538
Cancelled Construction + Subtitutiof house.
for by G. N 1169/0 m ll. p. 316.
Kitchen ac- commodation.
Accommoda- tion for boarders.
Room for 'chests, etc.,
of boarders. Washing rooms, etc.
Removal of filth.
No communi. cation with adjoining houses.
Conditions of receiving
seaman ag boarder.
Keeping of books and accounts.
Furnishing of
account to boarder.
Prohibition of supply of
GN 54271-1905-
No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1899
2. The house shall be substantially built and kept in good repair, well ventilated, and have a proper system of drainage; the drains shall not be in direct communication with the public sewers, but effectively disconnected and trapped.
3. There shall be adequate kitchen accommodation, with proper means for the removal of smoke.
4. The space allotted to each boarder shall be in the bed rooms not less than 400 cubic feet of space, and a notice shall be put up in each sleeping room showing the number of persons the room is capable of accommodating; there shall also be provided a general room of sufficient size in which the boarders may sit and mess.
5. A separate room is to be appropriated for the chests, hammocks, etc., of the boarders.
6. Proper washing rooms, and adequate privy, urinal, and ash-bin accom modation, are to be provided; the floors of the house and out-houses are to be swept clean frequently during the day and thoroughly washed every Saturday; all inside walls and partitions are to be colour-washed once in every six months, viz., on or about the 1st of January and the 1st of July.
7. All filth and refuse matter shall be regularly removed daily.
8. There shall be no communication between a boarding-house and the adjoining houses.
9. No boarding master shall receive into his boarding-house any seaman who does not first produce his discharge from his last ship, duly countersigned or stamped by the Harbour Master or some person deputed by him, or who does not produce the Harbour Master's written sanction for his admission into a boarding-house; and no more boarders are to be lodged in the house than the number allowed by the licence.
10. Every boarding master shall keep a book in which he shall enter the names of all boarders in his house on the day of their reception therein, he shall also enter in the same book an account of all moneys received from boarders and all charges incurred by them; and, if a boarder so requires he shall be furnished, every Saturday night, with a memorandum of the amount in which he is indebted to the boarding master or of the amount belonging to him still in the hands of the boarding master.
11. Before a boarder is discharged, he shall, if he so requires, receive from the boarding master a full and true statement of his account for board lodging, and other expenses, and the boarder, if satisfied as to the correctness of the said statement, shall sign his name thereon in proof thereof. The boarding master shall take this book to the Harbour Master or his Deputy for inspection every Monday at noon.
12. No spirituous liquor shall be supplied or procured by the boarding master.