PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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LTCO 885
23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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Provision of public latrines in towne and villagos
Provision of privies for schools,
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(2.) Every person who misuses any privy accommodation provided under this Ordinance, or who disobeys the public notices affixed on the estate as aforesaid, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Five Pounds.
5. (1.) All towns shall, and all villages may, be provided by the local sanitary authority with suitable public latrine accommodation, so constructed as to suffice for the proper collection or removal of all sewage matter on hygienic principles and as to prevent pollution of the surface of the ground; and it shall be the duty of the Medical Officer of the district to report to the General Board of Health if in his opinion any such latrine accommodation is needed in any town or village within his district.
(2.) On receipt of such report the General Board of Health, upon being satisfied of the fact that further public latrine accommodation is needed, may require the local sanitary authority to provide the same in such form or manner as the Board shall direct.
(3.) The payment of any expenses incurred in carrying out any requirements under this section in relation to a town shall be a charge against the Town Fund of that town; and the general revenue of the Colony shall be liable for the payment of expenses incurred hereunder in relation to any village, outside the limits of a town.
(4.) Whenever it shall appear to the Governor that a local sanitary authority has neglected or is neglecting to carry out any requisition of the General Board of Health under this section, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to appoint and direct any person to provide or construct the necessary public latrine accom- modation in accordance with the Board's requirements, and, where such accommoda- tion is provided or constructed in relation to a town, to authorise the Treasurer to charge the expenses thereby incurred against the Town Account of that town.
6. (1.) Every Government and Grant-in-Aid School shall be provided by the Managers thereof with sufficient and suitable privy accommodation for the use of the teaching staff and of the pupils; and such accommodation shall be provided separately for each sex.
(2.) It shall be the duty of the Head Teacher of a Government School and the Managers of a Grant-in-Aid School to employ a person to keep the privy accommoda- tion aforesaid in a clean and sanitary condition and to ensure that such person carries out his work efficiently.
(3.) All expenses incurred under this section in relation to any Government School, and one-half of such expenses incurred in relation to any Grant-in-Aid School, shall be paid out of the general revenue of the Colony.
(4.) Any member of the staff of the school, misusing such privy accommodation, or defecating in any place near to the school house other than the place provided for the purpose, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Five Pounds; and during school hours, or while a pupil is under the control of a teacher, any such teacher who shall not take every reasonable precaution to prevent a pupil from misusing the privy accommodation or from defecating in any place near to the school house other than the place provided as aforesaid shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
7.--(1.) The General Board of Health may frame and from time to time alter Regulations and revoke regulations for guarding against the spread of ankylostomiasis and 1910(16 No.) preventing pollution of the surface of the ground, and more particularly-
(a) for prescribing the forms of privy accommodation to be provided under
this Ordinance,
Regulations.
gazetted 1911(1 Aug.)]
Penalty.
(b) for promoting the cleanly and proper use of such privy accommodation, (c) for the cleansing and disinfection of the ground in any place affected by
the disease,
(d) for prescribing forms of notices to be used hereunder, and
(e) generally for the purpose of more effectually carrying out the objects and
intentions of this Ordinance.
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(2.) Such regulations shall be binding on and shall be carried out by every sanitary authority, or as the case may be, by all Head Teachers of Government Schools or Managers of Grant-in-Aid Schools.
8. Any person committing an offence against this Ordinance or against any regulation framed hereunder shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Twenty Pounds.
9. Where any child under the age of fourteen years is convicted of and fined for any offence against this Ordinance, the process for enforcing payment of the treas on goods fine may, at the discretion of the Magistrate, be by warrant of distress to levy on and
Enforcement of payment of fine by dis.
of parent or guardian.
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sell the movable property of the parent or guardian of such child: Provided that such parent or guardian shall have a right to be heard before such warrant issues.
10. Every prosecution or other proceeding taken under this Ordinance may be instituted and shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and to any regula- tions made hereunder, be conducted in the same manner as if taken under The Public Health Ordinance.
11. This Ordinance may be cited as
The Ankylostomiasis Ordinance."
Enclosure 5 in No. 8.
GRENADA.
THE ANKYLOSTOMIASIS ORDINANCE, 1910. (Gazetted 15th November, 1910.)
REGULATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF PRIVY ACCOMMODATION AT PRIMARY SCHOOLS. Construction of Privies.
1. Every privy to be hereafter constructed in connection with a primary school shall be erected outside the school building, not less than ten yards distant therefrom or from any dwelling-house; and every such privy shall be provided with adequate means of light and ventilation by means of a sufficient opening as near to the top of the privy as convenient:
Provided that where the school is situate in a town, a privy or earth-closet may be constructed inside the building, if at least one of the sides of such privy shall be an external wall having openings for light and ventilation directly into the external air, and if the local sanitary authority shall approve of the proposed construction.
2. Every such privy shall consist of or contain an earth-closet, and be accord- ingly furnished with
(a) a reservoir of suitable construction and of adequate capacity for dry earth or other deodorizing substance, which reservoir shall be constructed and fixed in such a manner and in such a position as to admit of ready access to such reservoir for the purpose of depositing therein the necessary supply of dry earth or other deodorizing substance; and, in connection with such reservoir suitable means or apparatus for the frequent and effectual application of a sufficient quantity of dry earth or other deodorizing substance to any excretions which may from time to time be deposited in the earth-closet;
(b) a movable pan or other receptacle for excretions to be constructed and arranged in such a position and mode of fitting as to admit of the frequent and effectual application of a sufficient quantity of dry earth or other deodorizing substance to any excretions which may from time to time be deposited in such pan or receptacle and also as to admit of ready access to that part of the earth-closet in which such pan or receptacle may be placed or fitted and of the convenient removal of such pan or receptacle or of the contents thereof; and such privy shall also be constructed so that the contents of such pan or receptacle may not at any time be exposed to rainfall or to the drainage of any waste water or liquid refuse.
3. Every privy erected outside a school building shall be constructed in such a manner and in such a position as to afford ready means of access to such privy for the purpose of cleansing the earth-closet, and in such a manner and position as to admit of all refuse being removed from such privy and from the school premises without being carried through any part of the school buildings or any dwelling
house.
4. The floor of every privy erected outside a school building shall be flagged or concreted or paved with tiles or other non-absorbent material, and be con- structed so that it shall be in every part thereof at a height of not less than four inches above the level of the ground adjoining such privy,
5. The seat of every earth-closet erected for a school shall be constructed so that the whole of such seat or a sufficient part thereof may be readily removed or
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