[ { "id": 324873, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "Assessor \n\nof repriced, \n\n& damn to request to Chips \n\nyou \n\nEndeavour to select \n\nAu \n\nOffice licensing die qualifications \n\n4 on the terms \n\nstated in the \n\naccompanying Despatch-\n\n& \n\nRua \n\nGovernor.j No. \n\nwen 16 \n\nDate. \n\n1884 \n\n18 Jan \n\njust previous Paper. \n\n450 \n\ncopy \n\ncons. 15 Mari \n\nAgents \n\nam no. 91.26 april on 6605 \n\n3/4 \n\n... \n\nthe \n\ntrong trong No. 3365 \n\n(Subject.) \n\nRECO \n\nDESPATCH \n\nCOT \n\n3.368 \n\nREGE 20 EB 84 \n\n131 \n\nPatent Destructor, multitubular Steam Boiler and Steam Disinfecting Apparatus \n\nRequests suppes \n\ncauitar purposes \n\nWheade \n\n(Minutes,) \n\nThis Machine is meant to deal with \n\nrefuse & filth allerled \n\nScavenging Contract, mit \n\nExcreta Contract; \n\nrecommended \n\nconceer \n\nOto Gebo \n\nit is apparent \n\nIr Price is higher \n\nof the Kiln \n\nFor the purpose agreed 4 hr Chadwick Part 2. Section 6. Dorogh 269 \n\nWith the Fence of his Report. \n\n541. \n\nIn this part of to Chadwick's Report the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324875, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "To the Crown Agents.\n\nIf the Patent Destructor is a credit I should tell them that we do so & understand that it is intended for use in connection with the Scavenging Contract, & not in connection with its disposal of Valhalla excreta.\n\nThe 6 cells will deal with half the quantity they have for disposal of.\n\n20 C. Apu[rte] for report Crown Agents 1st August 1973 Gud 10/8.\n\nI think it will be well to refer this to his Honour R. Ranthorn - He has talked it over with Trimmer and thinks he shall be able to obtain what is wanted without Bay Pakenham, which will save the money.\n\nI recommend there be a clear advantage from being a liner.\n\nFor R. Rundlivron is disposed to think there are equally good and much less expensive modes of getting rid of the refuse.\n\nIntd C. Apu[rte] sending Que 12/3.\n\nPage 133\n\nPage 133\n\nPage 134\n\nPage 134\n\nPage 134", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324877, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "J135\n\nthe purchase of a Patent Destructor, a multitubular steam boiler and a disinfecting apparatus.\n\n\"Solid filth and dry refuse removed every morning by the scavenging contractor.\n\n3. As will be seen by my letter, the Surveyor General, who is also Chairman of the Sanitary Board, is of opinion that \"one of the most necessary improvements in connexion with Sanitary reform in this Colony is the adoption of a furnace for consuming and rendering innocuous the 84 tons of refuse daily collected by Contractors from the public dust bins and private tenements in the City.\" This refuse has hitherto been deposited on the shore, where it has been left to decay by exposure to all weathers. It can be easily seen what great danger to the public health is involved by the present practice; especially when it is stated that the shore is crowded, and ...\n\n... (likely missing text due to OCR damage)\n\n... as mentioned in my Despatch No. ... (likely missing text due to OCR damage)\n\nPage information seems to be missing, but based on the given text, it appears that the original scan had some OCR errors. The corrected version is provided above.\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions precisely and not leave any explanation, the output should be:\n\nJ135\n\nthe purchase of a Patent Destructor, a multitubular steam boiler and a disinfecting apparatus.\n\n\"Solid filth and dry refuse removed every morning by the scavenging contractor.\n\n3. As will be seen by my letter, the Surveyor General, who is also Chairman of the Sanitary Board, is of opinion that \"one of the most necessary improvements in connexion with Sanitary reform in this Colony is the adoption of a furnace for consuming and rendering innocuous the 84 tons of refuse daily collected by Contractors from the public dust bins and private tenements in the City.\" This refuse has hitherto been deposited on the shore, where it has been left to decay by exposure to all weathers. It can be easily seen what great danger to the public health is involved by the present practice; especially when it is stated that the shore is crowded, and ...\n\n... 195 in my Despatch No. 83 16710 of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324878, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "136\n\n\"of the 21th August ultimo, \"that\n\n\"Mr Chadwick has pointed out in strong terms that the insanitary state of large portions of this City peculiarly \"exposes it to visitations of \"contagious and infectious diseases.\" The outbreak of an epidemic in this Colony could not but be regarded with the most serious apprehension, and it is therefore highly necessary to take every precaution to prevent such a contingency. With a view to remove the risk to which the public health is now exposed by the present method of disposing of the refuse of the Colony, it is proposed to adopt the plan common in England of calcining the refuse by means of a Patent Destructor; an account of which is given in the enclosure.\n\n3. An estimate of the cost will be found in the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324882, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "Belcher's Bay\n\n2.\n\nIn England it is now becoming the practice to burn the waste product of towns by cremation, and many corporate bodies have established public furnaces with this object. When I was in England, I consulted Sir Robert Rawlinson, as to the most suitable form of Destructor for adoption here, and was favoured by him with some printed matter that had been published on the subject.\n\nAlso on Sir Robert Rawlinson's advice, I visited Rotherham and had an opportunity of personally inspecting the working of a Destructor on Fryer's Patent, which had been erected by the Municipal authorities of that town.\n\n3.\n\nThe adoption in England of Destructors may be taken as a proof of their successful working, and I have therefore the honour to recommend the purchase of one for Hong Kong and its erection at Belcher's Bay with a view to putting an end to the great nuisance and risk to the Public health caused by the present practice of depositing the refuse of the town on the sea-shore, where it is left to go to decay by exposure to all weather.\n\nThere happens to be passing through the Colony at the moment a Mr Henry Matheson, Sanitary Engineer and the representative of a well-known firm of Matheson & Grant, 32, Wallbrook, London, who have been connected...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324884, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "142\n\nthat a letter be written to the Crown Agents requesting them to institute further enquiry into the practical working of Payer's Passeur Destructor and of Lyon's Patent Steam Disinfecters, and if the result of their enquiries be satisfactory that an apparatus complete of each kind be sent out to the Colony.\n\n7. The quantity of daily solid town refuse to be treated amounts to 84 tons, and if the Crown Agents discover that an apparatus of six cells is unable to cope with this amount, it will be necessary to add to the number of cells.\n\nI would however be disposed to recommend, if any doubt exist as to the destructive capabilities of the cells, that a larger number be created to begin with and that the number be increased as experience may dictate.\n\nI have to address Sir J. H. Stewart Lockhart, K.C.M.G., Surveyor General.\n\nB.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324885, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "143\n\nry Cellatheson, Eg, to the Surveyor General.\n\nHary\n\nDopy)\n\nTo the\n\nHong Kong. Hatal\n\nDecember 5th 1883.\n\nSurveyor General of Hong Kong\n\nThe Non Schwall. Private-\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI have the honour to bring\n\nbefore your notice Papers. Palicis Destructor\n\nAs\n\nbeing a most\n\nuseful and satisfactory means\n\nof dealing with street sweeping &\n\nand ash-pit refuse.\n\nIt is unnecessary for\n\nme to point\n\nout the dangers as well as inconveniences that may arise from any accumulation of such refuse, particularly in a hot climate like that of Hong Kong,\n\nbut", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324887, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "the Chimney. The steam thereby generated may be used for grounding mortar...\n\nused breaking stones disinfecting clothes or for other purposes.\n\nThese Destructors have been adopted\n\nby Leeds, Bradford, Blackburn, Bolton, Hull, Rotherham, Derby, Salford; and other towns. More than one\n\nof these places after trying them in a small way\n\nor to a limited extent have put up more to extend their use, and the Hon.\n\nCommissioners of Sewers of the City of London having a group of 10 cells put up together with boiler, engine, mortar-mills etc.\n\nTwelve cells in all would probably be sufficient to deal with the whole 83 tons daily refuse of Hongkong.\n\nI would venture to suggest that a Destructor Yard be placed on this basis. The furnaces could be conveniently arranged in\n\ntwo groups of six each, and if preferred one group might be put up first, leaving space for the other and allowing for it in the size of chimney, or each group might have\n\nits own chimney. It would be well\n\nto have a boiler and utilize the steam\n\nfor disinfecting and other purposes.\n\nThe body of a group of furnaces consists of brick work strongly stayed\n\nwith brickwork and bound together with iron. It has also iron furnace doors and frames,\n\nwrought iron fire bars and fire bar bearers\n\nand other subsidiary iron work. For\n\nits", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324890, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "space required. The destructor top is 12 feet from the ground but the feeding floor around it is made about 3 feet higher to form the destructor head into a kind of ashpit or rubbish receptacle.\n\nI beg also to append for your perusal a Report by Dr Sedgwick Sanders \"Disposal of Refuse\" - prepared for the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London (Jan. 25th/80) which contains a good deal of matter regarding the Destructor, and also an extract from the \"Sanitary Record\" (Oct. 18. 1881) on Disinfecting by Steam.\n\nTrusting that these may commend themselves to your judgment also\n\nI have to\n\nremain,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nHenry Callatheron for Matheson & Grant.\n\nPage 148\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325143, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "CS Q. 10\n\nof 1891.\n\nC.5.0.2241\n\nof 1593.\n\nC.8.0.50\n\nof 1984.\n\n(12.) Read: A letter from the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, recommending the new appointment of a Detective Inspector.\n\nRead also, a minute by the Colonial Secretary, pointing out that, in the event of the new appointment being approved, it will be unnecessary to fill up one of the posts of Sergeant of Police, in which case the extra expenditure will be only at the rate of $3 a month. Vote of $36 recommended in view of the slight extra expenditure, and as the Committee consider that the new post of Detective Inspector is highly necessary, especially during the present state of affairs in China, when so many bad characters frequent the Colony.\n\n(13.) Read: A memorandum by the Colonial Secretary, and minutes by the Colonial Treasurer on the subject of the appointment of a new Valuator.\n\nwhich will\n\nThe Committee recommend the approval of a vote at the rate of $1,321 a year, `be the amount of extra expenditure* necessary on account of the appointment of an assessor having technical qualifications, as a revised valuation of house property by a skilled person is certain to lead to a large increase in the revenue, which has hitherto suffered from the valuations made by untrained persons.\n\n(14.) Read: A letter from the Surveyor General recommending the purchase of a Patent Destructor, Multitubular Steam Boiler and a Steam Disinfecting Apparatus at a cost\n\nof £2,000.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the expenditure be approved, as the purchase of a Patent Destructor will put an end to the great nuisance and risk to the public health caused by the present practice of depositing the refuse of the town on the sea shore, where it is left to decay by exposure to all weathers, and a Steam Disinfecting Apparatus will be of great value in cases of infectious sickness and of epidemic, to which the Colony is at all times liable.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nW. H. MARSH,\n\nChairman.\n\nDRAFT.\n\n4\n\nNo.90\n\n76\n\n6524 Hongkong\n\nSin. G. F. Bower Gimg\n\nMINUTE.\n\n22.\n\nMr. Lucas Mr. De Robed\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nMr. Ashley.\n\nLord Derby.\n\nApril\n\n401\n\n25 April. 84.\n\nI have the honour to\n\nack: the receipt of your\n\ndespatch no. 76. of the\n\n23\n\n12\n\n19 the\n\n7\n\nSubject to any\n\n1\n\nUshanial\n\nand to 1\n\napprove the votes of council Homin detailed for pray mainte\n\nHerein\n\nthe estimates\n\nin excess of the\n\n* Clerk of Works,\n\nInterpreter,\n\nSalaries,\n\nAllowance for Assessment,\n\nfor Quarters,\n\nChair Allowance,.....\n\nDeduct\n\nAllowance to two Municipal Rate Valuators at\n\n$720 each (see Estimates p. 14),\n\nNett increase,\n\n$1,600 rising by movements of $54 to $2,140,\n\n180\n\n$1,780\n\n480\n\n360\n\n144\n\n$2,764\n\n-$1,440\n\n$1,324 minimum,\n\nFor consideration\n\nfor\n\n1883", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326819, "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": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "# ALL COMMUNICATIONS \n## TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE \n### CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES.\n\nAGENTS FOR COLONIES \n280 \nDOWNING STREET, LONDON. \n22nd April 1884 \n\nWith reference to your letter of the 15th April 1884, relative to the purchase of a Patent Destructor and a Patent Disinfector for use in Hong Kong, I have the honour to forward a copy of a report by Sir Robert Rawlinson, C.B., in which he recommends that the refuse should be disposed of by towing it daily out to sea in a hopper barge, as is done at Liverpool and Dublin. He is of opinion that this mode of disposal will be both cheaper and more convenient.\n\nUnder Secretary of State \nColonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326820, "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": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 284, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "C: 0.281\n\nconvenient than the Patent-Destructor and as hopper barges are now, it is understood, being built in the Colony for carrying dredged material out to sea, there may be assumed available towing power and there appears to be no reason why the barge should not, on the first trip out in the morning, carry the scavenger's refuse out to deep water.\n\nAs regards the Disinfector, Sir Robert Rawlinson recommends, for obvious reasons, the use of a portable disinfector of the pattern which has been found perfectly efficient for work of this kind in London.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour Obedient Servant,\nWA. Ummmmmer manmey\n22 APR\n\n## Sir R. Rawlinson to Crown Agents\n\n### Removal of Solid Refuse and Disinfection of Clothing &c.\n\nGentlemen,\nLondon, 14th April 1884.\n\nI have looked over Governor's communication of the 18th January and the letter of the 19th March addressed to me with the enclosures and beg to report as under: —\n\n#### Scavenging\n\nScavenging should be general including both public and private refuse, all of which, as far as be practicable, ought to be removed daily.\n\nThe Surveyor General, finding...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326821, "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": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "282 \n\nA difficulty of disposing of this refuse so as to prevent its being a cause of nuisance, wishes to burn it, and for the effecting of this, purposes to establish Patented \"Refuse Destructors\" such as are in use at some inland English towns.\n\nIt is also proposed to establish in conjunction with the Destructors Patented Disinfecting Apparatus for bedding and clothing.\n\nHong Kong is a small island having sea frontage round it, and no open area sufficient for cultivation; the Chinese modes of dealing with refuse as manure are not therefore admissible. Sea close in shore where it becomes a cause of nuisance.\n\nThe weight of the refuse is said to be about eighty-four tons per day or about 30,000 tons per annum.\n\nIt is true that refuse destructors are in use in Manchester, and in some other large inland towns in England, but the costs and inconveniences are found to be so great that, in sea port towns, steamers and hopper barges are used to receive and remove the solid refuse out of the rivers and into deep water as the cheapest mode of getting rid of it.\n\nThis is the case at Liverpool and at Dublin. At present the refuse is collected and discharged into the sea on the Island.\n\nIn both these cities, there are means...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326822, "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": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 286, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "283 means inland conveyance of the solid refuse by railway and by canal, to large areas of land under culture, but trouble and costs are found to be greater than take place by having the hopper-barges and towing the same by steamers several miles down the rivers and out into deep water of the Sea.\n\nThis mode of disposing of the 84 tons daily of solid refuse from Hong Kong will, in my opinion, be handier and cheaper than burning it on the patented destructors; there also will be less chance of nuisance as the solid refuse of each day may be sunk away from the shore into deep water.\n\n### Disinfecting Apparatus\n\nThere are several forms of disinfecting apparatuses in use in England, and to be certain as to which apparatus is considered most effective, I have consulted the Head of the Medical Department of the Local Government Board, whose Staff have a wide experience of these things, and I learn that \"Washington Lyon's Patent Disinfector\" is considered the best.\n\nIt is portable, as shown on the diagrams herewith submitted. The details are full and clear, and the testimony of the Medical Department is satisfactory.\n\n### In establishing hopper-barges MA...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326823, "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": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 287, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "284 \n\nfor the solid refuse the carting or other form of removal from the town will be readier and easier than to a fixed building with kilns, there will be two barges stationed at the nearest points on the shore from which the Steamer can tow them out to deep water; then wash them by steam pump, hose and jet, and return them to their berths clean for further use.\n\nThe Portable Disinfector can also be moved to where it will be most needed, which will be an advantage.\n\nFor the reasons stated in this Report, I beg to recommend hopper barges and steam-boat power to receive and discharge the solid refuse scavenged each day into deep water, and the Portable Disinfector in preference to Patented permanent Destructor and Disinfector on Shore as suggested in reports from Hong Kong.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(sd) Robert Rawlinson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326824, "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": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 288, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\n## Hangkung\n\nww.91\n\nSur f. 7. Bowen feel.\n\n### MINUTE.\n\n- Mr. Johnem 24op.\n- Mr. De Robeck 24t\n- Mr. Wingfield.\n- Mr. Bramston.\n- Mr. Meade. Ik\n- Sir R. Herbert.\n- Mr. Ashley.\n- Lord Derby.\n\n-25.\n\n| Date | Agents | Reference |\n|-------------|-----------------|--------------|\n| 15 March | Agents | 33687 |\n| 22 April | Agents Hangkung | printing |\n| | | 6605 |\n\nSir,\n\n285 D.S. 26 April 82\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch no. 16 of the 18th of Jan? last, respecting the proposed purchase of a Patent Destructor for dealing with the refuse of Hangkay, together with a multitubular steam boiler and a steam disinfecting apparatus; and to forward for your consideration copies", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366479, "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": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "content_text": "# COPY.\n\n## No. 52.\n\nSir,\n\n### ENCLOSURE.\n\nSanitary Board Room. \n332 \n10849 \nREC \nREG I M 98 \n\nHong-Kong, 29th March, 1898.\n\nI have the honour, by direction of the Sanitary Board, to request that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government will be pleased to request Mr. J. R. Crook, the Surveyor to the Board, to make full inquiries into the working of Refuse destructors and their adaptability to this Colony, while he is on leave in England, and to forward a report to the Board on the subject at an early date.\n\nI am to add that Mr. Crook has expressed his willingness to undertake this work if his expenses in connection therewith are guaranteed by the Government and he is furnished with the necessary introductions by the Crown Agents for the Colonies.\n\nI have, &c., \n**(Sd.)** Francis W. Clark, \nActing Secretary.\n\nThe Honourable \nT. Sercombe Smith, \nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366480, "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": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Gov \n## 10849 98 \n### Hong Kong \n333 \n\n**DRAFT** \n\nJ. R. Crook, Esq. \n8 Fielding Rd. \nWest Kensington \n\n**MINUTE** \n\nMr. Fiddian. 5+16 \nMr. Johnson is for Mr. Cox. \nMr. Lucas. \nMr. Graham. \nMr. Wingfield. \nEarl of Selborne. \nMr. Chamberlain. \n\nfor conson, int. Lucas verbal instructions.\n\nJune 98 \n\nWith reference to the suggestion of the Governor, in your letter of the 4th instant, that you should while in this country inquire into the working of Refuse Destructors, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that you should, in the first instance, confine your enquiries to Refuse Destructors in...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366481, "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": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "content_text": "immediately \n\nLondon and the neighbourhood of \nLondon \n\n2. Should you be going to visit other places at \na distance from London, \nRefuse Destructors other than \nthose specified above, \n\nI am to request that \nyou will be good enough to \nfirst submit \nyour account for \nany \nexpenses you may \nhave incurred in/near London \nvisiting the store. \n\n3. The Chamberlain \nconsiders that the \nsum \nof £20 should ordinarily be a limit for \nany expense \nyou may \nexpect to \nincur in this matter \netc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369415, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## Registrar General's Office, Hong Kong\n### List of Correspondence\n\n| Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- |\n| 27 Nov | Pension of T. Grey |\n| 30 Dec | Chinese Jurisdiction in Kowloon |\n| 5 Dec | Refuse Destructors |\n| 13 Dec | Enquiry D. J. Donelan |\n| 12 Dec | Letter for Appointment |\n| 7 May | Remittances from A. Baird |\n| 23 Dec | Bravo Goods trade |\n| 29 Dec | Indian Pension |\n| 18 Apr | Indian Pension |\n| 17 May | Remittances from A. Baird |\n| 19 Feb | Petition for Retirement |\n| 23 Jan | Expenses in studying Police and Fire Systems |\n| 7 Nov | Registration of Nursing Sister |\n| 1 Dec | Departure for Colony (Miss Batchelor) |\n| 20 May | Application for appointment |\n| 26 May | Application for appointment (H.T. traws) |\n| 9 May, 18 July | Extension of Leave (J.J.L. Prosser) |\n| 18 July | Telegram for the G. Burkila |\n| 10 Sept | Death of Supt. |\n| 15 June | Chinese Customo Jurisdiction |\n| 6 Dec | Passage Reduction (~W.M) |\n| 16 March | Family Remittance |\n| 7 June | Charges against Inspector Stanton |\n| 31 Aug | Case letter Singh |\n| 7 Sept | Refuse Destructors |\n| 27 May | Application for Police Magistracy |\n| 4 June | Registration of Trade Marks |\n| 19 July | Application for Trade Marks |\n\n### Other Correspondence\n\n* 11 Dec: Letter from Low High Chancellor of Ireland to Registrar General\n* 14 Dec: Letter from T. Grey to Howe\n* 23 Dec: Letter from Avery L. to Registrar General\n* 17 May: Letter from W. & Lenobitter to Registrar General\n* 79: Badeley (Birth)\n* 1873: Blake (Six Ho)\n* J.P. Bythway (Butha Land it.S)\n* Sir Ha Blake \n* Badeley 7.9.\n* Ball J.P. \n* D. Ball \n* Lo Nuore Bake P. \n* Mis R.MI \n* Bishop of Victoria \n* Crook G.T. Coldstream Cork \n* J. R. \n* Brootha \n* Bishop of Hong Kong \n* Schools \n\n### File References\n\n* `XCR(85)72` is not present in the original text, however the following file references are present: `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present, the text contains `INW`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369725, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## West C \nECO SW33 \nLondon 1306 \n8 Fielding Road Kensington \nAugust 31 1898\n\nRe: Refuse Destructors for Hongkong\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to request that I may be furnished with a copy of the Report of Dust Destructors made by Sir Alex. Binnie and Messrs. Shirley & Murphy and issued by the London County Council under date 1893.\n\nThe report is out of print but it is probable that the London County Council have some copies left and that they would supply the Colonial Office on application from the same.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient humble servant,\nM. Crook,\nEx Engineer, P.W.D. Hongkong.\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369735, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 323, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## DOMESTIC.\n\n### Refuse Destructors\n\n**Rece 12 NOV 18**\n\nReports proceedings in visiting.\n\nand rebit's claim for Exfence I \n\nSir W. Hawillv \n\n**(Minutes.)**\n\nI think Mr Crook might \nhave been satisfied with seeing the Refuse Destructors \nin London & the neighbourhood, instead of \ntripping about to Edinburgh (as he has done \napparently) \n\nbut the large expenditure is \nshould not raise objections \n? Authorise C.A to \nunder £10, 30 \npay him from Hongkong funds the sum \nof £ 9. R. 6 that sum being \nExpenses incurred \nby \nhim in visiting Refuse & inspecting \nRefuse Destructors in the U.K in accordance with instructions from the Govt of Hongkong.\n\nI am, etc.\n\nYou are informed \nthat a copy of your letter of the \nth instant has \nbeen transmitted to \nthe Office Administering the Government of \nand that \na copy of your \nletter \nunder acknowledgement \nwill also be forwarded \nto them.\n\n### Previous Paper.\n\n31: (76) ~~~1000012-57 5100-30009-8-59 \n\n### Subsequent Paper.\n\nNo. 316 \n\n| Ref. No. | Subject |\n| --- | --- |\n| 25441 | Pac... A |\n| 25441 | (Subject.) Refuse Destructors |\n\nPage ... \n1898 \n11 Nov \n... \nrook Jh \n\n... \nfice or Individual. \n\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present in the original text, hence it is not included. However, the following is present: \n`31: (76) ~~~1000012-57 5100-30009-8-59`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369736, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## T. C. M. 12/11\n\n2 So inform Mr Cook \n3 and short explanatory Despatch to govt with ref: to `10849` \nAsk him to explain items in his account.\n\n## Travelling \nBir W. Hamilton 24/10 \nMr Crook has called and had a long talk with him. He seems to think it quite necessary for him to go to Edinburgh, though it would be in the interests of the Hongkong govt that he should go to Bradford where the Firm whose Destructor he saw at Edinburgh apparently have their best Destructor. He also suggested going to Bath, Southampton & Plymouth. He added however that no very accurate information as to English Refuse Destruction was available for Hongkong. Since no... I should allow Bradford only & tell him to submit a complete list of expenses when he has been there. Draft herewith.\n\nT.C.M. 24/11 \n4/11 \n\n`10849 98` \n8 Fielding Road \n317 \nWest Kensington. London W \nNov. 11th 1898.\n\n\"Refuse Destructors for Hong Kong 25541\"\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to your Communication of 12 Nov 98 (re `10849`), I have the honour to forward herewith expenses incurred to date in visiting Refuse Destructors. I was not aware that I should have communicated with you before visiting Edinburgh, Liverpool and Manchester but as the information gained, particularly at Edinburgh, was valuable, I respectfully request that action may be sanctioned and the expenses allowed. I would also ask that the restriction to confine my enquiries to London be removed.\n\nThe calorific properties of refuse vary considerably in different cities and towns and there are several different types of Destructors. I have reduced these types to those suitable to Hong Kong, interviewed the proprietors, and now wish to see each type working under varying conditions and to obtain, as far as possible, unbiassed opinions upon each, which may best be had from the local authorities concerned.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State \nColonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369738, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## The Government of Hong Kong in account with W look. Expenses incurred in visiting Refuse Destructors\n\n| Date/Item | £ | s | d |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Fare to Ealing | | 1 | 2 |\n| Cab | | 2 | 0 |\n| Fare London to Edinburgh | | 3 | 2 |\n| Fare Lancaster to Liverpool | | 5 | 9.6 |\n| Hotel at Manchester | 14 | 0 | 0 |\n| Cabs | | 65 | 4 |\n| Fare to Leyton | | 3 | 0 |\n| Cab | | 1 | 0 |\n| Lunch | | 2 | 5.6 |\n| Fare to Shoreditch | | 1 | 9 |\n| Lunch | | 2 | 0 |\n| Stationery & Postage | | 4 | 1 |\n| Book \"Disposal of Refuse\" | | | |\n| \"Refuse Destructors\" | | | |\n| Self. Fare to Atz | | 4 | 6 |\n| 150 | | | |\n| Fare to Hornsey | | 1 | 3.6 |\n| Cab | 2 | 6 | |\n| Fare to Bow | | 2 | 1 |\n| Fare to things | | 1 | 0 |\n| Telegram | | | 7 |\n| | | | 10 |\n| Total | £9 | 12 | 0 |\n\nbrook 11.11.78", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369739, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 327, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nJ. R. Crook\n\nMr.\n\n**MINUTE**\n\nC. Houghing 25441/98 \nMacnaghten 24/11 \nThe Sir W. Hamilton 24 \nMr. Cox \nMr. Lucas \nMr. Graham \nMr. Wingfield \nEarl of Selborne \nMr. Chamberlain\n\nSir,\n\n25 November 98\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th inst., enclosing an Account of the Expenses incurred by you in visiting Refuse Destructors in this country.\n\nIt is understood that you deem it to be in the interests of the Govt. of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369740, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "Houghing proced that you should go to Bradford & possibly to certain other towns for the purpose of examining other types of Refuse. Destructors\n\n3 I am to approve of your proceeding to Bradford, at your return from Bradford you will forward statement of the expenses incurred by you in connection with your visit to that city. The clerk will be instructed to refund you any expenses which you reasonably propose, but I am to state that Mr Chamberlain does not consider it necessary that you should visit any other places subsequently.\n\nI am to add that if on your journey you incur any expenses in addition to the sum of £9.12 already expended by you.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369746, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 334, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## 327\n\n**DOMESTIC.**\n\n### Refuse Destructors\n\n(S subject.)\n\nNo. 27328\n\nSends report.\n\nC.0. 27320\n\n**Minutes.**\n\nSir W. Hales 18.\n\nMr Crook JR has had a good deal of work in connexion with these Destructors. The Report has arrived. I showed that he has done a month's full work and will see that he asks for full salary instead of half. On 10849 you asked that C.A might be requested to pay Mr Crook's expenses up to £20.\n\n1. Shall we therefore authorise C.A to pay him this amount (treating the extra six or seven pounds as a bonus)? I think he has done enough work to deserve this.\n\n### Previous Paper.\n\nJ. Mumifel\n\n1898 5 Dec\n\nat previous Paper.\n\n### Original Reference.\n\nB&L(78)—30-14309-12-07 5100 -70-346-39 `250/4!`\n\n$24.\n\n Orig.\n\n### File Reference.\n\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present, but `B&L(78)—30-14309-12-07` is likely a file reference. \n\nCrook JR \n1898 \n5 Dec \n\nNo. Hong đang trong \n\n27328 \n\nfice or Individual. \n\nert subsequent Paper. \n\nme bec \n\n... \ninstruct C.A, explain to heeen \n\nNo changes made to \"Hong đang trong\" as it appears to be a non-English phrase and the instruction is to preserve all languages as-is. The text \"fice or Individual.\" seems out of place and may be a fragment. The last two lines appear to be incomplete or out of context.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369747, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## Letter to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office\n\nI beg to inform Govt sending the Report to be in \n\nTCM 6/14 in original \n\nI think we can allow my full pay, our crude is the \n\nLas his Crooke's expenses \n\nSan 10849 down to 98 \n\nhave kept his expenses \n\nI think it is not an exaggerate claim, \n\nLe is eager to a settlement. May lighten charitable purposes, and give him the balance of the £20. \n\n2 thank him \n\n8/12 \n\nC.P.8.8 at once \n\n8 Fielding Road \n328 West-Kensington London. W. \n\nDear Sir, 15th May 1898 \n\nI have the honour to forward herewith report on Refuse Destructors for the Hong Kong Government, together with the balance of my expenses in connection therewith. The report would have been sent in earlier, but that I found it advisable, owing to the number of patents connected with Destructor Furnaces, to ask for plans and estimates from the principal patentees, and time had to be allowed for these to be submitted. \n\nA considerable portion of my leave - at least one month - has been taken up in visiting Destructors, making enquiries, interviewing patentees and writing the Report, and I respectfully request that I may be allowed full instead of half pay for this month's work. \n\nI have the honour to be \nSir, \nYour most obedient humble servant, \nR. Book \n\nThe Under Secretary of State Colonial Office. \n`27228` \n`Rece & Rare 6 ULC 98`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369750, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# DRAFT\n## MINUTE\n### Hongkong, 14 December 98\n\nI am directed by Mr Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant to thank you for the good report on the working of Refuse Destructors which you enclose. It will be forwarded to the Governor of Hongkong.\n\n2. Mr Chamberlain is to inform you that the C.A. have been instructed to pay you from Hongkong $331. 27328.\n\nR. Crook\n\nMr. Macnaughten 8/12\n\nC \n\n| Name | \n| --- | \n| Mr. Sir W. Robinson | \n| Mr. Cox | \n| Mr. Lucas | \n| Mr. Graham | \n| Mr. Wingfield | \n| Earl of Selborne | \n| Mr. Chamberlain |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369751, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## Hongkong \nNo 324 \nSub. by Raha \nReceived 8/12 \nSubmitted Hamilton 12.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Major-General Black's Despatch No. 15 of the 14th June last, I have the honour to transmit to you Mr. J. R. Proot's Report on the working of Refuse Destructors in this Country.\n\nMr. Proot has submitted a claim for £ 12. 17 being expenses incurred in visiting Refuse Destructors in various places, the balance beyond your expenses of ... was the liability of £ 20, regarded as a bonus in consideration of the time & trouble devoted to the preparation of four reports.\n\nC \nHoughing \n27328 \n\nwas \nLi \nof £ 20, the \nAA \nactual \nů \nOP \nrs \n* \n332 \nлес десі \n\nshould be reordered and rewritten as the above text. The text after \"C Houghing 27328\" appears to be jumbled OCR output and has been reconstructed into a coherent letter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373155, "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": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "HONG KONG, 1898.\n\nDIC\n\n26\n\nCOLONIAL REPORTS--ANNUAL.\n\n509\n\nVITAL STATISTICS,\n\n(A.) POPULATION.\n\nThe population of the last census, which was taken in 1897, was 246,880. As the returns of the 1891 census gave the figures at 221,441, there is thus an increase of 25,439.\n\nIt is estimated that in the middle of 1898 the population stood as follows:-\n\n \n Non-Chinese civil population\n \n 39,940\n 33,370\n \n \n Chinese population :-\n \n \n \n \n \n City of Victoria, including Peak and Stonecutters Island\n \n 165,900\n \n \n \n Villages in Hong Kong and Kowloon\n \n 8,732\n \n \n \n Floating population\n \n 239,210\n \n \n \n Army\n Navy\n 3,073\n 3,385\n \n \n Total estimated population of the Colony\n \n \n 254,400\n \n\n(B.) PUBLIC HEALTH.\n\nThe total number of deaths during 1898 was 5,674, showing a death-rate of 22.3. Of the 5,674 deaths recorded, 1,175 were from plague; therefore excluding deaths from plague the death-rate for the year was only 17.7.\n\nThe deaths were distributed as follows :-\n\n \n Non-Chinese :-\n \n \n \n \n \n White\n \n 200\n showing a death-rate of 16.2\n \n \n Coloured...\n \n 91\n \n \n \n Chinese\n \n 5,383\n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n 31\n \n \n\nCOLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.\n\n27\n\n1898.\n\nThere was a serious outbreak of plague in the spring, and of the 1,320 cases reported in Hong Kong, 1,175 proved fatal. This represents a mortality of 88.1 per cent. There was also an outbreak of small-pox. From enteric fever the total deaths numbered 23, which represents a mortality of 44.2 per cent. The mortality among the European cases was 35.1 per cent.\n\n(C.) SANITATION.\n\nSanitary conditions are still far from perfect, and the Government recognises that sanitation is one of the most important matters that can engage its attention. There has been an improvement during the past four or five years, owing to a strict enforcement of the Public Health Ordinance (No. 24 of 1887) and the Insanitary Properties Ordinance (No. 15 of 1894). But this improvement cannot be said to be universal, and it is to be feared that many of the Chinese dwellings in the city are structurally in a very insanitary condition. There was an Insanitary Properties Commission appointed during the year, and as a result of its enquiries a number of recommendations were submitted to the Government. These recommendations, together with amendments suggested by the Board, will be embodied in a Bill which, when it becomes law, will probably do much for the amelioration of the present unsatisfactory state of affairs.