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THE HONGKONG
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Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, FRIDAY, 11TH MAY, 1894.
No. 24.
號四十二第
日七初月四年午甲
VOL: XL.
日一十月五年四十九百八千一
簿十四集
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 175.
The following Bye-laws made under section 32 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, and
approved by the Governor in Council this day, are published for general information.
By Command,
J. G. T. BUCKLE. Acting Clerk of Councile.
L.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 11th May, 1894.
Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board, under the authority of Section 3P
of
"The Public Health Ordinance, 1887," for the prevention and. mitigation of the Epidemic, Endemic or Contagious Disease now affecting the Colony known as the Bubonic Plague.
1. All persons attacked by or suffering from the said disease in any stage shall be promptly removed to the Hygeia or to such other public Hospital temporary or permanent as shall be, from time to time, appointed by the Sanitary Board.
2. The bodies of all persons dying from the said disease within the Colony, and the bodies of all persons dying from the said disease elsewhere which are brought within the Colony, shall be buried in à special place to be set apart for that purpose by the said Board in such manner and with such pre- cautions as shall from time to time be directed by the said Board.
3. All persons knowing or having reason to believe that any person has been attacked or is suffering from the said disease or from any disease appearing to resemble it shall notify the same without delay to the nearest Police Station, or to some public office or officer, and the officer receiving any such notification verbal or written shall notify the same with the least possible delay to the said Board or to some Inspector or officer thereof.
4. The said Board by its officers will provide for the removal to the Hygeia or other appointed place of all persons suffering from the said disease, and no removals shall take place except under the orders of the said Board or of one of its authorised officers or of a duly qualified medical practitioner, and then only in such manner and with such precautions as the said Board shall from time to time direct.
5. The said Board will remove or cause to be removed for burial all bodies found in the Colony of persons who have died from the said disease, and will bury or cause the same to be buried 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 shall remove or bury any such bodies.