56115-1918-Amendment-of-the-Removal-of-Patients-By-laws — Page 1

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 22, 1918.

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from time to time be defined by the Board by resolution. The words "infected premises" shall mean and include any premises in which any person suffering from any epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease is or has been recently located, and any premises in which any animal infected with plague or dead from the same has been found.

Made by the Sanitary Board this 13th day of February, 1918.

C. M. W. REYNOLDS,

Secretary.

Approved by the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 21st day of February, 1918.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.

No. 73.

By-law made under Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.

By-law No. 1 of the Notification of Infectious Disease By-laws contained in Schedule B of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 and published on pages 31 and 32 of the "Regulations of Hongkong, 1914" is hereby repealed and the following by-law substituted therefor:

1. If any inmate of any premises be suffering froin plague, cholera, small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus fever, enteric fever, relapsing fever, para-typhoid fever, cerebro-spinal fever, or puerperal fever, and if such inmate be under the care of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner the said medical practitioner shall forthwith furnish the Medical Officer of Health with a notification 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 13th day of February, 1918.

C. M: W. REYNOLDS,

Secretary.

Approved by the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 21st day of February, 1918.

No. 74.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

By-law made under Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.

By-law No. 5 of the Removal of Patients By-laws contained in Schedule B of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, and published on pages 42 and 43 of the "Regulations of Hongkong, 1914", is hereby repealed and the following by-law substituted therefor

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5. For the purpose of these by-laws, the words "epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease" shall mean and include plague, cholera, small-pox,