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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 4, 1907.
b.--Should the vessel be infected, measures shall be taken for the removal and isolation of infected persons, the removal of infected bodies, and the disin- fection of the vessel, and quarantine shall be imposed for a period not exceeding ten days from the date of the removal of the last infected case, or from the time of the disinfection of the vessel.
9.--Masters of incoming vessels from infected ports shall make a declaration to the Quarantine Officers as to the health of the vessel during the voyage, and should it appear From the Master's declaration that there was a case or suspicious case of infection during the voyage, quarantine shall be imposed for a period not exceeding ten days from the date of the removal of the last infected case from the vessel.
10.—The Quarantine Officers' report shall be made out in triplicate in every case, and, if the vessel be foreign, one copy shall be supplied by the Quarantine Officers the first opportunity to the Consul of the vessel concerned. If the vessel be Chinese, the Quarantine Officers' report shall be sent to the Commissioner of Customs.
11.-The importation of furs, skins, hair, old gummy bags, rags, old paper, fresh fruit, vegetables' plants, coffins containing corpses, earth, mould or sand, from infected ports and ports from which the Declaration of infection has been withdrawn, shall be governed by the following regulations :---
I. Importation from ports declared infected, permitted under the following con-
ditions:-
4. Furs, skins, hair.
If accompanied by a Certificate of Disinfection, giving marks for identification,
from the Medical Officer of the port of shipment.
b. Rags, old paper.
Importation not permitted.
c. Fresh fruit.
If accompanied by a Certificate or Bill of Health from the Medical Officer of the port showing that no cholera is present in the district, apples, bananas, citrons, grapes, lemons, lichees, loquats, mangosteens, mangoes, olives, oranges, peaches, pears, pineapples, pomegranates, pumeloes, and sugar- cane, if in sound condition and cleanly packed as cargo.
(Apricots, cherries, figs, melons, plums, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes, and
thin-skinned fruit are prohibited.)
d. Vegetables.
Tubers, roots, bulbs, and bamboo shoots, if cleanly packed as eargo,
(Celery, lettuce, endive and other leaf-vegtables are prohibited.)
e. Plants of any kind to which earth or vegetable mould adheres.
Importation not permitted.
f. Coffins containing corpses.
Importation not permitted.
4. Earth and mould.
Importation not permitted.
h. Sand.
If accompanied by a Certificate from the Medical Officer of the port that it has
been taken from the seashore.
II. Importation from ports from which the declaration of infection has been withdrawn permitted under the following conditions:-
4. Rags, old paper.
If accompanied by a Certificate of Disinfection from the Medical Officer of the
port of shipment.
b. Coffins containing corpses.
If accompanied by a Certificate from the Medical Officer of the port that the coffin is in sound condition and that death occurred at least six months be- fore, importation permitted during April, May, October and November.