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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD NOVEMBER, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 482.
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The following Bye-Laws under The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, are published for general information.
By Command,
A. LISTER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd November, 1889.
Bye-Laws made under Sub-section 6 of Section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887.
1. The general surface scavenging of the City of Victoria the Hill Districts and the larger Villages in the Colony and the removal of night-soil and cognate matters from the Hill Districts, Public Buildings.and free and licensed Latrines shall be carried out by Contractors in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Contracts for the time being in force.
2. The servants of the various public Sanitary Contractors shall, while at work, wear such distinguishing badge as shall from time to time be directed by the Sanitary Board.
3. Except between the hours of 2.30 A.M. and 7 A.M. in summer, and 2.30 A.M. and 7.30 A.M. in winter, the conveyance of excretal matters along any public road or street is prohibited.
4. Except between the hours of midnight and 9 A.M. the conveyance of pig-wash or other noxious
or offensive waters along any public road or street is prohibited.
5. Except in strong substantial buckets with closely fitting covers the conveyance of excretal matters, pig-wash, or offensive waters along any public road or street is prohibited.
6. The occupiers of any premises, or if there be no occupier the immediate Landlord shall make due provision for the daily removal of all excretal matters and house refuse from their premises to the conservancy-boats, and dust-carts, dust-bins or dust-boats.
7. Occupiers shall provide themselves with strong substantial moveable dust-bins for the reception of the day's house refuse.
Made by the Sanitary Board, this 31st day of July, 1889.
Approved by the Legislative Council, this 20th day of November, 1889.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Bye-Laws made under Sub-sections 13, 14 and 16 of Section 13 to give effect to Section 30 of Ordinance 24 of 1887.
1. Annual licences expiring on the 31st day of December of the year in which they are granted shall be issued for the keeping of cattle, swine, sheep and goats.
2. Any person desirous of obtaining a licence to keep cattle, swine, sheep or goats shall make application to the Board by means of a properly filled-in form, for which purpose blank forms can be obtained from the Secretary to the Board at his Office.
3. No Building in which cattle, swine, sheep and goats are housed shall be situated nearer than six feet to any dwelling-house and shall not in any way connect with a public or private sewer except with the special permission of the Sanitary Board. Such Building shall be lighted and ventilated to the satisfaction of the Board and the flooring thereof shall be of granite slabs concrete or other impervious material and provided with water-tight channels for draining all urine and fluid noxious. matters into a water-tight covered sump or such other place as may be approved of by the Board. The sump shall be constructed to the satisfaction of the Board and shall be emptied and the contents thereof together with the solid manure in the building removed daily.
4. Each cow shall have at least 24 square feet nett area of standing room and 360 cubic feet of air-space; but in no case shall the building be less than 12 feet in height.
5. Each sheep, goat and pig shall have at least 8 square feet of standing room and 90 cubic feet of air-space.
6. The buildings shall be at all times kept in a cleanly condition and the walls shall be scraped and lime-washed at least once every six months.
7. A building for which a licence is held to house cattle, swine, sheep or goats shall not be used for any other purpose than the housing of such animals except the storage of fodder, and the space occupied by such fodder shall not be included in the cubic air-space laid down in Bye-laws 4 and 5.
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