is bound to bring Chinese and
47
A
form of
courting trade : and the port would be mined
by adopting elaborate precautions
I would suggest adoption of the
compromise proposed
in
minute
on 35252.
my
copy of
and
say
not
/
for publication,
? work to Governor, sending
that there does not appear to be
any necessity for healthy vessels touching at uninfected ports to be boarded
by the Medical
Officer at all,
for this to be done for a healthy vessel
from an infected port, not close at hand.
Under these circumstances the
examination of
a
Port
4
even
in most cases
is allowed if not actually
catalysed
additional
officer
seems
Mr Chamberlain could
be unnecessary.
I
suggest withdrawal
of private practice from Dr Jorden with
$2400 and pension rights.
I
Mer Cosc.
a
rise
1/25/11
I have been keeping these papers
to discuss them with Dr Jordan, whom I have asked to call but, though I have
written to him since, I have not yet heard
I do not feel at all sure as to
the definition of healthy vessel
in the Venice Sanitary
Convention, copied in the Hong Kong
Quarantine Regulations attached vide 1760/10
is "any vessel which, although the crew contagious
from a place at which
infections disease prevailed, has had no
death
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vessels coming from a healthy port as well as those coming
infected port
from
an
The clause inserted in the new Rules closely follows the Venice Convention
and that section of the Rules, does not
the memo from
require as pointed out in the Local Govt Board does not require
that healthy ships should go
to the
Quarantine anchorage but it does I think require, should I think continue
to require, that the ship should be visited by
some officer. My point was
that
a
medical officer
or some officer, not necessarily the medical officer, should ascertain whether the ship is free
from disease.
Under the Venice Convention=
coasting and cooley ships may be
subjected to such regulations
as the local
authority think fit,
despatch to Shanghai
vide
4672
4872/09. It was
not contemplated that much traffic should