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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 269.-It is hereby notified, with reference to Notification No. S. 122 of the 9th May, 1919, that information has been received from H. B. M.'s Consul General at Shanghai to the effect that the sanitary measures imposed against arrivals from Hongkong on account of plague have been withdrawn.
No. S. 270.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port..
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference to Govern- ment Noti- fication.
Philippine Islands.
All passengers from Hongkong to produce special certificate. 7th March, 1918.
No. S. 49.
Saigon.
All vessels arriving from Hongkong will be inspected. Per- 17th March, 1918. No. S. 63.
sons suspected of infection will be isolated and in such event the vessel will be disinfected. If any cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis are discovered the vessel and al passengers to Indo-China will be put in quarantine for six days and disinfected. No restrictions as regards load- ing and disembarking cargo.
Newchwang. All vessels arriving from Hongkong will be treated as
Suspected Vessels.
27th May, 1919.
No. S. 86.
Ningpo.
Singapore.
Eengal.
Quarantine imposed on all arrivals from Hongkong.
Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague.
11th April, 1918.
Regulations for the prevention of the introduction of plague by sea enforced in the ports of Orissa against vessels arriving from Hongkong.
19th July, 1918.
24th June, 1918.
No. S. 88.
No. S. 181.
No. S. 192.
Netherlands Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the 1st January, 1919. No. S. 1.
India.
Tsingtau.
following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited :—(1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, and used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal; (2) rags. (Re- fuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made or from bleaching- establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of newspaper, are not considered as rags.)
Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption on production of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Consul- General at Hongkong.
All ships arriving from Hongkong must fumigate before 7th July, 1919.
entering Tsingtau.
No. S. 183.