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ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887 . 2179


Public Health.


2. The several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances mentioned in Ordinances
repealed.
schedule A to this Ordinance appended , are hereby repealed, provided

always that all rules and regulations made in virtue of any of the said
Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and in force at the date of the passing
of this Ordinance shall remain in operation , until they shall have been
amended or repealed .

3. In this Ordinance and in any bye-laws made thereunder , the Definitions.
following words and expressions shall have or shall include the meanings
hereinafter respectively set against them , unless such meanings be re
pugnant to or inconsistent with the context.

1. Author of a nuisance. -The person by whose act, default, Author of
a nuisance.
permission , or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues .

2. Board. The Sanitary Board . Board.

3. Building. - Any building, house , dwelling -house , tenement Building.
house, common lodging -house , verandah , cook- house , privy ,
gallery, balcony, chimney, bridge, out- house , stable , mat
shed, ware-house, manufactory, shop , work- room , distillery,
and place of secure stowage .

4. Common lodging-house
(a. ) any house or part thereof, where persons are Common
lodging
housed -not being members ofthe same family house.

-at an amount not exceeding five cents a day,
or one dollar a month, for each person ;

(b . ) any permanent structure in which employers of
labour lodge their employés other than domestic
servants, or shopmen, as part of the remunera
tion given for their services.

5. Domestic building.-Any human habitation, or building Domestic
building.
where persons pass the night.
6. Drug.- Any medicine for internal or external use. Drug.
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7. Food. Any article used for food or drink other than drugs Food.
or water .
- The face of the natural hill, or the face of any Hill-side.
8. Hill-side.

scarp or retaining- wall built to support the same, or any
artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp
or retaining -wall, made with the object of supporting a
street or forming a site for a building.