CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934 — Page 77

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board vessel

27. The pilot may board a ship flying the quarantine Pilot may flag for the purpose of taking it to the quarantine anchorage. flying In no case shall any member of his crew or other person quarantine board the ship unless authorised by the Port Health Officer.

flag.

passengers

28. No master of any infected, suspected or contact Landing of vessel bringing passengers to any port shall land or permit before to land or to be landed from his vessel, any such passengers inspection until they have been inspected and passed by the Port Health prohibited. Officer, and the master shall afford all reasonable facilities for enabling such inspection to be duly carried out. No master shall land or permit to land or be landed from his vessel either at any port. or any other place within the Colony. any infected person except with the permission of the Port Health Officer, and any master from whose vessel any infected person is landed without permission shall, on demand from the Port Health Officer, forthwith remove such person from the Colony.

train to

29.-(1) The guard of any train on which a case of Duty of plague cholera, small-pox, or yellow fever, is present shall guard of on arrival at the first station report the facts to the station. report cases master, who shall telephone or telegraph them to the Health of infection.

Officer.

station

infected case

(2) The Station Master shall detain the carriage in which Duty of the sick person is and all other occupants thereof for examina · master with tion by the Health Officer, and shall detach the carriage from regard to the rest of the train and keep it at the station until the and carriage. examination has been made, or send the carriage to another station at which the examination can be more expeditiously carried out and from which the sick person and other persons may be

more easily conveyed to a hospital or place of isolation.

(3) Any person suffering or suspected to be suffering from such infectious disease shall be removed to a hospital or place of quarantine and remain there until discharged by the officer in charge thereof,

on landing

30. No infected, suspected or contact aircraft, shall Restriction land at any place in the Colony other than a Sanitary or departure Aerodrome and no such aircraft shall leave the Sanitary of aircraft. Aerodrome until released by the order of the Port Health Officer.

31. No person other than the Port Health Officer or Sanitary persons authorised by him shall enter or depart from a Sanitary Aerodrome.

Aerodrome. restrictions of, admis- sions to, and departure from.

inspect

and contact

32. On the arrival of an infected, suspected or contact Port Health vessel at the quarantine anchorage, the Port Health Officer officer to shall go on board and put to the master and surgeon, if any, infected, or to any other person on board such questions as he deems suspected necessary in order to ascertain the state of health of persons vessels. on board, the sanitary condition of the ship and cargo and the sanitary conditions of the port of departure or of inter- mediate ports touched at, and may require the presence for inspection and examination of all persons on board, and may inspect every part of the ship and demand to see the journal or log book and all ships papers

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