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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9,

I have looked up the text of that proclamation and have failed to discover any pronouncement that assured immunity from per- petuation of Insanitary habits and customs to the early settlers of the Colony.

would not have outlived the unevi-

If my colleague's contention Mr. J. P. Braga at yesterday's had been upheld in the past I am meeting of the Sanitary Board Very much afraid that the Colony moved a resolution that in the ble reputation of being a pestifer- opinion of this Board the close oua spot, for our anti-malarial moa- proximity of a squatters' settle-sures and other consistent efforts ment to the new and growing at etamping out deadly diseases resident district of Kowloon Tong in the Colony would have been is prejudicial to the public health, obstructed at every turn. and in the Interests of the realdents of the district the per- mits granted to the Squatters should be revoked at as early a date as practicable."

Mr. Braga, in submitting the mo- tion, said: There are two points that need emphasizing. The first is the need for safe-guarding the public health; and the second, a Called-for reply to the remarks by the junior Chinese member of the Board (Mr. Wong, Kwong-tin) at the last meeting.

On the ground of the public health, I am glad to have the ad- mission of the M. O. H. that, in his opinion, the cess-pools now in question are noisome, and I hope that the Board will agree that the nuisance is such that it requires immediate abatement.

Breeding Grounds.

But my motion goes further; it calls not only for the abatement of this nuisance but for the with- drawal of the permits and so re- move the danger lurking in the potential breeding grounds of flies, admittedly the worst known car- riers of discase. There are, be- sides the cess-pools, large animal dung heaps used by the gardeners for manure.

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This manurial substance, in the way it is collected, forms excellent breeding ground for flies. It needs no stretch of imagination to conceive the danger these disease carriers would be in the case of an opidemic such as typhoid or dysentery with two large institu- tions so close by, like the Kow loon Hospital and School For Boys.

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A note of warning seema to me to be called for. As guardians of the public health the duty is imposed upon us to recommend mensuros calculated to prevent diseases and to remove the Jikely sources for the spread of au epidemic, should one unfortunately visit us.

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Neglect this duty and we leave ourselves exposed to publie con démsation condoning 11 offence against the security, public health,” With this warning, I commend the motion to the adoj tion of the Board.

No Hardship.

Dr. S. C. Ho said: In seconding the motion I feel we should be falling in a publie doty were we as a Board, to refuse to necard to the motion the support it deserves after all the arguments we have beard advanced in its favour. Looking at the effect of the resolu- tion on the small number of Chin- ese squatters-not more than 3 or

I believe--I do not think its adoption is going to work any hardship at all.

The people whom the motion will move out of the district do not en- or any presciptive rights. It was but very recently that one of those permittees was allowed to lay out his vegetable garden at Kowloon Tong. My inquiries cliclt the fact that the man who was granted the permit had come from Cheung Sh Wan. Surely he might have been given the choice of some other site not so close to a large residential settlement that bids fair to be come an important township in the future?

Self Evident Nuisance.

Of the 250 subscribers to the

As regards the latter building it is understood that arrangements Kowloon Tong scheme, 210 are are in contemplation for taking Chinese, 10 British, and 30 Porta- it over and converting it into a temporary military hospital for use, so that in protecting the health of the residents of Kowloon troops. No argument can be too strong for protecting the healthTong our first concern is for th of our soldiers. As regards the majority of the Chinese. civilian section of Kowloon Tong residents, they were promised a Chanden City when the scheme was first presented and which attract- ed subscriptions for no less than 250 houses.

BOATMEN SHOT.

PIRACY AND WOUNDING

ON JUNK.

Yesterday afternoon the master of a fishing junk which had left: Chinese Territory

San' Mei In

for Hongkong with a crew of four males at noon on Saturday last, re- ported to the Police the perpetras tion of a piracy on his boat while off Po Tau Chau in British Terri tories.

Another junk was seen to ap- proach the fishing bont from the. direction of Lung Shun Wan. On nenring the boat from San Me! the crow on board noticed that there were four armed men on the in-. truding craft. One member of the gang of what later turned out to be pirates, fired at the their vic- tims and wounded two members of the crew of the fishing boat.

