MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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from stress of weather, until released by order of the Health Officer. Table L. 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 has subsided: Provided that in case of stress of weather involving 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.
(b) No such vessel shall enter the harbour limits before 6 a.m. or after 6 p.m.
4. The master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of Quarantine the Quarantine Anchorage, as and when required by the Harbour Master.
5. The master or other person having the control of any vessel shall give to 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 the questions put to him by the Health Officer or Boarding Officer.
6. (a) On the arrival of an infected vessel at the Quarantine Anchorage 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 for 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 appointed by the Governor-in-Council, 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 10 days, or in the case of cholera 5 days, from the date of arrival of the vessel in the waters of the Colony. The Health Officer shall then forthwith proceed with the disinfection of the vessel and with the disinfection or destruction of such of the merchandise on board and of the baggage and personal effects of the passengers and crew as he may deem necessary, and the master of every such vessel shall comply with any instructions that the Health Officer may give as to the disinfection and pumping out of bilge water, the disinfection of drinking water tanks, and the provision of a proper and adequate supply of fresh drinking water.
Provided that any person certified by the Health Officer to be suffering from any illness which such officer suspects may prove to be an infectious or contagious disease may either be detained on board the ship or may be taken to some hospital or other place appointed for the purpose, and detained there for a period not exceeding 2 days, in order that it may be ascertained whether his illness is or is not infectious or contagious; and that during such period the vessel may be treated as an "infected" vessel.