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furnish Harbour Master with weekly lists of the seamen resident in their houses, and report their state of health. Diseased seamen to be removed to a hospital. [Ordinance 10 of 1867, sec. 63.]
Penalty for offering any obstruction to removal to hospital. [Ibid, sec. 64.]
Masters of ships before shipping seamen may require them to undergo medical inspection. [Ibid, sec. 65.]
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879. Merchant Shipping.
far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and every seaman who may be reported, or may be otherwise discovered, to be affected with a contagious disease, shall be removed by warrant under the hand of the Harbour Master to a hospital, where he shall be kept until he be, by the Visiting Surgeon thereof, discharged as cured, and shall have obtained from such Visiting Surgeon a certificate of his having been so discharged, which certificate he shall produce and show to the Harbour Master when required so to do; and the expenses which may be incurred in and about the maintenance and treatment of any such seaman in such hospital, shall be a debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such seaman; or, in case of the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman shall have resided before his removal to hospital not having reported, or having made a false report as to the state of health of such seaman, then such expenses shall be paid by such boarding-house keeper, in case it shall appear to, and be certified by, the Visiting Surgeon of the hospital to which such seaman may be removed, that the disease with which he may be affected is of such a nature as that the keeper of the boarding-house could with ordinary and reasonable observation, have ascertained its existence; and in all cases, such expenses shall, in case of non-payment, be sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the hospital.
2. If any seaman affected with a contagious disease, and reported so to be by the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman may be residing, shall refuse or offer any hindrance or obstruction to his removal to a hospital; or having been removed to a hospital, shall attempt to leave the same before he shall be properly discharged cured; or having been discharged cured, shall refuse to produce his certificate of discharge when required by the Harbour Master; or being affected with a contagious disease, shall neglect or refuse to inform the keeper of the boarding-house in which he may be residing, then, and in every such case, such seaman so offending shall incur a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding one month.
3. The master of any merchant ship, before shipping any seaman, may require that such seaman shall be inspected by the Colonial Surgeon, by notice in writing to that effect, addressed to the Harbour Master or a Visiting Surgeon appointed in pursuance of this section, and the Colonial Surgeon or such Visiting Surgeon upon such inspection shall give a certificate under his hand as to the state of health of such seaman, which