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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 27, 1920.

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No. 109.

By-law made under section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.

By-law No. 1 of the Notification of Infectious Disease By-laws contained in Schedule B of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, and published in the Gazelle on the 22nd day of February, 1918, as Government Notification No. 73, is hereby repealed and the following by-law substituted therefor :---

1. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from plague, cholera, small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus fever, enteric fever, relapsing fever, para-typhoid fever, cerebro-spinal fever, yellow fever, or puerperal fever, and if such inmate be under the care of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner the said medical practitioner shall forthwith furnish the Medical Officer of Health with a notification thereof in writing stating the name of such inmate and the situation of such premises.

Such legally qualified medical practitioner shall be entitled to receive, on application to the Secretary, the sum of $1 for each and every such notification.

Made by the Sanitary Board this 3rd day of February, 1920.

C. M. W. REYNOLDS, Secretary.

Approved by the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 26th day of February, 1920.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

No. 110.

By-law made under section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.

By-law No. 5 of the Removal of Patients By-laws contained in Schedule B of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, and published in the Gazette on the 22nd day of February, 1918, as Government Notification No. 74, is hereby repealed and the following by-law substituted therefor :-

5. For the purpose of these by-laws, the words "epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease" shall mean and include plague, cholera, small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus fever, enteric fever, puerperal fever, relapsing fever, para-typhoid fever, cerebro-spinal fever, and yellow

fever.

Made by the Sanitary Board this 3rd day of February, 1920.

C. M. W. REYNOLDS,

Secretary.

Approved by the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 26th day of February, 1920.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

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