March 7, 1904.]
HONGKONG SANITARY
BOARD
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held on the 26th ult. in the Board Room. Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson (Presi 'eat) presided, The and there were also pres at Hon. A. W Brewin, Registrar-General; Mr. Lau Chu Pak, Mr. Fung Wa Chun; Colouel W. E. Webh, .A.M.C.; Mr. E. A. Howatt, Mr. A. Kumjahn; Dr. W. W. Pearse, Acting Medical Officer of Health; Dr. B. Barnett, Assistant Medical Officer of G. A. Woodcock (Secretary) and Mr. T. A. Health Mr. Hanmer (Asssitant Secretary).
DRAINAGE.
Mr. RUMJAHN put the following questions to the President:-
1. Will the President be good enough to lay on the table the draioag plans of Nos. 46 to 60, Caine Road (eight houses), situate on Section A of Inland Lot No. 421, Nos. 27 to 37, Des Vœux Load Central (six houses), situate on the Southern Portion of Reclamation of Marine Lot 10, and Nos. 18 to 23, Connaught Road Central (six houses), situate ou the Northern Portion of Marine Lot 10a?
2. Will the President. be pleased to direct the Sanitary Surveyor to inform the Board in writing of the advantages and disadvantages of the system introduced by him or adopted with his.consent into the hous s in Des Voeux Rod Central and Caine Road?
3-Will the Presidout be pleased to direct the Acting Medical Officer of Health to report on the drainage system as introduced into the houses in Des Voeux Road and Caine Road from a lygienic and public health point of view ?
The PRESIDENT stated that the plans referred to in the first question would be laid on the
table.
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The Sanitary Surveyor (Mr. J. J. Bry u) answered :-
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Certainly a nuisance was created by the filthy water of one tenement passing through the yard of the next. But the nuisance was really caused; as the Sanitary Surveyor had pointed out, by the negligence of the tenants themselves. The surface channel was only intended to quantity of sullage water. take off the rain water and a minimum But the Surv{yo, had to couteud with extreme difficulties with laues, and therefore he did not think the regard to the levels of the yards and Surveyor was at all to blame for the nuisquco which had arisen. In some such case the only possible way of draining was to take the surface channel. In cases where the scavenging lane chanu-1 through the yard into the storm water was higher in level than the yard of the house could got there were several ways in which the Surveyor over the difficulty. He might channel from put & trap in the yard. lay a surface or have an underground drain.
house to tho other. ground drain however neces-ilated a trap in An under- every ·ard, big enough to take off the maxi- mum of storm water and small enough to be self-cleansing in the dry season, such trap would be, so to speak, a cesspool But every and it was not a good thing to multiply traps; water wou'd get into the trups in the dry weather a certain amount of sullige he did not think that such a 3-stem of drainge On the whole by underground pipo or sewer would be more sanitary than the present system. In the dry weather it would be found that the dow be sufficient to properly clause such a drain, of running water from the yard would not He did not think the Surveyor was at all to blame for adopting this system of surface drainage. The nuisance had arisau because the p ople themselves wero negligent In several in the chanuel leading from one house to duo- cases the gratings which had been put up ther bad been broken or removed so as to enable neighbours' yard, the tenants to sweep their dirty water into their
agreed that the replies to his question should At the request. of Mr. Rumjahn, it was be circulated.
GENERAL CLEANSING,
The Medical Officer of Health reported that the general cleansing of the Colony was com- pleted on the 8th inst. In all, 31,226 floors were cleused. waters The President minuted :-"This is very satisfactory. I understand that the censing has been again resumed in Health Districts 9 and 11 under the supervision of the special plague staff?"
and 10 have been cleansed again.
Dr. Pearse :-"Yes; 1,922 floors in H. D. 9
The President :---
be extended to the other Health Districts, at any This re-cleansing might rate until plague becomes prevalent,”
cleansing."
Mr. E. A. Hewett miuuted:-" Continue
deed. What has the whole general cleansing Mr. A. Rumjahn:-"Very satisfactory in- cost, and what was the total cost of fumigation in 1902 ?"
C4, §6122,99; 1901-02, $81.352.80.
The Secretary:-" General cleansing-1903
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once there was little disturbance by latenrrivals, The concert opened in good time, and for The first part op ned with a part song by the piece was excellently rendered, but for s full force of the Society of 21 voices. This slight tendency on the part of the sopranos to be just a shade too lond, thus, to of the other voices. This was specially noti- a certain extent, overshadowing the blending ceable in the second vers›, otherwise the song interpretation of the Society. The was given with all the well-known careful was à quintette for flute, violins, viola, 'cello and pianoforte, which was very well expressed Text item
(Trimble, Miller and chmidt. The song "Life," by Mrs. Ough, Messrs. Chopard, Gonzales, by Mr. W. E. Schmidt, whose splendid voice was heard to the best advantage, secured an instantaneous encore, though encores were not responded to in the first part. One of the gems of the evening was Mrs. Carl Johnson's (of her beautiful contralto voice reminding us very Amoy) delivery of her much of that of the late Madame Antoinette song Song of a heart,"
Sterling, ringing out and expressing every This lady ought certainly to be heard again cidence with consummate grace and taste. n Hongkong. The violin solo of Mrs, Ough needs but little mention, as "Romance"
known here for her finis'ted execution and skill are to well us to say more than that commander of the bow. she fully maintained her reputation as
The part song Orpheus and his late" brought the ärst part to a close, and here again the chorus was paying closer attention to the marks. The Tu complete touch with its leader, the second part, af er an interval of ten minutes, sopranos
opened with trio for violin, 'cello and pianoforte, Mrs. Ough, and Messrs. Grimble rendering well a somewh t lengthy selection from in the Glea Mendelssobu.. This was followed by the Chorus " When Allau-a-Dale went a hunting," which was a very good selection and earned rounds of applause, being quite the best tendency on the part of some of the audience to chorns of the evening, as was manifest from a
join the refraiù. Mr. Schmidt was again pleasing in I had a flower," and was forced to respond to
Another gem of the evening followed in the pianoforte solos of Madame Candutti, who is a charming, nuaffected pianiste, and a perfect artiste in her seemingly, rippling from her finger-tips. Her complete command over the keys, the music selections
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an encore.
