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Table L.
Costs and expenses of medical attendance of person reinoved to
hospital, ote.
Liability of
all persona
concerned
for breach of
regulations.
Exemption of ships of
War.
Exemption subject to
pertain con- ditions of ressel with
Burgeon on board.
Laichikol Observation
Station.
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No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
14. Any costs and expenses charged or incurred by the Government for the medical attendance and maintenance of any person, whether on the ship's articles or not, who is removed to any hospital or place from any vessel, under these Regulations, for medical treatment or surveillance, or for the burial of any person who may die on any vessel, or of any dead body found on board any vessel, or for the cleansing and disinfection of any vessel or of the merchandise on board any vessel, or of any part of the vessel or of her merchandise, including the hire of any necessary labour, boat, juaks, bulks, prernises on shore, and disinfecting appliances, shall be paid to Government on demand by the owners or agents of the vessel.
15. Where any breach of any of the preceding regulations is com- mitted, all the persons assisting in any way in the commission of such breach and the master or other person having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which such brench has been committed, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach, shall be severally answerable for such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the same.
16. The preceding regulations shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any of His Majesty's ships or of foreign ships- of-war, or with their freedom to proceed to sea, whenever the officer in command may deem such course requisite.
17.—(a) The preceding regulations (with the exception of regulations 13 and 14) shall not apply to any vessel which has on board a surgeon or medical officer who is entered on the articles of agreement or any similar document, if after entering the waters of the Colony the master of the vessel signs a certificate, in form 1 in the appendix to these re- gulations, to the effect that there has been no sickness of an infectious or contagious nature on board such vessel within a period of 12 days previous to the date of arrival of the vessel within the waters of the Colony, and if the surgeon or medical officer of the vessel after enter- ing the waters of the Colony signs a certificate, in form 2 in the said appendix, to the same effect, with the addition that he has seen every person on board auch vessel within the 12 hours immediately preceding his signature thereto. In default, however, of either of such certifi- cates being signed the preceding regulations shall apply.
(b) Any master, and any surgeon or medical officer of any such vessel who signs any such certificate as aforesaid containing any false state- ment, and any person who signs any such certificate as surgeon or medical officer of the vessel when not duly entered on such articles or document as aforesaid, shall be deemed to be guilty of a breach of these regulations and may he proceeded against and punished accordingly.
18. The place known as the Government Observation Station at Laichikok shall be set apart as a place for the detention and seclusion of persons, whether actually suffering from disease or not, arriving on board vessels subjected to quarantine.
* Regulation added by G. N. of 27th November, 1909.
Bogulation 17.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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APPENDIX.
Table I..
577
For No. 1.
Certificate by Master of absonda of Infections or Contagious DiseasE,
Hongkong.
89.
I hereby certify that there has been no sickness of an infectious or contagious natura on board the $8.
....................... within a period of 12 days previous
to the date of har serival in the waters of the Colony of Hongkong.
Dated the
day of
. 19
o'clock
Regulation 17.
Matter.
88.
FORK No. 2.
Certificate by Surgeon of absence of Infections or Contagious Disease,
Hongkong.
.m.
I hereby certify that there has been no sickness of an infections or contagious nature on board the 88.
within a period of 12 days provious
to the date of her arrival in the waters of the Colony of Hongkong: and t further certify that I have seen every porsen our board within the 12 hours immediately pre- ceding my signature berete.
Dated the
day of
93.
10
(Signed)
o'clock
Surgeon for Medical Officer).
.11.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR OWNERS OR AGENTS OF INFECTED VESSELS FROM WHICH THE PASSENGERS OR CREW OR ANY OF THEM ARE REMOVED TO THE OBSERVATION STATION AT LAICHIKOK BY ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE PORT.
1. If the Health Officer shall order the passengers and crew, or any
of them, of an ** infected" vessel to be kopt under observation at the Observation Station at Laichikok the owners or agents of the said vessel shall provide.-
(a) all necessary boats for the removal of such passengers and crew, or any of them, to the Observation Station;
(b) all food for such passengers and crew secording to the scale in schedule A of these Instructions.
As amended by G. N. 88% of 1908.
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