THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JUNE, 1883.
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8.The principal duties of the Senior Inspector in respect of the European tenements in the Hill Districts shall be,
(i.) To see that the Government night-soil Contractor carefully removes once every day all night-soil and urine from every tenement within the hours and in the manner provided in his contract. (ii.) To see that all sullage and kitchen-slops are kept by every householder in a water-tight and properly covered receptacle, that such slops are removed daily by hand by the Government Scavenging Contractor within the hours and in the manner prescribed in his contract. (iii.) To see that every tenement is provided with a suitable dust-box in accordance with the Government Standard pattern, that all solid kitchen-refuse, garbage, ashes, dust and house- sweepings are deposited in the dust-box and in no other place or receptacle, and that the contents of the dust-box are daily removed and disposed of by the Government Scavenging Contractor, within the hours, and in the manner provided in his contract.
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(iv.) To see that only ablution-waters be allowed to be retained and disposed of within
tenement or premises, and that such ablution-waters shall not be allowed to escape broadcast on to any land, hillside or road, public or private, within the drainage area of the Pokfúlam Reservoir, but that they shall be conveyed through a watertight and properly constructed drain into a cess-pit, which shall be periodically emptied by every householder in the manner provided in the published Code of Sanitary Rules for the Hill District.'
(v.) To see that no kitchen, scullery, pantry, latrine, stable, or out-office of any tenement be provided with an underground drain, or with a gully hole or perforation through any wall forming a channel of escape for sullage or kitchen-slops, thereby enabling the servants of any tenement to elude or defeat the provision which obliges all such sullage or slops to be kept in covered receptacles for daily removal by hand, and upon the discovery of any such drain or channel of escape the Senior Inspector shall require its immediate removal. (vi.) To see that no manurial cultivation of gardens is effected anywhere within the drainage area of the Pokfúlam Reservoir, and to see that no refuse or waste matters, offensive or inoffensive, are thrown or deposited upon any hillside, vacant ground, road or drain, whether the property of the Government or not, but that all such waste matters are removed in the manner prescribed in the published code of Sanitary Rules for the Hill District. (vii.) To see that all the provisions of the aforesaid code are carefully observed by householders
and their servants as well as by the Gevernment Contractors.
9.--The Senior Inspector shall be assisted in his duties by a permanent resident watchman appointed specially for the Hill District, and it shall be the duty of the watchman to maintain a daily personal surveillance over the sanitation of every house in the Hill District, to see that householders and their servants comply with the conditions contained in the published code of Sanitary Rules, and that the Government Contractors carry out with due punctuality and efficiency every detail of their respective contracts for the removal of night-soil and waste products from all tenements; and it shall be the special duty of the watchman to see by constant inspection that the Contractors' servants do not throw or deposit any refuse matters on any hillside, road, or drain, but that they convey
and dispose of such matters in the manner prescribed in the Sanitary Rules aforesaid.
10.-The Senior Inspector shall periodically visit the villages and out-stations of the Colony with a view to ensuring that the terms of the village Scavenging Contracts are being strictly carried out by the Government Local Contractors, and that the villagers under the surveillance of the Police Inspec- tor comply with the Sanitary laws of the Colony, more especially with the Rules and Regulations issued by the Governor in Council under the Order and Cleanliness Ordinances of 1867 and 1883.
11. Upon arrival at a village the Senior Inspector shall proceed to visit the Police Inspector, and shall in conjunction with that officer make a careful general inspection of the whole village, satis- fying himself as to the manner in which the village Contractor is carrying out his contract, and noting the condition of the streets, side-channels, sewer-traps, dust-bins, public latrines, and licensed manure depôts, and he shall also inspect all drinking wells and other sources of water supply, with a view to the prompt removal of any causes of pollution of the same that may come under his observation.
12.-The Senior Inspector shall also make periodical inspections of all such Rural Districts in the Colony as may be partially inhabited, with a view to the promotion of the practical sanitation of such districts and to the removal of any nuisances injurious to the Public Health.
13.--The Senior Inspector, upon the occasion of every visit to a village, an outstation, or to a rural district, shall submit a report to the Sanitary Inspector on the condition of such village or district, and in the case of a village, on the manner in which the village Contractor is carrying out the terms of his contract, as also on the efficiency or otherwise of the surveillance of the village Police. He shall always accompany such reports by such practical suggestions as he may be able to offer for abatement of the nuisances reported, or for the remedying of such evils as may have come under his observation, and he shall take the instructions of the Sanitary Inspector with reference to any action to be taken upon his reports.
Approved in Executive Council, this 20th day of June, 1883.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
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