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ORDINANCE No. 24 of 1887 . 2193


Public Health.


53. Whenever the Board shall have reason to believe that the Suspected
drains to be
drains of any building are defective and in a condition injurious to health, opened by
Board.
it shall be lawful for the Board to order an inspecting officer to enter the [ See Ord.
No. 26of1890,
premises and to inspect such drains, and , if requisite for the purposes of x. 2.]

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 House drains
in villages
tricts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall construct the ground floor of such and rural
districts.
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 Open drains.
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.


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 Stagnant
water.
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 .