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SANITARY STAFF AND ITS POWERS.
19. Constitution of Sunitary staff.
20. Evidence of appointment of any officer of the Board.
21. Power of Medical Officers of Health and Sanitary Surveyors to enter and inspect premises.
Proviso.
22. Power of Medical Officers of Health to enter and inspect without notice.
23. General power of Board's officers to inspect.
24. Special inspections to ascertain breaches of certain sections.
OBSTRUCTION OF MEMBER OR OFFICER OF THE BOARD.
25. Penalty for assaulting member or officer of the Board.
NGISANCES.
26. Definition of nuisance.
27. (1) Entry to inspect nuisances. (2) Notice of such entry to be given if objection is raised, 28. Penalty for refusing admission after due notice.
29. Sanitary Commissioner to scrve notice requiring abatement of nuisance,
30. (1) Sanitary Commissioner may serve notice dir ́eting compliance with byr-laws. (2) Pro-
ceedings without notice.
31. Board may review notice. This clause provides a right of appeal to the Board by any person
dissatisfied with the action of the Sanitary Commissioner.
32. On non-compliance with notice, complaint to be made to a Magistraty. Proviso. It has been thought advisable to give the Sanitary Commissioner power to abate certain nuisances forthwith, if the notice is not complied with, instead of making application to a Magistrate for an order and penalty; this power has been taken more especially in regard to nuisances intimately associated with the dissemination of plague.
33. (1) Power of Magistrate to make an order dealing with the nuisance. (2) Penalty. 34. (1) Order of prohibition of use, etc., of building unfit for human habitation. (2) Closure of premises which have become a nuisance to the neighbourhood. The latter clause is new, as there appears to be at present no powers for dealing with such premises, and it is possible that offensive or objectionable trades might be carried on in andesirable localities, and yet not fall within the definition of "Offensive trades" given in section 6
35. Penuity for contravention of order of Magistrate, or for defacing any copy of such order. 36. Form of notices.
37. Manner of serving notices.
COMMON LODGING-HOUSES.
38. Common lodging-houses to be registered and the keeper licens:d.
39. Penalty for false statements.
40. Inspection of common lodging-houses.
41. Regulation of public washermen,
PUBLIC WASHERMEN.
This is a new clause to enable the Board to carry out its duties in regard to the protection of the public water supplies,
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, ETC.
42. Establishment of factories or work-places. 43. Establishment of dangerous or offensive trades.
44. Nuisances in factories, workshops or workplaces.
45. Prohibition of occupation for domestic purposes of any building in which a dangerous or offensive trade is carried on. The four foregoing clauses are new; it is very desirable that cement works, white lead factories, alkali works and so on, should not be established in overcrowded parts of the Colony, nor that such premises should be occupied as dwellings without some control by the Sanitary Authority.
BASEMENTS.
46. Basements may not be occupied without permission.
47. Filling in of hisements which are insanitary. This is a new clause which appears to be very
necessary in connection with the question of the dissemination of plague by rats
OVERCROWDING.
48. Overcrowding defined. Overcrowding in European Reservation or Hill District.
49. Overcrowding prohibited.
50. (1) Steps to be taken to abate overcrowding. (2) Mugistrate may make order for abatement.
(3) Subsequent inspection,
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