SANITARY BOARD MEETING..
The following are items unavoidably with held from our issue last evening.
DISINFECTION OF INFECTED PREMIES. The following report was laid on the table: Report of the Select Committee, consisting of the President, the Acting Medical Officer of Health, Mr. Fung Wa Chun, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, and Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.Ê, appointed to consider the questions raised by Mr. Pollock's motion of the 4th June, 1903, and the replies of the Acting Medical Officer of Heal' thereto.
The Committee decided to submit the follow-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 3,
remaining hours should not be disturbed but | year 1907, Mr. Pollock said, his reason for the ocupiers thereof should be given every doing so was that the report contained some facility. if they should so desire, to cleanse valuable information upon the plague statistics and disinfect their rooms themselves
and upon the health of the Colony generally.
Mr. Hewett seconded. Carrie 1.
(7.) When a case is reported, the person whether wive or dead, should be examined al once by a medical man and sh uld not be renioved unless it is sure that he or she is suf- fering from pl gue.
(8) When a case is reported no constable should be posted at the door of the house be cause, if these suggestions be adopted, we are sure that no one will try to evade the law.
(9) All infected persons whether alive or
Mr. Pollock then moved the second resatu tion standing in his name, observing that his reasons for the motion were the same as those for making the last proposition.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun seconded, Carried.
THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE, Mr. Pollock then moved
That the inemor.
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The. Fresident-I move that notices be inserted in European and Chinese papers.
Mr. Pollock seconded.. Agreed:
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CUBICLES
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MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 3rd July, 1903
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ing suggestions to the Roard at its next nicet- dead should be allowed to leave the Colony, andum of the Acting Medical of lealth on the decency's sake, or will, one man be satisfied 1401; so that 833 people would be displaced KWONG WAN STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
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the Tang Wa Hospital to provide conveying 7. That the floor ccupied by a plague- expenses for the poor. infected person be cleansed and disinfected by (10.) Only three or four conlies of the cleans- the officers of the Board, but that the remaining gang to be admitted into the floor where der of the house, (provided that the ceilings, stair-linings, and other structures which may harbour rats have been already removed), be a lowed to be cleansed by the inmates under the direction of the Poard's officers. In cases, however, where such officers find it necessary to remove ceiling, cla, such officers shall provide for the cleansing which is thereby made necessary.
2. That the lime-washing of an infected house in consequence of a case of p'aguc accurring in it be discontinued; but that the regulations as to the balf-yearly lime washing continue in force as at present in accordance with section 5 of the bye laws relating to domestic cleanliness and ventilation. 3. That the inmates of an infected floor be permitted to wear clean clothing obtained from
construction of certain provisions of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, which was read at the recent meeting of property owners, be handed to the Press for publication." disinfection is to be carried out; but if the in-He said:-I understand, sir, that an intimation mates should have a greater number, let them has been only this day received from the Gov- have it.
ernment to the effect that they do not propose as a Government matter to have this report of the Acting M.O.H. printed by the Government. I think, sir, that everybody at this table must agree with me that such a valuable memorán. dan should not be lust, but that it should become public property; and as the Govern ment. have declined to have the document
(.) The infected persons should be allowed to remain in their own houses for treatment under such pieca tions as the Medical Officer of Health thinks fit.
(12.) Separate apartments to be provided for every poor infected person in the hospital free of charge.
(13) Sufficient number of first and secondi class separate apartments should be provided for the better class at reasonable charges.
(14) The relatives to be allowed to see the infected persons in the hospital at any time under such precaution as the Medical Officer
of Health thinks fit.
another floor of the same house or from another be adopted, the dumping practice will be rapid. And we are sure that if the above suggestions ly minimiz.d and that as soon as the modified
house which is not infected, such clean cloth-
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printed as an act of Government, the only feasible way I see of making it known to the public is through the columns of the Press.
Mr. Hewett seconded, Agreed.