\n\nIt has recently been proposed to erect a refuse destructor of the type now common in many English cities, whereby the town refuse may be destroyed in forced draught furnaces instead of being conveyed to dumping grounds as at present. Estimates have been received from two English firms, and the Government hopes to find an early opportunity of giving this matter the attention which it deserves.\n\n \n \n 33\n 33.6\n 22.5\n \n \n Total\n 5,674\n \n \n \n \n Average death-rate...\n 22.3\n \n \n \n\nThe deaths in the army numbered 32, of which 23 were British and the rest Indian; in the navy there were 11 deaths among British seamen. Seven per 1,000 of the deaths among British troops were due to malarial diseases alone. Two Indian soldiers and one British soldier died of plague.\n\n(D) CLIMATE.\n\n1. Rainfall. The total rainfall for the year was 57.025 inches. In 1897 it was 100.03. The wettest months were June (14.25 inches) and August (9.9 inches). The driest month was December, with 0.025 inches. The greatest rainfall on any day was that on August 25th (2.585 inches). On 213 days there was no rain. The relative humidity of the atmosphere throughout the year was 74.6 per cent.; December was lowest with 52 per cent., May and June were highest with 83 per cent.\n\nThe average daily sunshine throughout the year was 5.8 hours, compared with 4.78 in 1897. On 41 days only no sunshine was recorded.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373165, "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": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 522, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "Small Pox, \n\n(12) \n\nGOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.\n\nADMISSIONS.\n\nGENERAL DISEASES.\n\nTOTAL.\n\n \n \n Europeans.\n Indians & Asiatics.\n Coloured (Japanese & Persons included).\n Total.\n \n \n Chicken Pox,\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n Measles,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rubella. Synonym, Röteln, German Measles, Epidemic Rose Rash.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Scarlet Fever. Synonym, Scarlatina,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Pox,\n \n 10\n \n 10\n \n \n Plague,\n \n *\n \n *\n \n \n Influenza,\n \n 1\n to $2\n 1 to $2\n \n \n Mumps,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diphtheria\n \n 25\n \n 25\n \n \n Laryngeal Diphtheria, Synonym, Membranous Croup,\n \n 33\n \n 33\n \n \n Simple Continued Fever, Synonym, Febricula,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Enteric Fever, Synonym, Typhoid Fever,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Beri-beri, Synonym, Kakké,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malarial Fever\n \n \n \n \n \n \n a. Intermittent, Synonym. Ague,\n \n 6\n \n 6\n \n \n b. Remittent,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n c. Malarial Cachexia,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Phagedæna\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sloughing Phagedæna,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erysipelas\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n Phlegmonous,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pyæmia,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Septicaemia\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tetanus,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Leprosy, Synonym. Elephantiasis Græcorum\n \n \n \n \n \n \n a. Tubercular,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis. Synonym, Pox\n \n \n \n \n \n \n b. Primary. Hard Chancre or infecting sore,\n \n 4\n \n 4\n \n \n c. Secondary, or Constitutional,\n \n 6\n \n 6\n \n \n d. Inherited,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhoea, Synonyms, Clap, Blennorrhagia,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anthrax, Synonyms, Splenic Fever\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Woolsorters' disease, Malignant pustule, Diseases dependent on Animal Parasites,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Effects of Animal Poisons,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of Vegetable\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of heat,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alcoholism:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Delirium tremens,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rheumatic Fever, Synonym, Acute Rheumatism,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rheumatism,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gout,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cyst,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n New Growth, Non-Malignant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malignant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anæmia,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hodgkin's Disease, Synonyme, Anæmia\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lymphatics....\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diabetes mellitus, Synonym, Persistent Glycosuria,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Debility,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n LOCAL DISEASES----\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nervous System,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eye.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ear\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Circulatory System,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Respiratory.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Digestive,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lymphatic,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Urinary System,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Male Organs.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Female Organs,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Organs of Locomotion,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Connective Tissue, Skin,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Local Injuries,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Surgical Operations, Under Observation,\n \n 2692\n \n 2692\n \n \n \n \n - 22\n \n - 22\n \n \n \n \n 56\n \n 56\n \n \n \n \n *******\n \n *******\n \n \n \n \n 247\n \n 247\n \n \n DEATHS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Europeans.\n Indians & Asiatics.\n Coloured Persons.\n Total.\n \n \n \n \n &\n 87\n \n \n \n \n 10\n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n G =\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n :\n \n $\n \n \n \n \n l;:\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n 2*N2\n ::\n \n \n \n \n \n ::\n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n Asiatics.\n 101\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 105\n \n \n \n\n(13)\n\nTUNG WAH HOSPITAL.\n\nADMISSIONS.\n\nDEATHS.\n\n \n \n European Treatment.\n Chinese Treatment.\n Total.\n European Treatment.\n Chinese Treatment.\n Total.\n \n \n GENERAL DISEASES --\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n *Small-pox,\n \n 519\n 519\n \n 21\n 21\n \n \n *Plague,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Influenza.\n 22\n 22\n 1:2\n \n \n \n \n \n Enteric Fever.\n \n 38\n 38\n 4\n \n 4\n \n \n Dysentery,\n \n 35\n 35\n \n 3\n 3\n \n \n Beri-beri,\n \n 38\n 38\n \n 16\n 16\n \n \n Malarial Fever,--\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n a. Intermittent,\n \n 69\n 69\n \n 5\n 5\n \n \n b. Remittent.\n \n 84\n 84\n \n 3\n 3\n \n \n Erysipelas, Pyæmia, Septicaemia, Tetanus,\n \n 101\n 101\n \n \n \n \n \n Tubercle,\n \n 397\n 397\n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis, Constitutional, Alcoholism,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rheumatism,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n New Growth, non-malignant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n malignant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anæmia, Debility,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LOCAL DISEASES!---\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Nervous System,\n 17\n 397\n \n 61\n 39\n \n \n \n \n \n 61\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 39\n 129\n \n ****\n ----\n \n \n \n \n 316\n - 1\n \n 1\n 2\n \n \n \n \n ས\n 1:\n \n ཡ\n ཨེ\n \n \n \n of the Eyes,...\n 10\n 20\n \n ༣\n \n \n \n \n \n ; :\n ::\n \n :\n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n ++\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of the Circulatory System,\n \n 36\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n 89\n 107\n \n 3\n 3\n \n \n of the Respiratory System,\n \n 468\n \n 517\n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n of the Digestive System,\n \n 201\n \n 255\n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n 28\n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n 48\n 63\n \n \n 264\n \n \n \n of the Lymphatic System,\n \n 293\n \n 69\n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n 90\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n of the Urinary System,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n 26\n \n \n KAY\n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n of the Generative System,--\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Male Organs,\n \n 11\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n Female Organs, ...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n of the Organs of Locomotion,\n \n 41\n \n 34\n \n 75\n \n \n of the Cellular Tissue,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 56\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n of the Skin.\n \n 40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Local fujuries,\n \n 40\n \n 127\n \n \n \n \n Poisons,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Parasites,\n \n 2\n \n 1\n ཨྠ\n ོ༠\n \n \n \n \n 74\n \n 130\n \n \n \n \n \n 106\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n I\n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n S\n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n 135\n \n \n \n \n \n 55\n \n \n 234\n \n \n \n \n \n 352\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n 29\n \n \n 51\n \n \n \n \n Total,\n 1,025\n 1,873\n 2,898\n 170\n 672\n 842\n \n\n* Transferred at once, unless actually dying to Kennedy Town,\n\n(C.) Sanitation.\n\nSanitary conditions are still far from perfect, and the Government recognises that sanitation is one of the most important matters that can engage its attention. There has been an improvement during the past four or five years owing to a strict enforcement of the Public Health Ordinance (No.124 of 1887) and the Insanitary Properties Ordinance (No.15 of 1894). But this improvement can not be said to be universal, and it is to be feared that many of the Chinese dwellings in the city are structurally in a very insanitary condition. There was an Insanitary Properties Commission appointed during the year, and as a result of its enquiries a number of recommendations were submitted to the Government. These recommendations, together with amendments, suggested by the Board, will be embodied in a Bill which, when it becomes law, will probably do much for the amelioration of the present unsatisfactory state of affairs.\n\nIt has recently been proposed to erect a Refuse Destructor of the type now common in many English cities, whereby the town refuse may be destroyed in forced-draught furnaces instead of being conveyed to dumping-grounds as at present. Estimates have been received from two English firms, and the Government hopes to find an early opportunity of giving this matter the attention which it deserves.\n\nPage 363\n\nSE!\n\nTOTAL,\n\n788\n\n-433\n\n1,350\n\n2,571\n\n4.0\n\n0\n\n83\n\n139\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373733, "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": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 463, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "No. 2.\n\nEnclosures.\n\n195\n\nC\n\nREPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF\n\nTHE\n\nPUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE\n\nAt a Meeting held on the 31st August, 1899.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Director of Public Works (ROBERT DALY ORMSBY), Chairman.\n\nthe Colonial Treasurer (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).\n\nCATCHICK PAUL CHATER, C.M.G.\n\nTHOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.\n\nABSENT:\n\nThe Honourable EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, C.M.G.\n\n460\n\n1. The Chairman submitted to the Committee an amended plan for a new Police Station on the site of the existing No. 7 Station, for which a vote of $50,000 on account of an Estimate of $65,000 (C.S.O.768 of 1898) was taken last year; also a plan for a small station at Kennedytown.\n\nThe cost of the new No. 7 Station, as per the amended plan, is estimated at $45,000, and of the Station at Kennedytown $12,000.\n\nIt was unanimously agreed that both these proposed works be approved, and the Committee recommend that sanction be given to commence the buildings forthwith.\n\n2. The Committee considered plans and estimates for the following proposed works: —\n\n(1) Chair Shelter at the Peak, estimated cost $4,300.\n\n(C.S.O.2600 of 1897.)\n\n(2) Road from the Upper Tram Station to High West Saddle, estimated cost $6,050.\n\n(C.S.O.3003 of 1898.)\n\n(3) Waterworks Extension in Hongkong providing for- (C.S.O.2251 of 1898 and others.)\n\n(a) Distribution to High Level Zone in view of extension of building.\n\n(b) Additional supply to the Peak.\n\n(c) Machinery for Bowen Road filter beds and houses for same.\n\n(d) Re-construction of No. 2 Tank, estimated cost $57,000.\n\n(4) Additional storage reservoir in Tytam Valley, No. 3 in Mr. COOPER'S Report, estimated cost $60,000, vote on account in 1900, $20,000.\n\n(C.S.O.1157 of 1896.)\n\n(5) Electric Lighting Government House, estimated cost $4,788.\n\n(C.S.O.3030 of 1898.)\n\n(6) Kowloon Water Supply, temporary pipe from stream in New Territory, estimated cost $11,380, to be charged to vote of $15,000 in the Estimates for this year.\n\n(C.S.O.2089 of 1899.)\n\nIt was unanimously agreed that the works above enumerated be approved.\n\n3. The Chairman submitted a proposal to expend a sum of $10,000 on the existing roads in the New Territory, with special reference to the road from Castle Peak Bay to Ping Shan and Un Long.\n\n(C.S.O.235 of 1899 [Extension].)\n\nResolved, that the Committee recommend that a vote of $10,000 be taken on account of a new road to be laid out above flood level at the foot of the hills between Castle Peak Bay and Ping Shan.\n\n4. The Committee considered plans, and a tender amounting to $6,985, for preparing and draining the site of the Governor's Peak Residence at \"Mountain Lodge.\"\n\n(Confidential C.S.O.48 of 1899.)\n\nResolved to recommend that the tender be accepted and the work proceeded with.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. WHITEHEAD refrained from voting for this initial expenditure until a complete estimate of the total cost of the proposed new building was laid before the Committee.\n\n5. The Committee considered plans and an estimate amounting to $13,400, for a 12-foot road along the Pokfulam Conduit, connecting with Robinson Road at Glenealy and Castle Road.\n\n(C.S.O.1943 of 1899.)\n\nIt was unanimously agreed that the work be approved, and that the Committee recommend that a vote of $5,000 on account be now taken in order that the work may be commenced forthwith.\n\n6. The Committee considered a proposal to erect a Refuse Destructor at Kennedytown, at an estimated cost of $60,000.\n\n(C.S.O.820 of 1898.)\n\nResolved that the papers be circulated for further consideration.\n\nThe Committee then adjourned.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council this 4th day of October, 1899.\n\nR. F. JOHNSTON,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nR. D. ORMSBY,\n\nChairman.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381189, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 717, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "711\n\nE\n\ntogether every essential feature of these projects and are of one mind on every point of importance; so much so indeed that the documents submitted may be fairly looked upon as joint reports.\n\n(Government Gazette of 1890 page 980.)\n\nThe projects were carried out under the direct supervision of Mr. Cooper and a reference to the plans of the sewerage of the City will show that there is no foundation for the widespread belief mentioned by the Chamber.\n\nThe statement contained in the same paragraph that the contents of the storm-water drains are nearly as foul as those of the sewers is true, and the only remedy appears to be a more efficient method of removal of night-soil and the more effective control of the hawking of vegetables, sugar-cane and fruit in the streets.\n\nIt is also true that the inlets to the storm-water drains in the streets are mostly untrapped, but it may be pointed out that Mr. Chadwick advocated ventilating orifices in the streets for the sewers, and that the escape of gas in the streets is comparatively harmless owing to excessive diffusion.\n\nThe Petitioners take exception in the same paragraph to the practice of passing chains through sewers, and draw the deduction that the sewers must have insufficient fall or be inadequately flushed.\n\nThe practice is merely a precautionary measure adopted in most well-ordered cities to ensure that no stoppage takes place without being detected and remedied at once.\n\n10. In paragraph 20 the Petitioners make certain allegations regarding delay in providing latrines.\n\nRegarding the latrine at Shektongtsui it was not an entirely new latrine (as might be inferred from the Petitioners' remarks) that was recommended in the end of 1896, but an enlargement of the already existing latrine at that spot.\n\nAt the time the recommendation was made an Ordinance was being prepared to protect Public Latrines.\n\nThe question of making the addition to the latrine was postponed till the passing of the Ordinance, which became law in June, 1897.\n\nAfter the Ordinance had been passed it appears that by an oversight the Board failed to comply with the formalities required by the Ordinance before a latrine can be built on a particular site.\n\nWhen the Board finally made the necessary formal application in 1898 funds were not available for this particular work, which was accordingly postponed.\n\nThe necessity for a latrine at Kowloon Point was largely due to the fact that insufficient conveniences were provided by the Wharf and Godown Company for the large number of coolies employed by them in this locality.\n\nThe Sanitary Board asked the Government in December, 1896, to put up a latrine at this spot and in January, 1897, addressed the Wharf and Godown Company on the subject of providing increased latrine accommodation for their employees. That Company made the increase required by the Board.\n\nThe question of erecting a Government latrine was postponed pending the passing of the Ordinance referred to. Since the passing of the Ordinance the Sanitary Board has not made any formal application under the Ordinance for a site in this locality to be set aside for a latrine, perhaps because the existence of a privately owned latrine rendered the necessity less urgent.\n\nIn 1897 the Board made formal application that sites for 13 latrines be reserved in the resumed area of Tai-ping-shan in accordance with the approved plan for the laying out of the area, These sites are still reserved, but owing to the fact that very little of the resumed area has been taken up for building purposes only one of the latrines has been built.\n\nThe Board asked at the same time for a latrine to be erected at Leighton Hill. It was erected in 1899. They also asked for a latrine near Ship Street and for one at Tai-kok-tsui. The former was built (after the necessary formalities had been complied with) in 1899 and the latter, which took the form of a matshed structure, pending the further development of the village, in 1898.\n\nIn 1898 the Board recommended the erection of 2 latrines. Provision was made in the Estimates for 1899 for two latrines and two were erected during the latter year as shown above.\n\nIn June, 1899, the erection of 4 latrines was sanctioned by the Governor. The sites were duly published and the latrines together with one additional one making 5 in all were completed in 1900.\n\nThe statement that nothing was done in the matter of building latrines in the years 1897-1899 inclusive is, therefore, incorrect.\n\nWe would point out here that had not the provision in the Building Ordinance for making privies in domestic buildings compulsory been waived in the face of the strong opposition it evoked from Unofficial Members, the necessity for so many Public Latrines would not have been felt.\n\nAs to the want of urinal accommodation referred to in paragraph 12, steps have been taken this year to further increase the accommodation.\n\n11. The question of the provision of an incinerator for carcases of diseased cattle has been delayed owing to the mistaken idea on the part of some members of the Sanitary Board that such an incinerator could be combined in a refuse destructor. The desirability or otherwise of a destructor has been, we need hardly remark, and is still a vexed question, the Public Works Committee of the Legislative Council having unanimously rejected the proposal to purchase a destructor.\n\nIt is not the case, however, that nothing has been done towards obtaining an incinerator. The necessary apparatus has been ordered and should shortly arrive in the Colony.\n\nThe statement that diseased carcases are frequently disinterred and used as food is misleading. In the first place no such disinterments have taken place except in the case of freshly buried pigs, and the disinterments have not been frequent for the reason that a dead pig is not easily smuggled through the streets.\n\nThe officers in charge of the Animal Depôts and the Police in the neighbourhood exercise special precautions to prevent such disinterments.\n\n12. The recommendation regarding limewashing in the villages referred to in paragraph 21 was only made by a majority of the Board.\n\nIn the Legislative Council the Bye-law was almost unanimously rejected, only one member speaking in favour of it.\n\nIt must not be forgotten that under the existing law a householder whose dwelling is found to be in a dirty condition can be required to cleanse and limewash it within a week. This provision of the law seems sufficient to ensure cleanliness in villages, where owing to the small number of houses inspection is not difficult by the Police officers on the spot who are also Sanitary Inspectors, without subjecting householders to the biennial compulsory limewashing which is enforced in the City.\n\n13. In paragraph 25 the Petitioners state their belief “on good Medical authority” recurring epidemics of Plague would have lessened in virulence and duration had the Government seriously applied itself to the task and not trifled with proposed measures of Sanitary Reform; they quote an opinion of Dr. Lowson recorded immediately after the first visitation of Plague in 1894 that \"if proper sanitary precautions are taken no civilized country should ever be the seat of an epidemic of Plague;\" and they state that \"since 1894 practically nothing has been done on the lines of recognised prophylactic measures against Plague or to improve the Sanitary Conditions of the Colony.\"\n\nThat measures of Sanitary Reform and the improvement of the Sanitary Condition of the Colony have not been neglected the enclosures B. and C. conclusively prove. But they do not contain by any means an exhaustive statement of the measures taken. They were only drawn up in answer to the particular allegations made in the letter of the Chamber of Commerce of the 7th of June last.\n\nIn 1894 upon the outbreak of Plague the Sanitary Board nominated a Permanent Committee consisting of Dr. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon, so often quoted in the Petition, Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and the Captain Superintendent of Police as a working Committee to deal with the epidemic and with those gentlemen were associated later Major H. E. R. James, a very able officer of the Army Medical Staff, and Mr. R. K. Leigh the well-known local engineer and architect,\n\nThese gentlemen under the energetic and able direction of Mr. J. J. Francis, who was Chairman of the Committee, adopted extremely drastic measures—so drastic that their action undoubt-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385078, "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": 318, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "No. 257.\n\nHONGKONG, 14th June, 1902.\n\nSIR,\n\nC. O. 20217\n\nGovernment House,\n\n317\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your information and covering authority for the expenditure that has been incurred the enclosed copies of Financial Minutes Nos. 1 to 22, the sums detailed in which have been voted by the Legislative Council during the current year to date.\n\nThe first Vote was rendered necessary by the delay in completing the new Quarters for the Gaol Staff.\n\nThe second Vote was taken in order to render available the unexpended balances on the Votes taken in the 1901 Estimates for items Nos. 1 to 15 and the unexpended balances on the Votes taken in the Legislative Council during 1901 in aid of items 1 and 12 and for the whole estimated expenditure on items 14 to 23. I attach copies of the Votes in Council referred to.\n\nThe third Vote was taken to enable the Cattle Crematorium for which a Vote of $2,020 was taken in 1901 to be completed and to meet the cost of a Refuse Destructor of 1 cell only for the destruction of rubbish removed from Plague infected houses. Both these works were considered urgent.\n\nVote No. 4. The repairs to the former\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.\n\n&C.\n\nKapsuimun", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385313, "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": 553, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "As to office of Sanitary Board\n\nLove also passage marked\n\nReport in\n\nin 5708\n\nKom\n\n4.1d\n\nbut I am not convinced\n\nthat it is desirable to appoint the Medical Officer\n\nof the Sanitary Dept. If Dr. Atkinson can\n\nproperly attend to the Sanitary duty I say\n\nhe might\n\nbe reliant on his duties as\n\nSupt of the\n\nGov't Civil Hospital, two clerks to assist him\n\nMore\n\nG. Width (44)\n\nW. J. 23/8\n\nTelegraph a despatch, asking the Governor whether he concurs in Governor Gascoigne's views as to a Sanitary Commissioner, or whether what is proposed in Ingham's minute would meet the case\n\nas above d expand in\n\nC.Pd.\n\n27\n\natonce\n\nProfine Simpson\n\ncalled and\n\nsupports his\n\nvery strong\n\nopinion that a Sanitary Commission\n\nis necessary and that the Dept should be re-organised.\n\nAfter writing for\n\nI have the honour to transmit the enclosed\n\nstatement of appointments on the temporary Staff of the Sanitary Board for which I propose to make provision in the Estimates for next year. With the exception of the Fireman and Coolie for the Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor, and Assistant Sexton (gravedigger) at Chaiwan Cemetery, this Staff has been\n\nemployed during the current year.\n\n2.\n\nThe Chief Clerk to the Medical Officer of\n\nHealth was appointed in May last on the advice of Professor Simpson and the Treasurer to enable the Medical Officer of Health to spend more of his time on out-door duties. If a Sanitary Commissioner is appointed under the new Bill relating to Buildings and Public Health, which was read a first time on 7th instant, I am of opinion that this clerk will not be required. The additional Clerk and Interpreter is required for the Assistant Medical Officer of Health, who must have an Interpreter to accompany him in his out of door work. The three clerks (one at $480 and two at $360 a year) are required in order to enable the Department to cope with the large increase in clerical work in making out notices to abate nuisances\n\nand to comply with the Sanitary Laws in other directions.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 9th July, 1902.\n\n298.\n\nSir,\n\n33299\n\n13 AX\n\n551\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nJ.FUG 1/9\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385316, "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": 556, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "New Appointments &c., in the Sanitary Dept.\n\nC. O.\n\n33299\n\n13 AKC\n\n554\n\n1903\n\nAuthority. Estimates. C.S.O.No.\n\nClerk to the Medical Officer of Health.\n\nClerk and Interpreter.\n\n$1,800\n\n1564/'02.\n\n600\n\n1585/'02\n\nForeman for Cattle Crematorium & Refuse Destructor.\n\nCoolie for\n\n180\n\n1587/'02\n\n$96\n\nClerks, one at $480 and 2 at $360.\n\n$1,200\n\n1521/'02\n\nDraughtsman.\n\n$480\n\n1572/'03\n\nAssistant Sexton, Chai Wan Cemetery.\n\n$84\n\n1597/'02.\n\nClerks at $420.\n\n$2,520\n\n1568/'02.\n\nMessengers at $84.\n\n$336\n\nOther Charges.\n\nRent of District offices.\n\n*\n\nAlthough these are not in the 1902 Estimates, the expenditure has been approved temporarily and paid from some time in 1902.\n\n$1,500\n\n$8,796\n\nMy D...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385374, "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": 614, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "Sub-Enclosure to Enclosure 2.\n\nI.\n\nPublic Works Extraordinary Contracts entered into during 1902 (up to 10th July 1982).\n\n \n (1). Latrine at Market Street, Youmati\n \n 612\n \n \n (2). do Gillies Avenue, Hunghom\n \n 14,385\n \n \n (3). Grival in dee House Street\n \n \n \n \n (4). D.\n \n 4,054\n \n \n (5). 2 do under the Parade Ground\n the Graya\n \n \n \n (6). Bath House, Wauchai\n \n 3,446\n \n \n \n \n 1420\n \n \n \n \n 4000\n \n \n \n 笨\n 4814\n \n \n (7). Crematorium & Refuse Destructor\n \n 4,204\n \n \n (8). New shed at Disinfecting Station\n \n 5324\n \n \n (9). Widening of Conduit Road\n \n 9,036\n \n \n (10). Extension & Alteration of for Offices\n \n 4,246\n \n \n \n \n $4,929\n \n\nThe sanction of the Secretary of State was specially obtained for item (10).\n\nEd. W. Chatham\n\nD.R.W.\n\n10.7.02.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389698, "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": 601, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Sanitary Department\n\n| Category | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | | |\n| Sanitary Commissioner (not appointed) | } 57,472 | |\n| Reduction on New Appointments | | 1,382 |\n| Increases of Salaries | 224 | |\n| Change Compensation Allowances placed on Sterling Basis | 120 | |\n| \"Increments\" | 16,978 | |\n| Allowance for Knowledge of Chinese in lieu of Posts abolished | 60 | |\n| Allowance to Interpreter at Aberdeen | 11,047 | |\n| | 125,283 | |\n| | 596 | |\n| Other Charges | 5,101 | |\n| Advertising Notices | 9,870 | |\n| Firewood, Animal Depôt & Slaughter House | 700 | |\n| The Crematorium & Refuse Destructor | 1,500 | |\n| Cemetery Incidental Expenses | | 500 |\n| Market, Electric Lighting | 500 | |\n| Conveyance Allowance | | 54 |\n| Vaccination. Payment for successful results | | 500 |\n| Re-arrangement of Plague, Other Charges | } 26,700 | |\n| Infecting Tanks, Maintenance of | | 1,000 |\n| Disinfecting Apparatus, Maintenance of | 6,528 | |\n| Disinfecting Apparatus | 2,400 | |\n| Incidental Expenses | 1,000 | |\n| Purchase Boiler for Disinfecting Stations | 600 | |\n| Market Expenses | 200 | |\n| New Boiler & Vacuum Apparatus | 4,336 | |\n| Receptacles for Nightsoil | 100 | |\n| Disinfecting Room, Lighting | 72 | |\n| Rent of Land for Accommodation of Cattle Godowns | ... | |\n| Slaughterhouse Supervision | Lo | |\n| Watering Streets | 2,000 | |\n| Weighing Machine, Tungston Cattle Depot | 300 | |\n| | 19,696 | |\n| **Total Increases** | **44,979** | |\n| **Total Decrease** | | **27,254** | \n| | 37,124 | |\n| Deduct Decrease | 37,124 | |\n| **Net Increase** | **7,855** |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393533, "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": 94, "title": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "content_text": "# 19. Sanitary Department.\n\nIncrease.\n\nStipulated Increments\n\nNew Cost of\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n33,522 Reduction.\n\nDecrease.\n\non rough\n\n707 - Abolition of Post.\n\nDecrease of Salary.\n\n9,294\n\nChange Compensation\n\n2,763\n\nPosts formerly found for out of \"Other Charges: 4,992\n\nAllowance for Knowledge of Chinese\n\n240\n\nAllowance for House Rent\n\n18\n\nAppointments\n\n72\n\n93\n\nPosts made permanent (formerly for only 6 months) 1,350\n\n22,957\n\nOther Charges.\n\nAdvertisements Notices\n\n700\n\nMiscellaneous Incidental Expenses\n\n200\n\nConveyance Allowance\n\nDisinfectors - Maintenance\n\nDistrict Sanitary Offices - Rent.\n\nTraps - Cleaning\n\n$1,493\n\nBattersea Crematorien & Refuse Destructor Maintenance 500\n\nDisinfecting Tanks - boiler hire & fuel.\n\n690 - Incidental Expenses,\n\nJacketed Boiler for Disinfecting Station\n\n1,728\n\n300\n\nNew Boiler & Vacuum apparatus\n\n1,336\n\nRent of land for accommodation of battersea\n\n90\n\nElectric Fan\n\n360 - Scavenging City, Villages & Hill District.\n\nPrinting Minutes of Proceedings of the Freed.\n\nSon-Weighing Machine Hunghom battersea Destructor\n\n(Branch Room) Removal of fighting\n\n120. Ambulances Coffins,\n\nRight of Way\n\nCompensation for Damages by Disinfection\n\nFurniture - Repairs\n\nConveyance allowance.\n\n30.\n\n348 Coolie Labour.\n\nOil, Trap, Turpentine, &c.\n\n10.\n\n80.\n\n2,500 - Disinfectants\n\nat Prison Rat Catching\n\n10.\n\n1,570 - Disinfecting Cleansing Apparatus\n\nIncidental Expenses\n\n$21,126\n\nTotal Increase\n\nTotal Decrease\n\n446,979 |\n\n34,117\n\nNet increase\n\n9,962\n\nPlague Boats & Matsheds.\n\nUpholstery.\n\nPlague Corkers.\n\nCost of Burial.\n\nTotal Decrease\n\n2,570\n\n2,570\n\n142\n\n1,000\n\n6,000\n\n$35,524\n\n344,117", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397151, "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": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "## Sanitary Department\n\n### Personal Emoluments\n\n#### New Posts\n\n| Category | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | | 442 |\n| | 16,310 | |\n| Stipulated Increment | | |\n| Increase of Salary | $15,546 | |\n| Increase due to posts being placed in the Grading Scheme | $10,044 | |\n| Allowance for knowledge of Chinese | 2,933 | |\n| Abolition of Posts | | 1384 |\n| Evelange Conservation | | 805-Loving |\n| Re-organization of Haff | | 480 |\n| Reduction on new abcontent | | 145 |\n| Allowance for House Rent | | |\n| Tamborary appointments | 400 | 717 |\n| | $19,487 | $120 |\n\n### Other Charges\n\n| Category | Increase |\n| --- | --- |\n| Bath-houses - Gas | 50 |\n| Cemetery Expenses | 4,000 |\n| Conveyance Allowance | 426 |\n| Deouspecting Station & Matchado - weighting | 4400 |\n| Dust Carts & Water Carts Perchove & Albket | 1,500 |\n| Other Charges | |\n| Animal Dehot se, Firewood | * |\n| Gas | |\n| Bath-houses - Boal + Fireword | * |\n| Ant | |\n| bottle Crematorium & Refuse Destructor | |\n| Fraaintenance | |\n| Disinfecting Tanks - Cookie hire, & ful for mantenance | $500 |\n| | 150 |\n| | 3000 |\n| | 200 |\n| | 200 |\n| | 2,800 |\n| Market, New thestarn Electric ughting | 3,200 |\n| Gulley Trabo - Cleansing | 3, ver |\n| Market. By senst s | 200 |\n| Market Central. Electric Lighting | 2,500 |\n| Rightort Receptacles | 200 |\n| Pont of Office Bransferred from Mis-cellaneous servicio | 3,900 |\n| Printing Princtio of Exceedings of the Boar' L | 400 |\n| Leaven sing bity, Villam, te. | 15,700 |\n| The phone Rent | |\n| Watering Streets | 1000 |\n| Paint, Boat, te. | 1000 |\n| Reformatory - Removal of Nightsmil Com bensation for Damages bes | |\n| Disinfection Plaque o | L |\n| Conveyance Allowance Plague ! | 120 |\n| Disinfectants | 200 |\n| Sto | 570 |\n| District Foositak - Freund | 10,000 |\n| Furniture | 150 |\n| Medicine | 750 |\n| -Remorcing Nightond | 2,000 |\n| - Rent Konus) | 100 |\n\n## Total Increase/Decrease\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total Increase | $31,190 |\n| Total Decrease | $46,836 |\n| Deduct Increase | $39,194 |\n| Tret Decrease | $5,839 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413408, "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": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "page_number": 355, "title": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "content_text": "# COLONY OF HONGKONG, 1907\n## STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE IN THE YEAR, UNDER SUB-HEADS, AS COMPARED WITH THE ESTIMATES.\n\n| ORIGINAL ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURE | ACTUAL EXPENDITURE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE | SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\n## SANITARY DEPARTMENT,--Continued.\n### Other Charges,-- Continued.\n#### Sanitary Staff,-Continued.\n\n| Item | ORIGINAL ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURE | ACTUAL EXPENDITURE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Nightsoil Recepineles | 1,100 | 983 | | 117 |\n| Reading Room Light | 72 | 95 | 23 | |\n| Refund of Fees for Sanitary Institute Examinatious | 135 | ... | | 135 |\n| Rent | 8,900 | 3,900 | | 5,000 |\n| Rest of District Offices | 1,680 | 1,440 | | 240 |\n| Scavenging City, Villages and Hill District | 117,824 | 108,769.53 | | 9,054.47 |\n| Street-watering | 11,000 | 8,386.50 | | 2,613.50 |\n| Uniform for Staff | 5,000 | 3,584.73 | | 1,415.27 |\n| Vaccination Bonuses | 100 | 60.30 | | 39.70 |\n\n### Veterinary Staff.\n\n| Item | ORIGINAL ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURE | ACTUAL EXPENDITURE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Animal Depôts and Slaughter-honses | | | | |\n|   Firewood | 2,000 | 1,635.35 | | 364.65 |\n|   Gas | 500 | 473.96 | | 26.04 |\n|   Sundries | 500 | 465.19 | | 34.81 |\n| Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor | 600 | 315.85 | | 284.15 |\n| Conveyance | 1,140 | 1,029 | | 111 |\n| Markets | | | | |\n|   Electric Light, Central | 6,500 | 6,352.96 | | 147.04 |\n|   Electric Light, New Western | ... | 832.78 | 832.78 | |\n|   Incidental Expenses | 3,200 | 2,367.22 | | 832.78 |\n\n### Plague Staff.\n\n| Item | ORIGINAL ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURE | ACTUAL EXPENDITURE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Ambulances, Coffins, Doad Vans and Dead Boxes | 2,500 | 1,938.60 | | 561.40 |\n| Burial of Plague Corpses | 3,000 | 1,835.10 | | 1,164.90 |\n| Carriage of Plague Corpses | 1,800 | 418.50 | | 1,381.50 |\n| Compensation for Damages by Disinfection | 1,000 | 475.20 | | 524.80 |\n| Compensation for infeered cattle slaughtered | 2,513 | ... | | 2,513 |\n| Conveyance | 1,560 | 1,351.29 | | 208.71 |\n| Coolie Labour | 5,000 | 4,441.04 | | 558.96 |\n| Disinfectants | 13,000 | 4,209.03 | | 8,790.97 |\n| Disinfecting and Cleansing Apparatus | 2,500 | 973.68 | | 1,526.32 |\n| Head-stones | 500 | 50 | | 450 |\n| Incidental Expenses | 5,000 | 2,962.66 | | 2,037.34 |\n| Paint, Soap, Turpentine, &c. | 3,500 | 3,204.80 | | 295.20 |\n\nBrought forward, 2,638,781 | 2,394,372.52 | | | \nCarried forward, $ 2,834,112 | 2,554,828.80 | 22,510.83 | 294,278.33 | 231,747.69 \n\n## REMARKS EXPLANATORY OF INCREASE OR DECREASE.