ORDINANCE No. 24 of 1887.
Public Health.
2193
drains to be
Board. [See Ord.
No. 26 of 1890,
*. 2.]
53. Whenever the Board shall have reason to believe that the suspected drains of any building are defective and in a condition injurious to health, it shall be lawful for the Board to order an inspecting officer to enter the premises and to inspect such drains, and, if requisite for the purposes of such inspection, such officer shall cause the ground to be opened in any place or places he may deem fit, doing as little damage as may be, and should such drains be found in a satisfactory condition, they shall be reinstated and made good by the Board at the public expense, but should such drains prove in the opinion of the Board defective, it shall cause them to be properly reconstructed in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
54. Every owner of a new building in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain, and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty or with any other means of drainage with which such drain may lawfully communicate.
55. Wherever feasible, every house-drain in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowoon shall hereafter be an open drain consisting of a semi-circular channel, of glazed stoneware jointed in cement mortar and laid to adequate falls on a bed of good lime or cement concrete, to the satisfaction of the Board.
House drains
in villages and rural districts,
Open drains.
56. In isolated places not connected with any public drainage system, every such open drain shall lead and empty into a covered sump or cesspit built of brick or lime concrete rendered smoothly in good Portland cement mortar in such manner as to be water tight.
57. No premises within the city of Victoria or the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon, shall be so excavated as shall admit of the formation, on the surface thereof, of pools of stagnant or other foul waters, and it shall be lawful for the Board to call upon the owner of any premises whereon such pools may exist, to fill up the same with good clean earth to the level of the surrounding ground, or to drain off such pools by means of surface-drains into any channel with which such surface-drains may lawfully communicate.
Stagnant
water.
ORDINANCE No. 24 or 1887.
Public Health.
2193
drains to be
Board. [See Ord.
No. 26 of 1890,
*. 2.]
53. Whenever the Board shall have reason to believe that the Suspected drains of any building are defective and in a condition injurious to health, it shall be lawful for the Board to order an inspecting officer to enter the premises and to inspect such drains, and, if requisite for the
purposes of such inspection, such officer shall cause the ground to be opened in any place or places he may deem fit, doing as little damage as may be, and should such drains be found in a satisfactory condition, they shall be reinstated and made good by the Board at the public expense, but should such drains prove in the opinion of the Board defective, it shall cause them to be properly reconstructed in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
54. Every owner of a new building in the villages and rural dis- tricts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain, and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty or with any other means of drainage with which such drain may lawfully com-
municate.
55. Wherever feasible, every house-drain in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall hereafter be an open drain consisting of a semi-circular channel, of glazed stoneware jointed in cement mortar and laid to adequate falls on a bed of good lime or cement concrete, to the satisfaction of the Board.
House drains
in villages and rural districts,
Open drains.
56. In isolated places not connected with any public drainage Sumps. system, every such open drain shall lead and empty into a covered sump or cesspit built of brick or lime concrete rendered smoothly in good Portland cement mortar in such manner as to be water tight.
57. No premises within the city of Victoria or the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon, shall be so excavated as shall admit of the formation, on the surface thereof, of pools of stagnant or other foul waters, and it shall be lawful for the Board to call upon the owner of any pre- mises whereon such pools may exist, to fill up the same with good clean earth to the level of the surrounding ground, or to drain off such pools. by means of surface-drains into any channel with which such surface- drains may lawfully communicate.
Stagnant
water.
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