, 1884-09-27


The Regulations, which shall be binding
Oh the inhabitants of the towns and coun-
try districts concerned, shall be proclaimed
in the Courts and in other suitable ways be
brought to the knowledge of the Public.
The same applies to alterations ard
additions subsequently made.
The POlicemasterS are bound to see that
the Regulations are closely observed.
Transgressions Of the Regulations shall
be punished with fines, up to 500, which
fall to the Police Fund, and suits arising
from such transgresSiOnS shall be dealt
with as public Police suits. III suits
brought against persons for neglecting to
conform to the injunctions or prohibitions
which may be given them III connection
with the Regulations, the ordinary means
of enforcement warranted by law are to
be applied by the decision of the Court.
8.
Until Sanitary Regulations are provided,
but not beyond the 30th June 1885, the
Government is authorised to issue Of it's
own accord regulative provisions CON
corning sanitary matters, transgressions
of which shall be visited with the same
puniShments as transgressions of the
Regulations and shall be dealt with in the
anne tanner.
REMARhS.
On account Of the prevalence Of cholera
in Europe the attention of the AdminiStra-
ton has been directed to the Sanitary
relations of the island, which leave much
to be desired, and to the rules which must
necessarily be found for improving them,
if with any prospect of success we are
to strive against the outbreak in the island,
not only of so dangerous a disease as
cholera, but Of any other kind of epidemic
disease, such as yellow fever, dysentery,
eXanthematic typhus, small pOx and the
like.
In the Mother Country there have,
already been established for Il considerable
time, in the country as well as i'll the
towns, Sanitary Commissions, which, on
the basis of Sanitary Regulations adopted
by the Communal Councils and Authorities
and ratified by the Ministry Of Justice,
look after what is necessary with regard
to public cleanliness and hygiene, and III
this duty are effectively assisted by the
Police.
1t is the conviction of the Government
that u similar organisation in st. Croix
would be i'll a high degree beneficial for
the island, and that one or more Sanitary
Commissions having definite Sanitary
Regulations to fall back upon, would be
able to labour with success for a better
condition of things i'll this regard on the
island.
Such Sanitary Regulations, besides pro.
viding for the institution OF one or moro
Sanitary Commissions, wOuldcontain provi-
siOnS concerning the draining Oft OF water
detrimental to health; the securing of a
water supply; the public cleanliness; the
arrangement with regard to privies and
dungheaps; unhealthy occupations; the
keeping Of domestic animals; control over
articles of food; the OvercrOWding OF
dwellings,: infectious diseases; the order
ing of the public hospitals and sickhOuSes,
school buildings, and children'S asylumS
matters connected with burials sc. &c.
To be able to carry out at once, however,
such arrangements as must be regarded as
urgently necessary until Sanitary Regula-
tions can be worked out and adopted, it is
Droposed that the Government shall have
an express legal authorization to issue,
during a limited time, regulative %injunc-
tons concerning the above mentioned
matters, whenever circumstances should
make it necessary, which is considered to
be the case just at the present time.
The iniunctions which it is contemplated
to issue are of similar character to those
which were issued by the Government, with
doubtful legal authority, in the year 1860,
on the occasion of the outbreak OF cholera IN
several West Indian islands, including St.
Thomas. See in this regard the Govern
ment's Order of 25th November 1865 with
the Instructions to the POlicemasters there
with connected.
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