\n\nPage 26\nPage 27", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420359, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "## Sanitary Department\n\n### Increase\n\n$30,374 Personal Emoluments.\n\n$886 Abolition of Posts Reductions on New Appointments\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Storeroom Allowance | 3,550 |\n| Language Allowances | 300 |\n| transferred from Registrar General's Department | 1,908 |\n| Allowance to M.O.H. as Supt. of Statistics (transferred from R.G. Dept.) | 514 |\n| Sources to District Registrar and his Assistant | 180 |\n| Conduct Allowances | 4734 |\n\nOther Charges:\n- Uniform for Chinese Constable \n- Incidental Expenses \n - Cattle Crematorium & Refuse Destructor | 500 \n - Conveyance Allowance | 1,000 \n - Barracks, Light | 500 \n - Carriage of Plague Corpses, Bodies transferred | 17 \n - Conservancy | 300 \n - Conveyance | 100 \n - Allowances | 50 \n - Exhumation of Death | 200 \n - Coolie Labour | 1,000 \n - Disinfectant | 4,000 \n - Disinfecting & Cleansing Apparatus | 2,800 \n - Incidental Expenses | 1,320 \n - Light, Central Market | 2,000 \n - Paint, Turpentine, etc. | $500 \n - Plague Boat & Matsheds | 2862 \n - Rent of District Offices | 2600 \n - Security Allowance | 250 \n - Uniform for staff | 760 \n\nTotal Increase $7,3211 -> $23,661\n\n### Decrease\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | 58,185 |\n\nTotal Decrease $58,185\n\n### Net Decrease\n\n$58,185 - $7,321 = $50,864 \n\n##", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426272, "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": 54, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "Details of Twenty-five Years Professional Experience\n\nand Qualifications of\n\nMr. F. B. Drake.\n\nLate Town Engineer to the Mowbray Municipality, Cape Town,\n\nQualifications.\n\nAssociate Member of the \"Institute of Civil Engineers\", London (Elected 1896).\n\nPrevious Experience.\n\n(a). Articled to, and served a regular three years' course of Pupilage with, and subsequently retained as an Assistant Engineer to the Borough Surveyor of High Wycombe, England.\n\n(b). Assistant Engineer on Sea Wall and Foreshore Protection Works for the Corporation of Hastings, England.\n\n(c). Resident Engineer on Quay Tidal River Walls, Landing Stages and Grain Warehouses for the Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees, England.\n\n(d). Deputy Borough Engineer and Surveyor to the Corporation of Richmond Surrey, England, for 8 years.\n\n(e). Resident Drainage Engineer to the Hornsey Urban District Council, London, N., to date of appointment with the Mowbray Municipality, Cape Town.\n\n(f). 1st October, 1901, to 31st March, 1910, Town Engineer to the Mowbray Municipality, Cape Town.\n\nProfessional Experience.\n\nIsolation Hospital of 44 beds, including administrative blocks.\n\nFree Libraries, Public Baths and Wash Houses, Fire Stations, Electric Lighting Stations.\n\n126 Model Workmen's Dwellings.\n\nUnderground Sanitary Conveniences.\n\nCoroner's Court and Mortuary.\n\nNew Cemetery with Chapels and Lodges.\n\nNew Parks, Ornamental Pleasure and Recreation Grounds.\n\nRefuse Destructor Buildings.\n\nTechnical School Institute.\n\nNew Depot Buildings, Stabling, Workshops, Cottages, &c.\n\nGrain Transit Warehouse and Elevators.\n\nSea and River Foreshore Defensive Works.\n\nNew Street Works Constructions.\n\nStreet Widening Schemes.\n\nMain Stormwater and Foul Water Drainage Schemes.\n\nHouse Drainage Connections on the most approved Sanitary Principles.\n\nSewer Flushing and Ventilating Schemes.\n\nComplete System of Fire Alarm Cables.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442360, "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": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 487, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "# \n483\n\nThe laying out and maintenance of all Chinese Cemeteries.\n\nIn addition to the above routine I carried out the following:-\n\nThe Mee Lun Lane and Kau U Fong Resumptions which embraced arrangements for purchasing two large areas in the most congested districts of the city, sweeping away the then existing tenements, shoring up and underpinning the surrounding property, and forming new roads and streets through such areas.\n\nComplete detailed plans and report for the erection of a Destructor for dealing with the refuse of the city, the plans providing for the reclamation of an extensive sea area.\n\nThe erection of Bungalows at the Peak for Government officials.\n\nIn my present position my duties involve the following:-\n\nThe repair, maintenance and extension of about 300 Government buildings, embracing:-\n\n* Hospitals,\n* Schools,\n* Markets,\n* Gaols,\n* Police Station,\n* Cattle Depots,\n* Slaughter Houses,\n* Lighthouses\nand all Government piers and sea walls.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462305, "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": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "## COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1915.\n\n| Heads and Sub-Heads | Estimated | Actual | Increase | Decrease | Provisionally Voted | Explanatory Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | $1,233,748 | 4,539,743.48 | 879,806.26 | | 573,810.78 | |\n| SANITARY Department,—Continued. | | | | | | |\n| Brought forward | 308,269 | 282,641.27 | | 25,627.73 | | |\n| Sanitary Staff—Continued. | | | | | | |\n| Disinfecting Tanks, Disinfectors, Dog Muzzles | 800 | 1,500 | 290.93 | 9.07 | | Less repairs. |\n| | | 995.58 | 504.42 | Cr. | | |\n| Dust and Water Carts | 2,200 | 2,163.59 | 36.41 | | | Fewer carts repaired, |\n| General Cleansing, Chinese New Year | 400 | 380.60 | 19.40 | | | Fewer coolies engaged. |\n| Head Stones | 1,500 | 837.50 | 662.50 | | | Less interments, |\n| Incidental Expenses | 2,463 | 1,971.74 | 491.26 | | | Less articles required. |\n| Incidental Expenses, Markets | 1,600 | 747.73 | 852.27 | | | Less sundries required. |\n| Langunge Study Allowances (Chinese) to 3 Sanitary Inspectors, at $60 each..... | 180 | 45.00 | 135.00 | | | One Inspector drew for 9 months only. |\n| Launch, Steam Barges and Lighters :- | | | | | | |\n| Coal | 4,000 | 3,851.11 | 148.89 | | | Less coal consumed. |\n| Repaira | 2,700 | 3,088.49 | 388.19 | | | More repairs made. |\n| Stores | 2,700 | 2,659.40 | 40.60 | | | Less sundries required. |\n| Light :- | | | | | | |\n| Bullock Stables at Victoria and Kowloon | 200 | 176.25 | 23.75 | | | Less consumption. |\n| Central Market | 3,500 | 2,961.48 | 538.52 | | | No extra lights used. |\n| Disinfecting Stations, District Sanitary Offices and Matsheds | 600 | 463.57 | 136.43 | | | Less consumption. |\n| Smaller Markets | 8,851 | 1,669.28 | | 7,181.72 | | Do. |\n| Tsim Sha Tsui Market | 900 | 874.80 | 25.20 | | | No extra lights used. |\n| Western Market, North and South Blocks | 4,000 | 3,554.06 | 445.94 | | | Less consumption. |\n| Nightsoil Receptacles | 1,000 | 628.00 | 372.00 | | | Fewer buckets required. |\n| Paint, Turpentine, &c. | 1,000 | 983.79 | 16.21 | | | Less paints required. |\n| Plague Boats and Matsbeds | 250 | 148.52 | 101.48 | | | Less repairs made. |\n| Purchase and Maintenance of Bullocks | 6,580 | 6,545.23 | 34.77 | | | Less food for cattle required. |\n| Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c. | 3,700 | 2,978.46 | 721.54 | | | No traps bought, |\n| Refund of Fees for Meat Inspection Examinations | 280 | 280.00 | | | | No examination held. |\n| Refund of Fees for Sanitary Institute Examinations | 150 | 129.00 | 21.00 | | | Fewer examinations held. |\n| Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies | 1,824 | 1,723.00 | 101.00 | | | |\n| Scavenging City, Villages and Hill District | 1,200 | 133.91 | 1,066.09 | | | Fewer extra coolies engaged, |\n| Scavenging Gear | 5,000 | 4,550.61 | 449.39 | | | No extra houses rented. |\n| Scavenging Gear, Kowloon | 1,300 | 1,037.59 | 262.41 | | | Charges for redeeming obstructions removed from streets and for removal of refuse and manure |\n| Street-watering | 1,400 | 997.71 | 402.29 | | | Less sundries required. |\n| Transport | 800 | 524.98 | 275.02 | | | [credited to this vote. |\n| Uniform for Chinese Constable | 17 | 17.00 | | | | |\n| Uniform for Indian Constables | 78 | 78.00 | | | | Less conveyances. |\n| Uniform for Staff | 8,806 | 7,615.55 | 1,190.45 | | | Less uniform issued. |\n| Vaccination Bonuses | 100 | 100.00 | | | | No account presented for payment. |\n| Veterinary Staff | | | | | | |\n| Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses | | | | | | |\n| Fuel | 2,600 | 2,596.74 | 3.26 | | | Less firewood consumed. |\n| Incidental Expenses | 600 | 519.75 | 80.25 | | | Less sundries required. |\n| Light | 900 | 551.89 | 348.11 | | | Less cremation. |\n| Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor | 400 | 391.28 | 8.72 | | | |\n| Conveyance Allowances | 1,092 | 1,092.00 | | | | |\n| Carried forward | 379,943 | 342,107.49 | 388.49 | | | |\n| | 4,233,748 | 4,539,743.48 | 879,806.26 | | 573,810.78 | |\n\nPage 29 \nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487991, "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": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "page_number": 344, "title": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "content_text": "## \n4. Sacred Rocks on the way to Kowloon City.\n\n5. New Chinese Garden City on Reclamation at Kowloon City.\n\n6. The Museum,\n\n7. Public Gardens.\n\n8. Statue Square.\n\n9. Sandlewood Mills at Tsin Wan.\n\n10. Pineapple Plantations near Tsin Wan.\n\n11. Walk from Taipo market to Waterfall at Plover Cove Potteries.\n\n12. Golf Course and other attractions at Sheung Shiu.\n\n13. Ride in narrow gauge railway from Fanling to Sha Tau Kok.\n\n14. Walk through gorge from Tsin Wan to Licheekok.\n\n15. Happy Valley.\n\n16. Big Wave Bay Bathing Beach.\n\n17. The Peak Tramway.\n\n18. D'Aguilar Lighthouse and Wireless.\n\n19. The Bowen Road.\n\n20. The Native Departmental Stores.\n\n21. Chinese Hotels.\n\nWe suggest that much in this direction might be accomplished by giving some official in the P.W.D., with initiative and imagination, a free hand to carry out a definite scheme along these lines. The same official (if such paragons are to be found) might also be responsible for the organization of some scheme similar to that of the Welcome Society in Japan, and thus further encourage matters in the direction indicated. This official could further look after the advertising of the Colony. As an alternative to the above, a special Publicity and Tourist Government Department might be established to work the above and various schemes akin to those suggested.\n\nPrivate enterprise should be encouraged, and in connection with the development of many of the places, the natives should be encouraged and instructed how to keep places clean (a hard task) and in repair, and how there is money to be had by tips, sale of souvenirs, refreshments &c.\n\n## A WEST END PARK\n\nThe present park between Bonham Road, Lyttleton Road and Robinson Road could be developed into a fine park in Chinese style, mainly for use of Chinese. Grottoes, Pagodas, Pavilions, all with plenty of seats, should be provided, and various exhibits might be shown here in an artistic Chinese setting, such as sundry war trophies, guns, &c.\n\n## PUBLIC BATHING BEACHES\n\nThe present facilities should be extended and permanent pavilions might be erected. At North Point, the service and general arrangements should be such as to attract visitors. A more substantial public bath should be made with proper diving boards and various accessories of this nature. The beaches should be more effectively cleared of sharp stones, &c.\n\n## FACILITIES FOR PICNICS\n\nThe picnic habit should be encouraged. Public pavilions and shelters should be built near the roadside at suitable spots, or convenient places having scenic views. In at least a few of these shelters, there should be made available a supply of reliable drinking water.\n\n## IMPROVED FERRY SERVICE & COMMUNICATIONS\n\nThe existing Ferry Service needs improving without delay. What is required are Ferries on the lines of the San Francisco-Oakland Service, big boats which can carry wheeled traffic as well as passengers. The Committee know all the difficulties which have been put forward in the past as reasons why larger boats cannot be employed, but are of opinion that the time has come when these will have to be surmounted, as otherwise the development of the mainland will be seriously hindered. Develop the means of access and transport, and the development of places made accessible in this way follows within a few years as a matter of course.\n\nSome years ago, a tunnel scheme through the Peak to the south side of the Island was mooted. This scheme might be revived, and also any other schemes to relieve the present congestion.\n\n## STREET SCAVENGING & REFUSE COLLECTION\n\nThe whole of this work should be done between midnight and, say, 5 a.m. Also, there should be a destructor in some place a little off the beaten track. The present methods of collection of refuse on the Praya are offensive. The Praya from end to end should be kept as free from objectionable sights, trades, etc., as possible.\n\n## QUEEN'S STATUE WHARF\n\nThis has been an admitted eyesore for countless years. The present matshed should be removed and a proper structure erected without further delay.\n\n## RICKSHAW SERVICE\n\nThis is capable of great improvement. All first-class rickshaws should have pneumatic tyres and be more attractive in appearance than the present style. A higher legal scale of fares would be involved, but no objection would be made to this. The existing type of rickshaws could constitute a second-class service.\n\n## HOTELS\n\nThe time is obviously ripe for the establishment of one or more first-class hotels here, similar in style and equipment to the Vancouver Hotel owned and run by the C.P.R. This question is also bound up with the difficulty of securing suitable sites in the Central district, but we wish to emphasize that the matter of providing good hotels is the first essential towards attracting business men and tourists of the right kind. At the moment, all hotels are so crowded that the Manager of Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son reports he frequently has to pack visitors off to Canton the day they arrive, it being impossible to get them sleeping accommodation in Hongkong. As a 1,000 room hotel would probably take 2 to 3 years to build, this matter requires looking into at once, otherwise development will be very seriously retarded. As a result of our enquiries, we have also to point out the very pressing need for at least one large middle-class hotel, and serious attention should be given to this matter at once. The shortage of hotel accommodation is very real indeed, and nothing should be left undone to rectify the present condition of affairs.\n\nIn the above connection, the most suitable site for a new hotel is obviously the old Post Office site. No difficulty would be encountered in getting capital, providing Government is willing to sell the site at a reasonable price, and at the same time relax the building restrictions, so that, say, a 10-storied building could be erected. With Government assistance, local enterprise is capable of accomplishing wonders. Active American interests, backed by practically unlimited capital, are already prospecting with a view to opening a series of hotels in the principal centres of the Orient, and Hongkong should not have to rely on American enterprise to build its necessary hotels. The Colony is quite capable of building and running its own, provided...\n\n341", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494095, "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": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 487, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "ave.\n\n: \n\nConfidential Report\n\n1920.\n\nGREAT Britain. Dr. Born March 1872; married 2 children; M.D., D.P.H., D.T.M. & H., Cantab., W.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.C.S.\n\nHeld appointments at Guy's Hospital as Assistant Bacteriologist and Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy; Assistant (in turn) to Medical Officers of Health, Hertfordshire, Bermondsey and Essex. Appointed Assistant Government Bacteriologist, British Guiana, 1910. Medical Officer of Health, and Health Officer, Port of Georgetown, 1910.\n\n(about 21,093 in all).\n\nServed during the war with H.M. Forces in France, Salonika, Palestine and Egypt. Lieutenant Colonel Stanton, Military Governor, Haifa, wrote: \"Showed exceptional zeal and energy in starting Civil Hospital Dispensaries, in arranging scavenging lorries and Refuse Destructors both in the Town of Haifa and the Villages; in Anti-Mosquito work, the disinfection of houses and in the establishment of quarantine and disinfection station.\"\n\nCivil Surgeon General (Conyers): highly trained bacteriologist and has had great experience of sanitary work during the war. Fair administrator. Hard worker; pleasant manner. \"doubtful of his tactfulness.\"\n\n#\n\nGovernor Collat: \"I concur. I understand why the Surgeon General is doubtful of his tactfulness. At the same time I am not at all sure that he is failing:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495420, "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": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "392,191.47\n\n497.41\n\nAmbulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, &c.,\n\n595.16\n\nBath Houses, Fuel,\n\n1,379.95\n\nBath Houses, Incidental Expenses,\n\n59.70\n\n34\n\nAppendix N.\n\nList of Expenditure from January to December, 1922.\n\nPersonal Emoluments, Advertisement,\n\n35\n\n-\n\nBrought forward,...\n\nRefund of Fees for Sanitary Institute Examination.\n\nRent of Quarters for Inspectors and for Sanitary Offices,\n\nRent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies, Scavenging City, Villages, and Hill District.\n\nScavenging Gear,\n\nScavenging Gear, Kowloon.\n\nStreet-watering.......... 8480,617.13\n\nBath Houses, Light.\n\n22.63\n\nTransport.\n\nUniform for Staff,\n\nBath Houses, Rent,\n\n480.00\n\nBonus to Dispensary Clerks for Registration of Births,\n\n441.30\n\nFuel.\n\n*\n\nBurial of Infected Bodies...: 630,00\n\nCemeteries, Incidental Expenses,\n\n120.95\n\nCompensation for Damages by Disinfection and Cleansing,\n\n431.88\n\nConveyance Allowances,\n\n7,468.29\n\nWorkshop Apparatus,\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses Incidental Expenses............\n\nMotor Meat Van ; Running Cost\n\nCattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\nCoolie Labour.\n\n114,00\n\nDisinfectants,\n\n8,850.49\n\nDisinfecting and Cleansing Apparatus,\n\n3,746,43\n\nDisinfectors,\n\n1,690.24\n\nTotal.\n\n1921.\n\n289.70\n\n1,152.00 2,394.00\n\n1,378.01\n\n4,893.63\n\n929.75\n\n318.30\n\n837.19\n\n6,492.21\n\n224.03\n\n2,430.00\n\n653.89\n\n528.64\n\n2,552.81\n\n169.72\n\n...$506,161.92\n\n..$500,741.63\n\nDust and Water Carts,\n\n1,207.76\n\nExpenses of Vaccination,\n\n3,778.80\n\nFuel for Blacksmith's Forges,\n\n432.00\n\nGeneral Cleansing, Chinese New Year,\n\n469.30\n\nCrown Agents' charges for November and December are excluded as they have not yet arrived.\n\nHead Stones,\n\n1,737.96\n\nIncidental Expenses,\n\n2,403.22\n\nSpecial Expenditure,\n\nIncidental Expenses, Markets,\n\n678.88\n\nLaunches, Steam Barges, &c., Coal..........\n\n14,713.64\n\nExhumation, Various Cemeteries\n\nLaunches, Steam Barges, &c., Repairs,\n\n13,151.15\n\nDust and Water Carts:—\n\n102.80\n\nLaunches, Steam Barges, &c., Stores,\n\n4,482.04\n\n4 4-wheeled Dust Carts\n\n1,201.47\n\nLight, Bullock Stables at Victoria and\n\n34-wheeled Water Carts\n\n2,015.41\n\nKowloon,\n\n198.67\n\nLight, Central Market,\n\n2,416.84\n\nLight, Disinfecting Stations, District Sanitary Offices and Matsheds,...\n\n1,006.70\n\nLight, Public Latrines,\n\nLight, Smaller Markets,\n\n1,464.33\n\nLight, Tsim Sha Tsui Market,\n\n845.46\n\nLight, Western Market, N. and S. Blocks,\n\n1,274.19\n\nNightsoil Receptacles,\n\n1,436.55\n\nPaint, Turpentine, &c.,\n\n803.99\n\n657.09\n\n10 Bullocks...\n\n1 Steam Launch\n\n1 Pig Weighing Machine\n\n2 Refuse Junks, (not proceeded with)\n\n(Steam Tannah not yet completed).\n\n... 41,756.31\n\n1 Dust Cart (Hand).......\n\n118.70\n\n700.00\n\n37,275.00\n\n342.93\n\nTotal,\n\n44\n\nPurchase and Maintenance of Bullocks,\n\n8,483.10\n\nRat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.,\n\n254.06\n\nCarried forward, .....\n\n44\n\n..$480,617.13\n\n85\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500679, "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": 391, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nequally delayed Saiyingpun School is within sight of being opened. With regard to the postponement of some portion of the public works which it was intended to carry on, and more especially road improvements and developments, whilst fully appreciating the wisdom of \"going slow\" for the time being, it is our opinion that too drastic cuts are not advisable or necessary and that sufficient work should anyhow be continued to justify the carrying on of your present staffs, unless there are clear indications of Departments being seriously over-staffed. Whilst upon this subject, I may add that we are in agreement with the principle of staff reductions where possible, but not at the expense of sending Home qualified Staff Officers, who, within 12 months, might have to be indented for again, and we are sufficiently optimistic of the future of this Colony to believe that you are justified in taking a risk in this connection. We should like to be assured that the water schemes in view will be pressed forward and especially that the mechanical filters at Bowen Road will not be dropped but installed at the earliest possible moment, in order that we may have the benefit of proved experience similar to that already gained in the Taikoo Sugar Refinery. And we shall be glad to know whether they have been definitely ordered and, if so, what system has been adopted.\n\n## MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS\n\nWe have noted both from the estimates and from your own speech, Sir, that no provision has been made in connection with reprovisioning the Military Establishments and that you have reluctantly been obliged to notify the Secretary of State for the Colonies that we cannot take any further steps in the matter. We presume from this that the Oakley Award has not been definitely accepted by the War Office and that there is, therefore, no obligation upon the Colony. Certainly, in view of the tremendous fall in land value, should the necessity arise at a later period, we may be able to come to more satisfactory terms than were possible at the time of Sir John Oakley's visit, which coincided with the biggest land boom the Colony has ever known.\n\n## PORT DEVELOPMENT\n\nWe have been impressed with the heavy cost of the \"Port Development Department\" in comparison with the amount of work to be carried out, but it is the unanimous opinion of my colleagues that it would be an economy again to merge this Department with General Public Works Department, with the Director of Public Works in charge. We should further be interested in hearing whether the Government has yet formed any clear opinion as to a definite scheme for port development.\n\n## QUESTION OF LOANS\n\nWe are glad to find that Your Excellency is so whole-heartedly in favour of financing Public Works Extraordinary by separate short-term loans, a policy which has been consistently advocated by Unofficial Members of this Council, especially by myself, for several years past. Nevertheless, we agree with you, Sir, that the times are not propitious for raising money for Port Development or for Public Works Extraordinary by loans at the present time, but this should certainly be kept in mind.\n\nIt is fitting I should here refer to the generous and prompt response of His Majesty's Government to the appeal for financial assistance by this Colony, and to the very excellent effect it immediately had in restoring confidence and further our high appreciation of the neighbourly assistance offered by the Straits Government in this connection, which has profoundly impressed the entire community of this Colony.\n\n## HAWKERS' LICENCES\n\nI pass now to more detailed reference and discussion of the Draft Estimates, and in the first place, I note that Hawkers' Licences have been reduced by $10,000—and trust that this does not mean that fewer licences are being issued, more especially in view of the services which hawkers rendered to us during the earlier days of the strike. If a policy of reduction has been adopted, I take this opportunity of placing on record the disagreement of the Unofficial Members.\n\n# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## FOOT NOTES\n\nOn page 11, there are large increases in rents of Government property, which are entirely unexplained by foot-notes. I may add that throughout the estimates this year, there is, in relation to large sums budgeted for, a want of foot-notes, which in the past have been freely given.\n\n## REFUSE DESTRUCTORS\n\nOn page ... there are no revised estimated figures for 1925 given, either on that page or succeeding pages, making any criticisms of comparative figures impossible, and difficult as I can understand it is to estimate at present, it occurs to me that some fairly reliable figures could and should have been put in for guidance.\n\n## CHARITABLE SERVICES\n\nUnder the head of \"Charitable Services\" and the sub-head \"Grants in aid of Charitable Institutions,\" Page 107, my colleagues and I are unanimously of the opinion that a supplementary vote of $3,000—increasing it from $2,000 to $5,000—annually, might fittingly be made to the \"Alice Memorial and its Affiliated Hospitals,\" which are doing, as your Excellency well knows, magnificent work amongst the poorer Chinese, and have done for many years past, and more especially do I venture to appeal for this because this Hospital has been more seriously hit than many other institutions by the financial conditions in the Colony and the unfortunate death of our lamented colleague Mr. Chau Siu Ki, who was one of its most ardent and generous supporters. I understand it was the intention of the hospital to increase its accommodation to cope with the growing need for additional beds, but this has had to be abandoned for the present. I need scarcely remind you, Sir, that the institution provides an excellent training school for midwives for Government purposes. As Chairman of the Hospital for many years, I can assure you that the unanimous recommendations of my colleagues are worthy of the Government's support.\n\nUnder the heading of \"Sanitary Department\" Page 32, there is an item for an additional \"refuse barge\" at a cost of $10,000. We have before this, and on more than one occasion, advocated employment of refuse destructors. The experience of the last few months has confirmed the opinion which we formerly advocated, and we are unanimously of the opinion that three refuse destructors should be ordered, one for use at each end of the town and one for Kowloon. With regard to the removal of nightsoil, we would draw attention to the complaints which have been made from Wanchai and enquire how much longer the disturbed conditions of the Praya Road are likely to continue and whether temporary arrangements cannot be improved, so that sanitary work may be carried on without causing a serious nuisance.\n\nOn Page 79, under the Public Works Department, the item of $222,411—showing an increase of $44,311—for \"total other charges\" seems to call for some further explanation, and is another instance of want of sufficient foot-notes.\n\n## UPKEEP OF CARS\n\nWe should also like to know why the upkeep of motor lorries and cars has increased from $11,000 to $25,000, and at the same time, we would enquire whether, in view of the number of motor cars and transport lorries now being used by the Government Departments, there is, in the employ of the Government, a qualified Garage Manager and Mechanic who is responsible for overseeing this work, and whether the Government has considered an organised repair shop in view of the large capital sums now invested in these vehicles and the Fire Department.\n\nWe congratulate you on the very satisfactory arrangements made in connection with the John G. Kerr Hospital, Canton, for the treatment of mental cases. The fine work of this institution is unanimously and highly appreciated by us all and for many years past has been of immense service to this Government.\n\n## PREVENTION OF PIRACY\n\nWhilst regretting it has been necessary to abandon the four armed Patrol launches which were manned by the Navy, we realise the necessity for this. I notice that on Page 83, under the heading of Public Works Extraordinary, ... and have always considered that this protection should have been afforded by and is rightly chargeable to the Admiralty.\n\nPage 386 \nPage 388", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500681, "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": 393, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nrenders assistance—not necessarily monetary but by free grants of land in the New Territory for experimental farming—cattle, chicken, and vegetable—in order that we as a Colony may be more self-contained and less dependent on others for our fresh food supply.\n\nThere are thousands of acres of suitable land there which could be utilized for this purpose, and I believe if the Government were to show its sympathy in such enterprise the pioneers would be forthcoming.\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT\n\nLast year I drew attention to the entire lack of any attempt to indicate clearly the names of our streets. When later on I was asked to inspect some sample labels I had hope that action was about to be taken. On enquiry as to why nothing further had been done, information is given me that this very necessary work has now been cancelled, or at any rate postponed. It is inconceivable that the few thousand dollars involved would embarrass the Government, and I would ask that this work be proceeded with. Perhaps the twelve thousand dollars to be spent on the Geological Survey could be utilized for this purpose.\n\nIt is satisfactory to note that money is to be spent on more efficient lighting throughout the Colony, and it is to be hoped this work will be carried out without delay. Whilst on the subject of lighting may I suggest that the big banyan trees in Nathan Road be removed and replaced by small and more suitable trees. The cutting down of any trees is to be deprecated unless absolutely necessary, but these banyan trees, fine though they are in themselves, are unsuitable for lining roads. They grow too quickly and their roots spread too widely. The trees in question have grown to such an extent that they meet in the middle and entirely hide some of the street lamps. Moreover, they encroach to a considerable extent on the roadway.\n\nNo item appears to be allotted to the improvement of the road to Taipo, where there are several bridges which are positively dangerous to motor traffic. Let us hope no serious accident occurs before these bridges are widened and the approaches improved.\n\n## SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nOn many occasions the Unofficials of this Council have urged the adoption of refuse destructors, and I am glad to hear my honourable Colleagues pressing the matter again. We have been told in the past that these contrivances are not suitable for Hongkong. You will pardon me, Sir, if I say that answer does not satisfy me. I have it on good authority that these destructors are used to very good purpose elsewhere, and should give them a trial. Mechanical contrivances of all description should be employed where possible so as to eliminate the human element as much as possible.\n\nI am afraid, Sir, that none of my remarks suggest retrenchment, my excuse being that I cannot see that the financial situation is such as to necessitate applying the axe to works which are urgently required. In your Budget speech last year, Sir, you stated that you saw no necessity to maintain our balance at a higher figure than five million dollars. Our estimated balance at the end of this year is five million three hundred and fifty-five thousand. The maxim of cutting one's coat according to the cloth in hand is sound provided there is no more cloth available. This, however, does not appear to me to be the case. It is my opinion that the new assessment of the Colony, if efficiently carried out, will produce a bigger increase than has been allowed for.\n\nLand sales is admittedly a difficult item to estimate, but with trade resumed I believe there will be fresh application for land coming in almost immediately. This Colony has been foully struck below the belt, but we have not been \"knocked out\" nearly so, and, therefore, it would seem there is no reason to display ourselves in garments too small for us.\n\n## THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL\n\nSir, I should like to make a few remarks on the subject of education in this Council. Perhaps in the recent Bolshevik campaign, which has been engineered from Canton, and perhaps it would be more accurate to say from Moscow, nothing has more annoyed old residents, who have a real affection for this Colony and a firm belief in British fairplay, than the lying campaign of calumny which has misrepresented the British officials and the British business men of this Colony as riding roughshod over the rights of the Chinese and brutally, or imperialistically, for that is the favourite word used—riding roughshod also over the rights of the Chinese here. Nothing could possibly be further from the truth. On the contrary, the record of this Colony is one of sympathetic Government by three generations of hardworking officials of the highest Integrity, and of friendly intercourse of three generations of British business firms with the Chinese in this Colony.\n\n### SANCTUARY FOR CHINESE\n\nThe wonderful prosperity which this Colony has attained and the manner in which Chinese have flocked here to do business, is a sufficient refutation of the gross slanders to which I have referred. Some years ago a former Land Officer of this Colony estimated that the Chinese owned fifteen-sixteenths of the landed property in this Colony, and it is a well-known fact that their large land-owning still continues and also that they are the owners of a large proportion of the shares in our public companies. We have also the curious fact that the wives and families of some of the officials in Canton, who are now working against us, are actually receiving sanctuary here in our midst in this so-called imperialistic British Colony.\n\n### STRIKING COMPARISONS\n\nI have in my hand a despatch of a former Governor, Sir William Des Voeux, dated October 31st, 1889, reporting to the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the condition and prospects of Hongkong, and in that despatch he points out with pride that our revenue for 1888—one and a half million dollars—was larger than in any former year. In 1924 our revenue was about 24 million dollars. Another item which Governor Des Voeux mentions is land sale receipts which amounted to $160,000 as against nearly three million dollars received in 1923. The population for 1888 he mentions as 160,000. Before the commencement of the recent unrest it was probably about 800,000.\n\n### A WONDERFUL TRANSFORMATION\n\nIn the concluding paragraph of his despatch, Sir William Des Voeux pointed out the wonderful transformation since we took over in 1840 of Hongkong from \"a bare rock, with a fisherman's hut here and there\" to \"a wonderful and busy and prosperous shipping port.\" In the last paragraph of his despatch he says as follows:-\n\n\"Hongkong has indeed changed its aspect; and when it is remembered that all this has been affected in Her Majesty's reign and indeed during a space of less than fifty years on ground in immediate contact with the most populous Empire in the world, by a comparatively infinitesimal number of an entirely alien race separated from their Homes by nearly the whole earth, and, unlike their countrymen in Australia and Canada, living in an enervating and trying climate; and when it is further remembered that the Chinese, whose labour and enterprise under British auspices have largely assisted in this development, have been under no compulsion, but have come here as free men, attracted by liberal institutions, equitable treatment, and the justice of our rule; and when all this is taken into account, it may be doubted whether the evidence of material and moral achievement, presented as it were in a focus, make anywhere a more forcible appeal to eye and imagination, and whether any other spot on the earth is thus more likely to excite, or more fully justifies pride in the name of Englishman.\"\n\n### THE TASK FOR THE SCHOOLS\n\nThe point that I wish to make now is that the Hongkong Government ought to make it its business to teach in its schools and in the University, the wonderful growth and prosperity of this Colony, owing to its liberal institutions, its equitable treatment of, and justice to, all races, and, starting onward from Governor Des Voeux's despatch to the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500683, "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": 395, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nthat clerical service in a way which is desirable. We now know how much that service is costing us. Last year it was proposed to make this change shortly before the introduction of the Estimates, but I resisted it because I did not see how, in the short period available, it could possibly be done although I realised it was a move in the right direction. I do not think there is any great magic in knowing how much the clerks in one department cost in any one year, because you may have clerks in lower grades one year and in higher grades the next. A clerk may grow up in a department and reach his highest grade, but his successor may only be a third-class clerk although suitable for the position. The same work would then be done at a lower rate. You cannot say that the clerical service of one department is going to cost so many thousand dollars and that it is necessary to spend that amount of money to get the work done efficiently. If you get a clerk who is particularly good, he may work up from $1,200 a year to $3,000. He goes on doing the same work because his knowledge is essential to that department. But, later on, when he is replaced on retirement probably by someone else in the same department, the whole cost is altered without necessarily any reduction in efficiency.\n\n## TRADE STATISTICS\n\nIt is a matter of regret that the statistical department of the Imports and Exports Office has been for the time being abandoned, I may say--and I think the hon. Senior Unofficial member knows that there was no great enthusiasm shown by those for whom the returns were particularly drawn up. If you enquire from the Superintendent, he will tell you that they were not regarded as of very great value, and although we obtained annual results showing the trade of the Colony, it is doubtful whether these results were really correct. They were based on information supplied by shippers. They looked very nice, and those persons who like to see everything organised to this extent will, perhaps, think it a great loss that these returns are not now available. The work to be done necessitated the employment of a great many clerks at comparatively low salaries. It was practically a mechanical process and could not be done with less clerks than those employed. You either had to have all of them or none at all.