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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1897. 779

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. No. 386.

The following Minutes are published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th September, 1897.

No. 17.

Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Friday, the 3rd day of September, 1897.

PRESENT:

The Principal Civil Medical Officer, (Dr. Jonn Mitford Atkinson), President.

The Captain Superintendent of Police, (The Honourable FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.), Vice-President. The Acting Director of Public Works, (The Honourable WILLIAM CHATHAM).

The Medical Officer of Health, (Dr. FRANCIS WILLIAM CLARK).

ABSENT:

The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART). NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.

Minutes. The minutes of a meeting held on the 19th day of August, 1897, were read and confirmed.

Motion.

The Medical Officer of Health addressed the Board and moved-

That the Sanitary Board desires to invite the attention of the Government to the circumstance that a bye-law relating to the obstruction of private streets was made by the Board on the 17th day of December, 1896, but failed to receive the approval of the Legislative Council. This bye-law was subsequently referred, by the Government, to the Insanitary Properties Commission and certain amendments, suggested by that Com- mission, were adopted by the Board, and a new bye-law was made on June 17, 1897, but has not yet received the approval of the Legislative Council. The Board is of the opinion that the matter is one of vital importance to the sanitary condition of the Colony, and especially the City of Victoria, and urges upon the Government the desirability of the bye-law being approved by the Legislative Council at as early a date as possible.

The President seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bubonic Plague.—A return showing the progress of Bubonic Plague in Bombay, from the 17th July to the 2nd August, 1897, was laid on the table.

table.

Bubonic Plague.-A correspondence having reference to the cessation of Bubonic Plague at Amoy was laid on the

Mortality Returns.--The returns for the weeks ended the 21st and 28th August, 1897, respectively, were laid on the table.

Licences. One application for a licence to keep cattle and six applications for licences to keep swine were con-

sidered.

It was agreed that the licences asked for be granted.

The President addressed the Board and moved--

That strangers be requested to withdraw.

The Honourable Acting Director of Public Works seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill. A correspondence having reference to the draft of a Bill entitled an Ordinance to amend The closed houses and insanitary dwellings Ordinance, 1894, was read.

The Bill was read section by section.

The Medical Officer of Health moved-

That in the last clause of section 2 of the Bill, the words “the frout and back of a building” be struck out and

the words "a building having two or more principal fronts” be inserted in their stead.

The President seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned till Thursday, the 16th day of September, 1897.

Read and confirmed this 16th day of September, 1897.

HUGH MCCALLUM, Secretary.

J. M. ATKINSON, President.