THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1897.
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The Captain Superintendent of Police moved---
That the Bourd recommends that owing to the prevalence of Bubonic Plague in Tung Kun it be declared to be
an infected port.
The President seconded,
The Board divided:
Motion lost.
Ages.
The Captain Superintendent of Police.
The President and Vice-President did not vote.
The Medical Officer of Health moved-
Nões.
Mr. N. J. Edɛ.
The Medical Officer of Health.
That the Board recommends that owing to the prevalence of small-pox in Kobe and Hiogo in Japan they be
proclaimed to be infected ports.
The Captain Superintendent of Police seconded.
The Board divided:
Motion carried.
Mr. N. J. EDE.
Ages.
The Medical Officer of Health.
The Captain Superintendent of Police. The President.
Nocs.
Vice-President.
Contractor.-Au application from Mr. Li A PING to be placed on the list of Contractors who are capable of carrying out drainage works was considered.
The President moved--
That Air. Li A Ping's name be added to the list.
The Medical Officer of Health seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Mortality Returns.-The returns for the wooks endel the 30th January and 6th February, respectively, were laid on the table.
Licences. One hundred and ninety-four applications for licences and renewal of licences to keep cattle and swine were considered,
It was agreed that the licences be granted and renewed.
Strangers were requested to withdraw.
A confidential meeting was then held.
Adjournment.--The Board then adjourned till Thursday, the 25th day of February, 1897.
Read and confirmed this 25th day of February, 1897.
FRANCIS A. COOPER
President.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. – No. 73.
The following is published.
By Command,
J. II. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th February, 1897.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Sanitary Board desires to invite the attention of the Public to the provisions of bye-law 20 of the bye-laws made under section 13 of Ordinance 15 of 1894, viz.---
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The Sanitary Board by its Officers may provide for the removal to the Hygeia or other appointed place of all persons suffering from such diseases (¿. e. (1) Bubonic Plague (2) Cholera and (3) Small- pox) and no removals shall take place except under the orders of the said Board or one of its authorised officers, or of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner and then only in such manner and with such precautions as the said Board shall from time to time direct. No such removal shall take place provided that a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner certifies that such persons are being properly treated without danger to the Public Health.
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The Board further desires to inform the Public that arrangements exist for the removal to Hospital of persons suffering from the diseases referred to above and that such removal will promptly be made on the receipt of an application by the Secretary to the Board. These arrangements have been made with a view to protecting the Public from the danger that the unnecessary exposure of persons suffering from these dangerous diseases may give rise to.-
The penalty for contravening the bye-law quoted above is a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars in any one case. —
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Sanitary Board Room, Hongkong 18th February, 1897.
Secretary.
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