Annual report on the Medical Department / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical Department.
Date:
[1920]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on the Medical Department / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .32 dust-bins and garden refuse, e.y., tree and hedge clippings, cut or pulled grass and weeds that has been piled in a heap in some convenient spot within the compound. It is not the duty of the sanitary gang to collect or remove rubbish other than what has been placed in the dust-bins or in heaps named in the previous sentence. 3. The portion of street contiguous to the compounds shall be kept free from weeds and rubbish by the sanitary gang for a distance of six feet from the boundary fences. 4. Ho occupier of a bungalow shall keep animals, birds, fish, or reptiles as pets at the Hill Station, without the consent of the Health Officer, and no animals, etc., shall be so kept as to be a nuisance to occupiers of other bungalows. 5. The owner or occupier of a building or premises wherein or whereon any horse or other beast of draught or burden, or any animal may be kept, shall provide in connection with such building or premises a suitable receptacle to be approved of by the Health Officer, for dung, manure, soil, filth, or other offensive matter which may from time to time be produced in the keeping of any such animal, in such building or upon such premises. 6. The owner or occupier shall cause such receptacle to be constructed in such a manner and of such material and to be maintained at all times in such a condition as to prevent any escape of the contents thereof. He shall provide a proper covering for such receptacle and keep it covered when not required. 7. He shall provide in connection with such building or premises, a properly constructed septic tank or other means of dealing with urine and sewage if and as required by the Health Officer, and he shall maintain it in such a sanitary condition as shall satisfy the Health Officer and shall comply with all regulations made by the Health Officer for such maintenance. 8. He shall flush such drains thoroughly every day, if the water supply permits. 9. The occupier shall see that any receptacle for such animal’s refuse be daily emptied, and no excuse for the neglect of these rules will be accepted. 10. No building shall be erected at Hill Station or on the Government land surrounding the same without the consent of the Governor. F.—Inspections by the Health Officer to the Hill Station. 1. The Health Officer to the Hill Station shall be the Senior Sanitary Officer, or in his absence, any Medical Officer deputed by the Principal Medical Officer. 2. The Health Officer or any officer authorized by him has power of entry, to inspect any house or compound from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. These officials are in no way to be hindered in their inspections. G.—General. 1. Trees and other plants, if they are in the opinion of the Health Officer inimical to health, may be trimmed or cut down or otherwise dealt with by the Health Officer, but if any are within a compound he shall give notice to the occupier, if any, of his intention to cut down or destroy any tree or plant. No person shall trim or cut down any tree or shrub or plant not inside a compound without the authority of the Health Officer. 2. All owners and occupiers of premises are subject to such portions of the Public Health and other Ordinances as apply to Hill Station. 3. No person shall make or cause or allow to be made a borrow-pit in any part of the Cantonment without the authority in writing of the Health Officer, and any person doing so shall fill up such borrow-pit and in default the Health Officer may fill it up and recover the cost of the work from the occupier of the premises responsible. F. J. A. BERINGER, W. B. STANLEY, Acting Principal Medical Officer. Acting Colonial Secretary. N.B.—-These Rules should he permanently fixed in a conspicuous place in every house, fhe bath-room is suggested as convenient. tN*' Waterlow & Sons Limited, London, Dunstable & Watford.