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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1888.

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Definitions.

Author of a Nulsance.

Board.

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Commen Lodging House.

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Food

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Householder

No. 24 OF 1887.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for amending the Laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong.

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G. WILLIAM DES VOUX.

[30th May, 1888.]

HEREAS it is expedient to make provision for pre- serving and promoting the Public Health in this Colony Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council. thereof, as follows:-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.

2. The several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances mentioned in schedule 4 to this Ordinance appended, are hereby repealed, provided always that all Rules and Regu- lations made in virtue of any of the said Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and in force at the date of the passing of this Ordinance shall remain in operation, until they shall have been amended or repealed.

3. In this Ordinance and in any Bye-Laws made there- under, the following words and expressions shall have or shall include the meanings hereinafter respectively set against them, unless such meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the context.

1. Author of a Nuisance.-The person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues.

2. Board.--The Sanitary Board.

3. Building. Any building, house, dwelling-house, tenement-house, common lodging-house, veran- dah, cook-house, privy, gallery, balcony, chimney, bridge, out-house, stable, matshed, ware-house, manufactory, shop, work-room, distillery, and place of secure stowage,

4. Common Lodging-House: -------

(.) any house or part thereof, where persons are housed-not being members of the same family at an amount not exceeding five cents a day, or one dollar a month, for each person;

(b) any permanent structure in which em- ployers of labour lodge their employés other than domestic servants, or shopmen, as part of the remuneration given for their services.

5. Domestic Building.-Any human habitation, or

building where persons pass the night.

6. Drug.-Any medicine for internal or external use. 7. Food. Any article used for food or drink other

than drugs or water.

8. Hill-side.---The face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining-wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining-wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.

9. Householder.--For the purposes of this Ordinance, the actual tenant or occupier of any building, or in cases where there shall be no such person, then the immediate landlord of such building, and, in the case of Corporations, Companies, and Associations, the Secretary or Manager thereof shall be deemed the Householder, and shall be liable under this Ordinance.