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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 216.-It is hereby notified that information has been received from the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, to the effect that the quarantine restrictions imposed against the port of Hongkong on account of Small-pox were withdrawn on the 7th instant.
No. S. 217.—It is hereby notified that information has been received from the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, to the effect that Hongkong has been declared an infected port on account of Plague, with effect from the 7th instant.
No. S. 218.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference to Govern- ment Noti-
fication.
Orissa.
Plague Regulations imposed in Orissa Ports against arrivals
from Hongkong,
Burmah.
Chittagong. Regulations for the prevention of the introduction of Plague
by sea enforced against arrivals from IIongkong.
Hongkong declared a Plague-infected port.
Netherlands India.
Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited :-(1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal, (2) rags. Re- fuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made or from bleaching- establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of new paper, are not considered as rags.
Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption ou production of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Consul General at Hongkong.
Singapore. Hongkong declared an infected port on account of Plague.
18th April, 1913, No. S. 110.
18th April, 1913. No. S. 111.
18th April, 1913. No. S. 112.
23rd May, 1913. No. §. 147.
18th July, 1913. | No. S. 217.
No. S. 219.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hongkong.
Disease.
Port or Place.
Small-pox.
Hoihow.
18th July, 1913.
Restrictions in Force.
Authority.
Medical examination; quarantine at the discre- Proclamation No. 1 dated
tion of the Health Officer.
3rd January, 1913.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.