PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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IC.O. 885
23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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Prohibition of
certain trades to lepers.
Penalty for carrying on prohibited trade.
Lepers enter ing vehicles,
etc.
Bale of food, etc., by leper.
Obtaining
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Prohibition of certain Trades and acts to Lepers.
18. No leper shall carry on any of the trades or callings specified in the Schedule to this Ordinance, or any other trade or calling which the Governor in Executive Council may from time to time, by order to be published in the Royal Gazette, prohibit lepers from carrying on.
19. Any leper who shall carry on any trade or calling as aforesaid and any person who shall knowingly employ a leper in any such trade or calling shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Ten pounds, or, if the person convicted is not a leper, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding one month, and any leper so convicted shall be committed by the convicting Magistrate to a leper asylum to be detained there till discharged by order of the Governor
20. Any person knowing himself to be a leper who shall enter any public vehicle or lodge in any hotel, boarding house, or lodging house,. or enter any shop where food or drink is sold, or bathe in any public bath, and the proprietor or person in charge of any such public vehicle, hotel, or boarding house, lodging house, shop or bath who shall knowingly allow any leper to enter the same shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Ten pounds, or, if the person convicted is not a leper, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding one month, and any leper so convicted shall be committed by the convicting Magistrate to a leper asylum to be detained there till discharged byder of the Governor.
21.- (1.) If any leper sells, barters, or exchanges any article of food or drink, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Ten pounds, and may be committed by the convicting Magistrate to a leper asylum to be detained there until discharged by order of the Governor.
(2.) If any person knowingly sells, barters, or exchanges any article of food or drink which has been prepared or handled by a leper, or with which a leper has come in contact, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Ten pounds, or to imprison- ment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding one month, or to both. 22. Any person who purchases or who without the permission in writing of inmate of an the Medical Superintendent receives from any inmate of a leper asylum any articles of whatsoever nature shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Five pounds, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, not exceeding fourteen days.
Landing of Lepers Prohibited.
article from
asylum.
Landing of lopers prohibited
Lepers unlaw-
may be eturned to
lace whence hey came.
23. Subject to the provisions of Section 25 of this Ordinance, no leper who is not a native of the Colony or lawfully domiciled therein shall land at any of the ports of the Colony from any place not within the Colony, and the master or other person in charge of any vessel who suffers or omits to prevent the landing from such vessel at any such port of any person whom he knows or has reasonable grounds to suppose to be a leper shall be liable to a fine not exceeding One Hundred pounds.
24. Every leper landing in contravention of the provisions of the preceding ally landed Section may be brought before a Magistrate, who may examine such leper and any witness on oath touching the place from which he was brought into the Colony, and may cause such leper to be removed to the place from which he was so brought in such manner as the Governor may direct, and the reasonable cost of such removal and of his maintenance in the Colony pending his removal shall be borne and paid by the master or other person in charge of the vessel by which such leper was brought to the Colony by whose act or default such leper was permitted to land, and may be sued for and recovered as money due from him to His Majesty.
Larboar Laster may etain leper Romel
25.-(1.) If the Harbour Master or other officer discharging the duties of a Harbour Master within any port in this Colony on boarding any vessel which shall come into this Colony has reason to suspect that any person on board of such vessel is afflicted with leprosy, but such person shall deny that he is so afflicted, it shall be lawful for such Harbour Master or other officer by writing under his hand directed to the master or other person in charge of such vessel to make order that the person so suspected to be so afflicted shall be detained on board of such vessel until he shall be examined by the Health Officer of the port, and such other Medical Practitioner or Practitioners, if any, as the Governor shall see fit to appoint, and the master or other person in charge of such vessel shall cause such person to be detained on board of such vessel until such examination; and if any such person in respect of whom any such order of detention shall be made shall land in this Colony without the order of the Harbour Master or the permission of the Governor being first granted, the master or other person in charge of such vessel shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Two Hundred pounds.
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(2.) Such Harbour Master or other officer immediately on making any such order for the detention of any person as aforesaid, shall notify the same and the time of making such order to the Governor and the Health Officer of the port; and such Health Officer together with such Medical Practitioner or Practitioners, if any, as shall be appointed by the Governor for that purpose shall within twenty-four hours at farthest from the time of the making of such order visit such vessel and examine such person, and shall certify in writing to the Governor whether such person is afflicted with leprosy or not; and if it shall appear by such certificate that such person is not afflicted with leprosy the Harbour Master shall forthwith make order permitting the landing of such person; but if it shall appear by such certificate that such person is afflicted with leprosy it shall not be lawful for such person to land in this Colony without the permission of the Governor, to be granted on its being made to appear to him that such person is a native or domiciled inhabitant of this Colony.
(3.) Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor to grant permission for the landing in the Colony of any person afflicted with leprosy and not being a native of or domiciled in the Colony on being satisfied that two sufficient persons being householders within the Colony have entered into a bond to His Majesty in the penal sum of £200, conditioned that such person shall not wander about begging or collecting alms or exposing himself in any public road, street or place in this Colony, nor do any act whereby such person may become chargeable upon the public funds of the Colony, and that such person shall conform to such rules as may from time to time be made under this Ordinance providing for the proper isolation of lepers not. detained in leper asylums.
ing may be
26. Every person unlawfully landing in breach of the prohibition in the last Lepere land- Section contained may be committed to a leper asylum by a warrant under the sent to hand of the Governor, and may be detained therein until discharged by order of the sylum. Governor.
27. The provisions of the last preceding four Sections shall not apply in the Coolie ships. case of lepers or alleged lepers arriving in the Colony in any ship exclusively em- ployed in carrying Asiatic immigrants to the Colony, but the Governor may, by warrant under his hand, commit any such person arriving in any such ship to a leper asylum, there to be detained for such period as may be directed by such war-
rant.
Management and Discipline of Asylums.
make rules.
28. The Governor in Executive Council may make rules with respect to all or Power te any of the following matters :—
(1.) The forms of certificates, warrants, bonds and orders to be used under
this Ordinance;
(2.) The management, inspection, discipline and control of leper asylums; (3.) The visiting of lepers in leper asylums by their relations and friends; (4.) The appointment and duties of officers and servants of leper asylums; (5.) The appointment of Official Visitors and the periodical visiting of
leper asylume by them;
(6.) Prescribing such measures of cleansing and disinfection as he may consider necessary in the case of premises inhabited by persons suffering from leprosy;
(7.) Prescribing for the effective isolation of lepers not detained in leper
asylums;
(8.) Prescribing the fees payable to Medical Practitioners in respect of the examination of lepers or alleged lepers and of reports to be made and certificates granted thereon;
(9.) Generally for the carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
inmates of
29. If an inmate of a leper asylum is guilty of the violation of any rule Offences by made under the authority of the last preceding Section for the management, disci- iam. pline and control of such asylum, the Medical Superintendent, after due inquiry upon oath, may order such inmate to undergo any one of the following punishments:-
(1.) Exclusion from seeing friends for not longer than three months; (2.) Deprivation of tobacco for not longer than one month;
(3.) Reduction of rations for not longer than seven days;
(4.) Solitary confinement for not longer than three days, and to receive only bread and water or such diet as the Medical Superintendent shall order.