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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1936.

Port.

Port Health Officer,

Premises.

Quarantine anchorage.

Quarantine station.

Sanitary aerodrone,

Surveillance.

person, animal or thing, so that it or they shall have no communication with any other vessel, person, animal or thing or with any other place except in accordance with the said Ordinance and regulations.

"Port" includes sea-port, river-port and air-port.

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Port Health Officer " includes the Health Officer of the Port, the Second Health Officer of the Port and any other Health Officer or Medical Officer for the time being perform- ing the duties of a Port Health Officer.

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Premises includes any land, building, structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, field, marsh, drain, ditch or place open, cover- ed or enclosed, or cesspool or foreshore, and also any vessel lying within the waters of the Colony.

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Quarantine anchorage means that area of the Harbour which has been appointed for the time being for the detention in isolation of vessels undergoing observation and which has been declared a quarantine anchorage by Ordinance or by the Governor in Council.

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Quarantine station”

means any place where obser- vation is carried out and includes an infectious diseases hospital and any place declared by the Governor in Council to be a quarantine station or a sanitary station.

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Sanitary aerodrome

means an authorised aerodrome declared by the Governor in Council to be a sanitary aero- drome after being satisfied that it will at all times have at its disposal:-

(i) an organised medical service with one medical officer at least and one or more sanitary inspectors, it being understood that this staff will not necessarily be in permanent attendance at the aerodrome;

(ii) a place for medical inspection;

(iii) equipment for taking and despatching suspected material for examination in a laboratory;

(iv) facilities in the case of necessity for isolation, transport and care of the sick, for the isolation of contacts separately from the sick and for carrying out other prophy- lactic measures in suitable premises either within the aero- drome or in proximity to it;

(v) apparatus necessary for carrying out disinfection, disinsectisation and 'deratisation if required, as well as any other measures laid down in the International Sanitary Con- vention for Aerial Navigation, signed at the Hague on the 12th day of April, 1933;

(vi) a sufficient supply of wholesome drinking water; (vii) a proper and safe system for the disposal of excreta and refuse, and for the removal of waste water; and

(viii) protection, as far as possible, from rats.

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Surveillance

means that persons subject thereto are not isolated, and that they may move about freely on condition that they sign a bond pledging themselves to submit to medical examination daily or as often as may be required by the Health Authorities of the several places whither they

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