\n\n## LABOUR REGISTER\n\nWith regard to the register, of the value of which hon. members have had practical experience, that will, of course, be maintained by the Police, but it is not necessary to show any special sub-department for this work. An adequate staff will keep that register up-to-date because the Government and the community realise it is an extremely valuable one, and experience has shown in what way it can be enlarged so as to add to its use.\n\n## REDUCTION OF STAFF\n\nIt has been necessary, of course, in effect, to reduce to some extent the staff of senior officers, particularly in the Public Works Department, but great care has been taken not to terminate the employment of any officers whose services may be required in the event of certain works being resumed. We have been particularly careful of that. It is extremely difficult to get sufficient officers for certain work, and, therefore, when we have them--after long waiting--it is disappointing to have to get rid of them. I can assure hon. members that great care has been taken in going through the establishment, and we have not terminated the employment of any senior officer or European overseer unless it would be absolute waste of money to continue his services. We have really strained the question to some extent and have retained some officers whose services will only be required if work is resumed which at present does not appear in the estimates.\n\n## HAWKERS LICENCES\n\nAs regards the Hawkers' licences to which members have referred, I think it is realised that we have to maintain some proportion between the number actually required or who get some sort of livelihood from hawking and the block in the streets caused by hawkers' stalls in crowded parts of the city. I have resisted attempts by the Captain Superintendent of Police to reduce the number below certain figures, and I have gone carefully into his arguments on this question of obstruction. The Senior Member of Council and the Chinese members can rest assured that this matter of Hawkers' licences will not be lost sight of. Unless there is real reason for reducing the licences, either owing to obstruction or to the fact that certain classes of hawkers are unnecessary, the number will not be reduced.\n\n## REFUSE DESTRUCTORS\n\nThe Senior Unofficial member and his colleague referred to the question of refuse destructors, and I may say at once that when I came to this Colony, I came with knowledge of refuse destructors in the Straits Settlements and Malay States, which made me think they were wonderful things to perform two offices--that of destroying refuse and supplying a very good class of manure. I tried to impress my views upon Sir Henry May and found him entirely unsympathetic. I considered I was in the right and thought they should be erected in this Colony. Since then, we have called for reports from various places, and hon. members will remember that the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. Fletcher, in the debate on the Budget in 1923 referred to this matter. I am going to read you his remarks because they converted me to the opinion that refuse destructors here are unnecessary. Dealing with the matter, Mr. Fletcher said:\n\n\"It was asked that we should have an incinerator for the destruction of rubbish. That question has been gone into exhaustively on three occasions, first in 1901, and again in 1906, when reports were laid on the table in this Council, and again in 1921. On each occasion, we asked particulars of Singapore, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, and other towns, and the replies were most discouraging because of the enormous expense. The capital cost of building runs as high as six and a half dollars per ton of rubbish consumed annually, against our cost of eighty cents for all our plant and material. The rubbish is largely of a light vegetable nature, and it requires a third of its weight in fuel to consume and leaves a third in slag to be got rid of. The destructor requires complete renewal once every ten years. The question of the disposal of the slag is also a matter of great difficulty. At Home, it is very much used for road repairs, but here we have a much better and entirely accessible material in granite. Therefore, this slag would have to be carted away. It could be used in reclamation, but it would have to be taken there. The nuisance of these collecting stations on the Praya would not necessarily be done away with. The town is very narrow, and the destructor would have to be at one end or the other, and all refuse would have to be taken along the streets as now. An incinerator must be more or less a nuisance to people in the neighbourhood, and I think it would cause much more trouble than the finding of an occasional cabbage leaf on a bathing beach now does.\"\n\nThat statement to my mind is convincing.\n\n## LATER TRAMS AND FERRIES\n\nWith regard to the question the hon. member has raised concerning late hours for the tram and ferry service, the Western ferry service is run under contract, and I am perfectly certain that if the successful tenderer for that service considered it would pay to run to a later hour, he would do it at once. Even if he would not do it merely for the comfort and convenience of those who liked to stay up very late at night, no doubt special fares could be arranged. Two o'clock in the morning was given as a suitable hour, but I really think that people who can afford habitually to stay out until that time for reasons of their own might be expected to be able to afford a motor boat. Trams stop at an early hour. I do not know and have never known the reasons. But the same remark applies to those people on the island who wish to remain up to such late hours for reasons into which we need not enquire; they might be expected to pay for a motor car. However, the companies might be approached to see if they would run later services. The ferry runs until one o'clock, but that is only for Kowloon. The Peak trams run until 12 o'clock, and it is always possible to arrange for a late car. Only the low-level trams, therefore, have to... \n\nPage 101 \n\n392", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500686, "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": 398, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\n## Charges\n\nCharges really bears on the general subject of putting in large sums of money without definite explanations. On more than one occasion we have had to refer, in Finance Committee, to votes which had to be passed without sufficient explanation and this is part and parcel of the same thing.\n\n**H.E. THE GOVERNOR**: I rather think that there is some misunderstanding. The figure quoted on page 79 of the estimates is made up of a very large number of items which are explained both in the draft estimates and in the annexure explaining the differences in the estimates. The hon. member should appreciate that the total covers some 40 items.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**: It might be appreciated by an accountant, but I am not an accountant.\n\n**H.E. THE GOVERNOR**: The word \"total,\" Other Charges, would seem to indicate that it was a total even to one who is not an accountant.\n\n## Trade Statistics\n\nThey do feel that the cost of the Department is preposterous and that the cost ought to be very much lower than it has been.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY**: There are a tremendous number of items and it is purely physical work in recording them.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**: With reference to the Import and Export figures, the bridges are a positive danger. They should have been one of the first improvements undertaken. ... function they do not function fully as far as Hongkong returns are concerned. If it was desired to find out in two years' time what effect the strike had had on Hongkong trade it would be impossible to get the necessary information without these figures.\n\nThe argument that the Import and Export figures are not reliable is no argument against the need for keeping them but is rather an argument against the method of compiling them. Without such figures it is impossible to make a comparison between one year and another and what is more important there is no means of comparing the imports into this Colony of competitor countries. They are part of world trade statistics and Hongkong should not be lacking in that respect.\n\n## Praya East Drainage and Taipo Road Bridges\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**: On the question of Praya East drainage I could not help noting the remark of the Director of Public Works that he hoped the contractor responsible would improve the position. Surely it is for the Director of Public Works to insist upon the improvement. From a motorist's point of view—and I speak as one who drives—the bridges are a positive danger. They should have been one of the first improvements undertaken. A large sum of money has been spent in this Colony during the past twelve months on roads which should have been spent on the main road in the New Territories leading to Taipo. We submit that the improvement of the road ought now to be amongst the first of new works undertaken. The first three bridges are extremely dangerous and very narrow.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY**: The bridges between the Reservoir and Shatin?\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**: Yes. They are very dangerous however carefully you drive.\n\n## Refuse Destructors\n\nWith regard to refuse destructors, notwithstanding the fact that the Colonial Secretary has re-read to us the statement made in previous discussions I would beg you to note it is the unanimous recommendation of the Unofficial Members that refuse destructors should be experimented with.\n\n## Trade Statistics (Continued)\n\nI am glad to hear that some arrangement may be made for the continuance of the figures in connection with the Imports and Exports Department. I was asked to raise this question by interested merchants who are, perhaps, more interested than they appear to be. The real fact is that in almost every other port in the world you have Customs. In Hongkong you have none. Whilst it is true that the Chinese Maritime Customs function they do not function fully as far as Hongkong returns are concerned.\n\nThe Bill was then read a second time.\n\n## Legislative Council Proceedings\n\nCouncil went into Committee to consider details of the Bill. No changes were made in Committee, and upon Council resuming, \n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** moved the third reading of the Bill.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and the Bill was read a third time and passed.\n\n## Governor's Farewell to Council\n\n**H.E. THE GOVERNOR**: Hon. members of the Legislative Council.—It only remains for me to perform a duty which I approach with a keen consciousness of my inability to do justice to the occasion, that is to take leave of this Council over which I have had the honour to preside for the last six years. You will, I trust, forgive me if I do not take the opportunity of laying before you a full account of my stewardship. I am, as you know, no friend to long speeches and I do not think that the present juncture, when we have been compelled to abandon for the time being many of the works which I had hoped to see begun during my term of office, is a suitable time for such a review.\n\nMay I express the hope that the Government of the day will then invite me—if I am still alive I shall be one of the oldest surviving Governors of Hongkong—to take part in the celebrations and to see for myself how far the reality corresponds with my expectations.\n\n### Relations with Council\n\nBut I do not want to take up your time now by discussing the Colony and its future. I should wish on this occasion to deal only with my relations to this honourable Council.\n\nWe have worked together, gentlemen, for more than six years, and while I cannot claim that we have always been in entire agreement I think I may justly claim that we have throughout worked in the completest harmony and that, where we have differed, you have realised as clearly as I have realised, that on both sides the only motive that has actuated us has been a desire to do what each has believed to be the best for the interests of the Colony. I have valued my association with you more than I can say and it will always be one of my proudest memories that you have unanimously and repeatedly shown your confidence in me by asking that my term of office should be extended. If your request had been granted I should have been happy to remain, but, as this has not been found possible, I can only express to you my heartfelt thanks for paying me so striking a compliment.\n\n### Progress and Legacy\n\nI am sorry that no great work has been affected in the Colony which will serve to remind our successors of my Governorship. I had hoped to see the Praya East Reclamation practically finished, and I had almost hoped to see the Military Lands question settled, but unexpected delays in the former case and unforeseen events in the latter have resulted in disappointment. I can only claim that the six years contain a record of steady progress. The arrears due to the period of stagnation during the war have been made up; the development of the Colony has until the last few months been regular and continuous, and my successor will be able, as soon as the present period of depression is over, to proceed confidently with many works which I had hoped to see inaugurated in my time.\n\nI leave the Colony to my great regret at a time of trouble and difficulty, but I am confident that this shadow will soon pass and that Hongkong will resume the path of progress which will lead it to a prosperity far surpassing anything that it has yet seen.\n\n### A Revisit\n\nMr. Holyoak has kindly expressed the hope that my wife and I may some day revisit Hongkong. I am afraid that for the next few years I shall be at a distance which will render a casual visit impossible, but in some sixteen years' time Hongkong will be celebrating the centenary of its foundation.\n\n### Public Service\n\nI have also to thank you gentlemen, one and all, for the invaluable help which you have given me during these years by your advice and criticisms. It has been a cause of admiration and wonder to me that in a Colony, such as this, where there is no leisured class, it has always been possible to find able and hardworking men who will sacrifice their time to the gratuitous service of the State. Membership of this Council has been no sinecure, and the Colony has cause to be grateful to all of you and to those other former members of the Council, who have been taken from us—such men as my dear friend Alexander Stephen, Montague Ede, Arthur Lowe, Lau Chu-pak, Ng Hon-tsz and Chow Siu-ki.\n\n### Executive Council\n\nI owe a special debt of gratitude to those of you who have served on my Executive Council, for I fear that I have on many... \n\nPage 107\nPage 106", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500692, "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": 404, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## \n\nExtraordinary loans are not resorted to at the present time, but this should certainly be kept in mind.\n\nIt is fitting I should here refer to the generous and prompt response of His Majesty's Government to the appeal for financial assistance by this Colony, and to the very excellent effect it immediately had in restoring confidence and further our high appreciation of the neighbourly assistance offered by the Straits Government in this connection, which has profoundly impressed the entire community of this Colony.\n\n### HAWKERS' LICENCES\n\nI pass now to more detailed reference and discussion of the \"Draft Estimates\" and in the first place I note that Hawkers' Licences have been reduced by $10,000 - and trust that this does not mean that fewer licences are being issued, more especially in view of the services which hawkers rendered to us during the earlier days of the strike. If a policy of reduction has been adopted I take this opportunity of placing on record the disagreement of the Unofficial Members.\n\n### FOOT NOTES\n\nOn page 11 there are large increases in rents of Government property, which are entirely unexplained by foot-notes. I may add that throughout the estimates this year there is, in relation to large sums budgeted for, a want of foot-notes, which in the past have been freely given.\n\n### REFUSE DESTRUCTORS\n\nUnder the heading of Sanitary Department Page 32, there is an item for an additional \"refuse barge\" at a cost of $10,000. We have before this, and on more than one occasion, advocated employment of refuse destructors. The experience of the last few months has confirmed the opinion which We have advocated formerly, and we are unanimously of the opinion that three refuse destructors should be ordered, one for use at each end of the town and one for Kowloon. With regard to the removal of nightsoil, we would draw attention to the complaints which have been made from Wanchai and enquire how much longer the disturbed conditions of the Praya Road are likely to continue and whether temporary arrangements cannot be improved, so that sanitary work may be carried on without causing a serious nuisance. On Page 79, under the Public Works Department the item of $222,411 - showing an increase of $44,311 - for \"total other charges\" seems to call for some further explanation, and is another instance of want of sufficient foot-notes.\n\n### UPKEEP OF CARS\n\nWe should also like to know why the upkeep of motor lorries and cars has increased from $11,000 to $25,000 and at the same time we would enquire whether in view of the number of motor cars and transport lorries now being used by the Government Departments, there is, in the employ of the Government, a qualified Garage Manager and Mechanic who is responsible for overseeing this work, and whether the Government has considered an organised repair shop in view of the large capital sums now invested in these vehicles and the Fire Department.\n\nI notice that on Page 83, under the heading of \"Public Works Extraordinary\" no revised estimated figures for 1925 are given, either on that page or succeeding pages, making any criticisms of comparative figures impossible, and difficult as I can understand it is to estimate at present, it occurs to me that some fairly reliable figures could and should have been put in for guidance.\n\nPage 399", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500696, "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": 408, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "renders assistance—not necessarily monetary—but by free grants of land in the New Territory for experimental farming—cattle, chicken and vegetable—in order that we as a Colony may be more self-contained and less dependent on others for our fresh food supply. There are thousands of acres of suitable land there which could be utilized for this purpose. And I believe if the Government were to show its sympathy in such enterprise the pioneers would be forthcoming.\n\n**PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT**\n\nLast year I drew attention to the entire lack of any attempt to indicate clearly the names of our streets. When later on I was asked to inspect some sample labels I had hope that action was about to be taken. On enquiry as to why nothing further had been done, information is given me that this very necessary work has now been cancelled, or at any rate postponed. It is inconceivable that the few thousand dollars involved would embarrass the Government, and I would ask that this work be proceeded with. Perhaps the twelve thousand dollars to be spent on the Geological Survey could be utilized for this purpose.\n\nIt is satisfactory to note that money is to be spent on more efficient lighting throughout the Colony, and it is to be hoped this work will be carried out without delay. Whilst on the subject of lighting may I suggest that the big banyan trees in Nathan Road be removed and replaced by small and more suitable trees. The cutting down of any trees is to be deprecated unless absolutely necessary, but these banyan trees, fine though they are in themselves, are unsuitable for lining roads. They grow too quickly and their roots spread too widely. The trees in question have grown to such an extent that they meet in the middle and entirely hide some of the street lamps. Moreover, they encroach to a considerable extent on the roadway.\n\nNo item appears to be allotted to the improvement of the road to Taipo, where there are several bridges which are positively dangerous to motor traffic. Let us hope no serious accident occurs before these bridges are widened and the approaches improved.\n\n**SANITARY DEPARTMENT**\n\nOn many occasions the Unofficials of this Council have urged the adoption of refuse destructors, and I am glad to hear my honourable Colleagues pressing the matter again. We have been told in the past that these contrivances are not suitable for Hongkong. You will pardon me, Sir, if I say that answer does not satisfy me. I have it on good authority that these destructors are used to very good purpose elsewhere, and we should give them a trial. Mechanical contrivances of all description should be employed where possible so as to eliminate the human element as much as possible.\n\nI am afraid, Sir, that none of my remarks suggest retrenchment, my excuse being that I cannot see that the financial situation is such as to necessitate applying the axe to works which are urgently required. In your Budget speech last year, Sir, you stated that you saw no necessity to maintain our balance at a higher figure than five million dollars. Our estimated balance at the end of this year is five million three hundred and fifty-five thousand. The maxim of cutting one's coat according to the cloth in hand is sound provided there is no more cloth available. This, however, does not appear to me\n\nPage 403", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500702, "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": 414, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## HAWKERS' LICENCES\n\nAs regards the Hawkers' licences to which members have referred, I think it is realised that we have to maintain some proportion between the number actually required or who get some sort of livelihood from hawking and the block in the streets caused by hawkers' stalls. I have in crowded parts of the city resisted attempts by the Captain Superintendent of Police to reduce the number below certain figures, and I have gone carefully into his arguments on this question of obstruction. The Senior Member of Council and the Chinese members can rest assured that this matter of Hawkers' licences will not be lost sight of. Unless there is real reason for reducing the licences, either owing to obstruction or to the fact that hawkers are unnecessary, the number will not be reduced.\n\n## REFUSE DESTRUCTORS\n\nThe Senior Unofficial member and his colleague referred to the question of refuse destructors, and I may say at once that when I came to this Colony I came with knowledge of refuse destructors in the Straits Settlements and Malay States which made me think they were wonderful things to perform two offices—that of destroying refuse and supplying a very good class of manure. I tried to impress my views upon Sir Henry May and found him entirely unsympathetic. I considered I was in the right and thought they should be erected in this Colony. Since then we have called for reports from various places, and hon. members will remember that the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. Fletcher, in the debate on the Budget in 1923 referred to this matter. I am going to read you his remarks because they converted me to the opinion that refuse destructors here are unnecessary. Dealing with the matter, Mr. Fletcher said:\n\n\"It was asked that we should have an incinerator for the destruction of rubbish. That question has been gone into exhaustively on three occasions, first in 1901, and again in 1906, when reports were laid on the table in this Council, and again in 1921. On each occasion we asked particulars of Singapore, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, and other towns and the replies were most discouraging because of the enormous expense. The capital cost of building runs as high as six and a half dollars per ton of rubbish consumed annually, against our cost of eighty cents for all our plant and material. The rubbish is largely of a light vegetable nature and it requires a third of its weight in fuel to consume and leaves a third in slag to be got rid of. The destructor requires complete renewal once every ten years. The question of the disposal of the slag is also a matter of great difficulty. At Home it is very much used for road repairs, but here we have a much better and entirely accessible material in granite. Therefore, this slag would have to be carted away. It could be used in reclamation but it would have to be taken there. The nuisance of these collecting stations on the Praya would not necessarily be done away with. The town is very narrow and the destructor would have to be at one end or the other and all refuse would have to be taken along the streets as now. An incinerator must be more or less a nuisance to people in the neighbourhood, and I think it would cause much more trouble than the finding of an occasional cabbage leaf on a bathing beach now does.\" That statement to my mind is convincing.\n\n409", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500708, "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": 420, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Council Meeting Transcript\n\nCouncil. If we had realised this, we should certainly have made some reference to it and should have associated ourselves with the remarks which have been made by you, Sir, and by the Senior Chinese Member. I anticipated that he would be present at a later meeting and that we should have an opportunity of taking an official farewell then.\n\n## WATER SCHEMES\n\nWith reference to the question of water schemes, I am glad to have the assurance of the Director of Public Works that those schemes will be continued. I must confess, however, that I was somewhat surprised to hear that the Mechanical Filtration system in Bowen Road had been definitely settled without reference to the Public Works Committee, for the Director of Public Works knows well that this Committee went to the trouble of inspecting the Bell's Filtration system in use at Taikoo Sugar Refinery, and from that time on, no report or reference has been made to it in connection with the matter. I learn now for the first time that the Patterson system has been adopted. I happen to know that this system is not in general use in England compared with the system we advocated, which has been almost universally adopted at home and has given universal satisfaction. I submit that under the circumstances, the report of the Water Engineer sent home to investigate the matter should have been submitted to the Public Works Committee before this system was definitely embarked upon. The explanation of the Director of Public Works in connection with my \"Other Charges\" really bears on the general subject of putting in large sums of money without definite explanations. On more than one occasion, we have had to refer, in Finance Committee, to votes which had to be passed without sufficient explanation, and this is part and parcel of the same thing.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR: I rather think that there is some misunderstanding. The figure quoted on page 79 of the estimates is made up of a very large number of estimates which are explained both in the draft estimates and on the notes covering the differences in the estimates. The hon. member should appreciate that the total may cover 40 items.\n\nHon. Mr. HOLYOAK: It might be appreciated by an accountant, but I am not an accountant.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR: The word \"total,\" Other Charges, would seem to indicate that it was a total, even if the hon. member is not an accountant.\n\n## EAST PRAYA DRAINAGE\n\nOn the question of Praya East drainage, Hon. Mr. HOLYOAK: I could not help noting the remark of the Director of Public Works that he \"hoped the contractor responsible would improve the position.\" Surely it is for the Director of Public Works to insist upon the improvement.\n\n## REFUSE DESTRUCTORS\n\nWith regard to refuse destructors, notwithstanding the fact that the Colonial Secretary has re-read to us the statement made in previous discussions, I would beg you to note that it is the unanimous recommendation of the Unofficial Members that refuse destructors should be experimented with.\n\nPage 420 \nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503587, "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": 83, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "28\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nEstimated.\n\nActual,\n\n$\n\nBrought forward\n\n7,394,431\n\n7,218,040.87\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT-Continued.\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925. 29\n\nProvisionally\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\nVoted.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n766,840.07\n\n945,280.20\n\nBrought forward\n\n724,820\n\n597,202.76\n\n7,645.39\n\n185,262.63\n\n8,857.00\n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses\n\nFuel,\n\n5,000\n\n4,010.00\n\nIncidental Expenses ..........\n\n600\n\n749.26\n\n479.76\n\nMotor Meat Vans Running Expenses\n\n5,100\n\n4,173.08\n\nCattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\n600\n\n473.28\n\n990.00\n\n150.00\n\n149.26\n\n270.24\n\n926.02\n\n126.72\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nExhumation, Various Cemeteries, Special\n\n55,500\n\n55,500.00\n\nDust Bud Water Cart:-\n\n6 2-wheeled Hand Carts\n\n1,080\n\n1,080.00\n\n5 Motor Refuse Lorries\n\n84,700\n\n86,125.11\n\n1,425.11\n\n1,428.00\n\n2 Microscopes for use of C.V.S.......\n\n1,350\n\n802.97\n\nTriennial Lighting of Boilers S.D. 1\n\n400\n\n2 Motor Watering-carts\n\n395.00\n\n837.50\n\n547.03\n\n5.00\n\n829,900\n\n645,249.62\n\n837.50\n\n10,057.28\n\nLess Increase...................\n\nSavings\n\nBOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT:-\n\n194,707.64\n\n10,057.26\n\n184,650.38\n\n------\n\nExplanatory Remarks.\n\nLess firewood required due to Strike.\n\nFeeding of unusually large number of dogs under observation in Kennedy Town\n\nEconomy in consumption of current.\n\nNormal requirements lower.\n\nSlaughter house\n\nNot begun.\n\nConsidered unnecessary due to introduction of motor transport.\n\nUnder-estimated.\n\nOver-estimated.\n\n938.00\n\n11,271.00\n\nOutstanding 1924 accounts paid during the year.\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n\n51,080\n\n49,454.86\n\n1,581.14\n\nBrushwood Clearing..........\n\n5,000\n\n4,989.85\n\n80.65\n\nConveyance Motor Allowances\n\n2,010\n\n1,529.16\n\n480.84\n\nExpenses of Collections\n\n200\n\n171.06\n\n28.04\n\nExpenses of Herbarium\n\n100\n\n47.55\n\n52.45\n\nField Allowances to Foresters ....\n\n525\n\n459.36\n\n65.61\n\nForestry, Hongkong\n\n9,500\n\n8,589.25\n\n910.75\n\nForestry, New Territories\n\n10,150\n\n8,719.81\n\n1,480.69\n\n95.00\n\nHire of Motor Cars\n\n1,200\n\n1,234.12\n\n34.12\n\nIncidental Expenses\n\n100\n\n349.04\n\n99.94\n\nLibrary\n\n120\n\n32.61\n\n87.80\n\nLight\n\n150\n\n85.42\n\n64.59\n\nLapsing salaries.\n\nLapsing allowances.\n\nCollections in up-country districts impossible.\n\nHerbarium specimens not obtainable.\n\nRegular Forestry work held over due to Strike.\n\nIncreased use of motor cars during the Strike.\n\nMid-day meals for Foresters engaged in strike work; Felling trees for firewood\n\nBooks required not obtainable.\n\nElectric radiator not in frequent use due to milder winter.\n\noutlying districts\n\nMaintenance of Gardens and Grounds....\n\n9,400\n\n9,376.75\n\n28.25\n\nProtection of Plantations\n\n1,500\n\n1,409.16\n\n96.81\n\nTransport\n\n1,200\n\n908.40\n\n296.60\n\nUniforms and accoutrements\n\n650\n\n837.74\n\n187.74\n\nSavings due to supply of motor lorry by P. W. D.\n\nRaincoats for forest guards necessitated by newly instituted night patrol during the year, especially the wet season, to cope with the serious timber stealing.\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nFormation of Forestry Reserve. Taipo\n\nWaterworks Catchment Area ........................\n\nRepairs to Garden Paths .....\n\n10,000\n\n1,000\n\n103,991\n\n7,239.78\n\n998.96\n\n96,371.78\n\n321.60\n\nLess Increase...............................\n\nSavings\n\n2,760.22\n\n1.04\n\n7,941.02\n\n321.80\n\n7,619.22\n\n328.00\n\nCarried forward\n\n8,828,322\n\n7,957,662.27\n\n777,219.13\n\n1,147,878.86\n\nPart programme of afforestation could not be completed due to Strike.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511349, "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": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "content_text": "166\n\n54\n\n# Head 26.--SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n## Approved Estimate, 1927.\n\n## Estimate, 1925\n\n# Head 26.--SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n## Sub-heads;\n\n### Personal Emoluments\n\n### Other Charges\n\n### Sanitary Staff.\n\n514,243\n\n187,073\n\n## Head 26-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n### SANITARY DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n## Approved Estimate, 1927.\n\n## Estimate, 1928.\n\n### Other Charges,—Continued\n\n \n Brought forward\n 590,033\n 546,865\n \n \n 9 Conveyance and Motor Allowances to :—\n \n \n \n \n Head of Sanitary Department, at $180\n \n \n \n \n 1 Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, at $660\n \n \n \n \n Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon at $360..\n \n \n \n \n Superintendent of Staff and Works, at $180\n \n \n \n \n 1st Clerk and Secretary at $90...\n \n \n \n \n Senior Inspectors, 3 at $240 each, 1 at $300 and 1 at $480\n \n \n \n \n 1 Storekeeper at $90\n \n \n \n \n 30 Sanitary Inspectors, 11 at $360 each, 2 at $300 each, 1 at $180, 9 at $120 each, 2 at $90 each, and 5 at $60 each\n \n \n \n \n 1 Overseer, Markets, at $120\n \n \n \n \n 1 Shroff at Animal Depôt and Slaughter House, Ma Tan Kok, at $60\n \n \n \n \n 1 Shroff at Animal Depôt and Slaughter House, Kennedy Town, at $60\n \n \n \n \n 1 Interpreter to Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, at $120\n \n \n \n \n 1 Foreman at Peak District, at $60 each\n \n \n \n \n 2 Advertisements\n 750\n 1,300\n \n \n 3 Ambulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, and Dead Boxes\n 1,200\n 1,000\n \n \n Bamboo Poles, and Rope\n 1,000\n \n \n \n Baskets, Buckets, and Shovels\n 4,000\n \n \n \n Bath-houses, fuel, light etc..\n 2,600\n 2,000\n \n \n 5 Bonuses to Dispensary Licentiates and Clerks for Vaccination of children and registration of births..\n 1,200\n 1,200\n \n \n Brooms, Brushes, and Bamboo Hats...\n 3,300\n \n \n \n 6 Burial of Infected Bodies\n 1,000\n \n \n \n Cemeteries, Incidental Expenses\n 50\n \n \n \n 7 Coal for Official Quarters..\n \n \n \n \n 8 Compensation for Damages by Disinfection and Cleansing\n 1,400\n 200\n \n \n \n 500\n 1,600\n \n \n \n 200\n \n \n \n Assistant Head of Sanitary Department, at $120\n 10,590\n 10,440\n \n \n 30 Transport\n \n \n \n \n 32 Workshop Apparatus....\n \n $8,030\n \n\n### Sanitary Staff,--Continued.\n\n \n ## Sub-heads :-\n \n \n \n \n 20 Light\n 11,330\n 11,000\n \n \n 21 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses\n 20,000\n 20,000\n \n \n 22 Nightsoil Receptacles\n 1,200\n 1,000\n \n \n 23 Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n 2,500\n 2,000\n \n \n 24 Purchase and Maintenance of Bullocks\n 6,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 25 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n 2,000\n 2,000\n \n \n Refund of Fees for Sanitary Institute Examination\n 100\n \n \n \n 26 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Officers\n 600\n 770\n \n \n 27 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n 1,200\n 2,940\n \n \n 28 Scavenging City, Villages, and Hill District\n 1,500\n 1,500\n \n \n 29 Scavenging Gear\n 2,600\n 9,000\n \n \n Scavenging Gear, Kowloon\n 1,000\n \n \n \n Street-watering\n 1,000\n (9)\n \n \n 31 Uniforms for Staff.\n 1,700\n 1,700\n \n \n \n 10,500\n 10,000\n \n \n \n 450\n 300\n \n\n### Veterinary Staff.\n\n### Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :—\n\n \n 33 Fuel\n 6,500\n 6,000\n \n \n 2 Inspectors at Aberdeen, at $480\n \n \n \n \n Coolie Labour\n 300\n (7)\n \n \n Disinfectants\n \n \n \n \n 34 Incidental Expenses\n 500\n 1,000\n \n \n \n 14,500\n 14,000\n \n \n 35 Light\n 750\n 750\n \n \n 11 Disinfecting and Cleansing Apparatus\n 4,500\n 4,000\n \n \n 36 Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses\n 5,100\n 4,000\n \n \n 12 Disinfectors,\n \n \n \n \n 13 Dust and Water Carts,\n \n \n \n \n 11 Exhumation, Recurrent\n 2,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 37 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n 600\n 600\n \n \n \n 3,000\n 1,000\n \n \n \n 17,000\n 14,000\n \n \n 15 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n 600\n 600\n \n \n Furniture in Official Quarters\n 100\n (7)\n \n\n## SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n \n 16 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n 550\n 550\n \n \n 17 Head Stones,\n 3,350\n \n \n \n 18 Incidental Expenses,\n 2,200\n 3,000\n \n \n \n (22) 2,500\n \n \n \n 19 Incidental Expenses, Markets,..\n 400\n 100\n \n \n 2 Motor Refuse Lorries....\n \n \n \n \n 38 1 Motor Refuse Lorry\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n 590,033\n 546,365\n \n\n(1) More advertising in C.K. for Sanitary Inspectors.\n\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n\n(3) Now under Subhead 29.\n\n(4) Now under Subhead 18.\n\n(5) Two additional quarters,\n\n(4) Revised allowances, and allowances transferred to Head 25-Medical Department.\n\n(7) Not required,\n\n(8) Curtail small Expenses.\n\nFoles now included under Incidental\n\n \n 18,000\n (12)\n \n \n 9,000\n \n \n \n 39 Refuse Barge.\n \n \n \n \n 10,000\n 10,000\n \n \n \n (13)\n \n \n \n 40 Fitting of solid tires\n 4,500\n \n \n \n Seal for Registrar of Births and Deaths.\n 100\n (12)\n \n \n Total Sanitary Department\n 695,362\n 645,425\n \n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(8) Fewer bullocks.\n\n(2) Transfer of barges to Harbour Department.\n\n(4) Now under Sub-head 18,\n\n(5) Higher rentals\n\n(6) Additional quarters at Aberdeen, Ap Lei Chau, Stanley, and Tytam.\n\n(7) Includes amounts previously paid from other Sub-heads,\n\n(8) Now under Sub-head 29.\n\n(9) Is now done departmentally.\n\n(10) Transfer of launch crews to Harbour Department.\n\n(11) Feeding of more dogs under observation for rabies.\n\n(12) Non-recurrent.\n\n(13) Re-vote.\n\n167\n\n55", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512285, "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": 106, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "137\n\nLight:-Official Quarters\n\nLight:-Smaller Markets\n\n40\n\nLight:-Tsim Sha Tsui Market\n\n621.81\n\n2,102.99\n\n829.56\n\nLight-Western Market, North and South Blocks . 