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(2) Or cover them with protective netting : 



(3) Or drain them off .at least once a week ; 



(4) Or cover them with oil at least once every week : or fill 

 them up. 



(5) Or (in case of wells) provide them with a pump and 

 mosquito-proof cover to the satisfaction of the Board. 



3. All empty and open tins shall be kept in such a position as 

 to prevent moscjuitos breeding in them, and all odd receptacles, 

 such as jars, broken crockery, condensed milk tins and other 

 rubbish which form receptacles for water shall be removed and 

 buried. All doreys, pit-pans and boats, in use or discarded, must 

 be kept free of fresh water. 



PENALTIES 



4. Any person committing a breach of any of these Rules and 

 Regulations shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of 

 £2, and on a second conviction to a penalty not exceeding ^^5 

 or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding 

 30 days. 



NOTICE 



5. " Notice " shall mean a written notice addressed by a person 

 authorised in that behalf by the Board to the occupier or the owner 

 of any premises, or Avater receptacle, and every such notice shall 

 be deemed to have been duly served by delivering the same or a 

 duplicate thereof to some person on the premises, or if there is no 

 person on the premises who can be so served, by fixing the same 

 on some conspicuous part of the premises, or in the case of a 

 water receptacle as aforesaid by fixing the same on the water 

 receptacle in respect of which such notice is issued. 



J. Bekson Albury, M.D., 



Chairman of Board of Health. 



ANTIGUA 



An excellent yellow fever bye-law was passed for the town of 

 St. John in 1907, containing antilarval clauses and penalties ; in 

 addition drainage operations, distribution of quinine and the 

 stocking of ponds and streams ".ith "millions'" have been ^■igorously 

 carried on. 



