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981 [ 24 of 1887. ] PUBLIC HEALTH .


of six in the morning and six in the evening, enter any shop
or premises used for the sale or preparation for sale, or for the
storage of food, to inspect and examine any food found therein
which he shall have reason to believe is intended to be used as
human food, and, in case any such food appear to such member
or officer to be unfit for such use, he may seize the saine , and
the board may order it to be destroyed or to be so disposed of
as to prevent it from being used as human food .
Chinese 26. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time
cemeteries.
[ See adrer.
tisement
to time to select and appoint, and hy advertisement in the
gazetted 23rd Hongkong Government Gazette, to notify sufficient and proper
February , places to be the sites of, and to be used as cemeteries or places
1889.) of burial for the Chinese ; and from time to time, to alter, vary,
and repeal the said notifications by others, to be advertised in
the like manner ; and in such cemeteries or places it shall be
lawful for the Chinese, in conformity with the provisions of the
notifications actually in force, to bury their dead , yet so as that
any person who shall use for that purpose a grave of less than
six feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the
uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited, shall
for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty
dollars.
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[ Sce No. 4 of
1890.]
Removal of
infected
29. Where any person is suffering from small -pox or any
persons. other contagious or infectious disease, and is without proper
lodging or accommodation, or is lodged in a tenement occupied
by more than one family, or is on board any ship or vessel , a
Nayistrate may , on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon or
any other duly qualified medical practitioner, order the removal
ofsuch person to such suitable hospital or other like place as
may be provided for the purpose.
Kecping pigs,
&c.
30. The keeping of cattle, swine, sheep, or goats without a
licence from the board is hereby prohibited, and any person
keeping such animals, either without a licence from the 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, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding four
teen days, and, in the discretion of the Magistrate, to forfeit all
animals in respect of the keeping of which he has so offended .
PART II .
Proclamation
of epidemic
31. Whenever any part of the Colony appears to be threat
disease. ened with , or is affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic,
or contagious disease, the Governor, with the advice of the