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Head 26-SANITARY DEPARTMENT

Head 26.--SANITARY DEPARTMENT

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1 Personal Emoluments

Other Charges

Sanitary Staff.

Approved Estimate, 1928.

Estimate, 1929.

487,075

501,541

2 Advertisements

1,300

1,300

3 Ambulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, and Dead Boxes

1,000

750

(1)

4 Bath-houses, fuel, light etc..

2,000

2,800

(3)

5 Bonuses to Dispensary Licentiates and Clerks for Vaccination of

children and registration of births..............

1,200

1,600

(2)

6 Burial of Infected Bodies

500

500

7 Coal for Official Quarters

1,600

1,400

(1)

200

(4)

8 Compensation for Damages by Disinfection and Cleansing

9 Conveyance and Motor Allowances to:

Head of Sanitary Department, at $180

1 Assistant Head of Sanitary Department, at $120

I Secretary at $90....

1 Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, at $660

1 Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon at $360.

1 Chief Inspector, at $180......................

6 Senior Inspectors, 3 at $240 each, 1 at $300, 1 at $360

and 1 at $480

1 Storekeeper at $90

29 Sanitary Inspectors, 10 at $360 each, 2 at $300 each, 1 at

$180, 9 at $120 each, 2 at $90 each, and 5 at $60 } each

1 Overseer, Markets, at $120

1 Shroff at Animal Depôt and Slaughter House, Ma Tau

Kok, at $60

1 Shroff at Animal Depôt and Slaughter House, Kennedy

Town, at $60

1 Interpreter to Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, at $120

2 Foremen at Peak District, at $60 each

1 Inspector at Aberdeen, at $480

10,440

10,530

(2)

1 Foreman at Aberdeen, at $90

10 Disinfectants

14,000

14,000

11 Disinfecting and Cleansing Apparatus

4,000

4,000

12 Disinfectors,

1,000

750 (1)

13 Dust and Water Carts,

1,000

1,000

14 Exhumation, Recurrent

14,000

27,500

(2)(5)

15 Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges

600

350 (1)

16 General Cleansing, Chinese New Year

550

600

(2)

17 Head Stones,

3,000

3,000

18 Incidental Expenses,

2,500

2,850

19 Incidental Expenses, Markets,..

400

(1) (6)

Carried forward

546,365

574,471

(1) Considered sufficient.

(2) Previous provision insufficient. (3) Two new bath houses.

(4) Not required.

(5) Extra to commence exhumations at Ho Mun Tin Cemetery. (6) Included in S/H. 18. Incidental Expenses.