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BYE-LAWS
To be enforced only during the prevalence of an epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease in the
Colony or in any district thereof.
23. During the prevalence in the Colony, or in any district thereof, of bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox or such other epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease as may be from time to time notified in the Government Gazette, all receptacles, whether public or private, for excremental matter shall be kept thoroughly disinfected by the owner thereof to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health or other duly authorized officer of the Sanitary Board, by causing to be thrown into every such receptacle after use a sufficient quantity of any such disinfectant as may be approved by the said Board. All floors and channels as well as all partitions, seats and other fittings of every latrine shall be frequently washed and cleansed with water to which some such disinfectant has been added.
24. During the prevalence in the Colony, or in any district thereof, of any of the aforesaid diseases any building or part of any building certified in writing by the Medical Officer of Health or by any legally qualified and registered medical practitioner, to be unfit for human habitation, even although the same may have been cleansed and disinfected, as provided in Bye-law 23, may be closed by order of the Sanitary Board during the prevalence of any of such diseases or for such less period as the Medical Officer of Health or such legally qualified and registered medical practitioner may certify to be necessary, and the occupants of the same may be removed, after 24 hours' notice has been given to the householder or occupier to vacate the premises, by the service of a notice, duly signed by the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, or by the posting of such notice upon any portion of the premises.
In no case shall such premises be re-occupied except under a certificate of the Sanitary Board signed by the Secretary that such premises are fit for human habitation.
The said Board may, when necessary, erect matsheds, or hire buildings or charter vessels and use them for the accommodation of the persous so removed.
25. Any officer of the Sanitary Board may, during the prevalence in the Colony or in any dis- trict thereof of any of the aforesaid diseases, and within such limits as may from time to time be de- fined by the said Board, make a house to honse visitation for the purpose of inspecting the sanitary condition of any premises so visited and of all and every part thereof, and of ascertaining whether there is any person in or upon the said premises attacked or affected by any of the said diseases or the body of any person who has died therefrom. If the premises so visited or any part thereof shall be found in a dirty or insanitary condition in the opinion of any such officer he shall report the same to the Medical Officer of Health or to any such other officer as may be appointed for that purpose by the Sanitary Board, with the approval of the Governor, who shall inspect such premises and, if he considers them or any part thereof to be in a dirty or insanitary condition, he may forthwith take steps to have all furniture and goods removed therefrom and to have the said premises thoroughly cleansed and dis- infected by persons acting under his instructions; and whenever, in his opinion, it is necessary for the thorough cleansing and disinfection of such premises to do any or all of the following acts, namely, to take down, remove from the premises or destroy any mezzanine floor, cockloft, partition, screen or other similar structure or fitting, or any portion thereof, or when in his opinion any mezzanine floor, cockloft, partition, screen, or other similar structure or fitting prevents the free access of light and air to the said premises, he shall forthwith have the same taken down, and if he considers the removal from the premises or the destruction thereof, or both, necessary in the interests of the public health, he shall forthwith cause the same to be removed from the premises or destroyed or both. Such de- struction shall be carried out with such precautions and in such manner and in such place as the said Board may from time to time direct.
Penalties.
26. Any person who shall commit any breach of any of the above Bye-laws shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding $25 in every case.
Made by the Sanitary Board this 13th day of May, 1897.
HUGH MCCALLUM, Secretary.
Approved by the Legislative Council this 17th day of May, 1897.
J. G. T. BUCKLE, Clerk of Councils.
(5.) An Ordinance to enable the Government to provide suitable latrine accommodation for
the Public (Ordinance No. 8 of 1897).
(6) An Ordinance to prevent the spread of Infectious Disease arising from the consumption
of contaminated or unwholesome milk (Ordinance 17 of 1897).