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Closing of Chinese cemeteries.
Burial elsewhere.
Removal of infected persons.
Keeping pigs.
C.
Proclamation of epidemic.
Disease,
ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887.
Public Health.
the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.
27. The Governor in Council is authorised from time to time to notify by advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette, that any Chinese cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accordingly; and whosoever, after the expiration of the said specified time, shall bury any corpse in the said cemetery or burial ground shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. [Repealed by Ord. No. 4 of 1890, and new section substituted.]
23. Whosoever shall bury any corpse or coffin in any ground not being a cemetery or burial ground authorised under this or any other Ordinance, shall (except in cases provided for by section 27 of this Ordinance) for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. [Repealed by Ord. No. 4 of 1890, and new section substituted.]
29. Where any person is suffering from small-pox or any other contagious or infectious disease, and is without proper lodging or accommodation, or is lodged in a tenement occupied by more than one family, or is on board any ship or vessel, a Magistrate may, on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon 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.
30. The keeping of cattle, swine, sheep, or goats without a licence from the Board is hereby prohibited, and any person keeping such animals, either without a licence from the 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 five dollars, and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days, and, in the discretion of the Magistrate, to forfeit all animals in respect of the keeping of which he has so offended.
PART II.
31. Whenever any part of the Colony appears to be threatened with, or is affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, may, by proclamation from time to time, direct that the provisions contained in sections 32 to 37 of this Ordinance, both inclusive, be put in force in the Colony, or such part thereof, as by such proclamation may be specified, and may