ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.
Public Health,
3. A register shall be kept by the person or persons in charge of each cemetery, at or near each cemetery and the date of burial, name, sex, age and registered cause of death of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred; such register shall be open to inspection by any member of the Board, or by any officer of the Board who may be directed to make such inspection, at any reasonable hour.
4. Each grave shall be dug to at least a depth of seven feet throughout.
3. Except as regards the corpses of children under five years of age, only one corpse shall be placed in one grave. In the case of the corpses of children under five years of age, two corpses may be placed in one grave.
6. The interspace between any two graves at any point shall be at least eighteen inches.
7. Each grave on being filled in shall be properly covered with turf or chunam or such other material as may be approved of by the Board.
8. No grave may be re-opened after a corpse has been interred therein, without the written permission of the Medical Officer of Health or other officer duly appointed by the Board for that purpose.
9. The person in charge of each cemetery shall give not less than two hours' notice to the Overseer, or other officer of the Board duly appointed for the purpose, of intention to inter a corpse and the hour at which it is proposed that such interment shall take place.
B
Chinese Cemeteries.
10. Each cemetery shall be laid out in sections of such size and arranged in such manner as may be directed by the Board.
11. A plan of the cemetery or a tracing thereof as laid out shall be on view at or near to the cemetery and at the offices of the Board.
12. The plan shall show the position of each grave-space in each section and every such grave-space shall bear a number.
13. A register shall be kept in the English and Chinese languages at or near each cemetery and the date of burial, name, sex, age and registered cause of death of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred.
14. Except as regards the corpses of children under five years of age, only one corpse shall be placed in one grave. In the case of the corpses of children under five years of age, two corpses may be placed in one grave.
15. Each grave on being filled in shall be covered with turf, chunam or such other material as may be approved of by the Board.
16. No grave may be re-opened after a corpse has been interred therein, without the written permission of the Medical Officer of Health or other officer duly appointed by the Board for that purpose.
17. The following fees will be charged for each grave-space and interments in the various sections of the cemeteries.
Fifty cents for digging, filling in and covering each grave. Section A.Free. B.$1 and a dollar C.$2do. D.$10do. E.$15do. for digging, filling in and covering each grave.ORDINANCE No. 13 OF 1901.
Public Health,
COMMON LODGING-HOUSES.
1. A register of all common lodging-houses shall be kept by the Registrar General in accordance with Form (a) appended to these bye-laws.
2. Before a house can be registered as a common lodging-house, an application must be made to the Registrar General in accordance with Form (b) hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the house, the number of the rooms set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of each room so set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be furnished by the Registrar General.
3. The Registrar General shall transmit each application for the registration of a house as a common lodging-house to the Board, and the Board shall then cause the house specified in such application to be inspected by one or more of its officers who shall submit a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a common lodging-house.
4. Any house to be registered as a common lodging-house must be substantially built and in a good state of repair; the floors must be paved with tiles or cement concrete or with lime concrete rendered with one inch of Portland cement or boarded with planks close jointed, and all the rooms which are to be used as sleeping rooms must be on all sides above the level of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws regulating house drainage; there must be adequate kitchen, lavation, privy, urinal and ash-bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Board; and unless when the supply of water is constant, there must be a proper cistern for the storage of water.
5. When the Board is satisfied that a house sought to be registered as a common lodging-house is suitable for such a purpose, it shall inform the Registrar General accordingly who may then register such house as a common lodging-house.
6. Before any person can be licensed as a keeper of a common lodging-house, an application must be made to the Registrar General, and such application must be accompanied by a certificate of character from one or more house-holders—to be approved of by the Registrar General—who shall give security for the carrying out of the regulations by the licensed keeper.
7. When the Registrar General is satisfied with the character of an applicant for a licence to keep a common lodging-house, he may issue a licence to such applicant accordingly.
8. The keeper of a common lodging-house shall reduce the number of lodgers in any room of his common lodging-house upon receiving notice in writing from the Board stating the cause for making such reduction, and the period for which it shall continue in force.
9. The keeper of a common lodging-house shall not permit his premises to be occupied, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., by a greater number of persons than that specified on the licence issued to him by the Registrar General.
10. The keeper of a common lodging-house shall not permit males and females above ten years of age respectively to occupy the same sleeping apartment except in the cases of husband and wife, and parents and children; and he shall not allow any person to occupy his house for immoral purposes.
11. The keeper of a common lodging-house shall not knowingly permit persons of bad character to lodge in his house; and he shall maintain and enforce good order and decorum therein; and he shall also keep a register of the name, occupation and native place of each lodger.
Age-Camps
206
under Ordinance
24
of 1887.
ecution 13.