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Millan Rahmagy

GOVERNOR.

BYE-LAWS

Afade by the Sanitary Board of Hongkong for the compulsory reporting of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases under the

provisions of section 13, sub-section 24. of

**The Public Health Ordinance, 1887,"

1. The following Bye-laws refer to the diseases hereinafter specifically named.

2. If any innate of any premises be suffering from Small-pox, Bubonic Plague, Cholera, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Typhus Fever, Enteric Fever, Relapsing Fever, or Puerperal Fever, and if such inmate be under the care of a legally qualified and registered Medical Practitioner the said Medical Practitioner shall forthwith furnish the Secretary to the Board or the Registrar General with a notification thereof in writing stating the name of such inmate and the situation of such pre-

mises.

Such legally qualified Medical Practitioner shall be entitled to receive on application to the Secretary, Sanitary Board, the sum of $1 for each and every such notification.

3. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from Small-pox, Cholera or Bubonic Plague, and if such inmate be not under the care of a legally qualified and registered Melical Practitioner, the occupier or keeper of such promises or part of such promises, or in default of such occupier or keeper the nearest inale adult relative living on such premises, or in default of such relative, occupier, or keeper any person in charge of or in attendance on the sick person shall, on the nature of the disease becoming known to him or on suspicion of the existence in such inunate of any such disease, forthwith notify the same to the Secretary to the Board, or the Registrar General, or the Officer in charge of the nearest Police Station.

4. Such notification shall immediately on receipt thereof be transmitted by whomsoever received to the Secretary to the Bourd.

5. No notification which contains any false information shall be deemed a notification as required by these bye-laws unless the person notifying proves that he believed and had reasonable grounds for believing such false information to be true,

6. The Secretary to the Board shall upon application furnish every Medical Practitioner in the Colony, the Registrar General and every Officer in charge of a Police Station with the printed forms of notification to be used.

Made by the Sanitary Board, this 24ti dny of October, 1895.

Approved by the Legislative Council, this 25th day of November, 1895.

HUGH MCCALLUM, Secretary.

J. G. T. BucKLE, Acting Clerk of Councils.

NOTE -Section $3 of the fealth. Orifiaanco 24 of 1887.—Any person who shall contravene any provision of this Ordinance or of any bye-lawe made thereunder for which no special penalty is provided shall be liable to a penalty out exceeding fifty dollars, or, in default of payment, imprisonment not exceeding three months.