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1134 .:THE, HONG KONG, GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31,

Power to remove infectious cases to hospital

Detention of persons occupying infected houses.

Power to close and disinfect

buildings and to isolate,

1936:

(9) Upon receipt of the order mentioned in subsection (3) the officer in charge of the police station shall send as many police officers as are necessary to the isolated house and such police officers shall enforce the isolation of the house and repel any attempt by the persons confined in the house to break out therefrom or by any others to enter therein.

(10) Upon receipt at the police station of the notice mentioned in sub-section (8) the police officers shall be removed from the house.

(e) Removal of Infectious Cases to Hospital.

82.--(1) A Health Officer may direct the removal to a hospital or other suitable building of any person suffering from an infectious disease, the treatment for which is pro- vided in such hospital or building, if such person is, in his opinion, without proper lodging or accommodation or is living under conditions which are likely to cause the spread of the disease to other persons, or where there is no proper means of attending to the patient without danger to others: Provided that, if any such person refuses to be so removed, it shall be lawful for a magistrate, on the application of the Health Officer, to order the removal of such person to such hospital or other suitable building.

(2) A patient so removed to a hospital or other suitable building shall there remain until discharged by the Medical Officer in charge thereof.

(f) Isolation of Contacts and Closure of Infected Buildings.

83. If in the opinion of a Health Officer it is necessary in the interests of the public health, the persons residing in a building or part of a building which is infected shall be detained therein or shall be removed to such other building or buildings as the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services may direct and there be isolated and kept under supervision until such time as they may, in the opinion of the Health Officer, be safely released.

It shall not be lawful for any person to reoccupy any such building or part of a building until it has been thoroughly cleansed and disinfected.

84. (1) If in the opinion of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services it is necessary that all or any of the inmates, not themselves sick, of any house or building or part thereof, in which a case of infectious disease exists or has recently existed, should be isolated or put under medical surveillance or that any such house or building or part thereof the contacts should be temporarily closed, a Health Officer may direct

detain, or subject to

surveillance

found

therein,

that:-

(a) such house or building or part thereof shall be temporarily closed for such time as is necessary to secure its thorough disinfection and the disinfection or destruction of all infected articles contained therein.

(b) all or any of the inmates, not being themselves sick, shall be isolated to the satisfaction of the Health Officer or removed to a quarantine station and detained there for such period as is necessary to ensure that such inmates are them- selves free from disease.