QURTULA.
Decisions Board to be submitted to Governor.
Slauding
Uzdera.
Power to make Bye-Laws.
10. Any four members shall be a quorum for the despatch of business, and at every meeting the President or Vice-President shall preside, or in their absence the members present shall appoint a Chairman. The President or Vice-President or in their absence the Chairman so appointed shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
11. The Governor may from time to time by Order under his hand direct that all resolutions or decisions of the Board involving the expenditure of any sum of public money in excess of fifty dollars shall be submitted to him before being acted upon.
12. 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.
13. The Board shall have power to make and, when made, to alter, amend, or revoke Bye-Laws with regard to the following matters:-
1. 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.
2. The provision and proper construction of privies in private premises.
3. The provision of adequate space about dwelling-houses in order to secure a free circulation of air.
4. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order to arrest damp in dwelling houses.
5. The proper lighting and ventilation of dwelling houses.
6. The cleansing, lime-whiting and proper sanitary maintenance of all premises in the Colony.
7. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals, dust-bins, and manure-depôts.
8. Surface scavenging, the removal of night soil and the disposal of refuse.
9. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation and the prohibition of their use as such.
10. The protection of the public water supply from pollution.
11. The prevention of the manufacture or sale of unsound adulterated or unwholesome food.
12. The regulation of bakehouses, dairies, aerated water manufactories and food preserving establishments.
13. The prohibition of the establishment within certain limits, and the control of any noxious or offensive trade, business, or manufacture.
14. The sanitary maintenance of Common Lodging-Houses, opium smoking divans, factories, and places of public instruction, recreation or assembly.
15. The prevention of overcrowding in premises, either in respect of human beings or the lower animals.
16. The sanitary maintenance of all depôts and pens for cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.
17. The sanitary maintenance of markets and slaughter-houses.
18. The construction, licensing, and proper sanitary maintenance of pig-sties in private premises.
19. The cleaning of vessels, and the maintenance of cleanliness in the harbour of Victoria, the waters of the Colony and the foreshores thereof.
20. The disposal of the dead, the disinfection of dead bodies, and the sanitary maintenance of mortuaries and cemeteries.
21. The compulsory vacating of infected premises, and the disinfection and purification of the same.
22. The disinfection and purification of all infected vessels and public vehicles.
23. The mitigation or prevention of epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease among animals.
24. The manufacture and sale of poisons and the sale of unsound and adulterated drugs.
25. The regulation of public baths, laundries and wash houses.
26. The compulsory reporting of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases.
14. The President or Vice-President shall give directions for carrying out and giving effect to the decisions of the Board.
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