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No. 10 of 1899.

MERCHANT SHIPPING,

[s. 8 contd.] seaman proves to be in sound health, or by the seaman himself in case he shall prove to be affected with any contagious disease, or by the boarding-house keeper with whom such seaman is residing, in case such boarding-house keeper shall have failed to report the state of health of such seaman in accordance with the requirements of sub-section (5).

Keeper of licensed boarding- house to

report state of boarders' health.

Penalties for seamen.

(5) Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for seamen, in the list of seamen resident in his house which he is required to furnish to the Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each seaman, so far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and every seaman who is reported, or is otherwise discovered, to be affected with a contagious disease shall be removed, by warrant under the hand of the Harbour Master, to a hospital, where he shall be kept until he is discharged as cured, and has obtained a certificate of his having been so discharged, which certificate he shall produce and show to the Harbour Master, when required to do so; and the expenses which may be incurred in and about the maintenance and treat- ment of any such seaman in such hospital shall be a debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such seaman; or, in case the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman has resided before his removal to hospital has not reported, or has made a false report, as to the state of health of such seaman, then such expenses shall be paid by such boarding-house keeper, in case it appears to and is certified by the medical officer in charge of the hospital to which such seaman is removed, or by an assistant surgeon, that the disease with which he is affected is of such a nature as

nature as that the keeper of the boarding-house could, with ordinary and reasonable observation, have ascer- tained its existence; and in every case such expenses shall, in case of non-payment, be sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the hospital.

(6) Every seaman who-

(a) being affected with a contagious disease, refuses or neglects to inform the keeper of the boarding-house in which he is residing of the fact of his being so affected; or

(b) being affected with a contagious disease, refuses to be removed, or offers any hindrance or obstruction to his removal, to a hospital under the provisions of this section; or