6. If any member of the Board be at any time prevented by absence or other cause from acting for more than six months, the Governor may appoint or if the member has been elected the Electors may elect some other person to replace such member, until he shall be able to resume his functions.
7. The Board shall be held to be legally constituted notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death, resignation or incapacity of any member.
8. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint such officers as he shall see fit to be Sanitary Superintendent, Sanitary Surveyors, Inspectors of Nuisances, and such other servants as the Board may from time to time recommend and there shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers such salaries and allowances as the Governor with the consent of the Legislative Council may from time to time determine.
9. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The President may at any time, and shall on a requisition signed by three members of the Board summon a meeting thereof,
10. Any four members shall be a quorum for the despatch of business, and at every meeting the President or Vice-President, or in their absence the member present shall preside. The President or Vice-President or in their absence the Chairman shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
11. The Board may from time to time make Standing Orders for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings, for the appointment of Select Committees, for the conduct of its business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its Officers and may from time to time alter and amend such Standing Orders.
12. The Board shall have power to make Bye-Laws with regard to the following matters.
1. The execution of the laws relating to quarantine.
2. The proper construction, trapping, ventilating, and maintenance of public or main drains and sewers as also of private house-drains and sewers in the City of Victoria and the villages and Rural Districts of Hongkong and Kowloon.
3. The provision and proper construction of privies in private premises.
4. The provision of adequate space about dwelling-houses in order to secure a free circulation of air.
5. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order to arrest damp in dwelling houses.
6. The proper lighting and ventilation of dwelling houses.
7. The cleansing, lime-whiting and proper sanitary maintenance of all premises in the Colony.
8. The erection licensing, and proper sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals, dust-bins, and manure-depots.
9. The removal of night soil, surface scavenging and the disposal of waste products.
10. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation and the prohibition of their use as such.
11. The protection of the public water supply from pollution.
12. The prevention of the manufacture or sale of unsound, adulterated or unwholesome food.
13. The regulation of bakehouses, dairies, aerated water manufactories and food preserving establishments.
14. The prohibition of the establishment within certain limits, and the control of any noisome or noxious trade, business or of any trade or business calculated in any way to injure the Public Health.
15. The proper sanitary maintenance of lodging-houses, opium smoking divans, factories, hospitals, theatres, and places of public instruction, recreation or assembly.
16. The prevention of overcrowding in Premises, either in respect of human beings or the lower animals.
17. The cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary maintenance of all depots and pens for cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.
18. The management of markets and slaughter-houses.
19. The construction of and proper sanitary maintenance of pig-sties in private premises.
20. The cleansing of vessels, the maintenance of cleanliness in the harbour of Victoria, the waters of the Colony and the foreshores thereof.
11. The Governor may from time to time, by Order under his hand, direct the execution of decisions of the Board involving the expenditure of any sum of money in excess of $50 shall be submitted to him before being carried out.