CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3] — Page 296

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to take

charge

as there is no one in

the Civil Service who can

be spared

for this duty. Generally arrangements

will be made

for

the reception of

all persons suffering from infectious .

contagious disease, but it is

BY

impossible to land other persons there who are not so suffering. There is no room to provide the accommodation which might be _

as n

required for many

as 1000 to 1500 persons, if several vessels with Chinese passengers arrived at the same time. Each lot

arriving

would have to be kept separate from the others. This could only be by creating several buildings

done

separated

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separated by stockades or enclosures, and by having a very strong Volice Force on the spot. The healthy passengers

on

will therefore have to remain board ship for five days after the

sick have been landed.

8.

The question therefore to -be considered is whether the period. of observation fixed by Colonial - Regulations is or is not.

excessive,

seems

and whether or not a difference might be made between "suspected " and "infected" ships. D. Pringle to think 48 hours sufficient, and another speaker at the meeting of the British Medical Association spoke of

s as the outside term.

three

days

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