A.D. 1899.]
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
[No. 10.
541
any place set apart for the detention and seclusion of persons actually suffering from disease:
"Vessel" includes British and Foreign ships of war, as well as all other vessels:
"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-in-Council published in The Gazette, from the date of such proclamation: "Infectious or contagious disease" means cholera, choleraic diarrhea, small-pox, typhus fever, yellow fever, bubonic plague, and any such other epidemic disease, as the Health Officer may consider to imperil the safety of the passengers or crew:
"Infected vessel" means any vessel which has a case of any of the above-mentioned diseases on board or on which one or more cases of any such diseases has or have occurred within a period of twelve days previous to the date of arrival of the vessel in the waters of the Colony, except in the case of cholera, when such period shall be seven days instead of twelve:
"Suspected vessel" means any vessel on which one or more cases of any of the above-mentioned diseases has or 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, or, in the case of cholera, seven days, previous to the date of arrival of the vessel in the waters of the Colony:
"Healthy vessel" means any vessel which, having come 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 place, or during the voyage therefrom, or on arrival.
Flying of yellow flag on arrival, and examination by Health Officer.
2. Every "infected," every "suspected," and every "healthy" vessel, on entering the waters of the Colony, shall fly and keep flying a yellow flag (letter Q in the International Code of Signals) and shall not communicate with the shore until granted pratique by express written order of the Health Officer, who shall board every such vessel and shall examine all the passengers and crew thereof: Provided, nevertheless, that any such vessel which is on a voyage to any other place, and which has held no communication with the shore except as permitted by these Regulations, may, with the written consent of the Health Officer, proceed on such voyage or transship her passengers for the purpose of completing such voyage.
3. (a.) Every "infected," every "suspected," and every "healthy" vessel proceeding to Hong Kong, unless previously granted pratique, 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 which is compelled to leave the Quarantine Anchorage from stress of weather shall communicate, except by signals, with the shore or with any other vessel, and such vessel shall return to the Quarantine Anchorage immediately such stress of weather ceases.
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