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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH APRIL, 1899.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 258.
The following are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Ilongkong, 27th April, 1899.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary,
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.
No. 1 of 1899.
Notice hereby given that, in accordance with Regulation 1 of the Sanitary Regulations for the Port of Shanghai of 1874, the Superintendent of Customs and the Doyen of the Consular Body, having declared Hongkong and the Formosan Ports to be infected, and with a view to preventing the importation of Plague into Shanghai, the following Regulations will be strictly enforced from the 22nd April, 1899 :---
I.--General Rules: The Sanitary Regulations for the Port of Shanghai as published in July 1874 remain in force. Owing to the establishment of the Chung Pao Sha Sanitary Station, the following Special Provisional Rules will obtain :
II-Special Provisional Rules :
1.--(a) Every vessel which arrives at Chung Pao Sha (Tsung Pao Sha) and has on board, or which has had on board within ten days of her arrival, a case of plague or a case that might reasonably be suspected of being so affected, or the dead body of a person who had or who might reasonably be suspected, is an Infected Vessel.
(b) Every vessel, which arrives at Chung Pao Sha from an infected port within ten days from her departuro from such port and whether having called at intermediate ports or not, is a Suspected Vessel.
2. Every Vessel bound to Woosung, Shanghai, or to any of the Yangtze River Ports, which on arrival at Chung Pao Sha is an Infected or Suspected Vessel, shall anchor there in the neighbourhood of the Sanitary Station,
3.—Infected and Suspected Vessels shall ou approaching Chung Pao Sha hoist the Yellow Flag at the fore. 4.-No person shall be allowed to go on board or to leave an Infected or Suspected Vessel without the sauc- tion of the Port Health Officer, nor shall such Vessel be allowed to discharge cargo, baggage, ete.
5.--The Port Health Officer will inspect vessels, between the hours of 6 a.m, and 6 p.m. as soon as practic- able after their arrival.
6.--(a) In the case of Infected Vessels, measures will be taken under the direction of the Port Health Officer, for the removal and/or isolation of all infected and suspected persons, for the removal of all infected bodies and for the disinfection of the vessel; and the vessel shall not be released from quarantine until such disinfection has taken place and/or until she has been in quarantine for a period not exceeding ten days from the date of the removal of the last infected case.
(b) In the case of Suspected Vessels, should there be no case or suspicious case of infection found during inspection, such vessel shall be admitted to immediate pratique. Should there be a suspicious case, the vessel becomes an Infected Vessel,
7.-- Vessels admitted to pratique, and subsequently becoming, in the ports of Woosung or Shanghai, infected or suspected, will be required to proceed to the Chung Pao Sha Sanitary Station.
8.-The importation of the following articles from infected ports is prohibited :
Rags, old papers, fresh fruit, vegetables, plants of any kind to which earth or vegetable mould adheres, coffins containing corpses, and earth, mould, or sand.
Approved :
Ls. ROCHER,
Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOM HOUSE,
Shanghai, 15th April, 1899.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Acting Harbour Master.
Government of South Australia.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 1 of 1899.
SPENCER GULF.
Notice is hereby given that the Pile Beacon has been removed from Commissariat Point, and that in addition to the Black Buoy which previously marked the edge of the shoal off that point, a Red Buoy (porch and ball) has been placed at the edge of the East Bank on the opposite side of the channel in 16ft., L.w.s., bearing E.S.E. from the Black Buoy.
Chart affected, No. 2389 B, plan No. 401.
THOS. N. STEPHENS,
President Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, February 28th, 1899.