THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1894. 827
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 352.
The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published.
By Command,
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 17th September, 1894.
ARATHOON SETH, 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 of the Colony.
W
HEREAS 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 aunless-
(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 manier prescribed in respect of the houses mentioned in the 1st schedule hereto, or unless
(b) The owner of such building and any yard in con- nection therewith shall have obtained a certifi- cate from the Director of Public Works under section 53 of The Building Ordinance, 1889, or a certificate from the Sanitary Board in respect of any building completed before the coming into operation of this Ordinance that the ground surface of any such building or any yard in connection therewith has been made impervions to gas and water to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board, or unless
(e) The Sanitary Board shall have granted permis- sion in writing to complete the covering over the ground surface of any such building after the 1st day of July, 1895.
Provided always that this section shall not apply to the floor of any cook house, latrine, privy or back yard which has been paved in accordance with Bye-law No. 36 of the Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board under section 13, sub-section 1, of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, and approved by the Legislative Council on the 13th day of October, 1890, and which is so maintained.
Title.
Preamble.
Prohibition of inhabitation of scheduled houses umil impermeable floors provided.
Prohibition after 1st July, 1898, of
inhabitation of houses til impermeable Hours provide l
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