November 21, 1903.]
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
process only takes place where the articles | for purposes of preparation and storage of are treated with liquid limewash, and not food. The plans herewith show the said after it has dried. I would suggest that all basement, which is well lit and ventilated by wooden structures used in pawnshops in large windows to external air of adequate their entirety be oil painted, and oil-paint area; the walls abutting against earth will be work be washed down during the lime- rendered with cement up to full height, and the washing periods.
other walls up to 4 ft. high. The basement will be free from damp and rat-proof (Sd) Chan Cheung Fong (John Lemm, architect).
The PRESIDENT moved that the occupiers
informed as to the M. O. H.'s opinion. MR. FUNG WA CHUN Seconded and it was
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The M. O. H. minuted:-- I think it would be well if the Board would direct that a letter be sent to each pawnbroker saying that in default of having the r shelves pain-be ted or polished so as to allow of their being properly cleansed by washing, limewashing agreed to. will be insisted on.
SOAP-BOILING.
The President mihuted:- These shelves undoubtedly get very dirty, covered with in respect of No. 13, Queen's Road East was An application for a soap-boiling licence dust, etc. The recommendation of the M.O.H.submitted. seems to be a practical one.
The Vice-President minuted:- The best remely will be to have the shelves painted as suggested.
The PRESIDENT moved that the M. O. H.'s suggestion be adopted
Mr. FUNG WA CHUN seconded and it was carried.
4.
DUST-BINS.
The following correspondence, signed J. P. Conolly (31st ult.), was laid on the table :- Sir, Dr. Barnett instructed
me at last meeting to write to you to ask if it was the Board's intention to enforce section 7 of the scavenging and conservancy bye-laws, which relate to occupiers providing themselves with dust-bins. My reason for asking for instructions is that the large majority of occupants of houses in Nos. 9 and 10 districts are very poor people and the price of the approved dust-bin being quite beyond their
means.
The President minuted :-How do they house the rubbish at present!
Mr. Rumjahn minuted As long as house hold rubbish is allowed to remain in the premises overnight, no good can be attained whether a dust-bin or any other utensil is used.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak minuted :-I object to the enforcement of section 7. It is most unreasonable to compel the poor to spend four or five dollars for an approved dust-bin. Baskets are good enough for the purpose.
The PRESIDENT moved that the matter be left to the sanitary inspector's discretion.
COLONEL WEBB asked why not require the owner of the property and not the occupier to provide dust-bins.
Mr. FUNG WA CHUN explained that if this were done the occupier would have to pay for it just the same.
The matter was left for the sub-committee.
NO. 166, QUEEN'S ROAD. Futher correspondence, dated 27th ult., relative to using the basement of No. 166, Queen's Road Central for the preparation of food, has been received by the Sanitary Board: Sir, in reply to your letter dated the 23rd inst. I beg to inform you that I am not able to make an area at the side of No. 166 Queen's Road Central, and that I have ceased using the ground floor for the preparation of food I have also removed the oven from the main room of No. 117, Wellington Street, first floor, and request that you grant me a bakehouse licence (Sd.) Lam Yip Sang.
THE PRESIDENT moved that the application be granted.
Capt. LYONS Seconded and it was agreed.
FOOD STORAGE.
The following was an application for permis- sion to use the basement of No. 63, First Street for the preparation and storage of food:-I have the honour to state that I am the owner and occupier of No. 63, First Street, used together with the 1st and 2nd floors of 65, First Street, by me as a Chinese pawnbroking
aga establishment for 19 years, under the name of Hu Cheong. The ground, first and second floors of No. 63, and first and second floors of No. 65, are used for storage of goods in pawn, and by eight to ten employees of the establishment. There are not any kitchen arrangements on any of these floors, as the risk from fire to the valuable goods stored would be too great. I therefore beg to request that the permit of the Sanitary Board be given, under Sec. 45, Ord. 1 of 1903, to use the basement under 63
inspect the building.
DR. BARNETT said that he had been to He did not know whether the application for a licence was to or as a renewal. Though not possessed of a be considered on the footing of a new licence license the concern had been in existence some considerable time.
DR. PEARSE said it must be considered as a new license.
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regulations were not so stringently enforced as in large houses.
been given by the Roard, and the basement Mr.BUMJAHN said that no permission had could not be utilised for the preparation of food.
being prepared there since the removal of The M.O.H. said that food was not
the oven.
Mr. RUMJAHN begged to be allowed to withdraw his second question.
The public proceedings then terminated.
NOTFS FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS.
Just nine years ago seeds of Tithonia diversifolia were received from the Botanic Gardena, Ceylon, from which several plants were raised. These flowersd in the following November and afterwards perfected seed. The plants are perennial, but if s edlings by raised annually they flower in less than a year from the lime of sowing. There are several specimens in the shrubberies in both the old and the now gardens, and specimens may now be met with
The PRESIDENT moved that the license be granted conditionally.
