A.D. 1901.]

PUBLIC HEALTH.

[No. 10.

order.

to whom it is addressed, and, when addressed to the owner of any notice or premises, it may, if such owner cannot be found, be served by delivering the same to some person upon the premises, or, if there is no person upon the premises who can be so served, by affixing the same to some conspicuous part of the premises.

Removal of Infected Persons.

35. 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 domestic building occupied by more than one family, or is on board any ship or vessel, a Magistrate may, on the certificate of any 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.

Keeping of Cattle, Swine, etc.

36.-(1.) The keeping of cattle, swine, sheep, or goats without a licence from the Board is hereby prohibited.

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Removal of person suffering from contagious or infectious disease.

Prohibition of keeping cattle, etc., without licence, etc.

(2.) Every person who keeps any such animals, either without licence from the Board or in a manner contravening such sanitary conditions as may be indorsed on such licence, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five dollars and, in the discretion of the Magistrate, to forfeit all or any of the animals in respect of the keeping of which he has so offended.

37.

Cemeteries.

(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council from time to time to select and appoint, and, by advertisement in The Gazette, to notify, sufficient and proper places to be the sites of and to be used as Chinese cemeteries or burial grounds for the Chinese; and from time to time to alter, vary, and repeal the said notifications by others, to be advertised in the like manner.

(2.) In such cemeteries or places it shall be lawful for the Chinese, in conformity with the provisions of any by-laws for the time being in force, to bury their dead: Provided that any person who uses for that purpose a grave of less than six feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited shall for every offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.

38.-(1.) The cemeteries or burial grounds hereinafter mentioned and such other cemeteries or burial grounds as may from time to time be enumerated...

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