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When any port within the Colony is an infected place, efficient measures shall be taken to prevent the embarkation at such port of any person showing symptoms of infectious or contagious disease. To this end, any person taking passage on a ship leaving such port shall be examined by the Health Officer immediately before departure of the vessel. Such examination shall, as far as practicable, be made by day and on shore. Efficient measures shall be taken to prevent the exportation of merchandise or articles which the Health Officer may consider infected unless such merchandise or articles shall, in the first instance, have been disinfected on shore under his supervision. Measures shall be taken to prevent rats in the case of plague, and mosquitoes in the case of yellow fever from gaining access to ships. When access of mosquitoes to the ship cannot be efficiently prevented, measures should be taken immediately before departure of the vessel, to secure destruction of mosquitoes on board. In the case of cholera, care shall be exercised that drinking water taken on board is wholesome.

17. When, in the case of a healthy ship from an infected place, the Health Officer at the port of arrival is satisfied that the measures specified in Article 16 have been efficiently carried out, such ships shall be exempted from the measures specified in Article 5. Provided always that if the period specified in that article, and dating from departure of the ship from the infected place, shall not have been completed the passengers and crew may be subjected to surveillance of such duration as is necessary to complete the period.

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