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QUARANTINE.
248. Hong Kong has no quarantine station for ships passengers and 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.
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249. 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.
250. The number of vessels arriving in Quarantine was 477 with 73,474 passengers and crew personnel of 41,335. All were examined and the passengers and crews of those vessels arriving from small-pox infected ports were vaccinated if insufficiently protected against the disease.
251. The total number of persons medically examined during 1933 was 233,022 or an average of 638 examinations per day.
252. Seventy-six vessels were fumigated during the year. Fumigations are carried out by a private company but each operation is supervised by a Health Officer.
EMIGRATION.
253. 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.
254. 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.
255. The Vaccination Ordinance, 1923, requires that all emigrants from the Colony shall be protected against small-pox by vaccination.
256. The duty of carrying out the sanitary and medical inspection and for vaccinating those who are insufficiently protected falls on the Port Health Authorities.
257. Emigrants are classified as:—
(a) Free emigrants or those who pay their own passages.
(b) Assisted emigrants or those whose passages are paid by their prospective employers.
(c) Women and children.