250 ANTOrOSQUITO LAWS 



tlie pui})o.ses of these Regulations be regarded as " stagnant 

 water" if the same contains nioscjviito larva' or if the same has 

 been left undisturbed for a period exceeding 18 hours, 



Made bv the General Boaid of Health this 21st day of June, 

 1909. 



By order of the 13oard, 



T. T. DvER. 

 C/crl- to General Board of Health. 



Also a most useful Ordinance for the destruction of rats : 



'I'lIE RATS ORDINANCE, IIH)!) 

 Rkculatioks kor thk DKSTurcTiox OF IIais, etc., ox \'ksskls 



1. Any iVIedical Officer, on becoming aware or upon suspecting 

 that anv vessel lying within any waters of the Colony is infested 

 with rats or other vermin, is hereby empowered to strictly enforce 

 the adoption of such measures as may in his discretion be deemed 

 most efficacious for the purposes of exterminating the said rats 

 or vermin and of preventing such rats or vermin passing from such 

 vessel to the shore or from the shore to such vessel. Such measures 

 may include the following : 



[a) Require the onner, master or person in charge of the 

 vessel, when at any mooring or when loading or unloading 

 cargo at any port within the Colony, to use rat-guards of 

 a pattern approved by the said Officer on every rope, cable 

 or such-like communication passing between such vessel 

 and the shore or between the vessel and any lighter or 

 barge or other vessel, or between the vessel and its buoys 

 or anchors or the mooring. 



{})) Require the owner, master or person in charge to generally 

 abate all insanitary conditions where thev exist, and to 

 effectually remove or burn all rubbish and tleposits on the 

 vessel likely to harbour rats or vermin. 



(f) Whenever it shall appear to the Medical Officer that the 

 rats or vermin can only be exterminated bv cleansing and 

 disinfection in a specified maimer, the Medical Officer 

 may, by notice in writing, either require the owner, master 

 or person in charge of the vessel to cleanse and disinfect 

 or fumigate the same accordinglv, or mav inform such 

 owner, master or person that it is the intention of the 

 jVIedical Officer to conduct such cleansing and disinfection 

 or fumigation at a time to be specified in the notice. 



2. Where the owner, master or person in charge of such vessel 



