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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH FEBRUARY, 1905.
SCHEDULE I.
A ROYAL DECREE ON QUARANTINE.
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HEREAS bubonic Plague has broken out in Singapore and is endemic in Hongkong and elsewhere, and it is desirable to take measures to prevent its spread to this Kingdom, it is hereby decreed:
1. The island of Koh Phra shall be and is hereby declared the Quarantine and Inspection Station for the purposes of the present Decree.
2. Any vessel which, having cleared from Singapore, Hongkong or any port in China, arrives in Siamese waters on or after the date of the present Decree, shall call at the said station, and shall, before receiving pratique, stay there until a period of nine full days shall have clapsed from the time of her leaving port, or until released by the Health Officer.
3. Any vessel coming from Singapore, Hongkong or any port in China, shall on arrival in Siamese waters have displayed from sunrise to sunset the usual quarantine or yellow flag at the foremast-head and from sunset until sunrise a red lamp at the foremast-head and shall continue to display these signals until pratique has been granted.
Similar signals will be displayed at the Quarantine Station so long as this decree is in force.
4. No person other than the health officer or one of his assistants shall communicate from any ship coming from Singapore, Hongkong, or any port in China, with the land or from the land with such ship or from such ship with other ships or from other ships with such ship, before she has received pratique.
5. The Master or other persons having the control of any vessel in quarantine shall give the Health officer such information about the vessel and the voyage and the health of the crew and pas- sengers and otherwise as the Health officer may require, and shall answer fully and truly questions put to him by the Health officer, and shall, if required by the Health officer, furnish the necessary boats and appliances for the landing of the passengers or crew at the Quarantine station, and shall, in a general way, give the Health officer all necessary assistance to enable him to grant pratique to the vessel.
6. The Health officer may board any vessel arriving in Siamese waters and inspect every person in the vessel. He may, if he think necessary, call for inspection of the ship's bills of health, emigra- tion papers or other documents which he may require to enable him to grant pratique and he shall use every lawful means which to him may seem expedient for ascertaining the sanitary condition of the vessel and persons therein.
7. No Customs officer on duty at Koh-Si-Chang, at Anghin or at Paknam shall allow any ship coming from Singapore, Hongkong, or any port in China, either to lighten at Koh-Si-Chang or Anghin or to proceed to Bangkok without producing the certificate of health delivered at Koh Phra but all said ships which shall produce such certificates shall be at liberty to lighten at Koh-Si-Chang or Aughin and to proceed to Bangkok or elsewhere without any
further examination.
8. The Health officer shall be and is hereby empowered to deal with all infected vessels and persons as he may think proper to prevent the spreading of the disease.
9. Any and all persons committing a breach of the present Decree or assisting in any way in the commission of such breach, and the master, Captain or person having the control of any vessel or boat, on board of which such breach has been committed or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach, shall be severally liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand ticals or to imprisonment not exceeding six months or to both such punishments
10. Any cost incurred by the Government, in the maintenance of any person removed to the Quarantine station at Koh Phra, shall be repaid by the agents of the vessel.
11. The execution of the present Decree shall be and is hereby entrusted to the Minister of the Local Government, with the full assistance of the Naval Department.
12. Our former Decree of 1st of September, 1904, and our Amendment of the 15th of December, 1904, are hereby repealed.
Done at Bangkok, the 22nd of January, 1905.