(69) That Table L be amended to read as follows :—
TABLE L.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
Under section 23.
1. In these regulations the term "Health Officer" means the Health Officer of the Port or any other medical officer duly authorised to act for, or as-ist him, or in charge of any place set apart for the detention and seclusion of persons actually suffering from disease; the term “Vessel" includes steamers, sailing ships, junks, and lorelas, and British and Foreign ships of war, as well as merchant ships of all kinds; the term “boat” includes any rowing-boat, sailing-boat, launch *or pinnace; the term “port or place at which any infectious or contagious disease prevailed" means a port or place proclaimed to be such by order of the Governor în Council published in The Gazette from the date of such proclamation. The words "infectious or contagious disease" shall, for the purposes of the regulations, mean cholera, choleraic diarrhoea, small-pox, typhus fever, yellow fever, bubonic plague, and such other epidemic disease as the Health Officer may consider to imperil the safety of the passengers or crew, The term infected vessel" shall mean any vessel which has a case of any of the above mentioned diseases on hoard or on which one or more cases of any such diseases shall have occurred within a period of twelve days previous to the date of arrival of the vessel in the waters of this Colony; the term "suspected vessel” shall mean any vessel on which one or more cases of any of the above mentioned diseases shall have occurred at the time of departure or during the voyage, but on which no fresh case has occurred within a period of twelve days previous to the date of arrival of the vessel in the waters of this Colony; the term "healthy vessel" shall mean any ves el which, although coming from a port or place at which an infectious or contagious disease prevailed, has had no death from, and no case of any such disease on board while at such port or during the voyage therefrom, or on arrival.
2. Every infected" and every "suspected” vessel arriving in the waters of this Colony shall immediately on entering the Harbour limits of Victoria fly a yellow flag (letter Q in International Code of Signals) and shall not communicate with the shore until granted pratique by expr.ss written order of the Health Officer who shall, in every case, board and examine all the passengers and crew of such vessel. But with the written consent of the Health Officer any such vessel which is on a voyage to any other place may be allowed to proceed on such voyage or to tranship her passengers for the purpose of completing such voyage: Provided that no communication has been held with the shore except as permitted by these regulations.
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9. Every "infected" and every 'suspected" vessel shall proceed at once to the Quarantine Anchorage and shall not remove therefrom, except from stress of weather, until released by order of the Health Officer. No vessel having to leave the Quarantine Anchorage from stress of weather shall communicate with the shore, or with any other vessel, and such vessel shall return to the Quarantine Anchorage immediately such stress of weather has subsided: Provided that in case of stress of weather involv- ing probable actual danger to the vessel, the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for all purposes to be subject to all other regulations applicable to such vessels.
No such vessel shall enter the Harbour limits of Victoria before C a.m. or after 6 p.10.
4. The Quarantine Anchorage shall be within the following boundaries, and the master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the Quarantine Anchorage as and when required by the Harbour Master:-
"Western Boundary," A line drawn from the west side of Stone Cutters' Island to west side of Green Island (on Admiralty Chart marked as harbour boundary).
Southern Boundary.”—That part of a line having the Naval Coal Sheds at Kaulung bearing E. by S., commencing where it meets the eastern boundary, and terminating where it meets the western boundary.
"Eastern Houndary."-A south line drawn from a white mark on south side of Stone Cutters' Island until it reaches the southern boundary.
"Northern Boundary.”—Five fathom line of soundings.
5. The master or other person having the control of any “infected” or suspected " vessel shall give the Health Officer or Boarding Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the Health Officer or Boarding Officer may require, and shall answer truly and fully all questions put to him by the Health Officer or Boarding Officer.
6.—(w.) On the arrival of an “infected” vessel at the Quarantine An- chorage the Health Officer shall medically examine all persons on board such vessel and shall arrange for the removal of any persons suffering from any of the above mentioned diseases, to a Hospital, and the removal of any dead bodies for burial. The passengers and crew shall then be kept under observation either on board such vessel or at an Observation Station to be hereafter appointed by the Governor in Conncil, or shall be permitted to land, and be kept under surveillance, at their residences on shore, at the discretion of the Health Officer: Provided that such observation or such surveillance shall in no case extend for a longer period than ten days from the date of arrival of the vessel in the waters of this Colony. The Health Officer shall then forthwith proceed with the disinfection of the vessel and with the disinfection or destruc- tion of such of the cargo and of the baggage and personal effects of the passengers and erew as he may deem necessary, and the Master of every
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