ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.
Public Health.
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. The keeping of cattle, swine, sheep, or goats without a licence from the Board is hereby prohibited, and any person keeping any such animals, either without a licence from the Board, or in a manner contravening such sanitary conditions as may be endorsed 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.
Cemeteries.
37. 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 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; and in such cemeteries or places it shall be lawful for the Chinese, in conformity with the provisions of any bye-laws for the time being in force, to bury their dead; provided that any person who shall so make 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. The cemeteries or burial grounds hereinafter mentioned and such other cemeteries or burial grounds as may from time to time be authorised by the Governor, notice whereof shall be published in the Gazette, shall be deemed authorised cemeteries, and whosoever shall, without the written permission of the Governor on the recommendation of the Board, bury any corpse or coffin in any ground not being an authorised cemetery shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
AUTHORISED CEMETERIES.
Chinese.
The Mount Caroline Cemetery. The Mount Davis Cemetery.
The Kai Long Wan Cemetery. The Aberdeen Cemetery.
The Shok O Cemetery. The Stanley Cemetery.
The Chai Wan Cemetery. The Matnuwai Cemetery.
General.
The Colonial Cemetery. The Roman Catholic Cemetery.
The Mohammedan Cemetery. The Hindoo Cemetery.
The Zoroastrian Cemetery. The Jewish Cemetery.
The Eurasian Cemetery, Mount Davis.
The Cemetery of the French Mission, Pokfulam.
The Hindoo Cemetery, Kowloon.
39. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to notify, by advertisement in the Gazette, that any cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accordingly; and whosoever, after the expiration of the said specified time, shall bury any corpse in the said cemetery or burial ground shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Drainage Works.
40. Every owner of a new building erected within the City of Victoria shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty, at a point in the upper half-diameter of such sewer.
41. All works connected with the construction, disconnexion, trapping, and ventilating of house-drains, shall be carried out at the cost and charges of the owner of the building, either by the Board or by persons approved by the Board, under the supervision of the Board and to its satisfaction.
42. The Board may, by a written notice, require the owners of existing buildings, the drains of which are, in the opinion of the Board, in a defective or insanitary condition, to carry out such works as may be necessary to remedy the defect or insanitary condition.
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