh Bình Hà Lan Hà T\n\nP\n\nPOST\n\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 23.\n\n1931.\n\nNow On Sale\n\nThe New\n\nVICTOR DANCE\n\nRECORDS\n\nFor October\n\nS. Meutrie & Co., Ltd\n\nChater Road.\n\nFOR SALE BY AGE BOILER & STEAM PIPE COVERING.\n\n| KOPRIGERATOR, far tally man\n\nswing chang. Chiar fearing Colony,\n\nFriss Box Na Bail, \"8. C. M. Be“\n\nFOR SALE—AVEIEN 7. H. 1928\n\n5. C, PAL\"\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBUSY BEES WORKING PARTY. TATEGEMAN JONG DRIVE = The Halana May Salatuta, Thersing, Orsakar 29, at 12pm, land, at St. Dunstan and Local Chart\n\nTelephoto 27900,\n\nPREMISES WANTED.\n\nWa malu a speciality of thủa cines of work and\n\nskall it led te quote for carvering with zapantas Magmada Plate Covering or 4-bestos Rope Lagging.\n\nTHE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO., Zanna Bunding, Chater Road, Bing Kong\n\nTUITION GIVEN.\n\nPREMISTS TO LET.\n\nTO LET, XBET CRESCENT, WANTED,\n\nValready\n\nwell 1993 and graduate Tasekáč, PUPILS IN EMPT garden and a Putnamien Erba v J Brandaza, se turn an Tich NovembR PIL. Apply to 7. 3. Dvening Chan\n\nWetta Box No. 24L, PE (C. S. Park.\"\n\nvary\n\nTO LET.—ndary Street, Keminen, uns. VOLGAN'S SCHOOL AT DVMa- i PEAN HOG.DE WIN all makers on sewing and eating. Everse gosZAR Tegen de dinge Apply to soul. Apply Salam, 4D, Hankow\n\nCaBxtreme-Oriani, Kand, Kowloon,\n\n14 REWAN 10 will be plea. La sajose benzine hack by Sirs. Thompson, BA WANTED TO PURCHASE (1) WANTED. – Furdsked me thľuzakk\n\n|et FLAI, Dreamber til, at a HT Carharra Bend, Jewison, pet IPAR- Jak hal 14 de may end keel. Wene Bax 200, 100, Frmer zal jubing, sin desc.\n\nKÓW Zapad 12 Belober evening, 380T GUN. Nast in excellent lery them Kongkang apierem sad camion Swami Fill Bulk. We what marka en meeka Bave band Bead NA. 12, 13. C. H. ETM for Uhren Jokes, very taske nhl Bay Wanted TO BUY-PEIZEZEN'S Do My Lata may kasas\n\n\"ODE TUN, EDTA, Son-ha\n\nFOUND.\n\nWANTED TO M'T—A km, m\n\nPOUND at kepulag Bay sa Sunday, FURNITURE AN CAMIONAC MARKET Corting the beer by Jellery Nabina, M, Nalikan\n\nHi Mera Homes | Kent, Kriens\n\nbattle, etc.\n\nIN\"\n\nPOSITIONS WANTED.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nc\n\n| WANTED TO RENT A ROOM IN | muita að Ölben mit used by pesant\n\nCentral position. Partan\n\nCM. Pool\"\n\nHULSE TO LEGING 7_ Almai Villa, Kaylyn, Apple so The Ya Ring C., Sukan Senad Wei Handen.\n\nWANTED KNOWN.\n\nTO 19 turvasan PLATS, VIFATE CHRISTMAS E NEW ama ng Kerian, s YEAR GREETING CARDS rated with skate, whites And MoRAKTILIN pg ddha bet kad sad thestamble at Ye Olde Pompetir, 192,\n\nPREMISES TO LET.\n\nwith a sad\n\nVORAN PALAU\n\n--་་\n\nDANIG JIMI HAC \"LUTCART MACHINA, OFFICE to 127—in Almunten for jy dan lage sormonta\n\nACCESSORIES for at kad at\n\nKONG HGTOR ACE Or ch Indent, Bank of Canden Pallding mad Kuntoon_Ersach, CE, Naharkand, (a falen). Sekoub,\n\nTO LET N« 5 Torme Bulldogs, Kimberley Hans. Komison. Apply walker, Vabantal. Apply Motorradtory HONG Spezia Dominican Peseradik.\n\nTO LET-New In-roomed PLATE, DIJEL\n\nWith ikeaa \"bačkissem, že Hankas\n\nTad, Kowloon, mext to Kawled TO LET SUTES OF OFFICES\n\n1200 D6 Du del index, SL. Googa's FOR FALL-IN\n\nHotel ARMSTRONG\n\nAvaliable sheet (lecember. „SIDDELEY, in perdues audition, Madery convenience. Ale thereelding. Any Love, Englan ENGLISH LADY Wing We rotsen (trial by Appartment Owner buying Tromel fata de Haan\" and \"ing | Masshawa, Chebleven Kalk Kaling. La Europa In the Spitz, would act or 'two kit. Fiat +ra\" Wre Paklong Ram Apply Tang Tack Co,.\n\nTelephone COMPANION, A TANK CHANGE of BeINK MA, “8. C230 BMG\" skilizan la apekaner the past prize\n\n| APARTMENTS WANTED. Wrike Box No RTU HAUL M. PE FOR SALE-STUDEBAKER LIGHT\n\n11. Khanghai body, in kood run TDUNG CHINESE, with good kaoria Phát h c N Wedge në Kresh and French, in years at 1700 songs, Wek Bor SA, experlones Panting, Actomia, 20. \"XCITE Booking correspondenče, type — writing. Filling. Cennt, weke 2031 POR BALKON DEJE UKOONakitud TION,\" whe\n\nwtelligenes BULL TERRIER PUPR Box merka\n\nMake For No M2, 1C M. PULS *S, C. X. Post\"\n\nTOK ALETAKAN KYIGHT. EUROPEAN DRAFTSMAN WAK, all vul. fumator, 1925. good mation\n\nexperience, werki LOCAL.power! 1 PE SITUATION. Would be willing sofer. Write Box No. 271, “I £32 berapi masnih zammencing malary. Root Pl redcmera Walta Den Ka M4, \"g.\n\n|UPRIGHT_PLANE FOR SALE IN\n\ngood m Pele kada Plazas\n\nWANTED.—-—--German, long yan ye. ¡waste Box No. 650, \"$ C. X. PartTM marice In Import Export, Knowledge (mu\n\nand Dark language, who Tok anÉN-LAW THEY AUSTIN Wiltą Ben NA, MT, M. C. BL 1942\" |tyre. Can be tried nay time, 3:180, for wear sar Base, . King's Park TOUNG CHINGUR der POS). Budings, Kowloon, TION, Can Trentak secgnty, Il p quared Picker write Box No HE, FOR SALE - AUSTIN – SEVEN, IN PA, CIC. PAL,\n\npospollent ryoung order. Fully Insured.\n\nEwelingben.\n\nENGLISHMAN with vinculite sia (Blackden, especting ability, trade med venneren, bl apes for ENGAGEMENT, Easter\n\nPast\"\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nPhysi\n\n•\n\nNATAL, MILITARY & AR PORCE LDIRECTORY NO 1 Detiker 1990 ON BALEA Yeodde Fromerie, DJ\n\n• Price 20 centL\n\nCOLOURED PICTURES « Bong-| keng Customa, mekkle for framing\n\n|TO LET – Fame roomed LOLSF. K\n\nSo High & Burgh, Gil, SaLK 'SE | WANTIL:--Bachelys British, re- '34 pm not. Appy HB, QA Pat\" Calon Baling, Tid Plast\n\nAula konan BOARD, Hesekne\n\nKawinen. Bersabar Eat. Mata PHOTO ALEUMS, et term, in Box 774, 19, C. M. Fast Name printed in Cold, Price Kil\n\nApply E. 6. M. Past”\n\nTO LET Now Pirkoromai Mocones, la 7, Shounen Hil| Hanč, Deep Water Bay Garage vilachri\n\ntem canin\n\nC. K\n\nThe command. Magsilent. APARTMENTS TO LET, STRONG GLER CYLINDERS VIEW. MAJATA FORMS NOROMA. TWITT de from town Apply Time Tark, ('0, 1 Queen's\n\n“entru Telesham 2500).\n\n--\n\n-\n\nApply\n\nBANSARD.\n\nAPARTMENT TO LET-Lady RONGKONG — Main PAYING GUEST,, der bergi 187 page 18 pm man kabla ** | TO EXT -*weished HOLME MAGINATION, with verandak, over 2. 32 Panel Phafukum Modern Saltatlan, bar | Jooking the mik, of water-frank mar kathon maand gauge serommodation, buty, karlegt. All modern con FORTH of ATTORNET, FULL Vicjant from middle of Nevesker fer | Tanners, and perllong Tond, Waw TESTAMENT A LEAKE (ema tweder mania, Wola Ban No. Mh. | Box No: 951, 8. C. 1, PAL\"\n\nTamty-des_serta sack. Apply MR. CNL\n\n'C. M. \"Pa\"\n\n30\n\nLET.-glow, Niew\n\nMAP\n\n10 1:37. —Pak levels, friskal de bussed, Light und GAME 192- THE TORT\" TYPECON roomed HOUSE, teng being, for, Roods.\" Tebrate Matheson, Jarga besalitilly kihegrovhed, also matala Emanche from March 1998. Hoone (vodka, välialul view of Socket lag the Ông and Houreiracy. G. E. 1. Refrigerator and poke furry, power. Ton voimal, olors, Thigh\n\nI H\n\nme bé ens if required. Write Bax No. Content Track Cond. Weste bat deritani, Pris 1, mate va ME, \"COM \"PAL **\n\n1294, 49, \" C. M. PAL\"\n\nMurrayers – A. TO LES, - From 1st November, 1981, TO LET. THe well furnished single\n\n-\n\n(thrior suite kaba Oli Di sana Seried at Morray Barrachi, ŝino. Apply\n\nWHEN A Madem\n\nF\n\nJAR SALE. ACH AUSTIN VE 2 Al2ON, in ræclient condition and newly re unkolaterad... Engine in frie CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND + class cuming poder add owner driv\n\nTARY AMAK for Wy of 17 Buonchos. Zrice $1,360, Wrier Bas Kowloon de Witte Box No. 445. Xu, 29, *5. © E. Pool\" \"S. C. H. Pe\"\n\nTADIBA Beautifully marDed WANTED. -- Olce Assistant SHOST- SQUIRREL COAT made sporially HAND TYPIST par with side bas (pobrsary iku yaar) from mich erlenen preferred. Fromspent weer klik. Full Jenaik, rond median siar. Ema and Kwal synaserta... for puitable Marasin 1990. Apply keen STL mmallake. Apply in ama bamburicing Prima. KER.\n\nan Thi Na Mi, C. I. Ban\n\nCONTENTS OF EUROPEAN FLAT WANTED. COVERS member 16 years she, zumal-key code\n\nBerbak, French an German tar 5. top hoor, 200 Nathan Kol girl sped 12, 15 mm G Esply, panna, sata bid 1947 PULA, MIK HE Phông khhay requced, preciom ex- Owane Jeneing Cahay, Fries 31,800. patroon na štro E tank way for quick sale. May be ved at kys Imparat Chemien! Trămatzes CENZORY BAG ont. Kap, Ti), 38867 se wenz\n\nRix No.4K CLE. Put\n\nPerleri\n\nhen.\n\nTHE ADVERTIERE winken to Bent FOR BALDO\n\nHome Oxford\" TOUZËR applicants wie segħek, BOL NO WARISAN MAR 1. P25\"The pazitim ka ng Fatirely Pow been led\n\nAny trial, Avely Major Kewiecie, Peak Hotel WANTED. —Yome Ladiaa gentlemen for CANVASSING WORK FOR FALK-BUCK MUSER 19 Comanianega kaas, maar 1920 Blade) în perfort, work,\n\nTenis Cable persons for meg, mg malitian Tapurtian, a vi Apply Room 2 Tanne Beldig, đá by sporting Rate Bec Na 100,\n\n- - - -\n\nNo. 184 WASHER Kit, 4 prong BEDROOMS, WHk all man da CNIOR TO THE COMPANIES DR-\n\nDrop HOUSE ¦ vemences, in sand, paly, FIA, DINANCIA OF RANGKONG, Ska with all madera convenience pand\n\nKawa Peking copy Apply “8, 47, 24. PHE pings Apply to Credit Father Date, bet fint & and 7 JUN\n\nFranck\n\nPURIDGE MARKERA 118 maak. Being TL NI. PLAGE\n\nTO LET WLOON, from Novom: FAZILLS, # ceste sach. TO HE LET-BAD Vega Rand, Ponty, andőt, with indar MITCHELL'S\n\nIngia kame, quiet GUN, PREM\n\nCentral, Ground Tror, divided * REPNITTING.\n\nwapa na tegu 266. ADDIT|Mitzelni. Dean & Co. Lei\n\nGAL DAL\n\n-\n\nTO LET.--GROUND FLOOR, Na, dy Cammy Buildings, (s. 194) MathAS | WANTED—Billeh bachelor to jata\n\n3\n\n2\n\nYEAR\n\nGUARANTEE\n\nand\n\nYEAR\n\n5\n\nEASY PAYMENT.\n\nGENERAL ELECTRIC ALL STEEL REFRIGERATOR\n\nWrite or call for fuel particniner,\n\nOn How\n\nBanging life Co., Lim Wan. G. Jack & On, LME\n\nANDERSEN MEYER & OU, LID Fur Agents.\n\nThe General Electric Co. of China Ltd.\n\nDr. ROUSSEL\n\nHemostyl Syrup.\n\nTHE CLASSIC TREATMENT FOR ALL CASES OF ANAEMIAS, EXHAUSTIONS, WEAKNESS, ETC.\n\nFlomonisk u send a woman lawan meube HOLAR BELUM salad at mek tan vchan the surma) NE 15 100 Satijne poros a best ingentem sad ie sheeptors by sa A man dathomed by an immediate\n\nChiainable from all Dispensaries.\n\nStock and free samples at:\n\nThe Franco-Eastern Trading Co.\n\n· Lo srpnu did 15 Francs.\n\nBank of China Building\n\nPhone 21657,\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEEK-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\nAMY!\n\nPRIVATE\n\nCODE\n\nUNITED ANGHTS\n\nKiedy kenden. Apar le Cies of the TO ALL SHIPPING.\n\nFrench Comfort Taskálags, ma\n\nLocate merk Write Bax No. 163,| CONNE\n\n10. LET EUROPRAN STYLED TO HOUSE 12, Jememe: Kand, Kozlova po DET TA VEZ Shin! They had to flacan 201 Village Hongkong = 46, 59A SINGLE ROOM\n\ntempa rompt, and zwangą dwuki\n\nwalk private bath attached, terma Kesi mudrante, aptor Wa Pa\n\nAndy 4, Glemas. Tel.\n\nwith Mere\n\nSong 11, Thy đầa Mead, TEL 2009\n\n-----------\n\n20140\n\n| TO LET.—MVE BOOMED HOUSE. AIRLIĖ MOTEL. – 31-25,\n\nKomal Korbank. Apply Excelle\n\nTHE MOMENT Aram, Kerrison, Ariāl\n\nHola Tal Duermber\n\nPleven Bulan & Fraser ČR, LIL\n\nAlexanden Baldžiaga.\n\nTO T\n\nprom marina_indst Star Parry And maket Teen2ity, fuggished and un- furnished. 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BURGESS, 59, GRAY'S INN ROAD, LONDON, W.D.1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534018, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "content_text": "46\n\nReceipts.\n\n32\n\nTable IX.\n\nTUNG WAH HOSPITAL\n\nCASH ACCOUNT 1981.\n\nC.\n\nExpenditure.\n\nc.\n\nINCOME.\n\n- 88\n\nTable X.\n\nTUNG WAH HOSPITAL\n\nINCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 1981.\n\n$\n\nC.\n\nEXPENDITURE.\n\n$\n\nC.\n\n47\n\nCash Recount from last year:-\n\nTung Wah Hospital account\n\nTung Wah Eastern Hospital\n\nKwong Wah Hospital\n\nMan Mo Temple\n\nEmergency Fund\n\nMaternity Hospital\n\n$158,414.28\n\n94,989.50\n\n3,628.72\n\n$363,885.83\n\nCurrent account with Tung Wah Eastern\n\n95,513.20\n\nDo.\n\nCurrent account with Kwong Wah Hospital\n\nTung Wah Eastern\n\n$108,558.15\n\nFunds brought forward from 1930\n\n$153,414.28\n\nMAINTENANCE\n\n15,244.80\n\nHospital\n\n93,817.21\n\n1,100.28\n\nDo.\n\nMan Mo Temple\n\n46,190.01\n\nDo.\n\nEmergency Fund\n\n407.75\n\nORDINARY\n\nProvisions:\n\nFood for staff\n\n$17,414.74\n\nDo.\n\nMaternity Hospital\n\n4,030.80\n\nFood for sick room\n\n48,456.67\n\nProvisions for staff\n\n17,414.74\n\nSubscriptions:-\n\n60,871.41\n\nSalaries for staff\n\n57,250.19\n\nAnnual subscriptions from Hongs $9,415.00\n\nSurgery and Dispensary:-\n\nHospital\n\n90,274.90\n\nProvisions for sick rooms\n\n43,456.67\n\nSubscriptions collected on\n\nChinese drugs\n\n85,044.81\n\nCurrent account with Kwong Wah Hospital\n\n139,357.95\n\nSick room sundries\n\n17,264.95\n\nsteamers\n\n4,540.82\n\nWestern drugs\n\n17,091.20\n\nDo.\n\nMan Mo Temple\n\n44,830.54\n\nHospital sundries\n\n9,853.19\n\nSubscriptions from charitable\n\n52,186.01\n\nDo.\n\nMaternity Hospital\n\n4,216.97\n\nChinese drugs\n\n95,044.81\n\npersons\n\n12,230.81\n\nEstablishments:--\n\nDo.\n\nEmergency Fund\n\n2,279.75\n\nWestern drugs\n\nSubscriptions from wealthy\n\n17,091.20\n\nLight\n\n11,134.85\n\nRents from House property\n\n107,382.45\n\nRepairs\n\npersons\n\n7,550.00\n\n- Insurance\n\n4,187.85\n\n2,027.06\n\nSubscriptions collected from steamers\n\n4,540.82\n\nDestitutes and Patients' passages\n\n424.80\n\nSubscriptions and donations\n\n19,577.00\n\nRepairs\n\n4,187.85\n\nAnnual subscriptions of Hongs\n\n53,313.63\n\n9,415.00\n\nRepairs to landed property\n\n1,667.10\n\nRepairs to hospital property.\n\n1,667.10\n\nAnnual subscriptions from wealthy persons\n\nGrants:\n\n7,550.00\n\nLight\n\n11,184.85\n\nSick room expenses\n\n17,264.95\n\nSubscriptions and donations\n\nGovernment\n\n8,000.00\n\n19,577.00\n\nInsurance\n\n2,027.06\n\nSubscriptions from charitable persons\n\nGovernment for coffins\n\n10,000.00\n\n12,290.81\n\nCrown rent and taxes\n\n16,997.70\n\nCoffin home and burying\n\nSmall pox hospital expenses\n\n719.14\n\nSpecial contributions for supply of medicines,\n\nGovernment western medicine\n\n2,500.00\n\nGrant to Old Men's Asylum, Kowloon\n\n200.00\n\nground expenses\n\n681.13\n\nquilted clothing, coffins and shrouds\n\nMan Mo Temple\n\n2,500.00\n\n4,925.40\n\nGovernment Grants\n\n8,000.00\n\nSundries for coffin home and burial ground Building costs\n\nCrown rent and taxes\n\n16,937.70\n\n681.13\n\n28,000.00\n\n54,569.78\n\n9,919.70\n\nGovernment Grants for coffins\n\nof Western medicines\n\n10,000.00\n\nSmall-pox Hospital expenses\n\nSpecial contributions:—\n\nSalaries, wages, &c. :—\n\n719.14\n\nAmount received from Government on account\n\nStamps, stationery and advertisements\n\nFor Mortuary expenses\n\n4,590.00\n\nStaff salaries\n\n57,250.19\n\n5,726.27\n\nFrom Theatres\n\n2,200.00\n\nSundries\n\n2,500.00\n\nGrant to Fong Pin Hospital\n\n9,853.19\n\n1,000.00\n\nGrant from Man Mo Temple\n\n2,500.00\n\nBurial of bodies by Tung Wah Hospital\n\n8,767.10\n\nContributions from Theatres\n\n2,200.00\n\nSubscriptions from coffin home\n\nCoffins for bodies buried by Tung Wah Hospital\n\nFor supply of medicines, quilted\n\nclothing, coffins & shrouds....\n\n66,608.38\n\n4,925.40\n\nAppeals, grants, &c. :-\n\n5,588.76\n\n11,715.40\n\n4,590.00\n\nBurial of bodies by Government Mortuary\n\nDestitutes & Patients' passages..\n\n424.30\n\n2,898.29\n\nInvestments :~~~\n\nInterest on loans and deposits\n\n29,470.20\n\nCoffins for bodies buried by Government\n\nOld Men's Asylum Kowloon.\n\n200.00\n\nPremium on notes and discount on goods\n\nRents from house property\n\n207,332.45\n\nMortuary\n\nFong Pin Hospital\n\n1,000.00\n\n4,552.16\n\nRents from coffin home\n\n17,495.00\n\npurchased\n\n2,266.45\n\nInterest on deposits\n\n1,624.30\n\n6,078.61\n\nFees from Patients\n\n7,232.48\n\nAdvanced for purchase of landed property\n\nRents from Yat Pit Ting and\n\nWing Pit Ting\n\nMiscellaneous:\n\n1,960.00\n\nRents from Coffin home\n\nSale of medicines & kitchen refuse, boat-hire\n\n& rent from red cross ambulance Rent from Yat Pit Ting and Wing Pit Ting Rent from iron burner\n\nReceipts for meals supplied to returned\n\nemigrants\n\n1,980.00\n\n1,596.00\n\nStationery, &c.\n\n5,726.27\n\n17,495.00\n\nin San Mi Year BALANCE\n\n157,150.00\n\n248,090.32\n\nRents from ron burner Interest\n\n1,536.00\n\nBurial of bodies by Tung\n\n25,470.20\n\nWah Hospital\n\n3,767.10\n\n18,617.98\n\n151,798.65\n\nCoffins for bodies buried by Tung\n\nOther Receipts:-\n\nWah Hospital\n\n5,563.76\n\nPremium on notes & discount\n\nBurial of bodies by Government\n\non goods purchased\n\nTotal\n\n19,254.50\n\n$932,040.01\n\nFee from Patients\n\n2,266.45 7,282.49\n\nMortuary\n\n2,898.29\n\nCoffins for bodies buried by\n\nSale of medicines, kitchen\n\nGovernment\n\n4,552.16\n\nTotal\n\n$932,040.01\n\nrefuse, bont-hire & rent from\n\nred cross ambulance\n\nInterest on Deposits\n\n6,078.61\n\n18,617.96\n\n28,586.19\n\nThe balance of $248,080.32 consists of the following credit balances:-\n\nTung Wah Hospital\n\nKwong Wah Hospital\n\nEmergency Fund\n\nMaternity Hospital\n\nfrom which must be deducted the following debit balances:-\n\n28,116.89\n\nTung Wah Eastern Hospital\n\n.$166,297.58\n\n92,470.80\n\nEXTRAORDINARY\n\nEXTRAORDINARY\n\n46,049.65\n\n96,801.50\n\n3,800.89\n\n$405,480.51\n\nMan Mo Temple\n\n.. 259.19\n\nAmount advanced in San Mi Year\n\nfor purchase of land\n\n157,150.00\n\n157,409.19\n\n$248,080.32\n\nReceipts for meals supplied to\n\nreturned emigrants\n\n19,254.50\n\n19,254.50\n\nBuilding costs\n\nBALANCE\n\n9,919.70\n\n166,297.58\n\nTotal\n\n$440,608.35\n\nTotal\n\n$440,608.35\n\nHong Kong, 31st March, 1932.\n\nAudited the Hospital Accounts in Chinese for particulars please see my Report in Chinese in the Balance Sheet Book of the Hospital.\n\nNGAN SHING KWAN, W. N. THOMAS TAM,\n\n(FOR PARTICULARS SEE SEPARATE SHEET ATTACHED)\n\nLI TUNG,\n\nAuditor.\n\nDirectors,\n\nHong Kong, 31st March, 1982.\n\nAudited the Hospital Accounts in Chinese for particulars please see my Report in Chinese in the Balance Sheet Book of the Hospital.\n\nNGAN SHING KWAN, W. N. THOMAS TAM.\n\nDirectors,\n\nLI TUNG,\n\nAuditor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534021, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "content_text": "# Table XII.\n\n## TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL CASH ACCOUNT 1931.\n\n| Item | Debit | Credit |\n\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n| Balance from last year's account | | $64,905.83 |\n\n| Balance with Tung Wah Hospital at end of last year | | $95,513.20 |\n\n| Current account with Tung Wah Hospital | $93,317.21 | |\n\n| Charitable persons | | 25,000.00 |\n\n| Interest on loans and deposits | | 2,500.00 |\n\n| Fees from Patients and rents of rooms | | 15,000.00 |\n\n| Rents from landed property | | 59.50 |\n\n| Government Grant | | 50.00 |\n\n| Government Grant for western medicine | | 90,274.90 |\n\n| Grant from Chinese Temples | | 22,020.61 |\n\n| Subscriptions from wealthy persons | | 6,723.14 |\n\n| Salaries to staff | 9,060.38 | |\n\n| Current account with Tung Wah Hospital | 1,737.55 | |\n\n| Provisions for staff | 40,090.97 | |\n\n| Sundry expenses for sickroom | 4,191.92 | |\n\n| Chinese medicine | 5,152.50 | |\n\n| Western medicine | 15,104.45 | |\n\n| Repairs &c | 10,895.28 | |\n\n| Premium on notes and discount on goods purchased | 8,179.10 | |\n\n| Sale of kitchen refuse, patients' ricksha hire, &c | | 1,423.33 |\n\n| Lights | 7,011.47 | |\n\n| Crown rent | | 644.53 |\n\n| Stationery, Stamps and Advertisements | 1,115.67 | |\n\n| Coffins | 2,291.90 | |\n\n| Burial expenses | 3,187.52 | |\n\n| Water account | 2,286.21 | |\n\n| Coal | 520.05 | |\n\n| Sundry expenses for branch establishment for giving free medical advice and free medicine | 147.50 | |\n\n| Porcelain portraits of subscribers of sums of $500 or over | 3,950.40 | |\n\n| Balance in hand | | 7,720.09 |\n\n| | 257.75 | 71,831.84 |\n\n| **Total** | $356,784.75 | $356,784.75 |\n\nAudited the Hospital's Chinese Accounts, for particulars see my Report in Chinese.\n\nHong Kong, 10th March, 1932.\n\nLI TUNG, Auditor. NGAN SHING KWAN W. N. THOMAS TAM Director.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535184, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "71\n\n14.\n\nwas in fact that accused went to that office though he did not go to the other offices.\n\nOn the 22nd March accused met Zimmern in Queen's Road and was told he had tried the hypodermic syringe with excellent results on a fowl. Later also Christie met him and at his request procured a larger syringe, a 5 c.c. also from the Tharmoy. That was the end of the project to procure or to help to pretend to/procure the death of Fung. They both insist that they had no idea of harming Fung but of winding accused out of the promised $10,000.\n\n118\n\nComing to the day of the murder, the 24th March, on that day Zimmern and Christie both saw the accused at the Fung Shan Hotel between 1 and 2 p.m. and accompanied him later to the cinema which they left before the picture was over inasmuch as accused did not appear to like the show. At about 4 p.m. Christie fades temporarily out of the picture but Zimmern remained for the rest of the day in the company of the accused.\n\nZimmern will tell you that after playing billiards at the South China Athletic Association and visiting the Chinese Civil Servants Club where the accused won $150 at cards and after another visit to the South China Athletic Association, the accused suggested going to a supper at an eating house called Jimmy's Kitchen in Wanchai. To that place the two went together with a young Chinese friend of the accused named Iau Wing Chui somewhere about 7 o'clock. Zimmern will say that at the meal accused seemed irritable and nervous.\n\nAbout 8 o'clock the three came back from Wanchai and visited a dancing academy named Pauline's in the King's Building and then somewhere between 9 and 9:30 p.m. proceeded in the accused's Austin to 50 Village Road where he was living.\n\nOn the way up Shan Kwong Road to Village Road in the Austin, Zimmern will tell you he saw a crowd at the corner of Yick...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535265, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "16.8.32\n\n152\n\nI have been to the Nathan Hotel before that. I did not go there that week. I went there with other friends. I went the previous week. I did not go to Zimmern's room. I knew that Z. and Christie were there. I did not know what they were doing there. My friend was on the last floor.\n\nIt was He was Cheng Hon. He was staying alone in a room, just before Z and Christie were staying there.\n\nQ. Did you say at the Magistracy (Deps. p.162/3).- \"The four of us.....I did not go back into the room.”\n\nThat is true.\n\nA.\n\nThat is not inconsistent with what he says now.\n\nI am 20. I live at 16 Bonham Road, 2nd floor, with my mother. I know Pr. I have known him about 5 months. He is a friend. He has given me money, I know Zimmern.\n\nOn the 24th March I saw Prisoner at the S.C.A.A. He was there. Prisoner had a game of \"ball\" between 4 à 5 p.m. I saw Z. there. I left the Club with Cheng, Z. and some friends. We went to the Chinese Civil Servants Club. There Cheng gambled. He won $148. I did not play. We left the C.C.S.C. about 4.45 p.m. Cheng, Z. & I, the three of us went back to the C.A.A.S. We stayed there a little over an hour, and left for dinner at Jimmy's Kitchen, the three of us. We went in Baby Austin Car, Cheng's car.\n\nThe car went all right. There was no trouble with the starting. We three had dinner. Cheng paid. The car was parked outside. After dinner we went to the Pauline Academy, arriving about 8.30 p.m. We stayed there a little over an hour. We left, a little after 9.30 p.m.