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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH MARCH, 1888.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 108.
The following Minutes of the Sanitary Board are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1888.
ARATHOON SETH, for the Colonial Secretary.
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Sanitary Board at a meeting held in the Board Room on Tuesday, January 24th, 1888.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Surveyor General, (Chairman).
The Colonial Surgeon.
The Registrar General.
The Honourable A. P. MCEWEN.
Major T. C. Dempster.
Dr. PATRICK MANSON, LL.D.
Dr. JAMES Cantlie.
Mr. WM. EDWARD CROW, (Secretary).
Dr. Ho KAI.
ABSENT:
The Minutes of the meeting held on the 10th of January, 1888, were read and confirmed. 1. The Secretary laid on the table the draft of the Sanitary conditions of licence for the keeping of Milch Cows and Goats, and after approving of certain alterations in some of the clauses, the Board resolved that the amended conditions be endorsed on the licences to be issued during the present year.
2. Read a report from the Acting Sanitary Inspector on the Small-pox epidemic, and on the steps that had been taken by the Board and its Officers to meet the outbreak. Resolved:-That the Secre- tary be directed to forward the report to the Colonial Secretary with a view to requesting His Excellency the Governor's approval to its publication for general information.
3. Dr. MANSON suggested that a notification be issued urging on the Public the necessity of steeping all bed-clothes and wearing apparel, used by Small-pox patients, in boiling water before sending such articles to the wash. Resolved:-That the Secretary be directed to draft a notice and request sanction for its issue as a Government notification.
4. Dr. CANTLIE suggested the advisability of issuing a code of instructions for the information and guidance of those having the care of persons suffering from Small-pox in private tenements. Resolved:-That the Secretary be requested to issue in the form of household instructions the various suggestions which Dr. CANTLIE had promised to hand over to him.
5. A conversation ensued on the advisability of erecting as an experiment for the convenience of the public during the Small-pox epidemic the Hospital steam disinfector which is not required by the Medical Department, and it was resolved that the disinfector be rendered available for public use.
After a discussion the Board adjourned.
Read and confirmed, this 13th day of March, 1888.
WM. EDWARD Crow, Honorary Secretary.
J. M. PRICE, Chairman.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 109.
The following letter, with enclosure, from the Inspector of Schools, reporting the result of the examination of the Grant-in-Aid Schools, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1888.
No. 11.
ARATHIOON SETH,
for the Colonial Secretary,
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 31st January, 1888.
SIR,--I have the honour to forward under this enclosure the usual tabulated summary of the amounts earned, during the year 1887, by the various Grant-in-Aid Schools of the Colony under the regulations of the Grant-in-Aid Code (1883), and I beg to recommend that a warrant be issued for the payment of the grants payable, as hereunder recommended, and amounting in the aggregate, after a reduction of one per cent., to $16,674.72.
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