THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JUNE, 1894.
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No. 14.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a special meeting held on Thursday, the 31st day of May, 1894 :-
PRESENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART), President.
The Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Esquire), Vice-President.
The Acting Director of Public Works, (Hucн POLLOCK TOOKER, Esquire).
JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.
The Honourable Dr. Ho KAL.
JOHN DAVID HUMPHREYS, Esquire.
LAU WAI CHUN, Esquire.
ABSENT:
The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES, C.M.G.).
Dr. JAMES CANTLIE,
NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
Outbreak of Plague.-Additional bye-laws made under Sectiou 32 of Ordinanco 24 of 1887 which had been drafted by the Permanent Committee were laid on the table.
Mr. HUMPHREYS addressed the Board and proposed as an amendment that in place of bye-laws Nos. 1 and 2 of the proposed Additional bye-laws, a bye-law worded as follows be substituted,--
The Board by itself or by its Permanent Committee, if satisfied that any building in the Colony is in such a dirty or insanitary condition as to constitute a danger to health, may by its officers and their assistants, or by means of contractors specially employed for that purpose enter such building, remove the inhabitants therefrom, and proceed to thoroughly cleanse and disinfect the same.
Dr. Ho KAI seconded.
The Board divided-
Ayes.
Mr. HUMPHREYS.
Dr. Ho KAL,
Noes.
Mr. FRANCIS.
The Captain Superintendent of Police.
The Director of Public Works.
Mr. LAU WAI CHUN.
The President did not votë.
Amendment lost.
The Board then divided on the question that Bye-law Nos. 1 and 2 be approved-
Ayes.
Mr. FRANCIS.
Mr. LAU WAI CHUN.
The Captain Superintendent of Police.
Noes.
Mr. HUMPHREYS.
Dr. Ho KAI.
The Director of Public Works.
The President did not vote.
Motion carried.
Certain further amendments were proposed and agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. FRANCIS, seconded by the Captain Superintendent of Police, it was agreed,-
That the additional bye-laws as amended be forwarded to the Honourable Colonial Secretary with a request
that they might be laid before the Executive Council for confirmation.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned.
Read and confirmed this 7th day of June, 1894.
EDWARD A. RAM,
Acting Secretary.
J. H. STEWART LOCKUART,
President.
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