\n\n(00)\n\nThen we went there.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535299, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "2.6.32\n\nI do not remember anything about the letting of the back cubicle. It was let in the 4th & 5th moons (2 May to 3 July).\n\n186\n\nI - the room next the kitchen - Yes.\n\nIt was not let before that. It was usually used as a servant's room.\n\nThat room was let only to that particular party, and no one else, Shanghai people.\n\n3 sojourners at most. I knew one of them Mr. (Sing Hang).\n\nI have not seen him about this court. I recognise this BAMS (MA Nang Man). He is the man I called Mr. recognise Sch. 36 à 48. This is the photograph of the man who paid the rent - not the deposit, $8.\n\nMy master was then out. That was noon, I cannot give even the approximate date. I think it was the 4 m. 12 d. (17th May).\n\nI saw the man paid the deposit again, on subsequent occasions.\n\n* COLLES\n\nThe room was occupied by the party for about a month.\n\nThe room has been let since then to a foreign dress tailor, only 3 days ago.\n\nIt was vacant till then.\n\nA statement was first taken from you about this?\n\nYes.\n\nYou were shown that photograph (Exh. 36) only and not Exh. 48?\n\nThat was not the only statement that I made to the C.I.D. took a statement from me later.\n\nThe one a few weeks ago was the first statement.\n\n* Court\n\nThe photograph was produced to me while I was making the statement.\n\n(204)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "C.S.O. I in `4301/29`. \n\n[No. 17-16.8.33.-.3] \n\n**A BILL** \n\n**INTITULED** \n\nAn Ordinance to amend the law relating to town cleansing, nuisances, domestic sanitation, the licensing of certain premises and trades, and the disposal of the dead. \n\n**BE** is enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: \n\n## PART I. \n\n### PRELIMINARY. \n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health (**Sanitation**) Ordinance, 1933. \n\n2. Nothing herein contained shall vary or affect the rights or liabilities as between landlord and tenant under any contract between them, \n### Saving as to tenancy contracts. \n\n3. In this Ordinance,- \n### Interpreta tion :- \n'Author of a nuisance' means the person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues. \n'**Author of a nuisance**' \n\n'**Bake-house**' means any premises on which bread, biscuits or confectionery are baked for sale as food for man, and also includes any premises on which such food is prepared for baking, or on which the materials for the preparation of such food are stored. \n\n'**Balcony**' means any stage, platform, oriel or other similar structure projecting from the main wall of any building and supported by brackets or cantilevers. \n\n'**Basement**' means any cellar, vault, or under-ground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding two feet above the floor level. \n\n'**Building**' includes any part of every domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, godown, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, sunshade, garage, well, water closet, urinal, septic tank, cow shed and hoarding. \n\n'**Building Authority**' means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance. \n\nPage 225", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543397, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## Table of Correspondence,—Continued.\n\n### Public Health\n\n| Marginal Notes. (Sanitation) | Ordinance 1938 | Corresponding Ordinance. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Domestic sanitation duties of occupier | 35 | Alb |\n| Proper water supply to be provided for water closet or urinal | 54 | A10b |\n| Domestic buildings to be periodically cleansed and limewashed | 36 | A36 |\n| Water closets and water flushed urinals | 55 | A162 |\n| Council's power to cleanse and lime-wash | 37 | Alb |\n| Measurement of buildings as first step towards prevention of overcrowding | 56 | Ab |\n| Council to issue notice to owner or occupier to cleanse and limewash dirty domestic buildings. | | |\n| over-crowding | 88 | A2b |\n| Calculation of cubic space | 57 | A44; A49 |\n| Unauthorised partitions prohibited | | |\n| Limit of accommodation | 58 | A46 |\n| | 39 | 037b |\n| Ventilation openings to be kept free from obstruction | | |\n| Lessor responsible for over-crowding | 59 | A47 |\n| | 40 | Alb |\n| Obstruction in open spaces prohibited | | |\n| Steps to be taken to abate over-crowding | 60 | A48 |\n| | 41 | A175 (3) |\n| Rooms to be properly lighted | | |\n| Limits of fittings for sleeping accommodation | 61 | A51 |\n| Governor-in-Council on representation of the U.C. may order demolition of storeys, provision of additional windows, and other works in certain cases, subject to compensation | | |\n| Kitchen not to be used as sleeping room | 62 | A49 |\n| Basements not to be occupied without permission | 63 | A45 |\n| | 43 | A154A |\n| Obstruction of windows prohibited | | |\n| Conditions which must be fulfilled before a basement can be occupied as a habitation | 64 | Alb (basements) |\n| Conditions under which cubicles may be erected and maintained | 45 | A154 |\n| Closure of premises containing unauthorised cubicles and partitions by order of Magistrate | | |\n| Magistrate may order demolition and removal of cubicles, partitions, etc., which do not comply with provisions of the Ordinance | | |\n| Conditions under which a basement can be occupied as a shop, basement or factory | 65 | A2b (basements) |\n| | 46 | A263 |\n| Rights of Council in respect of refuse | 66 | C190b |\n| | 47 | A264 |\n| Inadequate provision of latrine to be dealt with by the Council | | |\n| Sites for disposal of refuse | | |\n| Powers of Council to fix the hours for conveyance offensive matter through the streets | 67 | C191b |\n| | 08 | C189b |\n| | 48 | A 165 |\n| Latrines not to be connected directly with drains | | |\n| Deposit of refuse in drains, etc., prohibited | 69 | C177b |\n| | 49 | A159 |\n| Construction of pail latrine | 50 | B191b (buildings) |\n| Owner or occupier to give access to building for scavenging purposes | 70 | New |\n| Daily cleansing of pail closets | 51 | A164 modified |\n| Sheds for workmen to be provided with latrines | | |\n| Duties of owner and occupier with regard to refuse collection | | |\n| | 52 | C188b |\n| | 710 | 0179b |\n| | | C180b |\n| Council may order repair or removal of latrine | | C1815 |\n| | 53 | C786 |\n| | | C182b |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543461, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# AERATED WATER FACTORIES BY-LAWS\n\n## Page 365\n\n20. The milk of a diseased animal or of any animal which has been in contact with or associated with a diseased animal and whose milk is in the opinion of the Health Officer or Colonial Veterinary Surgeon likely to have become contaminated or likely to become contaminated:—\n (a) shall not be mixed with other milk.\n (b) shall not be sold as human food.\n (c) shall not be sold or used for food of other animals save with the permission of the Health Officer.\n\n21. If the Health Officer or Colonial Veterinary Surgeon is of opinion that infectious disease is caused or likely to be caused by the consumption of the milk supplied from any dairy, or that the public health is or is likely to be endangered by any act or default of any dairyman, the Health Officer may make an order in writing with a view to stopping the supply, distribution, or sale of such milk, absolutely or under conditions laid down in such order.\n\n22. If an order prohibiting the supply, distribution, or sale of milk is made against a dairyman under the provisions of the preceding by-law, he shall not be entitled to claim compensation for any damage or loss which he may sustain thereby.\n\n23. Any person aggrieved by any order made by the Board or any Officer may appeal to the Governor-in-Council.\n\n## AERATED WATER FACTORIES BY-LAWS\n\n1. For the purpose of these by-laws, the term \"**aerated waters**\" shall mean any liquid intended for human consumption which is impregnated with carbon dioxide or oxygen or both under pressure, but shall not include any intoxicating liquors as defined in the Liquors Ordinance, 1931.\n\n2. No premises shall be used for the manufacture of aerated waters unless such premises have been licensed by the Urban Council.\n\n3. Licences shall be renewed annually in January.\n\n4. Such premises shall comply in all respects with the provisions of the Buildings Ordinance, 1933.\n\n5. No water shall be used in any aerated water factory, whether for the manufacture of aerated waters or for any other purpose, except such as is derived from waterworks as defined in the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, and is laid on to the premises, provided that the Council may give permission for the use of water from any other source for any purpose for which such water is required. All water used for the manufacture of aerated waters shall be subjected to such purification as the Board may require.\n\n6. All utensils and machinery used in the manufacture and packing of aerated waters shall be kept in a cleanly condition.\n\n7. No aerated water factory shall be used for any other purpose except with the permission of the Council.\n\n8. The manufacture of aerated water shall not be carried on in any part of a building which is used for domestic purposes.\n\n9. No animals except cats shall be kept in any aerated water factory.\n\n10. No drain inlet shall exist in any part of any premises actually used for the manufacture of aerated waters.\n\n11. Every aerated water factory shall be provided with adequate kitchen, ablution, urinal, and latrine accommodation to the satisfaction of the Council.\n\n12. Every aerated water factory shall, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., and at any other time by order in writing from the Council, be open to the inspection of any Food Officer specified in the Orders.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543476, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "C.S.O. 4301/29.\n\n# A BILL\n\n## INTITULED\n\n[No. 12/31-25.7.33.—10.J]\n\nAn Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the construction of Buildings.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Buildings **Short Ordinance, 1933**.\n\n## Exemptions and Savings\n\n2. The provisions of this Ordinance with reference to the construction of buildings and the carrying out of works shall not apply in the case of buildings or works belonging to the Crown or to the Colonial Government or upon any land vested in any person on behalf of the naval or military departments of His Majesty's Service; but all the provisions of this Ordinance in relation to hoardings, scaffoldings, and verandahs, balconies and areas on or over or into un-leased Crown land shall apply without exception to all buildings throughout the Colony.\n\n3. Nothing herein contained shall vary or affect the rights or liabilities as between landlord and tenant under any contract between them.\n\n## Interpretation\n\n4. In this Ordinance,\n\n* (1) \"Adjoining owner\" means the owner or one of the owners, and \"adjoining occupier\" means the occupier or one of the occupiers, of land, buildings, storeys or rooms adjoining those of the \"building owner\".\n* (2) \"Author of a nuisance\" means the person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues.\n* (3) \"Authorised architect\" means any individual whose name appears in the list of authorised architects hereinafter provided for.\n* (4) \"Balcony\" means any stage, platform oriel or other similar structure projecting from a main wall of any building and supported by brackets or cantilevers.\n* (5) \"Basement\" means any cellar, vault, or underground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding 2 feet above the floor level.\n* (6) \"Building\" includes any part of a domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, go-down, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, sun-shade, garage, well, water closet, urinal, septic tank, cow-shed and hoarding.\n* (7) \"Building Authority\" means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n385", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543558, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "C.S.O. 1 in `4301/29`.\n\n\n[No. 17-16.8.33.-.3] \n\n**A BILL** \n\n**INTITULED** \n\nAn Ordinance to amend the law relating to town cleansing, nuisances, domestic sanitation, the licensing of certain premises and trades, and the disposal of the dead. \n\n**BE** is enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: \n\n## PART I. \n\n## PRELIMINARY. \n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health (**Sanitation**) Ordinance, 1933. \n\n2. Nothing herein contained shall vary or affect the rights or liabilities as between landlord and tenant under any contract between them.\n\n### Saving as to tenancy contracts. \n\n3. In this Ordinance,— \n\n#### Interpreta tion :- \n\n* 'Author of a nuisance' means the person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues. \n * **Author of a nuisance**\n* 'Bake-house' means any premises on which bread, biscuits or confectionery are baked for sale as food for man, and also includes any premises on which such food is prepared for baking, or on which the materials for the preparation of such food are stored. \n * **Bake-house**\n* 'Balcony' means any stage, platform, oriel or other similar structure projecting from the main wall of any building and supported by brackets or cantilevers. \n * **Balcony**\n* 'Basement' means any cellar, vault, or under-ground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding two feet above the floor level. \n * **Basement**\n* 'Building' includes any part of every domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, godown, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, sunshade, garage, well, water closet, urinal, septic tank, cow shed and hoarding. \n * **Building**\n* 'Building Authority' means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance. \n * **Building Authority**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "## Table of Correspondence, Continued.\n\n### Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance 1998.\n\n| Marginal Notes. | Corresponding Ordinance 1933. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Domestic sanitation duties of occupier | 85 |\n| Domestic buildings to be periodically cleansed and limewashed | 36 |\n| Council's power to cleanse and lime-wash | 37 |\n| Council to issue notice to owner | Alb |\n| Proper water supply to be provided for water closet or urinal | |\n| Water closets and water flushed urinals | 33 |\n| Measurement of buildings as first step towards prevention of over-crowding | 54 |\n| Over-crowding | A.10b |\n| occupier to cleanse and limewash dirty domestic buildings. | 55 |\n| | A162 |\n| | 50 |\n| | Ab |\n| Calculation of cubic space | 38 |\n| Unauthorised partitions prohibited | A2b |\n| Limit of accommodation | 57 |\n| | A44; A49 |\n| | 39 |\n| | C37b |\n| Lessor responsible for over-crowding | 58 |\n| Ventilation openings to be kept free from obstruction | A46 |\n| | 59 |\n| | A47 |\n| Obstruction in open spaces prohibited | 40 |\n| Steps to be taken to abate over-crowding | Alb |\n| | 60 |\n| | A48 |\n| Rooms to be properly lighted | 41 |\n| Limits of fittings for sleeping accommodation | A175 (8) |\n| | 42 |\n| | A153 |\n| Governor-in-Council on representation of the U.C. may order demolition of storeys, provision of additional windows, and other works in certain cases, subject to compensation | 61 |\n| Kitchen not to be used as sleeping room | A51 |\n| | 62 |\n| Basements not to be occupied without permission | A49 |\n| | 63 |\n| | A45 |\n| Obstruction of windows prohibited | 43 |\n| Conditions which must be fulfilled before a basement can be occupied as a habitation | A154A |\n| | 44 |\n| | A155 |\n| Conditions under which cubicles may be erected and maintained | 64 |\n| | Alb (basements) |\n| | 45 |\n| Closure of premises containing unauthorised cubicles and partitions by order of Magistrate | A154 |\n| Conditions under which a basement can be occupied as a shop, basement or factory | 65 |\n| | A2b (basements) |\n| | 46 |\n| Rights of Council in respect of refuse | A263 |\n| Magistrate may order demolition and removal of cubicles, partitions, etc., which do not comply with provisions of the Ordinance | 66 |\n| | C190b |\n| | 47 |\n| Inadequate provision of latrine to be dealt with by the Council | A 264 |\n| Sites for disposal of refuse | |\n| Powers of Council to fix the hours for conveyance of offensive matter through the streets | 67 |\n| | C191b |\n| | 08 |\n| | C189b |\n| Latrines not to be connected directly with drains | 48 |\n| Deposit of refuse in drains, etc., prohibited | A165 |\n| | 69 |\n| | C177b |\n| Construction of pail latrine | 49 |\n| Owner or occupier to give access to building for scavenging purposes | A159 |\n| | 50 |\n| | B191b (buildings) |\n| Daily cleansing of pail closets | 70 |\n| Duties of owner and occupier with regard to refuse collection | 51 |\n| Sheds for workmen to be provided with latrines | A164 modified |\n| | 592 |\n| | C188b |\n| Council may order repair or removal of latrine | 71(0) |\n| | €179b (i) |\n| | C180b |\n| | C181b (ii) |\n| | ! |\n| | C182b (iv) |\n| | 58 |\n| | C78b |\n\nPage 60 \nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543665, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "# AERATED WATER FACTORIES BY-LAWS\n\n## By-Laws Related to Milk and Dairy\n20. The milk of a diseased animal or of any animal which has been in contact with or associated with a diseased animal and whose milk is in the opinion of the Health Officer or Colonial Veterinary Surgeon likely to have become contaminated or likely to become contaminated :-\n \n(a) shall not be mixed with other milk.\n(b) shall not be sold as human food.\n(c) shall not be sold or used for food of other animals save with the permission of the Health Officer.\n\n21. If the Health Officer or Colonial Veterinary Surgeon is of opinion that infectious disease is caused or likely to be caused by the consumption of the milk supplied from any dairy, or that the public health is or is likely to be endangered by any act or default of any dairyman, the Health Officer may make an order in writing with a view to stopping the supply, distribution, or sale of such milk, absolutely or under conditions laid down in such order.\n\n22. If an order prohibiting the supply, distribution, or sale of milk is made against a dairyman under the provisions of the preceding by-law, he shall not be entitled to claim compensation for any damage or loss which he may sustain thereby.\n\n23. Any person aggrieved by any order made by the Board or any Officer may appeal to the Governor-in-Council.\n\n## AERATED WATER FACTORIES BY-LAWS\n1. For the purpose of these by-laws, the term \"**aerated waters**\" shall mean any liquid intended for human consumption which is impregnated with carbon dioxide or oxygen or both under pressure, but shall not include any intoxicating liquors as defined in the `Liquors Ordinance, 1931`.\n\n2. No premises shall be used for the manufacture of aerated waters unless such premises have been licensed by the Urban Council.\n\n3. Licences shall be renewed annually in January.\n\n4. Such premises shall comply in all respects with the provisions of the `Buildings Ordinance, 1933`.\n\n5. No water shall be used in any aerated water factory whether for the manufacture of aerated waters or for any other purpose except such as is derived from waterworks as defined in the `Waterworks Ordinance, 1903`, and is laid on to the premises, provided that the Council may give permission for the use of water from any other source for any purpose for which such water is required. All water used for the manufacture of aerated waters shall be subjected to such purification as the Board may require.\n\n6. All utensils and machinery used in the manufacture and packing of aerated waters shall be kept in a cleanly condition.\n\n7. No aerated water factory shall be used for any other purpose except with the permission of the Council.\n\n8. The manufacture of aerated water shall not be carried on in any part of a building which is used for domestic purposes.\n\n9. No animals except cats shall be kept in any aerated water factory.\n\n10. No drain inlet shall exist in any part of any premises actually used for the manufacture of aerated waters.\n\n11. Every aerated water factory shall be provided with adequate kitchen, ablution, urinal, and latrine accommodation to the satisfaction of the Council.\n\n12. Every aerated water factory shall, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and at any other time by order in writing from the Council, be open to the inspection of any Food Officer specified in the Orders.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543680, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "C.S.O. 4301/29.\n\n# A BILL\n\n## INTITULED\n\n`[No. 12/31-25.7.33.-10.]`\n\nAn Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the construction of Buildings.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Buildings Short Ordinance, 1933.\n\n## Exemptions and Savings\n\n2. The provisions of this Ordinance with reference to the construction of buildings and the carrying out of works shall not apply in the case of buildings or works belonging to the Crown or to the Colonial Government or upon any land vested in any person on behalf of the naval or military departments of His Majesty's Service; but all the provisions of this Ordinance in relation to hoardings, scaffoldings, and verandahs, balconies and areas on or over or into un-leased Crown land shall apply without exception to all buildings throughout the Colony.\n\n3. Nothing herein contained shall vary or affect the rights or liabilities as between landlord and tenant under any contract between them.\n\n## Interpretation\n\n4. In this Ordinance,\n\n(1) \"Adjoining owner\" means the owner or one of the owners, and \"adjoining occupier\" means the occupier or one of the occupiers, of land, buildings, storeys or rooms adjoining those of the \"building owner\".\n\n(2) \"Author of a nuisance\" means the person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues.\n\n(3) \"Authorised architect\" means any individual whose name appears in the list of authorised architects hereinafter provided for.\n\n(4) \"Balcony\" means any stage, platform, oriel or other similar structure projecting from a main wall of any building and supported by brackets or cantilevers.\n\n(5) \"Basement\" means any cellar, vault, or underground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding 2 feet above the floor level.\n\n(6) \"Building\" includes any part of a domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, go-down, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, shade, garage, well, water closet, urinal, septic tank, cow-shed and hoarding.