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Care of

vapours and dust,

Persons

other than the care- takers and those engaged in work not to pass the

night on the promises.

Partitioning off of sleeping accommoda- tion.

Require- ments with regard to drains.

Access in members of Council, etc.

Restrictions

as to children.

Council may require the adoption of special

measures.

Provisions

to be posted in premises.

Duty of occupier

with egard

to offensive matter.

Lands and premises to be kept in such a state as not to

he a

nuisance.

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7.-(1) Every licensee shall adopt the best practicable means of rendering innocuous all vapours or dust emitted during the process of manufacture upon the premises where his trade is carried on.

(2) He shall in every case where boiling is a necessary part of the process of manufacture either cause the vapour to be discharged into the external air in such a manner and at such a height as to admit of the diffusion of the vapour without noxious or injurious effects, or he shall cause the vapour to pass directly from the pan or press through a fire, or into a suitable condensing apparatus and then through a fire, in such a manner as effectually to consume the vapour or to deprive the same of all noxious or injurious properties.

8. No persons (other than two caretakers in respect of each block of buildings) shall be allowed to pass the night in any of the rooms used as work rooms unless actually engaged in carrying on works connected with the trade.

9. Where any part of a floor to which the licence relates is used for sleeping purposes, such part shall be partitioned off from the remainder of the floor to the satisfaction of the Council; and no part of the trade shall be carried on and no storage of raw materials or finished products shall be permitted in the part so partitioned off for sleeping purposes.

10. Every licensee shall cause every drain or means of drainage upon or in connection with the premises where his trade is carried on to be maintained at all times in good order and efficient action. He shall, where it is in the opinion of the Council necessary so to do, provide the drains on his premises with the appliance known as a grease trap and shall not pass or pernit to be passed any hot (i.e. exceeding 100° Fahr. in temperature) liquid refuse into the drains or sewers. He shall also provide drainage by open channels, where it is in the opinion of the Council necessary so to do.

11. Every licensee shall, at all times, afford free access to every part of the said premises to any member of the Council, Health Officer or Sanitary Inspector.

12. No person under the age of twelve years shall be permitted upon any premises used for the trade of rag-picking, rag-storing, hair- cleaning, feather-storing or feather-cleaning.

13. The Council may require the adoption of such special measures and appliances as may seem to them to be necessary in the case of dusty offensive trades for mitigating as far as possible the danger and nuisance arising from the dissemination of dust through the atmosphere of the premises, and in the case of the trade of rag-picking, rag-storing, hair-cleaning, feather-storing or feather-cleaning, for disinfection of the premises and the materials used for the destruction of vermin therein.

14. The licensee shall cause a duly authenticated copy of these by-laws in English and Chinese to be hung up in a conspicuous position in his premises.

Domestic Cleanliness and Prevention of Disease.

1. No occupier of any house or premises shall keep or allow to be kept in any part of such house or premises for more than twenty-four hours, or otherwise than in some proper receptacle, any dirt, dung, bones, ashes, night-soil, filth or any noxious or offensive matter, so as to be a nuisance, or shall suffer such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state, or shall fail to employ proper means to remove the filth therefrom and to cleanse and purify the same.

2. The occupier of any land or premises, and in the case of un- occupied land or premises the owner thereof, shall keep such land in such a state as not to be a nuisance, or offensive, or an annoyance to anyone living in the neighbourhood, and in such a state as not to cause or to be likely to cause danger or be prejudicial to health, and in parti- cular he shall:-

(a) prevent the accumulation anywhere therein or thereon of dead vegetable matter, refuse, manure or of any other noxious or unsightly matter.

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