THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH OCTOBER, 1890.
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BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANce to give fURTHER POWERS TO COMPANIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ALTERATION OF THEIR MEMORANDA OF ASSOCIATION."-The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned till Monday, the 13th October, at 3 P.M.
Bead and confirmed, this 13th day of October, 1890.
F. A. HAZELAND,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
:
F. FLEMING,
Officer Administering the Government.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 428.
The following Bye-laws under The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th October, 1890.
W. M. DEANE,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board of Hongkong and submitted to the Governor under sub-section 1 cf section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887.
Preliminary Explanatory Notes.
A. The following notes convey, in general terms, the principles that should guide the design and construction of house-drains. Before proceeding to lay down in detail the instructions which should be attended to, in order to apply the same satisfactorily; it must be observed that no code of instructions can possibly embrace every case that will occur. It must be remembered that no system of house-drainage that has yet been devised, or probably will ever be devised, does away with the necessity for care in use. The real remedy for the inconveniences which are too often experienced from house-drains lies, not in any elaboration of appliances, but in careful construction, careful use, and a reasonably liberal water supply. Without the co-operation of the public, the Sanitary Authority is almost powerless to effect improvement. It is therefore to be hoped that the public will assist, by insisting on good construction and the proper use of house-drains.
B. The object of a house-drain is to carry off, from the dwelling to the street-sewer, water fouled by use, together with all the solid or semi-solid refuse which is usually associated therewith, such as excrement of men or domestic animals, refuse from cooking and the like; in short, the foul liquid usually known as sewage.
C. The house-drain must be "self-cleansing." The sewage as produced in the daily life of the inmates, must flow through the drain with a current sufficiently rapid to sweep along with it all suspended matter, so that no permanent deposit can take place. A drain in which deposit takes place, is a cesspool in disguise, from which offensive emanations find their way into the dwelling; and from which putrid sewage flows into the street-sewers, making them exceedingly offensive. A