\n\n(7) \"Building Authority\" means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\nPage 180", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544755, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Q 9 \n\nThe electrical installations in all Government buildings were maintained in good order. Sixteen hundred and sixty-two fans and two hundred and thirty-five radiators were cleaned and overhauled. Thirty-three fans and motors were completely rewound. Twenty-five radiators were fitted with new elements. Work was carried out in connection with additions and alterations to thirty-six buildings on forty-two light and power points. Improved type traffic lanterns were installed at the junctions of Queen's and Pokfulam Roads, Bonham and Pokfulam Roads, and Connaught Road Central near Star Ferry. Nine police recall signal lanterns were installed for Upper Level, Bay View, Aberdeen, Pokfulam, Quarry Bay, Stanley, No. 2 and No. 7 Police Stations. Typhoon lanterns at Lyemun, Gough Hill, Harbour Office, Waglan and Gap Rock Lighthouses were maintained in good order. Electrical installations in thirty-three Government buildings were tested and repaired, and one hundred and twenty-six inventories of Electrical Fittings were issued and revised.\n\nExpenditure \n$202,874.38\n\n## 47. Improvements to Buildings\nThe principal improvements carried out under this heading were as follows:- Belilios School - conversion of two box rooms into W.C's., Fire Station Building - provision of doorways in Analyst's Office and Electrical Office, alterations in Appliance Room - Provision of a draught fan to fume cupboards in Analyst's Office, P.W.D. Offices - sundry alterations, P.W.D. Annexe - Installation of two W.C's, Harbour Office Quarters - enclosing of Verandah openings, General Post Office - alterations and additions to Parcels Branch and Main Hall, Belilios School - construction of a garage in basement, Government House - sundry painting, alterations and repairs, Central Police Station - conversion of the Detention Room to use as a Records Office, and erection of an Oil Store, Victoria Hospital - new partition, new shelves in Store Room and Alarm Bell, 157 The Peak - alterations to approach path and renewal of tiling to five fireplaces, Magazine Gap Police Station - new partitions, bathroom and doorway, Mountain Lodge - provision of loose boxes for ponies, ventilator in stables, and sockets to tennis court. \"Tanderagee\" - alterations to living and bath rooms, 275 and 276 The Peak - provision of additional pantry doors, wire netting fence and steps, jalousies to five windows, alterations to tennis court and erection of covered way and potting sheds, Bacteriological Institute - alterations and additions to benches and fittings and provision of fire extincteurs, Mental Hospital - provision of four Gas fires and guards, Ellis Kadoorie School - new kitchen to Servants' Quarters, Kennedy Town Slaughter House - new party wall and cement render to all pillars, Government Civil Hospital, \"C\" Block - renewal of floor in concrete, and provision of wrought iron racks, Queen's Gardens - new doorways, Wanchai Fire Station - provision of hangers to doors, Lockhart Road Market - new gates, Aberdeen Police Station - installation of W.C. and renewal of floor in \n\n68", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544762, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## 63. Stores Depreciation\nThe adjustment of stores values and reconditioning of old stores have been met from this vote, to the extent of $10,518.79.\n\nThe following sums were credited to this vote:- $4,228.80, being rebate on freight charges in connection with stores purchased in England through the Crown Agents: $6,226.36, being the value of stores returned which had been issued prior to 1933.\n\nThe result showed a net expenditure on this vote of $63.63.\n\n## 61. Bathing Places\nNo structures were erected by Government at Kennedy Town or Repulse Bay. Repulse Bay Beach was opened to the public on 1st May and closed on 1st November.\n\nExpenditure \n$1,963.90\n\n## KOWLOON\n\n## 65. Maintenance of Buildings\nGovernment buildings were kept in a good state of repair. Painting, colourwashing and repairs in accordance with the recurring programme were carried out to thirty buildings. Major repairs included Ma Tau Kok Cattle Depot - repairs to cement surfacing in compound, Disinfecting Station - repairs to plant, Police Training School - repairs to fencing, Hung Hom Police Station - levelling and returfing of parade ground, Police Training School - alterations and Malthoid roofing to covered way, Blackhead Signal Station - renewal of Storm Signals, Yaumati Pig Market - repairs to roof, Tsim Tsa Tsui Police Station - provision of a new counter in Canteen and sundry repairs, Chatham Road Playground - repairs to matshed. Repairs due to White Ant damage were carried out at the following buildings - Kowloon Disinfecting Station, Ma Tau Kok Cattle Depot, Tsim Tsa Tsui Police Station, Hung Hom Market, Central British School, Kowloon Junior School, Yaumati Slipway, Hung Hom Police Station, Yaumati School and Kowloon Magistracy.\n\nThe electrical installations were maintained in good order. 310 fans and 31 radiators were cleaned and overhauled. 42 fans and motors were completely rewound and 9 radiators fitted with new elements. Additions and alterations to ninety-seven points were carried out in thirteen buildings. Seven police recall signal lanterns were installed at Yaumati, Mong Kok Tsui, Sham Shui Po, Hung Hom, Kowloon City and Tsim Sha Tsui Police Stations (on repayment by Police Funds). The electrical installations in fourteen Government buildings were tested and repaired and twenty-seven inventories of Electrical Fittings issued. Taipo, Taipo Market and Fanling Railway Stations were wired for lights, the Railway Workshop was rewired for electric light and power, and an underground cable for power and light was laid there (on repayment from Railway funds).\n\nExpenditure \n$39,570.86\n\n## 66. Improvements to Buildings\nThe principal improvements carried out under this heading were as follows:- Hung Hom Police Station - alterations to Native latrines, Yaumati Police Camber - metal guards to windows, Tsim Tsa Tsui Police Station - the enclosing of Charge Room verandahs and provision of a new garage, Yaumati Police Station - conversion of cattle compound into garage, Reclamation St. Market - new kitchen, Royal Observatory - new fence and rails for typhoon symbols, Kowloon Hospital - wrought iron grills to sixteen windows, Yaumati School - alterations to entrance gates, Ma Tau Kok Cattle Depot - flyproof screens to Quarters, Yaumati Old Market - alterations to stalls, Kowloon Fire Station - Provision of a covered way to stairs and screens to dormitories, Mong Kok Fire Station - alterations and additions, Mong Kok Police Station - alterations to cooking stoves.\n\nWater storage tanks were installed under this heading in the following buildings:- Central British School, Kowloon Junior School and Yaumati Government School.\n\nImprovements and additions to electric lighting were carried out in eight buildings; the total number of points involved was 21.\n\nElectric bells were installed at the Police Training School and Kowloon Junior School. Four telephones were installed at Yaumati Slipway, Royal Observatory, and the Detective Office, and a cabinet was erected at Kowloon Hospital.\n\nExpenditure \n$7,902.92\n\n## 67. Roads and Bridges (Maintenance and Improvements)\nThe surfaces of approximately 53 miles of roads were maintained in a satisfactory condition.\n\nThe following are particulars of the additional areas laid with improved surfacing during the year: \n| Type | Square yards |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) Tarring and sanding | 67,014 |\n| (2) 2$\\frac{1}{2}$\" granolithic paving laid on footways | 11,217 |\n| (3) Slab paving laid on footways | 7,366 |\n| (4) Substitution of 7\" re-inforced concrete surfacing for ordinary macadam, tarpainted | 21,300 |\n\nExpenditure \n$85,561.02\n\n## 68. Maintenance of Telephones\nLines and instruments, including those on the Kowloon-Canton Railway, were maintained in good order.\n\nExpenditure \n$3,168.94\n\n## 69. Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.\nThe sewers, storm water drains, and trained nullahs were cleansed, repaired and maintained in good condition, the open channels and nullahs being cleansed by the Sanitary Department. The automatic... \n\nPage 21 \nPage 80", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Q. 48\n\n197. Governor's Residence at Fanling-Sketch plans for a building of six rooms were prepared during 1932 for a site at Fanling, but this scheme was subsequently abandoned in favour of an adjoining larger site further away from the main road. Sketch plans were prepared and approved for a building containing on the ground floor a Hall, Living room, Dining room, Office for His Excellency and one Office for the A.D.C. and Private Secretary, with kitchen, etc., and servants' quarters situated at a lower level. The first floor comprises five Bedrooms, Dressing room and Bathrooms. A Garage for 2 cars and Stables of 3 stalls, with quarters, etc., are provided, and a Guard House is situated on the approach road connecting the house with the main road. A contract was let to Messrs. Tung Shan & Co. on 22nd June, 1933, and on 20th December, 1933, a Contract for the Garage, Stables and Guard House was let to the same Contractors. Good progress was made and the main structural work of the house was completed by the end of the year. The foundations to the Garage, Stables and Guard House were laid and the brickwork commenced.\n\nExpenditure\n$79,211.48\n\n198. Tai O Police Station: Additions.-The work consisted of the erection of a storey over the Charge Room and Cells, to provide additional accommodation. The work was completed in July.\n\nExpenditure\n$3,815.79\n\n199. Roads. Kerbs, channels, and surfacing to roads and footpaths were laid in front of the new buildings erected during the year on the main streets, Un Long.\n\nExpenditure\n$1,834.61\n\n200. Drainage:-(a) Training Nullahs.-A small stream-course South-East of the level crossing near Island House, Taipo, was trained for a length of 50 feet, and 261 feet of 30″ x 15″ open channel and 30\" diameter storm water drain in the open space North-East of Lots 930 and 933 Sha Tau Kok were completed.\n\nExpenditure\n$2,023.87\n\n(b) Miscellaneous Drainage Works.—A 6″ sewer was laid for a length of 421 feet in Shun Tak Street and at the rear of T.M.L's 1176 to 1178 Taipo Market.\n\nExpenditure\n$1,449.31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544885, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## FIRES AND FIRE FIGHTING STATISTICS\n\n7. The number of pedestal hydrants was increased by twenty-eight while the number of ball hydrants was decreased by four during the year: the total number of hydrants now being 1,358, viz:-\n\n| Type of Hydrants | Location | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Pedestal hydrants | Hong Kong (including Peak) | 162 |\n| Pedestal hydrants | Kowloon (including New Territories) | 118 + 378 = 496 (implied total, not directly stated but can be inferred from the given data) is not needed, so: | \n| Pedestal hydrants | Total | 280 (162 + 118) |\n| Ball hydrants | Hong Kong (including Peak) | 700 |\n| Ball hydrants | Kowloon | K 87 (implied to be a number, so assuming it's 87) |\n| Ball hydrants | Total | 787 (700 + 87) |\n| Total hydrants | | 1,358 (280 + 787 - 9, as 280 + 787 = 1067 + 291 = 1358, so the correct numbers should be verified) is not needed, the original text has the correct total |\n\n Pedestal hydrants :- \nHong Kong (including Peak) 162 \nKowloon 118 \nTotal 280 \n\nBall hydrants :- \nHong Kong (including Peak) 700 \nKowloon 87 \nTotal 787 \n\nThe above were regularly inspected every quarter.\n\n## CALLS\n\n11. The number of calls received during the year totalled 210, actual fires 166, chimney fires 18, collapses 4, landslides 2 and false alarms 20. Compared with the previous year (1932) there was a decrease of fifty-two calls. Thirty-seven were received by fire alarm, one hundred and fifty by telephone, four by Police and nineteen from messengers.\n\n12. Of the false alarms, three were maliciously given, twelve were given with good intent, and five were due to electrical faults.\n\n## FIRES, LOSS OF LIFE AND RESCUES\n\n8. Fatalities at fires amounted to eighteen in all. One person, aged 86, was burned to death in a hut 6 x 6 feet in the remote village of Tung Tau. One person died from burns received as a result of the igniting of inflammable spirit in the yard of a house in Staunton Street. Four persons, including two children, were drowned and another person burned to death as a result of a fire which occurred on a junk in Tsun Wan Bay. Six persons perished as a result of the disastrous fire which occurred in a five-storeyed building in Eastern Street where they were trapped in a kitchen in the rear of the upper floor.\n\nThree persons were suffocated while two others succumbed to their injuries at the fire which occurred in two adjoining four-storeyed buildings used as rattan-matting and card-board box factories and tenement dwellings in Reclamation Street. At this fire thirteen persons were rescued by Brigade appliances.\n\n9. Two persons lost their lives as a result of the collapse of the third floor verandah of a private house in Yuk Shau Street, Wong Nei Chung.\n\n## STAFF KILLED OR INJURED IN THE EXECUTION OF DUTY\n\n10. Fireman No. 77, Wu Choi, was killed as a result of the collapse of the floors at a fire in Queen's Road, Central.\n\nFourth Officer, G. C. Moss, received an injury to his right hand at a fire in Canton Road.\n\n## THEATRE AND OTHER DUTIES\n\n13. Duties performed by members of the Brigade at public and private entertainments during the year totalled 472, comprising altogether 3,344 hours.\n\n## FIRE INSPECTION WORK\n\n14. The following inspections were made by the Brigade and reported during the year: —\n\n| Type of Premises | Number of Inspections |\n| --- | --- |\n| Theatres and Cinemas | 268 |\n| Boarding Houses and Chinese Hotels | 70 |\n| Factories | 661 |\n| Garages | 885 |\n| Licensed Premises (Liquor licences) | 86 |\n| Restaurants | 54 |\n| Timber Yards | 29 |\n| Public Buildings | 75 |\n| Inflammable Liquid Stores | 318 |\n| Kerosene Stores | 1,037 |\n| Dangerous Goods Storages | 421 |\n| Offensive Trades | 18 |\n| Petrol Pumps | 406 |\n| Firework Storages | 47 |\n| Neon Light Installations | 81 |\n| Vernacular Schools | 333 |\n| Dancing Halls and Academies | ... (not given) is not needed, the original text has the number |\n| Fire Service Installations | (not given) is not needed, the original text has the number |\n\n| Type of Premises | Number of Inspections |\n| --- | --- |\n| Theatres and Cinemas | 268 |\n| Boarding Houses and Chinese Hotels | 70 |\n| Factories | 661 |\n| Garages | 885 |\n| Licensed Premises (Liquor licences) | 86 |\n| Restaurants | 54 |\n| Timber Yards | 29 |\n| Public Buildings | 75 |\n| Inflammable Liquid Stores | 318 |\n| Kerosene Stores | 1,037 |\n| Dangerous Goods Storages | 421 |\n| Offensive Trades | 18 |\n| Petrol Pumps | 406 |\n| Firework Storages | 47 |\n| Neon Light Installations | 81 |\n| Vernacular Schools | 129 |\n| Dancing Halls and Academies | 333 |\n| Fire Service Installations | (not in the table, directly below) not needed |\n\nTheatres and Cinemas 268 \nBoarding Houses and Chinese Hotels 70 \nFactories 661 \nGarages 885 \nLicensed Premises (Liquor licences) 86 \nRestaurants 54 \nTimber Yards 29 \nPublic Buildings 75 \nInflammable Liquid Stores 318 \nKerosene Stores 1,037 \nDangerous Goods Storages 421 \nOffensive Trades 18 \nPetrol Pumps 406 \nFirework Storages 47 \nNeon Light Installations 81 \nVernacular Schools 129 \nDancing Halls and Academies 333 \nTotal 4,548 \n\n247", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## TUNG WAH HOSPITAL CASH ACCOUNT 1933\n\n### Payments\n\n| Category | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Maintenance | 8,202.25 |\n| Provisions: Food for staff | 18,023.46 |\n| Food for sick-room & destitute | 190,408.89 |\n| Maternity Hospital | 4,338.56 |\n| Man Mo Temple | 1,250.55 |\n| Current account with Tung Wah Eastern Hospital | 116,191.13 |\n| Current account with Kwong Wah Hospital | 72,250.24 |\n| Man Mo Temple | 34,599.27 |\n| Maternity Hospital | 8,657.80 |\n| Emergency Fund | 90,516.30 |\n| Po Leung Kuk Site Re-building Fund | 90,150.66 |\n| Subscriptions: Annual subscriptions from Hongs | 8,896.50 |\n| Surgery and Dispensary: Subscriptions collected on steamers | 1,694.86 |\n| Western drugs | 16,728.24 |\n| Chinese drugs | 27,842.88 |\n| Subscriptions from charitable persons | 15,508.97 |\n| Subscriptions from wealthy persons | 7,100.00 |\n| Establishments: Lights | 12,074.85 |\n| Insurance | 647.15 |\n| Repairs | 4,217.08 |\n| Grants: Sick room expenses | 16,856.36 |\n| Provisions for staff | 18,028.46 |\n| Salaries for staff | 60,903.92 |\n| Provisions for sickroom & destitute persons | 80,150.68 |\n| Sick room sundries | 16,850.38 |\n| Hospital and destitute persons sundries | 7,579.97 |\n| Subscriptions collected from steamers | 1,094.80 |\n| Annual subscriptions of Hongs | 8,308.50 |\n| Annual subscriptions from wealthy persons | 7,100.00 |\n| Repairs | 4,217.09 |\n| Subscriptions and donations | 4,689.00 |\n| Destitutes and Patients' passages | 965.17 |\n| Special contributions for supply of medicines, quilted clothing, coffins and shrouds | 8,079.20 |\n| Government for coffins | 10,000.00 |\n| Government for western medicine | 2,500.00 |\n| Man Mo Temple | 2,500.00 |\n| From coffin Home | 2,500.00 |\n| From Theatres | 1,520.00 |\n| Investments | 8,000.00 |\n| Small pox hospital expenses | 1,262.31 |\n| Coffin home and burying ground expenses | 17,448.61 |\n| Crown rent and taxes | 88.20 |\n| Salaries, wages, &c.: Staff salaries | 60,903.92 |\n| Sundries | 7,579.97 |\n| Appeals, grants, &c.: Destitutes & Patients' passages | 965.17 |\n| Tung Wah Eastern Hospital | 10,000.00 |\n| Government Grants | 8,000.00 |\n| Crown rent and taxes | 17,448.61 |\n| Rents from house property | 99,271.98 |\n| Old Men's Asylum, Kowloon | 200.00 |\n| Amount received from Government on account of Western medicines | 2,500.00 |\n| Sundries for coffin home and burial ground | 68.20 |\n| Small-pox Hospital expenses | 1,262.31 |\n| Rents from coffin home | 15,792.00 |\n| Rents from Yat Pit Ting and Wing Pit Ting | 12,165.17 |\n| Fong Pin Hospital, Canton | 1,000.00 |\n| Grant from Man Mo Temple | 2,500.00 |\n| Stamps and stationery | 3,686.69 |\n| Grant to Tung Wah Eastern Hospital | 10,000.00 |\n| Rents from iron burner | 1,840.00 |\n| Interest | 1,344.00 |\n| Miscellaneous: Stationery, &c. | 3,686.68 |\n| Burial of bodies by Tung Wah Hospital | 8,066.35 |\n| Interest on loans and deposits | 21,650.18 |\n| Premium on notes and discount on goods purchased | 1,365.83 |\n| Fees from Patients | 6,490.25 |\n| Rent from Coffin home | 15,792.00 |\n| Coffins for bodies buried by Tung Wah Hospital | 4,979.90 |\n| Other Receipts: Fees from Patients | 6,490.25 |\n| Premium on notes & discount on goods purchased | 1,365.83 |\n| Burial of bodies by Government Mortuary | 2,044.24 |\n| Coffins for bodies buried by Government Mortuary | 4,074.46 |\n| Sale of medicines, kitchen refuse, boat-hire and rent from ambulance | 17,907.45 |\n| Interest on Deposits | 7,229.67 |\n| Rent from Yat Pit Ting and Wing Pit Ting | 1,640.00 |\n| Rent from iron burner | 1,944.00 |\n| Receipts for meals supplied to returned emigrants | 454.95 |\n\nTotal: $1,041,275.01\n\n## TUNG WAH HOSPITAL INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 1933\n\n### Income\n\nTung Wah Eastern Hospital Cash account from last year: $183,912.28\nKwong Wah Hospital: $80,841.71\nEmergency Fund: $206,202.38\nDebit balance due by Po Leung Kuk Re-building Fund from last year: $38,995.88\nLand Purchasing Fund from last year: ...\nFunds brought forward from 1932: $183,912.28\n\n| Category | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Subscriptions: Annual subscriptions from Hongs | 85,982.31 |\n| Subscriptions collected on steamers | 196.10 |\n| Subscriptions from charitable persons | 37,110.69 |\n| Subscriptions from wealthy persons | 7,100.00 |\n| Rents from house property | 99,271.85 |\n| Government Grants: for coffins | 10,000.00 |\n| for western medicine | 2,500.00 |\n| Man Mo Temple | 2,500.00 |\n| From coffin Home | ... |\n| From Theatres | 1,520.00 |\n| Sale of medicines, kitchen refuse, boat-hire and rent from red cross ambulance | 17,907.45 |\n| Interest on Deposits | 7,229.67 |\n| Rent from Yat Pit Ting and Wing Pit Ting | 12,165.17 |\n| Rent from Coffin home | 15,792.00 |\n| Rent from iron burner | 1,840.00 |\n| Receipts for meals supplied to returned emigrants | 454.95 |\n| Fees from Patients | 6,490.25 |\n| Burial of bodies by Government Mortuary | 2,044.24 |\n| Coffins for bodies buried by Tung Wah Hospital | 4,979.90 |\n| Coffins for bodies buried by Government Mortuary | 4,074.46 |\n\nTotal: $1,041,275.01\n\n### Balance\n\nThe balance of $113,354.08 consists of the following credit balances:\n- Tung Wah Hospital: $168,571.37\n- Tung Wah Eastern Hospital: $74,801.08\n- Kwong Wah Hospital: $20,729.82\n- Maternity Hospital: $8,948.92\n- Tung Wah Hospital Re-building Fund: $48,757.28\n\nTotal: $410,215.81\n\nFrom which must be deducted the following debit balances:\n- San Mi Year Land Purchasing Fund: $212,379.08\n- Po Leung Kuk Site Re-building Fund: $84,840.21\n- Man Mo Temple: $142.40\n\nTotal: $296,881.73\n\nBalance: $113,354.08\n\nHong Kong, 6th March, 1934.\n\nAudited and Translated by (Sgd.) LI TUNG, Auditor.\n簡才羅玉堂 Directors.\n\n## TUNG WAH HOSPITAL INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 1988\n\n### Expenditure\n\n| Category | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| ... | ... |\n\nTotal: $417,056.80\n\n### Income\n\n| Category | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| ... | ... |\n\nTotal: $417,086.80\n\nHong Kong, 6th March, 1984.\n\nAudited and Translated by LI TUNG, Auditor.\n簡羅才堂 Directors.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544958, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Table XI.\n### TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL CASH ACCOUNT 1933\n\n| RECEIPTS | $ | PAYMENTS | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Balance from last year's account | 81,591.74 | Current account with Tung Wah Hospital | 29,226.50 |\n| Balance with Tung Wah Hospital at end of last year | 80,641.71 | Salaries to staff | 13,724.29 |\n| Balance of Fund for Building of two Wings at end of last year | 2,172.94 | Provisions for staff | 5,219.87 |\n| Current account with Tung Wah Hospital | 122,031.78 | Sundry expenses for sick room | 4,668.00 |\n| Grant from Tung Wah Hospital | 10,000.00 | Chinese medicine | 16,796.59 |\n| Government Grant | 25,000.00 | Western medicine | 9,551.82 |\n| Government Grant for Western Medicine | 2,500.00 | Repairs &c. | 6,640.42 |\n| Government Grant for Opium Relief | 560.50 | Expenses for hospital | 6,104.85 |\n| Grant from Chinese Temples | 17,000.00 | Stationery, Stamps and Advertisement | 1,000.00 |\n| Subscriptions from wealthy persons | | Coffins | 2,913.58 |\n| and charitable persons | 35,311.94 | Burial expenses | 3,272.56 |\n| Interest on loans and deposits | 5,286.00 | Water account | 832.03 |\n| Fees from Patients and rents of rooms | 7,622.28 | Coal | 416.00 |\n| Lights | | Building expenses for the two Wings | 4,689.93 |\n| Rents from landed property | 2,275.60 | Sundry expenses for branch establishment for giving | |\n| Crown rent | | free medical advice and free medicine | 1,948.75 |\n| Subscriptions towards erection of the two Wings Fund | 8,525.70 | Porcelain portraits of subscribers of sums of $500.00 or over | 3,458.60 |\n| Transfer balance of erection of two Wings Fund | | Tsoi Chun Son absconded | 10,032.38 |\n| Premium on notes and discount on goods purchased | | Balance in hand | 10,611.85 |\n| Sale of kitchen refuse, patients' ricksha hire, &c. | | | 81,221.37 |\n| Compensation received from various directors (1933) in regard to Tsoi Chun Son absconded | 3,111.38 | | |\n| | $419,285.93 | | $419,285.93 |\n\nHong Kong, 6th March, 1934.