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Cattle.
Cockloft,
Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.
Common Lodging House.
Council.
Cubicle,
Dairy.
Dryman.
Dangerous trady.
Domestic Building.
Drug
Eating House.
'Cattle' means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves and huffaloes.
'Cockloft' includes any floor other than a ground floor and any platform or landing of a greater breadth than three feet and which has not a clear space of nine feet measured vertically above it.
'Colonial Veterinary Surgeon includes any veterinary surgeon or medical practitioner authorised by the Governor to perform the duties of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon under this Ordinance and also any Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.
'Common Lodging House' includes :-
(a) Any house or part thereof or other structure where persons of the labouring, artisan or mechanical classes are received for short periods at an amount not exceeding fifty cents per day for each person whether the same be paid daily or otherwise, or where the same class of accommodation is furnished by an employer of workmen for his workmen or is paid for by subscription to a common fund.
(b) Any emigration house or depot.
(c) Any seamen's lodging house for asiatic seamen,
(d) Any house or part of a house, not being a public hospital for the reception of sick or dying persons.
(e) Any house where ten or more jinrickshaw pullers or chair coolies are lodged as tenants or subtenants of one landlord or lessee.
'Council" means the Urban Council unless some other Council is indicated.
'Cubicle' means any portion of a room partitioned off for the purpose of being used as a sleeping place.
'Dairy' means and includes any farm house, cowshed, milk-store, milk shop or other place from which milk is sup- plied or in which milk is kept for the purposes of manufacture or sale.
'Dairyman' includes any keeper of cows or buffaloes for the purpose of trade in milk, purveyor of milk, seller of milk, occupier of a dairy, employees engaged in the production or distribution of milk and in cases where a dairy is owned by a corporation or company the secretary or other person actually managing such dairy,
'Dangerous trade means any manufacturing process or handicraft in which lead, arsenic, mercury, phosphorus or any other poisonous substance whatsoever is used.
*Domestic building' means any building constructed, used, or adapted to be used, wholly or partly, for human habitation, but does not include any building where caretakers only, not exceeding two in number, pass the night.
'Drug' means any medicine for internal or external use.
'Eating house' means a building or portion thereof used as an eating-house, coffee house, or other similar establishment where no intoxicating liquors are sold on the premises.
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'External air' means the air of any space which is vertic- External ally open to the sky and unobstructed and which, when air. measured from and at right angles to the external surface of a wall, or where there is a verandah or balcony when measured from the external surface of such verandah or balcony, has a dimension of not less than thirteen feet throughout the extent of any window opening in such wall, and when measured parallel to the external surface of such wall, verandah or balcony and in a horizontal direction has a dimension of not less than seven feet.
'Factory' means any premises or place wherein or within Factory. the close or curtilage or precincts of which any machinery other than machinery worked entirely by hand is used in aid of any industrial undertaking carried on in such premises or place.
'Floor' includes any horizontal platform forming the base Floor. of any storey, and every joist, board, timber, stone, brick, or other sub-tance, connected with and forming part of such platform.
'Food' means any article used for food or drink other Food. than drugs.
Health Officer includes the Director of Medical and Health Sanitary Services, any medical officer appointed as a Health Officer. Officer by the Governor, and any officer for the time being performing the duties of a Health Officer.
'Hill District' means any part of the island of Hong Kong Hill above the 700 feet contour, except Chinese villages.
District.
'Householder' means the actual tenant or occupier of House. any building, or in cases where there is no such person, then holder. the owner of such building, and, in the case of corporations, companies, and associations, the secretary or manager thereof.
'Keeper of a Common Lodging-House' means any person Keeper of licensed to keep a common lodging-house.
Common Lodging House.
Latrine' includes 'privy', pail latrine and water closet. Latrine,
*Latrine accommodation' includes a receptacle for human Latrine excreta together with the structure comprising such receptacle accommoda and the fittings and the apparatus connected therewith.
tion.
'Pail latrine' means latrine accommodation including a Pail moveable receptacle for human excreta.
latrine.
'Mid-level District' means that portion of the City of Mid-level Victoria which is situated on the southern or south-eastern District. boundary of a dividing line beginning from a point on the Pokfulum Road at No. 1 Bridge and passing along Pokfulum Road, High Street, Bonham Road and Caine Road as far as Ladder Street to Wing Lee Street, thence along Wing Lee Street and Pa Wa Street and bisecting Inland Lot 94, thence along the northern boundary of Inland Lots 100, 1086. 122 and 123, thence along Shelley Street and the northern boundary of Inland Lot 125 to Old Bailey, thence along Chancery Lane, Chancery Lane Steps, Wyndham Street, Lower Albert Road and Ice House Street, thence along Queen's Road Central and Queen's Road East to the Eastern Boundary of War Depart- ment land, thence along the Western boundary of Inland Lots 47A, 47 and 1211 until the line produced meets Monmouth
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