Separation of clean from dirty articles.
Restriction on spitting.
Prohibition
against spraying
water by
mouth or
mault-
sprayer
during ironing.
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any case in which such officer is satisfied that no danger to the public health is involved.
(2) Any person employed or working in a laundry shall, if so required in writing by a health officer, submit himself to medical examination at such time and place as such officer may direct and, if after medical examination, a bealth officer is satisfied that such person is suffering from any communicable disease or is likely to communicate to any other person any communicable disease, such last mentioned health officer may notify such person in writing to that effect, and such person shall forthwith cease to work in the same or any other laundry,
(3) A notice given under the provisions of paragraph (2) shall continue in force until cancelled by a further notice in writing by a health officer declaring such first mentioned notice to be cancelled.
(4) No person shall cause, suffer or permit any person, other than a person who has been duly exempted from the provisions of paragraph (1), whom he knows or has reason to believe to be suffering from any of the complaints specified in that paragraph to take any part in the laundering or handling of any articles in any laundry.
(5) No person shall cause, or suffer or permit, any person in respec of whom he knows or has reason to believe that a notice given under || the provisions of paragraph (2) is in fores to work in any laundry.
13. No person shall cause, or suffer or permit, any article received into a laundry for laundering, but which has not been laundered, to come into contact with any other such article which has been laundered.
14. (1) No person shall spit in any laundry, except into a spittoon or other receptacle provided for the purpose.
(2) Where spittoons or other receptacles are provided in aoy laundry, the licensee of the laundry shall cause each such spittoon of receptacle to contain disinfectant fluid and to be cleansed, and the fluid renewed, not less than once in every twenty-four hours.
(3) Save as otherwise permitted in writing by the Council, every licensee of a laundry shall cause one or more notices, prohibiting spitting and written in Chinese, to be continuously displayed in conspicuous place in every part of the laundry in which any process of laundering is carried on or in which laundered articles are handled or stored.
15. No person shall spray, or permit to be sprayed, any water from the mouth or from any mouth-sprayer upon any articles which are being ironed or pressed in any laundry,
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16. (1) Save where exempted in writing by the Council, every Prevention licensee of a laundry shall cause every hollow space, crevice or other of vermin. place in any laundry maintained by him, which is likely to harbour vermin or to constitute a means of access for vermin to the laundry, to be eliminated or sealed off.
(2) No person shall place, or suffer or permit to be placed or to remain placed, any furniture or equipment, other than such as may be moved without difficulty by one mad, so near to any wall of any laundry as to obstruct access to any part of such wall, or such furniture or equipment, for the purpose of the cleaning of the same.
(3) No person shall knowingly suffer the existence of any vermin is any part of any laundry.
vaccinated.
17. No person shall work in, or knowingly permit any other person Laundry to work in, any laundry unless such person or such other person, as the daff to be case may be, has been vaccinated against smallpox within the precoding period of three years.
18. Every licensee of a laundry shall, at all times, cause every párt Cleanliness of any premises or place used for the storage, reception or delivery of of collecting
and receiving articles received in connexion with the business of such laundry to be depots. kept in a clean and wholesome condition and in a proper state of repair so as to prevent the risk of contamination of any articles stored or received therein or delivered therefrom.
19. (I) Save where any premises or place used for the storage, Registration reception or delivery of articles received in connexion with the business of depots, of any laundry are or is jacluded in a plan approved by the Council under by-law 5. the licensee of the laundry for the purposes of which any such premises or place are or is provided shall register such prem- ises or place with the Council.
(2) If any premises or place which have or has been registered in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) cease or ceases to be used for such purpose. the licensee of the laundry shall notify the Council to that effect within thirty days thereof.
(3) No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, for such purpose any such premises or place unless the same is registered with the Council.
20. (1) Every licence issued under these by-laws shall be renew. Fees. able annually on the 1st day of April.
(2) The grant or renewal of any such licence shall be subject to the payment in advance to the Treasury of a fee of eighty dollars:
Provided that, where any such licence is issued after the 30th day of September in any year, the fee payable in respect of the grant of that licence shall be one-half of the fee prescribed.