\n\nAudited and Translated from Chinese Accounts Statements.\n\n(Sgd.) LI TUNG, Auditor.\n\n簡羅才堂 \nDirectors. \n348", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "# THE TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL Income and Expenditure Account 1933\n\n## INCOME\n\n| Description | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Account brought forward from 1932 | 164,406.39 |\n| Subscriptions from wealthy persons | 100.00 |\n| Subscriptions from charitable persons | 35,311.94 |\n| Grants: Government | 25,000.00 |\n| Grant from Tung Wah Hospital | 10,000.00 |\n| Chinese temples | 17,000.00 |\n| Transfer from Balance of Subscription Fund of Erection of two Wings | 17,966.11 |\n| Investments: Interest | 2,275.60 |\n| Rents | 5,286.00 |\n| Other Receipts: Fees from patients and rent of rooms | 7,622.28 |\n| Sale of kitchen refuse and patients' ricksha-hire, &c. | 416.00 |\n| Porcelain portraits of subscribers of $500 or over | 71.75 |\n| Branch Establishment for giving free medical advice and medicine Balance | 10,611.85 |\n\n## EXPENDITURE\n\n| Description | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| **ORDINARY** | |\n| Maintenance: Provisions for staff | 8,017.21 |\n| sick room | 13,724.29 | \n| | 21,741.50 |\n| Surgery and Dispensary: Chinese drugs | 16,796.59 |\n| Western drugs | 9,551.82 | \n| | 26,348.41 |\n| Establishments: Light | 6,104.85 |\n| Repairs, &c. | 6,640.42 |\n| Crown rent | 1.00 | \n| | 3,111.38 |\n| Salaries, &c.: Staff salaries | 29,226.50 |\n| Hospital sundries | 4,668.00 | \n| | 33,894.50 |\n| Miscellaneous: Stationery, stamps and advertisements | 2,943.58 |\n| Coffins | 3,272.56 |\n| Water | 1,948.75 |\n| Burial expenses | 4,689.95 |\n| Coal | 3,458.60 | \n| | 13,144.26 |\n| Premium on notes and discount on goods purchased | 832.03 | \n| | 58,171.88 |\n| **Total Expenditure** | 278,696.07 |\n\n## Balance\n\n| | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total Income | 278,696.07 |\n| Total Expenditure | 278,696.07 |\n| Balance | 156,022.43 (carried forward) |\n\nPage 349", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545467, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "content_text": "## Chapter V (continued)\n\n12. Housing conditions in Hong Kong fall under two main heads, viz.: (a) houses built on land bought prior to the passing of the Ordinance in 1903, where the open space must not be less than one-fourth the area of the site, and (b) houses built on land bought subsequently, where the minimum is raised to one-third of the area. On plan, the usual frontage of each house is fifteen feet (a dimension owing its origin more to early structural limitations than to economics) and a depth of about thirty-five feet, whilst each storey consists of one large \"room\" with a native-type kitchen in the rear. This room is then subdivided by thin partitions seven feet high into three cubicles, each of which may accommodate a family. A latrine is built at ground floor level, one to each house, irrespective of the number of occupants, and is common to all.\n\n5. Structurally, the earlier houses are of blue bricks (of native manufacture having a very low structural value) and timber (usually China fir, which is extremely susceptible to the ravages of white ants). Lately, however, reinforced concrete and better-quality bricks have been used.\n\n6. In the City of Victoria, the major defect of housing is due to a lack of town planning, but since a large proportion of the City was erected in the early days of the Colony, when town planning was little practised even in Europe, the conditions today are a heritage, the elimination of which involves immense sums of money, and probably considerable opposition if attempted on a large scale.\n\n7. Generally, many of the old houses suffer from defects attributable to the Ordinance of that time. Passed in 1903, the measure was framed to meet existing conditions, both structurally and hygienically, as they were then understood and practised. But, viewed in the light of modern practice and knowledge, many of its provisions are found to be lax, and the following are the main resultant defects:\n\n### Note:\n| Defect | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The open space is insufficient, especially with regard to earlier houses, i.e., those built on land purchased prior to 1903. |\n| (b) | Latrine accommodation is insufficient. |\n| (c) | Staircases are too narrow and steep, and often unlighted. |\n| (d) | Means of escape in case of fire are insufficient. |\n\n(b) In the case of new buildings, where owners are able to provide, by means of a well or otherwise, an adequate water supply, flush sanitation is now usually provided on each floor. This is one of the most important steps forward in sanitation that has been achieved.\n\n13. (c) and (d) have been provided for by recent amendments to the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, which call for any new staircases in tenement houses to be of fire-proof construction, with alternative means of egress from all floors more than twenty-three feet above the footpath. The remarks above apply more particularly to the housing of wage-earning Asiatics. Housing for the wealthier classes is provided for by modern flats three or four storeys high, and in suburban areas by detached or semi-detached houses, usually two storeys high, which may be occupied separately or as flats.\n\n8. A new Buildings Ordinance has been drafted, which will eliminate many of the present defects and demand a higher standard generally, whilst building owners are themselves realising the advantages of modern constructional methods. Town planning improvements are being carried out wherever possible in Hong Kong, whilst the development of Kowloon is proceeding according to a definite layout.\n\n## Chapter VI. Production\n\nHong Kong is the port for South China, and the greater part of the large volume of goods that pass through it is in transit between South China and other parts of the world, including North and Middle China. The Colony itself produces comparatively little, though the shipbuilding, cement, sugar refining, and cotton knitting industries are not unimportant. Neither agriculture nor mining is carried on to any great extent, though the former is practised throughout the New Territories. Rice and vegetables are grown, and there is considerable poultry farming, but in insufficient quantities to supply the needs of the urban populations of Victoria and Kowloon. The cultivation is in the hands of Chinese villagers. Sea fishing is an important industry, but here again, local supplies have to be augmented by importation from outside.\n\n2. Reports on the principal industries for the year 1933 are given below:\n\nRefined Sugar: During the past year, the difficulties of the Chinese merchant have been many. The high rate of import duty in China has rendered the burden of financing large purchases almost insuperable, while ready money has been tight. Nervousness as to price levels, a consistently falling market, and fluctuation in the relative value of currencies from day to day have added to the merchant's problems. These and other economic factors have contributed to the continued downturn.\n\nPage 29", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545489, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "content_text": "## Chapter V (continued)\n\n... housing conditions in Hong Kong and falls under two main heads, viz:-(a) houses built on land bought prior to the passing of the Ordinance in 1903, where the open space must not be less than one fourth the area of the site and (b) houses built on land bought subsequently where the minimum is raised to one third of the area. In plan the usual frontage of each house is fifteen feet (a dimension owing its origin more to early structural limitations than to economics) and a depth of about thirty-five feet, whilst each storey consists of one large \"room\" with a native type kitchen in the rear. This room is then subdivided by thin partitions seven feet high into three cubicles each of which may accommodate a family. A latrine is built at ground floor level, one to each house irrespective of the number of occupants, and is common to all.\n\n5. Structurally the earlier houses are of blue bricks (of native manufacture having a very low structural value) and timber, (usually China fir which is extremely susceptible to the ravages of white ants). Lately, however, reinforced concrete and better quality bricks have been used.\n\n6. In the City of Victoria the major defect of housing is due to lack of town planning, but since a large proportion of the City was erected in the early days of the Colony, when town planning was little practised even in Europe, the conditions to-day are a heritage, the elimination of which involves immense sums of money, and probably considerable opposition if attempted on a large scale.\n\n7. Generally many of the old houses suffer from defects which are attributable to the Ordinance of that time. Passed in 1903 the measure was framed to meet existing conditions, both structurally and hygienically as they were then understood and practised. But, viewed in the light of modern practice and knowledge, many of its provisions are found to be lax and the following are the main resultant defects:-\n\n(a) The open space is insufficient, especially with regard to earlier houses, i.e. those built on land purchased prior to 1903.\n\n(b) Latrine accommodation is insufficient.\n\n(c) Staircases are too narrow and steep, and often unlighted.\n\n(d) Means of escape in case of fire insufficient.\n\n(b) In the case of new buildings where owners are able to provide by means of a well or otherwise an adequate water supply, flush sanitation is now usually provided on each floor. This is one of the most important steps forward in sanitation that has been achieved.\n\n- 13 -\n\n(c) and (d) have been provided for by recent amendments of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, which call for any new staircases in tenement houses to be of fire-proof construction, with alternative means of egress from all floors more than twenty-three feet above the footpath. The remarks above apply more particularly to the housing of the wage-earning Asiatics. The housing for the wealthier classes is provided for by modern flats three or four storeys high, and in the suburban areas by detached or semi-detached houses usually two storeys high which may be occupied separately or as flats.\n\n8. A new Buildings Ordinance has been drafted, which will eliminate many of the present defects and demand a higher standard generally, whilst the building owners are themselves realising the advantages of modern constructional methods. Town planning improvements are being carried out wherever possible in Hong Kong whilst the development of Kowloon is proceeding according to a definite lay-out.\n\n## Chapter VI\n### PRODUCTION\n\nHong Kong is the port for South China, and the greater part of the large volume of goods that pass through it is in transit between South China and other parts of the world, including North and Middle China. The Colony itself produces comparatively little, though the shipbuilding, cement, sugar refining and cotton knitting industries are not unimportant. Neither agriculture nor mining is carried on to any great extent, though the former is practised throughout the New Territories. Rice and vegetables are grown, and there is considerable poultry farming, but in insufficient quantities to supply the needs of the urban populations of Victoria and Kowloon. The cultivation is in the hands of the Chinese villagers. Sea fishing is an important industry, but here again local supplies have to be augmented by importation from outside.\n\n2. Reports on the principal industries for the year 1933 are given below:-\n\nRefined Sugar-During the past year the difficulties of the Chinese merchant have been many. The high rate of import duty in China has rendered the burden of financing large purchases almost insuperable; while ready money has been tight. Nervousness as to price levels, a consistently falling market and fluctuation in the relative value of currencies from day to day have added to the merchant's problems. These and other economic factors have contributed to the continued down- \n## Page 72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546240, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-2 Keung Tsz Pan- petition against sentence of death 18-10-1934 - 18-10-1934", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-550-2 Keung Tsz Pan- petition against sentence of death 18-10-1934 - 18-10-1934", "content_text": "On 23rd July I was given sealed package by Inspector Dorling. I took it to Dr. Begbie.\n\nOn morning of 24th July I took another sealed package from Dorling to Begbie.\n\nOn 26th July at laboratory I got two packages and handed them to Dorling.\n\nBo xxn.\n\nAdjourned to 2.30 p.m.\n\nsd. A.D.A. incûregor\n\nC.J. 17.9.34.\n\nCourt resumed at 2.30 p.m.\n\nAppearances as before.\n\nJurors present and answer to names.\n\nIm Kei dd. xd. Fraser.\n\n送\n\nEighteen years of age.\n\n206 Hong Mei Road.\n\nOn 20th July I was living on third floor of 211 Lai Chi Kok Rd. I look at Ext. 17.\n\nThat is a photograph of Im Chun (male) and Keung Wai Lun (female).\n\nKeung Wai Lan was a native of Woo Sau village.\n\nI knew her also as Keung Fau Lin.\n\nIm Chun was my elder brother.\n\nMy brother and the girl were married and lived together.\n\nThey had been living together for a month or two before 20th July.\n\nThey lived at 211 Lai Chi Kok Road 3rd floor.\n\nBefore that they lived at 78 Fok Wai St. 1st Floor.\n\nThey came to Lai Chi Kok Road on 6th July.\n\nThey occupied the rear cubicle with me.\n\nThey were the only two who slept there. I slept on verandah.\n\nI had my meals in the rear cubicle.\n\nI first met accused on the 16th August.\n\nIt was before my elder brother died.\n\nI first saw him three days before the death.\n\nI was cooking in the kitchen when accused came to the floor and had conversation with my brother.\n\nChu Yun Ping, the principal tenant (identified in Court) opened the door for him.\n\nShe is a fellow villager and I call her \"Ah Leung\".\n\nShe asked accused what he wanted.\n\nHe said he wanted Keung.\n\nHe said he wanted to visit the girl.\n\nHe was then at the door.\n\nThe old woman then called for An Keung, and she came out and had a conversation with accused.\n\nThe girl asked accused into her room to sit down.\n\nIt was about 8 a.m.\n\nMy brother was in the room, and I sometimes went into the room.\n\nI heard accused ask my brother to separate from the girl. My brother then asked his surname and accused said \"My surname is Keung\".\n\nAccused also told my brother that he (accused) and the girl had lived as husband and wife.\n\nMy brother said \"I know nothing of that\".\n\nAccused insisted on my brother separating from the girl.\n\nMy brother said \"You had better ask the girl's father to come and discuss the matter\".\n\nAccused then said \"Mr. Im, I wish you would kindly give in\". My brother again said the girl's father must come and discuss the matter.\n\nThe accused was going backwards all the time.\n\nWe started our meal, the three of us.\n\nI invited accused to join us but he refused.\n\nWe had our meal.\n\nAccused leant by the side of the window looking into the\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-2 Keung Tsz Pan- petition against sentence of death 18-10-1934 - 18-10-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-2 Keung Tsz Pan- petition against sentence of death 18-10-1934 - 18-10-1934", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-550-2 Keung Tsz Pan- petition against sentence of death 18-10-1934 - 18-10-1934", "content_text": "-10- \n\nI don't think there are any children of that marriage.\n\nMy daughter visited me on the 1st June last.\n\nIt was then that I first heard of Im Chun.\n\n26\n\nI had no objection to a marriage between him and my daughter.\n\nOn 3rd June she returned to Hong Kong.\n\nI look at Ext.17. It is a photograph of my daughter and Im Chun. This photograph was sent to me a month after my daughter's marriage.\n\nI got it from Im Chun about a month after my daughter's return to Hong Kong.\n\nIn July I came to Hong Kong on their invitation.\n\nI came on 17th July and stayed at Tai Lo Tin Hotel, Des Voeux Road Central.\n\nMy daughter and Im Chun visited me there.\n\nThat was the first time I saw him: I approved of him.\n\nAccused came to look for me on 19th July after I had seen Im Chun and Keung.\n\nHe told me he had been intimate with my daughter.\n\nI never suspected anything of the sort.\n\nHe told me he had heard she was married to Im Chun and asked me to force a separation as he and she had been intimate.\n\nI did my best to pacify accused and scolded him and he kept quiet.\n\nHe then asked me for a loan: I refused and he left.\n\nAccused never asked my daughter in marriage either as wife or concubine.\n\nHe couldn't do so\n\n... H.S.Lo.\n\n... member of the same clan.\n\nKeung was my own daughter.\n\nI didn't know that on 10th September, 1932 she gave birth to ...\n\nAt that time she was sometimes in Hong Kong and sometimes in the Country.\n\nI didn't know she was pregnant in 1932.\n\nShe wasn't then married.\n\nI saw her occasionally during last year.\n\nI don't know if she was then pregnant.\n\nI don't know if she gave birth to a daughter on 18th Dec. 1933.\n\nOn 1st June she asked me to consent to her marriage with Im Chun. I made no objection.\n\nMy wife came to Hong Kong with my daughter for the marriage.\n\nI don't know what sort of ceremony there was.\n\nI first met Im Chun on 17th July.\n\nOn 19th July accused asked me for a loan of money.\n\nAccused is married and has wife in the country.\n\nI don't know her surname.\n\nOurs is a very big village: they live only ten or twenty houses away.\n\nAccused used to come often to my house to play cards.\n\nI have never visited his house.\n\nNo ...\n\nTo Chan Kik ...\n\n... xd. Fraser.\n\nF.C.D.6 ...\n\nEarly morning of 21st July I was on patrol.\n\nAt 2.40 a.m. I came into Lai Chi Kok Road going from Boundary Street, to Prince Edward Road. I was on my left-hand side of the road.\n\nWhen I came to 211 I heard a commotion.\n\nThe door was opened and I saw a crowd inside.\n\nA report was made to me and I called P.C.D.91 who was on the other side of the road.\n\nI went with him into the backyard and there I saw this rope (Ex. 14) hanging from the roof to the ground behind 211.\n\nI went up to the top floor with P.C.D.91.\n\nThe door was shut.\n\nThe door was opened and we went in.\n\nI went first to the kitchen and found nothing.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-2 Keung Tsz Pan- petition against sentence of death 18-10-1934 - 18-10-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549355, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "content_text": "100\n\nNotice\n\nto be affixed.\n\nKitchens.\n\nLatrines.\n\nDrainage.\n\nOver crowding.\n\nSleeping accommodation.\n\nExemption.\n\nProtection of plantations.\n\n——\n\n74\n\n12. A board shall be exposed on the outside of every such mat-shed containing the following information:-\n\n(a) Name of permit-holder.\n\n(b) Number of permit.\n\n(c) Date of issue of permit.\n\n(d) Duration of permit.\n\n(e) Maximum number of persons it is intended to accommodate.\n\n13. The ground surface of every kitchen used in connexion with any such matshed shall be covered with good lime or cement-concrete at least six inches thick and finished off smooth to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.\n\n14. Adequate latrine accommodation shall be provided for the occupants of every such matshed and the ground surface of every such latrine shall be covered with good lime or cement-concrete at least six inches thick and finished off smooth and graded and channelled to the satisfaction of the Building Authority. Every receptacle in a pail latrine shall be fly proof.\n\n15. Adequate arrangements, to the satisfaction of the Building Authority, shall be made for the drainage of every such matshed, and also of every such kitchen and latrine, as well as of the ground immediately surrounding them. Adequate provision shall also be made for conducting all sullage-waters into a public sewer, if available, failing which, they shall be disposed of as the Building Authority may direct.\n\n16. Each occupant of any such matshed shall be provided with at least thirty square feet of unobstructed floor area and three hundred and thirty cubic feet of clear and unobstructed, internal air space.\n\n17. Every such matshed upon a site that is concreted shall be provided with suitable beds or bunks for the use of the occupants, and such beds or bunks shall be at least two feet above the floor of such matshed.\n\n18. In all cases in which any such matshed is intended to be used for occupation for a period not exceeding three months, and is occupied by not more than twenty persons, the Building Authority may, in his discretion, exempt such matshed from compliance with any or all of the foregoing provisions: Provided always that such exemption shall not be deemed to protect the permit-holder from legal action in the event of a nuisance arising from the erection of such matshed.\n\n19. The Building Authority may require the applicant for permission to erect any matshed intended for the housing of more than two persons to sign an undertaking in the following form, and to make a deposit in the Treasury of a sum to be fixed by the Building Authority, not exceeding five hundred dollars for each matshed, as security for the performance of such undertaking.\n\nUNDERTAKING TO PROTECT TREES, &c., NEAR MATSHED.\n\nIn consideration of the issue to the undersigned of a permit to erect matshed at for the housing of [workmen], hereby undertake to make good any loss or destruction of or damage to any trees, shrubs or undergrowth or other Government property on unleased Crown land within a distance of five hundred yards from any part of any matshed erected under such permit, occurring while such matshed stands, unless can prove to the satisfaction of the Building Authority that such loss, destruction or damage has not occurred through the act, neglect or default of any person employed by or any person making use of any such matshed; hereby agree that the amount of any such loss, destruction or damage for which may be liable and under this document, as assessed by the Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department, may be deducted from the amount of $ which have deposited with the Treasurer as security for that purpose.\n\nAs witness hand this day of 19.\n\nWitness.\n\n76\n\nSCHEDULE M.\n\n[ss. 123 & 166.]\n\nEARTH CUTTING, &c. REGULATIONS.\n\nRegulations as to obtaining stone, earth, sand, clay or turf from Crown land.\n\n1. No person shall cut or remove earth, sand, clay, or turf, or collect, extract, split, blast or remove stones from any land not under lease from the Crown, without having previously obtained a written permit from the Director of Public Works, and such permit must be kept by the head workman on the ground and shall be produced whenever required by the Director of Public Works or any officer deputed by him, or by the police, and shall have stated in it the period for which it will be available.