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10. The board shall meet once in every alternate week and Board
oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The meetings.
president may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed
by three members of the board, summon a meeting thereof.
11. Any four members shall be a quorum for the despatch of Quorum .
business, and at every meeting, the president or vice-president
shall preside, or, in their absence, the members present shall
appoint a chairman . The president or vice-president or in their
absence the chairman so appointed , shall have aa deliberative and
a casting vote.
12. The board may from time to time make standing orders orders.
Standing
for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings,
for the appointment of select committees, for the conduct of its
business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its
officers , and may from time to time alter and amend such stand
ing orders.
13. The board shall have power to make, and when made, to make
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to
alter, amend , or revoke bye-laws with regard to the following manuke
maiters :
1. The proper construction, trapping, ventilating , and
maintenance of private house- drains in the City of
Victoria, and the villages, and rural districts of
Hongkong and Kowloon.
2. The provision and proper construction of dust boxes in
private premises.
3. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order to
arrest damp in dwelling -houses.
4. The cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary main
tenance of all premises in the Colony.
5. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals, of(See1891.1
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dust- bins, and manure-depôts.
6. Surface scavenging , the removal and disposal of night
soil and of other refuse.
7. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation and
the prohibition of their use as such.
8. The protection of the public water supply from pollu
tion .

9. The prevention of the manufacture or sale of unsound ,
adulterated , or unwholesome food.
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10. The regulation of bakehouses, dairies, aërated water
manufactories , and food preserving establishments.
11. The prohibition of the establishment within certain
limits, and the control of any noxious or offensive
trade, business, or manufacture,