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DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following further question on behalf of Mr. CHAN Shu-woon:
"Mr. Chairman, the cleansing of pavements and gutters by the Urban Services Department has done a lot of good to the public health but some of the main streets on both sides of the harbour are still full of floating dust when it is windy. And this condition becomes worse when speedy vehicles are travelling, thus causing much nuisance to pedestrians as well as to those living around the areas concerned. Will the Chairman take appropriate measures to remedy these insanitary conditions?"
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:
"The street-washing service operated by the Urban Services Department covers all roads, pavements, side-channels and scavenging lanes in the urban areas once weekly. In the intervening period, however, dust tends to accumulate during dry weather, especially where site formation or building work is being carried on. Special attention is paid to such points, but since wet surfaces normally dry up within a matter of hours, the existence of a certain amount of dust cannot be prevented. Fourteen vehicles are engaged on street-washing, and a further two have just arrived in the Colony but have not yet been put into service. These vehicles operate three shifts a day, but it is still not possible to wash all urban streets more often than once a week.
To improve matters in the dry season, a new system was introduced recently, by which four vehicles are used full time for pressure-spraying main roads in Hong Kong and Kowloon every other night."
DR. R. H. S. LEE:--I would like to ask a supplementary question, Mr. Chairman. In view of the very heavy building programme that occurs in the urban areas, I wonder whether the Chairman would care to ask the Department to go into this question more thoroughly so as to have the streets of the urban areas washed more frequently than once a week?
CHAIRMAN :—Yes.
MOTIONS.
MR. C. Y. KWAN, Chairman of the Cemeteries, Mortuaries and Crematoria Select Committee, moved the following resolution :-
"RESOLVED that New Kowloon Cemetery No. 8 (Diamond Hill Urn Cemetery), Kowloon, and Mount Caroline Cemetery, So Kon Po, listed in Part I of the Fifth Schedule to the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, be closed as public cemeteries."
He said: The action contemplated by the resolution is nothing new, because the two cemeteries referred to in the resolution have in fact been closed for over ten years, so far as burials are concerned. The Mount Caroline Cemetery was declared closed as long ago as October 1947 and the New Kowloon Cemetery No. 8 was declared closed in July 1950, and no burial has been allowed to take place in either of them since then.
When the new Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance came into force on the 11th November, 1960, the two cemeteries concerned were listed in Part I of the Fifth Schedule as places set apart for use as public cemeteries. This may give rise to a misunderstanding that the cemeteries in question may once again be used for burials, but, of course, that was not the intention and is not the case.
In order to clarify the position that the two cemeteries in question are to remain closed as public cemeteries a resolution of the Council to this effect is required and I, therefore, ask Council to pass the resolution standing in my name.
MR. Y. K. KAN seconded.
The question was put.
The Motion was carried.
MR. Y. K. KAN, under Standing Order 10(3), moved the following resolution on behalf of Mr. A. de O. SALES, Chairman of the Urban Amenities Select Committee :-
"RESOLVED that the Swimming Pools By-laws, 1961, be made under section 42 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, No. 30 of 1960.”
MR. K. A. WATSON seconded.
The question was put.
The Motion was carried.
DR. R. H. S. LEE, Chairman of the Environmental Hygiene Select Committee, moved the following resolution:-
"RESOLVED that the Basements By-laws, 1961, be made under section 88 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, No. 30 of 1960.”
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DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following further question on behalf of Mr. CHAN Shu-woon:
"Mr. Chairman, the cleansing of pavements and gutters by the Urban Services Department has done a lot of good to the public health but some of the main streets on both sides of the harbour are still full of floating dust when it is windy. And this condition becomes worse when speedy vehicles are travelling, thus causing much nuisance to pedestrians as well as to those living around the areas concerned. Will the Chairman take appropriate measures to remedy these insanitary conditions?"
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:
"The street-washing service operated by the Urban Services Department covers all roads, pavements, side-channels and scavenging lanes in the urban areas once weekly. In the intervening period, however, dust tends to accumulate during dry weather, especially where site formation or building work is being carried on. Special attention is paid to such points, but since wet surfaces normally dry up within a matter of hours, the existence of a certain amount of dust cannot be prevented. Fourteen vehicles are engaged on street-washing, and a further two have just arrived in the Colony but have not yet been put into service. These vehicles operate three shifts a day, but it is still not possible to wash all urban streets more often than once a week.
To improve matters in the dry season, a new system was introduced recently, by which four vehicles are used full time for pressure-spraying main roads in Hong Kong and Kowloon every other night."
DR. R. H. S. LEE:--I would like to ask a supplementary question, Mr. Chairman. In view of the very heavy building programme that occurs in the urban areas, I wonder whether the Chairman would care to ask the Department to go into this question more thoroughly so as to have the streets of the urban areas washed more frequently than once a week?
CHAIRMAN :—Yes.
MOTIONS.
MR. C. Y. KWAN, Chairman of the Cemeteries, Mortuaries and Crematoria Select Committee, moved the following resolution :-
"RESOLVED that New Kowloon Cemetery No. 8 (Diamond Hill Urn Cemetery), Kowloon, and Mount Caroline
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Cemetery, So Kon Po, listed in Part I of the Fifth Schedule to the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, be closed as public cemeteries."
He said: The action contemplated by the resolution is nothing new, because the two cemeteries referred to in the resolution have in fact been closed for over ten years, so far as burials are concerned. The Mount Caroline Cemetery was declared closed as long ago as October 1947 and the New Kowloon Cemetery No. 8 was declared closed in July 1950, and no burial has been allowed to take place in either of them since then.
When the new Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance came into force on the 11th November, 1960, the two cemeteries concerned were listed in Part I of the Fifth Schedule as places set apart for use as public cemeteries. This may give rise to a misunderstanding that the cemeteries in question may once again be used for burials, but, of course, that was not the intention and is not the case.
In order to clarify the position that the two cemeteries in question are to remain closed as public cemeteries a resolution of the Council to this effect is required and I, therefore, ask Council to pass the resolution standing in my name.
MR. Y. K. KAN seconded.
The question was put.
The Motion was carried.
MR. Y. K. KAN, under Standing Order 10(3), moved the following resolution on behalf of Mr. A. de O. SALES, Chairman of the Urban Amenities Select Committee : -
"RESOLVED that the Swimming Pools By-laws, 1961, be made under section 42 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, No. 30 of 1960.”
MR. K. A. WATSON seconded.
The question was put.
The Motion was carried.
DR. R. H. S. LEE, Chairman of the Environmental Hygiene Select Committee, moved the following resolution:-
"RESOLVED that the Basements By-laws, 1961, be made under section 88 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, No. 30 of 1960.”
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