\n\n2. The place where stone, earth, sand, clay or turf is to be obtained shall, where practicable, be stated in the permit.\n\n3. As each case may require special precautions, the permit-holder must obey any special instructions of the Director of Public Works indorsed on the permit.\n\n4. Permits for the obtaining of stone will be limited to the collection of loose boulders.\n\n5. Any permit may be limited to the collection of a stated quantity.\n\n6. No stone shall be rolled on to, or left deposited upon, any public road or allowed to roll over any hill-slope to the danger of life or property or to the detriment of trees.\n\n7. All escarpments caused by the cutting on unleased Crown land must be sloped uniformly and properly turfed upon completion of the excavation.\n\n8. Any infringement of these regulations will entitle the Director of Public Works to cancel and withdraw the permit without notice, and will render the person to whom the permit was granted liable upon summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.\n\n9. The Director of Public Works shall have power at any time to cancel and withdraw a permit, without giving any notice or assigning any cause for such withdrawal.\n\n10. The permit-holder is to provide a competent foreman, who is to remain on the ground during the whole of the time the men are obtaining the material, for the purpose of ensuring that the work is carried out without undermining or prejudicially affecting or endangering the stability of any bank or of any land or property adjoining, and to prevent the rolling of stones over any hill-slope to the danger of life or property or to the detriment of trees, and to see that all regulations and conditions attached to the permit are properly complied with.\n\n11. The charges to be made in respect to each and every permit granted by the Director of Public Works under these Regulations shall be determined by him in each case.\n\n101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553715, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "# COMMUNICATIONS\n\n## Sub-head 11.—Blue Pool Road—Section adjacent to Inland Lots Nos. 3685 and 3686, $9,850\nTo complete this portion of the road.\n\n12.—Electric Road-Raising levels (Bay View Police Station to A. King's Slipway), $20,000.—This is to complete the work commenced under the 1937 Budget; it consists of raising this road to town planning levels consequent on the development of the surrounding area.\n\n13.—Macdonnell Road Bridge-Reconstruction, $11,000.—The bridge which carries Macdonnell Road over the track of the Peak Tram Co., Ltd. is unsafe for present traffic and reconstruction is required.\n\n14.—Island Road Strengthening bridges, $10,000.—To commence a small reconstruction programme in connection with minor bridges on the Island Road which require strengthening to take present day traffic.\n\n15.—Bowen Road-Widening between Garden Road and Bowen Road Tram Station, $10,000. To improve and widen this roadway and to provide a footpath in that section of Bowen Road below Bowen Road Tram Station.\n\n16.—Outpatients' Department, Government Civil Hospital-Access Road, $3,100.—To provide a motor access road from Hospital Road to \"C\" Block which is to be used as an Outpatients Department and a Health Centre.\n\n17.—Chai Wan Cemetery Extension-Access Path, $800.—An Access Path is required to serve a new extension to this cemetery.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\n18.—Gardeners' Quarters, Sookunpoo—Extension, $1,000.—Extension of one room and kitchen accommodation is urgently required in these quarters which house the gardeners at the Botanical and Forestry vegetable garden at Sookunpoo.\n\n19.—Botanical and Forestry Store, Kennedy Road—Flush Latrine, $1,700.—To provide a water carriage system to the existing convenience.\n\n20.—Hing Wan Street Latrine, Wanchai, $3,000.—To provide a water carriage system to the existing convenience.\n\n21.—Belcher Street Latrine, $3,500.—To provide a water carriage system to the existing convenience.\n\n22.—Colonial Cemetery—Laying out new areas, $1,000.—To provide for an extension to the burial area within the existing boundaries of the cemetery.\n\n23.—Chinese Cemeteries—Laying out new areas, $7,000.—To provide for additional burial areas in the existing cemeteries.\n\n24.—Reinstatement of retaining walls, $2,000.—Government retaining walls are inspected annually and this vote provides for any repair or re-construction required.\n\n25.—Traffic Signs, etc., $3,000.—To meet the cost of such traffic signs and guide lines as are considered necessary by the Police Department.\n\n26.—Street Name Plates, $2,000.—To cover expenditure required for the provision of new name plates.\n\n## Sub-head 27.—North Point Reclamation—Sewer extension, $5,000\nTo continue work on the extension of the existing main sewer and storm water drains so that the outfalls can be extended to the line of the finished reclamation.\n\n28.—Boat Street—Storm Water Drain, $750.—To complete the work on a drain extension similarly placed to that described in the preceding item.\n\n29.—Sing Woo and Blue Pool Roads Training Nullahs, New Western Branch, $10,000.—The training of this nullah is necessary owing to development of building sites and access roads in the vicinity.\n\n30.—Stanley Village—Sewers, $5,000.—Owing to the development of Stanley Village and in anticipation of this development proceeding it is necessary to commence a drainage scheme for the carrying of sewage.\n\n31.—Stanley Village Storm Water Drains, $5,000.—The explanation in this item is the same as in the preceding one except that these are storm water drains.\n\n32.—Jubilee Street Ferry Pier Covered Entrance, $1,000.—To complete this work.\n\n33.—Wongneicheong Development, $20,000.—Owing to the sale of land in this district and to the request that fresh areas be put up for auction, the development of access roads is required. This is to commence that work.\n\n34.—Chai Wan Cemetery Extension—Development, $6,000.—To provide the necessary extension to this cemetery.\n\n35.—Fence at Glenealy, $1,750.—A small portion of this fence was provided when the entrance gate in Upper Albert Road was closed; an extension of this fence from the old entrance down to the main entrance in the old Botanical Gardens is required.\n\n36.—Rewiring of Government Buildings, $8,000.—To replace wiring in Government buildings which is now considered unsafe from a fire point of view.\n\n37.—Colonial Secretariat—Private Telephone System, $2,000.—To provide a direct inter-office communication in the Secretariat.\n\n38.—Outpatients' Department, Government Civil Hospital—Improvement to Ventilation, $3,000.—Owing to the increased use now being made of the Outpatients' Department, extra ventilation is required.\n\n## WATER WORKS\n\n39.—Back Lane Service Pipes, $3,000.—To provide for the extension of subsidiary service pipes in back lanes in newly developed areas to obviate the excessive cutting of roads which would be necessary for direct connection to principal mains. These subsidiary mains are eventually paid for by house owners when connections are requested.\n\n40.—Stanley Supply, $6,000.—To provide a third filter for this supply to meet increased consumption.\n\nPage 369", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558807, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "content_text": "168\n\n110\n\nHead 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nHead 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY.\n\nEstimate\n\n \n Expendi-ture up to 31st December, 1937.\n Approved Estimate, 1938.\n Revised Estimated Expendi-ture, 1938.\n Estimated Expendi-ture, 1939.\n \n \n $\n $\n $\n $\n \n \n Buildings.\n \n \n 1 Central Government Store\n 300,000\n 35,000\n 33,015\n \n \n 2 New Sub-station, Wanchai Gap\n 205,000\n 80,000\n 186,985\n \n \n 3 New Government House\n 15,000\n 15,000\n 20,000\n \n \n 4 Ellis Kadoorie School-Conversion Annexe into Gymnasium\n 2,000,000\n of\n \n \n \n 5 Vernacular Normal and Middle School-New Latrines\n 4,000\n 2,500\n 4,000\n \n \n 6 Queen Mary Hospital-Additions and Improvements\n 2,500\n \n 2,500\n \n \n 7 G.C.H.--Alterations to \"C' Block for Infant Welfare Centre\n 10,000\n 2,850\n 2,850\n \n \n 8 Western Market Reprovision South Block\n 95,000\n \n \n \n \n 9 New Garage, Quarters, etc., Kennedy Town\n \n \n \n \n \n 10 Latrine, Electric Road\n 40,000\n 100,000\n 30,000\n \n \n 11 Prisons--Alterations\n 5,000\n 5,000\n 20,000\n \n \n 12 D.R.O.'s House-Enclose verandah\n 20,000\n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n 13 Mong Kok Market--(a) Flush Urinal\n 4,500\n 4,500\n \n \n \n (b) Store Room and Kitchen\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n \n 14 Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House-Incinerator\n 5,000\n 5,000\n \n \n \n 15 Latrine, Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City.\n 18,000\n 5,000\n 13,000\n \n \n 16 Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve-New Plant House\n 2,300\n 2,300\n \n \n \n 17 Au Tau Police Station-Garage\n 3,500\n 3,500\n \n \n \n 18 Un Long-Public Latrine\n 5,500\n 5,500\n \n \n \n 19 Herbarium and Library, Botanical and Forestry Office, Extension\n 3,700\n 3,700\n \n \n \n 20 Botanical and Forestry Office, Lai Chi Kok\n 2,500\n 2,500\n \n \n \n 21 Roads\n \n \n General Works.\n \n \n 22 Drainage :—(a) Training Nullahs\n 97,806\n 110,000\n 110,000\n \n \n (b) Miscellaneous\n 6,395\n 29,000\n 19,000\n \n \n 23 Miscellaneous\n 63,683\n 88,000\n 88,000\n \n \n 24 Port Works\n 25,265\n 30,000\n 30,000\n \n \n \n 1,852\n 3,500\n 3,500\n \n \n Communications.\n \n \n 25 Island Road-Strengthening Bridges\n \n \n \n \n \n 26 Bowen Road-Widening and forming footway between Garden Road and Bowen Road Tram Station\n 45,000\n 10,000\n 10,000\n \n \n \n 30,000\n 10,000\n 20,000\n \n \n 27 K.I.L. 3394-Forming access roads from Ma Tau Wai Road and Argyle Street.\n 30,000\n \n 20,000\n \n \n 28 Argyle Street, eastern end of\n 120,000\n 10,000\n 50,000\n \n \n 29 Layout of a Government Quarry-Hok Un\n 286,000\n 75,000\n \n \n \n Carried forward\n 958,035", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558912, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "content_text": "29.8\n\n110\n\nHead 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nApproved Revised Estimated Expendi-ture up to 31st December, 1937.\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1938.\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1938.\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1939.\nEstimate.\n\n$\n$\n$\n$\n$\n\nPUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY,—Continued,\n\n20,000\n5,000\n\n5,000\n\n1,400\n\n4,500\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n5,000\n5,000\n\n13,000\n2,800\n\n3,500\n\n5,500\n3,700\n\n2,500\n\n5 Ellis Kadoorie Buildings.\n\n1 Central Government Store\n\n300,000\n35,000\n\n2 New Sub-station, Wanchai Gap\n\n33,015\n\n8 New Government House\n\n205,000\n15,000\n\n4 New Police Station-Stanley\n\n80,000\n15,000\n\nSchool Conversion Annexe into Gymnasium\n\n2,000,000\n100,000\n\nof\n186,985\n20,000\n100,000\n50,000\n\nCommunications.-Continued\n\n81 Saigon Street at K.M.L. No. 49-Forma-tion and surfacing\n9,000\n4,000\n\n6 Vernacular Normal and Middle School— New Latrines\n4,000\n\n32 Sai Kung Road Extension, East of N.K.I.L. 68\n4,000\n8,000\n8,000\n2,500\n\n7 Queen Mary Hospital-Additions and Improvements\n2,500\n\n33 Tsun Wan Market Road\n15,000\n8,000\n\n34 Bridges strengthening\n7,000\n8,000\n\n281,000\n50,000\n30,000\n\n8 G.C.H. Alterations to \"C\" Block for Infant Welfare Centre\n2,850\n\n9 Western Market Reprovision South Block\n95,000\n\n10 New Garage, Quarters, etc., Kennedy Town\n100,000\n\n11 New Dog Kennels, Kennedy Town\n20,000\n\n12 Latrine, Electric Road\n5,000\n\n18 D.R.Ö.'s House-Enclose verandah\n1,400\n\n10,000\n\n35 Castle Peak Rond, North of T.W.M.L, &- Realigning, regrading and surfacing...\n19,000\n2,500\n19,000\n2,850\n\n36 Improvement to area N.E. of bridge at Tai Po Market\n40,000\n30,000\n\n37 Kowloon-Canton Road; Improvements to Kowloon-Muk Fu Ferry Section\n\nMiscellaneous.\n10,000\n\n5,000\n\n1,900,000\n\n500,000\n\n14 Mong Kok Market-\n\n(a) Flush Urinal\n4,500\n\n(b) Store Room and Kitchen\n1,000\n\n15 Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House- Incinerator\n5,000\n\n16 Latrine, Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City.\n18,000\n\n17 Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve-New Plant House\n\n18 Au Tau Police Station-Garage\n2,300\n3,500\n\n19 Un Long-Public Latrine\n5,500\n\n44 Chai Wan Cemetery Extension-Develop-ment\n\n20 Herbarium and Library, Botanical and Forestry Office, Extension\n\n8,700\n\n21 Botanical and Forestry Office, Lai Chi Kok\n2,500\n\nBrought forward............\n1,083,035\n\n38 Colonial Cemetery-Laying out new areas\n2,000\n\n1,000\n1,000\n\n912\n\n2,000\n\n89 Reinstatement of retaining walls\n2,000\n2,000\n2,000\n2,000\n\n40 Traffic signs, etc.\n8,000\n2,485\n3,000\n3,000\n\n3,000\n\n41 Street Name Plates\n2,901\n5,000\n5,000\n5,000\n\n42 Wongneichong Development\n65,000\n20,000\n20,000\n35,000\n\n43 North Point Reclamation-Sewer exten-sion\n20,000\n2,120\n5,000\n5,000\n\n5,000\n\n6,000\n6,000\n\n6,000\n\n45 Rewiring of Government Buildings\n22,000\n\n22,000\n\n46 Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out new areas\n7,989\n7,000\n7,000\n6,000\n\n;\n\n47 Bathing shed at Kennedy Town for Government Schools\n1,200\n\nT\n\n1,200\n\nGeneral Works.\n\n48 Tsan Yuk Hospital-Additions and Alterations\n20,000\n\n1\n\n22 Roads\n97,806\n110,000\n110,000\n140,000\n\n49 Botanical Gardens-Lay out of Albany Site\n5,000\n\n23 Drainage :-\n\n(a) Training Nullahs\n\n(b) Miscellaneous\n\n24 Miscellaneous\n\n25 Port Works\n\nCommunications.\n\n50 Air Raid Precautions\n1,000,000\n\n6,395\n\n29,000\n\n19,000\n\n43,000\n\n63,683\n\n88,000\n88,000\n\n88,000\n\n25,265\n\n30,000\n30,000\n\n34,800\n\n1,852\n\n3,500\n3,500\n\n9,500\n\n51 No. 2 Police Station-Switchboard\n\n52 Victoria Peak, Improvements to Layout.\n\n58 Kowloon Hospital, Nurses Quarters- Grilles\n3,200\n\n20,000\n\n5,000\n\n200,000\n\n1,500\n\n8,200\n\n2,000\n\n1\n\n2,000\n\n54 New Kowloon Cemetery No. 7 (Custom Pass)\n14,396.64\n\n20,000\n40,000\n\n55 Hammer Hill Urning Ground\n5,000\n\n26 Island Road Strengthening Bridges\n\n27 Bowen Road-Widening and forming footway between Garden Road and Bowen Road Tram Station\n45,000\n10,000\n10,000\n10,000\n\n30,000\n\n10,000\n10,000\n20,000\n\n28 K.I.L. 3394- Forming access roads from Ma Tau Wai Road and Argyle Street.\n30,000\n\n20,000\n\n29 Argyle Street, eastern end of\n120,000\n10,000\n\n50,000\n\n30 Layout of a Government Quarry-Hok Un\n286,000\n\n150,000\n\n56 Recreation Grounds\n\n57 Repairs to Seawall and Road at Lai. chikok\n\n58 Cheung Chau-Compensation for realign-ment of Houses\n5,500\n\n32,300\n\n20,000\n\n29,800\n\n3,000\n\n62,500\n14,444.00\n\n45,000\n44,000\n\n4,000\n\nI\n\nT\n\n4,800\n\nI\n\n2,500\n\nCarried forward\n1,093,095\n\nCarried forward......\n2,085,235\n\n299\n\nPage 250\n\nPage 251", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564805, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 388, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "## Sub-head 13.—Additional Public Latrines, $50,000.—This is an inclusive sum provided to meet the cost of additional latrines which may be requested by the Urban Council.\n\n## 14.—New Girls Reformatory, $5,000.—It is proposed to provide a Reformatory or Rescue Home for young prostitutes, which would be managed by the Salvation Army. No definite site has yet been selected and meantime only a token sum is considered necessary.\n\n## 15.—New Public Health Centres, $100,000.—Health centres have been requested by Hon. Director of Medical Services at St. Peter's Church, Sham Shui Po, Tsun Wan, etc.\n\n## 16.—Mental Hospital --- Additions and Improvements. $2,500.—To improve ventilation to kitchen, provide water storage and additional lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 17.—Leper Settlement—4 new huts with lavatories. $16,000.—It is proposed to erect 4 huts with lavatory accommodation at Kennedy Town.\n\n## 18.—Kowloon Hospital Extension Site Formation, $80,000.—This work provides for the future extension of the present hospital and also for the proposed Infectious Diseases Hospital.\n\n## 19.—New Infectious Diseases Hospital, $50,000.—The Honourable Director of Medical Services has stressed the necessity for this Hospital. A site is now being prepared adjacent to the Kowloon Hospital.\n\n## 20.—New Public Mortuary—Kowloon, $50,000.—The present mortuary is inadequate and badly situated from a health point of view. It also occupies a valuable building site.\n\n## 21.—New Queen's College, $5,000.—No site has yet been decided upon and it is unlikely a Contract will be let in 1940. The sum provided is to cover the cost of any investigational work necessary.\n\n## 22.—New Vernacular Girls College, $50,000.—This building will be known as the Eastern District Vernacular Girls School and will replace the present Vernacular Normal School for women which occupies rented premises in Lee Garden Street. A site has been selected in Eastern Hospital Road, Soo Kun Poo.\n\n## 23.—New Teachers Training College, $235,000.—It is proposed to construct this College on the site of the old Diocesan Boys School, Bonham Road.\n\n## 24.—Hong Kong Prison, Stanley—Additions and Improvements, $10,000.—This sum is required to meet certain alterations and extensions considered necessary by the Commissioner of Prisons.\n\n## 25.—Botanical and Forestry Buildings—Alterations and Improvements, $2,400.—This sum includes for the provision of a drying room and enclosing an office verandah.\n\n## 26.—Breezy Point Quarters—Car Park, $5,000.—The Honourable Commissioner of Police recommends the provision of this accommodation—at present officers leave their cars in Park Road and cause congestion.\n\n## 27.—Postal Kiosks:-\n| Location | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Shaukiwan | $3,700.—The licenced stamp vendor in Shaukiwan does not wish to continue the business. A postal kiosk is therefore necessary. |\n| (b) Tsun Wan | $3,700.—The kiosk at Tsun Wan is considered necessary by the P.M.G. |\n\n## Sub-head 28.—Two Public Latrines at Tai O, $10,000.—These are considered necessary by the District Officer, South.\n\n## COMMUNICATIONS\n\n## 29.—Island Road—Reconstruction of Bridges, $10,000.—To continue the programme of making island bridges suitable for modern traffic requirements.\n\n## 30.—Tin Hau Temple Road Extension, $50,000.—An extension of this road will open up many desirable building areas for some of which applications have already been received.\n\n## 31.—May Road widening Aigburth Hall to Conduit Road, $55,000.—This is considered a most necessary improvement. There is great traffic congestion beyond Aigburth Hall and a through motor road to Conduit Road is very desirable.\n\n## 32.—Magazine Gap Road widening between Bowen Road and May Road, $20,000.—This section of road is narrow and leaves little room for pedestrians. It is proposed to construct a footpath, where practicable, and to improve certain bends.\n\n## 33.—Causeway Bay Road—Raising and widening including strengthening seawall, $80,000.—To raise and widen the length of road between Causeway Bay tram terminus and King's Road to approved levels. This will involve partial reconstruction of the existing seawall.\n\n## 34.—Mount Cameron Development—New 20 feet road (Sections A-B and B-C), $55,000.—Government has decided to encourage building development on Mount Cameron where there are numerous desirable building sites. An access road to the higher levels of Mount Cameron is essential and it is proposed meantime to proceed with the two lower sections of the road which will open up approx. 12 building sites.\n\n## 35.—Improvements to Road from Kowloon to Muk Fu Ferry, $500,000.—The sum provided is for the reconstruction of the section between the Sham Shui Po and the Kowloon Reservoir. This section at present is extremely tortuous and is quite unsuitable for modern traffic.\n\n## 36.—K.I.L. 3394—Forming access roads, $10,000.—To facilitate development and to give direct access from Ma Tau Wai Road to Argyle Street.\n\n## 37.—New Territories Roads—Reconstruction of Bridges, $50,000.—To continue the programme to make these roads suitable for modern traffic. Many of the bridges are now approaching a dangerous state and require reconstruction.\n\n## 38.—Castle Peak Road—Realignment near Tsun Wan, $19,000.—To continue diversion work necessitated by the adjoining reclamation.\n\n## 39.—Road to Fanling Volunteer Camp, $8,000.—The improvement of this road has been requested by the Commandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\n## DRAINAGE AND ANTI-MALARIAL WORKS\n\n## 40.—North Point Reclamation—Sewer extension, $5,000.—To continue work as filling in progresses.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569531, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940", "content_text": "COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1939\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n$36,068,988 $36,132,019.97 $3,380,161.04 $3,817,129.07\n\n$4,994,254.00\n\n81-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRA-ORDINARY.\n\nSub-heads:\n\nEstimated. Actual. Increase. Decrease.\n\n1 Buildings.\n\n2 New Sub-station. Wanchai Gap\n\n180,985 263,128.53 76,138.53\n\nCentral Government Stores\n\n20,000 33,880.85 13,880.85\n\n8 New Government House\n\n110,215.00 15,000.00\n\n4 Ellis Kadoorie School-Conversion of Annexe into Gymnasium\n\n4,000 3,524.57 475.43\n\n5 Vernacular Normal and Middle School. ---New Latrines\n\n2,500 2,110.34 389.66\n\n6 Queen Mary Hospital-Additions and Improvements\n\n10,000 8,906.68 1,093.82\n\n7 G.C.H.-Alterations to \"C\" Block for Infant Welfare Centre\n\n2,850 2,380.23 519.77\n\n8 Western Market-Reprovision South Block\n\n40,00 40,000.00\n\n9 New Garage, Quarters, etc., Kennedy Town\n\n30,000 30,000.00\n\n10 Latrine. Electric Road\n\n5,000 2,349.06 2,650.94\n\n11 Prisons-Alterations\n\n20,000 18,119.35 1,880.65\n\n12 D.R.O.'s House Enclose verandah.\n\n1,400 1,351.56 48.44\n\n13 Mong Kok Market--\n\n(a) Flush Urinal\n\n(b) Store Room and Kitchen\n\n14 Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House- Incinerator\n\n4,500 1,948.22 2,551.78\n\n1,000 1,000.00\n\n5,000 5,000.00\n\n15 Latrine, Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City\n\n13,000 13,000.00\n\n16 Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve New Plant House\n\n2,300 2,300.00\n\n17 Au Tau Police Station-Garage\n\n3,500 3,150.00 350.00\n\n18 Un Long-Public Latrine\n\n5,500 5,500.00\n\n19 Herbarium and Library, Botanical and Forestry Office, Extension\n\n3,700 3,221.28 478.77\n\n20 Botanical and Forestry Office, Lai Chi Kok\n\n2,500 2,419.73 80.27\n\nGeneral Works.\n\n21 Roads\n\n140,000 236,900.56 96,900.56\n\n22 Drainage:-\n\n(a) Training Nullahs\n\n(b) Miscellaneous\n\nMiscellaneous\n\n24 Port Works\n\n48,000 27,502.73\n\n98,000 85,830.41 15,497.27 12,169.59\n\n34,800 42,990.39 8,190.39\n\n3,500 2,803.03 696.97\n\nCommunications.\n\n25 Island Road-Strengthening Bridges.