THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH APRIL, 1898.
Fat-boiling. Two applications that premises be registered as Fat-boiling establishments were considered. The President moved-
That the premises be registered as requested.
Mr. N. J. EDE seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
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Mortality Returns.-The returns for the weeks ending the 12th and the 19th March, 1898, respectively, were laid on the table,
Cattle and Swine Licences.-Forty-nine applications for licences and renewal of licences to keep swine and two applications for licences to keep eattle wore considered.
The President moved-
That the licences asked for be granted.
Mr. N. J. EvE seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Draft Bye-laws.---The President addressed the Board on the subject of the regulation of the sale of poisons and laid on the table some draft bye-laws to be made under sub-section 22 of section 13 of Ordinance 24 of 1887.
The Captain Superintendent of Police addressed the Board.
It was agreed that the draft bye-laws should be printed and circulated to Members, and that a copy should be forwarded to the Government with a request that the Law Officers of the Crown should be requested to advise the Board upon the subject.
The President then moved-
That strangers be requested to withdraw.
Mr. N. J. EDE seconded.
Question-pat and agreed to.
A confidential meeting of the Board was then held.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned till Thursday, the 7th April, 1898.
Read and confirmed this 7th day of April, 1898.
FRANCIS W. Clark,
Acting Secretary,
F. H. MAY,
Acting President.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a special meeting held on Thursday, the 31st day of March, 1898.
PRESENT:
The Principal Civil Medical Officer, (Dr. JouN MITFORD ATKINSON), President.
The Captain Superintendent of Police, (The Honourable FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.), Vice-President.
The Director of Public Works, (The Honourable ROBERT DALY ORMSBY).
The Acting Registrar General, (ARTHUR WIMBOLT BREWIN, Esquire).
The Medical Officer of Health, (Dr. FRANCIS WILLIAM CLARK). NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
Report. A report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer concerning the existence of Smail-pox and Bubonic Plague in Macao, which had been forwarded by the Government, for the consideration of the Board, was considered.
The President addressed the Board.
The Captain Superintendent of Police addressed the Board.
Mr. N. J. Ede addressed the Board.
The President moved-
That the Sanitary Board alrises the Government to proclaim the port of Macao to be a port or place at which Bubonic Plague prevails, in accordance with Article 1 of the Quarantine Regulations, and to institute at once a medical inspection of all Chinese arriving therefrom whether by steamers or by native vessels.
The Captain Superintendent of Police seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned.
Read and confirmed this 7th day of April, 1898.
FRANCIS W. CLARK, Acting Secretary.
F. H. MAY, Acting President.
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