that persons already sick should land as that persons with so far undiscoverable seeds of the sickness in them should land and turn sick, and become sources of infection three or four or more days afterwards;-against this possibility the Local Government Board System affords simply no protection whatever.
course,
measures.
7. Quarantine, whether it be an effectual system or not, is a complete system in itself, and you rely upon it and nothing else, to prevent the possibility of latent disease being brought in; whereas in the Local Government Board system, the object is merely to keep actual disease out; and you can afford to risk the possibi- lity of latent disease coming in because you are in a position to subdue it in due if it does break out afterwards, by good internal sanitation and sanitary In this Colony we have at present a highly insanitary state of things, and a population which could not be brought suddenly or without a good deal of training, to observe sanitary precautions or sanitary requirements of law, however stringent or well devised. We have in fact only one line of defence instead of the double line that exists in places where the Local Government Board System prevails.
8. Moreover, as regards the other side of the question, the inconvenience to the shipping interests :---Unless an epidemic is prevailing at some port within five days' distance, the inconvenience caused by the existing regulations is in one respect only in excess of that which would be caused under the alternative system. That is to say, under the existing regulations the ship and passengers are secluded until (whether there is actual disease on board or not), such fumigation and other precautions as the Health Officer may think necessary have been observed; whereas, under the alternative system, the seclusion is only required where there is actual disease. In all other respects the alternative system would, I think, be quite as inconvenient for shipping interests as the existing system.
9. I may mention that the legislation necessary to introduce the Local Govern- ment Board System, and abolish Quarantine would consist in repealing Ordinance, No. 9 of 1883, and substituting for the present section 25 of No. 8 of 1879, a section corresponding to section 130 of the Public Health Act, 1875.
(Signed).
E. L. O'MALLEY, Attorney General.
Hongkong, 23rd September, 1885.
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