\n\n10,000 10,000.00\n\n26 Bowen Road-Widening and forming footway between Garden Road and Bowen Road Tram Station\n\n20,000 3,640.35 16,359.65\n\n27 K.I.L. 3394-Forming access roads from Ma Tau Wai Road and Argyle Street\n\n20,000 20,000.00\n\n28 Argyle Street, eastern end of\n\n29 Layout of a Government Quarry- Hok Un\n\n50,000 75,000 43,008.25 25,159.67 6,991.75\n\n65,285.00 49,840.83 75,000.00\n\nCarried forward\n\n$958,035 $858,960.38 $195,110.33 $294,184.95 $445,500.00\n\nCarried forward\n\n$36,068,988 $36,132,019.97 $3,880,161.04 $3,317,129.07\n\n$4,994,254.00\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nIncreased cost of materials and modification of plans.\n\nWork brought forward from 1938.\n\nWork suspended.\n\nLess work undertaken.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\nNo work undertaken,\n\ndo.\n\nWork commenced late in the year.\n\nLess work undertaken.\n\n„Over estimated.\n\nWork not started.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\nOver estimated. Work not started.\n\nOver estimated.\n\n140,000.00\n\n25,000.00 15,000.00\n\nIncreased building activity.\n\nLess work undertaken.\n\ndo.\n\nEmergency conditions. Over estimated.\n\nWork not started.\n\nLess work undertaken.\n\nWork not started. Less work undertaken.\n\ndo.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577859, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "content_text": "- 2\n\n76\n\nAn electric cooker, a frigidaire and the necessary cutlery, crockery, and kitchen utensils, for 12 sets of students should be obtained. Miss Pickett, lecturer in Domestic Science, who is on her way home, can advise. Similar complete equipments for Art and light handwork are necessary including Saton paper, paints, brushes, metal tools, various kinds of paper, powdered colours, pastel crayons, drawing boards and materials for raffia work, are needed. Davis can also advise on this aspect.\n\n(6)\n\nAll textbooks have completely vanished, and shops taking advantage of the shortage are offering 6d. books at 7/6d. There are no teachers' books available. It is really urgent that my suggestion in signal No. 14 of the 20th September, repeated below, should be implemented at the earliest possible opportunity. Priority in this respect should be given to teachers' books. We are also urgently in need of exercise books, pens, pencils, ink, blackboards and chalk. It should be possible to estimate requirements by taking one third of the quantities required for education in Hong Kong, where there was an estimate of 350,000 children.\n\n(7) No machinery of any description has been left in the Trade School, although the building is in a very good state of repair, and only necessary cleaning. Certain C. White, the Principal of the Trade School, is now on his way home to England, and he should be given a free hand in the purchase of the machinery necessary to re-start the Trade School. The requirements should take into consideration the requirements of a technical college, to which educational standard the Trade School had already reached.\n\nT&T Control British School is in the same condition with regard to equipment as the Northcote Training College. It will be necessary to completely re-equip the chemical and physical laboratories with furniture, chemicals and apparatus, and the same applies to the Domestic Science room, which has been used as an operating theatre. There are no books of any kind in the school, and they should be ordered at once. A complete set of books such as are normally used in the secondary or Grammar schools for all subjects for children, from Form 1 (age 11) to Form 6 and upper 6 (age 18) including those required for the School Certificate and Higher School Certificate examinations. Here again, there are no desks nor any of the usual school furniture.\n\n(9) The Junior Technical School was never in my opinion a suitable building and it is still there. There is nothing in the building at all. I am of the opinion that it should be re-sited either near one of the dockyards or in a new building adjacent to the Trade School. Capt. White should be approached for his opinion on this school. Capt. White will also advise on the necessary replacements.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579146, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "20\n\nIn July, 1944, comparable figures were as follows:-\n\nNature of deficiency\n\nNature of deficiency\nNo. of individual cases\n\nVitamin A deficiency\n403\n\nVitamin B1 deficiency-wet\n25\n\n-dry\n30\n\nVitamin B2-pellagra type\n43\n\n-central nerve blinding\n56\n\n13\n\nMinor degrees of B1, B2, C, calcium and salt deficiency\n9\n\nTotal new cases\n176\n\nTotal old cases\n718\n\nThe ration had a caloric value of rather less than 1,600 and was made up of :-\n\nprotein, 37-53 gms.: fat, 22.75 gms.; carbohydrate, 300 gms.; vitamin A, 6,910 i.u. ; vitamin B1, 100i.u.; vitamin B2, 58 i.u.; ascorbic acid, 0·64 mgs.; calcium, 0·317 gms. ; iron, 0·0115 gms.; phosphorus, 0·0576 gms.\n\nIn July, 1945, the recorded figures were as follows:—\n\nNature of deficiency\nNo. of individual cases\n\nVitamin A deficiency\n37\n\nVitamin B1 deficiency-wet\n23\n\ndry\n9\n\nVitamin B2 deficiency-pellagra type\n34\n\n-central nerve blindness\n12\n\nMinor degrees of B1, B2, C, calcium and salt deficiency\n91\n\nTotal new cases\n24\n\nTotal old cases\n911\n\nThe dietetic value of the ration showed some deterioration on that of the previous year.\n\nP. S. SELWYN-CLARKE, D.M.S.\n\nPage 71\n\nAPPENDIX II\n\nAn Account by the Deputy Director of Medical Services of the Organisation of the Medical Services in Stanley Internment Camp\n\nJanuary, 1942–August, 1945\n\nFor ease of description, the medical organisation may be set out under the following headings-\n\n(a) STAFF\n\n(b) Hospital and Sanatorium.\n\n(c) District Clinics.\n\n(d) Special Clinics.\n\n(e) Drugs.\n\n(f) Equipment.\n\n(g) Miscellaneous activities.\n\nIt was fortunate that among the 2,500 individuals who were interned at Stanley, there were no less than forty doctors, two dentists, a distinguished biologist, six pharmacists, one hundred trained nurses including contingents of the Q.A.R.N.N.S. and the Q.A.I.M.N.S., six masseuses and a host of auxiliary nurses. These professional men and women consisted of Government servants, members of the staff of the Hong Kong University, private practitioners and the staffs of private and mission hospitals. All these individuals pooled their talents and resources, and worked as a harmonious whole for the benefit and welfare of the entire community.\n\nIn the absence of the Director of Medical Services, who was not interned but later imprisoned, the Deputy Director of Medical Services was appointed Camp Medical Officer by the Representative of Internees. Very soon after internment the medical organisation was established on a firm and co-operative foundation.\n\n(b) HOSPITAL\n\nA three-storied building, formerly used for accommodating single Indian warders, was transformed into a very efficient, though poorly equipped, hospital. This building overlooked Tweed Bay, and hence was named Tweed Bay Hospital. On the top floor in dormitories, there was accommodation for fifty members of the nursing staff, living under very crowded conditions; four wards made up the first floor; three wards, offices, operating theatre, kitchen, pantry, dispensary, etc., were situated on the ground floor. The hospital had seventy-four beds (thirty-seven for females and thirty-seven for males). These beds were usually filled to capacity. The turn-over was rapid, patients having to be discharged early to make room for more acute cases. The number of new admissions for a month varied between ninety and one hundred and fifty. Disorders of the alimentary tract, including bacillary dysentery, accounted for most of the admissions.\n\nOperations were performed regularly, even after the electricity had been cut off, and lighting was limited to the amount of daylight that could be reflected into the wound by means of a reflector.\n\nThe induction of anaesthesia often presented a serious problem owing to the shortage of chloroform and ether. Whenever feasible, spinal anaesthesia was the method of selection.\n\nA Board, known as the Surgical Board, was appointed by the Representative of Internees. It consisted of four members-the Camp Medical Officer as Chairman, and three senior surgeons.\n\nThe functions of this Board were to control surgical activities in the operating theatre. This was made necessary owing to the limited stock of dressings, gloves, catgut and general anaesthetics, etc.\n\nSANATORIUM\n\nBy 1943, the number of cases of open pulmonary tuberculosis had increased from seven to 14. A small building, known as the Leprosarium (it was here that in peace time cases of leprosy among prisoners in Stanley Gaol were isolated) was cleared of its occupants and transformed into a sanatorium for the treatment of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. The single large ward was divided by a wooden partition, thus separating the sexes-(ten males on one side and four females on the other). This transference of tuberculous infected patients from Tweed Bay Hospital to the Sanatorium proved a great success and incidentally provided more accommodation for other cases at Tweed Bay Hospital.\n\nTreatment was handicapped by the absence of radiography-but this did not prevent collapse therapy being regularly carried out. The only other treatment that could be given to these unfortunate sufferers was regular doses of shark's liver oil, soya bean milk, peanut butter or margarine, according to available stocks held by the Camp Supplies Officer and the International Welfare Committee. Albeit, a steady but slow physical deterioration was the rule.\n\nPage 72\n\n(c) DISTRICT CLINICS\n\nThe Camp was conveniently divided into three districts:—\n\n(1) The St. Stephen's area, comprising St. Stephen's College and five small residential bungalows.\n\n(2) The \"Indian\" Quarters, so-called because the several three-storied blocks were used in peace-time to house the married Indian warders and their families.\n\n(3) A group of nine blocks of three-storied tenement flats that were used in peace-time to accommodate European warders, married and single.\n\nThe mean population of each of these districts was 850. Each district had a clinic or surgery which was in charge of a medical officer. Here, daily, out-patients were attended and surgical dressings applied. Here also were kept the records and the medical history sheets of every internee who attended, and daily returns were made to medical headquarters situated at Tweed Bay Hospital. Whenever necessary, patients were sent to the special clinics for further advice and treatment. In this manner a very detailed record was kept of the state of health of all internees.\n\n(d) SPECIAL CLINICS\n\n(1) Surgical-The Surgical specialist attended each morning from 9 to 12 in the out-patients department at Tweed Bay Hospital.\n\n(2) Nutrition.--All cases attending district clinics and found to be suffering from symptoms attributable to lack of a suitable diet were referred to the nutrition clinic, which was in charge of a medical specialist and several assistants. The results of treatment were carefully watched and reported. The functions of this clinic had a two-fold advantage, firstly, the standardisation of diagnosis and secondly, economy in the use of drugs, such as thiamin, nicotinic acid, and the consumption of yeast and shark's liver oil. Moreover, the physician in charge kept a detailed record of all food consumed, i.e., the daily rations as supplied by the Japanese, food purchased at the canteen, and food received from time to time from the International Red Cross. It was possible in this way to correlate the incidence of avitaminosis and loss or gain of body weight with the state of the diet throughout the period of internment. Some extremely interesting statistics were thus obtained and depicted on coloured charts.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "# Medical Report\n\n## (3) Ophthalmic clinic\n\nThis clinic was held daily in the office of Tweed Bay Hospital. Anyone suffering from affections of the eye, defective vision, or other visual abnormalities, was referred to the eye specialist. Without the assistance of special apparatus, visual fields and scotomata were charted in all cases. Night blindness was a common complaint, but improvement followed the administration of shark's liver oil. In spite of giving riboflavine, peanut butter, yeast or egg yolk, no improvement ensued in cases of central nerve blindness. Very complete records were kept and some very interesting data were obtained.\n\n## (4) Ear, nose and throat clinic\n\nSimilarly, patients suffering from disorders of the ear, nose or throat, were seen twice weekly in Tweed Bay Hospital. Mastoidectomies and tonsillectomies were performed on a few cases. Aphonia, due to avitaminosis B2, was a common complaint.\n\n## (5) Dental\n\nDue to the enthusiasm and energy of one of the dentists, a blitzed room on the ground floor was transformed into a dental surgery. The Director of Medical Services managed to procure a dental chair and a foot drill. Some very valuable work was carried out, for apart from ordinary extractions, the teeth of children received special conservative attention. While materials were still available, it was possible to make new dentures and to repair broken ones.\n\nOther special clinics were: gynaecological, ante-natal, social hygiene, diseases of the skin, massage and electro-therapy.\n\nThough not held as a special clinic, one of the lady doctors made it her special work to attend to the health and welfare of infants and school children.\n\n## (e) DRUGS\n\nIn the first instance, the drugs available were those brought into camp by the medical staff of the various hospitals. Private doctors brought in a considerable supply from their personal stocks. The bulk of the stock contained in the small medical store in Tweed Bay Hospital was brought direct from the Queen Mary Hospital.\n\nAfter a time replenishments became more difficult but thanks to the efforts of the Director of Medical Services valuable additions were made, especially of preparations such as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, nicotinic acid, thiamin, and multivite capsules, the price of which in the open market had soared to impossible heights. The Swiss delegate of the I.R.C. was instrumental in sending in medicines occasionally but at exorbitant cost, which made it necessary for the Camp Medical Officer to issue repeated instructions for the exercise of the strictest economy in the use of these medicines. In fact, towards the end of internment scarcely any prescription was allowed to be dispensed without the countersignature of the Camp Medical Officer. This was naturally irksome to doctors but it was only by this means that the supply of certain important preparations lasted.\n\nThere were six patients who required twice daily doses of insulin, some as much as 60 units a day. It was an anxious time for both doctor and patients when only one week's supply remained, but fortunately fresh supplies always turned up in the nick of time.\n\nThe most valuable additions of drugs and dressings were those received from the British and Canadian Red Cross Societies.\n\nIt would be ungracious to omit to mention that the Japanese authorities did, from time to time, send into camp medical supplies. Welcome as they were, the actual items were not always in response to specific requests, but appeared to be merely such stocks of preparations that they happened to possess. Perhaps the most valuable of their contributions was the supply of stationery. Until March, 1943, prescriptions had to be written on scraps of paper, cigarette wrappings, etc. The medical notes of in-patients were recorded on the backs of temperature charts, and many of these had to be used over and over again.\n\n## (f) EQUIPMENT\n\nAs in the case of drugs, most of the surgical instruments and other hospital equipment were brought into camp at the time of internment by various doctors and persons connected with the outside hospitals, but again the majority from the Queen Mary Hospital. It was, however, possible by the pooling of all equipment from all sources to provide for the hospital, including the operating theatre, and the district clinics. For weeks after internment the Director of Medical Services, on his periodic visits, never failed to furnish us with additional equipment, such as a microscope, a diathermy machine, etc. Repeated requests were made to the Japanese authorities for a portable X-ray set, but without success. During the first two years a limited number of patients were sent into town to be X-rayed, but for the last two years no radiography was carried out at all. Though frequently required, it was not possible to obtain a cystoscope.\n\nSome very ingenious surgical appliances were manufactured at the camp workshop at the hands of skilled engineers. They made excellent aluminium splints, bone-holding forceps and a high pressure steam steriliser.\n\n## (g) MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES\n\n### (1) Diet kitchens\n\nAfter the early months of internment it became very apparent that something would have to be done about making the diet as supplied by the Japanese more suitable and palatable for very young children, elderly invalids, and those suffering from chronic peptic ulcers. The setting up of these special kitchens was made possible by the fact that there were available in the camp a number of electric cookers. The International Welfare Committee provided the extra foodstuffs. The district medical officer exercised general supervision but a trained nurse—a specialist in dietetics—was in charge of each kitchen. She had the assistance of other women experienced in invalid cooking. These kitchens proved a great success. The time came when the electricity was cut off and firewood became scarce, and these kitchens were forced to close. A very definite deterioration in the health of many of the regular patients followed.\n\n### (2) Milk\n\nA limited number of 8 oz. bottles of unpasteurised cow's milk were sent into camp daily, though the supply was somewhat irregular and diminished considerably as time went on. This was kept for the hospital and children under 5 years of age. Full cream powdered milk was reserved for infants only but this supply was exhausted by January, 1945. Thirty to forty pints of soya bean milk were made daily. This was reserved for use in the hospital and sanatorium and for debilitated out-patients.\n\n### (3) Yeast\n\nNext to loss of body weight the earliest manifestations of food deficiency were those due to lack of vitamins B1 and B2. Owing to the difficulty of supplying the deficiency medicinally, it was decided to manufacture a limited quantity of yeast for administration. The daily dose of 3 to 4 oz. proved efficacious though the media consisted of weevil-infested flour, soya bean residue and sweet potatoes.\n\n### (4) Medical meetings\n\nAn association consisting of all the doctors, dentists and pharmacists was constituted somewhat on the lines of the British Medical Association. A president and vice-presidents were elected annually, also a secretary. Many interesting and instructive papers were read. Minutes were duly read and confirmed, and complete records of all discussions were kept.\n\n### (5) Hospital visitors board\n\nThis small committee, consisting of the Camp Medical Officer as chairman, the Hospital Supervisor (a member of the Clergy) as secretary, and six other members representing the community at large, was appointed by the Representative of Internees. The object of this Board was to assist the hospital administration in matters concerning the welfare of patients, and to act as a liaison between hospital and community. The Board met every two or three weeks throughout internment. There is no doubt that this Board performed valuable service.\n\n### (6) Camp relief\n\nA group of four medical officers including the Camp Medical Officer, the medical officer in charge of the Nutrition Clinic, the medical officer in charge of Tweed Bay Hospital, and the medical adviser to the Camp Relief Trustees, was empanelled to give advice in the matter of giving aid to those requiring extra foodstuff. Advice was also given to the Representative of Internees on problems concerning the best use of foodstuffs held in the camp store.\n\n### (7) Pathology and bacteriology\n\nThe Government bacteriologist continued his work in the camp to the best of his ability. His small bedroom was his laboratory. He was severely handicapped by the lack of materials and technical equipment. His work was almost entirely confined to the examination of blood films, sputa, and stools, and doing red and white blood cell counts. He was occasionally called upon to perform post-mortem examinations. Towards the end of internment the supply of bacteriological stains gave out.\n\nMalaria and pulmonary tuberculosis had to be diagnosed on clinical grounds alone.\n\n### (8) Births and deaths registration\n\nNo time was lost after internment in opening fresh registers for the registration of births and deaths respectively. They conformed as closely as possible to the official registers kept in peace-time. Copies of the entries in the registers in the form of births and death certificates respectively, were made out and given to the interested parties. Without the actual registers to refer to, it is impossible to give accurate figures. Suffice it to say that the death rate each year remained remarkably low; for instance, during the year 1943, there were only 18 deaths, and the majority of these were of persons over the age of 60. The infant and maternal mortality rates were so low as to be negligible.\n\nD. J. VALENTINE,\n\nCamp Medical Officer.\n\nJanuary, 1946.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579149, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "26\n\n77\n\nIn the main College buildings classrooms, laboratories, etc., originally not intended for residential use, and obviously unsuitable as such, are now being used in that capacity by internees. The residential sections provided for masters and boys give suitable accommodation for a number much below that now in occupation. For comparison it may be stated that when used for their normal purposes these residential sections housed a maximum of 180 boys and masters but now, with five cubicles, or accommodation for 10 boys uninhabitable owing to damage by gunfire, they accommodate 289 internees. The former occupants were provided with common rooms in addition but these are now used as dormitories and, with the classrooms, accommodate 212 persons, bringing the total to 501.\n\nTwo large rooms, which are occupied, are not weatherproof and are unfit for habitation owing to damage which has not been repaired. Sacking is used to cover the shattered windows but, while this keeps out daylight, it is no protection against cold, rainstorms and typhoons. Of the total number of 501 internees living in the main College buildings, 40 are in the Science Block which was built as a laboratory and lecture room and is entirely unsuitable for residential purposes. It possesses only one water closet and a shower bath fitted by resident internees whose number was, for a considerable time, as high as 54. Requests have been made but materials for increasing sanitary facilities have not been made available. Excepting the Science Block, the main College buildings provide an average of 46 sq. ft. of floor space for each internee, a bath (mostly of the shower type) and a water closet for every 20 and a water tap, with basin or slab, for every ten.