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Power of
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37. Whenever a Health Officer shall so require, all passengers on board any vessel under observation or so many to passengers as he may direct shall be taken to a quarantine station and there kept and attended to for such a time as he may deem proper before allowing them to return on board the vessel or to be transferred to any other vessel or to land in the Colony. The period of detention shall no case be greater than is permitted by this Ordinance or any regulation made there- under.
I'ower of detention of infected persons desirous of landing.
Power of Elealth
Officer with regard to disposal of infectious corpse.
Trespasser
on quaran-
38. A Health Officer may detain in a quarantine station, until such time as the disease is no longer communicable to others, any person desirous of landing in the Colony who on arrival is found to be suffering from an infectious disease.
39. In the case of a vessel or aircraft in the waters of the Colony having on board the body of any person who has died from an infectious disease, the body shall be disposed of in such manner as may be ordered by a Health Officer; and the master of the vessel shall carry out such orders as such Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.
40. Any person entering or landing on a quarantine tine station station without permission may be detained and kept under observation at his own expense for such period not exceeding fourteen days as a Health Officer may deem proper.
may be detained.
Costs
incurred by Government may be recovered
from owners or agents.
Police to furnish assistance,
Exemption of postal matter.
41. Any reasonable costs and expenses charged or incurred by the Government for the vaccination, inoculation, removal, medical attendance and maintenance of any person, whether on the ship's articles or not, who under this Ordin- ance or the regulations made thereunder is removed to any hospital or place from any vessel or aircraft for medical treatment or surveillance, or for the burial of any person who may die on any vessel or aircraft, or who dies after removal to hospital, or for the burial of any dead body found on board any vessel or aircraft, or for the cleansing and disinfection of any vessel or aircraft, or of the merchandise on board any vessel or aircraft, or of any part of the vessel or aircraft or of the merchandise, including the hire of the necessary labour, boats, junks and disinfecting appliances, shall be paid to the Government by the owners or agents of the vessel.
42. The Inspector General of Police shall furnish such police assistance as any Health Officer may require for the purpose of enabling him to exercise the powers vested in him by this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder and to deal with vessels and aircraft and persons and things on board thereof in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance.
43. Nothing in this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder shall render liable to detention, disinfection or destruction any articles being part of any mails conveyed under the authority of the postal administration of any country, except in the case of such importation as is pro- hibited under section 16.
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practitioner
of infectious
44.—(1) Should the surgeon of, or any medical practi- Duty of tioner visiting, any vessel or aircraft within the limits of the medical Colony find on board any infectious disease, it shall be the and master duty of such surgeon or medical practitioner to inform the when a case master of the nature of the disease and notify the same in disease dis- writing to a Health Officer. All further action as regards the covered on patient, the members of the crew, the passengers or the vessel or aircraft shall be under the direction of a Health Officer.
an
(2) Should such infectious disease be believed or suspect- ed to be plague, cholera, small-pox, typhus or yellow fever, such vessel or aircraft shall at once be considered as infected vessel or aircraft under this Ordinance. The master of such vessel or aircraft shall at once take such steps as are necessary to inform a Health Officer of the facts of the case and shall display the appropriate signal referred to in section 35, and shall not permit any further communication with the shore, but shall wait for instructions from a Health Officer.
board vessel or aircraft.
case of
45. In case any vessel in the waters of the Colony which Duty of carries no surgeon has on board any sickness, the nature of master in which the master is unable to determine, he shall at once hoist sickness the call flag for medical assistance (letter M in the Inter- where no national Code of Signals over the Code Pennant), and shall take such measures as may be necessary to inform a Health Officer and shall await his directions.
carried.
management
46. This Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder Interna? shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of vessels or of any of His Majesty's or of foreign vessels or aircraft of aircraft of war, or with their freedom to proceed whenever the officer war not to in command may deem such course requisite.
Plague Precautionary Measures.
be inter- fered with.
47. Plague infected vessels and aircraft shall be sub- Plague jected to the following measures :-
(i) Medical inspection.
precaution-
ary measures
in case
of infected
(ii) The sick shall be immediately disembarked and vessels or isolated.
(iii) All persons who have been in contact with the sick and those whom a Health Officer has reason to consider suspect shall be disembarked if possible. They may be sub- jected to observation, or to surveillance, or to observation followed by surveillance, provided that the total duration of these measures does not exceed six days from the arrival of the vessel.
(iv) Bedding, soiled linen, wearing apparel and other articles which, in the opinion of a Health Officer, are infected shall be disinsectised and if necessary disinfected.
(v) The parts of the vessel which have been occupied by persons suffering from plague or which in the opinion of a Health Officer are infected shall be disinsectised and if necessary disinfected.
aircraft.
discharge of
48.--(1) A Health Officer may require deratisation by Provisions fumigation before or during the unloading of cargo, if he is relating to of opinion, having regard to the nature of the cargo and the cargo. way it is loaded, that it is possible so to effect a total destruc. tion of rats. In this case a vessel shall not be subjected to
a further deratisation unless during or after the unloading
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