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Cholera
ary measures
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54. Vessels or aircraft suspected of cholera shall be precaution subjected to the measures prescribed under paragraphs (i), (iv), (v), (vii), (viii) and (ix) of the preceding section. The passengers and crew may be subjected to surveillance for a period not exceeding five days from the date of arrival.
in case of suspected
vessels and aircraft,
Effect of bacteriolo gical ex- aminations.
Cholera
ary measures in case of vessela and aircraft.
55. If any vessel or aircraft has been declared infected or suspected only because of cases on board presenting the clinical features of cholera and if two bacteriological examina- tions made with an interval of not less than 24 hours between them have not revealed the presence of cholera or any other suspicious vibrios, it shall be classed as uninfected.
56. A vessel or aircraft shall be regarded as uninfected precaution if, although arriving from an infected port or having on board persons proceeding from an infected area, there has been no case of cholera either at the time of departure from such infected port, during the voyage, or on arrival. Such vessel or aircraft may be subjected to the measures provided under paragraphs (i), (vii), (viii) and (ix) of section 53. In addition the passengers and crew may be subjected to surveillance during a period which shall not exceed five days from the date of arrival. The crew may be prevented during the same period from leaving the ship or sanitary aerodrome except on duty of which a Health Officer has been notified.
Cases clinically cholera to be classed
as cholera.
Germ
carriers.
Smallpox precaution-
ary measures
in the case
of infected vessels or aircraft,
57. (1) Cases presenting the clinical symptoms of cholera in which no cholera vibrios have been found or in which vibrios not strictly conforming to the character of cholera vibrios have been found shall be subjected to all measures required in the case of cholera.
(2) Germ carriers discovered on the arrival of a vessel or aircraft may be treated in the same way as cases of disease.
Smallpox Precautionary Measures.
58. Vessels or aircraft which during the voyage had,
or at the time of their arrival have, a case of smallpox on board shall be subjected to the following measures:—
(i) Medical inspection.
(ii) The sick shall be immediately disembarked and isolated.
(iii) Other persons reasonably suspected to have been exposed to infection on board, who, in the opinion of a Health Officer, are not sufficiently protected by recent vaccination or by a previous attack of smallpox, may be subjected to vaccination or to vaccination followed by observation or surveillance, the period of observation or surveillance being specified according to the circumstances, but in any case not exceeding fourteen days reckoned from the date of arrival of the vessel or aircraft.
(iv) Bedding, soiled linen, wearing apparel and other articles which such Health Officer considers to have been recently infected shall be disinfected.
(v) Those parts of the vessel or aircraft which have been occupied by persons ill with smallpox and which such Health Officer regards as infected shall be disinfected.
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59. Vessels and aircraft which are not infected with Smallpox smallpox but which come from a port declared to be infected precaution- with the disease shall be subjected to the following in the case
measures:-
(i) Medical inspection.
(ii) Any passenger or member of the crew who is not protected by vaccination or by a previous attack of smallpox, and who has left a local area where smallpox is epidemic within the previous fourteen days before landing in the Colony, may be subjected to vaccination followed by surveillance.
Provided that nothing in this section or in section 58 shall derogate from the powers in respect of vaccination or detention conferred by sections 17 and 18 of the Vaccination Ordinance, 1923.
Typhus Precautionary Measures.
ary measures
of contact vessels or aircraft,
Ordinance No, 12 of 1923.
precaution-
60. Vessels or aircraft which during the voyage had, Typhus or at the time of their arrival have, a case of typhus on board shall be subjected to the following measures:-
(i) Medical inspection.
(ii) The sick shall be immediately disembarked, isolated, and deloused.
(iii) Other persons reasonably suspected to harbour lice, or to have been exposed to infection, shall be deloused and may be subjected to surveillance during a period which shall not exceed twelve days from the date of the delousing.
(iv) Bedding, linen, wearing apparel and other articles which a Health Officer considers to be infected shall be disinfected.
(v) The parts of the vessel or aircraft which have been occupied by persons ill with typhus and which such Health Officer regards as infected shall be disinfected and dis- insectised.
Yellow Fever Precautionary Measures.
ary measures in case of infected vessels or aircraft.
61. Vessels or aircraft infected with yellow fever shall Yellow be subjected to the following measures :-
(i) Medical inspection.
favor pre- cautionary measures in case of infected
(ii) The sick shall be disembarked, and those of them vessels or whose illness has not lasted more than five days shall be aircraft, isolated in such a manner as a Health Officer may direct to prevent the infection of mosquitoes.
(iii) Other persons who disembark shall be kept under observation or surveillance during a period which shall not exceed six days reckoned from the time of disembarkation.
(iv) A ship shall be moored at least 220 yards from the inhabited shore and at such a distance from other vessels as will render the access of mosquitoes improbable.
(v) The destruction of mosquitoes in all phases of growth shall be carried out on board, as far as possible before unloading of cargo. If the unloading is carried out before the destruction of mosquitoes, the persons employed shall be subjected to observation or surveillance for a period not exceeding six days from the time when they ceased unloading.
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