The President :--The letter received to-day from the Colonial Secretary in reply to the letter
letter of 24th ulo, I am directed to acquaint of 24th ulic, is as follows:-" In reply to your you for the information of the Sanitary
will hold 17 men or adults. A glance at the plan of this floor will show that no one wants and no one can pay for a cubicle or room big enough to hold 7 men nor even 8 (in case we have 2 half- a'zed cubicles instead of our one large one). Three or four people at most,live in one of the present cubicles in this Alcor, and it is quite obvious that privacy is necessary for each small family. With our large cubicles therefore we are as far off as ever from providing suitable accommodation for the poor mail's family. I remains to be seen what will happen when the new law is put in force. Will the pour man sacrifice privacy, and will 3 to 5 families live in one common room with no subdivisions for
to pay a comparatively large tent for more room than he wants, while those displaced seek to do the same thing in other parts of the City? There is yet another point to be considered in reference to the erecting of cubicles as suggested by Dr, Clark in his minute of 27/2/03 in C. S. O. 1473/1903 referred to above. It is there stated that a large cubicle could be built around the window looking from a room into the yard at the rear, Now some houses have such a yindow where the yard is situated between the main room and the kitchen, and also in cases where half the original kitchen has been cut away to form a yard. Other houses have a line or open space
in rear, but the kitchen comes between the living room and the open space in rear. Obviously in such houses as these no cubicle could be erected at the rear end of the living room, and if the window area into the street in front is one-tenth of the floorarea and a cubicle mainder of the room would be windowless and
were built to enclose this window area the-re-
The President Before, we proceed to the orders of the day, I wish to take this oppor unity of informing the Board as to what has enforcing the been done with reference provisions of the new Building Bill with regard lo cubicles, first block in No. 5 Health district, A survey of No. 5. Health District is being taken and the result as shown in the first block of houses dealt with is as follows: Nuni- ber of houses 42; floors, 147; illegal cubicles, Under the old Ordinance 2,234 oc2 cupants would have been allowed; under the new Ordinance the number would be
in these 42 houses. Notices that the cubi. cles were illegal were served on 30th June, and they will be visited again on 14th inst.; if it is found that the cubicles have not been removed further action will then be taken under the Ordinance. A night visit was paid yesterday to 20 of the houses and out of 55 floors six were found to be over- crowded, that gives a percentage of 10.9.
At this time of year the Chinese do not sleep to a great extent indoors; many sleep on the roof or in the streets; therefore the percentage was not quite accurate. If a visit was paid in the winter months I think you would find the over- crowding much more.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun:-May I ask on whom the notices were served?
The President-On the owners. Mr. Fung Wa Chun-Is that the law? The President—Yes.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun:-1 think we ought to serve them on the tenants who put up the cubicles. The landlord is not expected to go into a tenant's house; besides he is not at liberty to do so. If tenants choose to put up illegal cubicles there is no means for the land.
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The President pointed out that the
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4 That only the inmates of an infected floor be detained by the Police. The question was raised as to whether District Watchmen might be detailed instead of Police for this duty.
5. It was suggested by the unofficial mem- bers of the Committes that' when a case of plague is reported voluntarily, the detention of the inmates of the infected floor might be dispensed with
6. That the number of "Observation Blocks
be increased so as to provide for the storage of furniture and effects as well as for housing temporarily the persons from the infected floor. (Sd) J. M. ATKINSON, President
FUNG WA CHUN,
H. E. POLLOCK, LAU CHU PAK, W. W. PERSE.
To the Secretary.
Hongkong, 27th June, 1903.
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[PETITION] Hongkong, 23rd June, 1903.
To the Members of the
Sanitary Board, Hongkong, Sir-We respectfully beg to lay before you the grievance of our Chinese community in the hope that you will kindly place it before the proper authority and have fi" relieved as soon as posible, that we, the Chinese citizens, may be able to live quietly and comfortably in this Colony to pursue their various vacations and that we may cheerfully co-operate in carrying out any sanitary measures to mutual satis faction.
Those who base hitherto given close attention to the result and benefits of the sanitary laws, would probably all adosit that the more drastic they are made, the more the Chinese inhabitants are horrified and consequently they would even Fisk their lives to evade them and thereby de- feat the detection of all the infected rooms too many to be enumerated.
Whenever a case of plague or even sometimes a natural death occurs in any of their houses, the inmates of the whole house in question would be thrown into a state of alarm, much greater than a case of murder would cause.
We are therefore of humble opinion that a partial reform of the sanitary measures would not suffice, unless cheerful co-operation of the Chinese citizens be secured, to acquire which the sanitary authority should look upon them
or Chinese community, it will certainly cease entirely. We are, etc..