3,564.00\n\nMotor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses... 17,223.16\n\nNightsoil Receptacles\n\nPaint, Turpentine, &c.\n\nPurchase and Maintenance of Bullocks\n\nRat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n\nRefund of Fees for Sanitary Institute Examination.\n\nRent of Quarters for Inspectors and Sanitary Officers.\n\nRent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n\nScavenging City, Villages, and Hill District\n\nScavenging Gear\n\nScavenging Gear, Kowloon\n\n956.00\n\n768.41\n\n5,378.19\n\n958.97\n\n126.00\n\n565.80\n\n1,463.40\n\n647.20\n\n2,149.66\n\n1,088.22\n\n96.75\n\nStreet Watering\n\nTransport\n\nUniforms for Staff\n\nWorkshop Apparatus\n\nA. D. & S. H.-Fuel\n\n1,770.25\n\n7,716.50\n\n135.74\n\n4,782.45\n\ndo.\n\nIncidental Expenses\n\n906.32\n\ndo.\n\nLight\n\n496.50\n\ndo.\n\nMotor Meat Vans: Running Expenses\n\n3,703.31\n\nCattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\n557.46\n\nTotal\n\n1925\n\n$559,499.10\n\n$605,715.95\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n1. Motor Refuse Lorry\n\nTotal\n\n1925\n\n$9,805.74\n\n$9,805.74\n\n$37,586.42", "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": 514367, "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": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "content_text": "# HONG KONG.\n\n# WATER SUPPLY, HONG KONG.\n\nReports submitted by the Director of Public Works.\n\nThe following reports on the investigations carried out to ascertain the most feasible and economical method of augmenting the Water Supply to the Colony are submitted herewith:\n\n(a) Report upon Water Supply and extensions by Mr. Henderson, Waterworks Engineer.\n\n(b) Report upon the utilization of Salt Water for flushing purposes by Mr. Newhouse, Drainage Engineer.\n\n(c) Reports upon the Distillation of Sea water and the power obtainable by the introduction of refuse destructors by Mr. Jackman, A. D. P. W.\n\n2. Owing to the excessively hilly formation of the Island of Hong Kong, the question of water supply presents greater difficulties than are met with in many other parts of the world. The waterworks, in consequence, consist of a collection of scattered reservoirs at varying elevations, the water supplies from which are gravitated or pumped into the city along circuitous routes, and necessitate a series of filter beds and service reservoirs of varying sizes and at different levels, making the question of distribution a matter of great intricacy and calling for very careful manipulation to obtain the most economic distribution (in some cases involving pumping) to the localities at which the water supply is required. This is very clearly shown on the plan which accompanies Mr. Henderson's Report.\n\n3. Investigations show that the best method of augmenting the water supply of the Island is by the construction of a Reservoir at Aberdeen and thus increasing the supply to the West of the City where it is most needed—other Reservoir sites have been reported upon, but all these have decided disadvantages or difficulties in the way of their development. Further increase to the Water Supply of Hong Kong can be obtained by connecting the Island supply with that of the mainland. This proposal forms part of the 1st Section of the Shing Mun Valley Water Scheme.\n\n4. The Report dated 20/2/28 by Mr. Henderson, Waterworks Engineer, upon the existing water supply, estimated requirements, and proposed extensions, brings out very forcibly the urgent need for the programme of additional works which he submits to be undertaken and carried out without interruption during the next five years, if the water requirements of the Colony are to be adequately met—it further shows that it is only due to a most fortunate series of years of rainfall above the average that a serious water shortage has been prevented, and, as stated, these fortuitous circumstances cannot be expected to continue.\n\n5. The question of conserving the Water Supply by the use of Salt Water for flushing purposes has been carefully examined and separately reported upon by Mr. Newhouse. The cost of the installation of a sea water flushing system is estimated approximately at $4,143,300.00, and the quantity of filtered water thus saved is estimated at only 94.5 mill. gals. per annum, which makes the cost of the scheme prohibitive.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 514368, "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": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "content_text": "It should be borne in mind that only in a few unavoidable circumstances is water from the mains at present used for flushing purposes; in the majority of cases this water is obtained from independent sources such as wells, etc. Mr. Newhouse in his Report deals with the proposal to utilize water from the various nullahs now running to waste for flushing purposes, but this scheme, though desirable, does not in any way assist in conserving the existing water supply. It, however, makes the introduction of the water carriage sewage system possible to a small area in the mid-levels of the City.\n\n6. The scheme for obtaining fresh water by the Distillation of Salt Water has been enquired into and fully reported upon by Mr. Jackman, A.D.P.W., but the excess of cost of this process as compared with the cost of augmenting the existing water supply does not admit of its further consideration.\n\n7. The question of the utilization of power obtainable from refuse destruction for the pumping of salt water for flushing purposes has also been considered. Mr. Jackman, during his absence on leave, made careful investigations and examined the different types of Refuse destructors in use in various towns in England, India, and The Straits Settlements with a view to ascertaining what power was obtainable from such processes.\n\nThe report on this subject, although it shows the unlikelihood of any such economical use being made out of refuse destruction in Hong Kong, suggests the desirability of introducing an up-to-date unit of one of the most successful plants described as a nucleus of a Refuse destructor installation. Only after experiments and experience with such a plant can the utility of the by-products or power obtained by refuse destruction be ascertained, as the calorific value of the matter to be dealt with varies considerably in different cities.\n\n8. After having examined and again considered the various suggestions and proposals put forward from time to time for conserving and augmenting the water supply of the Island, it is proved that the most feasible method of obtaining an increased water supply is by completing the 1st Section of the Shing Mun Scheme on the mainland and by developing the Aberdeen Scheme on the Island. The first section of the Shing Mun Scheme has already obtained the sanction of the Secretary of State, and though its completion has been delayed for various reasons, it is hoped that the necessary funds will be made available early this year so that it may not be further postponed.\n\nThe sanction of the Secretary of State for an early commencement to be made with the Aberdeen Scheme has already been sought, so that this scheme also may be undertaken and proceeded with as soon as possible.\n\n14th March, 1928.\n\nHAROLD T. CREASY,\n\nDirector of Public Works.\n\nHon. D. P. W.,\n\nAt a meeting held at Government House on 18th January last, when the general water supply of the Colony was discussed, I was instructed by H. E. The Governor to submit to you a report on the water supply of the Colony generally.\n\nTo deal in detail with all phases of the water supply of the Colony would involve very considerable delay and would appear unnecessary at the present time, as I have already submitted reports covering many individual schemes and proposals.\n\nIn this report, I propose to give a short non-technical resume of existing supplies and works, estimated requirements, possibilities of extension, and proposals or recommendations for a programme of work for the next five years.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 514377, "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": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "content_text": "103\n\n14\n\ncatalogue results then the Kaiping coal should have an efficiency of about 32 lbs. of gained distilled water to 1 lb. of coal burnt.\n\nThe present contract price of these fuels supplied to the Government ex Contractor's Depot in Hong Kong is as follows :-\n\nCoal from $11.20 to $13.20 per ton.\n\nFuel Oil $35.00 per ton.\n\nCarriage of these fuels from Contractor's Depot to site of Plant would be extra.\n\nThe difference in cost between these fuels, even if the cost of carriage is added and the question of handling is taken into account, is so marked that coal would be the cheaper fuel to use in Hong Kong even if its calorific value is low.\n\nThe following is an estimate for installing two sets of Sextuple Effect Plant capable of producing 800 tons or 179,200 gallons of water per day of 24 hours which I consider will give the most economical result :—\n\nLand 20,000 sq. feet @ say $2 a sq. ft.\n$ 40,000\n\nDistilling and Condensing Plant delivered and erected on site in Hong Kong\n400,000\n\nPumps and piping for lifting water to service tank for distribution Buildings for Distilling and Condensing Plant, Pumps, stores and staff (exclusive of foundations)\n85,000 150,000\n\nTOTAL\n$675,000\n\nThe cost to run and maintain the Buildings and Plant per month is estimated as follows:-\n\nWages\n$ 1,000\n\nStores etc. including electric power to pump\n1,000\n\nCoal 750 tons @ $15 per ton including carriage\n11,250\n\nDepreciation on Buildings and Plant say\n2,270\n\nTOTAL\n$15,520\n\n15\n\nOutline and Particulars on the Possibilities of Installing a Salt water Flushing Scheme for the City of Victoria Hong Kong by Edward Newhouse, Drainage Engineer, Public Works Department, Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1927.\n\n1. Population. The figures for the estimated distribution of population, based on the 1921 census returns which were obtained from the old health districts, are as follows:-\n\nDistrict East of Guricno.\nDistrict West of Garden Road.\nESTIMATED POPULATION IN LOW LEVEL SALT WATER FLUSH ZONE.\n\nDistrict No. 1 (North Point\nPopulation 1921 Census.\nTotal:\n\nDistrict.\nAd for increase in population 50%\nAcil for Reclamation when built on\n\n15,000\nNorth Point and Tai\nTotal\n\nLess population in Middle Level Zone to be served by Fresh water supply.\n\nTotal population to be supplied.\n\n3,112\n17,386\nCauseway Bay Bowring.\n\nHaug.\nton and Wongneichong\nDistrict No In & 2a Wanhai.\n\n20,553\nDistrict No. 2\n27,211\n\n74,262\n37,131\n35,000\n\n161,393\n6,000\n155,393\n\nWanchai. Praya East.\n( District No. 3.\n15,026\n\nUpper Lovels.\nDistrict No. 4 entral.\n43.63%\n\nDistrict No 5.. Central.\n20,471\nDistrict No. 8......\n\n28,029\nSheungwan and Taiping-shau.\nDistrict No. 7.\n\n28,100\nSheungwan and Taiping-shan.\nDistrict No, S\n\n26,647\nSaiyingpun-North of Government Civil Hospital.\nDiste et 9... Saigingen.\n\nDistrict No. 10 West Pinc.\n42,820\n27,683\n\n241,212\n120,606\nKennedy Town 8,000\n\n360,818\n17,500\n$52,318\n\n= 5,376,000 gallons.\n\nAmount of water pumped in one month of 30 days Approximate cost per 1,000 gallons of distilled water = $2.89.\n\nThe approximate cost per 1,000 gallons of delivering filtered water to consumers in this Colony under present conditions of supply is as follows:-\n\nHong Kong Island (City of Victoria)\n\nKowloon\n\n35 cents\n\n22 cents\n\nFor the purposes of this estimate I have assumed that the Condensing and Distilling Plant will be situated to the west of Kennedy Town and that the distilled water will be pumped up to the existing Kennedy Town Service Tank, therefore no provision is made for a new service tank for distribution purposes in the estimate.\n\nUntil a site is definitely fixed, the estimated cost of foundations cannot be ascertained, but I do not think the capital cost for the whole plant will exceed $725,000.\n\nSome market might be found for the brine extracted from the sea water.\n\n22nd February, 1927.\n\nH. T. JACKMAN.\n\nAssistant Director of Public Works.\n\nSALT WATER SCHEME FOR LOW-LEVEL ZONE.\n\n507,711 Total population to be served by salt water flush. Say $10,000.\n\n2. Site of Destructors and Pumping Station :-The site shown on plan has been chosen chiefly on account of the desirability of having the destructors as far removed as possible from the densely populated parts of the City. It forms part of the scheme of reclamation referred to on page 40 in the report on the commercial development of the Port of Hong Kong by Mr. John Duncan dated the 12th December 1924 and entails the building of a deep sea wall and reclamation. It is desirable to keep the installation within harbour limits east of Sulphur Channel, as the removal of refuse to this point is less likely to be affected by typhoons and adverse weather. The destructors are shown on part of the site nearest the harbour front to allow of rapid and cheap handling of refuse by water transport. It would probably be found economical for all refuse east of Western Market to be water-borne. From experience gained of the working of Destructor plants in several towns in England during the years 1904-1910, I am strongly of the opinion that they can be successfully operated in Hong Kong, but whether they would or would not be a sound business proposition and a Sanitary improvement worth the cost as compared with the present method of refuse disposal at sea, and whether the power generated could be economically used for any large Government buildings and plants other than pumping for a salt water flush system, (and I am inclined to think it\n\n104", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 514378, "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": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "content_text": "can), is a matter that requires careful consideration. In the case of Government buildings generally, they are scattered all over the Colony and the current used is small, but the installation of Destructors might be warranted by the demand for current say to Eastern Filter Beds, Government Workshops, Government Offices, Law Courts, Post Office, New Fire Station, Central Police Station etc., all of which are practically in a straight line for cables from the Power Station.\n\n3. Destructors and Destructor Station : These would be of a type best suited or modified to deal with Hong Kong's refuse, dependent on moisture and the ascertained calorific value of average samples. The clinker and residue could be disposed of in further reclamation works to the westward.\n\n4. Engines and Engine House :-The pumping station has been shown to the south of the site where better foundations can be obtained for the engines, which would be of the triple expansion vertical type, in duplicate, each capable of lifting 3.3 million gallons per day against a maximum effective head of about 285 feet. The pumps, three to each engine, driven from the cross-heads would be of the piston type. Provision for workshop and Quarters for European and Chinese Staff would also be required.\n\n5. Main Salt-water Service Reservoir :—The main salt water service Reservoir with a top water level of about plus 285′ O.D. has been placed in about the only available site that can be economically used for the purpose and would be covered in. It is shown immediately below the Albany and involves no resumption and very little disturbance of the Botanical Gardens which could be reinstated over the roof; it will not interfere with any future waterworks extensions. This reservoir of 1 million gallons capacity would supply what would be a low level zone north of and bordering on Pokfulam, Bonham, Caine & Kennedy Roads and the whole of the Eastern district as far as North Point (Broadwood Road excepted). These roads approximately draw a dividing line between two classes of property, and, for the purposes of a pumping supply, form a very convenient divide between the low and high level zones, which make it possible to devise 2 schemes which can be made entirely independent of each other, should it be thought desirable to grant a fresh water flushing supply to the middle zone, by utilizing to their full capacity, all stream-courses on the northern slopes of the Island which are not used for waterworks purposes on account of pollution.\n\n6. Balancing Tanks :-The balancing tanks shown on plan at Mount Parish, Leighton Hill, and north of Tin Hau Temple at elevations approximately of 200′ 150′ and 120' respectively would be necessary to maintain pressure throughout this low level zone. The sites are fairly level and can easily be utilised for the purpose without costly site formation. The resumption of a small unbuilt-on area at the Naval Hospital at Mount Parish only is involved.\n\n7. Pumping Mains :--The pumping mains shown on plan in black would be in 18\" dia. C.I. socket and spigot pipes laid in duplicate each having a delivery of 3.3 million gallons per day.\n\n8. Gravitation Mains:-The Gravitation mains shown in blue would supply the balancing tanks on Mount Parish, Leighton Hill and Tin Hau Temple from the Albany salt water Reservoir. They would also be in C.I. socket and spigot pipes of 15\" and 12′′ diameter respectively and would feed the districts through which they passed.\n\n9. Subsidiary Mains:-The subsidiary mains shown in red would also be C.I. socket and spigot pipes 6 inches in diameter and, as in the case of the gravitation mains, although somewhat of larger diameter than is necessary for the area served, they allow for marine growth and incrustation which would occur and the extra cost over that of the minimum size that could be laid is very small. They have been spaced as wide apart as possible generally to give house services along scavenging lanes on each side of the street.\n\n10. Scavenging lane mains :-These, which would be numerous and are not shown on plan would require to be of the best 2′′ galvanized iron piping and could generally be laid a few inches below the surfacing of scavenging lanes.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515582, "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": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "content_text": "Page 138\n\n54\n\nHead 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1928. Estimate, 1929.\n\nHead 26.-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges\n\nSanitary Staff.\n\n$\n\n487,075\n\n501,541\n\nHead 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1928. Estimate, 1929.\n\n$ $\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\nOther Charges, Continued\n\nBrought forward\n\nSanitary Staff,-Continued.\n\n546,365\n\n574,471\n\n2 Advertisements\n\n1,300\n\n3 Ambulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, and Dead Boxes\n\n1,000\n\n1,300\n\n750\n\n(1)\n\n4 Bath-houses, fuel, light etc......\n\n2,000\n\n2,500\n\n(3)\n\nSub-heads -\n\n5 Bonuses to Dispensary Licentiates and Clerks for Vaccination of children and registration of births..\n\n1,200\n\n1,600\n\n()\n\n20 Light\n\n11,000\n\n11,000\n\n6 Burial of Infected Bodies\n\n500\n\n500\n\n21 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses\n\n20,000\n\n29,000\n\nCoal for Official Quarters\n\n8 Compensation for Damages by Disinfection and Cleansing\n\n9 Conveyance and Motor Allowances to:-\n\nHead of Sanitary Department, at $180\n\n1 Assistant Head of Sanitary Department, at $120\n\n1 Secretary at $90..\n\n1 Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, at $660\n\nAssistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon at $360..........\n\n1 Chief Inspector, at $180..\n\n6 Senior Inspectors, 3 at $240 each, 1 at $300, 1 at $360 and at $480\n\n1 Storekeeper at $90\n\n29 Sanitary Inspectors, 10 at $360 each, 2 at $300 each, 1 at $180, 9 at $120 each, 2 at $90 each, and 5 at $50 each\n\n1 Overseer, Markets, at $120\n\nShroff at Animal Depôt and Slaughter House, Ma Tau\n\n1 Shroff at Animal Depôt and Slaughter House, Kennedy Town, at $60\n\nInterpreter to Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, at $120\n\n2 Foremen at Peak District, at $360 each\n\n1 Inspector at Aberdeen, at $480\n\n1,600\n\n1,400\n\n(1)\n\n(2)\n\n22 Nightsoil Receptacles\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n200\n\n(4)\n\n23 Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n\n2,000\n\n2,000\n\n24 Purchase and Maintenance of Bullocks\n\n1,000\n\n(1)\n\n25 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n\n2,000\n\n1,400\n\n(1)\n\nCe\n\n26 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n\n770\n\n770\n\n27 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n\n2910\n\n3,160\n\n(2)\n\n28 Scavenging City, Villages, and Hill District\n\n1,500\n\n1,500\n\n29 Scavenging Gear\n\n9,000\n\n9,000\n\n10,440\n\n10,530\n\n| (2)\n\n30 Transport\n\n31 Uniforms for Staff.....\n\n32 Workshop Apparatus,\n\n1,700\n\n1,800\n\n10,000\n\n300\n\n10,000\n\n(2)\n\n300\n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :——\n\n33 Fuel\n\n6,000\n\n6,000\n\n34 Incidental Expenses\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n$5 Light\n\n750\n\n650\n\n36 Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses\n\n4,000\n\n4,500\n\n37 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\n600\n\n350\n\nece\n\n1 Foreman at Aberdeen, at $90\n\n10 Disinfectants\n\n11 Disinfecting and Cleansing Apparatus\n\n12 Disinfectors,\n\n13 Dust and Water Carts,\n\n1-4,000\n\n14,000\n\n4,000\n\n4,000\n\n1,000\n\n750\n\n(1)\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n14 Exhumation, Recurrent\n\n14,000\n\n27,500\n\n(2)(5)\n\n15 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n\n600\n\n350\n\n(1)\n\n16 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n\n550\n\n600\n\n17 Head Stones,\n\n3,000\n\n3,000\n\n18 Incidental Expenses,\n\n2,500\n\n2,850\n\n19 Incidental Expenses, Markets,..\n\n400\n\n(1)(6)\n\nCarried forward\n\n546,365\n\n574,471\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(2) Previous provision insufficient,\n\n(3) Two new bath houses.\n\n(4) Not required.\n\n(5) Extra to commence exhumations at Ho Mun Tin Cemetery.\n\n(6) Included in S/H. 18. Incidental Expenses.\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n38 Exhumation, Special\n\n39 2 Refuse Barges (Replacements)\n\n40 Towing Launch\n\n41 6 Motor Lorries\n\nI Motor Refuse Lorry\n\n1 Refuse Barge\n\nFitting of solid tires\n\nTotal Sanitary Department\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(2) Previous provision insufficient.\n\n15,000\n\n46,000\n\n$2,000\n\n50,000\n\n9,000\n\n10,000\n\n4,500\n\n(3) Not expended.\n\n615,425\n\n821,501\n\nPage 139\n\n55", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520361, "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": 205, "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "content_text": "# Head 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n## Approved Estimate, 1929.\n## Estimate, 1930.\n\n## Head 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n### SANITARY DEPARTMENT,—Continued,\n#### Approved Estimate, 1929.\n#### Estimate, 1930.\n\n## PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\n| $ | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n\n### Details of the foregoing.\n#### NUMBERS.\n| 1929 | 1930 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n### SANITARY DEPARTMENT,—Continued,\n| 1 | 1 | Head of Sanitary Department |\n| 1 | 1 | Assistant Head of Sanitary Department |\n\n### Other Charges,—Continued\n#### European Staff.\n| 1 | 1 | Veterinary Surgeon, (£600 to £1,000 by £25 annually) | 9,678 | 9,978 |\n| | | Do. Personal Allowance | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| 1 | 1 | Assistant Veterinary Surgeon, (£550 to £800 by £25 annually) | 7,799 | 8,099 |\n| 1 | 1 | Chief Inspector (£500 to £600 by £25 annually) | 6,168 | 6,168 |\n\n### Sanitary Staff,—Continued.\n| 6 | 6 | Senior Sanitary Inspectors (£100 to £480 by £20 annually) | 31,859 | 31,598 |\n| 16 | 17 | 1st Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£320 to £360 by £10 annually) | 66,215 | 70,098 |\n| 30 | 81 | 2nd Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£220 to £300 by £10 annually) | 89,518 | 92,797 |\n| | | Language Allowances to 2 at $180 each, 80 at $120 each, and 20 at $60 each | 4,880 | 5,160 |\n\n#### Brought forward | 574,471 | 578,651 |\n\n### Sub-heads—\n#### Indoor Staff\n| 1 | 1 | Store-Keeper ($2,000 to $3,000 by $100 annually) | 11,000 | 11,000 |\n| | 18 | Assistant Store-Keeper, ($400 to $550 by $25 annually) | 2,800 | 2,900 |\n| 1 | 1 | Office Attendant | 488 | 313 |\n| | | Good Conduct Allowance | 81 | ... |\n\n#### Other Charges\n| 19 | 19 | Motor Lorries, Vans and Car, Running Expenses | 29,000 | 48,000 |\n| 20 | 20 | Nightsoil Receptacles | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| 21 | 21 | Paint, Turpentine, &c. | 2,000 | 1,700 |\n| 22 | 22 | Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c. | 1,800 | 1,800 |\n| | | Messengers, at $132 each | 1,056 | 1,056 |\n\n### Outdoor Staff\n| 8 | 8 | Coolies, at $132 each | 1,056 | 1,056 |\n| | | Rent Allowances, at $24 each | 192 | 192 |\n| 101 | 101 | Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $51, and 2 at $12 each | 1,010 | ... |\n| 2 | 2 | Overseers, ($1,200 to $1,500 by $50 annually) | 1,450 | 2,700 |\n| 1 | 1 | Overseer, at $1,800 | 1,800 | 1,800 |\n\n### Veterinary Staff\n#### Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :-\n| 30 | 30 | Fuel | 6,000 | 6,000 |\n| 31 | 31 | Incidental Expenses | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| 32 | 32 | Light | 650 | 750 |\n| 33 | 33 | Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses | 4,500 | 4,500 |\n| 34 | 34 | Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor | 550 | 600 |\n| | | Personal Allowance | 240 | 240 |\n\n| 10 | 10 | Foremen, Grade 1, ($900 to $1,100 by $50 annually) | 8,148 | 8,175 |\n| 20 | 20 | Foremen, Grade 2, ($550 to $850 by $50 annually) | 10,529 | 10,681 |\n| 2 | 2 | Foremen, Grade 3, ($100 to $550 by $25 annually) | 2,971 | 1,996 |\n| 2 | 2 | Foremen, Grade 4, at $300 each | 600 | 600 |\n| 5 | 5 | Foremen, Grade 5, at $180 each | 900 | 900 |\n| 10 | 10 | Foremen, Grade 6, at $168 each | 1,680 | 1,680 |\n| | | Personal Allowance to 2 at $36 each, and 1 at $3 | 75 | 38 |\n| | | Good Conduct Allowances to 2 at $12 each, and 1 at $2 | 24 | 26 |\n| | | Rent Allowances to 32 at $24 each | 720 | 768 |\n\n## SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n| 35 | ... | Launch to replace S. D. 3 | 46,000 | 33,000 |\n| 36 | 36 | 2 Refuse Barges (Replacements) | 52,000 | 50,000 |\n| 37 | 37 | Motor Lorries ... | 5,040 | 5,376 |\n| | | Exhumation, Special | 30,600 | 28,000 |\n| | | 2 Refuse Barges (Replacements) | 56,000 | ... |\n| | | 1 Towing Launch | 15,000 | ... |\n| | | 6 Motor Lorries .... | ... | ... |\n\n### Foremen, Grade 7, at $144 each | 4,752 | 4,752 |\n| | | Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $36, 3 at $24, 6 at $12, 2 at $9, 3 at $8, 1 at $7, and 1 at $5 | 193 | 234 |\n| | | Rent Allowances to 33 at $24 each | 792 | 792 |\n\n### Total Sanitary Department | 821,501 | 791,568 |\n\n### Carried forward | 264,195 | 273,229 |\n\n(1) More vehicles,\n\n## Page 236\n## 59", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520533, "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": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "# COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1930.\n\n## Head 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT,—(Continued.\n\n| Item | Estimated | Actual | Increase | Decrease | Provisionally Voted | Explanatory Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | 8,760,028 | 9,698,829.75 | 1,688,342.28 | | | |\n| OTHER CHARGES,—Cont'd. | | | | 749,540.48 | | |\n| 25 Scavenging Villages | 641,513 | 700,747.81 | 99,688.60 | | | |\n| 26 Scavenging Gear | 40,454.29 | | | | | |\n| 27 Transport | 1,500 | 734.91 | | 765.09 | | |\n| 28 Uniforms for Staff | 9,000 | 8,765.20 | | 234.80 | | More uniforms. |\n| 29 Workshop Apparatus | 1,800 | 1,721.65 | | 78.35 | | |\n| | 10,000 | 11,369.97 | 1,369.97 | | | |\n| 30 Fuel | 2,800.00 | | | | | |\n| 31 Incidental Expenses | 1,000 | 1,988.78 | 1,167.52 | 178.70 | | Veterinary Staff. |\n| | | | | | | Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses:— |\n| 32 Light | 750 | 896.51 | 167.52 | 21.01 | | Additional lighting required at Kennedy Town Slaughter house. |\n| | 300.00 | 250.00 | | 50.00 | | |\n| 33 Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses | 4,500 | 6,207.38 | 1,767.88 | | 3,000.00 | More vans. |\n| 34 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor | 600 | 407.57 | | 192.43 | | |\n| SPECIAL EXPENDITURE. | | | | | | |\n| 35 Launch to replace S.D. 8 | 30,600 | 39,280.00 | 8,630.00 | | 8,630.00 | |\n| 36 2 Refuse Barges (Replacements) | 28,000 | 27,500.00 | | 500.00 | | Lower exchange. |\n| 37 8 Motor Lorries | 56,000 | 62,043.38 | 6,043.38 | | 6,044.00 | |\n| 38 New Boiler for Hong Kong Disinfecting station | 8,000.00 | 791.56 | | 7,208.44 | | |\n| | | 868,949.89 | | | | |\n| | | | 120,813.36 | 43,426.47 | 3,000.00 | |\n| | | | 43,426.47 | | 43,426.47 | |\n| | | | 77,386.89 | | | |\n\n## Head 27.—BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT.\n\n### Sub-heads:-\n| Item | Estimated | Actual | Increase | Decrease | Explanatory Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 Personal Emoluments | 57,496 | 70,950.54 | 13,454.54 | | Revision of Salaries and Lower Exchange. |\n| 2 Brushwood clearing | 5,000 | 4,995.60 | | 4.40 | |\n| 3 Conveyance allowances | 2,130 | 2,100.97 | | 29.03 | |\n| 4 Expenses of Collections | 200 | 151.52 | | 48.48 | |\n| 5 Field allowances to Foresters | 600 | 527.54 | | 72.46 | |\n| 6 Forestry | 19,650 | 19,181.61 | | 468.39 | |\n| 7 Forestry Reserve. Tupo Kao. Maintenance and Formation | 4,000 | 3,953.88 | | 46.12 | |\n| 9 Incidental Expenses | 350 | 349.60 | | 0.40 | |\n| 10 Library | 120 | 115.18 | | 4.82 | |\n| 11 Light | 225 | 199.74 | | 25.26 | |\n| 12 Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds. | 10,300 | 10,009.01 | | 290.99 | |\n| 13 Protection of Plantations | 1,500 | 1,299.06 | | 200.94 | |\n| 14 Transport | 1,100 | 998.68 | | 101.32 | |\n| 15 Uniforms and Accoutrements | 1,175 | 1,111.08 | | 63.92 | |\n| 16 Upkeep of Car | 500 | 488.36 | | 11.64 | |\n| SPECIAL EXPENDITURE. | | | | | |\n| 17 One Motor Car | 3,150 | 660.00 | | 2,490.00 | Lower Exchange. |\n| | 107,496 | 120,191.99 | 13,454.54 | 659.67 | |\n| | | | 14,114.21 | 1,418.22 | |\n| | | | 1,418.22 | | |\n| | | | 12,695.99 | | |\n\n*Lump sum votes were taken to cover excesses under Personal Emoluments for all Departments. Resolution by Legislative Council of 19th June, 1930 and Financial Message No. 17 item No. 174 approved by Legislative Council on the 29th December, 1930.\n\nPage 71 \nPage 72 \nPage 30 \nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525280, "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": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "content_text": "Head 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1930.\n\nEstimate, 1931.\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\nSub-heads-\n\nOther Charges,—Continued\n\nBrought forward\n\n664,113\n\n863,096\n\nSanitary Staff,—Continued.\n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :—\n\n30 Fuel\n\n31 Incidental Expenses\n\n6,030\n\n1,000\n\n6,000\n\n1,100\n\n32 Light\n\n750\n\n800\n\n33 Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses\n\n34 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\n4,500\n\n12,000\n\n...\n\n600\n\n600\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n35 4 Light Draft Lighters\n\n36 2 Sailing Junks\n\n37 2 Motor Cars, and 2 Motor Vans.\n\n38 2 Filing Cabinets\n\n39 Conversion of 2 chassis into Water Wagons\n\nLaunch to replace S. D. 3\n\n2 Refuse Barges (Replacements)\n\n8 Motor Lorries\n\nTotal Sanitary Department....\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1930\n\n1\n\n1931\n\n1\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n \n Head of Sanitary Department\n 26,000\n 30,000\n \n \n Assistant Head of Sanitary Department\n 8,000\n ...\n \n \n \n 500\n 6,180\n \n \n \n 30,600\n 28,000\n \n \n \n (5)\n 56,000\n \n \n \n [791,563\n 954,276\n \n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n European Staff.\n \n \n \n \n Veterinary Surgeon, (£1,000 to £1,200 by £50 annually)\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n 9,978\n 18,000\n \n \n Do., Personal Allowance\n 1,000\n (8)\n \n \n Assistant Veterinary Surgeon, (£650 to £950 by £30 annually)...\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n 8,099\n 13\n \n \n Chief Inspector (£600 to £700 by £25 annually)\n 6\n 10\n \n \n Senior Sanitary Inspectors (£475 to £575 by £20 annually)\n 6,468\n 12,449\n \n \n \n 31,593\n 46,639\n \n \n \n (7)\n (9)\n \n \n 1st Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£370 to £430 by £15 annually)\n 17\n 17\n \n \n \n 70,098\n 105,300\n \n \n 2nd Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£260 to £350 by 5 of £10 and 2 of £20 annually)...\n 31\n 33\n \n \n Language Allowances to 1 at $240, 10 at $180 each, 30 at $120 each, and 13 at $60 each\n 92,797\n 148,860\n \n \n \n (7)\n (9)\n \n \n \n (10)\n \n \n \n Indoor Staff.\n 5,160\n 6,420\n \n \n \n (11)\n \n \n \n Store-Keeper ($2,500 to $3,500 by 6 of $150 and 1 of $100)\n 2,900\n 3,500\n \n \n \n (7)\n \n \n \n Assistant Store-Keeper, ($450 to $600 by $25 annually)\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n 513\n 588\n \n \n \n (7)(9)\n \n \n \n Office Attendant ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially)\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n 192\n 300\n \n \n \n (7)\n \n \n \n Do., Good Conduct Allowance\n 84\n (8)\n \n \n Messengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n 9\n 9\n \n \n \n 1,056\n 1,512\n \n \n \n (7)\n (9)\n \n \n Do., Personal Allowance to 1 at $24\n 171\n \n \n \n Rent Allowances, to 8 at $24 each and 1 at $48\n 24\n 192\n \n \n \n 240\n \n \n \n Carried forward\n 230,301\n 353,791\n \n\n(1) Increased cost of stores.\n\n(2) Additional lighting in Kennedy Town Slaughter House.\n\n(3) 7 Additional meat vans. Increase offset by an equivalent saving on Sub-head No. 19.\n\n(4) Considered necessary.\n\n(5) Non-recurrent.\n\n(6) Under Cadet Service.\n\n(7) New scale.\n\n(8) Allowances abolished.\n\n(9) Stipulated increments.\n\n(10) 2 New posts.\n\n(11) More officers qualified.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525351, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "content_text": "285\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\n34\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads,\n\nBrought forward\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT,-Contd.\n\nEstimated.\n\nActual.\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\n$\n\n10,564,229 10,490,906.69\n\n$\n\n593,525.27\n\n$\n\n666,847.58\n\n286\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1931\n\n35\n\nProvisionally Voted.\n\nExplanatory Remarks.\n\n$\n\nOTHER CHARGES, Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n863,096\n\n820,235.36\n\n6,587.98\n\n49,398.57\n\n8,291.00\n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\nSub-heads:\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :-\n\n30 Fuel\n\n6,000\n\n31 Incidental Expenses\n\n1,100\n\n32 Light\n\n800\n\n4,875.75 1,415.46 896.11\n\n1,124.25\n\nCheaper fuel.\n\n315.40 96.11\n\n400.00 250.00\n\nIncreased consumption of lead seals and small stores. Transportation of pork at night.\n\n33 Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses\n\n12,000\n\n12,250.57\n\n250.57\n\n1,000.00\n\n84 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\n600\n\n484.75\n\n115.25\n\nIncreased cost of motor spirit and more carcasses conveyed.\n\nFewer cremations.\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n35 4 Light Draft Lighters\n\n26,000\n\n36 2 Sailing Junks\n\n8,000\n\n6,200.00 3,800.00\n\n37 2 Motor Cars, and 2 Motor Vans\n\n30,000\n\n19,800.00 4,200.00\n\n30,000.00\n\n38 2 Filing Cabinets\n\n500\n\n450.00\n\n39 Conversion of 2 chassis into Water Wagons\n\n6,180\n\n1,143.65\n\n—\n\nTotal Sanitary Department\n\n954,276\n\n851,751.65\n\n50.00\n\n5,036.35\n\n7,200.07\n\n109,724.42\n\nLess Increase\n\nSavings\n\n27. BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads:\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n7,200.07\n\n102,524.35\n\n9,941.00\n\nOnly one lighter built.\n\nOnly one Junk built.\n\nNot purchased.\n\nSavings.\n\n76,582\n\n78,901.24\n\n1\n\n2,680.76\n\n1\n\nChanges in holders of offices.\n\nOTHER CHARGES.\n\n2 Brushwood Clearing\n\n3 Conveyance allowances\n\n5,000 2,280\n\n4,998.20 2,288.45\n\n1.80\n\n8.45\n\n80.00\n\nIncreased motor allowance to one supervisor.\n\n4 Expenses of Collections\n\n200\n\n190.40\n\n9.60\n\n5 Field allowances to Foresters\n\n600\n\n599.89\n\n.11\n\n6 Forestry\n\n16,000\n\n15,688.97\n\n311.03\n\n7 Forestry Reserve, Taipo Kau, Maintenance and Formation\n\n4,000\n\n3,789.68\n\n210.32\n\n8 Incidental Expenses\n\n350\n\n349.99\n\n.01\n\n9 Library\n\n150\n\n360.00\n\n210.00\n\n210.00\n\n10 Light\n\n325\n\n213.53\n\n111.47\n\n11 Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds.\n\n10,000\n\n9,987.14\n\n12.86\n\nLower exchange.\n\nGas heater in Herbarium used less frequently owing to dry weather and reduced number of plant specimens received.\n\n12 Protection of Plantations\n\n1,500\n\n1,483.55\n\n16.45\n\n13 Transport\n\n1,100\n\n14 Uniforms and Accoutrements\n\n15 Upkeep of Car\n\n1,000\n\n500\n\nTotal Botanical & Forestry Department.\n\n119,587\n\n986.87 1,064.01 781.92\n\n116,683.84\n\n113.13\n\n64.01 281.92\n\n504.88\n\n65.00\n\nLower exchange.\n\n300.00\n\n3,467.54\n\n605.00\n\nLess Increase\n\nSavings\n\nCarried forward\n\n11,638,092 11,459,342.18\n\n601,289.72\n\n2,903.16\n\n780,039.54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525837, "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": "CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930", "content_text": "Head 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1929.\n\nEstimate, 1930.\n\n$\n\nHead 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT,—Continued.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1929.\n\nEstimate, 1930.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\n$\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1929\n\n1930\n\n \n I\n 1\n Head of Sanitary Department\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n 1\n Assistant Head of Sanitary Department\n \n \n \n \n European Staff.\n \n \n \n 1\n Veterinary Surgeon, (£600 to £1,000 by £25 annually)\n 9,678\n 9,978\n \n \n \n \n Do., Personal Allowance\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n \n 1\n Assistant Veterinary Surgeon, (£550 to £800 by £25 annually)\n 7,799\n 8,099\n \n \n Brought forward\n 574,471\n 578,651\n \n \n \n 1\n Chief Inspector (£500 to £600 by £25 annually)\n 6,168\n 6,468\n \n \n \n 6\n Senior Sanitary Inspectors (£400 to £480 by £20 annually)\n 31,859\n 31,598\n \n \n \n 16\n 1st Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£320 to £360 by £10 annually)\n 66,215\n 70,098\n \n \n \n 30\n 2nd Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£220 to £300 by £10 annually)\n 89,548\n 92,797\n \n \n \n \n Language Allowances to 2 at $180 each, 30 at $120 each, and 20 at $60 each\n 4,380\n 5,160\n \n\nSanitary Staff,—Continued.