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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1936.
Duty of medical practitioner
when a case
44.-(1) Should the surgeon of, or any medical practi- tioner visiting, any vessel or aircraft within the limits of the and master Colony find on board any infectious disease, it shall be the Winfase duty of such surgeon or medical practitioner to inform the disease dis- master of the nature of the disease and notify the same in covered on writing to a Health Officer. All further action as regards the or aircraft. patient, the members of the crew, the passengers or the vessel or aircraft shall be under the direction of a Health Officer.
board vessel
Duty of
master in
case of sickness
where no surgeon is carried.
Internal
(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.
45. In case any vessel in the waters of the Colony which carries no surgeon has on board any sickness, the nature of which the master is unable to determine, he shall at once hoist the call flag for medical assistance (letter M in the Inter- national Code of Signals over the Code Pennant), and shall 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 management 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 fered with. in command may deem such course requisite.
of vessels or aircraft of war not to be inter-
Plague precaution-
ary measures
in case of infected vessels or aircraft.
Provisions relating to
cargo.
Plague Precautionary Measures,
47. Plague infected vessels and aircraft shall be sub- jected to the following measures :—
(i) Medical inspection.
(ii) The sick shall be immediately disembarked and isolated.
(iii) 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.
48.—(1) A Health Officer may require deratisation by discharge of fumigation before or during the unloading of cargo, if he is of opinion, having regard to the nature of the cargo and the 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