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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH JANUARY, 1895.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 2.

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The following Bill is substituted for that published under Government Notification No. 495 of 29th December, 1894.

By Command.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd January, 1895.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 15 OF 1894.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to make provision with regard to certain houses closed during the prevalence of the Bubonic Plague and to make further and better provision for the health of the Colony.

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WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

[29th December, 1894.]

HEREAS the houses mentioned in the 1st and 2nd schedules hereto were closed wholly or in part by the Sanitary Board during the prevalence of the Bubonic Plague in this Colony and it is expedient to make provision with regard to the occupation of such houses and also of other buildings in the Colony. And whereas it is also deemed expedient to amend the Law with regard to domestic buildings and to make better provision with regard to the lighting and ventilation thereof and to make other sanitary provisions.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The closed houses and insanitary dwellings Ordinance, 1894.

2. For the purposes of this Ordinance the following words and expressions shall have and include the meanings respectively set against them unless such meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the context :-

Building. Any building, house, dwelling-house, tene-

ment house, common lodging-house, verandah, cook-house, privy, gallery, balcony, chimney, bridge, out-house, stable, matshed, warehouse, manufactory, shop, work-room, distillery, and place of secure stowage.

Domestic building.-Any human habitation or build- ing where persons (other than a caretaker) pass the night.

Tenement house.-Any domestic building let to and inhabited by more than one occupier or family as tenants of a common landlord or as sub-tenants of a tenant of any portion of such domestic building.

Street. Any square, court or alley, highway, lane,

road or passage whether a thoroughfare or not. 3. It shall not be lawful to live in or occupy or to suffer or permit any other person to live in or occupy any of the houses mentioned in the 1st schedule hereto (where such houses have been wholly closed), or any of the closed parts thereof (where such houses have been only partially closed as specified in such schedule), until the ground surface of such house and of every cook house, latrine, or open surface connected therewith, such as back yards, court yards, or other spaces on which slops may be thrown or from which foul waters flow shall have been properly covered over with a layer of some impervious material to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.

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Preamble.

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Prohibition of inhabitation of scheduled houses until impermeable floors provided.