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Requirements as to hospital accommodation.
Medical examination before sailing.
Medical inspection of emigrants under contract of service.
No emigrant
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.
emigrants before their departure and on their voyage, and such salary shall be in lieu of all fees.
41.-(1.) In every Chinese passenger ship, except ships about to proceed on a voyage of not more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of section 47, there shall be a sufficient space properly divided off, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance, to be used exclusively as a hospital or sick bay for the passengers; and the said space shall be either under the poop, or in the round-house, or in any deck-house which is properly built and secured to the satisfaction of such Emigration Officer, or on the upper passenger deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be of less dimensions than eighteen clear superficial feet for every fifty passengers whom the ship carries.
(2.) Every such hospital shall be fitted with bed places and supplied with proper beds, bedding and utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance, and shall throughout the voyage be kept so fitted and supplied.
(3.) In the measurement of the passenger decks, for the purpose of determining the number of passengers to be carried in any such Chinese passenger ship, the space for the hospital shall be included.
42. (1.) No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any voyage of more than seven days' duration, until the proper medical officer as provided has certified to the Emigration Officer, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the passengers or crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed in such ship.
(2.) A medical inspection of the passengers for the purposes of giving such certificate shall take place either on board the ship, or, at the discretion of the Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint.
(3.) The master, owner, or charterer of the ship shall pay to the Emigration Officer a sum at the rate of twenty-five dollars for every hundred persons so examined, and the Emigration Officer shall pay same into the Colonial Treasury, to the use of the Crown.
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43. The medical inspection of emigrants under contracts of service shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the ship after embarkation, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate required by the Act unless he is satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.
44. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant under contract of service
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