THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH JUNE, 1899.
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No. 22.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a special meeting held on Saturday, the 17th day of June, 1899.
PRESENT:
The Principal Civil Medical Officer, (Dr. JonIN MITFORD ATKINSON), President.
The Captain Superintendent of Police, (The Honourable FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.), Vice-President.
The Director of Public Works, (The flonourable ROBERT DALY ORMSBY).
The Medical Officer of Health, (Dr. FRANCIS WILLIAM CLARK).
The Acting Registrar General, (ARTHUR WIMBOLT BREWIN, Esquire).
EDWARD OSBORNE, Esquire.
Bubonic Plague.-The Medical Officer of Health addressed the Board on the subject of the increased prevalence of Bubonic Plague in certain districts of the City, and moved—
That Health Districts Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 be declared to be areas infected with Bubonic Plague.
The Vice-President seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
The boundaries of these areas are as follows :—
East-Pedder's Street, Wyndham Street and Glenealy Path. North-Harbour. West-Cadogan Street, Kennedy
Town. South-Caine Road, and the Pokfulam Conduit.
Students engaged on House to House Visitation.--A minute by the Medical Officer of Health report- ing the finding of the Police Magistrate in a private prosecution for assault brought by one of the Students engaged on house to house visitation work, and recommending their formal appointment as Officers of the Board, was read.
The President addressed the Board and moved-
That the Sanitary Board recommends His Excellency the Governor to appoint Dr. Thomson and the following six Students of the College of Medicine for Chinese, viz., Lee Yin Sze, Fung Chi Ming, Chan Fai Kwong, Tse Han Ki, Lan Lai, and Kwong Ngai Leung, to be Officers of the Sanitary Board to enable them to carry out so much of the duties defined in Bye-law No. 25 made under Section 13 of Ordinance No. 15 of 1894, as the Medical Officer of Health may deem necessary in the interests of the public health.
The Vice-President seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned.
Confirmed at a meeting held this 22nd day of June, 1899.
C. W. DUGGAN,
Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 356.
J. M. ATKINSON, President.
The following Notice is published.
By Command,
J. G. T. BUCKLE, for the Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th June, 1899.
NOTICE.
A Special Sessions of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held in the Justices' Room, at the Magistracy, on Tuesday, the 4th day of July, A.D. 1899, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of considering an application from one CATHERINE ALICE BREMNER for an adjunct licence for the retail sale of intoxicating liquors as an adjunct to her business as hotel-keeper on the premises situate at house No. 8, Ice House Street, under the sign of "The Waverley Hotel."
Magistracy, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1899.
T.- SERCOMBE SMITII, Police Magistrate.
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