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Recommendations.
DELAY IN PASSING DRAINS.
Paragraph 136.
Post of Sanitary Surveyor to be abolished. Work to be placed under an Executive Engineer. See New Scheme.
Proposals.
It is proposed to put the work under the Public Works Department.
DISINFECTING AND GENERAL CLEANSING.
Paragraphs 156-157.
More supervision required.
Paragraph 161.
Bye-laws for prevention and mitigation of infectious diseases to be revised and remodelled.
Paragraph 162.
Permission should be given in certain cases for plague patients to be treated in their own houses.
Paragraph 162.
Permission for moribund cases to be so treated should be always given.
Paragraph 168.
Disinfection of premises to be left to the inmates under supervision of the Sanitary Board and of a member of the Kai Fong, or Street Committee, to be established for the purpose. Paragraph 164.
Free dispensaries and District Plague Hospitals to be encouraged (?.e., supported) by the Government.
Paragraph 169.
RAT CATCHERS.
Instructions to be drawn up for their gui- dance and more supervision over their work to be exercised.
CONTRACTS AND CONTRACTORS.
Paragraph 179.
(a.) All tenders should be numbered, ini- tialled and stamped by the Colonial Secretary's Office and sent to the Sanitary Board in a sealed envelope marked "confidential," to be opened in the presence of the Board.
(b.) Before the Sanitary Board recommends a tender for acceptance, the tender should be referred to a select Committee to enquire into the identity and occupation of the tenderers and their proposed security.
The Government proposes to appoint a Head of the Department who can devote the whole of his time to the Department.
Government is awaiting recommendations of the Sanitary Board in this matter.
Under consideration.
It is agreed that this may be done when the patient really is moribund.
As at present advised the Government does not agree.
If encouraged means pecuniarily supported, the question involving as it does additional ex- penditure requires careful consideration.
Under consideration.
Under consideration.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.