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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 19, 1913.

No. 399.

By-law made under Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.

NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

By-law No. 1 of the Notification of Infectious Disease By-laws made under Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, and published at page 475 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1910, is hereby amended by the insertion of the words "para- typhoid fever" between the words "relapsing fever" and "or" in the second line thereof.

The By-law as amended will read as follows:-

"1. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from plague, cholera, small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus fever, enteric fever, relapsing fever, para- typhoid fever, or puerperal fever, and if such inmate be under the care of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner the said medical practi- tioner shall forthwith furnish the Medical Officer of Health with a notifica- tion 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, the sum of $1 for each and every such notification."

Made by the Sanitary Board this 2nd day of December, 1913.

W. BOWEN-ROWLANDS,

Secretary.

Approved by the Legislative Council this 18th day of December, 1913.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

18th December, 1913.

R. H. CROFTON,

Clerk of Councils.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 400.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been, pleased to accept the resignation by Lieutenant J. A. T. PLUMMER of his Commission in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, with effect from this date.

15th December, 1913.