: tub with its excreta rendering
a certain amount of pure
air still more necessary.
Under these circumstances,
the Government considered
the 300 cubic feet
an absolute
necessity.
Enclosure 1.
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REUP
GEGE I NOV 87,
No. 24 of 1887.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong-kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for amending the Laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong.
1887.]
[It is
serving and promoting the Public Health in this Colony: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.
2. The several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances mentioned in schedule 4 to this Ordinance appended, are hereby repealed, provided always that all Rules and Regulations made in virtue of any of the said Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and in force at the date of the passing of this Ordinance shall remain in operation, until they shall have been amended or repealed.
3. In this Ordinance and in any Bye-Laws made thereunder, the following words and expressions shall have or shall include the meanings hereinafter respectively set against them, unless such meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the context.
1. Author of a Nuisance. The person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues.
2. Board. The Sanitary Board.
3. Building-Any building, house, dwelling-house,
tenement-house, common lodging-house, verandah, cook-house, privy, gallery, balcony, chimney, bridge, out-house, stable, matshed, warehouse, manufactory, shop, work-room, distillery, and place of secure stowage.
4. Common Lodging-House :-
(a) any house or part thereof, where persons are housed--not being members of the same family-at an amount not exceeding five cents a day, or one dollar a month, for each person;
(b) any permanent structure in which employers of labour lodge their employés other than domestic servants, or shopmen, as part of the remuneration given for their services.
5. Domestic Building.-Any human habitation, or
building where persons pass the night.
Preamble.
The Ordinances Repealed.
Definitions.
Author of Nuisance.
Board.
Building.
Common Lodging House.
Domestic Building.
6. Drug. Any medicine for internal or external use.
7. Food-Any article used for food or drink other
than drugs or water.
Drug.
Food.
8. Hill-side. The face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining-wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining-wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.
Hill-side.