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A.D. 1901.]

PUBLIC HEALTH.

[No. 10.

933

4. The Secretary of the Board shall, on application, furnish every medical Furnishing of practitioner in the Colony and every officer in charge of a Police Station with printed forms the printed forms of notification to be used.

of notification.

Obligation on all persons to

of small-pox, notify case

5. All persons knowing or having reason to believe that any person has been attacked by or is suffering from small-pox, bubonic plague, cholera, or from such other epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease as may from time to time be duly notified in The Gazette, shall notify the same without delay etc. to any officer on duty at the nearest Police Station or to some officer of the Sanitary Board, and any such officer receiving any such notification, whether verbal or written, or discovering any such case, shall notify the same with the least possible delay to the Medical Officer of Health, and may detain such person or remove him to a public hospital until he can be examined by the Medical Officer of Health or by some legally qualified and registered medical practitioner.

PART XVIII.

OVERCROWDING,

and notifica-

1. The Medical Officer of Health, or such other officer as the Board may Measuring, appoint for the purpose, shall, within such limits as the Board may from time to calculation, time define, cause to be measured the floor area and cubic capacity of all domes- tion of floor tic buildings or parts thereof, and shall cause to be calculated the number of area and cubic occupants that may lawfully pass the night in such buildings or any parts domestic

capacity of thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance, building. 1901, and shall cause such number, in English and Chinese, to be fixed to such No.10 of 1901. buildings or parts thereof in such manner as the Board may from time to time direct.

PART XIX.

OFFENSIVE Trades.

1. It shall not be lawful to carry on the trade of bone-boiling, the trade of tallow-melting, or the trade of fat-melting or fat-extracting in any premises not hitherto used for carrying on such trades, until such premises have been approved by the Board as being situated in a suitable locality and as being suitable for the purposes of such trades.

2.-(1.) The trade of bone-boiling, the trade of tallow-melting, and the trade of fat-melting or fat-extracting shall only be carried on in premises that are substantially built, and such premises shall be drained in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance, 1901, and the By-Laws made thereunder,

(2.) The ground surfaces of such premises shall be paved with good con- crete laid down at least six inches thick, and the surface thereof shall be rendered smooth and impervious with asphalt, Portland cement, or such other inaterial as the Board may approve of,

Prohibition of bone-boiling, mises not etc., in pre- approved by

Board.

Construction used for bone- of building

boiling, etc. No. 10 of 1901.