THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26тп MAY, 1883.
7. In case of emergency the Sanitary Board may order the immediate removal of any noxious accumulation and the closing up of such wells, cess-pools or drains, in any tenement, as in their opinion may be immediately injurious to the Public Health, and the cost incurred shall be chargeable either to the oceupants of such tenements, or to the public as the Board shall decide.
8. No person shall, after the passing of this Ordinance, erect a water-closet within his tenement, or comect such water-closet by means of a connection-drain with any public or private sewer, without the written permission of the Sanitary Board.
9. All night-soil and urine shall vest in and become the absolute property of the Government night-soil Contractors for the time being and the disposal of it shall be subject to regulations to be made under this Ordinance. Provided, that the licencees of public latrines shall still be at liberty to dispose of the night-soil from latrines existing at the time of the passing of this Ordinance under the regulations in force at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, and that the owners of gardens in villages, may use on their own lands the waste products of their tenements if conveyed according to such regulations.
10. All householders within the City of Victoria shall provide themselves with suitable dust-boxes in accordance with a pattern deposited for the inspection of the public, at the District Police Stations in the city, and all the day's house-sweepings, ashes, offal, and refuse, shall be deposited in the dust-box, and in no place or receptacle other than the dust-box which shall be at all times maintained in due repair by the owner.
11. The keeping of pigs, goats, or cattle without a Licence from the Sanitary Board is hereby prohibited, and any person keeping such animals, either without a Licence from the Sanitary Board or in a manner contravening such Sanitary Conditions as may be endorsed on such Licence, shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding five dollars, and in default of payment imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days, and to forfeit all animals in respect of the keeping of which he has so offended.
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12. The Governor in Council may from time to time make and when made, revoke, add to, or alter regulations for the carrying out of all laws relating to Sanitation and especially for the better removal by householders and public contractors, of night-soil, urine, dust, rubbish or collected or deposited or remaining on any tenement and may by such regulations affix penalties not exceeding in any ease $100 or imprisonment with or without hard labour for 3 months for the breach of any such regulations to be recovered on summary conviction of the offender before a Magistrate.
13. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor.
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Erection of water-closeĖS:
Night-coll and urine, the property of the night-xoil Contractors.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 183.
The subjoined Minute of His Excellency the Governor is published for general information, and for the guidance of the Officers of the Public Departments.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong. 23rd May, 1883.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
MINUTE.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 21st May, 1883.
It has been brought to the notice of the Governor that the removal of the Chinese Hawkers' Stalls from the leading thoroughfares, and other measures recommended in the interest of the health of the general Public by the Sanitary Commissioner (Mr. CHADWICK) have not been carried out in all cases with the necessary discretion and forbearance.
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