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QUARANTINE.
233. Hong Kong has no quarantine station for ships' passengers or crews. When segregation is necessary it is carried out on board ship at the quarantine anchorage. A limited number (26) of infectious cases can be accommodated at the Government Infectious Diseases Hospital at Kennedy Town but there is no room for contacts.
234. During the year only one vessel was detained in Quarantine. During medical examination of deck passengers on S.S. 'Tilawa' on December 30th, a case of smallpox was detected amongst the emigrants from Amoy. The vessel was allowed to sail on the following day, after vaccination of all passengers and crew and suitable disinfection of vessel had been carried out.
235. All vessels arriving from infected ports and those having infectious or suspicious cases on board fly the 'Q' flag and go to the quarantine anchorage for examination.
236. The number of vessels arriving in quarantine was 387 with 58,007 passengers and a crew personnel of 40,426. All were examined and those from smallpox infected ports were vaccinated.
237. The total number of persons medically inspected during 1931 was 261,642 or an average of 717 examinations a day.
238. Ninety-three vessels were fumigated during the year. Fumigations are carried out by a private company but each operation is supervised by a Health Officer.
EMIGRATION.
239. The Asiatic Emigration Ordinance No. 30 of 1915 requires that emigrant ships shall have:-
(1) Proper and sufficient living accommodation.
(2) Proper and sufficient sanitary requirements.
(3) Proper and sufficient hospital accommodation,
(4) A sufficient supply of drugs, medical equipment and disinfectants.
240. It also makes provision for:-
(1) A proper diet scale.
(2) The prevention of the export of the unfit.
(3) The prevention of the export of infectious disease.