lind a very lengthy meeting on Thursday, in the course of which they dealt with numerous questions and had some heated discussions. His Excellency the Governor having submitted a minute proposing a plan for" model Chinese house, properly ventilated and lighted, Mr. Fung Wa-chuen Some discussion occurred on a suggestion from the Governor that—the use of quicklime in the burial of plague could be. discontinued, and ssu! ject to the proviso t at more durable coffins should he used it was recommended that the use of quicklime be discontinued. In reply to the application by the Board for the erection of a refuse-destructor, the Governor expressed the opinion that' the incinerstor for the cremation of cattle should be tried for the purpose. On the motion of Dr. Clark it was resolved to reply to the effect that the cattle incinerator will give no indigestion as to the advantages o disadvantages of a refuse destructor in Victoris. Next came on a motion by Mr. Osborne having for its object. that persons suffering from plague be allowed to remain in their own hotes, provided all other persons occupying the same floor are removed, except three adults to attend the patient and provided a written cettiticate he produced from medical practitioner he has charge of the case. 'This was an honest attempt on the part of the only unofficial member of the Board to provide an alternative to the present objectionable practice of sending eases in our ambulance two, three, or more miles to the hospital at' Kennedy Town under the burning sun in charge of callous coolies, jin the course of which journey the tem-{perature of patients frequently rises to a dangerous and often fatal point. There is much to be said in favour of some efforts i to reduce the terrible' evils all cases hurriedly off to hospial, but the alternative suggested by Mr. Osborne while it found sympathisers gained no supporters on the Board, and era Tong. discussion fell through.
nother motion by Mr. Usborne that the bodies of Chinese who have died of the plague may be coffined in the usual mauner and removed frou the colony without any restrictions was carried with only one dissentient. Another question of Some importance was the provision of a plague cemetery, and after sume discussion was decided 10 recommend giving up the present cemetery at Mount Davis, which the first object seen ow entering the harbour by the Green Island Channel, and [to inter the bodies at Sandy Bay until a Detter place em be found.
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