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ORDINANCE No. 13 OF 1901.

Public Health.

MEZZANINE FLOORS AND COCKLOFTS.

(1) No mezzanine door or cockloft shall be erected, or if already existing be allowed to remain. without the permission in writing of the Board.

(2.) No mezzanine floor or cockloft shall be situated in any Bour

other than the ground or the top floor of the building. (3.) No mezzanine floor or cockloft shall be erected, or if already exiering be allowed to remain, except in a building which is constructed, ventilatel, lighted and maintained in a sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the Board.

(4) No mezzanine floor or cockloft shall extend over more than one balf of the floor area of the room and every mezza- nine floor or cockloft shall have a clear space below every part of it of not less than mine feet measured vertically, No mezzanine floor or cockloft shail obstruct any doorway or window situated in an external wall.

(6.) The space above a mezzanine floor or cockloft shall not be used for sleeping purposes unless such space measures an average of not less than nine feet vertically.

(6.) The space above and below such mezzanine floor or ecekdoğ shall not be enclosed except by wire netting, laltice work or carved woodwork, arranged in such a way as to leave at least two-thirds opeu, anit as far as practicable evenly distributed.

(7.) No mezzanine floor or cockloft shall be erected, or if already existing be allowed to remain, in any room which con- tains one or more cubicles or partitions.

(8.). No cubicle or partition shall be erected, or if alrewly exist. ing be allowed to remain, on any mezzanine floor or cockloft.

(9.) No mezzanine floor or cockloft shall be erected, or it alrowly

existing be allowed to remain, in any kitchen :

Provided that any existing mezzanine floor or cockloft, for which a permit in writing has been issued by the Board in accordance with Government Notifications 373 and 407 of 1895, shall be allowed to remain, subject to the conditions of such permit.

NIGHT SOUL CARRIERS.

1. The removal of excretal matters from premises other thar those from which such matters are removed by the night-suil cur tractor, shall be carried out by night-soil carriers registered by and holding a licence from the Board.

2. Licences shall be issued in the first instance to the existing private night-soil carriers, and no additional licences shall be granted unless and until the necessity for their issue shall have been shown to the satisfaction of the Board.

3. Licences to night-soil carriers shall be issued annually and shall expire on the 31st of December of the year in which they ar issued.

4. Licences shall be issued free of charge. In the event of the loss of a licence a duplicate shall be issued on payment of a fee of 25

cents.

ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.

Public Health.

5. Every night-soll carrier licensed under these bye-laws shall,

for the purposes of his work, use a bucket of such pattern as may from time to time be approved by the Board.

6. Every night-soil carrier licensed under these bye-laws shall remove at least once in every 24 hours all excretal matters from the premises from which he shall have undertaken to remove such matters. 7. No night-soil carrier shall convey excretal matters along any public street or road except between the hours of 1 a.m. and 6 am.

8. Any licensed night-soil carrier, being convicted of a second offence against these bye-laws, shall forfeit his licence in addition to any penalty inflicted under the Public Health Ordinance, 1901.

NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASK.

1. 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 Medical Officer of Health with a notification thereof in writing stating the name of such inmate and the situation of such premises.

Such legally qualified medical practitioner shall be entitled to receive, on application to the Secretary of the Board, the sum of 51 for each and every such notification.

2. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from small-pox, cholera or bubonic plague, and if such iamato 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 disease becoming known to him or on suspicion of the existence in such inmate of any such disease, forthwith notify the same to the Medical Officer of Health, or the officer in charge of the nearest Police Station, who shall, immediately on receipt thereof, transmit the information the Medical Officer of Health.

3. 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.

4. The Secretary of the Board shall upon application furnish very medical practitioner in the Colony and every officer in charge of a Police Station with the printed forms of notification to be used.

5. All persons knowing or having reason to believe that any person has been attacked by, or is suffering from, bubonic plague, cholem, small-pox or from such other epidemic, endemic or contagi- ous disease as may be from time to time duly notified in the Gazette, shall notify the same without delay to any officer on duty at the nearest Police Station, or to some officer of the Sanitary Board, and any such officer receiving any such notification whether verbal or written or discovering any such case, shall notify the same with the least possible delay to the Medical Officer of Health, and may detain such person or remove him to a public hospital until he can be examined by the Medical Officer of Health or by some legally qualified and registered medical practitioner.

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