\n\nEach bungalow, normally occupied by a single family, now houses 32 people with an average floor space per head of 46 sq. ft. Sanitary and washing facilities are adequate.\n\nThe accommodation provided in the servants' quarters is a little better than the camp average as regards floor space and toilet amenities.\n\n(2) The buildings specified in the second category were built as quarters for Europeans and are, of course, suitable, provided the number of occupants is within reasonable limits. The married officers' quarters consist of 3-storied blocks containing flats of 3 or 4 rooms, while the bachelors' quarters consist of single bedrooms with common rooms and communal washing and sanitary arrangements. In the early months of internment these quarters, mostly occupied by families and mothers with children, were grossly overcrowded, some of the larger flats accommodating 30 or more internees with a floor space per head of less than 30 sq. ft. As a result of departures from camp, conditions were ameliorated to a certain extent and the larger and smaller flats now accommodate on an average 21 and 16 internees respectively. The larger flats are provided with a bath and two water closets, the smaller with one of each and all flats with a kitchen sink.\n\nThe servants' quarters attached to these flats, varying in floor area between 54 and 70 sq. ft. are each occupied by two adults, a mother and child or even a married couple with a baby. The occupants of these small rooms use the toilet and washing facilities provided for servants.\n\nAs cooking in camp is on a communal basis flat kitchens have, where possible, been converted into living quarters, measuring about 72 sq. ft. They are occupied similarly to servants' quarters, but the occupants use the flats' bathrooms, etc.\n\nIn the married officers' quarters, including servants' rooms and converted kitchens, the space available averages approximately 40 sq. ft. per head.\n\nIn the bachelors' quarters situated in the former Prison Officers' Club, single bedrooms are now occupied by two adults and other rooms according to size. One room on the ground floor, occupied by eight men, has been damaged to such an extent as to make it unfit for habitation.\n\nThe average space per head in this building is 49 sq. ft. Toilet and washing facilities are adequate.\n\n(3) The third category consists of eight buildings, of two or three stories, erected for use by Asiatics Indians and Chinese.\n\nSix blocks were married quarters and are mostly laid out as small flats of two rooms with verandahs at front and back. Each flat is provided with a water closet, a kitchenette and a washing tap (placed in W.C.). The rooms measure approximately 140 and 100 sq. ft. and accommodate four and three internees respectively.\n\nOwing to structural damage, some rooms do not accommodate a full complement as stated above, but, even then, the average number of persons living in each of these small flats is 6.6.\n\nOne of the bachelor blocks is occupied by single police—two in each room of 92 sq. ft.—and washing and other facilities are adequate.\n\nThe second bachelor block stands apart from the others. It is used as a hospital and quarters for nursing staff.\n\nFJ\n\n27\n\n78\n\nExcepting the hospital buildings, the \"Indian Quarters\", as this section of the camp is known, accommodated 748 internees and the average space available to each is 36 sq. ft.\n\nThe resident nursing staff, numbering 55, reside in four large rooms on the top floor of the hospital building. The average space per head is about 60 sq. ft, and five water-closets and five shower baths are provided. This is poor accommodation for staff whose work is particularly trying and gives little facility for rest to those on night duty.\n\nDoctors and other male staff directly attached to the hospital live in the 'Leprosarium' a building previously part of the Hong Kong Prison and then used for the accommodation of leprous prisoners.\n\nLighting and ventilation of all accommodation, with the exception of damaged rooms is adequate. Artificial lighting is by electricity.\n\nThere is no means of heating rooms nor is such normally required.\n\nA limited amount of furniture, the property of previous residents, was available in St. Stephen's College, the bungalows and the European Officers' quarters, but none whatever in the 'Indian Quarters' section of the camp,\n\nExcluding the Hospital, Leprosarium and the Science building the total area available for internees is approximately 98,000 sq. ft., which allows 41 sq. ft. per head. and when one considers the figure already given it will be realised that a maximum and equitable use is being made of the space provided. It must be remembered that there is no communal accommodation, such as dining and sitting rooms, and that the areas given per head represent the total floor space available to internees for all purposes.\n\nThere is, without doubt, serious overcrowding in camp, which is a constant danger to the health of the community. Overcrowding facilitates the spread of communicable diseases and is particularly dangerous when combined with a state of general malnutrition such as exists in the camp. Nor must we forget the serious effects on the nervous system of prolonged residence in overcrowded rooms in this uncertain existence of ours. Should an epidemic occur in this camp its control would be difficult as conditions, particularly as regards housing, would favour its spread and the results might be serious.\n\neven\n\nIt is generally considered that 6 ft. of wall space for each bed is the minimum that can be regarded as affording some degree of protection against the spread of disease from one occupant of a room to another, but such spacing is impossible in this camp; in rooms where tuberculous cases are accommodated. The spread of tuberculosis, dysentery, or, in fact, of any disease, whether conveyed as a droplet infection, by contact or by insects, is facilitated by lack of adequate accommodation. What would be a reasonable standard of housing in our present circumstances? Obviously we cannot have the amenities we enjoyed in our own homes but it would not be unreasonable, in my opinion, to expect at least the standard of accommodation provided for British troops in South China (including Stanley) in pre-war days—a floor space of 80 sq. ft. and a cubic space of 1,000 cubic feet per head. If we take that as our standard, and we cannot be satisfied with a lower one, it follows that the accommodation at present provided is only about half of what we require for reasonable comfort and the maintenance of health.\n\n8. HOSPITAL\n\nThe ground and first floors of a building already referred to were used as a hospital which had accommodation for 70 patients in six wards—three for males and three for females. The building was not very satisfactory, it was too small to meet the hospitalisation demands made necessary by serious overcrowding in quarters, its lay-out made impossible the proper segregation of dysentery and other infectious diseases, and washing and sanitary facilities were poor. In spite of this, and the many difficulties met in regard to staffing, equipment, medical and surgical stores, heating, lighting and water supplies, this hospital did magnificent work in caring for the sick and the majority of internees benefited at one time or another from its services. This is clearly shown by its record of admissions which were 1,521 in 1942, 1,189 in 1943, 1,468 in 1944 and 795 for 8 months in 1945, a total of 4,604.\n\nIn addition there was an out-patient department where specialist services were available.\n\n9. PERSONAL HYGIENE\n\nFew internees were able to arrive in camp with adequate supplies of clothing, footwear, and bedding and for several months many had to sleep on concrete floors.\n\nSome were able to bring in bedding from the Chinese hotels where they had been interned before arrival in camp. Much of this was bug infested and gave considerable trouble", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579165, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "In July, 1944, comparable figures were as follows:-\n\nNature of deficiency\n\nVitamin A deficiency\n\nVitamin B1 deficiency-wet\n\ncentral nerve blinding\n\nMinor degrees of B1, B2, C, calcium and salt deficiency\n\n-dry\n\n+\n\nVitamin B2-pellagra type.\n\nTotal new cases\n\nTotal old cases\n\n108\n\nNo. of individual cases\n\n25\n\n30\n\n43\n\n56\n\n13\n\n9\n\n176\n\n718\n\nThe ration had a caloric value of rather less than 1,600 and was made up of:--\n\nprotein, 37-53 gms.; fat, 22.75 gms.; carbohydrate, 300 gms.; vitamin A, 6,910 i.u.; vitamin B1, 100; vitamin B2, 58; ascorbic acid, 0-64 mgs.; calcium, 0.317 gms.; iron, 0.0115 gms.; phosphorus, 0.0576 gms.\n\nIn July, 1945, the recorded figures were as follows:—\n\nNature of deficiency\n\nVitamin A deficiency\n\nVitamin B1 deficiency-wet\n\n-dry\n\nVitamin B2 deficiency-pellagra type\n\n-central nerve blindness\n\nMinor degrees of B1, B2, C, calcium and salt deficiency\n\nTotal new cases\n\nTotal old cases\n\nNo. of individual cases\n\n37\n\n23\n\n9\n\n34\n\n12\n\n9\n\n124\n\n911\n\nThe dietetic value of the ration showed some deterioration on that of the previous year.\n\nP.A.S. SELWYN-CLARKE, D.M.S.\n\nAPPENDIX II\n\nAn Account by the Deputy Director of Medical Services of the Organisation of\n\nthe Medical Services in Stanley Internment Camp\n\nJanuary, 1942—August, 1945\n\nFor ease of description, the Medical organisation may be set out under the following headings:-\n\n(a) STAFF\n\n(b) Hospital and Sanatorium.\n\n(c) District Clinics.\n\n(d) Special Clinics.\n\n(e) Drugs.\n\nEquipment.\n\nMiscellaneous activities,\n\nIt was fortunate that among the 2,500 individuals who were interned at Stanley, there were no less than forty doctors, two dentists, a distinguished biologist, six pharmacists, one hundred trained nurses including contingents of the Q.A.R.N.N.S. and the Q.A.I.M.N.S., six masseuses and a host of auxiliary nurses. These professional men and women consisted of Government servants, members of the staff of the Hong Kong University, private practitioners and the staffs of private and mission hospitals. All these individuals pooled their talents and resources, and worked as a harmonious whole for the benefit and welfare of the entire community.\n\nIn the absence of the Director of Medical Services, who was not interned, but later imprisoned, the Deputy Director of Medical Services was appointed Camp Medical Officer by the Representative of Internees. Very soon after internment, the medical organisation was established on a firm and co-operative foundation.\n\n(b) HOSPITAL\n\nA three-storied building, formerly used for accommodating single Indian warders, was transformed into a very efficient, though poorly equipped hospital. This building overlooked Tweed Bay, and hence was named Tweed Bay Hospital. On the top floor in dormitories, there was accommodation for fifty members of the nursing staff, living under very crowded conditions; four wards made up the first floor; three wards, offices, operating theatre, kitchen, pantry, dispensary, etc., were situated on the ground floor. The hospital had seventy-four beds (thirty-seven for females, and thirty-seven for males). These beds were usually filled to capacity. The turn-over was rapid, patients having to be discharged early to make room for more acute cases. The number of new admissions for a month varied between ninety and one hundred and fifty. Disorders of the alimentary tract, including bacillary dysentery, accounted for most of the admissions.\n\nOperations were performed regularly, even after the electricity had been cut off, and lighting was limited to the amount of daylight that could be reflected into the wound by means of a reflector.\n\nThe induction of anaesthesia often presented a serious problem owing to the shortage of chloroform and ether. Whenever feasible, spinal anaesthesia was the method of selection.\n\nA Board, known as the Surgical Board, was appointed by the Representative of Internees. It consisted of four members--the Camp Medical Officer as Chairman, and three senior surgeons.\n\nThe functions of this Board were to control surgical activities in the operating theatre. This was made necessary owing to the limited stock of dressings, gloves, catgut and general anaesthetics, etc., etc.\n\nSANATORIUM\n\nBy 1943, the number of cases of open pulmonary tuberculosis had increased from seven. A small building, known as the Leprosarium (it was here that in peace time cases of Leprosy among prisoners in Stanley Gaol were isolated) was cleared of its occupants and transformed into a sanatorium for the treatment of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. The single large ward was divided by a wooden partition, thus separating the sexes-(ten males on one side and four females on the other). This transference of tubercular infected patients from Tweed Bay Hospital to the Sanatorium proved a great success and incidentally provided more accommodation for other cases at Tweed Bay Hospital.\n\nTreatment was handicapped by the absence of radiography---but this did not prevent collapse therapy being regularly carried out. The only other treatment that could be given to these unfortunate sufferers was regular doses of shark's liver oil, soya bean milk, peanut butter or margarine, according to available stocks held by the Camp Supplies Officer and the International Welfare Committee. Albeit, a steady but slow physical deterioration was the rule.\n\n(c) DISTRICT CLINICS\n\nThe Camp was conveniently divided into three districts :-\n\n(1) The St. Stephen's area, comprising St. Stephen's College and five small residential bungalows.\n\n(2) The \"Indian\" Quarters,-so-called because the several three-storied blocks, used in peace-time to house the married Indian warders and their families.\n\n(3) A group of nine blocks of three-storied tenement flats that used in peace-time to accommodate European warders, married and single.\n\nThe mean population of each of these districts was 850. Each district had a clinic or surgery which was in charge of a medical officer. Here daily, out-patients were attended and surgical dressings applied. Here also were kept the records and the medical history sheets of every internee who attended, and daily returns were made to medical headquarters situated at Tweed Bay Hospital. Whenever necessary, patients were sent to the special clinics for further advice and treatment. In this manner, a very detailed record was kept of the state of health of all internees.\n\n(d) SPECIAL CLINICS\n\n(1) Surgical-Surgical specialist attended each morning from 9 to 12 in the out-patients department at Tweed Bay Hospital.\n\n(2) Nutrition-All cases attending district clinics and found to be suffering from symptoms attributable to lack of a suitable diet were referred to the nutrition clinic which was in charge of a medical specialist and several assistants. The results of treatment were carefully watched and reported. The functions of this clinic had a two-fold advantage, firstly, the standardisation of diagnosis and secondly, economy in the use of drugs, such as thiamin, nicotinic acid, and the consumption of yeast and shark's liver oil. Moreover, the physician in charge kept a detailed record of all food consumed, i.e., the daily rations as supplied by the Japanese, food purchased at the canteen, and food received from time to time from the International Red Cross. It was possible in this way to correlate the incidence of avitaminosis and loss or gain of body weight with the state of the diet throughout the period of internment. Some extremely interesting statistics were thus obtained and depicted on coloured charts. (See-special report Dr. Dean Smith.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579166, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "22\n\n110\n\n(3) Ophthalmic clinic. This clinic was held daily in the office of Tweed Bay Hospital. Anyone suffering from affections of the eye, defective vision, or other visual abnormalities, was referred to the eye specialist. Without the assistance of special apparatus, vis fields and scotomata were charted in all cases. Night blindness was a common complaint, but improvement followed the administration of shark's liver oil. In spite of giving riboflavine, peanut butter, yeast or egg yolk, no improvement ensued in cases of central nerve blindness. Very complete records were kept and some very interesting data obtained.\n\n(4) Ear, nose and throat clinic—Similarly, patients suffering from disorders of the ear, nose or throat, were seen twice weekly in Tweed Bay Hospital. Mastoidectomies and tonsillectomies were performed on a few cases. Aphonia, due to avitaminosis B2, was a common complaint.\n\n(5) Dental. Due to the enthusiasm and energy of one of the dentists, a blitzed room on the ground floor was transformed into a dental surgery. The Director of Medical Services managed to procure a dental chair and a foot drill. Some very valuable work was carried out, for apart from ordinary extractions, the teeth of children received special conservative attention. While materials were still available, it was possible to make new dentures, and to repair broken ones.\n\nOther special clinics were: gynaecological, ante-natal, social hygiene, diseases of the skin, massage and electro-therapy.\n\nThough not held as a special clinic, one of the lady doctors made it her special work to attend to the health and welfare of infants and school children.\n\n(e) DRUGS\n\nIn the first instance, the drugs available were those brought into camp by the medical staff of the various hospitals. Private doctors brought in a considerable supply from their personal stocks. The bulk of the stock contained in the small medical store in Tweed Bay Hospital was brought direct from the Queen Mary Hospital.\n\nAfter a time replenishments became more difficult but thanks to the efforts of the Director of Medical Services valuable additions were made, especially of preparations such as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, nicotinic acid, thiamin, and multivite capsules, the price of which in the open market had soared to impossible heights. The Swiss delegate of the I.R.C. was instrumental in sending in medicines occasionally but at exorbitant cost, which made it necessary for the Camp Medical Officer to issue repeated instructions for the exercise of the strictest economy in the use of these medicines. In fact, towards the end of internment scarcely any prescription was allowed to be dispensed without the counter signature of the Camp Medical Officer. This was naturally irksome to doctors but it was only by this means that the supply of certain important preparations lasted out. There were six patients who required twice daily doses of insulin, some as much as 60 units a day. It was an anxious time for both doctor and patients when only one week's supply remained, but fortunately fresh supplies always turned up in the nick of time.\n\nThe most valuable additions of drugs and dressings were those received from the British and Canadian Red Cross Societies.\n\nIt would be ungracious to omit to mention that the Japanese authorities did, from time to time, send into camp medical supplies. Welcome as they were, the actual items were not always in response to specific requests, but appeared to be merely such stocks of preparations that they happened to possess. Perhaps the most valuable of their contributions was the supply of stationery. Until March 1943 prescriptions had to be written on scraps of paper, cigarette wrappings, etc. The medical notes of in-patients were recorded on the backs of temperature charts, and many of these had to be used over and over again.\n\n(f) EQUIPMENT\n\nAs in the case of drugs, most of the surgical instruments and other hospital equipment were brought into camp at the time of internment by various doctors and persons connected with the outside hospitals, but again the majority from the Queen Mary Hospital. It was, however, possible by the pooling of all equipment from all sources to provide for the hospital including the operating theatre, and the district clinics. For weeks after internment the Director of Medical Services, on his periodic visits, never failed to furnish us with additional impedimenta, as for example, a microscope, a diathermy machine, etc., etc. Repeated requests were made to the Japanese authorities for a portable X-ray set, but without success. During the first two years a limited number of patients were sent into town to be X-rayed, but for the last two years no radiography was carried out at all. Though frequently required, it was not possible to obtain a cystoscope.\n\nSome very ingenious surgical appliances were manufactured at the camp workshop at the hands of skilled engineers. They made excellent aluminium splints, bone holding forceps and a high pressure steam steriliser.\n\n(g) MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES\n\n23\n\n(1) Diet kitchens.—After the early months of internment it became very apparent that something would have to be done about making the diet as supplied by the Japanese more suitable and palatable for very young children, elderly invalids, and those suffering from chronic peptic ulcers. The setting up of these special kitchens was made possible by the fact that there were available in the camp a number of electric cookers. The International Welfare Committee provided the extra foodstuffs. The district medical officer exercised general supervision but a trained nurse—a specialist in dietetics—was in charge of each kitchen. She had the assistance of other women experienced in invalid cooking. These kitchens proved a great success. The time came when the electricity was cut off and firewood became scarce, and these kitchens were forced to close. A very definite deterioration in the health of many of the regular patients followed.\n\n(2) Milk.—A limited number of 8 oz. bottles of unpasteurised cow's milk were sent into camp daily, though the supply was somewhat irregular and diminished considerably as time went on. This was kept for the hospital and children under 5 years of age. Full cream powdered milk was reserved for infants only but this supply was exhausted by January 1945. Thirty to forty pints of soya bean milk were made daily. This was reserved for use in the hospital and sanatorium and for debilitated out-patients.\n\n(3) Yeast. Next to loss of body weight the earliest manifestations of food deficiency were those due to lack of vitamins B1 and B2. Owing to the difficulty of supplying the deficiency medicinally, it was decided to manufacture a limited quantity of yeast for administration. The daily dose of 3 to 4 oz. proved efficacious though the media consisted of weevil infested flour, soya bean residue and sweet potatoes.\n\n(4) Medical meetings.—An association consisting of all doctors, dentists and pharmacists was constituted somewhat on the lines of the British Medical Association. A president and vice-presidents were elected annually, also a secretary. Many interesting and instructive papers were read. Minutes were duly read and confirmed and complete records of all discussions were kept.