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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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No. 51.

號一十五第 日六十月八年午甲

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1894.

日五十月九年四十九百八千一

VOL. XL.

簿十四第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 341.

The following Bill, which will be read a first time at a meeting of the Legislative Council to be

held on Monday, the 17th instant, is published.

By Command,

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 15th September, 1894.

J. G. T. BUCKLE, Acting Clerk of Councils.

DRAFT BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to make provision with regard to certain houses in the City of Victoria closed during the prevalence of the Bubonic Plague and to make further and better provision for the health

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of the Colony.

WHEREAS the houses mentioned in the 1st and 2nd

schedules hereto situate in the City of Victoria were closed by the Sanitary Board as being unfit for human habitation during the prevalence of the Bubonic Plague in this Colony and it is expedient to make provision as to the re-inhabitation and re-occupation of the houses in the 1st schedule hereto and as to the future inhabitation and occupation of the houses mentioned in the 2nd schedule hereto and of other buildings in the Colony. And whereas it is also deemed expedient to amend the Law with regard to the overcrowding of domestic buildings and to make better provision with regard to the lighting and ventilation thereof.

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

1. It shall not be lawful to live in or occupy or to suffer or permit to live in or occupy any of the houses mentioned in the 1st schedule hereto until the ground surface of every basement storey, cookhouse, yard or outhouse thereof shall be properly covered over with a layer of some material im- permeable to gas and water to the satisfaction of the Sani- tary Board.

2. From and after the 1st day of July, 1895, it shall not be lawful for any person, except a caretaker only, to live in or occupy or to suffer or permit any other person, except such caretaker to live in or occupy any domestic building unless-

(a) The ground surface of the basement storey of such building and of any yard in connection there- with shall have been covered over in the mauner prescribed in respect of the houses mentioned in the 1st schedule hereto, or unless

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Preamble.

Prohibition 2 inhabitation of scheduled houses umil Impermeable Bloors provided.

Prohibition after ist July, 1495, of inhabitation of houses until impermeable floors provided,