CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936 — Page 14

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Duty of guard of train to

report cases of infection,

Duty of

station

regard to infected case and carriage.

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28.—(1) The guard of any train on which a case of plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus or smallpox is present shall on arrival at the first station report the facts to the station master, who shall telephone or telegraph them to a Health Officer.

(2) The station master shall detain the carriage in which master with the sick person is and all other occupants thereof for examina- tion by a Health Officer, and shall detach the carriage from the rest of the train and keep it at the station until the 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.

Restriction on landing or departure of certain aircraft.

Sanitary aerodrome, restriction

of admis-

sion to and departure from.

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

29. No infected or suspected aircraft, and no aircraft which has come from an infected port and which has not been granted free pratique in Hong Kong shall land at any place in the Colony other than a sanitary aerodrome, and no such aircraft shall leave such sanitary aerodrome until released by order of a Health Officer.

30. No person other than a Health Officer or persons authorised, either generally or specially, by him shall enter or depart from a sanitary aerodrome.

Health

Officer to

inspect certain

vessels.

Declaration by Master and Surgeon,

Penalty

for untrue declaration.

Penalty for failure to make

declaration.

31. On the arrival of any vessel referred to in section 21 at the quarantine anchorage, a Health Officer shall go on board and put to the master and surgeon, if any, or to any other person on board such questions as he deems neces- sary in order to ascertain the state of health of persons on board, the sanitary condition of the ship and cargo and the sanitary conditions of the port of departure or of intermediate 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 ship's papers.

32. (1) The master and surgeon of every such vessel as aforesaid shall make and sign before a Health Officer a true declaration as to the number of crew and passengers, the presence or prevalence of infectious disease on board or during the voyage, the number of deaths and such other particulars as may be required by such Health Officer.

(2) Any such declaration purporting to be signed by the master and surgeon shall be deemed to have been so signed, and any information therein contained, which shall subsequently be found to be untrue, shall render such master or surgeon liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars each and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

(3) Any master or surgeon who fails to make and sign a declaration as herein required, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

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