2182 ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887.
Public Health.
and there shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers, such
salaries and allowances as the Governor, with the consent of the Legis
lative Council , may from time to time determine.
Board 10. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener
meetings.
if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The president may at
any time, and shall , on a requisition signed by three members of the
Board, summon a meeting thereof.
Quorum. 11. Any four members shall be a quorum for the despatch of busi
ness , 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.
Standing 12. The Board may from time to time make standing orders for
orders.
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 .
Power to 13. The Board shall have power to make, and when made, to alter,
make bye
laws. amend, or revoke bye-laws with regard to the following matters : —
1. The proper construction , trapping, ventilating, and main
tenance of private house-drains in the City of Victoria, and
the villages, and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon .
2. The provision and proper construction of dust boxes in
private premises.
3. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order to arrest
damp in dwelling- houses .
4. The cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary mainte
nance of all premises in the Colony.
5. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals , dust
bins, and manure-depôts.
6. Surface scavenging, the removal and disposal of night soil
and of other refuse .
7. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation and the
prohibition of their use as such.
8. The protection of the public water supply from pollution.