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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH NOVEMBER, 1892.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 474.
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The following Bye-laws, Order and Rules, which were laid before the Legislative Council on the 16th instant, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th November, 1892.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
Bye-laws for licensing and regulating Common Lodging-Houses made under sub-section 12 of section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887 and sub-section D of section 1 of Ordinance No. 26 of 1890, approved
by the Legislative Council on the 23rd May, 1891, and
on the 9th November, 1891.
Bye-law 17 of the above-mentioned bye-laws is hereby revoked and the following bye-law is made in lieu thereof and numbered 17.
Bye-law 17.-These bye-laws shall not come into force until a day has been fixed by the Sanitary Board, approved by the Legislative Council, and published in the Gazette.
Made by the Sanitary Board, this 21st day of July, 1892.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.
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Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board under sub-section 10 of
section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887.
1. Every bake-house shall have an ample supply of good potable water and, except with the special permission of the Board, this water shall be laid on to the bake-house from the public water
mains.
2. Every bake-house shall be so drained as to be in accordance with the requirements of the Health Ordinance and the bye-laws made thereunder and, wherever practicable, the inlets to the drains shall be placed outside the rooms in which baking operations are carried on.
3. No water-closet, dry-closet, earth-closet, nor urinal shall be within or be in direct communi- cation with any bake-house.
4. Every bake-house shall be kept at all times in a cleanly condition and free from all noxious matter. The troughs, tables and utensils in use in the bake-house shall be thoroughly cleansed and the floors properly swept at least once in every twenty-four hours. The whole of the interior walls and the ceilings of the rooms of the bake-house shall be properly lime-washed and the wood work thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water during the first and seventh months of each year.
5. No animals shall be kept in a bake-house.
6. No person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease shall be permitted to take part in the manufacture or sale or delivery of bread or biscuits.
7. Every bake-house shall be, during the hours at which baking operations are carried on, open to inspection by the Sanitary Superintendent or any of the Board's officers duly deputed by him.
8. These bye-laws will come into force on and after the 1st day of January, 1893.
Made by the Sanitary Board, this 24th day of June, 1892.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.