THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH MAY, 1887.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 197.
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The following extracts from the Minutes of the Sanitary Board are published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th May, 1887.
Extracts from the Minutes of the proceedings of the Sanitary Board at a meeting held in the Board Room on Thursday, the 28th April, 1887.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Surveyor General, (Chairman).
Major T. C. DEMPSTER.
The Honourable A. P. McEwEN.
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Dr. P. MANSON, LL.D.
HUGH MCCALLUM. Esquire, (Secretary).
ABSENT:
The Acting Registrar General.
The Colonial Surgeon.
N. J. EDE, Esquire, (on leave).
Dr. Ho KAI.
The Minutes of meetings held on the 6th, 13th and 14th April, 1887, were read and confirmed.
A Return of the summonses applied for by the Inspectors of Nuisances during the weeks ending the 19th and 26th March, and the 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd April, 1887, was laid on the table by the Secretary. The Return showed that 98 prosecutions had been instituted, that in each case a conviction had been obtained, and that fines to the amount of $184.80 had been inflicted.
A Report by the Government Analyst on an additional 133 samples of water drawn from different wells in the city was read.
A letter from Messrs. DORABJEE & HINGKEE, Proprietors of the Victoria Hotel, requesting that a polluted well on their premises should not be closed was laid on the table. Resolved; that Messrs. DORABJEE & HINGKEE be requested to cover the well and fit it with a pump in such a manner as will effectually prevent the water from the well being used for any other purpose than that of flushing the closets and drains.
A draft of the Bye-laws proposed to be made under the new Public Health Ordinance prohibiting the occupation of cellars as dwellings was read, and, subject to certain amendments, agreed to.
A letter (No. 558) from the Honourable the Colonial Secretary, informing the Board that the question of erecting Sheep and Swine Markets will be considered when the time arrives for the preparation of the next Annual Estimates, was read.
The Board then adjourned till 5 P.M. on Tuesday, the 10th May, 1887.
J. M. PRICE,
Read and confirmed, this 10th day of May, 1887.
HUGH MCCALLUM, Secretary.
Chairman.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 198.
The following Returns of Deaths for the week ended the 7th May are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th May, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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