THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1898.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to make further provision for the sanitation of the Colony and to repeal certain enactments of the closed houses and insanitary dwellings Ordinance, 1894.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Insanitary Pro- Short title. perties Ordinance, 1898.
2. In this Ordinance unless the contrary intention Interpreta- appears,-
The expression "Street" shall include any square, court or alley, highway, lane, road, or passage whether a thoroughfare or not:
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The expression "Domestic Building' means any human habitation or building where persons, other than two caretakers, pass the night :
The expression "Owner" shall mean the holder of
any tenement direct from the Crown whether under lease, licence or otherwise, or the agent of any such holder if such holder is absent from the Colony or under disability.
tion.
3. No room fitted with bunks or beds shall be so fitted Limit of as thereby to provide sleeping accommodation for a greater fittings for number of persons than are by law permitted to occupy the
room.
sleeping ac-
commodation in a room,
4. The following regulations shall be observed with Regulations regard to cubicles and partitions :—
(a.) In houses fronting streets of a width of less than 15 feet, no cubicles or partitions shall be erected, or if already existing shall be allowed to remain, except on the top floor.
(b.) In houses fronting streets of a width of 15 feet or over, no cubicles or partitions other than [R] "p'ing fung" (ie., shop divisions) shall be erected, or if already existing shall be allowed to remain, on the ground floor, and in the case of every such "ping fung" there must be a space between the top of the cubicles or partitions and the ceiling or under side of the joists of the room of not less than four feet, which may be closed in only by wire netting, lattice work or carved woodwork, arranged. in such a way as to leave at least two-thirds open and as far as practicable evenly distributed. (c.) No cubicles or partitions shall be erected, or if already existing shall be allowed to remain, in any kitchen.
(d.) Where one cubicle only is hereafter erected or already exists in any room of a domestic building, no portion of the structure of such cubicle shall exceed eight feet in height; where two cubicles only are so erected or exist, no portion of the struc- ture of either of such cubicles shall exceed seven feet in height; where more than two cubicles are so erected or exist, no portion of the structure of any such cubicles shall exceed six feet in height. In all cases, however, there must be a space between the top of every portion of the structure of such cubicles and the ceiling or under side of the joists of the room of not less than four feet, which may be closed only by wire netting, lattice work or carved woodwork, arranged in such a way as to leave at least two-thirds open, and as far as practicable evenly distributed.
(e.) No cubicles whatever shall be erected in any room of a domestic building, or if already existing shall be allowed to remain, where such room has a window area of less than one-tenth of the floor area, and such floor area shall not in any case be less than that laid down in the substituted section 67 of the Public Health Ordinance, 1887, as set out in section 9 of Ordinance 15 of 1894.
as to cubicles.
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