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SANITARY BOARD APPOINTS SELECT COMMITTEE,
SEPTIC TANK ISSUE.
At yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board, the Chairman (Mr. W. J. Carrie) said that the Board had oppointed a select com- mittee, consisting of the Vice- President, the Medical Officer of Health, and two Unofficial, mem. bera, to deal with applications for the Installation of flush systems: The decisions of this Committee, if unanimous, were to be taken as decisions of the Board.
Those present at the meeting were Mr. W. J. Carrie (chairman), the Hon. Mr. II. T. Creasy, Dr. H. A. Fawcett (M.O.II.), Dr. W. V. M. Koch, the Hon. Mr, J. P. Braga, Messrs. Wong Kwong-tin. M. K. Lo, T. N. Chau Watson (secretary).
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929.
bera to exercise the powers and functions of the Board under Sec- tion 162 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903 provid ed always that where the Select Committee shall not be unanimous in their decision the matter shall be, referred. to the Board for de- cision." A unanimous decision of this Committee. is therefore the décision of the Board.
1.
Question 1'(a) I do not like to call it a ruling of the Board as each application is, I know, con- sidered fully on its own merits, but an application must be re- fused if there is no satisfactory newer connexion available.
1 (b) Septic tanks in urban areas cannot be allowed.
Question (2) Septic tanks aƒo considered wholly unsuitable in urban areas and would not be al- lowed in any modern city.
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Architects' Claims.
Questions (8), (4) and (5) are best taken together. I think re- and J.ference is made to the application for a flush installation at the Young Men's Christian Associn- Pursuant to notice Mr. M. Ktion building, Waterloo Road, on Lo asked:
Kowloon Inland Lot No.: 1483. Was refused.
1. With reference to applica- The application tions to the Sanitary Board for The architects made the claims no permission to instal flush water stated but failed to substantiate losets, is it the ruling of the their claims. The Committee con- Board: (a) That auch applica-aldered that septic tanks could Liona must be refused if the avail-not give the excellent resulta able Government sewer is for any predicted. The reasons for that reason not considered satisfactory opinion would appear. to me to bas as a direct means of discharge, as follows:
and (b) That in urban arena on❘ (1) sca level septic tanks cannot be allowed!
2- the answer to (b) is in
the affirmative, what are the rea
Gons for such ruling?
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3. Is it a fact that known firm of architects have Rent in the Board a plan for a septic tank (in connexion with an application for permission to in- etal water closets in Kowloon) as to which such architects lavo made the following claims:
(1)
Practically no tank is en- tirely devoid of smell and nven odours so slight as to pass unnoticed in open roun- try would be intolerable in close proximity to domestic bulldings.
Experience shews that the effluent from an anaerobie tank is not clear and odour- leas: if it were, there would i he little need for the further purification which la provided for in most installations.
(a) That such septic tanka, (i) The frequericy with which
constructed upon the prin- | }] ciple of triple-chambered de- Bign, in accordance with the plans sent in, will discharge clear odourless effluent into the sewer and thence into the sen and would provo unobjec tionable in all respects;
(b) That cast Iron pipes with leaded joints being used, there is no question of con- Laminating the surrounding soll nor any source of water supply:
(19)
a tank is sludged depends. amongst other things, upon ils size in relation to the number of users, and in the case of a tank constructed to serve a large institution It in not improbable that an an nual sludging would be found insufficient.
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The principle if adopted could not be confin. ed in one applicant and would before long result in a mul- of tiplicity of tanks, some which would almost certainly he neglected. Moreover, the tanks at aludging of the different times would n found very offensive in densely populated residential district.
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(c) That sullage water does not enter into the septic tank but is taken to the sewer, and, (d) That the removal of sludge need only occur approximate- ly every twelve months? 4-If the answer to the last question is, in the affirmative, is there any reason to doubt that the affirmative and in this parti- of the members, or at least lo septic tanks could be designed and cular case plans already exist for Mr. Chnu and himself.
asian lutercepting newer which will constructed to function
Question (6) The answer is in
The Chairman remarked that
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he desired to address to meeting
on this subject. He said:
Prompted by curiosity I minut-
dicated in the last question, and no doubt be constructed some day.all papers were circulated but fensive trade licence at No. 113ed on the papers circulated to
if so, what are the reasons for such doubt?
