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"Contact vessel" or "Contact aircraft" is a vessel or Contact aircraft which has come from or been in contact with an
Vessel, infected port, and which has not been granted free pratique in Hong Kong.
"Council'' means the Urban Council, unless some other Council. Council is indicated.
"Crew" includes any person who is on board any vessel Crew. or aircraft not for the mere purpose of being carried from one place to another, but who is employed in some way in the service of the vessel or of persons on board or of the cargo.
"Day" means an interval of twenty-four hours.
"Delouse" means to render free from lice.
"Deratise" means to render free from rats.
Day.
Delouse.
Deratise.
"Disease" means any malady of an infectious or contagi- Disease. ous nature dangerous to mankind and includes leprosy and rabies but does not include any venereal disease.
"Disinfect" means to destroy or remove the germs of Disinfect.
disease.
"Disinsectise" means to render free from insects.
Disinsectise.
"Health Officer' includes the Director of Medical and Health Sanitary Services, any medical officer appointed by the Officer. Governor as a Health Officer or Port Health Officer, and any officer for the time being performing the duties of a Health Officer or Port Health Officer.
"Immigrant" includes:-
(a) any person arriving in the waters of the Colony as a deck, steerage or third class passenger on board a steamship or motor ship or as a passenger on board any other vessel with the intention of landing in the Colony;
(b) a third class passenger who enters the Colony by train.
Immigrant.
"Infected" means infected with the germs of infectious Infected.
disease.
"Infected area' means any area which has been declared Infected by the Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette to be area. an infected area from the date of such declaration until the date of withdrawal of such declaration in the Gazette.
place.
Infected
"Infected place" or "Infected port" means any place or Infected port which has been declared by the Governor in Council to be an infected place or port from the date of such declaration port. until the date of withdrawal of such declaration.
disease.
"Infectious disease" means any of the following diseases, Infections namely, plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles, chickenpox, diphtheria and enteric, and any other disease which the Governor in Council shall by notification in the Gazette declare to be included within the said expression.
"Medical practitioner" means a registered practitioner Medical within the meaning of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Ordinance
1884.
"Port" includes sea-port, river-port and air-port.
Practitioner.
No. 1 of
1884.
Port.
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