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The question of a squatters! settlement which has sprung up in the Kowloon Tong district was rais. ed by Mr. J. P. Braga at vestor: day's meeting of the Sanitary Board. The questions on the sub- ject, together with the replies, are given below:

Notice of Resolution.

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YAUMATE

I am fully satisfied that all. Kow. loon pools, which might be regard-YESTERDAY'S INGIDENT AT SQUATTERS' SETTLEMENT AT ed as potential Breedling places for

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mosquito laryne, are oiled, weekly under the supervision of Officers in broad daylight and in-one of of the Department.

the most frequented streets of Yaurati, four men entered house and, binding and gagging with aident for the very fall answer naney and Jowellery to the total

Mr. J. P. Braga thanked the Prethe dumptes, decamped given to his questions and also Dr value of $480, The victims were Pope who had visited the district Mrs. T. Ma and her two with him."

daughters, the Misses Elsie and Gladys Ma. "I still maintain" said Mr. By whose sanction and under Braga "that the condition of the

Although Chi Wo Street, is not what by-law has pormission, if

squatters' settlement complained of one of the business thoroughfares any, been granted to certain Chiny residents of Kowloon Tong is of the district, there are invariably ese squatters to construct, on re such

as to be a menace to the large number of pedestrians cently filled-in Crown land in the public health of the district. 1 using the street and there is district of Kowloon Tong, within a therefore give notice of the follow always a long queue of buses hundred yards of dwelling-houses, ing resolution at the next meeting drawn up along the street, await- a cesspool of cement concrete (ap of the Bourd

ing their departure for Kowloon proximate dimensions 15' by 10), in which human faeces are collect ed and allowed to decompose to serve as manure in vegetable dens In that vicinity?

That in the opinion of this board City, Chi Wo Street being the the close proximity of a squatter parking place for vehicles on the settlement to the new and growing Kowloon City-Yaumati route. garesidential district of Kowloon Shortly after

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Tong is prejudicial to the public yesterday morning, four men health, and in the Interests of the knocked at the door of No. 9 Chi residents of the district the per-Wo Street, and being admitted by mitsgranted to the squatters a small boy, produced a revolver should be revoked at as early and a dagger with which they date as practicable a held up the three female occup

ants of the floor.

A Strike Echo.

The President's reply was: The permits upon which occupa tion of the land in question has been permitted are for 12 months terminable upon 2 months' notice, The Sanitary Board was consulted before these permits were granted

The women were all bound and. and nether the M. O. H. nor the

Mr. Wong Kwong Tin said he gagged, Miss Gladys Ma C. V. S. saw any objection to the thought tit before anything was humiliated to the extent of having grant. The applicatione made no done they should not look at the potato forced into her mouth, mention of ceas-poots. The 31. O matter only from the sanitary and being relieved of her gold II, was of opinion that dry-cultiva-point of view, A lot of the far bangles and other articles tion in this area would be pre-mers were poor and became Bri-jewellery. ferable, from the point of view of tish subjects when Great Britain. After ransacking the house the neighbouring residents, to the land took over the New Territories men made their escape, taking being left in its natural state, As far as he remembered procla- with them money and jewellery to

Action Contemplated.

mations were issued by the Gov. the value of nearly $500, ."-- crnment at that time that the far

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Is it in the best interest. of the public health that a new squattere" settlement, with its attendant ob jectionable feature mentioned in the above be permitted to, be es- tablished in a new and growing residential district?

The reply was:-

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mere would not be interfered with der because the debate would be in their livelihood.

The majoriy were farmers and would then be an opportunity for taken at the next meeting. There vegetable, growers and during the members of the Bound to express crisis of the strike they helped the their views. Colony a good deal with their pro

Dealing with another item on the dace. He did not think it was a agenda the President said that the good polley nor the policy of the days of house cleaning had, for the The use of human excreta on Government to turn these poor far-present, been reduced from five agricultural land has been fullymers out without suitable land be to four days a week. Owing to the considered by the Board in the ing found for them.

pressure of work on the Inspectors nast and in 1906 the Board adopted careful consideration of all con-Inspectors were obtained.

The question required the this was the only way until more the Report of a sub-committes apcerned, not only by the Sanitary naimed to copsider this question, Board but by the Gvernment. which Report recommended that the practice should not be pro- hibited but that nuisances casioned tear houses or highwaya should be dealt with under Section 26 of the Ordinance as they arose.

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The M. O. H. is of opinion that the cass-ponls now in question arc noisome within the meaning of 26(b) of the Ordinance having con- sideration to their position, and propuses to take action, if the Board agrees, to abate this nuis- ance under the usual process of law.

Question of Removal,

Is it not possible to obtain an- other site to which this squatters' ettlement might be transferred and so remove the source of an ever- present danger, to the health of present and prospective residents in the neighbourhood, arising out of the use of noxious and offensive. manurial matter by the vegetable gardeners?

If a new site can be found, will the Government take into favour able consideration the removal na soon as practicable of the settle- ment complained of?

The reply stated:

If the prohibition of the use of offensive manure as indicated above prove to make impossible th agricultural activities of these permittees, their removal to some more distant site where there will he no objection raised will presum- ably follow automatically,

Otherwise; provided no nuisance arises such as would normally be bated in proximity to residential arens it does not appear necessary, unless the Board shall decido otherwise, for a request to be made to the Government for the removal of these permittees.

Samples Unnecessary.

Will the President be good,en- ough to cause samples of water to be taken by officers of the Sanitary. Department from the stagnant pools in Crown Land on the cast- ern and western boundaries of Kowloon Tong and more. particu larly of a small stream draining into the nullah at the point where it is being covered in below the railway bridge, and have such samples examined, for the pre- sence of any matter that might constitute a danger to public health in the district of Kowloon Tong?

The Medical Officer of Health replied:

I do not consider it necessary to lake further samples of water from these pools or the stream presunt.

This matter has been referred to Hon. D. P. W. who has agreed to have the stream in question trained,

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Breeding Places,

If deemed advisable as a preval tive measuro against providing breeding ground for the Inrvao of anopholes mosquitos, will the Pre- atdent direct officers of the Depart iment to have the stagnant pools treated with kerosene oll or other substance calculated to minimise the danger of an outbreak of ma Ilaria due to the 'existence of the.

Debate Next Meeting.

The President said Mr. Wong Kwong Tin was slightly out of oz

Those present at the meeting were Mr. N. L. Smith (President). Dr. Popo (M. Q. H.) Mr., J. P. Braga, Dr. S. C. Ho, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin and Mr. D. Davies, (secretary),

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