Landing of passengers before
inspection prohibited.
Duty of guard of train to
report cases of infection.
Duty of
station
master with regard to infected case
and carriage.
Restriction on landing
or departure of aircraft.
Sanitary
aerodrome,
restriction
of admis-
sion to and departure from.
Health
Officer to inspect
infected, suspected
and contact vessels.
Declaration by Master and Surgeon.
Penalty
for untrue declaration.
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27. No master of any infected, suspected or contact vessel bringing passengers into the Colony shall land or permit to land or to be landed from his vessel any such passengers until they have been inspected and passed by a Health Officer, and the master shall afford all reasonable facilities for enabling such inspection to be duly carried out. No master shall land or permit to land or be landed from his vessel at any place within the Colony any infected person except with the permission of a Health Officer, and any master from whose vessel any infected person is landed without permission shall, on demand from a Health Officer, forthwith remove such person from the Colony.
28. (1) The guard of any train on which a case of quarantinable disease is present shall on arrival at the first station report the facts to the station master, who shall telephone or telegraph them to a flealth Officer.
(2) The station master shall detain the carriage in which the sick person is and all other occupants thereof for examina- tion by a Health Officer, and shall detach the carriage from the rest of the train and keep it at the station until the examination has been made, or send the carriage to another station at which the examination can be more expeditiously carried out and from which the sick person and other persons may be more easily conveyed to a hospital or place of isolation.
(3) Any person suffering or suspected to be suffering from any such disease shall be removed to a hospital or place of quarantine and remain there until discharged by the officer in charge thereof.
29. No infected, suspected or contact aircraft shall land at any place in the Colony other than a sanitary aerodrome, and no such aircraft shall leave such sanitary aerodrome until released by order of a Health Officer.
30. No person other than a Health Officer or persons authorised by him shall enter or depart from a sanitary aero- drome.
31. On the arrival of an infected, suspected or contact vessel at the quarantine anchorage, a Health Officer shall go on board and put to the master and surgeon, if any, or to any other person on board such questions as he deems. necessary in order to ascertain the state of health of persons on board, the sanitary condition of the ship and cargo and the sanitary conditions of the port of departure or of inter- mediate ports touched at, and may require the presence for inspection and examination of all persons on board, and may inspect every part of the ship and demand to see the journal or log book and all ship's papers.
32. (1) The master and surgeon of every such vessel as aforesaid shall make and sign before a Health Officer a true declaration as to the number of crew and passengers, the presence or prevalence of infectious disease on board or during the voyage, the number of deaths and such other particulars as may be required by such Health Officer.
(2) Any such declaration purporting to be signed by the master and surgeon shall be deemed to have been so signed, and any information therein contained, which shall