ANTIMOSQUITO LAWS 249 



necessary with a view to the destruction of possibly infected 

 mosquitos. 



Approved and passed by the General Board of Health this 

 30th day of August, 1907. 



Since my visit (May 1909) most useful regulations dealing with 

 mosquito larvag have been passed, as follows : 



PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCES, 1902 AND 1905 



Regulations for Declaring the Breeding Places of Mos- 

 quitos, IN AND ABOUT HuMAN HABITATIONS, TO BE STATUTORY 



Nuisances 



Under and by virtue of sections 11 and 23 of the Public 

 Health Ordinance 1902, the General Board of Health hereby 

 declares the following matters to be deemed nuisances liable at 

 all times to be dealt with summarily under the provisions of the 

 said Ordinance : 



1. Any accumulation of any stagnant water in any town or in 

 or about anv human habitation, which accumulation results from 

 want of proper care or from want of repair to any construction oi 

 defective construction. 



2. Any articles or receptacles or any construction holding 

 stagnant water, not being a receptacle or construction designed 

 and used for the storage of water. 



3. Any receptacle or construction, designed and used for the 

 storage of water, which is not either — 



(i) cleared or emptied daily, or 



(ii) effectively screened, from the access thereto by mosquitos, 

 with wire-gauze (18 mesh, at least, to the inch) or, in the 

 case of receptacles kept in the house, with a covering of 

 cheese cloth, or 



(iii) stocked with mosquito-destroying fish, or 



(iv) covered with a film of oil. 



4. Any pond or pit containing water, situate in a town, or 

 within 150 yards of a human habitation, which is not stocked with 

 mosquito-destroying fish or covered with a film of oil. 



5. Any receptacle used for storing water, which receptacle may 

 have been condemned as unnecessary under notice in writing of 

 the local sanitary authority served or left on any premises in 

 pursuance of the provisions of any Regulations made under the 

 authority of section 20 of Ordinance No. 13 of 1905. 



And it is hereby declared that any collection of water shall for 



