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44-(1) Should the surgeon of, or any medical practi- tioner visiting, any vessel or aircraft within the limits of the Colony find on board any infectious disease, it shall be the duty of such surgeon or medical practitioner to inform the master of the nature of the disease and notify the same in writing to a Health Officer. All further action as regards the patient, the members of the crew, the passengers or the vessel or aircraft shall be under the direction of a Health Officer.
(2) Should such infectious disease be believed or suspect- ed to be plague, cholera, small-pox, typhus or yellow fever, such vessel or aircraft shall at once be considered as an infected vessel or aircraft under this Ordinance. The master of such vessel or aircraft shall at once take such steps as are necessary to inform a Health Officer of the facts of the case and shall display the appropriate signal referred to in section 35, and shall not permit any further communication with the shore, but shall wait for instructions from a Health Officer.
Duty of
medical practitioner and master when a case disease dis- covered on
of infectious
board vessel or aircraft.
case of
45. In case any vessel in the waters of the Colony which Duty of carries no surgeon has on board any sickness, the nature of master in which the master is unable to determine, he shall at once hoist sickness the call flag for medical assistance (letter M in the Inter- where no national Code of Signals over the Code Pennant), and shall surge is take such measures as may be necessary to inform a Health Officer and shall await his directions.
46. This Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any of His Majesty's or of foreign vessels or aircraft of war, or with their freedom to proceed whenever the officer in command may deem such course requisite.
Plague Precautionary Measures.
carried.
internal
management of vessels or
aircraft of war not to
be inter- fered with.
47. Plague infected vessels and aircraft shall be sub- Plague jected to the following measures:—
(i) Medical inspection.
precaution-
ary measures in case of infected
(ii) The sick shall be immediately disembarked and vessels or isolated.
(ii) All persons who have been in contact with the sick and those whom a Health Officer has reason to consider suspect shall be disembarked if possible. They may be sub- jected to observation, or to surveillance, or to observation followed by surveillance, provided that the total duration of these measures does not exceed six days from the arrival of the vessel.
(iv) Bedding, soiled linen, wearing apparel and other articles which, in the opinion of a Health Officer, are infected shall be disinsectised and if necessary disinfected.
(v) The parts of the vessel which have been occupied by persons suffering from plague or which in the opinion of a Health Officer are infected shall be disinsectised and if necessary disinfected.
aircraft.
48.--(1) A Health Officer may require deratisation by Provisions fumigation before or during the unloading of cargo, if he is relating to
discharge of of opinion, having regard to the nature of the cargo and the cargo. way it is loaded, that it is possible so to effect a total destruc- tion of rats. In this case a vessel shall not be subjected to a further deratisation unless during or after the unloading