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or any other duly qualified Medical practitioner order the removal of such person to such suitable hospital or other like place as may be provided for the purpose.
6. Where any tenement has been occupied by any person affected with Small-pox or other infectious or contagions disease, the Colonial Surgeon may give notice in writing to the owner or occupier to disinfect and purify such tenement, in such manner and within such time as the Colonial Surgeon may direct, and if the person to whom notice is so given fails to comply therewith, he shall be liable on conviction thereof before a Magistrato to such fine as will in the opinion of the Magistrate suffice to cover the expense of disinfect- ing and purifying such tenement, which fine shall be paid over to the Sanitary Board for the purposes of this Ordinance, and to a further penalty not exceeding $5 for every day during which he continnes to make default, and the Colonial Surgeon may cause such tenement to be disinfected and purified.
7. In case of emergency the Sanitary Board may order the immediate removal of any noxions accumulation and the closing up of such wells, cess-pools or drains, in any tenement, as in their opinion may be immediately injurious to the Public Health, and the cost incurred shall be chargeable either to the occupants of such tenements, or to the public as the Board shall decide.
8. No person shall, after the passing of this Ordinance, creet a water-closet within his tenement, or connect such water-closet by means of a connection-drain with any public or private sewer, without the written permission of the Sanitary Board.
9. All night-soil and urine shall vest in and become the absolute property of the Government night-soil Contractors for the time being and the disposal of it shall be subject to regulations to be made under this Ordinance. Provided, that the liceneces of public latrines shall still be at liberty to dispose of the night-soil from latrines existing at the time of the passing of this Ordinance under the regulations in force at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, and that the owners of gardens in villages, may use on their own lands the waste products of their tenements if conveyed according to such regulations.
10. All householders within the City of Victoria shall provide themselves with suitable dust-boxes in accordance with a pattern deposited for the inspection of the public, at the District Police Stations in the city, and all the day's house-sweepings, ashes, offal, and refuse, shall be deposited in the dust-box, and in no place or receptacle other than the dust-box which shall be at all times maintained in duc repair by the owner.
11. The keeping of pigs, gouts, or cattle without a Licence from the Sanitary Board is hereby prohibited, and any person keeping such animals, either without a Licence from the Sanitary Board or in a manner contravening, such Sanitary Conditions as may be endorsed on such Licence, shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding $5, and in default of payment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 14 days, and to forfeit all animals in respect of the keeping of which he has so offended.
12. The Governor in Council may from time to time make and when made, revoke, add to, or alter regulations for the carrying out of all laws relating to Sanitation and especially for the better removal by householders and public contractors, of night-soil, urine, dust, rubbish or filth collected or deposited or remaining on any tenement and may by such regulations affix penalties not exceeding in any case $100 or imprisonment with or without hard labour for 3 months for the breach of any such regulations to be recovered on summary conviction of the offender before a Magistrate. 13. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 8th day of June, 1883.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 13th Jay of June, 1883.
W. H. MARSIL,
Calonin! Secretary,
Disinfecting
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Power to renove noxious aC - mulation, &c.
freeion of water-closets.
Night-soil aud urine the property of the night-soil Contractors.
Householders
to provide dust-bovus.
Keeping pigs,
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Governen in Council uny mske regula- Lions.
Date of coming into operation,