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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH OCTOBER, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 424.
The following Minutes are published for general information..
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th October, 1889.
A. LISTER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 23.
Minutes of the Proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a Meeting held on Wednesday, the 25th day of September, 1889:--
PRESENT:
The Surveyor General, (The Honourable SAMUEL BROWN), President.
The Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, (Major-General ALEXANDER HERMAN ADAM GORDON), Vice-President. The Acting Registrar General, (The Honourable NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).
The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES).
The Honourable WONG SHING.
JOHN DAVID HUMPHREYS, Esquire. NATHANIEL Joseph Ede, Esquire.
JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.
Dr. JAMES CANTLIE.
Dr. Ho KAI.
The Board met pursuant to adjournment.
ABSENT:
The Minutes of a meeting held on the 11th September, 1889, were read and confirmed.
Mortality Returns.-The Returns for the weeks ended the 14th and 21st September, 1889, respectively, were laid on the table by the Secretary.
Final disposal of City. Refuse. The papers on this subject were laid on the table and the question discussed. The following Memorandum by the President was read by the Secretary,—
Reasons against Incinerator or Destructor:--
1.-No suitable site on Green Island, nor elsewhere, within reasonable distance. If a site were found on any remote part of the Island of Hongkong the cost of carrying the refuse there would be as great as of depositing it at sea by Hopper Barges.
Reasons against Mongkok scheme :-
1.That unless properly protected from the action of the sea the deposits would be removed by the waves, and strewn on the shores of the Bay. This would have bad results from a sanitary point of view, as there is a considerable population on both sides of the bay, and houses within a short distance of the proposed place of deposit. 2.-That to efficiently protect the deposits from the action of the sea would involve an outlay greatly in excess of
the estimated cost.
3.—The main objection I have, as Surveyor-General, to the scheme is that, having regard to the future extension of Kowloon, it appears to me highly probable that the proposed site of deposit may be reclaimed and become profitable building land. need hardly say that there are the strongest objections from a sanitary point of view to the erection of dwelling houses over deposits of town rubbish.
The Acting Captain Superintendent of Police moved,-
That the report of the Committee be adopted by the Board and that the Secretary report to the Government
accordingly.
The Colonial Surgeon seconded.
The Acting Registrar General moved as an amendment.
That the Mongkok scheme be given a trial either at Mongkok or elsewhere before the proposal of the Committee
is adopted.
Amendment not seconded.
The Board divided on the original motion,-
Motion carried.
Mr. EDE.
Ayes.
Mr. HUMPHREYS.
The Honourable WONG SHING.
THE COLONIAL SURGEON.
THE VICE-PRESIDENT.
THE PRESIDENT.
Noes.
THE ACTING REGISTRAR GENERAL.
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