and “Valse" by Labadie, for which she received Were "Barcarolle by Rubinstein.
an undeniablo encore, to which she gracefully responded with some operatic selections. We hope to hear more from this charming perfor- the solos to a close with Ever so far away." in mer's hands. Mrs. Carl John on then brought which she agaiu maintained her high standard of rendering, but was unable to respond to an urgent call for more.
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sent the audience away in happy mood, after The concert was closed by the chorus, who their Cradle Song," to seek the "soft and dreamless sleep" snag of in th final item, while | Mr. Ward played "God Save the King."
Among those present were H.E. Mr. F. H. May, Mrs. Government House.
May, and a party from
The drainage of both these blocks of property | lías been designed with a view of preventing an excessive amount of rain water from entering the sewers, and of diverting it to the storm water drains. In the block iu Caine Road each yard is provided with trapped inlets to an
two uuderground drain; these two inlets receive the waste rom the bath rooms and kitchens. Through the centre of the yards runs a surface channel which is intended to take the rain water from one half of the roofs of the houses, the other half being taken down the front of the houses by rain water pipes which discharge into the Govern- ment side channel in Caine Road. This surface chaunel has a trap fixed at its lower oud, to intercept any sullage water that may find its way into the channel. This trap is connected to the sewer and the channel is connected to the sewer, and the chanuel is continued beyond this trap and discharges into the Government side channel in Caine Road. The rain water from the servants' quarters is carried off by the surface channel in the lane at rear. In the case of the Des Voeux Road block the sullage water from | kitchen and bath rooms is brought into au underground drain, which runs down the lane, between the two blocks of houses, and is con- nected with the sewer in Douglas Street, Half the rain water from the roofs of konses in Connaught Road is conducted into the yards, and carried off by surface channels into a main surface channel laid in the lane. The dry weather flow of this channel is interrupted from this storm water drain. The level of the THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S yards of houses in Des Voeux Road did not permit of the rain water being taken into the lane, so a surface channel was laid through the Two circumstances combined to cause yards. Any sullage water which may get into somewhat poor attendance at the concert, the this channel is intercepted by a trap fixed in the first of a series, which was held in S. Andrew's has been received from North Chinchou report- The Shanghai Sinwenpao states that a despatch yard of the west end house, and the storm Hall on the 5th instant. The first was the facting that a body of five hundred Chinese "Mounted overflow is connected to the Government that the Dallas Company were giving their final Bandits," channel in Douglas Sirent. The advantages performance of the season, in the Theatre Royal, while stationed
enrolled by the Russian authorities, of this system are:-a minimum quantity of and the second was that the clouds, which had open mutiny the other day upon receipt of at Dalny broke out into storm water is taken into the sewors and the sullage water is prevented from entering the
began plundering the town. This created a news of Russian reverses at Port Arthur and storm water draius. Provided that the tenants do not misuse the system I do not think it has
panic amongst the Russians in Dalay and any disadvantages.
would have ended seriously for them had by the Russians and a promise made to give a not the leader of the Bandits been bought off monthly sum of $1.500 to the Bandits if they would keep quiet.
Dr. PEARSE, replying to the third question, said he was prepared to grant that the drainage system in these blocks had certain disadvantages
Hon. Mr. Pollock:-"Continus cleansing." was being continued.
The PRESIDENT stated that the re-cleansing
RATS.
rats were killed; of these 18 were found to be During the fortnight ended 22nd iust. 411 infected.
This was all the important public business.
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been lowering all day, hagan to drop down a dreary drizzle, which toon made everything out of doors nnpleasantly damp, while chairs were at a premium. But these disadvantages not- nounced an unqualified success, for which withstanding, this first concert must be pro- Messrs. G. Grimble and A. G. Ward, accom- panists and conductors, deserve all praise.
The following formed the Chorus, who, with Messrs. Ward and Grimble, deserve hearty achieved:-Sopranos: Mesdames surray Bair, congratulations upon the brilliant success
Bell, Hagen, Johnson, and eth. Contraltos: Lady Good can; Mesdames Dickson, Drayson, Sir W. M. Goodman; Messrs. Dow, Edwards, Goodman, C. Goodman, and Siebs. Tenors:
Parker, and White. Basses: Messrs. Beavis, Crofton, L. Lammert, Terrill, and Wacker.
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