376 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910.
Charge entered incorrectly in
receipt or ticket
Passenger
changing to a
carriag9
3.-If any charge should be entered incorrectly in a receipt
or ticket given to a passenger, the Railway Administration may correct the entry.
4.-If any passenger desires to change from an inferior to a superior class of superior class of carriage on payment of the difference in fare, the Guard in charge of the train, or such other railway servant as may be appointed in this behalf by the authorised officer, must take the necessary steps for effecting such change.
Lady passengers
Prisoners and insane passengers
5.-When ladies are travelling alone the Guards must pay every attention to their comfort, and in placing them in the train shall, when possible, select a carriage (according to the class of the ladies' tickets) in which other ladies are travelling.
6.-(1) Military prisoners in all cases, civil prisoners if in- sane, violent or dangerous, and insane persons, shall not be allowed to mix with other passengers, but must, upon reserved accommoda- tion being engaged, be placed with their escort or attendants in a prison-van or in a separate compartment, as the case may be.
(2) Other parties of prisoners, when, inclusive of guards, the party exceeds are in number, are also to be carried in the same
manner.
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(3) The term prisoner covers accused persons and persons under trial or travelling for the purpose of undergoing trial, as well as persons who have already been convicted.
PASSENGERS SUFFERING FROM INFECTIOUS
OR CONTAGIOUS DISORDERS.
7. For the purpose of the Railways Ordinance (No. 21 of 1909), the following shall be deemed to be infectious or contagious disorders, namely:-
Bubonic fever,
Cholera,
Diphtheria,
Leprosy,
Measles,
Disinfection of carriages
Luggage to be
booked
Scarlet fever,
Small-pox,
Typhus fever,
Typhoid fever and
Whooping cough.
8.--No passenger suffering from an infectious or contagious disorder shall be carried in any train unless--
(a) he has engaged a reserved compartment for himself
and his attendants, and
(b) all necessary arrangements have been made for the separation of the passenger and his attendants, during the whole time that they remain upon the railway, from other persons being or travelling upon the railway, and
(e) any other special precautions which the railway ad- ministration may consider necessary to be taken to prevent infection or contagion being communicated to other persons being or travelling upon the rail-
way.
DISINFECTION OF CARRIAGES.
9.---When any carriage has been entered by a person suffering from an infectious or contagious disorder the carriage must be disinfected, in accordance with special instructions, immediately after it has arrived at its destination; and no passenger shall be allowed to enter it until the disinfection has been completed.
LUGGAGE.
10.-Each passenger's luggage must be booked:
Provided that the Railway Administration may dispense with the booking of any luggage which is taken into a carriage by a passenger in pursuance of rule 12, clause 1.