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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND APRIL, 1892.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 154.
The following Minutes are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd April, 1892.
G. T. M. O'Brien, Colonial Secretary.
No. 6.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Friday, the 18th day of March,
1892
PRESENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE Stewart LockhART), President.
The Surveyor General, (The Honourable FRANCIS Alfred Cooper), Vice-President.
The Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, (GEORGE HORSPOOL, Esquire).
JOHN DAVID HUMPHREYS, Esquire.
NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
The Honourable Dr. Ho Kai.
ABSENT:
The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP Bernard Chenery Ayres).
Dr. JAMES CANTLIE.
JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.
Woo LIN YUEN, Esquire.
Minutes.-The minutes of a meeting held on the 4th March, 1892, were read and confirmed.
Public Laundries.-A letter from the Honourable Colonial Secretary concerning the control of the public laundries was read.
Leave of Absence.-A letter from the Honourable Colonial Secretary, dated the 5th March, 1892—which had been circulated to Members-concerning Inspector GERMAIN'S application for four months' vacation leave was laid on the table and a minute on the circulating cover read.
A discussion ensued.
It was agreed that a reply be sent to the Honourable Colonial Secretary that it is possible with the present staff of Inspectors to make such arrangements for carrying on the work as will admit of the leave asked for by Inspector GERMAIN being granted.
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Damage to Contractor's Boats.-A statement-which had been circulated to Members together with the pre- vious papers-showing the damage done to the Sanitary Contractors' boats from January 1883 to December 1891, was laid on the table, and the minutes on the circulating cover read.
It was agreed that the Contractors' petitions be forwarded to the Honourable Colonial Secretary for submission to the Governor as requested by Petitioners, and that His Excellency be informed the Board cannot recommend that the prayer of the petitions be granted.
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Mortality Return.-The returns for the weeks ended the 5th and 12th March, 1892, respectively-which had been circulated to Members were laid on the table, and the minutes on the circulating cover of one of them were read.
The Secretary stated that he had made enquiries regarding the death recorded as caused by Diphtheria, and that he had failed to ascertain where or how the disease had been contracted.
Licensing of Cow-sheds, etc.-74 Applications for licences and renewal of licences to keep cattle and swine were laid on the table. It was agreed that the licences be granted.
Board Room. It was agreed that the next meeting of the Board be held in the Board's Offices at Beaconsfield Arcade.
Bakeries.---The President informed the Board that, in consequence of some correspondence which had appeared in the Daily Press Newspaper, he had visited the various bakeries in Victoria, and that a report on the sanitary condition of these bakeries was being drawn up by the Superintendent, and would be circulated to Members and considered at next meeting.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned till Friday, the 1st day of April, 1892.
Read and confirmed this 1st day of April, 1892.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.
J. H. STEWArt Lockhart, President.
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