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(d) for prescribing the fees to be paid under this Ordi-

nance;

(e) for placing vessels and air-craft arriving or being at any port or place within the Colony or waters of the Colony in quarantine and for their management while in Quarantine. and for granting certificates of the condition of vessels or of the Colony or any part thereof in respect of disease;

() for preventing rats landing from vessels or aircraft or from transferring themselves from one vessel to another;

(g) for the deratisation of vessels or aircraft;

(h) for the disinfection and disinsectisation of vessels, aircraft, persons, animals and things;

(i) for prohibiting either absolutely or conditionally or for regulating the importation, exportation or removal in the Colony of dead bodies;

() for prohibiting or regulating :-

(i) the admission of persons into or their movements within the Colony or their departure therefrom either absolu- tely or conditionally.

(ii) the admission of merchandise and food and drink.

(k) for establishing and maintaining quarantine stations for persons and for regulating the management of the same;

(1) for the detention and seclusion in a quarantine station or on board of persons, whether actually suffering from disease or not, arriving on vessels or aircraft subject to quarantine, and for the payment to Government of any costs and expenses charged or incurred for the medical attendance and mainten- ance of any such persons;

(m) for prescribing the measures to be taken for the prevention of the conveyance of infection by means of any vessel or otherwise from any area or port of the Colony, in- cluding :-

(i) the measures that shall be applied to vessels or air- craft before departure;

(ii) the measures that shall be taken to prevent the de- parture of persons infected with or suspected of being infected ith plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus, or smallpox, and of persons in such relation with the sick as to render them

able to transmit the infection of these diseases;

(iii) the measures that shall be applied with respect to merchandise, articles or clothing infected or suspected of being infected;

(iv) the prohibition either absolutely or conditionally of the export of merchandise, or articles of clothing infected or suspected of being infected;

(v) the prevention of rats gaining access to ships or air- craft;

(vi) precautions with regard to drinking water and food- stuffs taken on board vessels or aircraft or trains and the water taken in as ballast by vessels;

(vii) measures for the prevention of access of mosquitoes to vessels or aircraft in the case of yellow fever prevalence;

(viii) measures for delousing typhus suspects before em- barkation; and

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