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2202 ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887.


Public Health.


8. Candidates, as such, are not disqualified from voting.

9. In the event of two candidates having an equal number of votes, only one of
whom can be elected , their names must be submitted to another ballot.
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10. As to any matters connected with the order of proceeding not hereby provided
for, the Registrar shall take such order as he thinks fit.

11. The Registrar shall make a return of the electors to the Governor as soon as
conveniently may be after the election . The return must be accompanied for the
Governor's information , by :

(a.) A list of the electors present at the meeting.

(b.) A list of the candidates with the names of their proposers and seconders.

(c.) A list of voters .

(d.) A statement of the number of votes given for each candidate.



Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board of Hongkong for the compulsory reporting of
infectious, contagious or communicable diseases under the provisions of section
13 ofThe Public Health Ordinance, 1887, sub-section 24, approved bythe
Legislative Council 2nd January, and gazetted 5th January, 1889.


1. The following bye-laws refer to small-pox only.

2. The words " Medical Practitioner " shall include all persons of whatever

nationality who practise medicine whether registered or not under Ordinance No. 6
of 1884.

3. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from small-pox, and if such inmate
be under the care of a medical practitioner the said medical practitioner shall forth
with furnish the secretary to the Board or the Registrar General with a notification
in writing of the name of such inmate and the situation of such premises.

4. If any such inmate be not under the care of a medical practitioner, the occupier
or keeper of such premises or part of such premises or the nearest male adult relative
living on such premises shall on the nature of the disease becoming known to him or
on suspicion of the existence in such inmate of any such disease forthwith notify the
same to the secretary to the Board or the Registrar General or the officer in charge of
the nearest Police Station.

5. Such notification shall immediately on receipt thereof be transmitted by whom
soever received to the secretary to the Board.

6. The secretary to the Board shall upon application furnish every medical prac
titioner in the Colony, the Registrar General and every officer in charge of a Police
Station with the printed forms of notification to be used.