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period shall be the same as that of observation save in the case of plague when In applying these it may be extended to a period not to exceed ten days. measures the date of the last case and the condition of the ship shall be taken into account.

(c.) Clothing and articles belonging to the passengers or crew which, in the opinion of the Health Officer, are infected, shall be disinfected or destroyed.

(d.) Those parts of the ship that have been occupied by the sick shall be disinfected, and also such other parts of the ship as the Health Officer may regard as infected.

(e.) In the case of plague, measures shall be taken, either before or after discharge of cargo to secure the destruction of rats on board: This operation shall be carried out as quickly as possible and its duration shall not in any case exceed forty-eight hours; it is to be performed in such fashion as to avoid dainage to cargo and to the engines and steel plating of the ship.

(f) In the case of yellow fever measures shall be taken to secure destruction

of mosquitoes and their larvae on board.

(9.) In the case of cholera the bilge water, after preliminary disinfection, shall be pumped out; and the drinking water on board may be replaced by a fresh supply of wholesome water.

4. Suspected ships shall be dealt with as follows:-

(a.) The

and crew may be subjected to surveillance during a passengers period which shall not exceed five days in the case of plague and cholera, six days in the case of yellow fever, and twelve days in the case of other infectious or contagious diseases. The period of surveillance shall date from the arrival of the ship.

(b.) Paragraphs (c), (d), and (g) of Article 3 shall also apply to suspected ships; and the measures specified in paragraphs (e) and (ƒ) should also be applied.

5. Healthy ships shall be admitted to free pratique immediately on arrival, irre- spective of the nature of their bill of health. They may, however, at the discretion of the Health Officer, be subjected to the measures specified in paragraphs (c), (e), (ƒ) and (g) of Article 3; and the passengers and crew may be subjected to surveillance which shall not exceed five days in the case of plague and cholera, six days in the case of yellow fever, and twelve days in the case of other infectious or contagious diseases. The period of surveillance shall date from the departure of the ship from the infected port. It is to be understood that the application of the measures specified in paragraph (c) of Article 3 can be justified only by special reasons and that those of paragraph (e) of Article 3 are not to be applied as a general rule. In those cases where the provisions of paragraph (8) of Article 3 are applied, the operation shall not in any case exceed 24 hours, and shall not interfere with the free circulation of passengers and crew between ship and shore.

6. If, in a healthy ship, the rats on board are found to be suffering from plague, the Health Officer shall visit the ship and measures shall be taken as in paragraphs (c) and (e) of Article 3; the parts of the ship that the Health Officer may regard as infected shall be disinfected; and the passengers and crew may be subjected to surveillance which shall not exceed a period of five days after arrival, unless in exceptional cases when such period may be extended to ten days. If unusual mortality has been observed among the rats on a healthy ship, the Health Officer shall visit the ship and a bacteriological examination of the rats shall, when practicable, be made as quickly as possible. If it is thought necessary to resort to measures of rat-destruction, these shall be carried out as specified in paragraph (e) of Article 3. Until all suspicion of plague is removed, the passengers and crew may be subjected to surveillance during the time specified in this Article in respect of ships on board which rats are found to be suffering from plague.

7. Whenever the master, the shipowner, or the shipowner's agent shall so demand, the Sanitary Authority of the port shall furnish him with a certificate that measures for the destruction of rats have been applied and specifying the reasons why they had been applied.

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Passengers arriving by an infected vessel have the right to demand of the Sanitary Authority of the port a certificate indicating the date of their arrival and the measures to which they and their baggage have been subjected.

8. Ships from an infected place which have been disinfected and in regard of which effective measures have been taken shall not again be subjected to sanitary measures on their arrival in another port, unless a fresh case of infectious or contagious disease has occurred on board since disinfection or unless they have again called at an infected place. A ship shall not be regarded as having called at a place if it has merely disembarked passengers and their baggage or mails, without having been in communication with the shore.

9. Where a ship has passengers on-board who are in a filthy or otherwise unwhole- some condition, or is overcrowded with passengers, emigrants, or otherwise, the Health Officer may, if in his opinion it is desirable, with a view to checking the introduction of any infectious or contagious disease, and on his certifying to that effect, subject persons on board to observation or to surveillance for such period, not to exceed the period specified for the particular disease in question in paragraph 6 of Article 3, as he may

direct.

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Where measures of observation or surveillance are prescribed, the Health Officer may exempt from their application any person who is, in his opinion, immune to the infectious or contagious disease on account of which these measures are applied.

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Where these regulations provide that a person may be permitted to proceed to his place of destination, subject to surveillance, such permission shall be granted upon the following conditions :-

(a) He must satisfy the Health Officer as to his name, intended place of

destination, and his address at such place.

(b) He must agree to submit himself and must submit himself to medical supervision at that place during the prescribed period.

(c) The place must, in the opinion of the Health Officer, be conveniently situated for the medical supervision.

In case of non-compliance with any of these conditions, the Health Officer may, by order in writing, detain the said person, under observation, or direct him to proceed to any convenient place, to be specified in the order, and there remain under medical super- vision during the prescribed period.

12. The Master of any ship, or any other person, shall answer truly and, if required, in writing and on oath, all such questions put to him by and give all such information to the Health Officer as may be necessary for any purpose of these Regulations.

13. Merchandise shall be disinfected only when, in the opinion of the Health Officer, it is infected: Provided always that, in the case of plague, cholera, and small- pox, clothing and bedding which have been used, and rags, save in the case of cholera rags compressed in bales, may, when imported from an infected place as merchandise, be subjected to disinfection even in the absence of evidence that they are infected, or their introduction into the Colony may be prohibited.

14. When merchandise has been subjected to disinfection in pursuance of provisions in these Regulations, the owner or his agent is entitled to demand from the Authority which has ordered the disinfection a certificate indicating the measures that have been taken.

15. Nothing in these Regulations shall render liable to detention, disinfection, or destruction any article forming part of any mail (other than a parcel mail) conveyed under the authority of the postal administration of any Government, or shall prejudicially affect the delivery in due course of any such mail (other than a parcel mail) to the Post office.