THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1936.
28. (1) The guard of any train on which a case of plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus or smallpox is present shall on arrival at the first station report the facts to the station master, who shall telephone or telegraph them to a Health 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 observation and remain there until discharged by the officer in charge thereof.
Duty of
do report cases
guard of train to
of infection.
Duty of
station master with
regard to
infected case and carriage.
or departure
29. No infected or suspected aircraft, and no aircraft Restriction which has come from an infected port and which has not on landing been granted free pratique in Hong Kong shall land at any of certain place in the Colony other than a sanitary aerodrome, and aircraft. 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, either generally or specially, by him shall enter or depart from a sanitary aerodrome.
Sanitary restriction aerodrome,
of admis- sion to and departure from.
Health inspect
Officer to
31. On the arrival of any vessel referred to in section 21 at the quarantine anchorage, a Health Officer shall go on board and put to the master and surgeon, if any, or to certain any other person on board such questions as he deems neces- vessels. sary 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 intermediate 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 Declaration as aforesaid shall make and sign before a Health Officer a true and
by Master declaration as to the number of crew and passengers, the Surgeon. 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.
for untrue declaration,
(2) Any such declaration purporting to be signed by the Penalty master and surgeon shall be deemed to have been so signed, and any information therein contained, which shall subsequently be found to be untrue, shall render such master or surgeon liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars each and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(3) Any master or surgeon who fails to make and sign a Penalty for declaration as herein required, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
failure to make declaration.
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