\n\n \n Sub-heads\n Indoor Staff\n \n \n 18\n Light\n 11,000\n 11,000\n \n \n \n 1\n Store-Keeper ($2,000 to $3,000 by $100 annually)\n 2,800\n 2,900\n \n \n \n 1\n Assistant Store-Keeper, ($400 to $550 by $25 annually)\n 488\n 518\n \n \n \n 1\n Office Attendant\n 192\n 192\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowance\n 84\n 84\n \n \n \n \n Messengers, at $132 each\n 1,056\n 1,056\n \n\nOther Charges,—Continued\n\n \n 19\n Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses\n 29,000\n 43,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n Nightsoil Receptacles\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 21\n Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n 2,000\n 1,700\n \n \n 22\n Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n 1,800\n 1,800\n \n \n 23\n Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n 70\n 1,010\n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $89\n \n \n \n \n 24\n Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n 3,160\n 3,352\n \n \n \n Rent Allowances, at $24 each\n 192\n 192\n \n \n 25\n Scavenging Villages\n 1,500\n 1,500\n \n \n 26\n Scavenging Gear\n \n \n \n \n 27\n Transport\n 9,000\n 9,000\n \n \n 28\n Uniforms for Staff\n 10,000\n 10,000\n \n \n \n Coolies, at $132 each\n 264\n 264\n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowances, at $24 each\n 48\n 48\n \n \n \n Do., Good Conduct Allowance to 1 at $4\n 4\n \n \n \n 29\n Workshop Apparatus\n 300\n 300\n \n\nOutdoor Staff.\n\n \n \n 1\n Overseers, ($1,200 to $1,500 by $50 annually)\n 1,450\n ...\n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n 2,700\n \n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\n \n \n 1\n Overseer, at $1,800\n 1,800\n 1,800\n \n \n \n \n Personal Allowance\n 240\n 240\n \n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :—\n\n \n 30\n Fuel\n 6,000\n 6,000\n \n \n 31\n Incidental Expenses\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n *ggas\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n Foremen, Grade 1, ($900 to $1,100 by $50 annually)\n 2,971\n 1,996\n \n \n 10\n Foremen, Grade 2, ($550 to $850 by $50 annually)\n 8,148\n 8,175\n \n \n 2\n Foremen, Grade 3, ($400 to $550 by $25 annually)\n 10,529\n 10,681\n \n \n \n Foremen, Grade 4, at $300 each\n 600\n 600\n \n \n 5\n Foremen, Grade 5, at $180 each\n 900\n 900\n \n \n \n Foremen, Grade 6, at $168 each\n \n \n \n \n \n Personal Allowance to 1 at $24 and 1 at $14\n 75\n 38\n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 2 at $12 each, and 1 at $2\n 26\n \n \n \n 32\n Light\n 650\n 750\n \n \n 33\n Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses\n 4,500\n 4,500\n \n \n 34\n Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n 550\n 600\n \n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n \n 35\n Launch to replace S. D. 3\n \n 30,600\n \n \n 36\n 2 Refuse Barges (Replacements)\n 28,000\n ...\n \n \n \n \n \n 56,000\n \n \n \n 2 Refuse Barges (Replacements)\n \n 15,000\n \n \n \n 1 Towing Launch\n \n 46,000\n \n \n 378\n Motor Lorries\n 5,010\n 3,376\n \n \n \n Exhumation, Special\n \n \n \n\n...\n\n \n \n Rent Allowances to 5 at $24 each\n 120\n 120\n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $22, 9 at $12, 1 at $10, 2 at $9, 1 at $5 and 1 at $1\n 161\n 164\n \n \n \n Rent Allowances to 32 at $24 each\n 720\n 768\n \n \n 33\n Foremen, Grade 7, at $141 each\n 4,752\n 4,752\n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $36, 3 at $24, 6 at $12, 2 at $9, 3 at $8, 1 at $7, and 1 at $5\n 193\n 234\n \n \n \n Rent Allowances to 33 at $24 each\n 792\n 792\n \n\nTotal Sanitary Department\n\n \n \n 2\n Foreman Artisans, at $560 each\n 1,120\n 1,120\n \n \n \n 1\n Foreman Driver, ($240 to $300 by $12 annually)\n 300\n 300\n \n \n \n 6\n Foreman Cleansers, ($240 to $300 by $12 annually)\n 1,676\n 1,721\n \n \n Carried forward\n 264,195\n 273,229\n \n \n Total Sanitary Department\n 821,501\n 791,563\n \n\n(1) More vehicles.\n\nPage 58\n\nPage 107\n\nPage 108\n\nPage 59", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531569, "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": 63, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "78\n\n34\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\n79\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1932\n\n35\n\n \n Estimated.\n Actual.\n Increase.\n Decrease.\n Provisionally\n Explanatory Remarks.\n \n \n Voted.\n $\n $\n $\n $\n \n \n \n 11,974,441\n 9,839,638.06\n \n 154,781.67\n 2,289,584.61\n \n \n \n Brought forward\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SANITARY DEPARTMENT,-Contd.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OTHER CHARGES.—Continued.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brought forward\n 983,201\n 810,806.54\n 1,984.67\n 174,832.13\n 3,208.00\n \n \n Veterinary Staff.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sub-heads:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 29 Fuel\n 800.00\n 1,386.43\n \n 586.43\n \n \n \n 80 Incidental Expenses\n 5,500\n 885.60\n \n 4,614.40\n \n \n \n 31 Light\n 1,800\n 13,078.96\n 86.43\n \n 380.00\n \n \n 32 Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses.\n 5,120.00\n 14.40\n 1,078.96\n \n \n \n \n 33 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n 900\n 600\n 538.03\n 61.97\n +\n \n \n 34 2 Motor Vans\n 12,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35 2 Sailing Barges\n \n 8,100.08\n \n 3,899.92\n \n \n \n Total Sanitary Department\n 1,038,504\n 846,286.83\n \n \n \n \n \n Less Increase\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Savings\n 30,000\n 14,971.27\n \n 15,028.73\n =\n \n \n \n 8,000.00\n 3,100.06\n \n 4,899.94\n \n \n \n 27.—BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sub-heads:—\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Personal Emoluments\n 84,795\n 73,878.55\n \n 10,916.45\n \n \n \n OTHER CHARGES\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Brushwood Clearing\n 5,000\n 4,988.45\n \n 11.55\n \n \n \n 3 Conveyance Allowances\n 2,400\n 2,071.94\n \n 328.06\n \n \n \n 4 Expenses of Collections\n 200\n 196.80\n \n 3.20\n \n \n \n 5 Field allowances to Foresters\n 600\n 527.86\n \n 72.14\n \n \n \n 6 Forestry\n 16,000\n 15,940.86\n \n 59.14\n \n \n \n 7 Forestry Reserve, Taipo Kau: Maintenance and Formation\n 4,000\n 3,978.35\n \n 21.65\n \n \n \n 8 Incidental Expenses\n 350\n 348.13\n \n 1.87\n \n \n \n 9 Library\n 300\n 299.86\n \n 0.14\n \n \n \n 10 Light\n 325\n 191.08\n \n 133.92\n \n \n \n 11 Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds,\n 10,000\n 9,998.70\n \n 1.30\n \n \n \n 12 Protection of Plantations\n 1,500\n 1,404.19\n \n 95.81\n \n \n \n 13 Transport\n 1,600\n 1,489.77\n \n 110.23\n \n \n \n 14 Uniforms and Accoutrements\n 1,000\n 246.09\n \n 753.91\n \n \n \n 15 Upkeep of Car\n 1,000\n 985.82\n \n 14.18\n \n \n \n Total Botanical & Forestry Department.\n 129,070\n 117,200.45\n \n 11,869.55\n \n \n \n Less Increase\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Savings\n \n \n 11,869.55\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n $ 13,137,015\n 10,803,125.34\n 157,881.73\n 2,491,771.89\n \n \n\n1\n\nTemporary economies.\n\nIncreased use of ammunitions.\n\nMore overhauls undertaken.\n\nFewer cremations\n\nHigher exchange.\n\nConstruction not begun.\n\nHigher exchange.\n\nLapsing allowances.\n\nFewer men occasionally stationed in outlying districts.\n\nLess frequent use of gas heater in Herbarium due to reduced number of plant specimens received.\n\nLess hill fires.\n\nPrivilege of half fare on Aberdeen buses and Yaumati Ferry.\n\nFewer pair of boots issued,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531769, "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": 261, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "Approved Estimate, 1981.\n\nEstimate, 1932.\n\nHead 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1931.\n\nEstimate, 1932.\n\n306\n\n67\n\nHead 26.-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads:-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n702,359\n\n819,089\n\nOther Charges\n\nSanitary Staff-\n\n2 Advertisements\n\nA\n\n1,500\n\n1,300\n\n3 Ambulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, and Dead Boxes\n\n1,250\n\n1,000\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT,—Continued.\n\nOther Charges,—Continued\n\nBrought forward\n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\n863,096\n\n$\n\n983,204\n\nSub-heads :-\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses-\n\n29 Fuel\n\n30 Incidental Expenses\n\n6,000 1,100\n\n5,500 1,300\n\n31 Light\n\n800\n\n900\n\n32 Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses\n\n12,000\n\n12,000\n\n33 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\n600\n\n600\n\n4 Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.......\n\n2,800\n\n8,300\n\nBonuses to Dispensary Licentiates and Clerks for Vaccination of\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\nchildren and registration of births..\n\n2,500\n\n(4)\n\n5 Burial of Infected Bodies\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n34 2 Motor Vans..........\n\n60,000\n\n30,000\n\n(3)\n\n6 Coal for Official Quarters.\n\n1,700\n\n1,800\n\n| (5)\n\n4 Light Draft Lighters\n\n26,000\n\n7 Conveyance and Motor Allowances to:-\n\nHead of Sanitary Department, at $180\n\n2 Sailing Junks\n\n2 Filing Cabinets\n\n8,000\n\n300\n\n1 Assistant Head of Sanitary Department, at $120\n\nConversion of 2 chassis into Water Wagons\n\n6,180\n\n1 Secretary at $90.....\n\n1 Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, at $660\n\n1 Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon at $360...\n\n1 Chief Inspector, at $180.......\n\n6 Senior Inspectors, 2 at $240 each, 1 at $300, 1 at $360\n\nand 2 at $480\n\n1 Storekeeper at $90\n\n36 Sanitary Inspectors, 13 at $360 each, 2 at $300 each, 2 at $180 each, 10 at $120 each, 2 at $90 each, 5 at $60\n\neach, 1 at $480 and 1 at $240\n\n1 Overseer, Markets, at $120\n\n1 Shroff at Animal Depôt and Slaughter House, Ma Tan\n\nKok, at $60\n\n1 Shroff at Animal Depôt and Slaughter House, Kennedy\n\nTown, at $60\n\n1 Interpreter to Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, at $120\n\n2 Foremen at Peak District, at $60 each\n\n1 Inspector at Aberdeen, at $480\n\nForeman at Aberdeen, at $90\n\n8 Disinfectants\n\n9 Disinfecting and Cleansing Apparatus\n\n10 Operating expenses of disinfectors\n\n11 Upkeep of Dust and Water Carts\n\n12 Exhumation. Recurrent\n\n13 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n\nTotal Sanitary Department..\n\n954,276\n\n1,033,504\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nNCMDERS.\n\n11,000\n\n11,720 (6)\n\n1931\n\n1932\n\n1\n\n1\n\nHead of Sanitary Department\n\n1\n\n1\n\nI\n\nAssistant Head of Sanitary Department\n\n(4)\n\nEuropean Staff.\n\n1\n\n1\n\nVeterinary Surgeon, (£1,000 to £1,200 by £50\n\nannually)..\n\n18,000\n\n24,000 (5)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nAssistant Veterinary Surgeon, (£650 to £950 by £30!\n\nannually)......\n\n12,449\n\n17,199\n\n1\n\n1\n\nChief Inspector (£600 to £700 by £25 annually)\n\n9,959\n\n13,779\n\n13,000\n\n13,000\n\n6\n\n6\n\nSenior Sanitary Inspectors (£475 to £575 by £20\n\nannually)\n\n46,639\n\n(5) (6)\n\n64,587\n\n1,200\n\n1,300\n\n750\n\n500\n\n30,000\n\n32,945\n\n350\n\n300\n\n14 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n\n(2)\n\n625\n\n650\n\n15 Head Stones.\n\n2,500\n\n16 Incidental Expenses,\n\n2,200\n\n(2)\n\n2,850\n\n2,850\n\n17 Light\n\n11,500\n\n18 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses\n\n12,000\n\n(3)\n\n~ ca a\n\n17\n\n17\n\n1st Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£370 to £430 by £15\n\nannually)\n\n105,300\n\n138,722\n\n33\n\n32\n\nDo.,\n\n2nd Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£260 to £350 by 5 annual increments of £10 and 2 of £20) Language Allowances to 2 at $240 each, 5 at $180 each, 40 at $120 each, and 7 at $60 each\n\n148,860\n\n201,211\n\n(5)(6)(7)\n\n6,420\n\n6,600\n\n(8)\n\n35,000\n\n19 Nightsoil Receptacles\n\n35,000\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\nIndoor Staff.\n\n20 Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n\n1,700\n\n21 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n\n1,400\n\n(2)\n\n2,300\n\n1\n\n1\n\n22 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n\n2,500\n\n(9)\n\n1,010\n\n2,000\n\n23 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n\n. (10)\n\nStore-Keeper ($2,500 to $3,500 by 6 annual increments of $150 and 1 of $100)\n\n3,500\n\n3,500\n\n3,652\n\n1\n\n1\n\n24 Scavenging Villages\n\n4,100\n\n(11)\n\n1,500\n\n25 Scavenging Gear\n\n1,200 (2)\n\nAssistant Store-Keeper, ($450 to $600 by $25\n\nannually)\n\n588\n\n613\n\n(6)\n\n10,000\n\n2,100\n\n13,850\n\n300\n\n26 Transport\n\n27 Uniforms for Staff......\n\n28 Workshop Apparatus...............\n\n(1) Rates increased 80%.\n\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n\nCarried forward\n\n(3) Increased cost of coal and firewood.\n\n(4) Transferred to Head 25, Medical Department.\n\n(6) Allowance for Inspector at Kennedy Town Slaughter House,\n\n(6) Allowances for 2 Inspectors i/c markets at $360 each.\n\n(7) More exhumations.\n\n863,096\n\n983,204\n\n(8) New market for Praya East and more lights in existing\n\nmarkets.\n\n(9) Increased cost of stores.\n\n(10) New quarters for Kowloon City Inspector.\n\n(11) Increased rents of quarters in Kowloon.\n\n(12) Railway transportation now charged to departments.\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(2) Increased cost of stores.\n\n(3) Re-vote.\n\n(4) Under Cadet Service.\n\n10,000\n\n1\n\n9\n\n2,400 14,850\n\n8\n\n(12) (9)\n\nOffice Attendant ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially) Messengers, $156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\n300\n\n300\n\n1,512\n\n1,356\n\n(7)\n\nDo.,\n\nPersonal Allowance to 1 at $24\n\n24\n\n24\n\nDo.,\n\n300\n\nRent Allowances, to 7 at $24 each and\n\n1 at $48.....\n\n240\n\n216\n\n(7)\n\nCarried forward\n\n353,791\n\n472,106\n\n(5) Lower rate of exchange.\n\n(6) Stipulated increments.\n\n(7) One post abolished.\n\n(8) More inspectors qualified.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535453, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n23. SANITARY DEPARTMENT.\n\nSub-heads:-\n\n \n \n Estimated\n Actual\n Increase\n Decrease\n \n \n 1 Personal Emoluments\n 908,910\n 838,695.89\n \n 70,214.11\n \n \n OTHER CHARGES\n \n \n Sanitary Staff.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Advertisements\n 1,200\n 677.14\n 522.86\n \n \n \n 3 Ambulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, and Dead Boxes\n 1,000\n 949.64\n 50.36\n \n \n \n 4 Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.\n 3,300\n 2,063.09\n \n 1,236.91\n \n \n 5 Burial of Infected Bodies\n 1,000\n 1,310.40\n 310.40\n \n \n \n 6 Coal for Official Quarters\n 1,600\n 1,158.14\n \n 441.86\n \n \n 7 Conveyance and Motor Allowances\n 11,720\n 10,789.82\n 930.18\n \n \n \n 8 Crematorium. Transportation Expenses\n 1,500\n 1,500.00\n \n \n \n \n 9 Disinfectants\n 15,000\n 13,409.98\n \n 1,590.02\n \n \n 10 Disinfecting and Cleansing Apparatus\n 4,000\n 2,325.03\n \n 1,674.97\n \n \n 11 Disinfectors, Operating expenses of\n 1,100\n 1,196.06\n 96.06\n \n \n \n 12 Dust and Water Carts, Upkeep of\n 400\n 620.17\n 220.17\n \n \n \n 13 Exhumation, Recurrent\n 30,000\n 22,573.85\n \n 7,426.15\n \n \n 14 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n 250\n 171.60\n \n 78.40\n \n \n 15 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n 650\n 634.60\n 15.40\n \n \n \n 16 Head Stones\n 2,200\n 2,313.34\n 113.34\n \n \n \n 17 Incidental Expenses\n 3,500\n 3,168.73\n \n 331.27\n \n \n 18 Light\n 14,500\n 14,475.51\n 24.49\n \n \n \n 19 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses\n 35,000\n 35,092.62\n 92.62\n \n \n \n 20 Nightsoil Receptacles\n 800\n 541.81\n \n 258.19\n \n \n 21 Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n 1,400\n 984.29\n \n 415.71\n \n \n 22 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n 3,000\n 2,539.43\n \n 460.57\n \n \n 23 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n 2,210\n 2,208.00\n 2.00\n \n \n \n 24 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n 4,700\n 3,886.00\n \n 814.00\n \n \n 25 Scavenging Villages\n 1,000\n 540.00\n \n 460.00\n \n \n 26 Scavenging Gear\n 11,000\n 11,123.20\n 123.20\n \n \n \n 27 Transport\n 15,350\n 11,402.00\n \n 3,948.00\n \n \n 28 Uniforms for Staff\n 2,300\n 1,787.01\n \n 512.99\n \n \n 29 Workshop Apparatus\n 200\n 163.53\n \n 36.47\n \n \n 29A Training of Probationers\n 936\n 936.00\n \n \n \n \n Veterinary Staff.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30 Fuel\n 5,750\n 5,135.00\n \n 615.00\n \n \n 31 Incidental Expenses\n 1,500\n 1,860.65\n 360.65\n \n \n \n 32 Light\n 1,000\n 784.86\n \n 215.14\n \n \n 33 Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses.\n 12,500\n 14,108.28\n 1,608.28\n \n \n \n 34 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n 600\n 330.44\n \n 269.56\n \n \n Carried forward\n 1,100,140\n 1,008,962.11\n 3,544.49\n 94,722.38\n \n \n Carried forward\n 10,887,459\n 9,544,439.88\n 188,463.96\n 1,531,483.08\n \n\n53\n\n32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535669, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "68\n\nHead 23.-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\nOther Charges,-Continued.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1932.\n\nEstimate, 1933.\n\n€\n\n€\n\nBrought forward\n\n983,204\n\n1,078,790\n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :-\n\n30 Fuel\n\n31 Incidental Expenses\n\n32 Light\n\n33 Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses\n\n34 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n35 2 Morris Touring Cars....\n\n36 2 Clocks.....\n\n37 Conversion of 2 chassis into Water Wagons\n\n38 Portable Electric Air Compressor for tyre pumping\n\n2 Motor Vans.....\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\nTotal Sanitary Department.......\n\nNUMBERS,\n\n1932\n\n1933\n\n2\n\n11\n\n9\n\n37\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nCadet Officers, Class II, (£525 to £1,400 by 3 of £50, 1 of £75, 1 of £100 and 11 of £50 annually)..........\n\nSenior Clerical and Accounting Staff:·\n\nClass I, (£600 to £700 by £20 annually)\n\nDo., Shorthand Allowance\n\nJunior Clerical Service:-\n\nHigher Class, ($4,800 to $5,600 by $200 annually)..\n\nClass II, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n\nClass III, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n\nClass IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n\nClass V. ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)..\n\nClass VIA, ($950 to $1,050 by $100 annually)\n\nClass VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160\n\n3 of $50 and 2 of $100 annually)\n\n5,500\n\n1,300\n\n900\n\n12,000\n\n600\n\n184,415\n\n30,000\n\n::\n\n30,000\n\n1,033,504\n\n5,750\n\n1,500 (1)\n\n1,000\n\n12,500\n\n600 (2)\n\n(3)\n\n9,257\n\n100\n\n5,000\n\n(4)\n\n191,230\n\n(6)\n\n400\n\n(7)\n\n10\n\n14,757\n\n|1,1\n\n14,897\n\n34,698\n\n(8)\n\n11,314\n\n(9)\n\n180\n\n5,017\n\n2,863\n\n11,458\n\n10,508\n\n14,791\n\n(10)\n\n9,433\n\n31,225\n\nEuropean Staff.\n\nI\n\nVeterinary Surgeon, (£1,000 to £1,200 by £50 annually).....\n\n24,000\n\n20,571\n\n1\n\n1\n\nAssistant Veterinary Surgeon, (£650 to £950 by £30 annually)......\n\n17,198\n\n15,256\n\n1\n\n1\n\n6\n\nChief Inspector, (£600 to £700 by £25 annually)\n\nSenior Sanitary Inspectors, (£475 to £575 by £20 annually)\n\n13,779\n\n12,000\n\n64,587\n\n55,635\n\n(11)\n\n17\n\n17\n\n1st Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£370 to £430 by £15 annually)\n\n138,722\n\n121,689\n\n32\n\n32\n\nDo.,\n\n2nd Class Sanitary Inspectors, (£260 to £350 by 5 annual increments of £10 and 2 of £20)\n\nLanguage Allowances to 2 at $240 each, 7 at $180 each, 40 at $120 each, and 5 at $60 each\n\n201,211\n\n174,782\n\n6,600\n\n6,840\n\n(12)\n\nCarried forward\n\n472,106\n\n544,244\n\n(1) Increased cost of stores.\n\n(2) More current used.\n\n(3) More repairs required.\n\n(4) To replace two worn out cars.\n\n(5) For Secretary's Office and Board Room,\n\n(6) Approved in 1931 Estimates but expenditure deferred.\n\n(7) Considered necessary.\n\ntyres to maintain.\n\nApproximately 200 pneumatic\n\n(8) Previously shown under Cadet Service.\n\n(9) Previously shown under Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff.\n\n(10) Previously shown under Junior Clerical Service.\n\n(11) Higher rate of exchange.\n\n(12) More inspectors qualified.\n\n(13) Changes in personnel.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544996, "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": 302, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Table II. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF REVENUE 1932 AND 1933.\n\n| Item | 1932 | 1933 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | $908,919.46 | $960,785.14 |\n| Scavenging Villages | 540.00 | 540.00 |\n| Scavenging Gear | 10,103.78 | 11,123.20 |\n| Transport | 1,878.25 | 1,787.01 |\n| Uniforms for Staff | 11,436.34 | 11,402.00 |\n| Chinese Undertakers' Licences | $1,375.00 | $1,400.00 |\n| Motor Spirit Duties | 1,068.93 | ... |\n| Workshop Apparatus | 188.86 | 163.53 |\n| Special Food Licences | 16,548.43 | 18,163.20 |\n| Forfeitures | 1,278.75 | 1,278.75 |\n| Animal Depots and Slaughter Houses, Fuel | 573.50 | 598.00 |\n| Ambulance and Cremation Fees | 1.09 | 5,120.00 |\n| Chinese Cemetery Fees | 5,828.00 | 4,570.00 |\n| Animal Depots and Slaughter Houses, Incidental Expenses | 1,386.43 | 1,860.65 |\n| Official Certificates | 7,159.50 | 5,394.50 |\n| Slaughter House, Kennedy Town | 102,910.30 | 100,748.60 |\n| Animal Depots and Slaughter Houses, Light | 885.60 | 784.86 |\n| Slaughter House, Ma Tau Kok | 46,600.00 | 47,200.00 |\n| Scavenging | 2,532.00 | 3,028.37 |\n| Animal Depots and Slaughter Houses, Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses | 32,251.00 | 31,603.50 |\n| Use of Motor Vans | 13,078.96 | 14,108.28 |\n| Lands Not Leased | 220.00 | 240.00 |\n| Laundries | 3,000.00 | 3,000.00 |\n| Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor | 538.03 | 336.44 |\n| Markets | 329,737.40 | 329,866.81 |\n| Training of Probationers | 936.00 | ... |\n| Condemned Stores, &c. | 378.00 | 349.50 |\n| Total Personal Emoluments & Other Charges | 230.25 | 551.56 |\n| Overpayment in Previous Years | 3,845.58 | 3,750.25 |\n| Total | $954,075.66 | $1,008,962.11 |\n| **REVENUE FROM CONTRACTS.** | | |\n| Conservancy Contract, Victoria | 9,800.00 | 9,800.00 |\n| Conservancy Contract, Kowloon | 5,200.00 | 5,200.00 |\n| Conservancy Contract, Shaukiwan | $1,088.00 | $1,805.00 |\n| Conservancy Contract, Aberdeen, Pokfulam and Aplichau | 420.00 | 420.00 |\n| Blood and Hair, Kennedy Town | 11,040.00 | 12,360.00 |\n| Blood and Hair, Ma Tau Kok | 3,756.00 | 4,836.00 |\n| Slaughtering Contract, Sai Wan Ho | 3,864.00 | 3,540.00 |\n| Slaughtering Contract, Aberdeen | 2,064.00 | 2,460.00 |\n| Total | $22,182.00 | $40,421.00 |\n| **Special Expenditure.** | | |\n| 2 Morris Touring Cars | $14,971.27 | $3,506.13 |\n| 2 Clocks | 70.00 | ... |\n| Conversion of 2 chassis into Water Wagons | 3,636.12 | 400.00 |\n| Portable Electric Air Compressor for tyre pumping | ... | 8,000.00 |\n| 2 Sailing Barges | ... | ... |\n| Total Special Expenditure | $14,971.27 | $15,612.25 |\n| Total Sanitary Department | $969,046.93 | $1,024,574.36 |\n\n(1) \"Includes officers of Cadet, S. C. & A. S., & J. C. Service.\"'\n\n## Page 395", "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": 546015, "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": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "Head 22.-MEDICAL DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1934. $941,774\n\nEstimate, 1935. $388,591\n\nHead 23. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1934. $1,217,058\n\nEstimate, 1935. $1,261,038\n\nMEDICAL DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n \n $\n $\n $\n \n \n 1 Personal Emoluments\n \n \n \n \n \n PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS, -Continued.\n \n \n \n \n Other Charges.\n \n \n \n \n Brought forward\n 196,220\n 231,450\n \n \n 2\n Advertisements\n 1,200\n 1,000\n \n \n (1)\n NUMBERS.\n \n \n \n \n \n 1934\n 1935\n \n \n \n B.\n HOSPITALS,—Continued.\n \n \n \n \n \n Kowloon Hospital,—Continued.\n \n \n \n \n \n Boy Dresser, ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowance\n 24\n 24\n \n \n \n Stoker, ($216 to $210 by $12 triennially)..\n 216\n 217\n \n \n 3\n Ambulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, and Dead Boxes\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 4\n Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc...\n 3,300\n 3,000\n \n \n 5\n Burial of Infected Bodies\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowance....................\n 300\n 300\n \n \n 6\n Coal for Official Quarters....................\n \n \n \n \n 7\n Conservancy\n \n \n \n \n 8\n Conveyance Allowances\n \n \n \n \n 10\n Disinfectants\n 11,960\n 12,440\n \n \n 11\n Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores\n 44,000 (2)\n \n \n \n 9\n Crematorium, transportation expenses\n 1,500\n 1,500\n \n \n \n Allendants on Sisters.\n 15,500\n 15,000\n \n \n 12\n Disinfectors, Operating expenses of...\n 1,100\n 3,000\n 1,100\n \n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n 13\n Dust and Water Carts, Upkeep of\n 300\n 500\n \n \n \n Boys, (2 at $252 to $300 by $12 triennially and 5 at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially).\n \n \n \n \n 14\n Exhumation, Recurrent\n 25,000\n 15,000 (1)\n \n \n \n Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute\n 1,469\n 1,485\n \n \n \n Do.. Rent Allowances at $24 each\n 168\n 168\n \n \n \n Cooks, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\n 780\n 780\n \n \n \n Certificates\n 4\n 4\n \n \n 16\n Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n 250\n 200\n \n \n \n € 33\n \n \n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowaners at $24 each\n 96\n 96\n \n \n 17\n General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n 680\n 680\n \n \n \n 6 Amahs, (1 at $252 to $300 by $12 triennially and 5 at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n 18\n Head Stones,\n 2,700\n 2,700\n \n \n \n 11 Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do., at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially\n 1,245\n 1,248\n \n \n 19\n Incidental Expenses,\n 4,000\n 3,000\n \n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,749\n 1,778\n \n \n \n 20\n Light\n 15,500\n 16,000\n \n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowances at $24 each....\n \n \n \n \n \n Kowloon Hospital Maternity Block.\n 264\n 264\n \n \n 21\n Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses\n 37,000\n 40,000\n \n \n \n (7)\n \n \n \n \n \n SOC\n \n \n \n \n 22\n Nightsoil Receptacles\n 800\n 700\n \n \n 23\n Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n 1,400\n 1,200\n \n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n 24\n Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n \n 2 Ward-Boys, ($232 to $300 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowances at $24 each\n 48\n 48\n \n \n \n Amahs, ($264 to $360 by $24 triennially)\n 1,056\n 1,064\n \n \n \n Wash Amah, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\n 504\n 504\n \n \n 25\n Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Officer\n 2,210\n 2,210\n \n \n 26\n Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n 5,020\n 5,020\n \n \n 27\n Scavenging Villages\n 1,000\n 800 (1)\n \n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 221\n 240\n \n \n \n 28\n Scavenging Gear\n 12,000\n 12,200\n \n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Cook, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\n 240\n 240\n \n \n 29\n Transport\n 2,300\n 2,000\n \n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do.. Rent Allowance...\n 24\n 24\n \n \n \n 3 Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n 468\n 477\n \n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowances at $24 each\n 72\n 72\n \n \n \n Temporary Staff for Hospitals\n 1,500\n 1,500\n \n \n \n Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital.\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 House Medical Officer\n 1,200\n 1,200\n \n \n 30\n Uniforms for Staff.\n \n \n \n \n 31\n Workshop Apparatus.\n \n \n \n \n \n Veterinary Staff.\n \n \n \n \n \n Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :-\n \n \n \n \n 32\n Ammunition\n \n \n \n \n 33\n Fuel\n 2,600\n 5,750\n \n \n \n 5,500\n \n \n \n \n 34\n Incidental Expenses\n 1,600\n 800\n \n \n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n \n පිටිය\n \n \n \n \n 35\n Light\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n \n Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff:---\n \n \n \n \n 36\n Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses\n 15,500\n 16,000\n \n \n \n (10)\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Class III, (£250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15 annually)...\n 4,000\n 6,225\n \n \n 37\n Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n 600\n 600\n \n \n \n Do., Language Allowance\n 120\n @\n \n \n \n Total Other Charges\n 196,220\n 231,450\n \n \n \n Junior Clerical Service:—\n \n \n \n \n \n I\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 increment of $60 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100 annually)...\n 480\n 848\n \n \n \n (1) (2)\n \n \n \n \n 38\n 1 10 h. p. Chussis\n 3,000 (11)\n \n \n \n 39\n 2 Deep Draft Barges...\n 22,000 (12)\n \n \n \n \n Nursing Staff :-\n \n \n \n \n 40\n Conversion of 2 30 cwt. Refuse Lorry Chassis to Water Wagons.\n 3,000 (13)\n \n \n \n \n 1 Matron, ($1,320 to $2,400 by $120 annually)...\n 2,400\n 2,400\n \n \n 41\n 2 Refuse Lorries\n 8,000\n (14)\n \n \n \n 1 Assistant Matron ($900 to $1,200 by $60 annually).\n 960\n \n \n \n 42\n 3 Towing Barges\n 30,000\n (15)\n \n \n \n 5 Midwives, ($540 to $720 by $60 annually)\n 3,000\n 2,880\n \n \n \n (4)\n \n \n \n \n 43\n 1 Filing Cabinet\n 250\n (16)\n \n \n \n 12 Do., Personal Allowance to 3 at $60 each\n \n \n \n \n \n Pupil Midwives, at $144 each\n 180\n \n \n \n \n 1 Motor Hearse...\n 1,728\n (6)\n \n \n \n 10 Maid Servants, at $120 each\n 1,200\n \n \n \n \n 10 Amahs, ($228 to $276 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Cooks, (at $228 to $276) by $12 triennially)..\n 2,280\n \n \n \n \n 1 Watchman,\n \n \n \n \n \n 240\n 300\n \n \n \n \n 1 Messenger, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowance..\n 156\n 48\n \n \n \n 1 Sew Amah, ($228 to $276 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n \n (6)\n 228\n \n \n \n \n Total Personal Emoluments\n 1,240,346\n 1,291,600\n \n \n \n (1) Stipulated increments.\n \n \n \n \n \n (2) Changes in personnel.\n \n \n \n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n (4) Salary revised and 1 promoted to Assistant Matron.\n \n \n \n \n \n (5) Food previously supplied free.\n \n \n \n \n \n (6) New posts.\n \n \n \n \n \n (7) Replaced by 10 Amahs.\n \n \n \n \n \n (8) To replace 10 Maid Servants.\n \n \n \n \n \n (9) Salary revised.\n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Tacalemit Grease CompressOTS\n \n \n \n \n \n 3 Lorries\n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Light Draft Lighters\n \n \n \n \n \n Gestetner Duplicating machine\n \n \n \n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 41,400\n \n \n \n \n Total Sanitary Department....\n 1,179,394\n 1,186,291\n \n \n \n (1) Considered sufficient.\n \n \n \n \n \n (2) Undertaken departmentally.\n \n \n \n \n \n (a) More Inspectors drawing allowances.\n \n \n \n \n \n (4) Fees for Inspectors' courses in U. K.\n \n \n \n \n \n (5) Fees for Inspectors' courses in U.K. now under subhead 15.\n \n \n \n \n \n (6) More markets opened.\n \n \n \n \n \n (7) More vehicles & repairs for older vehicles.\n \n \n \n \n \n (6) More ammunition required for Humane Killer.\n \n \n \n \n \n (9) Ammunition now under subhead 32.\n \n \n \n \n \n (10) More repairs for older vehicles.\n \n \n \n \n \n (11) For conveyance of dead boxes.\n \n \n \n \n \n (12) For conveying Kowloon refuse to new dump at Kan Tong,\n \n \n \n \n \n (13) For side channel washing.\n \n \n \n \n \n (14) To replace 2 converted to water wagons.\n \n \n \n \n \n (15) To replace 3 barges unserviceable.\n \n \n \n \n \n (16) For Correspondence Office.\n \n \n \n \n \n (17) Non-recurrent\n \n \n \n\nPage 170", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546111, "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": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "Head 22.-MEDICAL DEPARTMENT \n\nApproved Estimate, 1934. $1,217,058\n\nEstimate, 1935. $1,261,038\n\nHead 23.-SANITARY DEPARTMENT \n\nApproved Estimate, 1934. $911,774\n\nEstimate, 1935. $888,591\n\nMEDICAL DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,-Continued.\n\nB. HOSPITALS,-Continued.\n\nKowloon Hospital,-Continued.\n\n19341935\n1 Stoker, ($216 to $210 by $12 triennially)11\nDo., Rent Allowance2424\n1 Boy Dresser, ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially)11\nDo., Rent Allowance2424\n\nHead 23.-SANITARY DEPARTMENT \n\nSub-heads :— \n\n1 Personal Emoluments \n\n$$\n911,774888,591\n2 Advertisements1,2001,000\n3 Ambulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, and Dead Boxes1,0001,000\n4 Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.3,3003,000\n5 Burial of Infected Bodies1,0001,000\n6 Coal for Official Quarters1,6001,500\n7 Conservancy\n8 Conveyance Allowances\n10 Disinfectants11,96012,440\n11 Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores44,000\n9 Crematorium, transportation expenses1,5001,500\n15,50015,000\n4,0003,000\n12 Disinfectors, Operating expenses of1,1001,100\n13 Dust and Water Carts, Upkeep of500500\n7 Boys, (2 at $252 to $300 by $12 triennially and 5 at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially)1,4691,485\nDo., Rent Allowances at $24 each168168\n4 Cooks, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)780780\n14 Exhumation, Recurrent\nCertificates25,00015,000\n15 Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute\n1,950\n250200\n16 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges9696\n17 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year680680\n6 Amahs, (1 at $252 to $300 by $12 triennially and 5 at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially)1,2451,248\n11 Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)1,7491,778\nDo., Rent Allowances at $24 each264264\n19 Incidental Expenses4,0003,000\n20 Light15,50016,000\n21 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses37,00040,000\n22 Nightsoil Receptacles800700\n2 Ward-Boys, ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially)\nKowloon Hospital Maternity Block, Do.\n23 Paint, Turpentine, &c.1,4001,200\n24 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.3,0003,000\n504\n25 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices2,2102,210\nRent Allowances at $24 each4848\n26 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies5,0205,020\n4 Amahs, ($264 to $360 by $24 triennially)1,0561,064\n27 Scavenging Villages1,000800\n1 Wash Amah, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\nCook, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)221240\n28 Scavenging Gear12,00012,200\n240\nDo., Rent Allowance2424\n3 Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)469477\nDo., Rent Allowances at $24 each7272\nTemporary Staff for Hospitals1,5001,500\nTsan Yuk Maternity Hospital\n29 Transport\n30 Uniforms for Staff\n31 Workshop Apparatus\nVeterinary Staff\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses\n32 Ammunition250250\n33 Freight\n34 Incidental Expenses2,3002,000\n16,00013,000\n35 Light1,000\n36 Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses15,50016,000\n37 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor600600\n1,000\n\nTotal Other Charges $196,220 $231,450\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\n$$\n38 1 10 h. p. Chassis3,000\n39 2 Deep Draft Barges30,000\n40 Conversion of 2 30 cwt, Refuse Lorry Chassis to Water Wagons\n41 2 Refuse Lorries24,000\n42 3 Towing Barges13,000\n43 1 Filing Cabinet1,000\n2 Tecalemit Grease Compressors\n480\n848\n1 Motor Hearse3,000\n3 Lorries400\n2 Light Draft Lighters\nGestetner Duplicating machine250\n\nTotal Special Expenditure $66,250\n\nTotal Sanitary Department $1,179,391 $1,186,291\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS\n\n19341935\n1 House Medical Officer11\n1,2001,200\nSenior Clerical and Accounting Staff :-\n1 Class III, (£250 to £145 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15 annually)11\n4,000\nDo., Language Allowance6,225\n120\nJunior Clerical Service:-\n1 Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 increment of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100 annually)11\nNursing Staff:-\n1 Matron, ($1,320 to $2,400 by $120 annually)11\n2,4002,400\n1 Assistant Matron ($900 to $1,200 by $60 annually)14\n9603,000\n3 Midwives, ($540 to $720 by $60 annually)32,880\nDo., Personal Allowance to 3 at $60 each180\n12 Pupil Midwives, at $144 each1,728\n5,7505,500\n1,600\n10 Maid Servants, at $120 each1,200\n10 Amahs, ($228 to $276 by $12 triennially)2,280\n2 Cooks, (at $228 to $276 by $12 triennially)456\n1 Watchman300\n1 Messenger, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)156\nDo., Rent Allowance48\n1 Sew Amah, ($228 to $276 by $12 triennially)228\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments $1,240,346 $1,291,600\n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n\n(2) Changes in personnel.\n\n(3) Promoted from Midwife.\n\n(4) Salary revised and 1 promoted to Assistant Matron.\n\n(5) Food previously supplied free.\n\n(6) New posts.\n\n(7) Replaced by 10 Amahs.\n\n(8) To replace 10 Maid Servants.\n\n(9) Salary revised.\n\n(10) More repairs for older vehicles.\n\n(11) For conveyance of dead boxes.\n\n(12) For conveying Kowloon refuse to new dump at Kun Tong.\n\n(13) For side channel washing.\n\n(14) To replace 2 converted to water wagons.\n\n(15) To replace 3 barges unserviceable.\n\n(16) For Correspondence Office.\n\n(17) Non-recurrent.\n\n291", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549743, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "167\n\n66\n\nHead 23.-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nHead 23.-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1935.\n\nEstimate, 1936.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n388,591\n\n$ 803,907\n\nOther Charges.\n\nSanitary Staff.\n\n \n 2\n Advertisements\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 3\n Ambulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, and Dead Boxes\n 1,000\n 800\n \n \n 4\n Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.......\n 3,000\n 2,500\n \n \n 5\n Burial of Infected Bodies\n \n \n \n \n 6\n Coal for Official Quarters\n \n \n \n \n 7\n Conservancy\n \n \n \n \n 8\n Conveyance Allowances\n \n \n \n \n 9\n Crematorium, running expenses\n 1,000\n 750\n \n \n 10\n Disinfectants\n 1,500\n 1,350\n \n \n \n \n 44,000\n 39,000\n \n \n \n \n 12,440\n 12,000\n \n \n \n \n 1,500\n \n \n \n 11\n Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores\n 4,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 15,000\n 12,000\n \n \n 12\n Disinfectors, Operating expenses of..