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Master of ship before shipping seaman may require him to undergo medical-inspection.
Amended by See of Ord 20 of 1903
Keeper of licensed boarding-house to report state of boarders' health.
Penalty on seaman for offering
No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [AD 18 granting a clearance to such ship, require a certificate from the Health Officer that the default has been remedied, and, if such certificate is produced, the ship shall be detained until the certificate is produced. If the ship proceeds to sea, the owner, consignee, or master of the ship shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.
(4.) The master of any ship, before shipping any seaman, may require that such seaman shall be inspected by the Principal Civil Medical Officer, and the Principal Civil Medical Officer, on such inspection shall give a certificate under his hand as to the state of health of each seaman,
which certificate such seaman shall produce and show to the master of the ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every certificate there shall be paid the fee of fifty cents, to be paid by the agent or master of the ship in case such seaman proves to be in sound health, and by the seaman himself, or the boarding-house keeper with whom he may be residing, in case such seaman proves to be affected with any contagious disease.
(5.) Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for seamen, in the list of seamen resident in his house which he is required to furnish to the Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each seaman so 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 is discharged as cured, and has obtained a certificate of his having been so discharged, which certificate he shall produce and show to the Harbour Master, when required to do so; 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 has 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 appears to and is certified by the Medical Officer in charge of the hospital to which such seaman may be removed, or by an Assistant Surgeon, 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 every case such expenses shall, in case of non-payment, be sued and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the hospital.
(6.) If any seaman affected with a contagious disease, and reported to be so by the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman may be residing, refuses or offers any hindrance or obstruction to his removal