Circum- scribed
case.
Contact.
Council,
Crew.
Day-
Delouse.
Deratise,
Disinfect.
Disinsectise.
Health Officer.
Immigrant.
infected.
Infected
Brea,
Infected place. Infected port.
Infectious disease.
Observation.
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"Circumscribed case
means either a case of infectious disease originating in a quarantine station or an imported case which has been immediately isolated in a quarantine station or a case occurring in a new arrival during the period of his observation or surveillance.
"Contact
means any person who has been or is likely to have been exposed to the risk of contracting an infectious disease.
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Council means the Urban Council, unless some other Council is indicated.
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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 aircraft or of persons on board or of the cargo.
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'Day'
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means an interval of twenty-four hours.
"Delouse means to render free from lice.
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Deratise means to render free from rats.
"Disinfect
disease.
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Disinsectise
means to destroy or remove the germs of
means to render free from insects.
"Health Officer includes the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, any medical officer appointed by the Governor as a Health Officer or Port Health Officer, and any officer for the time being performing the duties of a Health Officer or Port 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 enters the Colony by train.
disease.
Infected " means infected with the germs of infectious
"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, 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.
"Observation " means the compulsory detention in isolation for the purpose of and under the provisions of this Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder of any vessel,
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person, animal or thing, so that it or they shall have no communication with any other vessel, person, animal or thing
or with any other place except in accordance with the said Ordinance and regulations.
Port
includes sea-port, river-port and air-port.
Port.
Port Health Officer includes the Health Officer of the Port Health Port, the Second Health Officer of the Port and any other Officer, Health Officer or Medical Officer for the time being perform-
ing the duties of a Port Health Officer.
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Premises includes any land, building, structure of Premises. any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, field, marsh, drain, ditch or place open, cover- ed or enclosed, or cesspool or foreshore, and also any vessel lying within the waters of the Colony.
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anchorage.
Quarantine anchorage means that area of the Harbour Quarantine which has been appointed for the time being for the detention in isolation of vessels undergoing observation and which has been declared a quarantine anchorage by Ordinance or by the Governor in Council.
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Quarantine station
means any place where obser- Quarantine vation is carried out and includes an infectious diseases station. hospital and any place declared by the Governor in Council
to be a quarantine station or a sanitary station.
Sanitary aerodrome means an authorised aerodrome Sanitary
aerodrone, declared by the Governor in Council to be a sanitary aero- drome after being satisfied that it will at all times have at its disposal:-
(i) an organised medical service with one medical officer at least and one or more sanitary inspectors, it being understood that this staff will not necessarily be in permanent attendance at the aerodrome;
(ii) a place for medical inspection;
(iii) equipment for taking and despatching suspected material for examination in a laboratory;
(iv) facilities in the case of necessity for isolation, transport and care of the sick, for the isolation of contacts separately from the sick and for carrying out other prophy- lactic measures in suitable premises either within the aero- drome or in proximity to it;
(v) apparatus necessary for carrying out disinfection, disinsectisation and deratisation if required, as well as any other measures laid down in the International Sanitary Con- vention for Acrial Navigation, signed at the Hague on the 12th day of April, 1933;
(vi) a sufficient supply of wholesome drinking water; (vii) a proper and safe system for the disposal of excreta and refuse, and for the removal of waste water; and
(viii) protection, as far as possible, from rats.
Surveillance " means that persons subject thereto are Surveillance. not isolated, and that they may move about freely on condition that they sign a bond pledging themselves to submit to medical examination daily or as often as may be required by the Health Authorities of the several places whither they