One man was shot through the farm and Immediately on his ar

rival in Hongkong yesterday after- noon was taken to Hospital for treatment. The other man who

in was wounded

the back owea his narrow escape from death to the fact that he was wearing no less than eight coats as a prevention against the cold winds. All the garments were penetrated and a wound was caused to his back but the injury was so slight that no medical treatment was necessary.

The four robbers' boarded the fishing boat and stole the cargo of 31 pigs which were being brought to Hongkong and a quanlity of clothing to the total value of $821.

I flies from manure were dan-

gerous he would call attention to the night soil system-far more dangerous than cuss-pools.

Possible Reform.

The Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, D. P. W. said he sympathise with Mr. Braga's motion, but he thought it was a question in which they had to move slowly. The settlers were put settlers in the true sense of the word as they could be given very short notice. He did not.

think it was a matter which could he hurried. He explained what steps had been taken in the matter. and stated that the farmers were) merely permittees.

Mr. N. L. Smith, the chairman, As for the proximity of the Kow-explained the courses which were

loon Hospital and the Diocesan Boys' Schonl the objection to the nuisance is self evident and need not be enlarged upon. On the principle that "prevention is bet- Hier than eure" I second the motion. Disfigurment Question.

Dr. G. W. Pope, the Medica! In the carrying out of the Officer of Health, said that if the setheme it was necessary for the yards from the nearest habitation cess-pools were removed say 200 Government to resume all the low- that would safeguard the residen- lying village and bring up the level of the ground to the public tal part of the district. He also roadway. This was one of the im-spoke on the question of manure portant parts in the scheme for and suggested that the breeding public improvement. We have it of flies could be avoided if the was brought from some on the authority of the Colonial manure Secretary that the estimated cost distant place.

Colonel, Boyland Smith said he Tong Scheme is $1,788,000. Sub-did not think the convenience of scribers share will cost not loss the seiflers should be put before than $2,500,000 in the aggregate the question of public health, so that we have a total expendi- The manure should be rotted a ture of early four million dollars me distant place and net near

Karloon Tou

to Government of the Kowloon

in a Housing Scheme which the premotors promised would convert The district into a garden city when the scheme is completed.

It is not now for this Board in contribute to the disgurement of a garden city by its tacit ap-- proval of permits which would resurrect-in a

form with the new permittees the old ob- jectionable villages now for the most part resumed by the Govern-

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open to deal with the question. If the settlers found that they could not carry on cultivation without having noisome cuss-pools then they would naturally have to give up their permits. Tie had been told by the B. and F. Department that it was possible to have in- might find, if the M. O. II. pro- offensive dry cultivation. They secuted those people who had the nuisances within 200 yards of ha- itations. Dat they could reform the methods of cultivation.

A Big Responsibility.

The alternative was that the

Beard should recommend the Gov. crnment to ganeel the permita. Personally he did not see the need for this until they had tried the loral methods in their power fo alte any nuisances which might

arise. It was inelined. to vote: It was very difficult to educate against the motion as there was a the setlers up to modern sanita-ditheulty as to who was included in tion, and it was certainly very the settlement, He did not think dangerous to have manure round the Board would suggest at all human habitations.

The Settlers' Rights. Mr. Wong Kwong-tin said the settlers were farmers and that was their only means of livelihood. They should be offered protection so that their trade was not killed hy not allowing them to have ar- able and to cultivale. If the Board should decide to cancel the settler's licences he thought the Government should provide suit- able lund for them.

Mr. Braga's Warning. The Chinese member, who spoke at the last meeting, rather labour- ed the point of a proclamation by Government promising all kinds of things to the inhabitants of the There were some cases where Colony. I do not know to which the farmers had lived for genera- particular proclamation the mem-tions. If they were to be sudden ber referred. I rather imaginely turned out it would be unfair. what he had in mind was the They should certainly be compen- proclamation by Capt. Charlesented if land was going to be taken Elliot of the 1st February, 1841. away from them.

cultivation up to the foothills should be stopped,

Mr. Braga, replying to Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, said he had not sug- gested that the settlers should be deprived of their livelihood. He did not see why in the course of time the people in Kowloon Tong should not have all the amenities of an urban district without caua ing any hardship to the squatters, fo thought the Board should take the first opportunity of visiting the site. The members would find that he had been rather moderate. in his description of the conditions at Kowloon Tong. The Board had big responsibility in the matter.

The motion was put to the, meet- ing and defeated by four votes to three.

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