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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 111.-The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 13th May, 1915:-

Short title.

Amendment of Ordinance

No. 16 of 1914, s. 2.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Dentistry Ordi-

nance, 1914.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dentistry Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and con- strued as one with the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914, herein- after called the Principal Ordinance, and the Principal Ordinance and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Dentistry Ordinances, 1914 and 1915.

2. Section of the Principal Ordinance is amended by the omission of the words "the administration of any general or local anesthetic" in the definition of the term "Dental operation ".

Objects and Reasons,

Though it is probable that the words which this Bill proposes to repeal were inserted in the Principal Ordi- nance with the object of restricting the administration of anaesthetics by unqualified persons, yet the fear has been expressed that they might be interpreted by some regis- tered dental surgeons or exempted persons as a definite invitation to administer general anesthetics, and that they might afford an undesirable defence in case of an untoward result following the administration of a general anesthetic by a dentist with no training in this important branch of medical science. The effect of the proposed amendment will be to assimilate the law of the Colony to the law at present in force in the United Kingdom on this point.

J. H. KEMP,

NOTICES.

Attorney General.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 112. The following letter received from the Consul-General for the Nether- lands-India is published for general information.

HONGKONG, 11th May, 1915.

SIR,-1 have the honour to inform you that, according to a telegram received yester- day from Batavia, the Netherlands-Indian Government has declared Hongkong an infected port on account of plague.

The importation of the following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited :---

(1.) Wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal.