THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25тH SEPTEMBER, 1897. 809
No. 17 OF 1897.
An Ordinance to prevent the Spread of Infectious Disease arising from the consumption of con- taminated or unwholesome milk.
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WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Governor.
[18th September, 1897.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Infected Milk Short title.. Ordinance, 1897.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise re- Definitions. quires-
"Dairy" shall include any farm, farm-house, cowshed,
milk-store, milk-shop, or other place from which inilk is supplied or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale.
"Dairyman" shall include any cowkeeper, purveyor of milk, or occupier of a dairy, and, in cases 'whore a dairy is owned by a Corporation or Company, the Secretary or other person actually managing such lairy.
"Infectious Disease" shall mean and include any of the following diseases :-Small-pox, Bubonic Plague, Cholera, Choleraic Diarrhoea, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Typhus Fever, Enteric Fever, Relapsing Fever, Measles and Whooping Congh. "Medical Officer of Health" shall include any person duly authorised by the Governor to act temporarily as Medical Officer of Health, and any person duly appointed as Assistant Medical Officer of Health. "Colonial Veterinary Surgeon" shall include any per- son duly authorised by the Governor to act tempo- rarily as Colonial Veterinary Surgeon,
certain cases.
3. Whenever the Medical Officer of Health shall be of Inspection of opinion or have reason to suspect that any person in the dairies in Colony is suffering from an infectious disease, attributable Power to pro- to milk supplied, within the Colony, from any dairy situate hibit supply within the Colony, or that the consumption of milk from of milk. such dairy is likely to cause infectious disease to any person residing in the Colony, he shall have power to inspect such dairy, and to medically examine any person residing or employed therein whom he may suspect to be suffering from an infectious disease, (unless such person shall pro-.- duce a certificate in writing from a duly qualified medical practitioner that he or she is not suffering from an iufce- tions disease), and, if accompanied by the Colonial Veteri- nary Surgeon, he may inspect and examine the animals therein, and the carcases of any animals that may have died therein, and if, on such inspection and examination of the dairy or of the animals or carcases therein, or ou exa- mination or analysis of the milk supplied from such dairy, or on examination of any person employed or residing therein, or on investigation of the sources of the milk supplied to such dairy, the Medical Officer of Health is satisfied that infectious disease is caused, or may be caused by the consumption of the milk supplied therefrom, he shall report forthwith to the Colonial Secretary, for tue information of the Governor, and the Colonial Secretary shall, thereupon, give notice to the dairyman to show cause in writing within such time, not less than twenty- four hours, as may be specified in the notice, why an order of the Governor in Council should not be made requiring him not to supply any milk from such dairy, until such order has been withdrawn; and if, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, he fails to show good cause, then the Governor in Council may make such order as aforesaid. A copy of such order shall be furnished to such, dairyman and the order shall also be published in the Government Gazette. An order made by the Governor in Council in pursuance of this Ordinance shall be withdrawn on the Medical Officer of Health reporting to the Colonial Scere- tary that he is satisfied that the milk supply has been