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HARBOUR NOTIFICATION,

No. 7 of 1911.

REFERRING to Harbour Notifications Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of 1911, concerning precautions against the introduction of Plague, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following further measures and modifications have been sanctioned by the Superintendent of Customs and the Treaty Power Consuls, and are now published for general information:-- 1. Port Arthur.-Vessels from Port Arthur are put on the samne status as vessels from Dairen as regards detention in quarantine and other precautions against the introduction of Plague (Harbour Notification No. 6).

2. Newchirang and Antung, -Vessels from Newchwang and Autung are given the same status as vessels from Tientsin and Chinwangtao (Harbour Notification No. 6.)

3. Chefoo.-Vessels from Chefoo which bring no passengers, or which bring only first class passengers having certificates issued by the Port Health Öfficer and endorsed by the Commissioner of Customs at that Port, that they have not been exposed to possible plague infection for five days before embarkation at Chefoo, and whose Officers and Crew have not been on shore at that Port, as certified by the written declaration of their Commanders, may be admitted to pratique without detention in quarantine, after inspection by the Pors Health Officer at Woosung such vessels shall still be subject to the regulations imposed on vessels from plagu-infected Ports with regard to the precautions against the landing of rats (Harbour Notification No. 5).

4. Night Work. - In the case of vessels from Dairen, Tientsin, Chinwangtao, New- chang, Chefo, Port Arthur and Antung, which have obtained satisfactory certificates of fumigation, the prohibition of night work (sce Harbour Notifica- tion No. 5) may be relaxed, at the discretion of the Harbour Master, all other precautions against rats begin strictly enforced.

5. Through Passengers from Europe.-In the case of vessels from Dairen a certificate of the Sanitary Authorities of that Port that certain of the passengers have come directly through, by unbroken journey, from Europe, and have not been exposed to infection, may be taken, as regards those passengers, as equivalent to the certificate of detention under supervision at Dairen as provided for in Harbour Notification No. 6.

Approved:

H. F. MERRILL,

Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, SHANGHAI, 22nd March, 1911.

WM. CARLSON,

Harbour Master.

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J. M. BECK,

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