MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
1025
FORM NO. 2.
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Regulation 17 (1).
Certificate by surgeon or medical officer of absence of infectious or contagious disease.
Hongkong.
I hereby certify that there has been no sickness of an infectious or contagious nature on board the SS........ within a period of twelve days previous to the date of her arrival in the waters of the Colony of Hongkong and I further certify that I have seen every person on board within the twelve hours immediately preceding my signature hereto.
Dated the day of 19? at ," o'clock .III. conta.]
(Signed.)........... Surgeon (or Medical Officer).
SS.
Appendix B.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR OWNERS OR AGENTS OF INFECTED VESSELS FROM WHICH THE PASSENGERS OR CREW OR ANY OF THEM ARE REMOVED TO AN OBSERVATION STATION BY ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER UNDER REGULATION 6 (1).
1. If the Health Officer shall order the passengers and crew, or any of them, of an infected vessel to be kept under observation at an Observation Station, the owners or agents of the said vessel shall provide –
(a) all necessary boats for the removal of such passengers and crew, or any of them, to the Observation Station;
(b) all food for such passengers and crew according to the scale appended to these instructions; and
(c) such quantity or numbers as the Health Officer may deem necessary--
(i) of lymph for the vaccination of the said passengers and crew, if the vessel from which the said passengers and crew have been removed is quarantined for small-pox;
(ii) of disinfectants, not exceeding the scale of disinfectants in the Sixth Schedule of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915;
(iii) of water daily for cleansing or drinking purposes; and
(iv) of kerosine oil for lighting purposes at the rate of one-third of a tin daily for every five hundred passengers and crew.
2. In addition the owners or agents aforesaid shall pay to the Government such charges as the Health Officer, by certificate under his hand, may certify to have been incurred by Government for medical comforts, for the cleansing and disinfection of the vessel, or of the merchandise on board thereof, from which the passengers and crew have been removed; and for the burial of the bodies of any of the passengers or crew who may die in the Station. They shall also refund to the Government the cost of scavenging the Station at the rate of half-a-cent per head per day of the passengers and crew.