with quick-lime the interior and exterior of the latrines once a week (every Saturday). They shall cleanse and scrub the night-soil buckets, the seats and the surrounding wood-work of the closets every morning with a solution of carbolic acid or other disin- fectant to be provided for the purpose by the Sanitary Board.
9. The Sanitary Board shall order from Canton adequate quantities of quick-lime, to arrive in instalments, and shall provide the necessary storage for the same.
10. The Sanitary Board shall, immediately on the Cholera taking an epidemic form, take the necessary steps to order by telegraph from England or nearest available market adequate quantities of disinfectants.
11. A gang of one hundred coolies shall be set to dig trenches 6 feet deep by 4 feet wide near Sandy Bay and at Caroline Hill to expedite the speedy burial of the dead. Every choleraic body shall before burial be treated with quick-lime. Stores of quick- lime shall be accumulated on the sites of the burial-grounds.
12. The Sanitary Board shall cause all wells and other sources of water supply to be examined, and shall close, by filling with earth, all such wells, public or private, as may be found tainted by sewage or other impurities. The Board shall also ensure the preservation from impurity of such public water supplies as they may consider in any way affected by the manurial cultivation of gardens in their vicinity or by other causes of pollution.
13. The Sanitary Board shall enter into such arrangements with the undertakers of the town as may ensure the speedy removal and burial of the dead. A reserve of fifty coffins and an adequate supply of mats shall be kept on hand at the public expense. In the absence of coffins, bodies shall be wrapped in mats, so as to avoid delay in removal and burial. Permanent gangs of coolies shall be conceded at the public expense to Messrs. BROWN, JONES & Co. or such other undertakers as may contract with the Sanitary Board in order to ensure despatch in the removal of corpses from European houses.
14. The Registrar General shall issue a notification to the Chinese people calling upon them, in addition to the scavenging, cleansing and purification of their tenements, to report at his Office or at the nearest Police Station any cases of Cholera or Cholersic Diarrhea, distinguishable by violent purging and vomiting, occurring in their houses or coming under their cognizance. Such reports shall be made by them without loss of time, and due care shall be taken to impress upon the people, the importance of promptitude in making such reports.
15. All cases of Cholera coming to the knowledge of any Colonial Officer shall be immediately reported by him to the Colonial Surgeon, and to the Sanitary Inspector, whereupon an Inspector shall be detailed to visit and inspect the infected tenement, and if he shall find the same to be overcrowded or the patient without proper lodging accommodation, he shall cause the said patient, if Chinese, to be removed to the Tung-Wa Hospital, and the tenement to be properly disinfected. Should the Inspector find that the patient may be treated in his own house, he shall make the best arrangements possible to clear the sick room of other tenants and shall supply the tenement with the necessary disinfectants and instruct one of the coolics attached to the Sanitary Staff in the usc and application of such disinfectants, and in the event of the patient dying, the said coolie shall lose no time in reporting the death to the District Inspector with a view to the immediate removal of the body.
16. Bottles of Cholera Medicine shall be prepared by the Colonial Surgeon at the public expense, and shall be furnished to the Inspectors labelled with printed instructions in English and Chinese for the use of such medicine. The Inspectors shall endeavour to induce the natives to give the medicine a trial.
17. The Sanitary Board shall procure ambulances for the conveyance of the sick and litters for the removal of the dead.
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18. All registered brothels shall be scavengel, cleansed and lime-whited by their owners under Government inspection as often as the Sanitary Board shall deem necessary. 19. The Sanitary Board shall frame sanitary instructions for the guidance of Police Inspectors in charge of Villages,
20. Organization similar to that proposed for the city of Victoria, shall be extended to the Villages. Each of the following Villages shall have a temporary Volunteer Inspector to assist the Village Police in Sanitary matters, viz.:---
YAUMÁTI HUNGRÒM.
SHAUKIWÁN.
ABERDEEN with APLICHAU. STANLEY
and PORFULAM.
In the foregoing shall be included the rural districts and hamlets falling within
the present Police jurisdiction of each Village respectively.
21. The Volunteer Inspectors shall be authorized by the Sanitary Board to enter any house suspected by them of containing a Cholera case, and to take such steps therein as they may deem necessary for the removal of the patient or the disinfection of the tenement.
22. There shall be a temporary European Inspector of markets attached to each public market for the continuous supervision of the food supplies of the city; and the Inspectors shall take due care to destroy any food which may be found to be in an unwholesome condition.
28. Butchers in Villages shall be allowed to store meat only in such sheds and places as may be specially erected and set apart for the purpose in each Village by the Sanitary Board.
24. With a view to avoid the delays, inseparable from the payment of bills in the usual way, the Sanitary Board shall receive from Government a credit of $10,000. This amount shall be advanced by the Colonial Treasury and lodged in the Bank to the credit of the Board.
25. The operation of these sanitary provisions shall extend to all ships, other than men-of-war, and to all junks, boats, and other craft in the harbour of Victoria, or in the waters of the Colony. In respect of the harbour of Victoria, one or more Officers shall be appointed to act as Volunteer Inspectors afloat, and shall be provided with steam- launches for the purpose, and with all the necessary men, boats, materials, appliances and disinfectants which they may require for giving assistance to Cholera stricken persons afloat, or for the speedy removal and burial of corpses.
26. Any ship other than a man-of-war, having a case of Cholera on board, shall hoist the yellow flag Q of the Commercial Code at the main, and shall report the case immediately to the Health Officer, or to the Inspector, or at the Harbour Master's Office, and the Inspector upon seeing the signal flying, or receiving intimation of such case go on board and take such steps as he may deem necessary for assisting the patient, or for the removal and burial of the corpse, and the destruction or disinfection of the bedding and clothing.
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