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Vessels with filthy passengers or in an overcrowded state to go to quaran. tine
anchorage.
Notification forms to be
(6) All expenses incurred by the Port Health Officer in carrying out this section shall be recoverable from the owner or agents of the vessel under the Crown Suits Ordinance 1910.
68. Where a vessel has passengers on board who are in a filthy or otherwise unwholesome condition, or is over- crowded with passengers, emigrants, or otherwise, the Port Health Officer may, if in his opinion it is desirable with a view to checking the introduction of any infectious or contagious disease, and on his certifying to that effect, order the vessel to the quarantine anchorage or to such place as he may direct and although the vessel is not infected or suspected the Port Health Officer may order the cleansing and disinfection of the vessel; and with any instructions for the carrying out thereof that the Port Health Officer may give.
Part III.
THE PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
(a) Notification.
69. The Secretary to the Medical Department shall upon furnished by application furnish every registered medical practitioner, every medical officer in charge of a Chinese Public Dispensary and every officer in charge of a Police Station with the printed forms to be used in notification.
Secretary to Medical Depart-
ment.
Notification must contain
no false information.
Attending proctitioner to notify.
Notification where no practitioner
70. No notification which contains any false information shall be deemed a notification as required by this Ordinance or by regulations or by-laws thereunder unless the person notifying proves that he believed and had reasonable grounds for believing such false information to be true.
71. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from or has died from plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles, chicken-pox, diphetheria, scarlet fever, enteric, puerperal fever or rabies, and if such inmate be under the care of a registered medical practitioner the said practitioner shall forthwith furnish the Health Officer of the district with a notification thereof in writing stating the name of such inmate and the situation of such premises.
Such registered medical practitioner shall be entitled to receive, on application to the Secretary of the medical department, the sum of one dollar for each and every such notification, but not more than one fee shall be paid in respect of each case.
72. If any inmate of any premises he suffering from or has died from plague, cholera, smallpox, or cerebro-spinal has attended. meningitis, and if such inmate be not under the care of a registered medical practitioner, the occupier or keeper of such premises or in default of such occupier or keeper, the nearest male adult relative, living on such premises, or in default of such relative, occupier, or keeper, any person in charge of or in attendance on the sick person or dead body
shall, on the nature of the disease becoming known to him or on the suspicion of the existence in such inmate of such disease, forthwith notify the same to the Health Officer or an officer of the Medical Department or the Medical Officer in charge of the nearest Chinese Public Dispensary, or the Officer in charge of the nearest Police Station or any Sanitary In- spector who shall immediately on receipt thereof transmit the information to the Health Officer of the District.
by persons
of the
73. All persons knowing or having reason to believe Notification that any person has been attacked by, or is suffering from, having or has died from plague, cholera, smallpox, or from such knowledge other epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease as may from existence of time to time be duly notified in the Gazette, shall notify the discase. same without delay to any officer on duty at the nearest police station, or to some officer of the Medical Department or to the Medical Officer or clerk of the nearest Chinese Public Dispen- sary or any Sanitary Inspector, and any such officer receiving such information whether verbal or written or discovering any such case, shall notify the same with the least possible delay to the Health Officer of the District, and may detain such person or remove him to a public hospital until he can be examined by a Medical Officer or a Health Officer.
by keepers
74. If any person in any hotel, boarding house or Notification common lodging house becomes ill from any infectious, of hotels, contagious or communicable disease the keeper of such boarding institution shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Health houses or Officer or the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who shall im lodging mediately transmit such information to the Health Officer.
COLL Mon
houses.
75.-(1) Any person required under this Ordinance or Delay in any regulations or by-laws made thereunder to give informa- failing to
notification, tion of any infectious disease, or from any death of infectious notify or disease, neglecting without reasonable excuse to give such information. giving false information with the least practicable delay, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
(2) Any person who knowingly omits or refuses to give any information which he is required to give or furnishes as true information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
(3) When any person is charged with neglecting to give information of any infectious disease or any death from an infectious disease he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of such disease, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the Court before which he is charged that he had no such knowledge and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.
be furnished
76. When any Medical Practitioner in attendance on Notice of any person suffering from infectious disease is satisfied that recovery to such person has so far recovered as, in the opinion of such to Health Medical Practitioner, to be no longer a source of infection to Ufficer. others, such Medical Practitioner shall notify the same in writing to the Health Officer.
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