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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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