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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 12, 1909.

No. 728.

Bye-law made under Sub-section 35 of Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances, 1903-1909.

The Bye-law made by the Sanitary Board under Sub-section 35 of Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances, 1903-1909, on the 13th day of October, 1508, and approved by the Legislative Council on the 3rd day of December, 1908, and published in the Government Gazette of the 4th day of December, 1908, in Government Notification No. 882, is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor :-

"When larva of mosquitoes are found on any premises the Board may, on the advice of the Medical Officer of Health or any Assistant Medical Officer of Health, give notice to the owner or occupier of such premises to remove all accumulations of water from such premises or to take steps to prevent the recurrence of the breeding of mosquitoes in any such accumulations of water and such owner or occupier shall comply with such notice forth- with."

Made by the Sanitary Board this 26th day of October, 1909.

W. BOWEN-ROWLANDS,

Secretary.

Approved by the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 11th day of November, 1909.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

No. 729.

Bye-laws made under Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances, 1903-1909.

All Bye-laws originally contained in or since added to Schedule B of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, under the heading "Slaughter-houses and Slaughter of Animals" are hereby repealed as from 1st January, 1910, and the following substituted therefor as from the same date:-

PART I

Slaughter-houses at Sham Shui Po, Shaukiwan and Aberdeen.

1. The respective lessees of the privilege of slaughtering swine in the slaughter- houses at Sham Shui Po, Shaukiwan and Aberdeen shall provide all persons necessary for the purpose of slaughtering such animals and dressing the carcases thereof, together with a sufficient supply of hot water, and shall have the same in readiness at all times for the persons making use of the slaughter-houses.

2. Each of the said lessees shall at all times allow any person to slaughter any such animal or dress any carcase for sale on payment to him of a fee not exceeding twenty cents for each animal weighing less than one picul, or forty cents for each animal weighing more, besides the blood of such animal which the lessee may retain.

3. The weight of each animal for the purposes of the preceding rule shall be

ascertained before it is slaughtered.

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