Chinese Livery Stables.—A license has been withdrawn from one proprietor (Ahung) who had been twice convicted of driving a pony with sore shoulders, Vaccination.—Your Committee approve of extending vaccination to the villages around Shanghai. Poor people are unable, in many instances, to bring their children' into the Settlements; and it is from these quarters that Shanghai is ina_great measure supplied with its market produce. Further, a. stock of ¥: lymph is thus maintained; the stock often endangered by the parents of children living within the Settlements neglecting to bring children that have been vaccinated, back again to the Gutzlaif Hospital at the end of a week.
Tenders for Night Soil and Sweeping of Streets—The tener by Tsang Aly Nook for $345 per month has been recommended for acceptance. Tsang Ah Nook finds security for $ 1,000.
Shanghai Public Garen.—Your Committee have found it necessary, owing to complaints being made on the subject, to prohibit coolies engaged in wheeling perambulators and carrying chairs, from congregating in the Public Garden.
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