(53) LUM CHENG,
and chopped with the "chops" of seventeen different Chinese hongs The Presidem--You will observe in this
Dr. Pearse's memorandum which involves as sumptions as to the effect of the law that may or may not be correct, and which can only be decided by a case decided in the law Courts. This decision can readily be obtained in the usual manner. I am to add that the niemo- randum referred to has already been be fore the Board for further consideration if so desired." As stated at the meeting on the 21st May last the Press was at liberty to print the report. It was laid on the table, but, ! understand as a confidential meeting was held afterwards they did not take it that they could
illegal, as section 154 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1503 says that no room can be erected or main- tained in any storey of a domestic building un- less such room have a window equal to one- tenth the floor-area opening into theexternal air. Again a rooni. is defined by definition 51 as any subdivision of any storey of a domestic building o her than a drying-room, store-zoom or pantry, If this definition were amended so as to except also any passage, lobby or landing the diffi culty mentioned above would be got over.
But if this amendment be not made it is
report that the first suggestion is that a floor occupied by a plague-infected person be cleansed and disinfected by the officers of the provided that the ceilings, stair-linings and other similar structures which might harbour rats he reinved, might be allowed to be take the report away. As they had asked for which are created by such a partition are
Board and that the remainder of the house,
cleansed by the inmates under the direction of
the officers of the Board. The reason for this is that the ceilings, stair-linings and similar structures undoubtedly harbour rals. and their removal would prevent the forma tion of rat runs in the houses. If the Chi- nes: thoroughly understood this it would be to their advantage to remove those ceilings ard stair-haings and such structures, for if they did-provided the Government ap proved of this suggestion the rest. of the house, with the exception of the floor on which the plague patient is, would not be cleansed by the Board's officers but might be
cleansed by the inmates. I draw attention to this fact to show clearly to the Chinese that it would be to their advantage to remove these ceilings, stair-linings and other structures is houses all over the Colony.
Colonel Webb proposed that the recommend ations of the Committee be adopted add that a copy be circulated for the information of
members
Captain Lyons seconded.
Carried.
"Mr. Rumj.hn-1 am of opinion that the recommendations of the sub-committee do not give a sufficient inducen ent to the Chinese to cease from dumping bodies. What they most strongly object to is the cleaning by the Board's coolies. Why should not the tenan's be allowed to cleanse their own floors and flats under the supervision of the Board's officers? If the Board's coolies can do the work effectively, why should the tenants or their servants not do the same or better? There is another most ser ons objection and that is the police deten I do not see any benefit deriving plague ranges from a few hours to about 16 days. The President-The usual incubation period is from two to seven days.
tion of the inmates of the floor on which a case
Occurs.
Dr. Pearse's report it will be given to the Press
10 print it..
Its
Mr. Rumjaho said the landlord had no pawer over the tenants. His experience was that the tenants strongly objected to the removal of the cubicles by the landlords and the latter could oot do anything. The most expeditious way would he to send the Board's officers to remove
them.
The PresidentThe procedure to be taken is laid down in the Ordinance.
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obvious that no partition whatever can be Closing quotations: erected in any floor unless the subdivisions
each lit by a window or windows to the extent of one-tenth of the floor area of such DR. PEARSE'S MEMORANDUM.
