25. Any member, or Officer of the Board duly authorised by the said Board in writing, may, at any time between the hours of six in the morning and six in the evening, enter any shop or premises used for the sale or preparation for sale, or for the storage of food, to inspect and examine any food found therein which he shall have reason to believe is intended to be used as human food; and, in case any such food appear to such member or Officer to be unfit for such use, he may seize the same, and the Board may order it to be destroyed or to be so disposed of as to prevent it from being used as human food.
26. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to select and appoint, and by advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette, to notify sufficient and proper places to be the sites of, and to be used as Cemeteries or places of burial for the Chinese; and from time to time, to alter, vary, and repeal the said Notifications by others, to be advertised in the like manner; and in such Cemeteries or places it shall be lawful for the Chinese, in conformity with the provisions of the Notifications actually in force, to bury their dead, yet so as that any person who shall use for that purpose a grave of less than six feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.
27. The Governor in Council is authorised from time to time to notify by advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette, that any Chinese cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such Notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accordingly; and whosoever, after the expiration of the said specified time, shall bury any corpse in the said cemetery or burial ground shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
28. Whosoever shall bury any corpse or coffin in any ground not being a cemetery or burial ground authorised under this or any other Ordinance, shall (except in cases provided for by section 27 of this Ordinance) for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
29. Where any person is suffering from small-pox or any other contagious or infectious disease, and is without proper lodging or accommodation, or is lodged in a tenement occupied by more than one family, or is on board any ship or vessel, a Magistrate may, on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon or any other duly qualified Medical practitioner, order the removal of such person to such suitable hospital or other like place as may be provided for the purpose.
30. The keeping of cattle, swine, sheep, or goats without a Licence from the Board is hereby prohibited; and any person keeping such animals, either without a Licence from the Board, or in a manner contravening such sanitary conditions as may be endorsed on such Licence, shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding five dollars, and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days, and, in the discretion of the Magistrate, to forfeit all animals in respect of the keeping of which he has so offended.
PART II
31. Whenever any part of the Colony appears to be threatened with, or is affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, may, by Proclamation from time to time, direct that the provisions contained in Sections 32 to 37 of this Ordinance, both inclusive, be put in force in the Colony, or such part thereof, as by such Proclamation may be specified, and may from time to time revoke or renew any such Proclamation; and, subject to such revocation and renewal, every such Proclamation shall be in force for such period as in such Proclamation shall be expressed, and every such Proclamation shall be published in the Government Gazette, and such publication shall be conclusive evidence thereof.
32. From time to time after the issuing of any such Proclamation as aforesaid, and while the same continues in force, the Board may issue Bye-Laws, as they shall think fit, for the prevention as far as possible, or mitigation of such epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, and from time to time may revoke, renew, and alter any such Bye-Laws.
Any person committing any infraction of the above-mentioned Bye-Laws shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment not exceeding six months.
33. The Board by such Bye-Laws may provide:
1. For the speedy and safe disposal of the dead.
2. For house to house visitation.
3. For the dispensing and distribution of medicines.
4. For providing such accommodation and medical aid as may be required.
5. For the destruction of infected bedding, clothing, or other articles.
6. For the compulsory vacating of houses.
7. For any such matters or things as may to the Board appear advisable for preventing or mitigating such disease.
34. Such Bye-Laws after approval by the Governor in Council, shall be published in the Government Gazette.
35. The Board shall, through its Officers, superintend the execution of such Bye-Laws, and shall act, and shall provide all such things as may be advisable for mitigating such disease, or for superintending or aiding in the execution of such Bye-Laws, or for executing the same, as the case may require.
36. Any officers or persons authorised in that behalf by the Board may enter at any reasonable time during the day or night, and inspect any premises where they have ground for believing that any person has recently suffered from or died of any such disease, or that necessity may otherwise exist for executing in relation to such premises any of such Bye-Laws.
37. When any such Proclamation is in force, and upon any evidence that the Board may deem sufficient that any premises are so overcrowded as to be injurious to health, the Board shall have power to make such Order as it shall see fit to abate such overcrowding, and the house-holder, tenant, or occupier of such premises who shall permit such overcrowding to continue after such Order shall have been served on him, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day during which such overcrowding shall continue, and in default of payment he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding three months.
38. All Proclamations of the Governor in Council for executing the provisions contained in Sections 32 to 37 of this Ordinance, both inclusive, shall extend to the waters of the Colony, and the Board may issue, under the said Proclamations, by virtue of the provisions of Section 32, Bye-Laws for vacating, cleansing, purifying, and ventilating vessels.
PART III
39. Every owner of a new building erected within the City of Victoria shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty, at a point in the upper half-diameter of such sewer.
40. Every owner of a new building within the City of Victoria shall, in the construction of every drain of such building, use good sound pipes, formed of cast iron, jointed with lead, or hard, well glazed, stone-ware socketed pipes, jointed water-tight in cement mortar composed of at least one part of good cement to three equal parts of clean sand. Black bricks shall not be used in the construction of any house-drains intended for the conveyance of sewage. Red bricks may be used, provided they are hard and sound, and that they are set in cement mortar of the foregoing description, and that the interior surface of the drain is also smoothly rendered with the same mortar.
41. Every owner shall cause every such drain to be of adequate size, such size to be approved by the Board, and in no case to be less than six inches internal diameter. Where the ground is soft, such drain shall be laid in a bed of good lime concrete. Every house-drain shall be laid with a proper fall, to the satisfaction of the Board.
