CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936 — Page 21

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clearance may, on the certificate of such Health Officer, withhold a port clearance from such vessel until such Health Officer's directions have been complied with.

(5) At the discretion of a Health Officer any offensive. articles mentioned in this section may be discharged, and the vessel may, at the owner's or agent's expense, be disinfected under the supervision of a Health Officer.

(6) All expenses incurred by a Health Officer in carrying out this section shall be recoverable from the owner or agents of the vessel under the Crown Suits Ordinance, 1910.

Ordinance

No. 5 of

1910.

state to go

66. Where a vessel has passengers on board who are Vessels in a filthy or otherwise unwholesome condition, or is over-

with filthy crowded with passengers, emigrants or otherwise, a Health or in an

passengers Officer may, if in his opinion it is desirable with a view to overcrowded checking the introduction of any infectious or contagious to quaran- disease, and on his certifying to that effect, order the vessel tine to the quarantine anchorage or to such place as he may anchorage. direct, and although the vessel is not infected or suspected such Health Officer may order the cleansing and disinfection of the vessel in such manner as he may deem necessary.

Part III.

THE PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

(a) Notification.

furnished by

67. The Secretary to the Medical Department shall upon Notification application furnish every medical practitioner, every medical forms to be officer in charge of a Chinese Public Dispensary and every officer in charge of a Police Station with the printed forms to be used in the notification of infectious disease.

Secretary to

Medical Depart- ment.

no false

68. No notification which contains any false information Notification shall be deemed a notification as required by this Ordinance must contain or by any regulation made thereunder unless the person information. notifying proves that he believed and had reasonable grounds for believing such information to be true.

to notify.

69. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from Attending or has died from plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, practitioner typhus, cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles, chicken-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, enteric, puerperal fever or rabies, and if such inmate be under the care of a medical practitioner, the said practitioner shall forthwith furnish a Health Officer with a notification thereof in writing stating the name of such inmate and the situation of such premises.

Such medical practitioner if not a Government Officer shall be entitled to receive, on application to the Secretary to the Medical Department, the sum of one dollar for each and every such notification, provided that he applies for payment within one month after the notification to which it relates; but not more than one fee shall be paid in respect of each case.

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