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Germ carriers.

Smallpox precaution-

ary measures In the case of infected

vessels or aircraft

Smallpox precaution.

ary measures

in the case of contact vessels or aircraft.

Ordinance

No. 12 of 1923.

Typhus precaution-

ary measures

in case of

infected vessels or sircraft.

(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. Smallpox infected vessels or aircraft shall be sub- jected 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 re- cently infected shall be disinfected or destroyed at his dis- cretion.

(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.

59. Vessels and aircraft which are not infected with smallpox but which come from a port declared to be infected with the disease shall be subjected to the

the following

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 deten- tion conferred by sections 17 and 18 of the Vaccination Ordin- ance, 1923

Typhus Precautionary Measures.

60. Vessels or aircraft which during the voyage had, 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.

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