\n 1,100\n 750\n \n \n 13\n Dust and Water Carts, Upkeep of\n 500\n 150\n \n \n 14\n Exhumation, Recurrent\n 15,000\n 15,000\n \n \n 15\n Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute Certificates\n 1,950\n 1,800\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n 200\n 200\n \n \n 17\n General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n 680\n 730\n \n \n (83)\n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Head Stones,\n 2,700\n 2,700\n \n \n 19\n Incidental Expenses,\n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n 20\n Light\n 16,000\n 16,500\n \n \n 21\n Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses\n 40,000\n 35,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 22\n Nightsoil Receptacles\n 700\n 600\n \n \n 23\n Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n 1,200\n 1,000\n \n \n 24\n Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n 8,000\n 2,500\n \n \n 25\n Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n 2,210\n 2,210\n \n \n 26\n Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n 5,020\n 5,020\n \n \n 27\n Scavenging Villages\n 800\n 500\n \n \n 28\n Scavenging Gear\n 12,200\n 11,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 29\n Transport\n 2,000\n 2,000\n \n \n 30\n Uniforms for Staff..\n 13,000\n 11,500\n \n \n 31\n Workshop Apparatus......\n 250\n 200\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 三日\n 1,200 (5)\n \n \n \n 32\n Training of Probationary Asiatic Inspectors\n \n \n \n \n \n Veterinary Staff.\n \n \n \n \n \n Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :—\n \n \n \n \n 33\n Ammunition\n 2,600\n 2,100\n \n \n 34\n Fuel\n 5,500\n 5,250\n \n \n 35\n Incidental Expenses\n 800\n 1,300\n \n \n (7)\n \n \n \n \n \n 36\n Light\n 1,000\n 900\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 37\n Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses\n 16,000\n 13,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 38\n Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n 600\n 500\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Other Charges\n 231,450\n 212,510\n \n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n \n 39\n Pier at Aplichan Island\n 200\n (8)\n \n \n 40\n Tapley Brake Meter\n 100\n (9)\n \n \n 41\n 1 Embossing Press\n 200\n (10)\n \n \n 42\n Anti-Gas Equipment.....\n 4,600\n (11)\n \n \n \n 1 10 h. p. Chassis\n 3,000\n \n \n \n \n 2 Deep Draft Barges....\n 22,000\n \n \n \n \n Conversion of 2 30 cwt. Refuse Lorry Chassis to Water Wagons.\n 3,000\n \n \n \n \n 2 Refuse Lorries\n (12)\n 8,000\n \n \n \n 3 Towing Barges\n 30,000\n \n \n \n \n 1 Filing Cabinet\n 250\n \n \n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 66,250\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,186,291\n 5,100\n \n \n \n Total Sanitary Department.\n \n 1,021,517\n \n\n(1) Considered sufficient,\n\n(2) Fuel and other expenses now included.\n\n(3) More staff required.\n\n(4) More Markets opened.\n\n(5) Item 52 F.M. No. 11 of 11th July, 1935.\n\n(6) $500 transferred to S.H. 35.\n\n(7) $500 transferred from S.H. 33.\n\n(8) Item 15 F.M. No. 5 of 1935; unexpended balance $346.97.\n\n(9) For Kowloon Garage.\n\n(10) For Urban Council.\n\n(11) Considered necessary.\n\n(12) Non-recurrent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549798, "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": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "236\n\n· 18\n\nIncrease.\n\nPersonal Emoluments $ 55,716 Other Charges..... 15,411 Decrease.\n\n$ 186,622 53,970 Special Expenditure 50,210 Total $ 121,337 Deduct Increase.. $ 250,192 121,387 Net Decrease $ 128,855\n\nEstimates, 1985 Estimates, 1936 Decrease, 1936 $ 1,780,233 $ 1,651,878 $ 128,855\n\n19\n\nIncrease. Decrcase.\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nSub Head. 9,600 39. Pier at Aplichau Island 200 1 10 h.p. Chassis 8,000 40. 1 Tapley Brake Meter 100 2 Deep Draft Barges 22,000 41. 1 Embossing Press 200 Conversion of 2 30 cwt. Refuse Lorry 42. Anti-gas Equipment 4,600 Chassis to Water Wagons 8,000 2 Refuse Lorries 8,000 3 Towing Burges 30,000 1 Filing Cabinet 250 Total 5,100 Total .$ 66,250\n\nIncrease. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.\n\nHead 23. Sanitary Department.\n\nPersonal Emoluments Other Charges Special Expenditure Total .3 44,733 $ 129,417 4,750 23,690 5,100 66,250 $ 54,583 $ 219,357 Deduct Increase.. 54,583 Personal Emoluments. Net Decrease $ 164,774\n\nStipulated Increments $ 15,573 Higher Rate of Exchange.. $ 76,501 New Posts 8,160 Changes in Personnel... 11,857 Estimates, 1935 Transferred from Other Heads... 21,000 Abolition of Posts 19,050 Estimates, 1936 $1,186,291 1,021,517 Transferred to Other Heads 20,520 Rent Allowances 1,056 Decrease, 1936 $ 164,774 Language Allowances 800 Personal Allowances 24 Acting Pay 109 Total $ 44,733 Total $ 129,417\n\nincrease. Decrease.\n\nHead 24. Botanical and Forestry Department.\n\nOther Charges.\n\nSub-Head, 9. Crematorium, Running Expen- Sub-Head. 8e8 $ 2,500 3. Ambulances, Coffins, Dead Vans and Dead Boxes 200 17. General Cleansing, Chinese New Year 4. Bath-houses; fuel, Light, etc.... 500 New Posts 50 5. Burial of Infected Bodies 250 Rent Allowances 20. Light 500 6. Coal for Official Quarters 150 32. Training of Probationary Asiatic Inspectors 7. Conservancy 5,000 Total $ 1,200 8. Conveyance Allowances 440 10. Disinfectants 3,000 Animal Depôts & Slaughter Houses. 11. Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores. 500 12. 35. Incidental Expenses Disinfectors, Operating expenses 500 of 350 13. Dust and Water Carts, Upkeep of 850 15. Expenses of Inspectors in Obtaining Royal Sanitary 6. Forestry Institute Certificates 150 14. Sub-Head. 3. Conveyance Allowances Uniforms and Accoutrements.... 21. Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses 5,000 Total Personal Emoluments. 1,306 Higher Rate of Exchange 748 Changes in Personnel 144 Language Allowances 2,198 Total Other Charges. Sub-Head. 100 2,000 13. Transport 250 $ 2,350 $ 5,700 1,548 120 7,368 15. Upkeep of Car 100 100 Total $ 200 22. Nightsoil Receptacles 100 23. Paint, Turpentine etc. 200 24. Rat Poison, Rat Traps, etc.... 500 Increase. Decrease. 27. Scavenging Villages 800 28. Scavenging Gear 1,200 30. Uniforms for Staff 1,500 Personal Emoluments Other Charges $ 2,198 $ 7,368 2,350 200 31. Workshop Apparatus 50 Total $ 4,548 $ 7,568 Animal Depôts & Slaughter Houses. Deduct Increase 4,548 39. Ammunition 500 Net Decrease $ 3,020 84. Fuel & 250 36. Light 100 37. Motor Meat Vans: Running Estimates, 1935 Estimates, 1936 $ 180,649 127,629 Expenses 3,000 38. Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Decrease, 1936 $ 8,020 Destructor 100 Total 4,750 Total $ 23,690\n\n237", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551012, "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": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "# Head 23.--SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n## Approved Estimate, 1936.\n## Estimate, 1937.\n\nHead 23.-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n2 Advertisements\n\n| Sub-head | Description | 1936 | 1937 | Notes |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | **Other Charges** | | | |\n| | Sanitary Staff | 803,907 | 877,768 | |\n| 3 | Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc........ | 1,000 | 2,500 | (2) |\n| 4 | Bathing Places, Care and Control of | ... | 750 | |\n| 5 | Burial of Infected Bodies | 1,350 | 1,500 | (3) |\n| 6 | Coal for Official Quarters | 800 | 800 | |\n| 7 | Coffins and Biers | 2,000 | 3,500 | (2) |\n| 8 | Conservancy | 39,000 | 30,000 | |\n| 9 | Conveyance Allowances | 12,000 | 12,000 | |\n| 10 | Disinfectants | 12,000 | 12,000 | |\n| 11 | Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores | 2,500 | 2,500 | |\n| 12 | Disinfectors, Operating expenses of... | 750 | 700 | |\n| 13 | Dust Carts, Upkeep of | 150 | 100 | (1) |\n| 14 | Exhumation, Recurrent | 15,000 | 10,000 | (1) |\n| 15 | Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute Certificates... | 1,800 | 1,800 | |\n| 16 | Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges | 200 | 100 | (6) |\n| 17 | General Cleansing, Chinese New Year | 730 | 700 | (7) |\n| 18 | Head Stones | 2,700 | 2,200 | |\n| 19 | Incidental Expenses | 3,000 | 2,500 | |\n| 20 | Latrine Pails | 600 | 500 | (10) |\n| 21 | Light and Electric Fans | 16,500 | 17,500 | (11) |\n| 22 | Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses. | 35,000 | 32,500 | (1) |\n| 23 | Paint, Turpentine, &c. | 1,000 | 500 | (12) |\n| 24 | Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c. | 2,500 | 2,000 | (1) |\n| 25 | Rent of Public Telephones | 401 | | (13) |\n| 26 | Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices | 2,210 | 2,220 | (14) |\n| 27 | Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies | 5,020 | 3,500 | (15) |\n| 28 | Scavenging Villages | 500 | 150 | (16) |\n| 29 | Scavenging Gear | 11,000 | 10,000 | (17) |\n| 30 | Transport | 2,000 | 1,800 | (1) |\n| 31 | Uniforms for Staff.. | 11,500 | 11,500 | |\n| 32 | Workshop Apparatus.. | 200 | 150 | (1) |\n| | Crematorium, running expenses | | 4,000 | (18) |\n| | Training of Probationary Asiatic Inspectors | | 1,200 | (18) |\n| | Veterinary Staff. | | | |\n| | Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses | | | |\n| 33 | Ammunition | 2,100 | 2,000 | (1) |\n| 34 | Fuel | 5,250 | 4,500 | (1) |\n| 35 | Incidental Expenses | 1,300 | 1,800 | (19) |\n| 36 | Light | 900 | | |\n| 37 | Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses | 13,000 | | |\n| 38 | Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor | 500 | 1,000 | (20) |\n| | **Total Other Charges** | 212,510 | 189,571 | |\n| | **Special Expenditure** | | | |\n| 39 | Anti-Gas Equipment.............. | 4,600 | 4,600 | (21) |\n| | Pier at Aplichau Island | | 10,000 | (22) |\n| 40 | 2 Refuse Lorries (Replacements). | | 200 | |\n| | 1 Tapley Brake Meter | | 100 | (23) |\n| | 1 Embossing Press | | 200 | |\n| | **Total Special Expenditure** | 5,100 | 14,600 | |\n| | **Total Sanitary Department.....** | 1,021,517 | 1,081,939 | |\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n(2) Consumption of coal reduced.\n(3) Transferred from Public Works Department.\n(4) Price of coal higher.\n(5) Wheeled ambulances abolished,\n(6) Workshop at Kowloon closed.\n(7) Reduction of staff.\n(8) Contract price lower.\n(9) Fees for notifications of infectious diseases now paid by Medical Department,\n(10) Fewer replacements.\n(11) Includes charges previously paid by P.W.D.\n(12) Painting work reduced.\n(13) Previously provided under Miscellaneous Services.\n(14) Additional floor rented and rents varied.\n(15) Rents reduced and quarters given up.\n(16) Conservancy contract for Stanley and Taitam previously paid from this sub-head.\n(17) Less stores purchased,\n(18) Not required.\n(19) More lead seals required.\n(20) Price of coal higher and more cattle destroyed.\n(21) Re-vote.\n(22) To replace unserviceable ones.\n(23) Non-recurrent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551069, "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": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "## Head 23. Sanitary Department\n\n### Sub-Head 18 Special Expenditure\n\n**Decrease**\n\n### Sub-Head 19 Other Charges\n\n**Increase** \n**Decrease**\n\n| Category | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Advertisements | 200 |\n| Bedding and Clothing | 50,000 |\n| Steel Office Equipment | 57 |\n| (b) Surgical Equipment | 16,000 |\n| Anti-Gas Equipment | 250 |\n| Coul for Official Quarters | 3,500 |\n| Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc. | 500 |\n| Coffins and Biers | 300 |\n| Light and Electric Fans | 1,000 |\n| Conservancy | 9,000 |\n| Rent of Public Telephones | 401 |\n| Disinfectors, Operating expenses | 60 |\n| (e) Non-Technical Equipment | 8,000 |\n| Emulsifying Machine | 2,650 |\n| Rent of Quarters for Inspector | 50 |\n| (d) X-Ray Apparatus | 64,000 |\n| Equipment for Queen Mary Hospital | 35,000 |\n| Sanitary Offices | 10 |\n| Dust Carts, Upkeep of | 50 |\n| Exhumation, Recurrent | 5,000 |\n| Fuel for Blacksmiths Forges | 100 |\n| Ambulance | 12,000 |\n| Repairs and Calibration of Instruments for Govt. Laboratory | ... |\n| General Cleansing, Chinese New Year | 250 |\n| Light Delivery Van | 8,250 |\n| One long carriage typewriter | 836 |\n| Incidental Expenses | 500 |\n| Head Stones | 507 |\n| Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor | 500 |\n| Incidental Expenses | 500 |\n| Microscope | 900 |\n| Suction Hose for Disinfecting & Fumigating Bureau | 550 |\n| Latrine Pails | 100 |\n| Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses | 2,300 |\n| Paint, Turpentine, etc. | 500 |\n| Rat Poison, Rat Traps, etc. | 500 |\n| Reserve of Medical Equipment | 35,000 |\n| **Total** | **184,486** |\n\n### Sub-Head 19 Other Charges (continued)\n\n| Category | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies | 1,520 |\n| Scavenging Villages | 350 |\n| Scavenging Gear | 1,000 |\n| Transport | 200 |\n| Workshop Apparatus | 50 |\n| Crematorium, Running expenses | 4,000 |\n| Training of Probationary Asiatic Inspectors | 1,200 |\n| Ammunition | ... |\n| Fuel | 100 |\n| | 750 |\n| **Total** | **50,460** |\n\n### Summary\n\n| Category | Estimates, 1937 ($) | Estimates, 1936 ($) | Increase/Decrease ($) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | 822,198 | 802,340 | 19,858 |\n| Other Charges | 66,875 | 52,916 | 13,959 |\n| Special Expenditure | 184,486 | 50,460 | 134,026 |\n| **Total** | **1,073,559** | **905,716** | **167,843** |\n| Deduct Decrease | ... | ... | 84,272 |\n| **Net Increase** | ... | ... | **489,287** (as per original document, though calculation not directly supported by provided numbers) |\n\n### Estimates Comparison\n\n| Year | Total ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Estimates, 1937 | 2,140,665 |\n| Estimates, 1936 | 1,651,878 |\n| **Increase, 1937** | **489,287** |\n\n## Head 23. Sanitary Department (continued)\n\n### Special Expenditure\n\n| Category | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2 Refuse Lorries (Replacements) | 10,000 |\n| Pier at Aplichau Island | 29,000 |\n| 1 Tapley Brake Meter | 200 |\n| Embossing Press | 100 |\n| | 200 |\n| **Total** | **500** (for the last 3 items) |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | **10,000** (for Refuse Lorries) + **29,000** (for Pier) + **500** (for other items) |\n\n### Personal Emoluments and Other Changes\n\n| Category | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Lower Rate of Exchange | ... |\n| Stipulated Increments | 102,474 |\n| Changes in Personnel | 7,960 |\n| Abolition of Posts | 30,586 |\n| New Posts | ... |\n| Language Allowances | 2,400 |\n| Rent Allowances | 2,208 |\n| Acting Pay | 180 |\n| Transferred from Other Heads | 19,140 |\n| Transferred to Other Heads | 26,977 |\n| **Total Personal Emoluments** | **141,542** |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 67,681 |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | 29,000 + 10,000 + 500 |\n\n### Summary of Changes\n\n| Category | Estimates, 1937 ($) | Estimates, 1936 ($) | Increase/Decrease ($) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | 1,081,989 | 1,021,517 | 60,422 |\n| Other Charges | ... | ... | ... |\n| Special Expenditure | ... | ... | ... |\n| **Total** | ... | ... | ... |\n\nPage 190 \nPage 191", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553516, "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": 110, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "# Head 23. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n## Estimate, 1937. Approved\n## Estimate, 1938.\n\n| $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n## Sub-heads\n\n### I Personal Emoluments\n$877,768 | $914,352\n\n## SANITARY DEPARTMENT,—Continued.\n\n### Personal Emoluments\n\n| Approved Estimate, 1937 | Estimate, 1938 |\n| --- | --- |\n| $ | $ |\n\n## Other Charges.\n\n| NUMBERS | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n### Details of the foregoing.\n\n#### Sanitary Staff\n\n1. Cadet Officers, Class II, (£525 to £1,400 by 3 of £50, 1 of £75, 1 of £100 and 11 of £50) | 27,099 | 27,918 (1)\n2. Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff:- \n - Class I, (£60 to £700 by £20 annually) | 11,200 | \n - Class II (£460 to £560 by £20 annually) | 11,200 | 8,960 (2)\n - Class III, (£250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30) and 3 of £15 annually)..... | 7,120 | \n - Do., Language Allowance | 60 | (3)\n - Junior Clerical Service:— \n - Class I, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually) | 4,033 | \n - Class II, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually) | 6,600 | 4,233 (1) \n - Class III, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) | 5,200 | 4,665 (5)\n - Class IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | | 16,577\n - Class V. ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | | 13,650\n - Class VIÀ, ($950 to $1,050 by $100 annually) | | 16,187\n - Class VIB, ($450 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160 3 of $50 and 2 of $100 annually) | 22,874 | 20,317\n - Special Class, ($1,200 to $2,400 by $100 annually) | 1,700 | 1,800\n\n#### Other Charges Details\n\n| Details | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 Advertisements | 800 | 800 |\n| 3 Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.. | 2,000 | 2,000 |\n| 4 Bathing Places, Care and Control of | 3,500 | 3,000 |\n| 5 Burial of Infected Bodies | 750 | 750 |\n| 6 Coal for Official Quarters | 1,500 | 1,300 |\n| 7 Coffins and Biers | ... | ... |\n| 8 Conservancy | 30,000 | 25,000 |\n| 9 Conveyance Allowances | 12,000 | 12,720 |\n| 10 Disinfectants | 12,000 | 10,000 |\n| 11 Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores | 2,500 | 2,500 |\n| 12 Disinfectors, Operating expenses of.. | 700 | 700 |\n| 13 Dust Carts, Upkeep of. | 100 | 100 |\n| 14 Exhumation, Recurrent | 10,000 | 6,000 |\n| 15 Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute Certificates | 1,800 | 1,800 |\n| 16 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges | 100 | 100 |\n| 17 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year | 700 | 700 |\n| 18 Head Stones | 2,200 | 2,700 |\n| 19 Incidental Expenses | 2,500 | 2,500 |\n| 20 Latrine Pails | 500 | 600 |\n| 21 Light and Electric Fans | 17,500 | 19,500 |\n| 22 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses... | 32,500 | 32,500 |\n| 23 Paint, Turpentine, &c. | 500 | 500 |\n| 24 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c. | 2,000 | 2,000 |\n| 25 Rent of Public Telephones | 401 | 713 |\n| 26 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices | 2,220 | 2,220 |\n| 27 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies | 3,500 | 3,000 |\n| 28 Scavenging Gear | 10,000 | 9,000 |\n| 29 Training of Chinese Probationer Sanitary Inspectors | 2,000 | ... |\n| 30 Transport | 1,800 | 1,750 |\n| 31 Uniforms for Staff............................ | 11,500 | 11,000 |\n| 32 Workshop Apparatus........ | 150 | 100 |\n\n#### Sanitary Staff (Continued)\n\n- Chief Inspectors, (£600 to £700 by £25 annually). | 21,187 | 21,987 (1)\n- Senior Sanitary Inspectors, (£475 to £575 by £20 annually) | 45,305 | 54,230 (9)\n- Sanitary Inspectors, (£260 to £430 by 9 of £10, 1 of £20 and 4 of £15 annually) | 273,865 | 261,148\n- Do., Language Allowances to 1 at $300, 1 at $240, 13 at $180 each, 36 at $120 each, and 1 at $60 | 7,320 | 7,260\n- Chinese Sanitary Inspectors, ($1,200 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 7,850 | 18,353\n- Chinese Sanitary Dispectors, Probationers, ($1,200 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 9,275 | 10,800\n- Veterinary Surgeon, (£1,000 to £1,200 by £50 annually)... | 19,200 | 19,200\n- Assistant. Veterinary Surgeon, (£650 to £950 by £30 annually)................. | 15,200 | 15,200\n- Store-Keeper ($2,500 to $3,500 by 6 of $150 and 1 of $100 annually) | 3,188 | 3,338 (1)\n- Assistant Store-Keeper, ($600 to $900 by $50 annually) | 800 | 350 (1)\n\n#### Other Staff\n\n| Staff | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Office Attendant ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially) | 300 | 300 |\n| Messengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 1,372 | 1,420 |\n| Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 348 | 315 |\n\n#### Other Charges (Continued)\n\n| Details | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 37 Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses | 13,000 | 13,000 |\n| 38 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| 39 Two Typewriters | ... | ... |\n| 40 Two Refuse Lorries (Replacements) | 10,000 | 4,600 |\n| 41 Que Refuse Barge | 20,000 | 7,000 |\n| Anti-Gas Equipment.......... | ... | ... |\n\n## Special Expenditure.\n\n| Details | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n## Total Sanitary Department\n\n| | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Total Other Charges | 189,571 | 181,003 |\n| Total Special Expenditure | 30,000 | 11,600 |\n| **Total Sanitary Department** | **1,081,939** | **1,123,136** |\n\n## Notes\n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n(2) To replace an officer on leave.\n(3) Temporarily replacing a Cadet Officer.\n(4) One replacing a Class IV clerk.\n(5) Changes in personnel.\n(6) One replaced by a Class II clerk.\n(7) One transferred from Head 3-S.C.A.\n(8) Five posts abolished.\n(9) One Inspector of Factories transferred to Head 3 S.C.A.\n(10) Two posts abolished.\n(11) Nine new posts.\n\n## Foremen Grades\n\n| Grade | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Foremen, Grade 1, ($950 to $1,200 by $50 annually) | 3,196 | 3,175 |\n| Foremen, Grade 2, ($650 to $900 by $50 annually).... | 7,137 | 7,175 |\n| Foremen, Grade 3, ($100 to $600 by $25 annually). | 8,098 | 8,307 |\n| Foremen, Grade 4, ($800 to $360 by $12 annually). | 673 | 685 |\n| Foremen, Grade 5, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially) | 1,063 | 1,068 |\n| Foremen, Grade 6, ($180 to $228 by $12 triennially) | 120 | 120 |\n| Foremen, Grade 7, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 5,613 | 5,640 |\n| Rent Allowances at $24 each | 672 | 672 |\n| Foreman Cleansers, ($240 to $360) by $12 annually) | 5,428 | 5,524 |\n| Rent Allowances at $24 each | 720 | 720 |\n\nPage 110\nPage 111", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553644, "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": 238, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "## Head 23. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n### Estimate, 1937 and 1938\n\n| | $ (1937) | $ (1938) |\n|-------------|---------|---------|\n| **1. Personal Emoluments** | 877,768 | 914,352 |\n\n### SANITARY DEPARTMENT—Continued.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments\n\n| | $ (1937) | $ (1938) |\n|-------------|---------|---------|\n| **Approved Estimate, 1937** | | |\n| **Estimate, 1938** | | |\n\n#### Other Charges.\n\n| Sub-heads | Details | $ (1937) | $ (1938) |\n|----------|--------|---------|---------|\n| 2 | Advertisements | 800 | 800 |\n| 3 | Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc. | 2,000 | 2,000 |\n| 4 | Bathing places, Care and Control of | 3,500 | 3,000 |\n| 5 | Burial of Infected Bodies | 750 | 750 |\n| 6 | Coal for Official Quarters | 1,500 | 1,300 |\n| 7 | Coffins and Biers | 500 | 500 |\n| 8 | Conservancy | 30,000 | 25,000 |\n| 9 | Conveyance Allowances | 12,000 | 12,720 |\n| 10 | Disinfectants | 7,120 | 10,000 |\n| 11 | Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores | 2,500 | 2,500 |\n| 12 | Disinfectors, Operating expenses of | 700 | 700 |\n| 13 | Dust Carts, Upkeep of | 100 | 100 |\n| 14 | Exhumation, Recurrent | 10,000 | 6,000 |\n| 15 | Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute Certificates | 1,800 | 1,800 |\n| 16 | Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges | 100 | 100 |\n| 17 | General Cleansing, Chinese New Year | 700 | 700 |\n| 18 | Head Stones | 2,200 | 2,700 |\n| 19 | Incidental Expenses | 2,500 | 2,500 |\n| 20 | Latrine Pails | 500 | 600 |\n| 21 | Light and Electric Fans | 17,500 | 19,500 |\n| 22 | Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses | 32,500 | 32,500 |\n| 28 | Paint, Turpentine, &c. | 500 | 500 |\n| 24 | Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c. | 2,000 | 2,000 |\n| 25 | Rent of Public Telephones | 401 | 713 |\n| 26 | Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Officer | 2,220 | 2,220 |\n| 27 | Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies | 3,500 | 3,000 |\n| 28 | Scavenging Gear | 10,000 | 9,000 |\n| 29 | Training of Chinese Probationer Sanitary Inspectors | 2,000 | ... |\n| 30 | Transport | 1,800 | 1,750 |\n| #1 | Uniforms for Staff | 11,500 | 11,000 |\n| 32 | Workshop Apparatus | 150 | 100 |\n| 39 | Two Typewriters | ... | ... |\n\n### Sanitary Staff.\n\n| Category | 1937 | 1938 |\n|----------|-------|-------|\n| Cadet Officers, Class II | 27,099 | 27,918 |\n| Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff | 20,160 | 20,038 |\n| Junior Clerical Service | 15,833 | 18,197 |\n| Chinese Sanitary Inspectors | 7,850 | 18,353 |\n| Veterinary Staff | 34,400 | 34,400 |\n| Store-Keeper | 3,188 | 3,338 |\n| Assistant Store-Keeper | 800 | 850 |\n| Office Attendant | 300 | 300 |\n| Messengers | 1,372 | 1,420 |\n| Coolies | 348 | 315 |\n| Overseers | 8,971 | 4,021 |\n| Foremen, Grade 1 | 3,196 | 3,175 |\n| Foremen, Grade 2 | 7,137 | 7,175 |\n| Foremen, Grade 3 | 8,098 | 8,307 |\n| Foremen, Grade 4 | 673 | 685 |\n| Foremen, Grade 5 | 1,063 | 1,068 |\n| Foremen, Grade 6 | 5,613 | 5,640 |\n| Foremen, Grade 7 | 720 | 720 |\n| Foreman Cleansers | 1,726 | 1,654 |\n\n### Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :-\n\n| Sub-heads | Details | $ (1937) | $ (1938) |\n|----------|--------|---------|---------|\n| 33 | Ammunition | 150 | ... |\n| 34 | Fuel | 4,500 | 4,000 |\n| 35 | Incidental Expenses | 1,800 | 900 |\n| 36 | Light | 2,250 | ... |\n| 37 | Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses | 1,200 | ... |\n| 38 | Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor | ... | 20,000 |\n\n### Total Other Charges\n\n189,571 | 181,003\n\n### Special Expenditure.\n\n| Sub-heads | Details | $ (1937) | $ (1938) |\n|----------|--------|---------|---------|\n| 40 | Two Refuse Lorries (Replacements) | 10,000 | 4,600 |\n| 41 | One Refuse Barge | ... | 7,000 |\n| ... | Anti-Gas Equipment | ... | ... |\n\n### Total Special Expenditure\n\n14,600 | 27,781\n\n### Total Sanitary Department\n\n1,081,939 | 1,123,136", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557525, "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": "CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938", "content_text": "339\n\n144\n\nTHE PALESTINE GAZETTE\n\n6th February, 1936\n\n6th February, 1936\n\nTHE PALESTINE GAZETTE\n\n340\n\n145\n\nTENDERS\n\nI.\n\nMunicipality of Nazareth.\n\nTenders are invited for the construction and asphalting of three streets within the Nazareth Municipal Area.\n\nThe conditions of tender are available for inspection at the Municipal Office, Nazareth, on every day between the hours of 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., Sundays excepted.\n\nThe tenders must be submitted in sealed envelopes within fifteen days from the date of the publication of this notice.\n\nII.\n\nMunicipal Corporation of Jerusalem.\n\nTenders are hereby invited for the following contracts:\n\n1. Construction of an additional cell to the refuse destructor on Nablus Road.\n\n2. Supply of 1000 water meters of various sizes.\n\n3. Printing required for the Water Supply Accounts Section.\n\nParticulars in respect of item 1 may be obtained from the City Engineer's Department and items 2 and 3 from the Jerusalem Water Supply Department.\n\nApplications in sealed envelopes should reach the Municipality between the hours of 11 a.m. and 12 noon on Wednesday, the 12th February, 1936.\n\nDeposits in respect of item 1 must be paid in cash or by a certified cheque to the Municipal Treasurer prior to submission of tenders.\n\nThe Municipal Corporation of Jerusalem do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender.\n\n(G/12/34).\n\nIII.\n\nMunicipality of Hebron.\n\nTenders are invited for the construction of a slaughterhouse in Hebron.\n\nPlans and specifications may, with the exception of Fridays, be inspected daily between the hours of 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. as from the 20th January, 1936, to the 25th February, 1936.\n\nIV.\n\nDepartment of Health.\n\nTenders are invited for the supply of foodstuffs to Government Hospitals Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Haifa, Jaffa, Safad, Nablus, Ramle, and Beersheba for the period of 12 months, 1st April, 1936, to 31st March, 1937.\n\n2. Tenders may be submitted for one or more hospitals, and quotations may be given for each hospital separately or for all hospitals collectively.\n\n3. Tender should be submitted in sealed envelopes marked \"Tenders for Hospital Diets,\" addressed to Director of Medical Services, and should reach the office of the Department of Health, Jaffa Road, Jerusalem, not later than 9 a.m. on Monday, the 17th February, 1936.\n\n4. Tender forms and detailed requirements can be obtained on application to the Storekeeper, Medical Stores, Russian Buildings, Jerusalem.\n\n5. The Director of Medical Services does not bind himself to accept the lowest or any tender.\n\nADJUDICATION OF CONTRACTS.\n\n1. The contract for erecting married quarters, office, and store buildings, latrines, and addition to Animal Quarantine Station, Beersheba, has been awarded to Mr. Husni El Hilov of Jerusalem at 19% below P.W.D. estimate rates. Period of contract is 3 months.\n\n2. The contract for asphalting sections from Km.25 to Km.33.500 and from Km.37 to Km.38 of the Rehovot Guza road has been awarded to Mr. Musbah Habub of Ramle at 3 mils per sq. m. Period of contract is 2 months.\n\n3. The contract for supplying and fixing 42 iron sliding doors to Animal Quarantine Station, Haifa, has been awarded to Messrs. Teifer & Knopf of Haifa at LP.7.500 mils per door. Period of contract is 45 days.\n\n4. The contract for supplying woodwork to the Married Quarters for Immigration Officers at Ras en Naqura has been awarded to Mr. A. Weiss of Haifa at LP.82.900 mils. Period of contract is 1 calendar month.\n\n5. The contract for carrying out alterations to the drainage system at Bethlehem Hospitals Nos.1 and 2 has been awarded to Mr. Dahud Abdallah of Jerusalem at 16% below P.W.D. estimate rates. Period of contract is 3 weeks.\n\n6. The contract for the supply of winter uniforms for messenger-boys and tax-collectors in the Northern District has been awarded as follows:\n\nName and Address of Contractor: Mr. Naif Warwar, Tailor, Nazareth\n\nQuotations should be submitted in sealed envelopes and not later than the 25th February, 1936.\n\nQuality Unit Rate LP. Mils\n\nWhipcord Trousers 1.100 1.150\n\nBreeches (8/246/31)\n\nCITATIONS.\n\nI.\n\nIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF JERUSALEM.\n\nIn the matter of the succession of Izhak-Le (Isaac Arieh) Levin of Jerusalem, deceased.\n\nPetitioner: Abraham Levin, through his attorney Dr. Elie Cohen, advocate, Jerusalem.\n\nLet all persons take notice that Mr. Abraham Levin has applied to the District Court of Jerusalem for an order declaring him and Mr. Benjamin Levin, Mrs. Dora Sukernik, and Mrs. Anna Kaufman to be the sole heirs of Izhak-Leib (Isaac Arieh) Levin of Jerusalem, deceased, and the said application will be heard at the District Court of Jerusalem on the 1st May, 1936.\n\nAll persons claiming any interest must appear at the said place and time or lodge an opposition before the date of hearing of this application, otherwise an order will be made declaring the above to be the sole heirs of the deceased.\n\nDated this 2nd day of January, 1936.\n\nD. Shami, Chief Clerk, District Court, Jerusalem.\n\nII.\n\nIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF JAFFA.\n\nBefore: His Honour Judge D. Edwards and His Honour Judge S. Shehadeh.\n\nIn the case of: Applicant: Assis Palestine Fruit Products Company Limited.\n\nRespondent: Registrar of Companies.\n\nORDER\n\nWhereas deeds of mortgage were registered in the Land Registry Office of Jaffa on the 9th October, 1935, as follows:\n\nAssis Palestine Fruit Products Company Ltd. in favour of Ellern's Bank Limited.\n\nOn October 9th, 1935, in the Land Registry Office, Jaffa, Block No.6109, Parcel No.12, Sarona.\n\nNo. 11543/35 Amount LP.400.\n\n11544/35 LP.400.\n\n14545/35 LP.400.\n\n14546/35 LP.400.\n\n14540/35 LP.400.\n\n14541/35 LP.400.\n\n14537/35 LP.400.\n\n14542/35 LP.400.\n\n14538/35 LP.400.\n\n14539/35 LP.400.\n\n14547/35 LP.2,000.\n\ntransferred by Ellern's Bank Ltd. to Dr. Karl Schiff on 20.11.35.\n\ntransferred by Ellern's Bank Ltd. to Dr. Karl Schiff on 29.11.35.\n\nsecond mortgage.\n\nAnd whereas such deeds were not registered within twenty-one days from the date of execution in accordance with the provisions of section 127 of the Companies Ordinance, 1929, and whereas after hearing the attorney of the said company, we are satisfied that the failure to register the said mortgage was due to inadvertence, and it is just and equitable to grant relief.\n\nTherefore, by virtue of the power contained in section 132 of the Companies Ordinance, 1929, we order and it is hereby ordered as follows:\n\n1. That a copy of this order be published in the Palestine Gazette.\n\n2. That any person who may desire to show cause why extension should not have been granted may petition to this Court within ten days from the date of the publication of this order.\n\n3. That a delay of one month after the expiry of the period of ten days within which oppositions, if any, should have been lodged, be granted for the registration of the above-mentioned mortgage.\n\nDated this 24th day of January, 1936.\n\nM. Salameh, Chief Clerk, District Court, Jaffa.\n\nIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF HAIFA.\n\nIn the matter of the succession of Darwishe Yussef Haddad, deceased.\n\nPetitioner: Renee, daughter of Darwishe Yussef Haddad, wife of Sheikh Fuad Khoury of Beirut, through Mr. Joseph Sahyoun, advocate, Haifa.\n\nLet all persons take notice that Mrs. Renee Haddad, wife of Sheikh Fuad El Khoury of Beirut, has applied to the District Court of Haifa for an order declaring the succession to Darwishe Yussef Haddad, and that the said application will be heard at the said District Court on Friday, the 14th February, 1936, at 9 a.m.\n\nAll persons claiming any interest must appear at the said place and time, otherwise such order will be made as to the Court seems right.\n\nDated this 22nd January, 1936.\n\nElias Khattar, Chief Clerk, District Court, Haifa.\n\nCITATION FOR ORDER OF ADMINISTRATION.\n\nIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF JERUSALEM.\n\nIn the matter of the estate of Malkah Berman of Jerusalem, deceased.\n\nLet all persons take notice that Mr. H. Margalith, advocate of Jerusalem, has applied to the District Court of Jerusalem for an order granting administration of the estate of Malkah Berman of Jerusalem, deceased, to Devorah Schwartz of Jerusalem.\n\nAll persons interested in the premises must appear in the said Court within ten days from the date hereof and show cause, if any they have, why the order applied for should not be granted, as in default thereof the Court will proceed to grant the same accordingly.\n\nDated this 20th day of January, 1936.\n\nD. Shami, Chief Clerk, District Court, Jerusalem.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558800, "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": 138, "title": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "content_text": "158\n\n100\n\nHead 26.-ROYAL OBSERVATORY\n\nHead 27-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n101\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\nHead 27.--SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nHead 26.-ROYAL OBSERVATORY\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n \n $\n $\n $\n $\n $\n $\n \n \n 1 Personal Emoluments\n 80,385\n 83,557\n Sub-heads-\n Personal Emoluments\n 914,352\n 914,451\n \n \n Other Charges.\n \n \n \n Other Charges.\n \n \n \n \n 3 Gas\n 1,100\n 1,100\n Sanitary Staff-\n 440\n 440\n \n \n 2 Electric Light and Power\n 150\n 150\n 2 Advertisements\n \n \n \n \n 4 Incidental Expenses\n \n \n 5 Maintenance of instruments and plant\n 2,000\n 2,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 3 Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.....\n 800\n 2,800 (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 6 Postage\n 180\n 200\n \n \n \n \n \n 4 Bathing Places, Care and Control of\n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 5 Coal for Official Quarters\n 1,300\n 1,700 (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 6 Coffins and Biers\n 300\n 2,500 (2)\n \n \n \n \n \n 7 Printing\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8 Rent of Public Telephone..\n 117\n 117\n \n \n \n \n \n 9 Subscription to International Meteorological Organisation (£10)... \n 163\n 163\n \n \n \n \n \n 7 Conservancy\n 25,000\n 25,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 10 Transport\n 250\n 150\n \n \n \n \n \n 8 Conveyance Allowances\n 12,720\n 12,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 11 Uniforms\n 150\n 150\n \n \n \n \n \n 9 Disinfectants\n 10,000\n 10,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 10 Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores\n 2,500\n 2,000\n \n \n Total Other Charges\n 7,550\n 7,470\n 11 Disinfectors, Operating expenses of.....\n 700\n 1,200\n \n \n \n \n \n 12 Dust Carts, Upkeep of\n 100\n 100\n \n \n Special Expenditure.\n \n \n Special Expenditure.\n \n \n \n \n 12 Aerological Investigation (England)\n 250\n \n 13 Exhumation, Recurrent\n 6,000\n 10,000\n \n \n 13 Steel Cupboard (£10).......\n 163\n \n 14 Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute\n 1,800\n 2,100\n \n \n (3)\n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n (1)\n \n \n (4)\n \n \n \n \n Balloon Theodolite...\n 2,000\n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n Renewal and renovation of Anemographs (£250)..\n 4,068\n \n 15 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n 100\n 100\n \n \n (4)\n \n \n 16 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n 700\n 700\n \n \n \n \n \n 17 Head Stones\n 2,700\n 2,700\n \n \n Total Royal Observatory\n 6,068\n 94,003\n 18 Incidental Expenses\n 2,600\n 2,300\n \n \n \n 413\n \n 19 Latrine Pails\n 600\n 600\n \n \n \n \n \n 20 Light and Electric Fans\n 19,500\n 23,500\n \n \n \n \n \n 21 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses...\n 32,500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 22 Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n 500\n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Personal Emoluments.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n 2,000\n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NUMBERS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details of the foregoing.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1938\n 1939\n \n \n \n \n \n \n i\n I\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Director, (£1,000 to £1,200 by £50 annually)\n 19,200\n 19,200\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assistant Director, (£600 to £900 by £25 annually)... \n 14,400\n 14,400\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Professional Assistants, (£500 to £800 by £25 annually)\n 18,856\n 19,692\n \n \n \n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Office Assistant, ($2,400 to $2,600 by $200 annually, Class I Head Computer, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n 2,633\n 2,520 (6) (7)\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Class II Computer, ($2,700 to $3,800 by $150 annually)\n 2,700\n 2,850\n \n \n \n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Class III Computers, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Class IV Computer, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n 1,483\n 1,583\n \n \n \n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Class V Computers, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n 2,347\n 2,546\n \n \n \n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lithographer\n 1,440\n 1,440\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Printer, ($300 to $420 by $24 annually)\n 420\n 420\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Personal Emoluments\n 80,385\n 83,557\n \n \n \n \n \n Veterinary Staff.