THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH JANUARY, 1889.
VOTES PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Treasurer, by direction of His Excel- lency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the Report of the proceedings of the Finance Committee (No. 31) dated the 12th instant, and moved that the following Votes referred to therein be passed :—
C.S.O.
2912 of 1888.
C.S.O. 2920 of 1888.
SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES FOR 1888. SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS. Works and Buildings.
Cost of works designed for supplying, with water, houses at the Albany, situated
above the level of the Pokfulam Conduit,
Additional for Repairs to Buildings,
$1,500.00 5,300.00
$ 6,800.00
The Surveyor General seconded.
Question-put and passed.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE REFORMATORY SCHOOLS ORDINANCE, 1886.-The Attorney General moved the second reading of this Bill.
The Acting Treasurer seconded. Question-put and passed.
Bill read a second time.
ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned sine die.
Read and confirmed, this. 2nd day of January, 1889.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX,
Governor.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 1.
The following Bye-Laws under The Public Health Ordinance, [1887, are published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK Stewart, Colonial Secretary.
Colonia! Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th January, 1889.
Bye-Laws made by the Sanitary Board of Hongkong for the compulsory reporting of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases under the provisions of Section 13 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, Sub-section 24.
1. The following Bye-Laws refer to Sinall-pox only.
2. The words "Medical Practitioner" shall include all persons of whatever nationality who practise medicine whether registered or not under Ordinance No. 6 of 1884.
3. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from Small-pox, and if such inmate be under the care of a Medical Practitioner the said Medical Practitioner shall forthwith furnish the Secretary to the Board or the Registrar General with a notification in writing of the name of such inmate and the situation of such premises.
4. If any such inmate be not under the care of a Medical Practitioner, the occupier or keeper of such premises or part of such premises or the nearest male adult relative living on such premises shall on the nature of the disease becoming known to him or on suspicion of the existence in such inmate of any such disease forthwith notify the same to the Secretary to the Board or the Registrar General or the Officer in charge of the nearest Police Station.
5. Such notification shall immediately on receipt thereof be transmitted by whomsoever received to the Secretary to the Board.
6. The Secretary to the Board shall upon application furnish every Medical Practitioner in the Colony, the Registrar General and every Officer in charge of a Police Station with the printed forms of notification to be used.
Hongkong, 20th December, 1888.
Approved by the Legislative Council, this 2nd day of January, 1889.
WM. EDWARD CROW,
Acting Secretary.
ARATHOON SETH, Caerk of Councils.
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