THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23rd JUNE, 1883.
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10.--Resort to the Police Courts may often be necessary for the abatement in private tenements of nuisances of a nature common over the whole town, but if examples are to be made the Inspectors of Nuisances shall select in preference offenders of the highest position, as being those whose short- comings would be the least excusable.
11.--During their domiciliary visits, the Inspectors of Nuisances shall note and report if sewage- gas appears to have access to the house through any communication with the street-sewers, also whether the house is damp, and from what cause, whether rain-water leaks through the roof or whether it is properly carried off, or whether it is caught and stored for domestic use, and in the latter case whether the receptacle containing it appears to be free from contamination with sewage or other impurities of any kind.
12.--In cases where they observe overcrowding in a tenement, the Inspectors of Nuisances shall enquire into the number of inmates lodged in the same, and they shall take a rough measurement of the rooms, and note the height of the ceilings and the number and sizes of the doors and windows, carefully reporting all particulars to the Sanitary Inspector.
13.--In every case where they shall notice such excessive neglect, dirt, and noxious smells within houses as would be likely in their opinion to prejudice the health of the occupants or the neighbours, the Inspectors of Nuisances shall at once call the attention of the occupants to the filthy and unhealthy condition of the premises, and shall require them to effect the complete removal of the cause of the nuisance, and to thoroughly cleanse and purify the tenement.
14-Inspectors of Nuisances shall report to the Colonial Surgeon all cases coming under their knowledge of persons suffering from small-pox, or other similarly contagious diseases, and shall take the instructions of the Colonial Surgeon direct as to the steps to be taken for the removal of such persons and for the disinfection of their tenements.
15.-The Inspectors of Nuisances upon discovering that pigs are being reared within any dwelling shall require the summary removal of such pigs. They shall be responsible that no pigs are kept anywhere within the precincts of the town without a licence under the hand of the Sanitary Inspector, and they shall be careful that in no case do pigs exceed the number specified in the Licence, and they shall see that the conditions endorsed on such licence are strictly complied with by the pig
owners.
16.-The Inspectors of Nuisances shall regularly visit all places where cows and goats are kept. It shall be their duty to see that, as in the case of pigs, no cows or goats are kept except under a Licence from the Sanitary Inspector, and that the conditions endorsed on such Licence are strictly complied with by the Licencces.
17.--The Inspectors of Nuisances shall have all public wells and all other sources of water supply under constant supervision. They shall periodically examine the waters of the same in the manner to be prescribed to them by the Sanitary Inspector. They shall see that every well is provided with a brick or stone dwarf parapet wall around its mouth, and that the ground is properly concreted with cement, or paved with granite flags to a width of not less than four feet around such parapet. They shall see that the immediate surroundings of wells and other sources of supply are kept in an orderly and cleanly condition, that no linen or clothes are washed near them, and that the buckets used by drawers of water are always clean and proper. They shall note whether any sewer or drain passes along the vicinity of a drinking well, or whether any impure surface drainage is likely to percolate or otherwise to find its way into any well, tank, watercourse or other source of private or public water supply, and they shall immediately report to the Sanitary Inspector any doubt they may have in this respect.
18.-The Inspectors of Nuisances shall always observe the water fittings of any premises under their inspection, and report to the Overseer of Waterworks direct in the event of their detecting any waste of the Government Water supply through leaky fittings or other cause.
19.--The Inspectors of Nuisances shall every morning before 7 o'clock inspect every public dust- bin, and they shall at least twice a week (but never periodically upon the same day of the week) examine every public latrine in their respective districts, taking care that the dust-bins and the public latrines are kept as clean and free from smells as circumstances will admit. In the case of public latrines they shall see that all the conditions endorsed on the Government Licences are strictly complied with by the Licencees.
20.-The Inspectors of Nuisances shall periodically inspect all places where opium boiling, blood selling, fish drying, tanning, soy-making, or any other noisome occupation or trade is carried out, and they shall take due precaution that through negligence or other cause these occupations or trades do not become a nuisance to the neighbourhood.
21.-The Inspectors of Nuisances shall strictly prohibit the spreading out of clothes, rags, wares, grain, meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, or any kind of property along or across any public street, road, side-channel, footpath, or public thoroughfare, or in the case of vacant lots or open spaces the property of the Crown, they shall see that no such articles are so exposed without a permit from the Sanitary Inspector.