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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH JULY, 1899.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 382.
The following Minutes are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th July, 1899.
No. 23.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Thursday, the 22nd day of June, 1899.
PRESENT:
The Principal Civil Medical Officer, (Dr. Jous MITFORD ATKINSON), President.
The Director of Public Works, (the Honourable ROBERT DALY ORMSBY).
The Medical Officer of Health, (Dr. FRANCIS WILLIAM CLark).
The Acting Registrar General, (Arthur WIMBOLT BREWIN, Esquire).
EDWARD OSBORNE, Esquire.
Dr. JORDAN, Health Officer of the Port, was in attendance.
Minutes. The minutes of a regular and of a confidential meeting held on the 8th June and of a confidential meet- ing held on the 15th Junc, and of a special meeting held on the 17th June, were confirmed.
Additional Public Latrines.-A minute from His Excellency the Governor authorizing the erection of four additional Government latrines was read.
The President moved-
That a Sub-Committee consisting of the Honourable Director of Public Works and the Medical Officer of
Health be appointed to select sites and report to the Board as early as possible.
Mr. EDWARD Osborne seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Four Cell Refuse Destructor.-A minute from His Excellency the Governor approving a vote of $60,000 for insertion in the Estimates for 1900 for the purchase in England and erection in this Colony of a four cell Horsfalli Refuse Destructor was read, and laid on the table.
Amended Standing Orders for Inspectors, Shroffs, Tallymen and Coolies at the Animal Depôts.-These Standing Orders were further considered, and
The President moved,
That the Medical Officer of Health us acting for the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon be deputed to draft instruc- tions for the Shroff and Tallyman and the Watchman at the Hung Hom Depôt and Slaughter-House, and to bring them up at an early date.
The Acting Registrar General seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Inspection Lairs for Cattle.—The reply from the Government to the Board's request for the early erection of
tion Lairs for Cattle was laid on the table.
Plague.-A further report of cases of and deaths from Bubonic Plagne in Bombay City from the 9th to
on the table.
from Tainan, Formosa, and the population of the areas to which those returns refer, were laid
oy concerning Plague at that Port were laid on the table.
he weeks ended 23rd May and 4th June, 1899, were laid ended 10th and 17th June, 1899, were laid on the
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