Special periodical cleansing to prevent or mitigate disease.
Conduct of
special
periodical
cleansing
and com- pensation for damage.
Unauthorised partitions
prohibited.
Ventilation
openings to be kept free from obstruction.
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Prevention and Mitigation of Disease.
7. The Council may at any time with a view to the prevention or mitigation of any epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease direct that a periodical cleansing shall be made of all the premises in any district or districts in which the Council may consider such cleans- ing necessary. Such periodical cleansing shall be carried out either by the staff of the Sanitary Department or by the inmates under the supervision of an officer of the Department to the satisfaction of a Health Officer or of such other officer as may be appointed for that purpose by the Council, and due notice of such cleansing shall be given to the inmates of such premises and such inmates may have all the furniture and goods removed therefrom.
All care shall be taken to prevent unnecessary interference with business, and, if the weather is unfavourable, the cleansing shall be discontinued or carried out in such a way as shall not expose the inmates and their effects and furniture to the weather.
8. The Council may declare any epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease to exist in any district or districts, and may direct that in such district or districts or any portion thereof a special general cleansing and disinfection of the premises shall be carried out under the direction of any officer of the Sanitary Department and to the satisfaction of a Health Officer. Such cleansing and disinfection may include the removal or destruction or both of any lath and plaster or other hollow partition wall, or any partition, screen, panelling, wainscotting, skirting, stairlining, ceiling or other similar structure, or any fittings or any portion of such wall, structure or fitting, if in the opinion of a Health Officer such removal and destruction are necessary. Compensation for sush removal or destruction shall be given by the Council unless it is proved on behalf of the Council that the wall, structure or fitting removed or destroyed has been unlawfully erected or maintained. Such compensation shall be calculated so as to cover the cost of making good the portions of the building damaged by such removal, including the limewashing of any exposed surface and the rebuilding of any necessary wall in materials approved by the Council, but no compensation shall be payable for any loss of rent or deterioration in the value of the property occasioned or alleged to be occasioned by the operation of these by-laws. In any case in which the amount claimed for compensation exceeds two hundred and fifty dollars, an appeal shall lie from the decision of the Urban Council as to the amount of the compensation to the Governor in Council whose decision thereon shall be final and conclusive: Provided however that no such appeal shall lie unless notice thereof shall have been given to the Clerk of Councils within fourteen days from the date upon which the appellant shall have been notified by the Urban Council of any such decision as aforesaid,
The Urban Council shall decide in each case whether the com- pensation, if any, is to be paid to the owner or to the occupier, and payinent in accordance with the decision of the Urban Council shall bar any further claim to compensation by owner or occupier. Provided that nothing in these by-laws shall affect the rights of the owners or occupiers inter se as to the ultimate apportionment of any compensation awarded.
The provisions of this by-law shall apply to the premises in any district in respect of which a special general cleansing and disinfection has been directed by the Council.
The Maintenance of Adequate Lighting and Ventilation. 9.-(1) No owner or occupier of any building shall partition off, or allow to be partitioned off, by means of any structure either perman. ent or temporary, any portion of any room in any domestic building without the approval of the Council expressed in writing.
(2) Plans of any proposed alterations shall be submitted to the Building Authority for comment before approval is given or work commenced.
10. The occupier of any domestic building shall at all times keep the windows and ventilating openings free from obstruction unless prevented by inclement weather or by the illness of any person occupy- ing such building.
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