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Rights of Board,
before the
Application Refused, When an application for an of- lafer amended this statement and Wuhu Street came said that where the application Board the Chairman stated that members an enquiry for some ex- planation to account for a stendy had been refused the papers were this referred to the pig-raising falling-off in the number of swing Mr. Lo said that before going not circulated.
business. He mentioned that on 6. If septic tanks could be de
Mr. Lo said that that was the previous occasion, seruetime in imported Into the Colony for the past three months-April, May, and signed and constructed to function on to item No. 3 arising out of the As indicated in question 3, what Chairman's answers to his ques very reason why they should be May, a pig was slaughtered on the June. The respective figures are:
of are the sanitary objections to tions or rather to the preliminary circulated. If applications were premises and other evidence such septic tanks in cases where remarks which he had made to the granted it would be all right, but nuisance was found. He remark-25,643, 24,543, and 28,395, the Government sewer not answers to his questions, that the if they were refused they should ad it was a very serious case and
Committee is means decision of this As 4 direct
decision of the water therefore the
Board, he did not know exactly whether the Chairman had meant
available of discharge from flush closets?
Is it desirable
in
from the
direct discharge from flush water closets should be available**
Committee's Powers.
be circulated.
Cases of Rabies.
of the Chinese Inhabitants from
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I wonder whether there is any pointed out that as the law stood connexion between a reduction in the quantity of pigs imported and. no action, save a refusal to re-the water famine. If it can be new the licence on its expiry: shown for a fact that the water could be taken. He recommended shortage is responsible for a Mr. Lo then asked, pursuant to that the application be refused. by that that the Board as a sanitary point of view that, in board was absolutely divesting its notice: (a) Whether any case The Board unanimously adopt-draining out of a large number urban areas on sea level, Govern right over that matter. Suppos-of rabies has been reported or hased the recommendation. ment sewers capable of being a ing the Board wished a decision the Colony during 1929 and if not:not possible to frame some cond/water question might have
been suspected, as occurring in Mr. M. K. Lo asked if it were Hongkong, then the fear that the of the Sub-committee to be re- vealed, he wished to know whe- (b) when was the last case re-tion on the licence to enable the direct bearing on the economics Medical Officer of Health to can- of the Colony is well established. ther the Chairman's observations ported or suspected?
To the first part of the ques-cel the licence in such cases even precluded such a possibility.
tion the Chairman replied that before the expiry of the licence
Official Figures, thore was one case in January. He said that it seemed ΠΟΣΕ Apart from the interest that. 1929, and another in June, 1029, desirable than, waiting until]might arise out of an academic both occurred in the Au Tau Police the end of the year.
discussion of the question a de- District of the New Territories, one The chairman said that he quite bate on the subject may be pro- -
agreed with Mr. Lo.
ductive of practical value also. I have, therefore, extracted from Cattle Returns.
the official returns the compara- Arising out of Item No. 11 deal-tive Agures for the months Janu- ing with the Cattle and Swine re-ary-June (inclusive) for the years the Hon: Mr-J-P-Braga-said that (Continued on Page 11.) turns for the month of June, 1929, 1928 and 1929. Side by side 1.
The Chairman said:
The Chairman said that the Board had appointed this commit tee and if it were unanimous that was the decision of the Board and
Before I answer thene qucations it secous advisable to remind mem- bers that as applications for the Installation of Jiush ayatems fra- quently give rise to problems of a highly technical nature, and in
Mr. Lo said that he would pur- The reply to the second part order that applications may be ex-
was: In that part of the Colony. peditiously dealt with, the Board sus the matter at some later date. has appointed a Select Committee Resuming Mr. Lo said that the which is under the dircet super of itself, consisting of the Vice-reason he brought this up was vision of officers of the Board the President, the Medical Officer of because that particular case had last case of Tables was on 18th
December, 1027, Health and two Unofficial mem- not been brought to the knowledge
he did not think that the Board being human and the other would question it
canine.
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