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ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901,

Public Health.

name of the person to whom it is sold or delivered, be entered in a book kept for that purpose ("Prescription-book "), and that the name and address of the seller be attached to the medicine.

NOTE By the Public Health Ordinance any person who shall contravene any provision of any of the above bye-jaws shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or in default of payment, imprisonment not exceeding three months.

LIST OF POISONS WITHIN THE MEANING OF THESE

BYE-LAWS.

PART I.

Not to be sold unless the purchaser is known to, or is introduced

by, some person known to, the seller;

also

Entry to be made in "Poison-book"

1. Date of Sale:

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2. Name and address of purchaser;

3. Name and quantity of article;

4. Purpose for which it is wanted;

Attested by signature;

Must be labelled with

1. Name of article.

3. The word "Poison."

and

3. Name and address of seller.

Arsenic, and its preparations (see also special regulations under

No. 4 of these bye-laws).

Aconite, and its preparations;

Alkaloids-All poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts; Atropine, and its preparations; Cantharides

Corrosive Sublimate;

Cyanide of Potassium, and all metallic cyanides and their prepara

tions;

Emetic Tartar;

Erget of Rye, and its preparations;

Prussic Acid, and its preparations;

Savin, and its oil;

Strychnine, and its preparations;

Vermin Killers, if preparations of poisons the preparations of which

are in Part 1. of this schedule.

Datura Alba, and its preparations; Gelsemium Elegans, and its preparations; Orpiment.

Must be labelled with

1. Name of article.

2. The word "Poison."

PART II.

3. Name and address of seller.

Almonds, Essential Oil of (unless deprived of Prussic Acid, Belladonna, and its preparations;

Cantharides, Tincture and all vesicating liquid preparations of Carbonic Acid;

Chloroform;

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Public Health,

Chloral Hydrate, and its preparations; Corrosive Sublimate, preparations of; Morphin, preparations of;

Nux Vomica, and its preparations; Oxalic Acid;

Precipitate, Red (Red Oxide of Mercury);

Precipitate, White (Ammoniated Mercury);

Vermin Killers (see Part 1) compounds containing "Poisons" prepared for the destruction of vermin, if not subject to the provisions of Part I. are in Part II.

REMOVAL OF PATIENTS.

(Infectious diseases.}

1. The Board by its officers may provide for the removal of, and may remove to the Hygeia, the Government Civil Hospital, the Kennedy Town Hospital, or other appointed place, any person suffering from bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox or such other epidemic, endemic or contagious disease as may be from time to time duly notified in the Gazette, and no removal shall take place except under the orders of the Board or of one of its officers or of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner, and then only in such manner and with such precautions as the Board shall from time to time direct. No such removal, however, shall take place if the Medical Officer of Health or any legally qualified and registered medical practitioner certifies that such person is being lodged and cared for without danger to the public health.

2. The Board may remove or cause to be removed for burial or cremation all bodies found in the Colony of persons who have died from any of the diseases specified in the foregoing bye-law and may bury or cremate or cause the same to be buried or cremated in accordance with the custom of the race to which the deceased belonged in such place and in such manner and with such precautions as the Board may from time to time direct, and no persons, unless acting under the written sanction or direction of the Secretary of the Board or of the Medical Officer of Health to bury or cremate, shall remove or bury or cremate any such bodies.

3. On receipt of a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner that any person suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever, enteric fever, relapsing fever, puerperal fever, measles, whooping cough, or such other infectious disease as may from time to time be defined by the Board, by resolution, for this purpose, is improperly lodged, the Medical Officer of Health shall, in case the said person is unwilling to be removed forthwith, apply to a Magistrate for an order for the removal of such person under the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance.

4. When any person suffering from any of the diseases specified in the foregoing bye-law is willing to be removed to a hospital or other suitable place the Medical Officer of Health shall with the sent of the patient take such measures as he may deem necessary for the safe and convenient removal of the said patient.

SCAVENGING AND CONSERVANCY.

1. The general surface scavenging of the City of Victoria, the Hill Districts and the larger villages in the Colony and the removal of night-soil and cognate matters from the Hill Districts, publie buildings and free and licensed latrines shail be carried out by con- tractors in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contracts for the time being in force.

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