MR. RUMJAHN seconded and it was carried in various other gardens in the colour. The
LICENSES,
Nineteen applications for various food licenses, or renewal of such licenses, were considered. Some were granted and others refused.
WATER ANALYSIS.
Mr. Frank Browne is of opinion from analysis The water analysis was laid on the table. that water from wells situated at Un Chow Village and Un Lun garden is so tainted with impurities as to he unfit for potable Purposes and likely to prove injurious to
health.
THE RAT RETURN.
The return for the fortnight ended 16th November was laid on the table. 2.313 per cent of the rats caught were found to be infected.
KENNEDY TOWN CATTLE-SHED.
The new cattle shed at Kennedy Town is practically completed. In consequence of the additional sheds sanctioned since contract No. 11 of 1903 was let, the compound sur- rounding the shed has not been finished, but this will not interfere with the use of the shed.
NO. 218 HOLLYWOOD ROAD.
species grows to a height of 8 or 9ft., and as many feet through. Tue flower-hos∙ls, which are yellow an 4 or 5 inches across, are produced at the end of the branches, and sight. The species, like most other members of à bash iu full flower makes a very pleasing the genus, is a native of Mexic, and belongs to that very large family of plants, Composite.
be met with in Hongkong, and at the present There are several very decorativ, grasses to time two or three are in flower, and one of these, Saccharum arundinaceum, may be seen at the bottom of the walk leading up to the No. 1 house. This plant is also a native of the plains and low hills of India, and has been found in Ceylon. It grows to a height of 10 or 20ft. panicles, 1 to 2ft. long. It is a near relative of with erest, ovoid, generally oream-coloured the sugar-caue and bears the same generic name. No rainfall, excepting .02 of an inch on the 3rd, has been recorded this month.
THE JUBILEE FUND ROAD ACCOUNT.
We have received from the Hon. W. Chat- ham, Hon. Sec. the following statement of account :-
interest to 28-2. 9)
RECEIPTS.
$ 0.
97,849.92
..$114,748.02
Transfer from general account (including Interet, from 28-2.99 to closing of account 16,898.10
Total
EXPENDITURE.
road and connecting path to road from Peak Less amount paid by Govern-
ment
Engineers' commission Overseer's wages ........
C.
106,146.00
524.25
105,621.75
5,3 6.90 1,759,00
(1) That the Medical Officer of Health he MR. HUMJAHN, pursuant to notice, moved:
requested to furnish the Board with the following particulars in respect to the kitchen, the ground surface, and the inlet to the drain of the ground-floor of No. 218, Hollywood Road for which a bake-house licence was issued on the 4th instant:(a) State whe Contract for construction of $ ther the kitchen is a basement: and if it is, whether it is in compliance with the provisions of Section 45 of the Public Health and Buil- dings Ordinance, 1903. (b) State whether the ground surface complies with the provis- ions of Rule 2 of the bake-house bye-laws. (c) The inlet to the drain being in the back- yard state whether it is in accordance with the provisions of Rule 4 of the bake house bye-laws. The bake-houses licence had been granted after people had been sent to make a report on the premises. He visited the place and found it in a very unsatisfactory state the grating was only half the size it might with regard to the floor, and interior wall, be, and there was also an abominable smell in the yard. The grating was not rut-proof. THE PRESIDENT said that the M. O. H had visited the premises and would tell what he had found.
The M.O.H. said that he had visited the prenises two days before Mr. Rumjahn, and he had issued instructions regarding his action when the new licenses came up in January. The kitchen was a basement and the gratings were not rat-proof. The ground had been apparently repaired, there being a fair surface. When he visited the premises he found the oven being put into the front room. The front of the premises was being used; the back would not be used for baking. The PRESIDENT said that in these cases the
Miscellaneous, including survey- ing expenses (P.W.D.) out. ting preliminary tracks and part cost of altering tale-` graph cables
Hongkong, 28th October, 1903.
2,066.37
114,748.9-
of the Mother Superior of the French Convent, Saturday, the 14th instant, was the birthday and, in accordance with ancient custom, the Convent was en fête during the day.. The papils were given a holiday, and some of the elder ones occupied part of the morning' with decorating the class-rooms with flowers, and foliage. In the afternoon the Mother Superior was given a surprise by having the girls wait upon her with dainty offerings of flowers, with congratulatory greeting for "many happy returns." Afterwards light refre hments were handed round, and the evening ended in musig songs and games, in which the sisters of the convent assisted, and a very happy day for the pupils ended with the singing of an ode to the Mother Superior, and finally 4 Got Bare he King."
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