8. If in the opinion, duly certified in writing, of a duly authorised officer of the Board, or of a duly qualified medical practitioner, any bedding, clothing, furniture or other article cannot be effectively disinfected or ought for any sanitary reason to be destroyed, it shall be destroyed in such manner and in such place and with such precautions as the said Board may from time to time direct.
9. Every room or place in which any person attacked by the said disease, or in which the body of any person who has died of the said disease shall have been, or shall be found, shall forthwith, after the removal therefrom of the diseased person or of the dead body, be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected, and if more than three deaths have occurred in the same premises, the persons residing therein shall be removed and their furniture and effects thoroughly cleansed and disinfected under the direction and supervision of the officers of the said Board, and the premises disinfected and cleansed as before mentioned before they are allowed to return and re-occupy the same.
10. If in the opinion, duly certified in writing, of any duly qualified medical practitioner any house or houses is or are in such an insanitary condition that it or they cannot be thoroughly disinfected and cleansed or made safe, all the inhabitants shall be removed therefrom to some other premises selected and appointed by the said Board with such articles of furniture, clothing, bedding, &c., as in the opinion of the said Board may safely be removed, and such house or houses shall after being disinfected and cleansed as herein before provided, be closed and shall not again be occupied by any person without a special order from the said Board.
11. All latrines, public and private, shall be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected twice daily to the satisfaction of the said Board, and the owner or manager thereof shall keep on the premises adequate quantities of quick-lime, and shall cause to be thrown into each bucket or other receptacle after use a small quantity of such lime. All the woodwork in such latrines shall be washed and cleansed with water to which some disinfectant supplied by the said Board has been added.
12. A permanent Committee of three Members of the said Board may be appointed by the said Board, with full power and authority to exercise under the authority of the said Board all or any of the powers or authorities vested in or exercisable by the said Board under sections 32 to 38 both inclusive of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, or under these Bye-laws.
Made by the Sanitary Board, this 11th day of May, 1894.
EDWARD A. RAM, Acting Secretary.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 208. The following Additional Bye-laws made under sections 32 and 33 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, and approved by the Governor in Council this day, are published for general information.
By Command,
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 31st May, 1894.
ADDITIONAL BYE-LAWS
J. G. T. BUCKLE. Acting Clerk of Councils.
Made by the Sanitary Board under the provisions of sections 32 and 33 of "The Public Health Ordinance, 1897,” now in force in this Colony by virtue of a Proclamation by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government in Council dated the 10th day of May, 1894, issued under the provisions of section 31 of the same Ordinance and published in the "Hong-Kong Government Gazette" of the 10th May, 1894.
1. The Permanent Committee appointed by the said Board under No. 12 of the Bye-laws dated and published in the Hongkong Government Gazette on the 11th May instant may, if satisfied that any building in the Colony is in such a dirty or insanitary condition as to constitute a danger to health, give notice to the householder to have the building in respect of which the notice is given forthwith thoroughly cleansed, color-washed and, if the notice so specifies, disinfected.
2. If within 48 hours after the service of such notice the householder has not cleansed, color-washed and, if required so to do, disinfected the building in respect of which the notice was given to the satisfaction of the Permanent Committee, it shall be lawful for the Permanent Committee by its officers and their assistants, or by means of contractors specially employed for that purpose, to enter and take possession of such building, remove the inhabitants therefrom and proceed to thoroughly cleanse, color-wash and disinfect such building, provided always that such cleansing, color-washing and disinfecting shall be commenced and completed within the hours of daylight of one day.
3. The expenses incurred by the Permanent Committee in so cleansing, color-washing and disinfecting and in the removal and destruction of all rags, dirt and rubbish removed from such house, shall, without prejudice to any liability to a penalty under The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, be borne and paid by the householder, upon a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Permanent Committee which shall be conclusive evidence that such building was in a dirty and insanitary condition, that notice was duly served on the householder, that he was in default, that the building was cleansed, color-washed and disinfected by the Permanent Committee and as to the amount of expenses, and no defence shall be open to any person sued upon any such certificate except the defence that he was not the householder as defined by section 3 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.
4. In cases where no householder as defined in the said section 3 exists or can be found, the owner of the building shall be served and upon such service being duly effected, he shall be liable as if he were the householder.
5. Any building or part of a building certified in writing by any duly qualified medical practitioner to be unfit for human habitation, even although cleaned and disinfected as hereinbefore provided, may be closed by order of the Permanent Committee and the occupants of the same removed if need be, by force, if they do not remove themselves and their furniture and effects within 24 hours after notice of the order to close the building or any part thereof has been served on the occupant or posted on the premises. And the Permanent Committee shall have power to erect matsheds, or hire empty godowns, or charter boats or vessels for the housing of persons so removed.
6. The expenses incurred under Bye-law No. 3 of these Bye-laws and the expenses of removing occupants of any building or part of a building certified under Bye-law No. 5 to be unfit for human habitation, of housing them, and of feeding and clothing them for a period not exceeding one month in the event of their becoming, because of such removal, a charge on the Colony, shall be borne and paid by the householders or owners of such building as the case may be and shall be recoverable at the suit of the Colonial Treasurer in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court irrespective of the amount of such expenses, upon a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Permanent Committee which shall be conclusive evidence of the facts certified therein.
Made by the Sanitary Board, this 31st day of May, 1894.
EDWARD A. RAM,
Acting Secretary.