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"Port Health Officer" includes the Health Officer of the Port Health l'ort, the Second Health Officer of the Port and any other Officer. Health Officer or Medical Officer for the time being perform- ing the duties of a Port Health Officer.
"Premises" includes any land, building, structure of Premises. any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, field, marsh, drain, ditch or place open, cover- ed or enclosed, or cesspool or foreshore, and also any vessel lying within the waters of the Colony.
"Quarantine" or "Observation" means the compulsory Quarantine. detention in isolation for the purpose of and under the Observation.
pro- visions of this Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder of any vessel, person, animal or thing, so that it or they shall have no communication with any other vessel, person, animal or thing or with any other place except in accordance with the said Ordinance and regulations.
Quarantine
"Quarantine anchorage" means that area of the Harbour which has been appointed for the time being for the detention anchorage. in isolation of vessels undergoing quarantine and which has been declared a quarantine anchorage by Ordinance or by the Governor in Council.
"Quarantine station" means any place where quarantine Quarantine or observation is carried out and includes an infectious dis- station. eases hospital and any place declared by the Governor in Council to be a quarantine station or a sanitary station.
"Quarantinable diseases" means plague, cholera, yellow Quarantin- fever, typhus or smallpox.
able diseases.
"Sanitary aerodrome" means an authorised aerodrome Sanitary declared by the Governor in Council to be a sanitary aero- aerodrome. drome.
"Surveillance" means that persons subject thereto are Surveillance. not isolated, and that they may move about freely on condition that they sign a bond pledging themselves to submit to medical examination daily or as often as may be required by the Health Authorities of the several places whither they are bound, such authorities being notified by the Health Officer of the advent of the persons in question and of the conditions under which they have been given their freedom.
"Vessel" includes any ship, boat or other description of Vessel. vessel used in navigation.
(2) A vessel or aircraft shall be regarded as "infected"- (a) in respect of plague :-
(i) if it has a case of plague on board;
(ii) if a case of plague broke out on board more than six
days after embarkation of the person affected; or
(iii) if plague-infected rats are found on board.
(b) in respect of cholera :----
(i) if there is a case of cholera on board; or
(ii) if there has been a case on board during the five days previous to the arrival of the vessel.
(c) in respect of smallpox :-----
if it has on arrival or has had during the voyage any case of this disease on board.
Vessels or aircraft when regarded as infected.