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William Rahingey

GOVERNOR,

BYE-LAWS

Afade by the Sanitary Bound of Dongkong for the compulsory reporting of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases under the

provisions of section 18, sub-section 24. of

“The Public Health Ordinance, 1887,”

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

2. If any inmate 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 un 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 innate be not under the care of a legally qualified and registered Medical Practitioner, the occupier or keeper of such premises or part of such premises, or in default of such occupier or keeper the nearest male 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 discase becoming known to him or on suspicion of the existence in such innate of any such discuse, 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 Board.

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 24th lay of October, 1895.

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

HUGH MCCALLUM, Sceretary.

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

NOTE :-Section 33 of the Health Ordinance 24 of 1887.—Any person who shall contravene any provision of this Ordinance or of any bye-law made thereunder for which no special penalty is provided shall be liable to a penalty uot exceeding lifty dollars, or, in default of payment, imprisonment not exceeding three months,