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25. Any member, or Officer of the Board duly author- ised by the said Board in writing, may, at any time between the hours of six in the morning and six in the evening, enter any shop or premises used for the sale or preparation for sale, or for the storage of food, to inspect and examine any food found therein which he shall have reason to believe is intended to be used as human food. and, in case any such food appear to such member or Officer to be auf: for such use, he may seize the same, and the Board may order it to be destroyed or to be so disposed of as to prevent it from being used as human food.
26. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to select and appoint, and by advertise- ment in the Hongkong Government Gazelle, to notify sufficient and proper places to be the sites of, and to be used as Cemeteries or places of burial for the Chinese; and from time to time, to alter, vury, and repeal the sail Notifications by others, to be advertised in the like man“ ner; and in such Cemeteries or places it shall be lawfal for the Chinese, in conformity with the provisious of the Notifications actually in force, to bury their dead, yet so as that any person who shall use for that purpose a grave of less than six feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.
27. The Governor in Council is authorised from time to time to notify by advertisement in the long- Long Government Gazette, that any Chinese cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such Notification to be specified, be closed, and the saine shall be closed accord- ingly; and whosoever, after the expiration of the said specified time, shall bury any corpse in the said cemetery or burial ground shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
28. Whosoever shall bury any corpse or coffin in any ground not being a cemetery or burial ground authorised under this or any other Ordinance, shall (except in cases provided for by section 27 of this Ordinance) for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
29. Where any person is suffering from smali-pos or any other contagious or infections disease, and is without proper Judging or accommodation, or is lodged in a tenement ocimpied by more than one family, or is on board any ship or vessel, a Magistrate way, on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon er any other duly qualified Medical practitioner, order the removal of such person to such suitable hospital or other bke place as may be provided for the purpose.
30. The keeping of cattle, swine, sheep, or gouts without a Licence from the Board is hereby prohibite i. and any person keeping such animals, either without a Licence from the Board, or in a manner contravening such sanitary conditions as may be endorsed on such Licence, shall be kable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding five dollars, and, in default of payment, to in- prisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days, and, in the discretion of the Magistrate, to forfeit all animals in respect of the keeping of which he has so offended.
PART II
31. Whenever any part of the Colony appears to be threatened with, or is affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic. or contagious disease, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, may, by Proelanation from fime to time, direct that the provisions contained in Sections 32 to 37 of this Ordinanco, both inclusive he put in force in the Colony, or such part thereof, as by such Proclamation may be specified, and may from time to time revoke or renew any such Proclamation; and, subject to such revocation and renewal, every such Proclamation shall he in force for such period as in such Proclamation shall be expressed, and every such Proclamation shall be pu- blished in the Government Gazette, and such publication shall be conclusive evidence thereof.
32. From time to time after the issuing of any such Proclamation as aforesaid, and while the same continues in force, the Board may issue Bye-Laws, as they shall think fit, for the prevention as far as possible, or mitigation of such epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, and from time to time may revoke, renew, und alter any such Bye-
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34. Such Bye-Laws after approval by the Governor in Conncil, shall be published in the Government Gazette.
35. The Board shall, through its Officers, superintend the execution of such Bye-Laws, and shall act, and shall provide all such things as may be advisable for mitigating such disease, or for superintending or aiding in the execution of such Bye-Laws, or for executing the same, as the case may require.
36. Any officers or persons authorised in thar behalf by the Board may enter at any reasonable time during the day or night, and inspect any premises where they have ground for believing that any person has recently suffered from or died of any such disease, or that necessity may otherwise exist for executing in relation to such premises any of such Bye-Laws.
37. When any such Proclamation is in force, and upon any evidence that the Board may deem sufficient that any premises are so overcrowded as to be injurious to health, the Board shall have power to make such Order as it shall see fit to abate such overcrowding, and the house-holder, tenant, or occupier of such premises who shall permit such overcrowding to coatinue after such Order shall have been served on him, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day during which sneh overcrowling shall continue, and in default of payment he shall be liablë to imprisonment for any period not exceeding three months.
38. All Proclamations of the Governor in Council for executing the provisions contained in Sections 32 to 87 of this Ordinance, both inclusive, shall extend to the waters of the Colony, and the Board may issue, unler the said Proclamations, by virtue of the provisions of Section 32, Bye-Laws for vaciting, cleansing, purifying, and ventilating vessels.
PART III.
39. Every owner of a new building erected within the City of Victoria shail construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which sucli drain may lawfully empty, at a point in the upper half-diameter of such sewer.
40. Every owner of a new building within the City of Victoria shall, in the construction of every drain of such Imilding, use good sound pipes, formed of cast iron. jointed with lend, or hard, well glazed, stone-ware socketted pipes, jointed water-tight in cement murtar composed of at least one part of good cement to three equal parts of clean sund. Black bricks shall not be used in the construction of any house-drains intended for the conveyance of sewage. Red bricks may be used, provided they are hard and sound, and that they are set in cement mortar of the foregoing description, and that the interior surface of the drain is ulso smoothly rendered with the same mortar.
41. Every owner shall cause every such drain to be of adequate size, such size to be approved by the Board, and in no case to be less than six inches internal diuieter. Where the ground is soft, such drain shall be luid in a bed of good lime concrete. Every house-drain shall be laid with a proper fill, to the satisfaction of the Board.
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