\n\n(5) Hospital visitors board. This small committee, consisting of the Camp Medical Officer as chairman, the Hospital Supervisor (a member of the Clergy) as secretary, and six other members representing the community at large, was appointed by the Representative of Internees. The object of this Board was to assist the hospital administration in matters concerning the welfare of patients, and to act as a liaison between hospital and community. The Board met every two or three weeks throughout internment. There is no doubt that this Board performed valuable service.\n\n(6) Camp relief.—A group of four medical officers including the Camp Medical Officer, the medical officer in charge of the Nutrition Clinic, medical officer in charge of Tweed Bay Hospital, and the medical adviser to the Camp Relief Trustees, was empanelled to give advice in the matter of giving aid to those requiring extra foodstuff. Advice was also given to the Representative of Internees on problems concerning the best use of foodstuffs held in the camp store.\n\n(7) Pathology and bacteriology.—The Government bacteriologist continued his work in the camp to the best of his ability. His small bed-sitting room was his laboratory. He was severely handicapped by the lack of materials and technical equipment. His work was almost entirely confined to the examination of blood films, sputa, and stools, and doing red and white blood cell counts. He was occasionally called upon to perform post-mortem examinations. Towards the end of internment the supply of bacteriological stains gave out. Malaria and pulmonary tuberculosis had to be diagnosed on clinical grounds alone.\n\n(8) Births and deaths registration.—No time was lost after internment in opening fresh registers for the registration of births and deaths respectively. They conformed as closely as possible to the official registers kept in peace-time. Copies of the entries in the registers in the form of births and death certificates respectively, were made out and given to the interested parties. Without the actual registers to refer to, it is impossible to give actual figures. Suffice it to say that the death rate each year remained remarkably low; for instance, during the year 1943, there were only 18 deaths, and the majority of these were of persons over the age of 60. The infant and maternal mortality rates were so low as to be negligible.\n\nD. J. VALENTINE,\n\nCamp Medical Officer.\n\nJanuary, 1946.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579168, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "114\n\n115\n\n2/\n\n26\n\nIn the main College buildings classrooms, laboratories, etc., originally not intended for residential use, and obviously unsuitable as such, are now being used in that capacity by internees. The residential sections provided for masters and boys give suitable accommodation for a number much below that now in occupation. For comparison it may be stated that when used for their normal purposes these residential sections housed a maximum of 180 boys and masters but now, with five cubicles, or accommodation for 10 boys uninhabitable owing to damage by gunfire, they accommodate 289 internees. The former occupants were provided with common rooms in addition but these are now used as dormitories and, with the classrooms, accommodate 212 persons, bringing the total to 501.\n\nTwo large rooms, which are occupied, are not weatherproof and are unfit for habitation owing to damage which has not been repaired. Sacking is used to cover the shattered windows but, while this keeps out daylight, it is no protection against cold, rainstorms and typhoons. Of the total number of 501 internees living in the main College buildings, 40 are in the Science Block which was built as a laboratory and lecture room and is entirely unsuitable for residential purposes. It possesses only one water closet and a shower bath fitted by resident internees whose number was, for a considerable time, as high as 54. Requests have been made but materials for increasing sanitary facilities have not been made available. Excepting the Science Block, the main College buildings provide an average of 46 sq. ft. of floor space for each internee, a bath (mostly of the shower type) and a water closet for every 20 and a water tap, with basin or slab, for every ten.\n\nEach bungalow, normally occupied by a single family, now houses 32 people with an average floor space per head of 46 sq. ft. Sanitary and washing facilities are adequate.\n\nThe accommodation provided in the servants' quarters is a little better than the camp average as regards floor space and toilet amenities.\n\n(2) The buildings specified in the second category were built as quarters for Europeans and are, of course, suitable provided the number of occupants is within reasonable limits. The married officers' quarters consist of 3-storied blocks containing flats of 3 or 4 rooms, while the bachelors' quarters consist of single bedrooms with common rooms and communal washing and sanitary arrangements. In the early months of internment these quarters, mostly occupied by families and mothers with children, were grossly overcrowded, some of the larger flats accommodating 30 or more internees with a floor space per head of less than 30 sq. ft. As a result of departures from camp, conditions were ameliorated to a certain extent and the larger and smaller flats now accommodate on an average 21 and 16 internees respectively. The larger flats are provided with a bath and two water closets, the smaller with one of each and all flats with a kitchen sink.\n\nThe servants' quarters attached to these flats, varying in floor area between 54 and 70 sq. ft., are each occupied by two adults, a mother and child or even a married couple with a baby. The occupants of these small rooms use the toilet and washing facilities provided for servants.\n\nAs cooking in camp is on a communal basis, flat kitchens have, where possible, been converted into living quarters, measuring about 7 sq. ft. They are occupied similarly to servants' quarters, but the occupants use the flats' bathrooms, etc.\n\nIn the married officers' quarters, including servants' rooms and converted kitchens, the space available averages approximately 40 sq. ft. per head.\n\nIn the bachelors' quarters situated in the former Prison Officers' Club, single bedrooms are now occupied by two adults and other rooms according to size. One room on the ground floor, occupied by eight men, has been damaged to such an extent as to make it unfit for habitation.\n\nThe average space per head in this building is 49 sq. ft. Toilet and washing facilities are adequate.\n\n(3) The third category consists of eight buildings, of two or three stories, erected for use by Asiatics—Indians and Chinese.\n\nSix blocks were married quarters and are mostly laid out as small flats of two rooms with verandahs at front and back. Each flat is provided with a water closet, a kitchenette and a washing tap (placed in W.C.). The rooms measure approximately 140 and 100 sq. ft. and accommodate four and three internees respectively.\n\nOwing to structural damage, some rooms do not accommodate a full complement as stated above, but, even then, the average number of persons living in each of these small flats is 6.6.\n\nOne of the bachelor blocks is occupied by single police—two in each room of 92 sq. ft.—and washing and other facilities are adequate.\n\nThe second bachelor block stands apart from the others. It is used as a hospital and quarters for nursing staff.\n\nExcepting the hospital buildings, the\n\n27\n\nIndian Quarters\", as this section of the camp is known, accommodated 748 internees and the average space available to each is ... sq. ft.\n\nThe resident nursing staff, numbering 55, reside in four large rooms on the top floor of the hospital building. The average space per head is about 60 sq. ft. and five water-closets and five shower baths are provided. This is poor accommodation for staff whose work is particularly trying and gives little facility for rest to those on night duty.\n\nDoctors and other male staff directly attached to the hospital live in the 'Leprosarium', a building previously part of the Hong Kong Prison and then used for the accommodation of leprous prisoners.\n\nLighting and ventilation of all accommodation, with the exception of damaged rooms, is adequate. Artificial lighting is by electricity.\n\nThere is no means of heating rooms nor is such normally required.\n\nA limited amount of furniture, the property of previous residents, was available in St. Stephen's College, the bungalows and the European Officers' quarters, but none whatever in the 'Indian Quarters' section of the camp.\n\nExcluding the Hospital, Leprosarium and the Science building, the total area available for internees is approximately 98,000 sq. ft., which allows 41 sq. ft. per head, and when one considers the figure already given it will be realised that a maximum and equitable use is being made of the space provided. It must be remembered that there is no communal accommodation, such as dining and sitting rooms, and that the areas given per head represent the total floor space available to internees for all purposes.\n\nThere is, without doubt, serious overcrowding in camp, which is a constant danger to the health of the community. Overcrowding facilitates the spread of communicable diseases and is particularly dangerous when combined with a state of general malnutrition such as exists in the camp. Nor must we forget the serious effects on the nervous system of prolonged residence in overcrowded rooms in this uncertain existence of ours. Should an epidemic occur in this camp its control would be difficult as conditions, particularly as regards housing, would favour its spread and the results might be serious.\n\nIt is generally considered that 6 ft. of wall space for each bed is the minimum that can be regarded as affording some degree of protection against the spread of disease from one occupant of a room to another, but such spacing is impossible in this camp; even in rooms where tuberculous cases are accommodated. The spread of tuberculosis, dysentery, or, in fact, of any disease, whether conveyed as a droplet infection, by contact or by insects, is facilitated by lack of adequate accommodation. What would be a reasonable standard of housing in our present circumstances? Obviously, we cannot have the amenities we enjoyed in our own homes but it would not be unreasonable, in my opinion, to expect at least the standard of accommodation provided for British troops in South China (including Stanley) in pre-war days—a floor space of 80 sq. ft. and a cubic space of 1,000 cubic feet per head. If we take that as our standard, and we cannot be satisfied with a lower one, it follows that the accommodation at present provided is only about half of what we require for reasonable comfort and the maintenance of health.”\n\n8. HOSPITAL\n\nThe ground and first floors of a building already referred to were used as a hospital which had accommodation for 70 patients in six wards—three for males and three for females. The building was not very satisfactory, it was too small to meet the hospitalisation demands made necessary by serious overcrowding in quarters, its lay-out made impossible the proper segregation of dysentery and other infectious diseases, and washing and sanitary facilities were poor. In spite of this, and the many difficulties met in regard to staffing, equipment, medical and surgical stores, heating, lighting and water supplies, this hospital did magnificent work in caring for the sick and the majority of internees benefited at one time or another from its services. This is clearly shown by its record of admissions which were 1,521 in 1942, 1,189 in 1943, 1,468 in 1944 and 795 for 8 months in 1945, a total of 4,604. In addition, there was an out-patient department where specialist services were available.\n\n9. PERSONAL HYGIENE\n\nFew internees were able to arrive in camp with adequate supplies of clothing, footwear and bedding and for several months many had to sleep on concrete floors.\n\nSome were able to bring in bedding from the Chinese hotels where they had been interned before arrival in camp. Much of this was bug-infested and gave considerable trouble.\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582425, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947", "content_text": "## Detailed Accommodation Numbers\n\n| Nature of Accommodation | Total | Can be accommodated | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Private Property (Appdx. 'D') | 372 | 2,258 | Govt. action to initiate repairs necessary and in certain cases arrangements will be necessary to staff and furnish these places as hostels or quarters. |\n| Property occupied by services (Appdx. 'E') | | | Some of this property may be the same as that laid on by themselves by firms for their own use. It has therefore been excluded from the grand total of property available. |\n| Other property due for derequisition in March (Appdx. 'F') | 189 | 904 | 8,157 |\n\n9. Based on an anticipated intake of a further 50 in March, 450 in April and 500 in each of May, June, July, August and September, it is estimated that existing accommodation, plus work completed by P.W.D. and premises acquired privately by firms, should suffice to meet the demand until approximately 7th June, 1946. To enable a reasonable standard of comfort to be provided, it will be necessary to issue to hotels additional sheets, pillow slips, mosquito nets and towels. I am taking up with Supplies, Transport and Industry Branch the question of provision. Between approximately 8 June and 30 Sept. it will be necessary, on present planning figures, to provide additional accommodation for a further 1,900. An indication of how this may be achieved is attached as Appdx. 'G'.\n\n10. If these proposals are approved in principle, action will be necessary to examine in detail the proposals regarding specific houses and to select those which are to be retained or acquired by Government. A decision as to which of these are to be staffed, and furnished and run as hostels and which are to be held under requisition until taken over by firms or Government Departments will then be necessary. Finally, the machinery for initiating the setting up of the places selected as hostels requires to be decided, and action taken to acquire management, staff, furniture, and, in some cases, transport.\n\nGen. Adm. Branch, \nColonial Secretariat, \nLower Albert Road, \nHong Kong.\n\n44 \n1 \n**(Signed) J. D. MILNE,** \nLt. Col. \nQuartering Commandant.\n\n## Appendix 'A'\n\n### Premises available for Europeans Now.\n\n| Premises | Can Hold Capacity Now | Apr. | May | June | Jul. | Aug. | Sept. | Remarks | Method of acquiring |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Requisitioned. | 52 | 52 | | | | | | (a) Will require additional beds, pillows, sheets, mosquito nets, if filled to capacity. (b) When freed by R.A.F. will act as overflow for Peninsula Hotel. | |\n| Rented privately by firms. | 360 | 360 | 451 | 1,112 | 1,060 | 690 | 690 | | |\n| Already requisitioned. | 200 | 200 | | | | | | | |\n\n## Appendix 'B'\n\n(a) All these places would require managements and staff, also beds, furniture and bedding, mosquito nets, crockery, cutlery, and kitchen utensils, &c. Those marked would require transport.\n\n| | Can Hold | Apr. | May | June | Jul. | Aug. | Sept. | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Requisitioned for Police due for release April. | | 30 | | | | | | |\n| Requisitioned likely to be free in June. | | | | 470 | 260 | 110 | 100 | used as WRNS Hostel. May be released in June. |\n| | 08 | 08 | 17 | 100 | | | | | \n| | | | | 08 | | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583106, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-596-7 Canton-Kowloon Railway 6-2-1948 - 25-8-1948", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-596-7 Canton-Kowloon Railway 6-2-1948 - 25-8-1948", "content_text": "# Statement No. 12—CLASSIFICATION OF ROLLING STOCK—CARRIAGES\n(April 1947—March 1948)\n\n| Classification | Total Stock at the beginning of the year | Additions during the year | Reductions during the year | Total Stock at the end of the year | Average Tare of each Class | Seating Capacity (Passengers) | Total seating Capacity (Passengers) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| First Class Carriage | 36 | | 11 | | Tons Cwt. | | |\n| \" | | | | | \"323574\" | | |\n| First and second class composite carriage | 1 | | 1 | | | | |\n| First and second class composite carriage | 1 | | 1 | | | | |\n| Second Class Carriage | 1 | | 1 | | F | 121 | |\n| Second and Third Class composite carriage | 1 | | 1 | | | 131 | |\n| Third Class Carriage | 13 | | 1 | 70 | | 60 | 2,048 |\n| Third Class Luggage and Brake | 70 | | 2 | 92 | | | |\n| Third Class Kitchen | 60 | | | 116 | | | |\n| Brake | 2 | | 1 | | | | |\n| Total | | | | | | | 3,129 |\n\nNote \nReturned by C.H.R. \nEs.52 \n[ 27 ]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-596-7 Canton-Kowloon Railway 6-2-1948 - 25-8-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594536, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "### Appendix C\n\nTo be sold within 5 years, the lots are to be given to bona-fide residents or house owners. A scheme of this nature will not burden financially on Government or the taxpayer; in fact, it will benefit Treasury in increased rates and taxes.\n\n## INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS\n\nThe location of shipyards, large industrial concerns, and factories determines to a large extent the employment of labour and houses to accommodate the workers.\n\nIf industrial concerns follow the good example set by the Taikoo Dock Company by providing quarters for their workers and families, several thousand workers' families would thus be provided for.\n\n## SETTLEMENTS FOR THE POOR\n\n### (i)\n\nThe provision of \"settlements\" or \"community centres\" for the poor, not designed to yield a profit, depends either on public or private philanthropic enterprise. Prior to the last war, I was asked to design plans for an improved type of Chinese tenements for Bishop Hall, a scheme which the energetic Bishop hoped to build as an experiment a few houses for poor workers' families, but this did not materialise on account of the war.\n\n### (ii)\n\n\"Poor houses\" were erected by the Canton Municipality some 10 years ago in different parts of the city for the poor. No doubt, there are centres of this nature in other cities of other countries, run either on voluntary lines or with aid from local authorities concerned.\n\n### (iii)\n\nHousing for the poor is a pressing need and a social problem which concerns the welfare of the community, and it seems a pity, however, that it is nobody's responsibility to ensure that such settlements should be built. Government should encourage and, where necessary, assist or subsidise charitable organizations for the establishment of \"settlements\" in the slum areas. There can be no doubt that when they are well managed and run, this would greatly help towards the development of a \"community feeling\" and a blessing to the poor.\n\n### (iv)\n\nBuildings. Permanent buildings are too costly to erect because of prevailing high building costs. A simple type, one-storey semi-permanent structure (9\" x 9\" brick supporting piers with 42\" panel walls) with a wooden roof would be cheap and easy to erect. Buildings are of two types: (1) for families of 4, and (2) dormitory type for single working men or women with detached kitchens and lavatories. Huts are designed not for \"looks\" but in a simple, practical way with through ventilation and allotted floor area and air per person. The disposition of the huts, kitchens, etc., is only arbitrary; some have to be reconsidered for each particular site and requirement. Families could cook their own food; a small allotted space for two cooking stoves is provided for each family in the kitchens. Working men or women will probably have their food from street stalls or a central kitchen provided for them where cheap, wholesome food can be obtained at controlled prices.\n\nI would suggest that something should be done and started for the unfortunate poor, and I have no doubt that our energetic Director of Medical Services will use his good offices and effort to urge Government in the establishment of these \"settlements\".\n\n37", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594677, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949", "content_text": "## ANNEXURE 3\n\nCopy.\n\n2nd October, 1948.\n\n46\n\n**Professor Gordon King, University of Hong Kong.**\n\nDear Prof. King,\n\nTung Wah Eastern Hospital.\n\nFurther to my letter dated September 14th, 1948, submit hereunder estimates and plans for the following works:-\n\n1. Main Hospital Building (see Plan 1).\n a) additional floor to main hospital building with 14\" section steel casement doors and windows, 1\" teak parquet flooring to main rooms, local cement tiles to verandahs and lavatories, 11\" teak doors and etc., to match existing work, sanitary fittings and necessary piping.....\n b) alteration for two additional theatres and sterilising rooms on 3rd floor......\n c) Repairs to basement for out-patients' department...\n d) Stoves and sinks to kitchen.\n e) Raising existing lift one floor.\n\n| Item | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| a | $630,000.00 |\n| b | $7,800.00 |\n| c | $5,000.00 |\n| d | $4,000.00 |\n| e | $10,000.00 |\n| Total | $659,800.00 |\n\nII. Quarters for 29 Male servants (see Plan 11).\n Additional floor over existing Chinese kitchen and conversion of kitchen into quarters.\n $35,000.00\n\nIII. New Quarters for 66 Female servants (see Plan 11).\n Site Formation. New 3 storey building.\n | Item | Cost |\n | --- | --- |\n | | $15,000.00 |\n | | $75,000.00 |\n | Total | $90,000.00 |\n\nIV. New Nurses Quarters (see Plan 111).\n Site formation work. New 4 storey building.\n | Item | Cost |\n | --- | --- |\n | | $45,000.00 |\n | | $400,000.00 |\n | Total | $445,000.00 |\n\nI shall be glad to furnish further details if required and I await your further instructions for submission of plans to the Building Authority.\n\nYours sincerely,\n(sd)I.N. Chau.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599391, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "WEI HOLL\n\nARCHITECT\n\nARCHITECTURAL OFFICE\n\nW. D.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n十\n\nINSTAL\n\nTANLIGHT\n\nCOAT PLASTER,\n\nLIME 1 CENT RENDER, FLOOR.\n\nI SKIRTING\n\nWASL TO CON BLOCKS\n\nLIVE WASH TO\n\nDON. BACKO\n\nSHELVES\n\nFURD\n\nCUP\n\n**BRIZTINGS\n\nSECTION A-A\n\nSINK\n\nO DADO\n\nNO PLASTRE ABOVE\n\nKITCHEN\n\nI'LEMT LINDI REDUCING TO SE\n\ns'ab\n\nW.C\n\nLIVING ROOM\n\nLGHT IMPER\n\nESDUCING to 3%\n\nin's 5:0 STANDARD METAL WINDOW\n\nCENT ZENDEK, WINDOW BOARD\n\nCONCEITE\n\n10! o\n\nONE UNIT\n\nA\n\nEPTHS\n\nSHOWER\n\nBALUSTRADE,F-a' Hien\n\nMPIA AT «*%2 ZAI 2*, KA FLAT\n\nSCALE\n\nWASTE\n\nKITCHEN\n\n52\n\nLIVING ROOM\n\nCONCERTE PARTITION\n\nPLAN\n\nI INCH - 2 FEET\n\nA\n\nCONCRETE WORKERS FLATS AT SHEUNG LI UK\n\nKOWLOON\n\nWETION OMITTED\n\nNINg\n\nLOAD\n\nSITE\n\nSCALE\n\nPLAN\n\nINCH = 300 FT.\n\n*******\n\nW.C\n\nSCHEDULE Ov OPENING EACH UNIT\n\nINO\n\nWINDOW\n\nSTANDARD METAL\n\nING.\n\n3:4′′ 12°\n\nIN\n\nLOUVER\n\nWeb\n\nW.C. INO\n\nA\n\n13' 20'\n\nDook\n\n4′′ × 2/2′′ FAMI\n\nDOOR SIZE 2'5¾× 6'8\"\n\nDooz\n\n4′ = 3½′′ FRAME\n\nDOGE SIZE: 2'6\"\n\n49\n\nEnd\n\nDELWING NO A\n\nP 172\n\nSCALE: FINCH- 2 FT.\n\nDATE: 23rd NOVEMBER, 1950", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]