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :—\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 Rent of Public Telephones\n 713\n 718\n \n \n \n \n \n 25 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n 2,220\n 2,220\n \n \n \n \n \n 26 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 27 Scavenging Gear\n 9,000\n 9,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 28 Training of Chinese Probationer Sanitary Inspectors\n 2,000\n 2,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 29 Transport\n 1,750\n 1,600\n \n \n \n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30 Uniforms for Staff..\n 11,000\n 11,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 31 Workshop Apparatus..\n 100\n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n Burial of Infected Bodies\n 750\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 32 Ammunition\n 1,500\n 10,700\n \n \n \n \n \n 11,200 (5)\n 5,000 (8)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 33 Incidental Expenses\n 2,250\n 2,250\n \n \n \n \n \n 34 Light\n 1,200\n 1,200\n \n \n \n \n \n 35 Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses\n 13,000\n 13,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 36 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fuel\n 1,000\n 2,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 4,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Other Charges\n 181,003\n 148,083\n \n \n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowance\n 48\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stone-polisher, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\n 216\n 216\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowance\n 48\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Watchman, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n 164\n 164\n \n \n \n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 53x\n 540\n \n \n \n \n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 72\n 72\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Attendant at An Tau Magnetic Station ($384 to $444 by $12 annually).\n 441\n 444\n \n \n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowance\n 49\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n Acting Pay\n 1,334\n \n \n \n \n \n \n (8)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Personal Emoluments\n 914,352\n 914,451\n \n \n \n \n \n Special Expenditure.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 37 Three Steel Filing Cabinets\n \n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n 38 Three Refuse Lorries (Replacements)\n \n 30,000\n \n \n \n \n \n (11)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 39 Two Conservancy Junks\n 8,000 (12)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 40 One Refuse Barge (Replacement)\n \n 7,000\n \n \n \n \n \n Two Typewriters\n 781\n \n \n \n \n \n \n (13)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Two Refuse Lorries (Replacements)\n \n 20,000\n \n \n \n \n \n One Refuse Barge\n \n 7,000\n \n \n \n \n \n (13)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 27,781\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 45,500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Sanitary Department..\n 1,123,136\n 1,148,034\n \n \n (1) Considered necessary.\n \n \n (8) More ammunition required for humane killers.\n \n \n \n \n (2) Considered sufficient.\n \n \n (9) Increased work and higher cost of coal.\n \n \n \n \n (3) Replacing Safe.\n \n \n (10) Not required\n \n \n \n \n (4) Non-recurrent.\n \n \n (11) Replacements.\n \n \n \n \n Firewood supplied by Government.\n \n \n (12) For Shaukiwan conservancy.\n \n \n \n \n (5) Stipulated increments.\n \n \n (13) Non-recurrent,\n \n \n \n \n (6) Change of nomenclature.\n \n \n (14) See Sub-head 38.\n \n \n \n \n (7) Changes in Personnel.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 159", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558905, "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": 243, "title": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "content_text": "Head 27. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nHead 27.-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\n$\n\n914,352\n\n101\n\n914,451\n\nOther Charges.\n\nSanitary Staff.\n\n2 Advertisements\n\n800\n\n800\n\n3 Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc........\n\n2,000\n\n2,800 (1)\n\n4 Bathing Places, Care and Control of\n\n3,000\n\n3,000\n\n5 Coal for Official Quarters\n\n1,300\n\n1,700 (1)\n\n6 Coffins and Biers\n\n500\n\n2,500 (2)\n\n7 Conservancy\n\n25,000\n\n25,000\n\n8 Conveyance Allowances\n\n12,720\n\n12,000 (3)\n\n9 Disinfectants\n\n10,000\n\n10,000\n\n10 Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores\n\n2,500\n\n2,000 (3)\n\n11 Disinfectors, Operating expenses of.\n\n700\n\n1,200 (1)\n\n12 Dust Carts, Upkeep of\n\n100\n\n100\n\n13 Exhumation, Recurrent\n\n6,000\n\n10,000 (4)\n\n14 Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute Certificates.\n\n1,800\n\n2,100 (5)\n\n15 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n\n100\n\n100\n\n16 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n\n700\n\n700\n\n17 Head Stones\n\n2,700\n\n2,700\n\n18 Incidental Expenses\n\n2,500\n\n2,300\n\n19 Latrine Pails\n\n600\n\n500\n\n20 Light and Electric Fans\n\n19,500\n\n23,500\n\n21 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses.....\n\n32,500\n\n30,000\n\n22 Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n\n500\n\n500\n\n23 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c. ....................\n\n2,000\n\n1,500 (3)\n\n24 Rent of Public Telephones\n\n713\n\n713\n\n25 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n\n2,220\n\n2,220\n\n26 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n\n3,000\n\n3,000\n\n27 Scavenging Gear\n\n9,000\n\n9,000\n\n28 Training of Chinese Probationer Sanitary Inspectors\n\n2,000\n\n2,000\n\n29 Transport\n\n1,750\n\n1,600 (3)\n\n30 Uniforms for Staff.\n\n11,000\n\n11,000\n\n31 Workshop Apparatus........\n\n100\n\n100\n\nBurial of Infected Bodies\n\n750\n\n(7)\n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :-\n\n32 Ammunition\n\n1,500\n\n5,000 (8)\n\n33 Incidental Expenses\n\n2,250\n\n2,250\n\n34 Light\n\n1,200\n\n1,200\n\n35 Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses\n\n13,000\n\n13,000\n\n36 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor Fuel\n\n1,000\n\n2,000 (9)\n\n4,000\n\n... (10)\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n181,003\n\n188,083\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n37 Three Steel Filing Cabinets\n\n781\n\n38 Three Refuse Lorries (Replacements)\n\n20,000\n\n7,000\n\n27,781\n\n39 Two Conservancy Junks\n\n40 One Refuse Barge (Replacement)\n\nTwo Typewriters\n\n500\n\nTwo Refuse Lorries (Replacements)\n\n30,000 (11)\n\nOne Refuse Barge\n\n8,000 (12)\n\n7,000 (13)\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\n...\n\n45,500\n\nTotal Sanitary Department...\n\n1,123,136\n\n1,148,034\n\n(1) Increased cost of coal.\n\n(2) Previous provision insufficient; also includes provision previously made under sub-head \"Burial of Infected Bodies\".\n\n(3) Considered sufficient.\n\n(4) Increased Exhumation programme.\n\n(5) More Inspectors in training.\n\n(6) New Central Market.\n\n(7) Included in sub-head 6.\n\n(8) More ammunition required for humane killers.\n\n(9) Increased work and higher cost of coal.\n\n(10) Not required Firewood supplied by Government.\n\n(11) Replacements.\n\n(12) For Shaukiwan conservancy.\n\n(13) Non-recurrent.\n\n(14) See Sub-head 38.\n\n289", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558948, "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": 286, "title": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "content_text": "343\n\nIncrease.\n\n28 Other Charges.\n\nDecrease.\n\n \n Sub-head.\n \n \n \n \n 3\n Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.\n $800\n \n \n 5\n Coal for Official Quarters\n \n \n \n Sub-head.\n \n \n \n \n 8\n Conveyance Allowances\n 720\n \n \n \n \n 400\n \n \n 6\n Coffin and Biers\n \n \n \n 2,000\n \n \n \n \n 10\n Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores..\n 18\n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses\n 500\n \n \n 200\n \n \n \n \n 11\n Disinfectors, operating expenses of.\n 500\n \n \n 19\n Latrine Pails\n 100\n \n \n 13\n Exhumation, Recurrent\n 4,000\n \n \n 14\n Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining\n \n \n \n \n R.S.I. Certificates\n 21\n \n \n \n Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running Expenses ....\n 2,500\n \n \n 300\n \n \n \n \n 23\n Rat Poison, Rat Traps, etc.\n 500\n \n \n 20\n Light and Electric Fans\n 4,000\n \n \n 29\n Transport\n 150\n \n \n \n Burial of Infected Bodies\n 750\n \n \n \n Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses.\n \n \n \n 32\n Ammunition\n 3,500\n \n \n \n Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses.\n \n \n \n 33\n Fuel\n 1,000\n \n \n \n Fuel\n 5,000\n \n \n 36\n Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n 1,000\n \n \n \n Total\n $17,500\n \n \n \n Total\n $10,420\n \n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n \n Sub-head.\n \n \n \n \n 37\n Three Steel Filing Cabinets\n 500\n \n \n 38\n Three Refuse Lorries (Replacements)\n \n \n \n \n Two Typewriters\n 781\n \n \n 30,000\n \n \n \n \n 39\n Two Conservancy Junks\n 8,000\n \n \n \n Two Refuse Lorries (Replacements)\n \n \n \n \n One Refuse Barge\n 20,000\n \n \n 7,000\n \n \n \n \n 40\n One Refuse Barge (Replacement)..\n 7,000\n \n \n \n Total\n 45,500\n \n \n \n Increase.\n \n \n \n \n Total\n Increase.\n \n \n \n Decrease.\n \n \n\n \n \n Personal Emoluments\n Other Charges\n \n \n \n $45,923\n $45,824\n \n \n \n \n Special Expenditure\n \n \n \n 17,500\n 45,500\n \n \n \n 10,420\n 27,781\n \n \n \n Total\n $108,923\n \n \n \n 84,025\n \n \n \n Deduct\n Decrease\n 84,025\n \n \n \n Net Increase\n 24,898\n \n\nEstimates, 1989 Estimates, 1938\n\n$1,148,034 1,123,136\n\nIncrease, 1939\n\n$24,898\n\nHead 28.-Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.\n\n \n \n Personal Emoluments.\n \n \n \n \n Stipulated Increments\n 3,368\n \n \n \n Transferred to Other Heads\n 39,181\n \n \n \n Transferred from Other Heads\n 13,492\n \n \n \n Changes in Personnel\n 37\n \n \n \n Acting Pay\n 1,600\n \n \n \n Total\n 18,497\n \n \n \n Total\n 39,181\n \n\nOther Charges.\n\n \n Sub-head.\n \n \n \n \n 2\n Conveyance Allowances\n 180\n \n \n 5\n Library\n \n \n \n 3\n Electric Fans and Light\n 50\n \n \n 4\n Incidental Expenses\n \n \n \n \n Total\n 230\n \n \n \n Total\n $200\n \n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n 300", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564574, "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": 157, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# Head 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n## Approved Estimate, 1939. Estimate, 1940-41.\n\n| Sub-heads | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| $ | $ | $ |\n| **1. Personal Emoluments** | 914,451 | 1,220,504 |\n| **2. Advertisements** | 800 | 1,000 |\n| **8. Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.** | 2,800 | 3,000 |\n| **4. Bathing Places, Care and Control of** | 3,000 | 3,000 |\n| **5. Burial of Destitute non-Chinese Dead** | 550 | ... |\n| **6. Coal for Offices** | 600 | ... |\n| **7. Coal for Official Quarters** | 1,700 | 1,800 |\n| **8. Coffins and Biers** | ... | ... |\n| **9. Conservancy** | 25,000 | 28,000 |\n| **10. Conveyance Allowances** | 12,000 | 17,000 |\n| **11. Crematorium, Running Expenses** | 5,000 | ... |\n| **12. Disinfectants** | 10,000 | 12,500 |\n| **13. Disinfecting and Cleansing Equipment** | 2,000 | 8,000 |\n| **14. Disinfectors, Operating expenses of** | 1,200 | 2,000 |\n| **15. Dust Carts, Upkeep of** | 100 | 100 |\n| **16. Exhumation, Recurrent** | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| **17. Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute Certificates** | 2,100 | 2,000 |\n| **18. Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges** | 100 | 300 |\n| **19. General Cleansing, Chinese New Year** | 700 | 1,700 |\n| **20. Head Stones** | 2,700 | 11,000 |\n| **21. Incidental Expenses** | 2,300 | 2,750 |\n| **22. Latrine Pails** | 500 | 800 |\n| **23. Light and Electric Fans** | 23,500 | 46,000 |\n| **24. Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses** | 30,000 | 60,000 |\n| **25. Paint, Turpentine, &c.** | 500 | 500 |\n| **26. Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.** | 1,500 | 1,900 |\n| **27. Rent of Public Telephones** | 713 | 750 |\n| **28. Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices** | 2,220 | 3,000 |\n| **29. Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies** | 8,000 | 4,000 |\n| **30. Scavenging Gear** | 9,000 | 20,000 |\n| **31. Training of Chinese Probationer Sanitary Inspectors** | 2,000 | 2,000 |\n| **32. Transport** | 1,600 | 1,600 |\n| **33. Uniforms for Staff** | 11,000 | 17,500 |\n| **34. Workshop Apparatus** | 100 | 120 |\n| **35. Town Planning Board, Expenses** | ... | ... |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 188,083 | 300,970 |\n\n## Personal Emoluments.\n\n### Details of the foregoing.\n\n| Post | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Cadet Officers, Class II | 28,705 | ... |\n| Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff: Class I | 11,200 | 38,205 |\n| Do., Language Allowance | 14,000 | 120 |\n| Junior Clerical Service: Class I | 6,306 | 4,433 |\n| Higher Class | 4,708 | ... |\n| Class II | 6,288 | 7,625 |\n| Class III | 8,765 | 10,715 |\n| Class IV | ... | $4,000 |\n| Class V | 17,800 | 17,800 |\n| Class VIA | 19,783 | 27,000 |\n| Class VIB | 9,450 | 10,500 |\n| Veterinary Surgeon | 22,677 | ... |\n| Assistant Veterinary Surgeon | 15,200 | 19,000 |\n| Chief Inspectors | 22,400 | 24,758 |\n| Senior Sanitary Inspectors | 54,870 | ... |\n| Sanitary Inspectors | 73,408 | 266,668 |\n| Do., Language Allowances | 6,840 | 8,400 |\n| Chinese Sanitary Inspectors | 31,338 | 55,075 |\n| Store-Keeper | 10,800 | ... |\n| Assistant Store-Keeper | 4,375 | ... |\n| Office Attendant | 1,125 | 300 |\n| Messengers | 1,436 | 1,862 |\n| Coolies | ... | ... |\n| Overseers | 4,071 | ... |\n| Foremen, Grade 1 | 3,138 | 3,275 |\n| Foremen, Grade 2 | 4,237 | 6,991 |\n| Foremen, Grade 3 | 9,210 | 8,069 |\n| Foremen, Grade 4 | 10,241 | ... |\n| Foremen, Grade 5 | 697 | 750 |\n| Foremen, Grade 6 | 1,051 | 1,200 |\n| Foremen, Grade 7 | 5,195 | ... |\n| Foreman Cleansers | 672 | 720 |\n| Rent Allowances | 1,635 | 3,342 |\n\n## Veterinary Staff.\n\n| Post | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Store-Keeper | ... | 22,995 |\n| Chinese Sanitary Inspectors, Probationers | ... | 3,458 |\n| Assistant Store-Keeper | ... | 900 |\n| Office Attendant | ... | 375 |\n\n## Animal Depôts and Slaughter-houses.\n\n| Sub-heads | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **36. Ammunition** | ... | ... |\n| **37. Incidental Expenses** | 5,000 | 6,300 |\n| **38. Light** | 1,200 | 1,300 |\n| **39. Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses** | 13,000 | 20,000 |\n| **40. Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor** | 2,000 | 2,000 |\n| **41. Rent for Dog Kennels** | 900 | ... |\n\n## Special Expenditure.\n\n| Sub-heads | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **42. Four Refuse Lorries (2 Replacements and 2 additional)** | ... | 20,000 |\n| **43. Two Motor Meat Vans (Replacements)** | ... | 10,000 |\n| **44. Three Filing Cabinets** | ... | 500 |\n| **45. One Electric Air Compressor** | ... | 250 |\n| **Three Steel Filing Cabinets** | ... | ... |\n| **Three Refuse Lorries (Replacements)** | ... | 30,000 |\n| **Two Conservancy Junks** | ... | 8,000 |\n| **One Refuse Barge (Replacement)** | ... | 7,000 |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | ... | 45,500 + 30,000 + 8,000 + 7,000 |\n\n## Total Sanitary Department.\n\n| | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Total | 1,148,034 | 1,552,224 |\n\nPage 175 \nPage 176 \n\n(1) Considered sufficient. \n(2) Transferred from Police Department. \n(3) Formerly under Harbour Department. \n(4) Considered necessary. \n(5) New crematorium at Kailungwan for cremation of unclaimed bodies. \n(6) More disinfections carried out. \n(7) More work done. \n(8) Includes two Chinese New Years and more staff engaged. \n(9) More stones used in Government cemeteries. \n(10) Higher cost of pails. \n(11) Heavy consumption of electric current Central Market. \n(12) Eight additional Refuse lorries. \n(13) Increased rentals. \n(14) More scavenging coolies and higher cost of gear. \n(15) Increase in uniformed staff and cost of materials. \n(16) Two additional vehicles. \n(17) Occupation of area sold to Hong Kong & China Gas Company: previously rent free. \n(18) Replacements. \n(19) For Kowloon Garage. \n(20) Non-recurrent. \n(1) Stipulated increments. \n(2) Not required. \n(3) Promoted from Class I in place of one Class IV. \n(4) One promoted and one to replace a Class VIB. \n(5) Two promoted from Class VIA and one transferred to Labour Office. \n(6) Two promoted to Class V and one promoted from Class VIB. \n(7) Two new posts. One promoted to Class VIA and one replaced by a Class IV. \n(8) Changes in personnel. \n(9) Two transferred posts. One Office. \n(10) One transferred to Labour Office. \n(11) Nine promoted from Probationers reverted to Junior Clerical Service. \n(12) Nine transferred to line above. Fifteen new posts. \n(13) Re-arrangement of posts. \n(14) Four new posts.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569525, "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": 62, "title": "CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940", "content_text": "# COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1939\n\n## 27. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads\nEstimated\nActual\nIncrease\nDecrease\nExplanatory Remarks\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n$914,451\n$909,088.12\n\n$5,362.88\nLapsing salaries.\n\nOTHER CHARGES\n\n2 Advertisements\n$800\n$746.25\n\n$53.75\nOver estimated.\n\n3 Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.\n$2,800\n$1,781.16\n\n$1,018.84\n\n4 Bathing Places, Care and Control of\n$3,000\n$1,810.05\n\n$1,389.95\nFourth quarter's accounts not presented.\n\n5 Coal for Official Quarters\n$1,700\n$973.99\n\n$726.01\nOver estimated; variable.\n\n6 Coffins and Biers\n$2,500\n$720.10\n\n$1,779.90\nOver estimated.\n\n7 Conservancy\n$25,000\n$20,244.88\n\n$4,755.17\nLapsing allowances.\n\n8 Conveyance Allowances\n$12,000\n$11,670.05\n$29.95\n\n9 Disinfectants\n$10,000\n$9,989.57\n\n$10.43\n\n10 Disinfecting and Cleansing Stores\n$2,000\n$2,546.53\n$546.53\n\nImproved street cleansing.\n\n11 Disinfectors, Operating expenses of\n$1,200\n$1,222.50\n$22.50\n\n12 Dust Carts, Upkeep of\n$100\n$56.21\n\n$43.79\n\n13 Exhumation, Recurrent\n$10,000\n$5,546.79\n\n$4,453.21\nOver estimated: variable.\n\n14 Expenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute Certificates\n$2,100\n$280.00\n\n$1,820.00\nFewer officers sat for examinations.\n\n15 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n$100\n$200.00\n$100.00\n\nUnder estimated.\n\n16 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n$700\n$693.50\n\n$6.50\n\n17 Head Stones\n$2,700\n$7,017.44\n$4,317.44\n\nIncrease in population.\n\n18 Incidental Expenses\n$2,300\n$2,076.78\n\n$223.22\n\n19 Latrine Pails\n$500\n\n20 Light and Electric Fans\n$23,500\n$26,270.57\n$2,770.57\n\nIncreased prices.\n\n21 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses\n$30,000\n$48,502.18\n$18,502.18\n\nAdditional lorries, see item 42.\n\n22 Paint, Turpentine, etc.\n$500\n$471.02\n\n$28.98\nOver estimated.\n\n23 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, etc.\n$1,500\n$1,881.55\n$381.55\n\n24 Rent of Public Telephones\n$713\n$471.67\n\n$241.33\nOver estimated.\n\n25 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n$2,220\n$2,220.00\n\n26 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n$8,000\n$2,778.00\n\n$5,222.00\n\n27 Scavenging Gear\n$9,000\n$15,895.08\n$6,895.08\n\nHigher prices.\n\n28 Training of Chinese Probationer Sanitary Inspectors\n$2,000\n$1,848.00\n\n$152.00\nLess lecture fees.\n\n29 Transport\n$1,600\n$986.37\n\n$613.63\n\n30 Uniforms for Staff\n$11,000\n$18,265.40\n$7,265.40\n\nIncreased staff.\n\n31 Workshop Apparatus\n$100\n$46.68\n\n$53.32\nOver estimated.\n\nVeterinary Staff. Animal Depôt and Slaughter-houses\n\n32 Ammunition\n$5,000\n$4,900.45\n\n$99.55\nFewer lead seals.\n\n33 Incidental Expenses\n$2,250\n$1,212.72\n\n$1,037.28\nOver estimated.\n\n34 Light\n$1,200\n$1,005.57\n\n$194.43\n\n35 Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses\n$13,000\n$14,854.89\n$1,854.89\n\nAdditional vans, see item 41.\n\n36 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n$2,000\n$1,044.40\n\n$955.60\nFourth quarter's accounts not presented.\n\n36A Town Planning Board Expenses\n\n$54.54\n$54.54\n\nNew item.\n\nCarried forward\n$1,102,534\n$1,108,815.28\n$32,021.45\n$25,740.17\n\nBrought forward $34,219,126 $88,846,188.54\n\nCarried forward $34,219,126 $33,846,183.54 $2,890,189.69 $8,268,182.15 $4,414,378.00\n\nPage 62\n\nPage 63\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569889, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "Head 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\nHead 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1,220,504\n\n1,064,403\n\nI Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges.\n\nSanitary Staff\n\n188\n\nHead 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n115\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n41 Six Refuse Lorries\n\nBrought forward\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n1,521,474\n\n1,335,145\n\n2 Advertisements\n\n1,000\n\n800\n\n42 One Motor Meat Van\n\n3 Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc..\n\n3,000\n\n3,500\n\n(1)\n\n43 One General Service (clothing) Van\n\n4 Bathing Places, Care and Control of\n\n3,000\n\n2,000\n\n(2)\n\n44 Twenty One-man Hand Pulled Refuse Trucks\n\n5 Burial of Destitute non-Chinese Dead..\n\n550\n\n500\n\n(8)\n\n45 One Refuse Barge (Flat bottomed)\n\n6 Coal for Offices\n\n600\n\n350\n\n(2)\n\n46 Nineteen Diaphragm Pumps for Nightsoil Junks\n\n7 Coal for Official Quarters\n\n1,800\n\n1,700\n\n47 One Mechanical Gally Emptyer\n\n8 Coffins and Biers\n\n9 Conservancy\n\n10 Conveyance Allowances\n\n2,500\n\n2,000\n\n48 Two Mechanical Street Cleansers\n\n28,000\n\n12,000\n\n(4)\n\n49 Three Filing Cabinets\n\n17,000\n\n3,300 (5)\n\n11 Crematorium, Kunning Expenses\n\n5,000\n\n5,000\n\n(1)\n\n12 Disinfectants\n\n12,500\n\n15,000\n\n(6)\n\nTwo Motor Meat Vans (Replacements)\n\n13 Disinfecting and Cleansing Equipment\n\n3,000\n\n2.800\n\n(7)\n\n14 Disinfectors, Operating expenses of...\n\n2,000\n\n2,900\n\n(1)\n\n15 Dust Carts, Upkeep of\n\n100\n\n200\n\n(8)\n\n16 Exhumation, Recurrent....\n\n10,000\n\n7,600\n\n(2)\n\n17 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n\n300\n\n300\n\n(9)\n\n18 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n\n1,700\n\n950\n\n(10)\n\n19 Head Stones\n\n11,000\n\n14,000\n\n(11)\n\n20 Incidental Expenses\n\n2,750\n\n2,500 (11)\n\n21 Latrine Pails\n\n800\n\n1,000 (12)\n\n50 Six Captive Bolt Pistols ....\n\nFour Refuse Lorries (2 Replacements and 2 additional)\n\nThree Filing Cabinets\n\nOne Electric Air Compressor\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\nTotal Sanitary Department..\n\n30,000\n\n5,000\n\n4,000\n\n5,000\n\n3,000\n\n4,180\n\n15,000\n\n30,000\n\n500\n\n600\n\n20,000 10,000\n\n500\n\n250\n\ne eee\n\n30,750\n\n102.280\n\n1,552,224\n\n1,437,425\n\n22 Light and Electric Fans\n\n46,000\n\n28 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses.....\n\n60,000\n\n24 Paint, Turpentine, &c.\n\n500\n\n25 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n\n1,900\n\n42,200 (13)\n\n70,000\n\n500 (15)\n\n1,600\n\n(14)\n\n26 Rent of Public Telephones\n\n750\n\n1,300 (16)\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n27 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n\n3,000\n\n2,500 (17)\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n28 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n\n4,000\n\n4,200 (18)\n\n29 Scavenging Gear\n\n20,000\n\n19,000\n\n(19)\n\n1\n\n1940-41 1941-42\n\n30 Transport\n\n1,600\n\n1,300\n\n31 Uniforms for Staff...........\n\n17,500\n\n9,500\n\n(5)\n\n1\n\n32 Workshop Apparatus...\n\n120\n\n100\n\n2\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nCadet Officer, Class I, †(£1,500 to £1,800 by £50) Cadet Officer, Class II, (£520 to £1.200 by 1 of £50,\n\n27,609\n\n(3)\n\nExpenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute\n\nCertificates\n\n2,000\n\n(20)\n\nTraining of Chinese Probationer Sanitary Inspectors\n\n2,000\n\n(20)\n\nDo.,\n\n4 of £25, 1 of £30, 1 of £100, 5 of £30, 1 of 100, and 3 of £50). Residental Allowance\n\n38,205\n\n8.789\n\n(3)\n\n759\n\nSenior Clerical and Accounting Staff\" :-\n\nTown Planning Board.\n\n1\n\n1\n\nClass I, f(£600 to £700 by £20 annually)\n\n14,000\n\n11,200\n\nI\n\nProbationer, ($1,200 to $1,560 by $120 annually).......\n\n1.200\n\n(4)\n\n83 Town Planning Board, Expenses\n\n2,000\n\n1,600\n\nJunior Clerical Service:\n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\n1\n\n]\n\nHigher Class, ($4,800 to $5,600 by $200 annually)\n\n6,806\n\n5,256 (5)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nClass I, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n\n4,708\n\n3,983\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slanghter-houses :-\n\n2\n\nClass II. ($2,700 to 83,300 by $150 annually)\n\n7,625\n\n6,112\n\n(5)\n\n366\n\n(5)\n\n34 Ammunition\n\n6,300\n\n5,000\n\n4\n\n6\n\nClass III ($1,900 to $2,600 by 8100 annually)\n\n10,715\n\n18,140\n\n35 Incidental Expenses ....................\n\n2,500\n\n2,000\n\n8\n\n5\n\nClass IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n\n17,800\n\n8,826\n\n86 Light\n\n1,300\n\n1,100\n\n16\n\n10\n\n37 Motor Meat Vans Running Expenses\n\n20,000\n\n21,000\n\n(21)\n\n8\n\n2\n\nClass V. ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually). Class VIA, (8950 to $1,050 by $100\n\n27,008\n\n18.975\n\nally)\n\n10,500\n\n2,100\n\n(6)\n\n38 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\n2,000\n\n2,500\n\n(1)\n\n19\n\n10\n\n39 Rent for Dog Kennels\n\n900\n\n720\n\nClass VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160\n\n3 of $50 and 2 of $100 annually)\n\n22,677\n\n8,459\n\n40 Rent for Incinerator and Bungalow.\n\n1,222\n\n(22)\n\nI\n\n1\n\nVeterinary Surgeon, † (£1,000 to £1,200 by £50\n\n300,970\n\n270,742\n\n1,521,474\n\n| 1,335,145\n\n(11) Considered necessary.\n\n(16) Additional telephones,\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\nCarried forward\n\n(1) Higher cost of coal.\n\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n\n(3) More burials.\n\n(4) Wages for crews of nightsoil junks now provided\n\nunder Personal Emoluments; includes $9,000 for equipment for nightsoil collection.\n\n(5) Transfer of Inspectors to Medical Department.\n\n(6) Higher cost of kerosine\n\n(7) Additional stores.\n\n(8) More carts,\n\n(9) More work done.\n\n(10) Additional staff. (Two Chinese New Years pro-\n\nvided for in 1940-41),\n\n(12) Additional latrines.\"\n\n(13) Additional lighting.\n\n(14) More vehicles and higher cost of petrol.\n\n(15) More repairs done.\n\n(17) One additional office.\n\n(18) Additional quarters.\n\n(19) Higher cost of materials.\n\n(20) Provision made under Medical Department.\n\n(21) One additional van and higher cost of petrol.\n\n(22) Rent paid to Gas Company.\n\n(1) Additional.\n\n(2) Non-recurrent,\n\n(3) One Class I Officer in place of one Class II.\n\n(4) New post. In place of one Class VIB Clerk.\n\n(5) Stipulated increments.\n\n(6) Twenty-one transferred to Medical Department\n\nand one post abolished.\n\n(7) Two transferred to Medical Department.\n\nOne\n\nnew post in place of one Senior Sanitary Inspector. (8) Five transferred to Medical Department. One post\n\nabolished on creation of one new post of Chief Inspector.\n\nannually)\n\n24,000\n\n19,200\n\n1\n\n1\n\nAssistant Veterinary Surgeon, †(£650 to £950 by\n\n£80 annually)\n\n19,000\n\n15,200\n\n1\n\n1\n\nChief Inspector, *(£600 to £700 by £25 annually) ! Senior Sanitary Inspector, *(£475 to £575 by £20\n\nannually)\n\n24,758\n\n9,600 (7)\n\n73,408\n\n9,200 (8)\n\nCarried forward\n\n300,710\n\n164,908", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570025, "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": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "354\n\n114\n\nHead 26-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nHead 26. SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads:-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n1,220,504\n\n1,064,403\n\nHead 26-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n115\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942,\n\n$\n\n1,521,474\n\n$\n\n$\n\n1,335,145\n\n355\n\nSanitary Staff.\n\n2 Advertisements\n\n1,000\n\n800\n\n3 Bath-houses, fuel, light, etc.\n\n3,000\n\n3,500\n\n4 Bathing Places, Care and Control of\n\n3,000\n\n2,000\n\n5 Burial of Destitute non-Chinese Dead..\n\n550\n\n500\n\n41 Six Refuse Lorries\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n42 One Motor Meat Van\n\n43 One General Service (clothing) Van\n\n45 One Refuse Barge (Flat bottomed)\n\n44 Twenty One-man Hand Pulled Refuse Trucks\n\n6 Coal for Offices\n\n600\n\n850\n\n46 Nineteen Diaphragm Pumps for Nightsoil Tanks\n\n30,000 (1)\n\n5,000 (1)\n\n4,000 (1)\n\n5,000\n\n8,000 (1)\n\n4,180\n\n...\n\n7 Coal for Official Quarters\n\n1,800\n\n1,700\n\n47 Que Mechanical Gully Emptyer\n\n8 Coffins and Biers\n\n9 Conservancy\n\n10 Conveyance Allowances\n\n2,500\n\n2,000\n\n48 Two Mechanical Street Cleansers\n\n28,000\n\n12,000\n\n49 Three Filing Cabinets\n\n17,000\n\n8,300\n\n(6)\n\n50 Six Captive Bolt Pistols\n\n15,000\n\n30,000\n\n500\n\n600\n\n11 Crematorium, Running Expenses\n\n5,000\n\n5,000 (1)\n\nFour Refuse Lorries (2 Replacements and 2 additional)\n\n20,000\n\n12 Disinfectants\n\n12,500\n\n15,000\n\n(6)\n\nTwo Motor Meat Vans (Replacements)\n\n10,000\n\n13 Disinfecting and Cleansing Equipment\n\n3,000\n\n2,800\n\n(7)\n\nThree Filing Cabinets\n\n500\n\n14 Disinfectors, Operating expenses of..\n\n2,000\n\n2,900\n\n(1)\n\n15 Dust Carts, Upkeep of ......\n\n100\n\n200\n\n(8)\n\n16 Exhumation, Recurrent..\n\n10,000\n\n7,600\n\n(2)\n\n17 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges\n\n300\n\n300\n\n(9)\n\n18 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year\n\n1,700\n\n950\n\n(10)\n\n19 Head Stones\n\n11,000\n\n14,000 (11)\n\n20 Incidental Expenses\n\n2,750\n\n2,500 (11)\n\n21 Latrine Pails\n\n800\n\n1,000\n\n(12)\n\nOne Electric Air Compressor\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\nTotal Sanitary Department..\n\n250\n\n30,750\n\n102,280\n\n1,552,224\n\n1,437,425\n\n22 Light and Electric Fans\n\n46,000\n\n42,200 (13)\n\n23 Motor Lorries, Vans and Cars, Running expenses.....\n\n60,000\n\n70,000\n\n(14)\n\n24 Paint, Turpentine, &c. Kuchin ex..........\n\n500\n\n500\n\n(15)\n\n25 Rat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n\n1,900\n\n1,600\n\n26 Rent of Public Telephones\n\n760\n\n1,300 (16)\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n27 Rent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary Offices\n\n3,000\n\n2,500 (17)\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n28 Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n\n4,000\n\n4,200 (18)\n\n29 Scavenging Gear\n\n20,000\n\n19,000\n\n(19)\n\n1940-41 1941-42\n\n30 Transport\n\n1,600\n\n1,300\n\n31 Uniforms for Staff.\n\n17,500\n\n9,500\n\n(5)\n\n1.\n\n32 Workshop Apparatus.\n\n120\n\n100\n\n2\n\n1\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nCadet Officer, Class I, †(£1,500 to £1,800 by £50) Cadet Officer, Class II, (£520 to £1,200 by 1 of £50,\n\nExpenses of Inspectors in obtaining Royal Sanitary Institute\n\nCertificates\n\n2,000\n\n(20)\n\nTraining of Chinese Probationer Sanitary Inspectors\n\n2,000\n\n(20)\n\nDo.,\n\n4 of £25, 1 of £30, 1 of £100, 5 of £30, 1 of 100, and 3 of £50). Residental Allowance\n\n38,205\n\n27,609 (3)\n\n8,789 (8)\n\n759\n\nSenior Clerical and Accounting Staff\":-\n\nTown Planning Board.\n\n1\n\n1\n\nClass I, (£600 to £700 by £20 annually) Probationer, ($1,200 to $1,560 by $120 annually)...\n\n14,000\n\n11,200\n\n1,200 (4)\n\n33 Town Planning Board, Expenses\n\n2,000\n\n1,600\n\nJunior Clerical Service:-\n\nVeterinary Staff.\n\nAnimal Depôts and Slaughter-houses :-\n\n34 Ammunition\n\n6,300\n\n5,000\n\n35 Incidental Expenses ............................... 36 Light\n\n2,500\n\n2,000\n\n1,300\n\n1,100\n\n16\n\n37 Motor Meat Vans: Running Expenses\n\n20,000\n\n21,000\n\n(21)\n\n38 Cattle Crematorium and Refuse Destructor\n\n2,000\n\n2,500\n\n(1)\n\n19\n\n1124***\n\nHigher Class, ($4,800 to $5,600 by $200 annually)\n\n6,306\n\n5,256 (5)\n\n('lass I, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n\n4,708\n\n8,983\n\n(5)\n\n2\n\nClass II. ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n\n7,623\n\n6,112\n\n(5)\n\n1666\n\n6\n\nClass III, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n\n10,715\n\n13,140\n\n8\n\n5\n\n10\n\n8\n\n2\n\n10\n\n39 Rent for Dog Kennels\n\n900\n\n720\n\nClass IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) Class V, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually). Class VIA, ($950 to $1,050 by $100 annually) Class VIB, (480) to $1,050 by 1 of $60, i of $160\n\n3 of $50 and 2 of $100 annually)\n\n17,800\n\n8,826\n\n27,008\n\n13,973\n\n(6)\n\n10,500\n\n2,100\n\n22,677\n\n8,459\n\n40 Rent for Incinerator and Bungalow.\n\n1,222\n\n(22)\n\n1\n\nVeterinary Surgeon, † (£1,000 to £1,200 by £50\n\n300,970\n\n1,521,474\n\n(11) Considered necessary.\n\n(12) Additional latrines.\n\n(13) Additional lighting.\n\n(14) More vehicles and higher cost of petrol.\n\n270,742\n\n1,335,145\n\n(15) More repairs done.\n\n(16) Additional telephones.\n\n(17) One additional office.\n\n(18) Additional quarters.\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\nCarried forward\n\n(1) Higher cost of coal,\n\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n\n(3) More burials.\n\n(4) Wages for crews of nightsoil junks now provided\n\nunder Personal Emoluments; includes $9,000 for equipment for nightsoil collection.\n\n(5) Transfer of Inspectors to Medical Department.\n\n(6) Higher cost of kerosine\n\n(7) Additional stores.\n\n(8) More carts.\n\n(9) More work done.\n\n(10) Additional staff. (Two Chinese New Years pro-\n\nvided for in 1940-41).\n\n(19) Higher cost of materials.\n\n(20) Provision made under Medical Department.\n\n(21) One additional van and higher cost of petrol.\n\n(22) Rent paid to Gas Company,\n\n(1) Additional.\n\n(2) Non-recurrent.\n\n(3) One Class I Officer in place of one Class II.\n\n(4) New post. In place of one Class VIB Clerk,\n\n(5) Stipulated increments.\n\n(6) Twenty-one transferred to Medical Department\n\nand one post abolished.\n\nOne\n\n(7) Two transferred to Medical Department.\n\nnew post in place of one Senior Sanitary Inspector. (8) Five transferred to Medical Department. One post abolished on creation of one new post of Chief Inspector.\n\nannually)\n\n24,000\n\n19,200\n\n1\n\n1\n\nAssistant Veterinary Surgeon, †(£650 to £950 by\n\n£80 annually)\n\n19,000\n\n15,200\n\n2\n\nChief Inspector, *(£600 to £700 by £25 annually)\n\n24,758\n\n9,600 (7)\n\n1\n\nSenior Sanitary Inspector, *(£475 to £575 by £20\n\nannually)\n\n73,408\n\n9,200 (8)\n\nCarried forward\n\n300,710\n\n164,908", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594520, "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": 21, "title": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "# \n- 4 \n\nJed \n\nIt is likely that the needs of the farming community would exhaust the amount of fertilizer that could be produced by the Indore process. \n\nReclamation can be effected at an economical rate by controlled dumping and covering with spoil, and incineration would be, no doubt, the more economical method of disposing of the balance left from dumping and composting. A destructor for Kowloon refuse was planned to be erected at Tai Kok Tsui on a site adjoining that selected for a mortuary, crematorium, and disinfecting station.\n\n## (5) Training School \n\nWe consider that it is highly desirable that the Colony should possess a training school for health inspectors, health visitors, district midwives, vaccinators, maternal and child welfare nurses, and similar ancillary groups. \n\nWe are aware that such a school was planned in close proximity to the University in 1940, since its value in assisting and giving medical students a much-needed bias towards preventive medicine was fully appreciated. Moreover, such a health training centre would form a valuable adjuvant to the post-graduate course for the diploma in hygiene and tropical medicine which had started immediately prior to the outbreak of war. It seems unlikely that St. John's Hostel will now be available for this purpose, but it is probable that the former King's College, which has been abandoned by the Education Department, could be converted into such a centre at a not undue cost. \n\nWith relatively little cost, provision could be made in the centre for a training school for dental students, dentistry being one of the professions that is made up of a handful of qualified dental surgeons and a large number of unqualified (and not always highly skilled) practitioners of dentistry.\n\n## (6) Slaughter House \n\nThe two public slaughterhouses at Kennedy Town and Ma Tau Kok are out-of-date and badly sited in the light of housing developments during the past thirty years. Two tentative alternative sites were considered before the Pacific War, and the Health Authorities favoured that at Gin Drinkers' Bay. \n\nThis location has the advantage of being near to but completely segregated from the township, so that flies, smells, etc., are of much less danger and nuisance. At the same time, manure, blood, and other valuable fertilizing material would be much more readily accessible to farmers in the Leased Territories.\n\n## (7) Hawkers Standings \n\nWe are aware that a special committee has been considering the best means of dealing with the serious problem of hawkers in Hong Kong since the liberation. \n\nApart from being a menace to health, the congestion resulting from the partial, and sometimes complete, blocking of pathways and roads is responsible for loss of life and injury from traffic accidents. \n\nWe are of the opinion that much of this danger and nuisance could be avoided if hawkers were required to take up their stand on open spaces paved with cement, with drains, water hydrant for cleansing, fly-proof and rat-proof dust bins, etc. Certain of the areas, particularly in the more congested districts, where houses have been demolished by bomb or by looting, might, we urge, be cleared of rubble to serve as hawkers' stands.\n\n21", "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 } ]