subdivision, If we take as an example again The following is the memorandum :-In order to get some idea as to the effect the new
the first floor of 26, Aberdeen Street and allow law regulating overcrowding will have, I have
the yard to be counted as external air under had a floor in Aberdeen Street (No. 5 District) tian built about the rear window we see that proviso to Section 154, and then have a parti- measured, viz., the first fluor of No. 26, Aber- deen Street. The area of this floor is 730 sq. ft.smail room at the rear with a window one-tenth we at once divide the floor into two parts-a and its cubic contents 9,127 cubic feet. height is therefore about 12 feet. At this present time there are in this floor only two windows opening into the external air, namely, the two looking from the front of the floor into he street. Each of these windows has a glaxed area of only 10 sq. ft. To keep within the ter ns of the new law therefore anyone desirous of subdividing this foor could apparently do so by building a cubicle or room around each of these two windows. Each cubicle could only be of 105 sq. ft. and would hold therefore 5 persons. The total number of persons then allowed to inhabit the floor would be six, as the remainder of the floor having no window into the external air would not be habitable. If it be
decided under the proviso to Section 154 thatthe yard to this house count as external air, then it will be apparently permissible to build another cubicle of 130 sq. ft. around this window which will also hold 3 persons, bringing the total number of lawful occupants of the floor up to 9
will show that the rent, $14 per mensem, is persons. A glance at the plan of this house made up by the small payments of several in- dependent families. If the cubicles are done away with, and only three rooms as mentioned
above are allowed on this floor, the rent of the
whole floor will still have to be paid, but the burden will be divided between 9 people instead of the 14 people who could occupy the
(yard) and a larger remainder with windows of its fluor area opening into the external air
the remaining floor area opening into the street not equal to one-tenth Such larger re- mainder is therefore illegal. In other words no partition can be built on this floor which would result in having two legally habitable suydivisions. If the amendment I suggest
above to the definition of a room be made we
could then divide this floor into four legal front, each with an area of 285 sq. ft. and with subdivisions, namely; two cubicles or rooms in
ample window area, one cubicle or room in. rear with window area into the yard (if accepted as external air) and a windowless lobby or passage which would be uninhabitable. In houses which have no window from the living. room into their open space in the rear and in those houses which have yards too small
proviso to Section 154, if the windows looking to be recommended for exemption under the
from the main room into the front street were equal in area to one-tenth the floor area of the room we could build a partition around the front window, or two partitions forming two leaving a small windowless lobby not to be rooms if there were two windows in front,
inhabited.
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108 tons of Swab ore for a yield of 45
ounces of smelted guld, equivalent of 8 devi 8 gros, per ton,
870 tons of Kalampong ore yielding 51 ounces of smelted gold, equivalent of r dwt. 4 gras, per ton.
978 tons. In all, for a yield of 96 ounces of smeked gold. Valued at $4,000.
A letter from the Manager, received on the 23rd June, states:" Had it not been for the heavy rains this month, we would have been able to get a larger crushing (from Swah) than last month.”
RAUBS.
The Singapore Secretary of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co. has issued the following retums for the four weeks ending June 29. Stone crushed, 2,550 tons; smelted gold obtained 645 oz ; average 5 dwts 14 grains per ton.
In his annual report on the Federated Malay States the Resident General says:----
as co-operators instead of as opponents and from such a step. The incubation period of floor under the old Ordinance. It will for hersequently proportionately higher would be the be the Raub Australian Gold Mining Com-
give careful considerating to their suggestions which should be accepted unless they are immediately dangerous to public health. It would also be bter to grant as much
⚫ concession as possible where there is no actual
danger, in order to be able to cleanse and dis- infect all the actually infected rooms, than to adopt the drastic measures and let them evade the laws thereby leavin, many infected rooms undetected.
Mr. Rumjahn-In the r port and treatise on plague Dr. Thomson, the special plague officer
uo'er the Bombay Government, says it is 16 days.
The President-Sixteen days is quite ex- ceptional. '.
be noticed that these cubicles are in reality family houses and their size and price per month are determined by the earnings of the husband or chief wage-earner of the family. If, as is not unreasonable, we allow in the nine peisons who-cald occupy this floor under the scheme shown above three husband;, three wives and ix small (under 10) children, we shall see that the burden of payment will rest on a small number if indiv.duals. Now if the owner of this house increases the glazed area of the front windows to the full extent, viz, 283 ft. cach, we see that then much larger cubicles could be built, namely, two of 285 sq.
Mr. Rumjahn-Many cases have been found We are inclined to believe that every one is
to be over 16 days. Here we have to regular anxious to have his house cleansed and dis-system of segregation of contacts. If these
fected if it is carried out in such a way as it
unfortunate people are confined compulsorily will inflict on them as little hardship as in an insanitary floor with a plague patient or a possible, and that no measures would be suc plague corpse fur over 24 hours I think it is a fr., each of which would accommodate 8 people cessful unless they are carried out in a manner di grace to the Colony and a very great dis or one large cubicle of 570 sq. ft., which would
that will induce them to come forward cheer
fully and volunteer to have their houses cleansed and disinfected even when no plague case actually occurs in their houses,
We beg to submit the following sugges tions:-
(1) All the cloths and beddings in actual use by the infected person; to be destroyed and compensated.for.
