THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD FEBRUARY, 1905.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 69. Information has been received that the Regulations under the Venice Convention have been imposed at uninfected ports of Madras Presidency against arrivals from Hongkong.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th January, 1905.
F. H. MAY,
Colonial Secretary,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 70.
Telegraphic information has been received from H. B. M.'s Consul General at Bangkok that the Government of Siam has declared Hongkong to be a suspected port, arrivals from which will be subject to medical inspection at Kohphra instead of at Kohphai.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st January, 1905.
F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 71.
The following sanitary measures in force in Netherlands-India have been communicated by the Consul General for the Netherlands.
By Command,
F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st February, 1905.
a. Ships having called at ports which have been declared by the Government of Nether- lands-India to be infected with plague and which made the voyage without any case of plague and without a great mortality of rats on board, but which have not yet under- gone medical inspection in any port of Netherlands-India, cannot have free pratique before five days have elapsed since the departure from the last infected port where they have called.
Free pratique will however be allowed at once in the following cases :-
1. If during the time when in the roads of an infected port, a ship has been in voluntary quarantine, viz., if only passengers, postal documents and goods have been disembarked and only postal documents taken, provided there has been no contact between the ship and the place, or between the crew and passengers with the
inhabitants.
This voluntary quarantine must be confirmed by a declaration under oath of the captain.
2. If on arrival of a ship in a port of Netherlands-India the infected port from which she departed has ceased to be declared by the Government of Netherlands-India as infected with plague.
6. If during the voyage bubonic plague has occurred on board, the ship must remain without free pratique in the ports of Netherlands-India and as regards other ships in the roads till seven days have elapsed since the recovery or the death of the last person who suffered from plague on board.
e. If a ship has taken on board in any foreign port passengers or goods, coming within seven days before from a place declared to be infected with plague, or from another ship on which plague has occurred, and seven days have not elapsed since the recovery or the death of the last person suffering from plague on board of that other ship, then such a ship will only be granted free pratique in Netherlands-India after five days from the date when the above mentioned passengers and goods were taken on board. If in the cases mentioned in b and c a great mortality amongst rats has occurred ten days must
elapse before free pratique can be allowed.
It is temporarily prohibited to import animal refuse, claws and hoofs, animal or human hair and bristles, hides, which are untanned and which are salted or cured with arsenic, raw wool and rags, bags or sacks which have already been used, coming from Hongkong or transhipped at that port, also tapestry and used embroideries unless they are transported as personal baggage or in consequence of change of residence.