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To be printed at the back.
INSTRUCTIONS.
1. This undertaking is to be forwarded by the Health Officer to the Health Officer of the area containing the address of the person giving the undertaking. The slip is to be handed to the said person.
2. The Health Officer of such area will every day, as he visits such
person, initial the space below.
First day
Second day
Third day
Date.
Initials.
Objects and Reasons.
1. This Ordinance repeals Ordinance No. 12 of 1935 and re-enacts it as amended in consequence of suggestions made by the Ministry of Health in their letter of the 22nd August, 1935, enclosed with the Secretary of State's despatch No. 383 of the 19th September, 1935.
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2. The Ministry of Health pointed out-
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(a) that the inclusion of separate definitions for "dis- infectious disease" and quarantinable disease" might lead to confusion and suggested that the use of the latter term to describe the five diseases referred to in the International Sanitary Convention, 1926, should be avoided. These points are dealt with in sections 2, 18 and 28 of the new Ordinance.
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(b) that the term "quarantine" is used in Ordinance No. 12 of 1935 as synonymous with observation and suggested that it would be better and likely to avoid confusion if the international term observation only were used and that the term " quarantine" might be deleted. This point has been dealt with to a considerable extent in sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 28, 36, 37, 44, 85, 87 and 94 and in the Schedule. The word quarantine is still however retained in the long and short titles and in the references to Quarantine Anchorages, Quarantine Signals and Quarantine Stations. The existing Quarantine Anchorages set out in section 16 of Table M to Ordinance No. 10 of 1899 as amended by Govern- ment Notifications Nos. 264 and 297 of 1933 are well known under that name and it would probably cause confusion to describe them as Observation Anchorages. Moreover the word quarantine appears in many of the Articles of the International Sanitary Convention Articles 136 and 148 of which refer to quarantine stations.
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