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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MARCH, 1895.
disease in any stage may be promptly removed to the Hygeia or to such other public Hospital tem- porary or permanent as shall be, from time to time, appointed by the Sanitary Board, provided that such persons are not in the written opinion of a legally qualified and registered medical prac- titioner being treated without danger to the public health unless so removed.
18. The bodies of all persons dying from any epidemic, endemic, infectious or contagious disease within the Colony, and the bodies of all persons dying from such disease elsewhere which are brought within the Colony, shall be buried or cremated in such place to be set apart for that purpose by the Sanitary Board in such manner and with such precautions as shall from time to time be directed by the said Board, provided always that the Sanitary Board, under the hand of its Secretary, shall have previously certified that it is necessary that persons dying from such disease shall be buried or cremated in such place.
19. All persons knowing or having reason to believe that any person has been attacked or is suffering from bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox or from such other disease as may be from time to time duly notified in the Government Gazette, or from any disease appearing to resemble such diseases, shall notify the same without delay to the nearest Police Station, or to some public office or officer, and the officer receiving any such notifica- tion verbal or written shall notify the same with the least possible delay to the Sanitary Board or to some Inspector or officer thereof.
20. The Sanitary Board by its officers may provide for the removal to the Hygeia or other appointed place of all persons suffering from such diseases, and no removals shall take place except under the orders of the said Board or of one of its authorised officers or of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner, and then only in such manner and with such precautions as the said Board shall from time to time direct. No such removal shall take place provided that a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner certifies that such persons are being properly treated with-- out danger to the public health.
21. The Sanitary Board may remove or cause to be removed for burial or cremation all bodies found in the Colony of persons who have died from such diseases and may bury or cremate or cause the same to be buried or cremated in such manner and with such precautions as the said Board may from time to time direct, and no persons other than the officers of the said Board deputed by the said Board to bury or cremate shall remove or bury or cremate any such bodies.
22. In any neighbourhood affected by such diseases and within such limits as shall from time to time be defined by the Sanitary Board, the officers of the said Board duly authorised in writing may make a house to house visitation for the purpose of inspecting the sanitary condition. of any premises so visited and of all and every part thereof, and of ascertaining whether there
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