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239. During the year 86 special visits were made to ships for the purpose of examining persons suffering from infectious but non-quarantinable diseases.
240. 46 permits for the landing of corpses for burial were granted and 23 bodies were taken to the mortuary for post-mortem examinations. 15 cases of leprosy were detected amongst Chinese passengers. 20 Chinese, 3 European, 1 Indian, and 1 Filipino lunatics arrived in the Colony during the year. Bills of Health numbering 1,540 were issued.
QUARANTINE.
241. 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.
242. All vessels arriving from "infected" ports and those having infectious or suspicious cases on board fly the "Q" flag and go to a quarantine anchorage for examination.
243. The monthly return of quarantine ships is given in Table IV.
244. During the year no vessel was detained in quarantine.
245. The total number of persons medically inspected during 1936 was 235,807 or an average of 646 examinations per day.
EMIGRATION.
246. 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.
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 diseases.
247. The Vaccination Ordinance 1923 requires that all emigrants from the Colony shall be protected against Small-pox by vaccination.