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Contact Vessel.
Council.
Crew.
Dairy.
Dairyman.
Day.
Disease.
Disinfect.
Health Officer.
Immigrant.
Infected.
Infected Area.
Infected Place, Infected Port.
Infectious Disease.
Medical
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"Contact vessel" or "Contact Aircraft" is one which has come from or been in contact with an infected port, and which has not been granted free pratique in Hong Kong.
"Council" means the Urban Council, unless some other Council is indicated.
"Crew" includes any person who is on board any vessel or aircraft not for the mere purpose of being carried from one place to another, but who is employed in some way in the service of the vessel or of persons on board or of the cargo. "Dairy" means and includes any farm house, cowshed, milk store, milk shop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for the purpose of manu- facture or sale.
"Dairyman" includes any keeper of cows or buffaloes for the purpose of trade in milk, purveyor of milk, seller of milk, occupier of a dairy, employees engaged in the produc- tion or distribution of milk and in the case where a dairy is owned by a corporation or company the secretary or other person actually managing the dairy.
"Day" means an interval of twenty-four hours.
"Disease" means any malady of an infectious or contagi- ous nature dangerous to mankind and includes leprosy and rabies but does not include any venereal disease.
"Disinfect" means to destroy or remove the germs of
disease.
"Health Officer" includes the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, any medical officer appointed as a Health Officer by the Governor, and any officer for the time being performing the duties of a Health Officer.
"Immigrant" includes:-
(a) any person arriving in the waters of the Colony as a deck, steerage or third class passenger on board a steamship or motor ship or as a passenger on board any other vessel with the intention of landing in the Colony;
(b) a third class passenger who crosses the border by train.
"Infected" means infected with the germs of infectious
disease.
"Infected area" means any area which has been declared by the Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette to be an infected area, from the date of such declaration until the date of withdrawal of such declaration in the Gazette.
"Infected place" or "Infected port" means any place or port which has been declared by the Governor in Council to be an infected place or port from the date of such declaration until the date of withdrawal of such declaration.
"Infectious disease" means any of the following diseases, namely; plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles, chickenpox, diphtheria and enteric, and any other disease which the Governor in Council shall by notification in the Gazette declare to be included within the said expression.
"Medical Practitioner" means a registered practitioner Practitioner. within the meaning of the Medical Registration Ordinance,
Port.
1884.
"Port" includes sea-port, river-port and air-port.
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