,+ (2) All the clothes which are lying about upcovered and belonging to the infected person to be removed to the disinfecting station.
(3.) All the clothes and beddings belongingto the inmates of the same floor which are lying about uncovered to be disinfected.
(4) All the clothes and beddings contained in boxes or wardrobes on the same floor should not be interfered with.
(5.) All the inmates of the same floor should not be compelled to wear the Government clothes but be allowed to wear their own clothes taken out from their boxes or wardrobes.
(6) Only the Boor where the plague case occurs should be cleansed and disinfected, but the cleansing and disinfection should be carried out in the presence of the occupiers; all the
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accommodate 17 people. We should then have practically the whole floor subdivided into a large front cubicle for 17 persons, a small cubicle in rear with window into the yard for three persons and a windowless remainder which would do for a lobby or landing at the top of the stairs and which could not be legally inhabited. If this lobby be allowed by amending the definition of room, which I refer to later, on, ths arangement woulp
supplied with sufficient window area the larger would be the windowless remainder, and con-
floor. If the windowless semainder be reduced rent to be paid for the babitable portion of the
to a minimum the larger will the habitable division become until it will become so large as to command a rent not within the means of divided it will only be fit to be used as a com- the poor man's family, and as i cannot be sub
mon lodging-house is used, that is by a number of men who are content to live together in a large room without any subdivisions for privacy. I att ich returns from the inspector. showing the number of vacant flors they have found in ihei districts. The figures show that these floors can approximately house 25.000 persons. This number is apt to be misleading for as my bove remarks in reference to the cubicle question show, we are not concerned sa much with the question of finding house-room for those who are content to live in common lodging- houses out with the very difficult problem of being able to provide for the wants of the wish to live with a certain amount of privacy families of the poorer classes and of those who
for decency's zake.
Pahang exported 23,948 ounces of gold in 1901 and 19,554 ounces in the year under re- view. The principal gold operators continue to
pany. This company secured the services as manager of Mr. Warnford Lock,, and a com plete reorganisation of its operations has been effected with the object of systematically ex- ploiting the property on business-like and be recorded except the very encouraging economical lines. No special resp'ts can yeu
fact that payable ore bas been found at the 340-it. level. It is now proposed to finally test the deep levels by sinking to 1,500 ft, and, as this will be a costly undertaking and may be regarded in the light of an experiment to test the value of gold mining Pabang, it is pro- bable that the Government will be willing to share some portion of the requisite expenditure. I regret to report that some of the Raub sub. Selensing Company has been reconstituted and sidiary companies bave closci down
is about to re-open work. Alluvial gold in this State is attracting the attention of some European capitalists, and very encouraging prospecting work has been carried out.
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credit to the Board instead of having three large blocks of observation houses situated for apart from each other, we should have four or five houses in each health district into which contacts could go until their premises and chattels have been disinfected. Another point is that we should allow plague corpses to be coffined properly in the houses in which the deaths occur under the supervision of the Board, and to be buried either locally or in the native place of the deceased by their friends. If however' enable the floor to be occupied my suggestions are adopted, I dare say the legally by so persons. As the cubic contents dumping of cases of plague will be a thing of | of the fluor is 9 127 cubic ft., under the old law | follows:-"Any accumulation, or deposit of the past or at least will be greatly minimised 23 persons could occupy it, and thus we see and a saving of thousands upon thousands of that provided the yard be counted as external refuse, or other matter, wherever situated, Sovereigns, Bank's Buying Rate........
dollars will be effected annually: Why should we continue to enforce measures opposed by the populace, detrimental to our welfare and pros perity, and proved to be fruitless by all our past experience?
air there would only be a displacement of two persons through the enforcing of the new law, provided that the landlord increased the glared area of the front windows to the maximum extent possible. This conclusion is quite in The motion was carried, Mr. Rumjaha disaccordance with the remarks of Dr. Clark in senting.
his minute of 27/2/93, C.S.Q. 1473/1903, but there still remains an important point to be considered, which has apparently been over. looked. Given one large and legal subdivision in the front of the floor, who is to occupy it? It SK för ASAHI JAPANESE BEER.-
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