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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1888.
Punishwcal for con travention of Bye-Laws.
Bye-Laws to be published in the Gazette.
Board to
Bupervise
execution of
Bye-Laws.
Inspection of preinises.
Premises overcrowde·1.
Proclamation
to extend to waters of the Colony.
Drains.
Materials to be used for drains.
Sizes and falls of drains.
Any person committing any infraction of the above- mentioned Bye-Laws shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment not exceeding six months.
33. The Board by such Bye-Laws may provide:
1. For the speedy and safe disposal of the dead. 2. For house to house visitation.
3. For the dispensing and distribution of medicines. 4. For providing such accommodation and medical
aid as may be required.
5. For the destruction of infected bedding, clothing,
or other articles.
6. For the compulsory vacating of houses.
7. For any such matters or things as may to the Board appear advisable for preventing or mitigating such disease.
34. Such Bye-Laws after approval by the Governor in Council, shall be published in the Government Gazette.
35. The Board shall, through its Officers, superintend the execution of such Bye-Laws, and shall act, and shall provide all such things as may be advisable for mitigating such disease, or for superintending or aiding in the execution of such Bye-Laws, or for executing the same, as the case may require.
36. Any officers or persons authorised in that behalf by the Board may enter at any reasonable time during the day or night, and inspect any premises where they have ground for believing that any person has recently suffered from or died of any such disease, or that necessity may otherwise exist for excenting in relation to such premises any of such Bye-Laws.
37. When any such Proclamation is in force, and upon any evidence that the Board may deem sufficient that any premises are so overcrowded as to be injurious to health, the Board shall have power to make such Order as it shall see fit to abate such overcrowding, and the house-holder, tenant, or occupier of such premises who shall permit such overcrowding to continue after such Order shall have been served on him, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day during which such overcrowding shall continue, and in default of payment he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding three months.
38. All Proclamations of the Governor in Council for executing the provisions contained in Sections 32 to 37 of this Ordinance, both inclusive, shall extend to the waters of the Colony, and the Board may issue, under the said Proclamations, by virtue of the provisions of Section 32, Bye-Laws for vacating, cleansing, purifying, and ventilating vessels.
PART III.
39. Every owner of a new building erected within the City of Victoria shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty, at a point in the upper half-diameter of such sewer.
40. Every owner of a new building within the City of Victoria shall, in the construction of every drain of such building, use good sound pipes, formed of cast iron, jointed with lead, or hard, well glazed, stone-ware socketted pipes, jointed water-tight in cement mortar composed of at least one part of good cement to three equal parts of clean sand. Black bricks shall not be used in the construction of any house-drains intended for the conveyance of sewage. Red bricks may be used, provided they are hard and sound, and that they are set in cement mortar of the foregoing description, and that the interior surface of the drain is also smoothly rendered with the same mortar.
41. Every owner shall cause every such drain to be of adequate size, such size to be approved by the Board, and in no case to be less than six inches internal diameter. Where the ground is soft, such drain shall be laid in a bed of good lime concrete. Every house-drain shall be laid with a proper fall, to the satisfaction of the Board,