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Notification
no false
information.
68. No notification which contains any false information must contain shall be deemed a notification as required by this Ordinance or by any regulation made thereunder unless the person notifying proves that he believed and had reasonable grounds for believing such information to be true.
Attending practitioner to notify
Notification where no
69. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from or has died from plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles, chicken-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, enteric, puerperal fever or rabies, and if such inmate be under the care of a medical practi- tioner, the said practitioner shall forthwith furnish a Health Officer with a notification thereof in writing stating the name of such inmate and the situation of such premises,
Such medical practitioner if not a Government Officer shall be entitled to receive, on application to the Secretary to the Medical Department, the sum of one dollar for each and every such notification, provided that he applies for payment within one month after the notification to which it relates; but not more than one fee shall be paid in respect of each case.
70. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from or has died from plague, cholera, smallpox or cerebro-spinal practitioner has attended. meningitis, and if such inmate be not under the care of a medical practitioner, the occupier or keeper of such premises or, in default of such occupier or keeper, the nearest male adult relative living on such premises, or, in default of such relative, occupier or keeper, any person in charge of or in attendance on the sick person or dead body shall, on the nature of the disease becoming known to him or on the suspicion of the existence in such inmate of such disease, forthwith notify the same to any Government Medical Officer or the Medical Öfficer in charge of the nearest Chinese Public Dispensary, or any officer on duty at the nearest police station or any Sanitary Inspector, who shall immediately on receipt thereof transmit the information to a Health Officer.
Notification by persons having knowledge of the
existence of disease.
71. All persons knowing or having reason to believe that any person has been attacked by, or is suffering from, or has died from, plague, cholera, smallpox or such other epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease as may from time to time be duly notified in the Gazette, shall notify the same without delay to any officer on duty at the nearest police station, or to any Government Medical Officer or to the Medical Officer in charge of the nearest Chinese Public Dispen- sary or any Sanitary Inspector, and any such officer receiving such information whether verbal or written or discovering any such case, shall notify the same with the least possible delay to a Health Officer, and may detain such person or remove him to a hospital until he can be examined by a Government Medical Officer or a Health Officer.
Notification
by keepers of hotels, boarding houses or
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lodging- houses.
72. If any person in any hotel, boarding house or common lodging-house becomes ill from any infectious, contagious or communicable disease the keeper of such institution shall forthwith give notice thereof to a Health Officer or to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who shall im- mediately transmit such information to a Health Officer.
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