AD. 1901.]
PUBLIC HEALTH.
of powers to select
[No. 10.
11.-(1.) The Board may, by resolution, from time to time delegate Delegation Any or all of its powers and functions to such select committees, with full powers to enforce all or any of the provisions of any Ordinances or committees laws for the time being in force conferring powers upon the Board Medical or providing for the more effectual sanitation of the Colony.
(2.) Any failure to comply with an order of a select committee, duly signed by the Secretary of the Board, shall be deemed a contravention of an order of the Board, and shall be punishable in the same manner as the order had been made by the Board.
(3.) The Board may also from time to time delegate to the Medical Officer of Health all or any of the powers conferred upon it by sections 24, 26, 27, and 45, and may revoke such delegation at pleasure.
and to
Officer of
Health.
12. The President or Vice-President of the Board shall give directions Powers of for carrying out and giving effect to the decisions of the Board.
President and Vice-President.
Making of
13.-(1.) The Board shall have power to make, and, when made, to alter, amend, or revoke, by-laws with regard to the following matters: by-laws.
(a.) the proper construction, trapping, ventilating, and maintenance of private house-drains;
(b.) the provision and proper construction of dust boxes in private premises;
(c.) the provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order to arrest damp in dwelling houses;
(d) the cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary maintenance of all premises;
(e.) the sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals, dust-bins, and manure-depôts;
(f) surface scavenging, and the removal and disposal of night-soil and of other refuse
(g.) the closing of premises unfit for human habitation and the prohibition of their use as such
(h.) the protection of the public water supply from pollution; (i.) the prevention of the manufacture or sale of unsound, adulterated, or unwholesome food;
(j) the regulation of bake-houses, dairies, aerated water manufactories, and food-preserving establishments;
(k.) the proper construction, materials, and fittings of water-closets on private premises;
(l) the erection of public latrines and applications for permission to erect such latrines;
(m.) the prohibition of the establishment within certain limits and the control of any noxious or offensive trade, business, or manufacture;
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