THE HONG KONG: GOVERNMENT: GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1936.
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70. If any inmate of any premises: be suffering from or Notification has died from plague, cholera, smallpox or cerebro-spinal where no meningitis, and if such inmate be not under the care of a has medical practitioner, the occupier or keeper of such attended. premises y 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 Officer 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 à Health Officer.
existence of
71. All persons knowing or having reason to believe Notification that any person has been attacked by, or is suffering from, by persons
having or has died from, plague, cholera, smallpox or such other knowledge epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease as may from time of the to time be duly notified in the Gazette, shall notify the same disease. 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.
of hotels,
72. If any person in any hotel, boarding house or Notification common lodging-house becomes ill from any infectious, by keeper's contagious or communicable disease, the keeper of such boarding institution shall forthwith give notice thereof to a Health houses or Officer or to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who shall lodging- immediately transmit such information to a Health Officer.
common
houses.
notification, failing to notify or
73.(1) Any person required under this Ordinance or Delay in any regulation made thereunder to give information of any infectious disease, or of any death from infectious disease, who neglects without reasonable excuse to give such infor- giving false mation with the least practicable delay, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
(2) Any person who knowingly omits or refuses to give any information which he is required to give, or who furnishes as true information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
(3). When any person is charged with neglecting to give information of any infectious disease or any death from an infectious disease he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of such disease, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court before which he is charged that he had no such knowledge and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.
information,
be furnished
74. When any medical practitioner in attendance on Notice of any person suffering from infectious disease is satisfied that recovery to such person has so far recovered as, in the opinion of such to Health medical practitioner, to be no longer a source of infection to Officer, others, such medical practitioner shall notify a Health Officer
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