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PUBLIC HEALTH (SANITATION) ORDINANCE, 1935.

(ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1935)-

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, the Urban Council makes the following by-laws for public bath-houses which shall be inserted in Schedule A to the said Ordinance immediately after the by-laws relating to Swimming Pools-

BY-LAWS.

1. These by-laws may be cited as the Public Bath-House Citation. By-Laws, 1951-

Interpreta.

2. In these by-laws- "communicable disease" includes amoebiasis, cerebrospinal tion.

meningitis, cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, enteric fever, gastroenteritis, acute inflammation of the throat, infectious hepatitis, leprosy, any form of tines infection, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, pediculosis, scabies, scarlet fever, small-pox, any venereal disease or any generalized skin infection or any other disease which the Council may from time to time declare to be a communicable disease for the purposes of these by-laws;

public bath-house" means any premises used or represented as being or intended to be used for the reception of persons requiring a bath on payment of a fee and includes any premises in which the use of a bath is offered to the public either free or on payment of a fee but does not include any swimming pool licensed by the Council or any bath-house provided by the Council for public use.

3. No person shall establish or maintain a public bath- Licence house without a licence in that behalf from the Council.

Decessary

to maintain public bath-house.

4. Every licence shall expire on 31st March annually. The Licence annual licence fee shall be $1oo. No licence shall be trans- fee, etc. Jerable.

The form of licence shall be in accordance with Form Form of No. I in the Appendix to these by-laws.

licence.