- THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1891.
Kitchens and Cook-houses.
"37. Every kitchen or cook-house shall be provided with a properly constructed brick fire-place, and chimney or smoke fiue. Every fire-place adapted for the use of charcoal shall be provided with a hood of sheet metal or of lath and plaster of sufficient size connecting with a chimney shaft or smoke flue carried up above the level of the roof. The interior surfaces of every flue shall be smoothly rendered with mortar, and no flue shall have less than eighty-one square inches of sectional area.
Chimneys and Fire-places.
"38. No fire-place, kitchen, or cook-house, shall be con- structed without a proper chimney or smoke flue or in such manner as to allow the smoke to escape through any side opening, window or hole in the walls or roof, or through any vent other than the smoke flue.
"39. The upper surface of any floor under any oven, stove, or fire-place shall be of incombustible materials, extending over the whole area covered by such oven, stove or fire-place and beyond to a distance of 12 inches at least on every side of such oven, stove or fire-place and such floor shall have hearths. of stone, tile or other incombustible material laid before every chimney-opening.'
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11. The requirements of section 41 of the principal Ordinance in relation to chimney shafts shall apply to smoke flues.
12. The requirements of section 69 of the principal Ordinance in relation to plans in the case of proposed new buildings or of the repair or reconstruction of old buildings shall apply to plans for new works and plans for the repair or reconstruction of old works.
13. Section 72 of the principal is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words following "and except in cases where the whole of such work or building, including the old portion of the structure, when completed complies with the provision of this Ordinance such alteration, addi- tion, or other work shall be subject to the approval of the Surveyor General."
14. In addition to the powers and authorities conferred upon or vested in the Surveyor General by the prin- cipal Ordinance or this or any other Ordinance or by law he shall have power on his being satisfied of the necessity of the case to temporarily stop, divert, or partially stop or partially divert the traffic along any street or road or to block up or occupy or partially block up or occupy such street for the purpose of carrying out works of a public
nature.
Construction
of kitchens or cook-houses.
Kitchen or cook-house to have smoke fluc.
Floor under oven, &c.
Extension of
#. 41 No. 15 of 1889.
Extension of
8. 69 No. 15 of 1889.
Amendment
of s. 72 No. 15 of 1889.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 454.
The following amendment of Bye-Law No. 17 of the Bye-Laws for licensing and regulating Common Lodging-houses, made by the Sanitary Board and notified in the Gazette in Government Notification No. 233 of 1891, is hereby published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th November, 1891.
W. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary.
"Bye-Law 17 is amended by striking out the figures '1891' after the word 'August' and inserting in lieu thereof the figures '1892.''
Amended by the Sanitary Board the 6th day of November, 1891.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.
Amendment approved by the Legislative Council the 9th day of November, 1891.
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
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